JOSE M GARCIA LOTO
- Yearning
You're stumbling through the dark, grasping for something you can't even name. You had it once, didn't you? That fleeting taste of what you crave. And now, you're desperate to reclaim it, like a dog chasing its own tail.
Will Smith
- Love
The physics of love and happiness are counterintuitive. As long as we are stuck in the need to receive - in the cycle of grasping and clinging and demanding that people and the world around us meet our needs - we will be locked into disappointment, anger, and misery. The sweet paradox is being fulfilled by giving, that your output precipitates the input-giving and receiving become simultaneous. To love and to be loved is the highest human reward and ecstasy.
Anonymous
- Office Work
I don't think I knew why adults acted dead inside until I started working at an office full time. I get it now. Dull beige walls. Cubicles angled just so that anybody can see the screen and how much word you've done. Strict dress codes. The same faces every day. Day in and day out. "How was your weekend?" "Any plans for the weekend?" Five days of my week spent just looking forward to the two days I don't have to be there. I'm so tired all the time now. So tired.
Marshall Sahlins
- Future of Anthropology
We are the custodians of this knowledge, and we are content to let it be forgotten. Where else in the university are these things to be taught, or is it that they are not worthy of scholarly contemplation, and should just be confined to the dustbin of intellectual history? Maybe in a few hundred years, if the human species survives the dark ages of planetary degradation, there will be a cultural renaissance driven by the discovery of some buried or flooded libraries.
Alex Claremont-Diaz - RWRB
- The Truth
The truth is every queer person has the right to come out on their own terms, and on their own timeline. They also have the right to choose not to come out at all. The forced conformity of the closet can not be answered with the forced conformity in coming out of it. This isn't about shame. This is about privacy and the fundamental right of self-determination which are exactly the principles on which the struggle for queer liberation has always been fought.
Ballad of Jane Doe
- Cyclone
I've got no celebration, just this consolation. Time eats all his children in the end. A melody floats through the air. When silence falls does no one care? Another sad, forgotten tune; another song that no one knows. So that's how it goes. Just John and me forever, eternally Jane Doe.
your twin
- Typing
Accurate typing is a useful, impressive and oddly rare talent. You probably know this already because I mean, why else would you be here? Me personally, I was fed up with how often I had to correct my typing mistakes. All I want is to type cleanly and fast! So, to help me and you type better, I have cooked up this quote full of annoying keys to type. Hope you had fun!
Karl Marx
- Critique of the Gotha Program
Labor is not the source of all wealth. Nature is just as much the source of use values (and it is surely of such that material wealth consists!) as labor, which itself is only the manifestation of a force of nature, human labor power. The above phrase is to be found in all children's primers and is correct insofar as it is implied that labor is performed with the appurtenant subjects and instruments. But a socialist program cannot allow such bourgeois phrases to pass over in silence.
clairebear
- Pivots
I once heard someone say that the more pivots your life has, the more stable it is. But they cannot be people. That just makes SO much sense. People change. People disappoint. People leave. You can't control them. Make sure your pivots aren't people.
Amanda Leduc
- Disfigured - Chap. 1
It begins, as all fairy tales do, with a problem. Once upon a time, a woodcutter and his wife lived alone and had no children. Once upon a time, a wealthy man's wife died and he was lonely, so he married another woman who was cruel to his children. Once upon a time, a mermaid, looking out beyond the sea, longed to find herself on land.
me myself and I
- Hope this is helpful
Read the word in your head slowly as you type it, and try to look at each part of the word as you type it (it's surprising how often you scan ahead and end up looking at the next word while you're still typing the previous one - disaster); and don't just do the classic typing test - do the instant death test too. Both slowing down and focussing as well as forcing yourself to go faster will get you to the scores you dream of.
Bennett Foddy on Getting Over It 84 Seconds Speedrun
- Love Letter to Speedrunners
The role of the speedrunner is the exact opposite of a game designer. A designer carves a beautiful sculpture out of wood, first chiseling it from a raw block, then rounding off rough edges, ensuring it works from any angle. The speedrunner carefully examines the sculpture from every angle, deeply understanding it, appreciating the design's strengths and weaknesses. Then, having understood it perfectly, they break it over their knee. That's why I love speedrunners.
Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Pilate's dream
I dreamt I met a Galilean, a most amazing man. He had that look you very rarely find. The haunting, hunted kind. I asked him to say what had happened. How it all began. I asked again, he never said a word. As if he hadn't heard. And next the room was full of wild and angry men. They seemed to hate this man. They fell on him and then they disappeared again. Then I saw thousands of millions crying for this man. And then I heard them mentioning my name and leaving me the blame.
Doin' What Comes Naturally
You don't have to know how to read or write when you're out with a fella in the pale moonlight. You don't have to look in a book to find what he thinks of the moon or what is on his mind. That comes naturally.
I, Libertine
I'm very excited to see all my quotes fall into the void. I just can't see why anyone would want to be seen. Every time someone says that they talked about me when I wasn't there or someone likes my story on Instagram I lose my mind!
Ashley Rosetta
- Lemons
In a world full of lemon's you make lemonade. Taste of sweet but sour at the same time. Bright and yellow like the sun. Delightful to the thirst. Fallen from a evergreen tree, picked to perfection. Made into Lemon juice.
Chappell Roan
- Pink Pony Club
I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee. Oh Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me. Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene. She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream, "God, what have you done? You're a pink pony girl, and you dance at the club." "Oh mama, I'm just having fun! On the stage in my heels, it's where I belong, down at the Pink Pony Club."
Gateway
- The Law
For those who truly value life, speed limit signs are just suggestions. After all, who really takes them seriously and follows them to the letter? 50 miles an hour Phat, 150 sounds more like it.
Cuttlefish That Loves Diving
- Azik Eggars - Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 113
I don't know any other person with extraordinary powers... You cannot imagine what emotions a man without a past has. You are like a boat floating in a vast ocean. The most terrifying thing is not facing a storm, but not being able to find a harbor. The inability to navigate to shore. All you can do is take on disaster after disaster, with no end in sight, never to feel peace and safety.
Old Guard
- He's not my Boyfriend
"You're a child," Joe snaps back. "He's not my boyfriend. This man is more to me than you can dream. He's the moon when I'm lost in darkness, and warmth when I shiver in cold. And his kiss still thrills me even after a millennium. His heart overflows with a kindness of which this world is not worthy. I love this man beyond measure and reason. He's not my boyfriend. He is all, and he is more.
