places

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
4d407b3	It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.	people san-francisco tales-of-the-city places hiding	Oscar Wilde
92da50f	It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.	comedic towns places	Hunter S. Thompson
87262f3	I liked the idea of living in a city -- any city, especially a strange one -- liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.	places	Donna Tartt
3668478	There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.	names places	Ernest Hemingway
adcdaac	The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.	places fit	Haruki Murakami
858ca3a	Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.	freeways southern-california cities places	Thomas Pynchon
c8b5427	I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for places, but seldom of how the places love us back, of what they give us. They give us continuity, something to return to, and offer a familiarity that allows some portion of our lives to remain connected and coherent... And distant places give us refuge in territories where our own histories aren't so deeply entrenched and we can imagine other stories, other selves, or just drink up quiet and respite.	familiarity places	Rebecca Solnit
688be7c	A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world	violence tragedy people places	Ron Rash
c1070d8	One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.	places	Virginia Woolf
3a9b394	But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.	time islands places	Lawrence Durrell
081957b	I loved that place as if it was a part of me, and perhaps, in some ways, it was.	part-of-me places	Neil Gaiman
bc7c3f5	Around 2 a.m. the snow started to fall. It was quite a lovely view and I breathed it in like I only do when I truly love something, and there was a small sadness creeping in through my chest because I knew I would have to leave it, go back to my basement with no stars in sight. But I pushed it aside because those moments are rare and I'm happy because now I know this place exists and that's all you need sometimes. You need to know that lovely places exist and you can go there, when things go wrong, and it's a place of solace.	minimalism solace safe places move simplicity home pretty	Charlotte Eriksson
f34eaae	It's hard to leave the only place you've known.	places	Lois Lowry
dcdd6cb	In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.	places	Dorothy Dunnett
53c0e6a	Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.	present reality x places	Colin Wilson
b85323e	Sa takie miejsca i takie czasy, kiedy bycie nikim przynosi wiekszy zaszczyt niz bycie kims.	ktoś miejsca nikt nobody times places polish someone	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
bb1c901	Guaravacan del Guaicui: vossignoria prenda nota di questo nome. Ma, non esiste piu, non si trova - ultimamente, quel posto si chiama Caixeiropoli; e dicono che la adesso ci vengono le febbri. In quel tempo, no. No che io mi ricordi. Ma fu in quel luogo, in quel tempo, che il mio destino fu suggellato. E possibile che ci sia un punto definito, da cui uno non puo piu tornare indietro? Traversia della mia vita. Guaravacan - vossignoria veda, vossignoria scriva. Le grandi cose, prima che accadano. Adesso, il mondo vuol restare senza sertao. [...] Quel luogo, l'aria. [...] Il vento e verde. Li, nell'intervallo, uno prende il silenzio e se lo mette sulle ginocchia. Io sono di dove nacqui. Sono di altri luoghi. Ma, la, a Guaravacan, io stavo bene.	grande-sertao luoghi spazi spaces nascita places	Guimarães Rosa João

4d407b3

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.

people san-francisco tales-of-the-city places hiding

Oscar Wilde

92da50f

It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

comedic towns places

Hunter S. Thompson

87262f3

I liked the idea of living in a city -- any city, especially a strange one -- liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.

places

Donna Tartt

3668478

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

names places

Ernest Hemingway

adcdaac

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

places fit

Haruki Murakami

858ca3a

Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

freeways southern-california cities places

Thomas Pynchon

c8b5427

I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for places, but seldom of how the places love us back, of what they give us. They give us continuity, something to return to, and offer a familiarity that allows some portion of our lives to remain connected and coherent... And distant places give us refuge in territories where our own histories aren't so deeply entrenched and we can imagine other stories, other selves, or just drink up quiet and respite.

familiarity places

Rebecca Solnit

688be7c

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

violence tragedy people places

Ron Rash

c1070d8

One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.

places

Virginia Woolf

3a9b394

But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.

time islands places

Lawrence Durrell

081957b

I loved that place as if it was a part of me, and perhaps, in some ways, it was.

part-of-me places

Neil Gaiman

bc7c3f5

Around 2 a.m. the snow started to fall. It was quite a lovely view and I breathed it in like I only do when I truly love something, and there was a small sadness creeping in through my chest because I knew I would have to leave it, go back to my basement with no stars in sight. But I pushed it aside because those moments are rare and I'm happy because now I know this place exists and that's all you need sometimes. You need to know that lovely places exist and you can go there, when things go wrong, and it's a place of solace.

minimalism solace safe places move simplicity home pretty

Charlotte Eriksson

f34eaae

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

places

Lois Lowry

dcdd6cb

In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.

places

Dorothy Dunnett

53c0e6a

Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.

present reality x places

Colin Wilson

b85323e

Sa takie miejsca i takie czasy, kiedy bycie nikim przynosi wiekszy zaszczyt niz bycie kims.

ktoś miejsca nikt nobody times places polish someone

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

bb1c901

Guaravacan del Guaicui: vossignoria prenda nota di questo nome. Ma, non esiste piu, non si trova - ultimamente, quel posto si chiama Caixeiropoli; e dicono che la adesso ci vengono le febbri. In quel tempo, no. No che io mi ricordi. Ma fu in quel luogo, in quel tempo, che il mio destino fu suggellato. E possibile che ci sia un punto definito, da cui uno non puo piu tornare indietro? Traversia della mia vita. Guaravacan - vossignoria veda, vossignoria scriva. Le grandi cose, prima che accadano. Adesso, il mondo vuol restare senza sertao. [...] Quel luogo, l'aria. [...] Il vento e verde. Li, nell'intervallo, uno prende il silenzio e se lo mette sulle ginocchia. Io sono di dove nacqui. Sono di altri luoghi. Ma, la, a Guaravacan, io stavo bene.

grande-sertao luoghi spazi spaces nascita places

Guimarães Rosa João