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It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life #movies #funny

A brick could be an object to measure your life against. Are you square, rigid, and inflexible? If yes, are you in the military? If no, why are you acting like a brick?
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW. ↗

— Darren Shan

#darren-shan #zom-b #life

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#mundane #the-flies #zeus #life

I belong to the opposition party, which is called life. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#life

The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly. ↗

— R.H. Blyth

#zen #life

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#zoo #life

I have a randezvous with life. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#randezvous #life

He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#ironic #verbosity #wry #life

Architecture in general is frozen music. ↗

— Friedrich von Schelling

#frozen #general #music