#age

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#advantage #being #every #every man #himself

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#care #children #flower #gardens #get

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#bachelor #buying #furniture #like #marrying

Normal is the average of deviance. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#normal

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conscience #get #huge #i #me

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#believe #fast #function #i #i believe

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#alchemy #stars #age

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore. ↗

— Steve Brown

#american #anymore #booking #did #exhausted

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. ↗

— Robert Browning

#death #dream #face #lose #meet

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. ↗

— Robert Browning

#crystal #deemed #dew #finds #out