#rep

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#destroy #discernible #longer #need #once

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then give these works as elementary textbooks to their young pupils at the beginning of their schooling, to provide them with exempla and received wisdom, so that they will remember this teaching when they come of age ... They accuse [women] of many ... serious vice[s] and are very critical of them, finding no excuse for them whatsoever. This is the way clerks behave day and night, composing their verse now in French, now in Latin. And they base their opinions on goodness only knows which books, which are more mendacious than a drunk. Ovid, in a book he wrote called Cures for Love, says many evil things about women, and I think he was wrong to do this. He accuses them of gross immorality, of filthy, vile, and wicked behaviour. (I disagree with him that they have such vices and promise to champion them in the fight against anyone who would like to throw down the gauntlet ...) Thus, clerks have studied this book since their early childhood as their grammar primer and then teach it to others so that no man will undertake to love a woman. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #falsehood #gender

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#career #entire #entire career #fiction #i

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#batting #because #conventional #conventional wisdom #lot

I want to volunteer for global flood relief without abandoning my mountaintop, so I’m making a really long straw. Preparation is everything. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #preparation #funny

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#budget #care #congressman #crafting #deal

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything. ↗

— Martin Yan

#chinese #food #good #i #i think

I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#i think #prepare #resign #she #should

Falling out of love makes it impossible to leave your children. All you have left is your reputation for their future. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #reputation #funny

And although this (marital love) cannot be portrayed artistically, then let your consolation be, as it is mine, that we are not to read about or listen to or look at what is highest and the most beautiful in life, but are, if you please, to live it. Therefore, when I readily admit that romantic love lends itself much better to artistic portrayal than marital love, this does not at all mean that it is less esthetic than the other - on the contrary, it is more esthetic. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#love #marriage #the-incommunicable #the-unrepresentable #art