"You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda."

-- Mark Twain

#Heaven Quotes #Want Quotes #Bermuda Quotes

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties”

Source : Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage
“How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?”
“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
“This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.”
“Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.”
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
“The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.”

Source : "The Mistletoe Bough". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.”

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