"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

60 quotes

🇨🇦Marshall McLuhan

Philosophy

1911–1980

"Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language."

"Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire."

"And where, for God’s sake, does that wretched, utterly dishonest phrase “coalition forces” come from? There is no “coalition” in this Iraq war. There are the Americans and the British and a few Australians. That’s it."

"Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men."

"I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work."

"Yes, let me tell you about my favourite Disney character. And afterwards, let's all have a magical tea party under the enchanted tree, then we can have a delightful game of pooh sticks, you fucking pansy."

"You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."

"Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape."

"One of the many industries that Biden has a long record of letting “off the hook” is the war business. In that mode, Biden did more than any other Democratic senator to greenlight the March 2003 invasion of Iraq..."

"You God damned cowardly pieces of chicken neck filth. I'm going to sue your ass into hell, get ready!"

"I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him."

91 quotes

🇺🇸James Nestor (writer)

Literature

"he voice of a man... flowed from the speakers... too melodious to sound natural... instructed me to inhale slowly through our noses, then exhale slowly. To focus on our breath."

66 quotes

🇿🇦Ilana Mercer

Journalism

"Life with Islam is life under Islam and its enablers."

"But that is what life is like, uncertain, screwed at times but still fun."

"It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets."

"In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter."

"Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing."

278 quotes

🇷🇺Svetlana Alexievich

Literature

literary realism

b. 1948

"Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone—the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth."

"Judges are not typically expected to remain dispassionate when they’ve been accused of gang rape, nor should they be."

"Amelia Earhart Collection of Papers, Memorabilia and Artifacts The world's largest collection of Earhart photographs, artifacts and correspondence. More than 600 photos are now online"

"There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school."

"The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man."

"A debt-ridden farmer contemplating suicide in Maharashtra and a mother who abandons her children in Karachi because she can't feed them: this is what we have achieved in our mutual desire to teach each other a lesson."

"My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around."

1 quotes

🇺🇸Larisa Alexandrovna

Journalism

b. 1971

"I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism."

"Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda."

"The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own."

"I’m delighted to hear someone make the claim that there is moral progress because it can be such a incendiary thing to say, and its something that I say and deeply believe in."

"Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience."

"If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books — but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!"

"At this point, is the average person boarding a plane more fearful of Al Qaeda or TSA?"

"Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it."

7 quotes

🇺🇸Mary H.K. Choi

Journalism

"It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early."

"The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too."

"I received an email for a casting call from Aeromexico specifying that they don't want anyone dark-skinned. Tsss."

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