#vent

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#character-defining #melancholy

The Kingdom of God is the already but not yet". ~R. Alan Woods [1998] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#eschatology #kingdom-of-god #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare ↗

— C.T. Todd

#drama #horror #romance #vampire #dreams

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #eleventh-doctor #doctor-who

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagination #invention #life #truths #imagination

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. ↗

— John Thorn

#game #lamentation #much #seventies #woe

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #bite #doubted #dust #eventually

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#despair #dreams #give #how #intellectual

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving