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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 664fd64 | HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. | poverty social-class | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 09d6560 | She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| bdf8675 | William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 - died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every maj.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| c51c683 | I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things - once commenced - only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending - sweet or sour - and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable? | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 08febb8 | Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being | Robert Greene | ||
| bfe84ff | Lost love is still love. | Mitch Albom | ||
| bb29031 | Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 34769d3 | This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. | life offer respect truth | Mitch Albom | |
| dbc5f07 | Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 36ca843 | But common sense has no place in first love and never has. | Mitch Albom | ||
| daeee54 | And if you don't commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side. What's on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone" | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5d0188a | You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship | life-lessons | Mitch Albom | |
| 0be99c5 | The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fdae252 | I'll have no husband, if you be not he. | love marriage | William Shakespeare | |
| dc0362e | Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial. Career women in many countries still routinely apply passion to their cooking, heading straight from work to the market to search out the freshest ingredients, feeding their loved ones with aplomb. [...] Full-time homemaking may not be an option for those of us delivered without trust funds into the mo.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 950c80d | No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a9206fc | If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one. | mothers parenting | Jeannette Walls | |
| 62c6616 | I need to learn to recognize and identify these danger signs when I see them, and not brush them off as "eccentricities," "lovable oddities," or "a sign that he s crying out for help and the comforting of a codependent nurturer that only I, Princess Enabler, can provide. Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them. " | Laurie Notaro | ||
| e549771 | The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody co.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c7567ba | What the hell are you getting so upset about?' he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrive amusement. 'I thought you didn't believe in God.' I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him to be.' Yossarian laughed and turned her arms loose. 'Let's have a little more religious freedom between us,' he proposed obl.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5c6fcbf | I told them this novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter. Some cite its subject matter, the American Dream, to justify this distinction. We in ancient countries have our past--we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 1952040 | They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 0567fd6 | A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 53f8b94 | What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after? Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk. Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh. | Alice Walker | ||
| 73678c5 | And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238 | Alice Walker | ||
| dbe27c2 | Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. | Alice Walker | ||
| a37f1de | The apartment was haunted by the ghost of long-departed cabbage. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 3c86b6e | Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our physiology, so depression seems necessary to our psychic economy. In some secret way, Thanatos nourishes Eros as well as opposes it. The two principles work in covert concert; though in most of us Eros dominates, in none of us is Thanatos completely subdued. However-and this is the paradox of suicide-to t.. | Janet Malcolm | ||
| cffbd93 | I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ff924c8 | It's like watching paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction - every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 56b4567 | There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. | John Updike | ||
| f5f2b2d | Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3f7cc89 | What molds us is what maims us. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 02732cb | kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 8fec24a | I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2048d0d | Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 68e3bd3 | The young must grow old Whilst old ones grow older. And cowards will shrink As the bold grow bolder. Courage may blossom in quiet hearts, For who can tell where bravery starts? Truth is a song, oft lying unsung, Some mother bird protecting her young. Those who lay down their lives for friends, The echo rolls onward, it seldom ends. Who never turned and ran, but stayed? This is a warrior, born, not made. Living in peace, aye many a season, .. | poetry | Brian Jacques The Legend of Luke | |
| 39f07be | Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 4fc2f9a | She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!" | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 4eade68 | I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| cc60fee | while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 0dc8588 | It is more than possible; it is probable. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| dcc2fc9 | There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. The Korova Milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, and you may, O my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, things changing so skorry these days, and everybody very quick to forget, newspapers not being rea.. | anthony-burgess | Anthony Burgess | |
| d37082b | And at night you will look up at the stars. It's too small, where I live, for me to show you where my stars is. It's better that way. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. So you'll like looking at all of them. They'll all be your friends. And, besides, I am going to make you a present...' He laughed again. 'Ah, little prince, dear little prince! I love to hear that laughter!' 'That is my present. Just that. It will be as it was w.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |