#hem

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#life #screw #somebody #them #up

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. ↗

— August Wilson

#blacks #custodians #experience #had #operate

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canada #develop #great #natural #natural resources

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? ↗

— William Booth

#attention #concentrated #desperate #gospel #keep

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#accounted #annoyed #dearest #free #i

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#artist #artistic #bohemian #bohemianism #art

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#mathematicians #other #shoulders #stand

I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and down yelling, ‘You’re not a hero. You’re not a hero. You’re not. You’re not. You’re not.’ “ “How do you analyze that part of the dream, Anna?” …”I guess I’m nervous about my birthday. ↗

— Sarah Schulman

#dreams #j-g-ballard #psychoanalysis #sexism #william-burroughs

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#establishment #gaede #mathematical-physics #mathematicians #mathematics

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#men #must #same #teach #them