93 Quotes

“The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice

“When Celia cums, 'tis earthquake hour
The bed vibrates like kettledrums
It is a grand display of power
when Celia cums.

An up exhales a greasy stench
for which you curse the careless wench;
so things which must not be exprest,
when plumpt into the reeking chest,
send up an excremental smell
to taint the parts from whence they fell
the petticoats and gown perfume
which waft a stink around every room
thus finishing his grand survey
disgusted Strephon stole away
repeating his amorous fits

Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits!”
― Aleister Crowley

“Hey, do you mind not squeezing my head off. I remember how powerful those thighs are.”
― Megan I. Tennant, Aletheia

“Voor mij is geluk het gevoel dat ik als een arend boven een landschap zweef, tot het uiterste geconcentreerd, alles opmerkend beneden, alles overziend, elk moment kunnen toeslaan, trefzeker.”
― Marijke Schermer, Noodweer

“Warning – Radiation: Stay back 93 million miles!”
― Steven Magee

“As Kahan explained in Nature, "People find it disconcerting to believe that behavior that they find noble, is nevertheless detrimental to society, and behavior that they find base is beneficial to it. Because accepting such a claim could drive a wedge between them and their peers, they have a strong emotional predisposition to reject it." In other words, it is always easier to deny reality that to watch your worldview get shattered, a fact that was true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate deniers today.”
― Naomi Klein, On Fire : The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

“You sound like you're in love," Abdumasi says. "I read that you can fall in love with someone before you've ever met them. And when you see them at last, you say, '*Oh, that's why I hurt,*' like you just found an old splinter buried in your foot."

You hate splinters, so you shudder.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant