#nun

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People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.


Mary Beth Whitehead


#know #like #madonna #me #nun

The only way to speak is diplomatically, and British is the imperial English tongue. I have expelled all claims to American independence from my pronunciation, and I have never felt more liberated.


Bauvard


#british #diplomacy #english #freedom #funny

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.


Christopher Hitchens


#conundrums #desire #groundhog-day #life #money

pity this busy monster, manunkind' pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness --- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. A world of made is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence. We doctors know a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go


E.E. Cummings


#manunkind #business

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.


Karen Armstrong


#few people #find #god #i #lousy

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.


Camilo Jose Cela


#literature #lives #times #which

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.


Maria Monk


#branch #business #candles #important #manufacture

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.


Brandy Norwood


#daughter #i #make #nun #raise

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.


Kenzaburo Oe


#abroad #along #article #attempts #been

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.


Gabrielle Reece


#golf #hat #i #life #little