#sure

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America. ↗

— Stendhal

#humor #mob-mentality #peer-pressure #humor

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#reading #treasures #love

Despite marking the spot, Generation X has no treasure. How could they, when I dug it up first? 
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— Jarod Kintz

#digging #generation #generation-x #map #nonsense

‎Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her... ↗

— J. Ruth Gendler

#pleasure #poetic #ruth-gendler #love

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#pleasure #drugs

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hunting #pleasure #problem #problem solving #savage

Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us. ↗

— Owen Hart

#blazer #blue #each #every #i

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#choose #dead #did #here #land

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#calm #day #everything #excitement #feel

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots