#ss

The poet will only be recited until the death of his language. The violinist will only give recitals until the bowing of nose hairs. ↗

— Bauvard

#greatness #humor #music #noses #poetry

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. ↗

— Mark Twain

#copyright #find #god #impossible #law

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#weakness

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#kindness #cruelty

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important. ↗

— Vera Wang

#afford #anything #bit #dress #embrace

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#society #truth #gossip

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light ↗

— Mary Oliver

#nature #poetry #death

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#micawber #procrastination #classics

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#classics #reading #classics

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#sociology