#semen

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ↗

— George Orwell

#advertisement #christian #christian religion #religion #socialism

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it. ↗

— John C. Reilly

#behind #creating #drama #even #exciting

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about. ↗

— Karl Rove

#amusement #creates #existence #i #know

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#could #journalistic #machine #purpose #someone

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#amusement #age

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ↗

— David Sedaris

#apartment #art #basement #both #civilizations

Dreams have never been this hot! Pleasures of the Night sizzles as a romance, enthralls as a paranormal, and captivates with a fantastic cast of characters. I didn’t want the 'night' to end! ↗

— Susan Grant

#endorsement #sylvia-day #dreams

Lush, evocative, inventive... Livia Dare delights. Fans of Dara Joy will love [ In the Flesh ]! ↗

— Shayla Black

#endorsement #love

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #coercion #dad #family #gratitude

The endorsements on books aren’t entirely impartial. Unbeknownst to the average reader, blurbs are more often than not from the writer’s best friends, colleagues or teachers, or from authors who share the same editor, publisher or agent. They represent a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith. ↗

— Rachel Donadio

#endorsements #publishing #reviews #faith