#si

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#wild

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nearly-headless-nick #simile #insult

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#books #classic-insult #irony #literary-criticism #time

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#simile #witty #insult

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#simile #insult

What is life if you don't have a dream to chase? ↗

— J.C. McClean

#dreams #fate #life #dreams

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#culture

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#ethics #humanist-psychology #mental-health #socio-analysis #culture

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. ↗

— Rachel Simmons

#bullying #peers #culture

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#jev #nora #patch #possessive-baddass-hottie #vee