#p

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#clear #cold #dead #like #literature

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#cultural #defeat #equality #going #most

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#men #movement #natural #our #position

They were happy, and free, and the endless sky awaited them. It was enough. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#happiness #freedom

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#rachel #friendship

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions. ↗

— Willy Ley

#composed #final #form #idea #just

I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home. ↗

— Tom Leykis

#cigar #enjoy #evening #forward #home

I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency. ↗

— Tom Leykis

#could #frequency #i #internet #invest

Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#communication