#ted

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#night #night-sky #painted #sky #strokes

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#government #politics #thievery #united-states #economy

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#mitch-mcconnell #politics #twitter #united-states #united-states-congress

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#enough #hands #his #journalist #lawyer

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#twitter #united-states #war-on-terror #twitter

It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#drama #ethan #uncertainty #drama

Hey, Venus, I have two words for you,' Aphrodite said. Venus hesitated and glanced over her shoulder at her ex-roommate. Aphrodite smiled her best mean-bitch sneer and said, 'Re. Bound.' She paused and gave a bithy smirk and then said, 'Good luck with that. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#erik #tempted #venus #zoey #luck

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#jinnah #nationality #pakistan #partion #united

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#sebastian #summer #teddy-bear #summer

I'm a monster, not a moron. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#monsters