Mitch Temple

“liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.”
― Julia Child

“For who brooded over the meaninglessness of life anymore? Teenagers. They were the only ones who were preoccupied with existential issues, and as a result there was something puerile and immature about them, and hence it was doubly impossible for adults with their sense of propriety intact to deal with them. However, this is not so strange for we never feel more strongly and passionately about life than in our teenage years, when we step into the world for the first time, as it were, and all our feelings are new feelings. So there they are, with their big ideas on small orbits, looking this way and that for an opportunity to launch them, as the pressure builds. And who is it they light upon sooner or later but Uncle Dostoevsky.”
― Knausgaard