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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#masses #much #perception #process #reality

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#desire #love #pain #sadness #life

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#expression #favour #free #free expression #i

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? ↗

— Alan Bennett

#closer #grass #ground #now #were

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#bore #cancer #illness #like #other

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#except #harmful #into #mind #nothing

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#lot #message #punishment #rest #send

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#charms #city #city people #country #fuss

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#genre #pigeonhole #successful #unsuccessful #weird

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. ↗

— William Bennett

#against #attention #avoid #business #call