#sm

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#artists #creativity #surrealism #art

He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#reactionaries #attitude

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. ↗

— Bobby Rahal

#average #competition #crowds #drivers #i

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#buddhist #following #hurled #i #now

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#bass #better #car #days #fit

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ↗

— Roman Payne

#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

I know a lie when I hear one. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#lie #life #quote #sarcasm #satire

So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

We approach closer and closer to socialism. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

#closer #socialism

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #jesus