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9745f3f
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Do the dead frighten you?
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prologue
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George R.R. Martin |
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f6b31fb
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That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.
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christianity
prologue
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Flannery O'Connor |
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cb7e69d
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But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite another, and though once I thought I had left that ravine forever on an April afternoon long ago, now I am not so sure. Now the searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air.
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donna-tartt
the-secret-history
haunted
prologue
trapped
memory
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Donna Tartt |
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28bbdd4
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As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.
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fiction
truth
handwritten
lasting
pen
second-sight
where
prologue
girls
ghosts
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Richard Peck |
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2cd9014
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I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.
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indelible
donna-tartt
the-secret-history
haunted
prologue
guilt
memory
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Donna Tartt |
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42123f4
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We end up populating what we call the intelligentsia with people who are delusional, literally mentally deranged, simply because they never have to pay for the consequences of their actions, repeating moderniest slogans stripped of all depth...The principle of intervention, like that of healers, is first do not harm; even more we will argue, those who don't take risks should never be involved in decision making (p.10). Their three flaws 1) they think in statics not dynamics 2) they think in low, not high dimensions 3) they think in terms of actions, never interactions....The first flaw is they are incapable in thinking in second steps and unaware of the need of them...The second flaw is that they are also incapable of distinguishing between multidimensional problems and their single dimensional representations. The third flaw is they can't forecast the evolution of those one helps by attaching, or the magnification one gets from feedback. (p.9)
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interventionists
slightly-disagree
decision-making
prologue
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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5aee9a4
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What if, this time, you fall?
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prologue
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Diana Gabaldon |
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ebac706
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I kako ovaj tvoj spis ne ide ni za cim drugim nego da unisti ugled i vlast koju i medu svijetom i medu svjetinom uzivaju viteske knjige, ne treba ti prosjaciti sentencije od filozofa, recenice iz Svetog pisma, price od pjesnika, govore od retora, cudesa od svetaca, nego nastoj da ti u knjizi budu krepke, valjane i dobro probrane rijeci, pa da ti pricanje i recenice poteku zvucno i ugodno, koliko god mozes, znas i volis, a da misli svoje iskazujes ne brkajuci ih i ne zamracujuci. Nastoj i o tome da se citajuci tvoju historiju melankolik nasmije, smjesljivac da puca od smijeha, priprostomu da ne bude na dosadu, razborit covjek neka se divi invenciji, ozbiljan neka je ne odvrgne, a umnik neka je svagda hvali. Sve u sve, upni da razoris lose osnovanu zgradu tih viteskih knjiga sto ih mnogi mrze a jos brojniji hvale; ako to postignes, nisi postigao malenkost.
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inspirational
wrting
renaissance
prologue
spain
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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2b65dfa
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Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words.
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prologue
ghosts
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Diana Gabaldon |