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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8bc30f3 | When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the big angry city hanging over the shoulder of the hills through which the boulevard had been cut. Far off the banshee wail of police or fire sirens rose and fell, never for very long completely silent. Twenty four hours a day somebody is running, .. | disillusionment los-angeles southern-california | Raymond Chandler | |
| 91f236c | Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got someth.. | stories | Paul Murray | |
| 77193e2 | This can't be true but I remember it. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 233bb9c | While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting. | thinking | Dan Millman | |
| a0e15c6 | I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to. | truth | Truman Capote | |
| 3ace148 | The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. | change life | Truman Capote | |
| 57b4475 | He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5feaf49 | They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 61535ae | Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh. | humor laugh | Douglas Adams | |
| cbb1ab1 | The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7c997ca | Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only part of the Corporation to have shown a consistent profit in recent years. The motto stands-- or rather stood-- in three mile high illuminated letters near the Complaints Department spaceport on Eadrax. Unfortunately its weight was such that s.. | sci-fi | Douglas Adams | |
| 6236f2b | Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6e61995 | What's the problem Earthman?" said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump. "I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing here inviting me to," said Arthur, "it's heartless." "Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten," said Zaphod. "That's not the point," Arthur protested. Then he thought about it for a moment. "Alright," he said, "maybe it is the point. I don't care, I'm not going to thi.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b93513f | Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. | hobbit hope sam | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| de9bfc2 | A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9f1e68a | Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 5279773 | But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| ef46794 | Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 270fe75 | The Martians were there--in the canal--reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.... | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7e2040c | What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8e6a720 | Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 00ec36f | Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere. | science-fiction | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8d6c64e | The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| cf6fded | Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| c065042 | When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 78c38e8 | Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly. | reviewing work | David Allen | |
| 7059e5b | It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| f46ae2b | Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis) You know better. You've tutored me too well on how vicious women are. On how much love ruins and destroys. Thank you for the lesson, Artemis. It was just what I needed. And I assure you, it's one I'll never forget. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 062e606 | Trust the Simi. She ain't never wrong. | trust wrong | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 2f1f56a | Why do we focus on certain things at the expense of others? We will risk our lives to save a person from drowning, yet not make a donation that could save dozens of children from starvation. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 8c4e33c | Do you like manga?" she asked after a minute. "Anime?" "Anime's cool. I'm not really into it, but 1 like Japanese movies, animated or not." "Well, I'm into it. I watch the shows, read the books, chat on the boards, and all that. But this girl I know, she's completely into it. She spends most of her allowance on the books and DVDs. She can recite dialogue from them." She caught my gaze. "So would you say she belongs here?" "No. Most kids are.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 2700317 | First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 79a5b74 | The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 542cbda | The stairs aren't challenging enough anymore?" he asked. Antonio laughed. "Challenge has nothing to do with it, Jer. I'd say it's the big bad wolf huffing and puffing at her door up there." | big-bad-wolf elena jeremy | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 58454f8 | Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 87a632c | He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. | inspirational tolkien | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 559302d | They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives. | Albert Camus | ||
| 7162767 | I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself. | Albert Camus | ||
| f8e903b | What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country ... we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits ... this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing ... Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as di.. | fear travel | Albert Camus | |
| 31352ef | After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| b22266b | I didn't want to kill girls... even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde. | twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| ff13736 | Okay." I bounced down the stairs. "I'm decent." He was waiting at the foot of the stairs, closer than I'd thought, and I bounded right into him. He steadied me, holding me a careful distance away for a few seconds before suddenly pulling me closer. "Wrong again," he murmured in my ear. "You are utterly indecent - no one should look so tempting, it's not fair." "Tempting how?" I asked. "I can change . . ." He sighed, shaking his head. "You a.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 51d505b | I'd rather die than be with anyone but you. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8a83e67 | But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest. | Stephenie Meyer |