#rin

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#springsteen #guns

I’ll tug at your breasts like a thirsty child. Try not to burn your nipples in my hot coffee. While you’re at it, I also like sugar in my coffee. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#breasts #child #coffee #cream #drink

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#magic #supernatural

Write drunk; edit sober. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#write

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer. ↗

— Stephen King

#stereotypes #writer #writer

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗

— Jane Austen

#catherine #or-the-bower #books

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#fiction #henry-viii #historical-fiction #katherine #historical

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#patrick-o-brian #unexpected

Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” the limits of blank verse weakened his resolve somehow. If he’d been free to follow the dictates of his conscience rather than the pen of Shakespeare, perhaps he would have abandoned verse altogether, like me, and contented himself with this instead: “Bring it, muthafuckas. Bring it. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#fight #hamlet #conscience

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. ↗

— Jack London

#suffering #weak #weakness #london