#zoo

Love is like a door knob that I’ve mistaken for a shower handle, and I’m trying to turn up the heat on our relationship, but the handle won’t turn and I’ve got shampoo in my eyes and my wetsuit is dry and I started crying just as the zookeeper asked me to leave. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#door-knob #heat #love #mistake #relationships

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#caricatures #habitat #how #natural #nature

I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#respect

It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in my dorm, for example, - he'd have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycled through wales. Or taken an apartment in New York and worked for a magazine or an advertising company. It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know, not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid, necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#zooey #advertising

Life is a zoo in a jungle. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#life #life is a #zoo

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ↗

— Evan Esar

#excellent #habits #human #human beings #place