Nox

“On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Merleau-Ponty’s central philosophical insight about perception, then, is that it is not just contingently but essentially bodily. Perception is not a private mental event, nor is our own body just one more thing in the world alongside others”
― Anonymous

“To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1”
― Michael Marmot, The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity