Tiff and Josh are very different people, but, for me, they're the same. Controlling people who need me until they don't. Who love me until they can't.
— Rightor Doyle, Pete, Brendan Scannell, Stand Me Up, Stand Me Down
Tiff and Josh are very different people, but, for me, they're the same. Controlling people who need me until they don't. Who love me until they can't.
— Rightor Doyle, Pete, Brendan Scannell, Stand Me Up, Stand Me Down
Men hurt women. It is a fact. It is an epidemic. It is a public health catastrophe. It is normal.
This work requires trust, skill, connection.
Anything seems exciting when you think it will change who you are.
I am tired of talking about coming out. I am out. Coming out was not the point of my story. It was the end of the first act. There’s so much story after that.
— Casey McQuiston, Why Author Casey McQuiston Is Tired of Coming Out
My kink is listening.
Frat culture is wild.
Be kind to yourselves. Maybe give yourself a soul hug.
Shame you had such low standards for yourself.
The crucial elements of Putinism are nationalism, religion, social conservatism, state capitalism and government domination of the media.
During the 1960s a new generation of vociferous critics of democracy emerged, above all in France. There, the intellectual “event” of the postwar period was the rehabilitation of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Discredited in Germany owing to the taint of fascism, they emerged as the maîtres penseurs for p…
I guess what I'm trying to say is, who would like to get tied to the chair?
A century later, America’s entry into World War I under the banner of Wilsonian internationalism presented a qualitatively new threat for the advocates of Counter-Enlightenment. It seemed as though a more self-confident and mature American democracy was intent on spreading its ideals militarily as w…
All clothes are costumes.
You always have to be in control. You know... I used to think it was me that needed you, but maybe it's you that needed me.
I remember Derrida, after having been arrested in Czechoslovakia. During his seminar, he said that he had been quite distressed because after having spent his life as a philosopher deconstructing humanism and saying that the idea of the author and of responsibility did not exist, he had one day been…
The movement toward the organization of the State I am proposing would, of course, harm Jewish Frenchmen no more than it would harm the “assimilated” of other countries. It would, on the contrary, be distinctly to their advantage. For they would no longer be disturbed in their “chromatic function,”…
The Jews must previously acquire economic power sufficiently great to overcome the old social prejudice against them.
Pray for us, who once, too, thought we could fly.
— Margaret Atwood, Time capsule found on the dead planet by Margaret Atwood
The whole of society will have become a single office and a single factory, with equality of labor and pay.