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This is the very womb and bed of enormity. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#enormity #very #womb

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#fury #itself #like #mind #punishment

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#call #chills #feel #first #first time

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#black #feel #know #myth #only

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#different #different people #go #go home #home

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#badly #beatnik #beatniks #good #got

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#about #afternoon #better #better world #blankets

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. ↗

— Scott Joplin

#dead #going #i #me #people

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #become #cease #city #collection

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#believe #cannot #capacity #compassion #does