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Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it. ↗

— Marc Davis

#amuse #attended #before #different #different schools

For me, music and life are all about style. ↗

— Miles Davis

#life #me #music #style

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#earth #people #scarce #sir #without

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ↗

— Charles G. Dawes

#dignity #mediocrity #preserve #requires

The truth is I’m a chicken shit coward who’s afraid of a girl like you. When I’m with you, I want things I never thought I’d be able to have, or deserved, and that scares me a little. I’m just a regular guy who works in a bar and you’re this beautiful person who shines brighter than the stars. I think I just made up some cheesy poetry so I’ll stop while I’m ahead. If you feel like talking, give me a call. ~D Sophie sat down on the floor and, through blurry eyes, reread the note so many times she had it memorized. She was going to do more than give him a call. ↗

— Jenny Lyn

#erotic-romance #freebies #humor #jenny-lyn #short-story

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ↗

— Clarence Day

#information #mixed #pretty #stuff #thin

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification. ↗

— Thomas Day

#awful #britain #equally #favourable #her

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing