Hashiyaku Quotes & Sayings

She had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was most important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship. — George Orwell

If you are too afraid of losing something, it means you didn't care enough for it in the first place. — James Marquess

But in general, who's to say what's not gay enough? And how do we even raise that question without raising the far more perilous one of, Is it too gay? — Christopher Rice

Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness ... Like the pecking order in a chicken yard ... Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. — Zora Neale Hurston

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling. — Marquis De Sade

Why do I go outside at one a.m.
and search the stars as though I'd numbered them? — Gail White

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. — George Sand