“I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.” WellsSocialEnemyDutyConsciousMy FriendsFilledPerformingRighteousIndignationRighteous Indignation Author:Max Gluckman
“Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!” KnowsWantKindSoulMatterDreamFacesFormLyingExistenceDivineConsciousMy FriendsEmptyImpressionDespiteGloriousVoidSublimeLaunchingProclaiming Author:Stephane Mallarme
“I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.” WayWritingYearsEndsReasonLastsConsciousMy FriendsSouthSouthernTailsThesis Author:William Gibson
“There was things just like not being able to date or - I'm talking like 15, 16 - like just certain things that my friends started to do. Like, they started to get phone calls from girls or like, you know, go and hang out 10, 11 at night, kind of going to the movies. There were just certain things that - it's not that I couldn't do all of those things. It's just that every choice was really deliberate and conscious and thought out and sort of balanced against the religion in a way where I felt - I wasn't necessarily trying to convert at 12 like [my mother] was.” KnowsWayTryingKindAbleMotherNightCertainChoicesGirlFeltTalkingLike YouConsciousMy FriendsPhonesHanging OutBalancedDeliberatePhone Calls Author:Mahershala Ali
“I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsMeanDifferentSeemsLastsLostDifficultDecisionNumbersConsciousMy FriendsDecidedAskingFallenDifferent WaysDramaticFinding YourselfRedundant Book:The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Source: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim