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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 65a6af9 | A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you. | Stephen King | ||
| 69b1f14 | The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions. | Alan Paton | ||
| 23b5426 | The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just. | Alan Paton | ||
| 92cb2ff | If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ecf2ed1 | God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1f63e9f | Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8756f8a | Feelings can't be a part of this game. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| c8305f3 | The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 18a9cb2 | India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| b949561 | I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 4085eff | I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father. | fathers-and-sons | Arthur Miller | |
| c4cf2cb | Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot. | Ian Doescher | ||
| fdfda61 | This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, | William Shakespeare | ||
| cb23c13 | Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell; If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell. | William Shakespeare | ||
| e408de2 | You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! | William Shakespeare | ||
| be62989 | What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind. | William Shakespeare | ||
| e66b984 | Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6e8edea | When the mind's free, The Body's delicate. | William Shakespeare | ||
| a876fd2 | If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 82dc16a | Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| c2a7444 | The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don't think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework, but when I see his drawings, I know they're wrong. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b8856ba | I blame it on his pants. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6c03200 | Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful. | James Patterson | ||
| 519b521 | How could you stop loving me? | James Patterson | ||
| 4614834 | Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. | opening-lines warning | James Patterson | |
| e6957a7 | She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists. | James Patterson | ||
| c11c3ed | It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered. | Emily Brontë | ||
| fd37cac | Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap. | rescue | Garth Nix | |
| f5437f8 | The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?) | fiction taste timelines | William Goldman | |
| d7a93e7 | But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-- we know what's out there. It's what that truly compels us. Technology may have shrunk the epic journey to a couple of short car rides and regional jet lags-- four states and twelve hundred miles traversed in an afternoon-- but true quests aren't measured in time or distance anyway, so much as in hope. There are only t.. | Jess Walter | ||
| 191a586 | Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense. | Jeff Lindsay | ||
| ce21081 | If I get a new idea today--or any day--I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do--I'll do it. | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 3103cba | There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved. | life | Charles Darwin | |
| c7d0afc | Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to show themselves, let their qualities be tested and confirmed, before special methods are adopted. Give nature time to work before you take over her business, lest you interfere with her dealings. You assert that you know the value of time and are afraid to waste it. You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it.. | memory reason | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 4593c68 | Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. | Harper Lee | ||
| 29613bf | Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. | Harper Lee | ||
| c125bd4 | The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics. | Harper Lee | ||
| aeff4b7 | Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 4438dad | In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withe.. | love | Alain de Botton | |
| fb33436 | That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 0b6f50c | When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? - | god religion tyger | William Blake | |
| 5faa540 | He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do." | Anne Stuart | ||
| 3723e21 | Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven..." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| eff3b6e | Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity. | John Kennedy Toole |