| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fbcf48f | Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do. | men say thing worst | Miranda July | |
| 100ae02 | I'm a monster. You're a monster. We're fucking inhuman monsters, and we don't see a damned thing wrong with it. | wrong inhuman thing monster fucking | John Scalzi | |
| 7ea308a | Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic. | magic writing populated thing | Marguerite Duras | |
| fa88596 | One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, prose must not. It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as the clouds of dawn,--it is not fitting at all that all this should be narrated, and it is too much to have even called attention to it. | smut thing is not | Victor Hugo | |
| 902ecb2 | We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to touch the vision or experience which prompted them. We then gather up what we have found there and take this quivering almost wordless 'thing' and place it behind the language into which it needs to be translated. And now the principal task is to persuade the host language to take in and welcome the 'thing' which is waiting to be articulated. | thing translation | John Berger | |
| 14b2992 | These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing. | unless thing intellectual they-re you whole guys running like | J.D. Salinger | |
| b47e096 | A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious. | thing | Barbara Ehrenreich |