#p

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#the-silent-blade #beauty

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail. ↗

— Jerome Corsi

#bush #bush administration #continuing #east #fail

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#fast #i #learned #old #people

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#back #father #got #greenwich #greenwich village

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#close #down #electric #exist #go

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#because #crime #had #i #judge

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#aristocratic #because #burroughs #dug #guy

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction. ↗

— John Cory

#destruction #distance #judging #morality #only

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#destruction #good #help #literature #much

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed