#sense

I don’t drink water, because if water can erode rock, think what it can do to flesh.
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— Jarod Kintz

#drinking #erode #erosion #flesh #geology

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#reading #nonsense

Can`t you see that I`m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb? ↗

— Titus Petronius Niger

#humour #irony #latin #nonsense #satyre

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#common-sense #confusion #disbelief #evidence #faith

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. ↗

— M.M. Kaye

#common-sense #m-m-kaye #wisdom #common-sense

I want to get the huge wart that looks like a nose removed from my back, but first I'm going to try to grow a mustache underneath it, to make it less noticeable. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#blemish #funny #grotesque #humor #mustache

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#common-sense #faith

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. ↗

— Herbert Stein

#forever #meaning #reality #sense #life

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #right #life

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#images #imagination #senses #writing #imagination