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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional ang — Aberjhani, The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them — and each mind perceives a different beauty.
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. — Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are — Kilroy J. Oldster
Forget it. Never explain — never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, life must have contin — Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased — Andrew Sullivan
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to liv — Joe Queenan
...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that th — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It wasn’t enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility th — Wes Locher, Musings on Minutiae
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments — our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous than the bullets.
Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the im — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspectiv — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their repu — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay