"The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check."

-- Theodor Adorno

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“Go and see whether the Doctor is about,â€™ said Jack, â€˜and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.â€™ Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.”
“When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?”

Source : Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.353
“Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.”
“The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.”
“What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.”

Source : C.J. Mahaney (2009). “The Cross-Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing”, p.35, Multnomah
“McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.”
“I think sometimes people believe what they want to believe. I personally thought I was going to marry Elton John. I was so out of my mind that I really thought that someday I'd meet him and we'd fall in love and live happily ever after.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Being infinitely patient means having an absolute knowing that you're in vibrational harmony with the all-creating force that intended you here. You know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.”

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