“So much remains in our hearts and minds as unrealized suggestion.” —Andrei Tarkovsky
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Oxymoron: new movie
People who consider it in their interest that no rules inhibit or limit their behavior find the pleasures of their excesses short-lived and incomplete. Why else would they keep repeating them so neurotically?
A young girl coarsened through preoccupation with adolescent sex lowers the value to the species of Natural Selection.
If intentions equaled actions, we’d be having pie-in-the-sky for dessert tonight.
The hawk has not a sharper eye than a father looking for evidence of his own character in his adult children.
When you’re done with all the busywork, you won’t feel less alone.
Wreck children at your peril. The acuteness of their pain inspires an unappeasable hunger for payback.
Pleasure is a sensation, happiness an emotion, satisfaction a mood, and contentment a dreaming rumination.
The way a child grows into adulthood is by having his good-natured sense of humor, his sly mischievousness, his adoring loyalty and his fine companionship discouraged and devalued systematically until he’s liberated to become a spirit-stunted prick like the rest of us.
La Difference between the Sexes: Girls are women when they’re born, while men are little boys all their lives.
If dogs, cats and budgies didn’t exist, men and women would despise each other.
An expert is a person who believes there is no middle ground between expertise and ignorance.
When a person doesn’t acknowledge plain reason, the subject of the discussion is not what you have been thinking it is.
Values and principles are like socks and underwear. People change them daily.
Ideological feminists promulgate gender-suicide.
The gesture of affection foregone will one day, when you’re not properly guarded, open a gash in your heart the size of a rock quarry.
I once told the production foreman and the transportation manager of a company I worked for: “If you two spent half the time doing your jobs that you waste pretending to do them, you wouldn’t have to put on an act.”
Self-absorption closes the eyes.
Can it be surprising that a people who allow appearances to govern their opinions and existence should always be addressing the symptom rather than the disease?