#wes

Surviving cancer is cool, but surviving old age is cooler.
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— Jarod Kintz

#awesome #bizarre #cancer #funny #humor

I rarely drink, but last night, after several hours and several beers at the bar, I found myself face to face with two huge boobs. They weren’t the breasts of a young woman, but those of an old man. Still, the taste of a nipple is genderless.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alcohol #awesome #bar #bizarre #drinking

Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn’t remember but she knew she had been “sympathetic” from the age of two. Vita Sackville-West said about Virginia, “She dislikes the possessiveness and love of domination in men. In fact she dislikes the quality of masculinity. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#vanessa-bell #virginia-woolf #vita-sacksville-west #age

Two diametrically opposed points of view concerning religion in the West are to bee seen among Muslims. Some consider all Westerners to be Christians, with the small Jewish minority being of course an exception, and often refer to Westerners as "those Christians" as if the West were of the Middle Ages when the Crusades were carried out and when Western civilization lived in what has been called the Age of Faith. Another group of Muslims hold the opposite view that all Westerners are materialists or agnostics and skeptics and in fact there is no religion among the Westerners. Now it is essential to insist that both of these views are false. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#western-civilization #age

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#coming-of-age #western #age

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #creating #inspirational #ravi-shankar #writing

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died ↗

— Donato DiCristino

#donato #heaven-and-hell #hollywood #limbo-bimbo #magical-prowess

There is confidence convergence when mental prowess and business aptitude mesh. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#prowess #attitude

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #we-ll-always-have-summer #beauty

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty