#anesthetic

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ↗

— Frank Leahy

#egotism #pain #stupidity

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#anesthetic #confidence #fallen #feeling #get

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#anesthetic #desperate #interesting #interesting thing #loneliness

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#autopsy #awake #being #canal #during

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#against #anesthetic #blinding #brings #conscience

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#anesthetic #behind #benevolence #birth #birth control

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#enjoyment #life #love #love is #pain