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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#humour #joke #united-states #united-states

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #magnus-bane

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#catarina-loss #magnus-bane #peru #ragnor-fell #sarah-rees-brennan

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#greatest #poem #states #themselves #united

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality." ... "But they used to take morphia and cocaine." ... "Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178." ... "Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug." ... "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant." ... "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." ... "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." ... "Stability was practically assured. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#happiness #huxley #society #stability #immortality

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#fearless

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drugs

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#assumptions #biases #criticize #judge #judging

Sympathy is the child of imagination ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#imagination #vision #imagination

If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#funny #funny