#sore

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. ↗

— Thomas More

#applying #complication #diseases #fall #ill

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#humor #seth-sorenson #humor

Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out. ↗

— Sara Quin

#love #not-tonight #pull #ribs #sara-quin

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #lenin #marx #mussolini #propaganda

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ↗

— Arthur Chapman

#dwells #envy #fly #like #parts

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inexorable #life #limits #mysterious #need

Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium. ↗

— Steve Crocker

#mass #medium #uncensored

I just don’t see the point of talking unless there’s something to say. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#jessica-sorensen #death

I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#jessica-sorensen #love #life

No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#kayden-and-callie #love #need #love