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- utopian3
- is he afraid to use commas to separate words?hotroddy
- ^ commas separate us.sarahfailin
- @sarah hee hee :)jagara
- bezoar3
“To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
- _niko2
“In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over.”
- brothers Grimm by the wy_niko
- sounds like borges?sarahfailin
- grafician0
"People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
- Charles Bukowski
- Wordsworth0
“In terms of dispensing with orthodox narrative devices and stuff, I’m not doing it for the sake of it, it’s just that they just don’t reflect how I see life or experience life.”
– Claire-Louise Bennett
- _niko6
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
Bukowski
- Nairn1
"I used to express my bulldog's glands, but that's on some surgical gloves and full-finger insertion levels of commitment."
— garbage- Ah, I think I meant to post this here:
https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn - Lolscarabin
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- Gardener0
- The carbon they want to reduce is YOU. *finger points*Brabo_Brabo
- Zappa has a lot of interesting quotes...gonzalle
- rzu-rzu3
“I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.”
― Stanislaw Lem
- imbecile-3
Perhaps you have heard the little epigram which goes like this: “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people.” Those who spend most of their discussion time in talk about people and events are not intellectually mature.
James H. Halsey
- how do we talk about people without talking about ideas or events involving those people?rzu-rzu
- drgs-1
- kaiyohtee5
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent".
Isaac Asimov
- grafician0
"The entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system.
The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...
Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior."-
Herbert Marcuse