#sm

We all are characters in a movie. ↗

— Vivake Pathak

#determinism #fate #movies

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to ↗

— Jason Najum

#essay #memoir #pop-culture #movies

...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society. ↗

— Samuel Pickering

#change

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#morality #murder #obedience #patriotism #war

C’est moi, c’est moi,’tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn’t know if he’d catch the reference. I shouldn’t have worried. Unexpectedly, he laughed. “Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#mercy-thompson #musical-theater-reference #paranormal #sexism #shifter

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#bible #organized-religion #religion #religion

The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind ↗

— Maria Cristina Mena

#interpretation #music #philosophy #piano #racism

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.) ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#criticism #literature #reading #art

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing ↗

— Steven Tyler

#rock-music #steven-tyler #music

It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release. ↗

— Michael Gira

#music #sm #music