The way it should be.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Tragic.

Tragic – Happy Rhodes (in Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)

Instant Katz

Cathy + Heathcliff

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He is always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

Emily Brontë, in Wuthering Heights

lie #7

7. The world does not revolve around you

The whole universe is all about you. Every single person on this planet has a different world going on inside their heads. You see the world differently from me and I see it differently from someone else. Therefore the world is about you.

Steven Aitchison in 10 beliefs that could hold you back in life.

Girls and Boys Beware

Girls Beware

Boys Beware

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box.

What I Am – Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians

Young Lady in a Green Dress, by Tamara de Lempicka

I am not ashamed of my handwriting.

I’m ashamed to tell of it. I’m ashamed of my handwriting. It exposes me in all my spiritual nakedness. My handwriting shows me more naked than I am with my clothes off. No leg, no breath, no clothes, no sound. Neither voice nor reflection. All cleaned out. Instead, a whole man’s being, shrivelled and misshapen, like his scribble-scrabble.

Friedrich Kittler, in Gramophone, Typewriter, Film

Darwin Awards

Tycho Brahe, a sixteenth-century Danish astronomer whose research helped Sir Isaac Newton devise the theory of gravity, died because he didn’t make it to the bathroom in time. In that society it was considered an insult to leave the table before the banquet was over. Brahe forgot to relieve himself before the banquet began, then exacerbated matters by imbibing too much alcohol at dinner. Too polite to ask to be excused, he instead allowed his bladder to burst, which killed him slowly and painfully over the next eleven days.