#ten

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. ↗

Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of seeing it indeed in the round". ... Both men and women can be vain about their appearances, selfish about money, overawed by rank, and limited by parochialism; both men and women can function capably, think profoundly, feel deeply, create imaginatively, laugh wittily, and love faithfully. Without vindicating the rights of anyone directly, Austen posits a humanism far ahead of her time. "How really modern she is, after all," Welty concludes of Austen. ↗

— Emily Auerbach

#humanism #faith

I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#funny #life #pretend #relationship #funny

To be, or not to be: what a question! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#faust #funny #humor #marlowe #philosophical-humor

Thank you adult mittens, for allowing me to give people the finger without them knowing it. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#humor #mittens #the-finger #funny

When one's unconscious is full of vice, nothing realizes inner potential like hypocrisy. ↗