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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da717e8 | They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics. | Anne Carson | ||
| b0e9021 | Well? I've had a great birthday so far. Are you going to make it the most memorable one of my life by telling me you love me back?" ~Isaiah Coulter" | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 9964f0c | Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7c02076 | You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 8dd1e6f | Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. | pain tears | Charles Dickens | |
| bfbbc70 | What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward. | classic-quotes essence existence humanity mankind self-awareness self-definition | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 00310f8 | When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8240a95 | This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here--the screen of the magi.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a166d58 | You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| c6e34aa | A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. | imagination | Raymond Chandler | |
| bd4a31c | The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4976f81 | I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 45e95fa | Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| ac93f57 | Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. | design detroit london money paris rome urban-planning | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| abecec2 | You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. | Truman Capote | ||
| 06ed22f | Orange, Longbottom. | neville-longbottom orange potions severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| d525589 | Mostly harmless | Douglas Adams | ||
| b6b0dd5 | The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. | Douglas Adams | ||
| d559130 | My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 69416de | Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused. | gimli incurable-dents lord-of-the-rings saruman | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 55516b3 | As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but as he took the cup, his hand met hers, and he knew that she trembled at the touch. | Éowyn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 4376678 | When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. . . And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of his life could make a sound judgment concerning whom, amongst the total chances, he ought most profitably to have married! Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that a.. | soul-mate soulmate | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d7e2958 | Legolas watched them for awhile with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others. 'The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow--an Elf.' With that he sprang forth nimbly, and then Frodo noticed as if for the first time, though he had long known it, that the Elf had no boots, but wore only light shoes, as he al.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 53451a4 | Three Rings for Elven-Kings under the sky Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1c35bd9 | That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 44f93fc | In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, .. | on-writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 98ebb4b | Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 09d61f0 | What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 5c19196 | Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day. | life-quotes underwear | Ray Bradbury | |
| 50b9256 | The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. | literature reading words | Ray Bradbury | |
| 501e742 | The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 59033c8 | Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. | humor living | Carol Shields | |
| 19c0224 | A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse. | Anne Rice | ||
| e20dfe6 | Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing. | inspirational philosophy writing | Anne Rice | |
| 88a7f50 | when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us | Anne Rice | ||
| 75fb509 | It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars. | Anne Rice | ||
| 2b691c7 | I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. | the-vampire-lestat | Anne Rice | |
| f30b232 | Yeah, well, to hear you talk, most men should come with warning labels. (She lifted her hands up to frame her next statement.) Attention, please, Psycho Alert. Me, he-man, am prone to nasty mood swings, lengthy pouts, and possess the ability to tell a woman the truth about her weight without warning. (Selena) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| dbcec80 | He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever for doing it. He hadn't done it, and wouldn't had made her his anyway, but you see why he'd have figured it did. Or maybe I saw it anyway, at the time. He was a maniac and a monster, but people don't love like that anymore. Or maybe it's only the maniacs and monsters who do. I don't know. | obsession | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 4f3d0ec | Don't look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 659a9e1 | He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. | idleness retirement time | Albert Camus | |
| 8f133dc | I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without boasting, especially if I did so with that shattering discretion that was my specialty. It is quite true that I always lived free and powerful. I simply felt released in the regard to all the for the excellent reason that I recognized no equals. I a.. | self self-awareness self-esteem | Albert Camus | |
| 75387b0 | What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My... my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension." | Albert Camus | ||
| 48a61d6 | Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. | Iain M. Banks |