#tho

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#being #children #coming #could #fit

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#been #cheeseburger #come #could #easily

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#even #finish #go #i #sympathy

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#female #genitals #had #hard #inadvertently

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#did #dr #flashing #flashing lights #holes

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#believe #jealous #nothing #something #those

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#should #those #tough #who #will