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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 728d767 | Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me." -I did nothing for you." -You loved me and your love made me--human." | foundation human robot | Isaac Asimov | |
| 872a47e | All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 876e9bf | you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 7a97491 | You are the only one responsible for your own wants. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 80600e0 | There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank. | horse iceland icelandic jules-verne nature river snow | Jules Verne | |
| 0e8d8d7 | Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 44b3a37 | The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms. | eric-packer | Don DeLillo | |
| 4b58aa2 | Longing on a large scale makes history. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6411439 | Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8f69345 | it's not the sex you think i've had. it's the sex i want. that's what you smell on me. because the more i look at you, the more i know about us both.and the more i want to have sex with you. because there's a certain kind of sex that has an element of cleansing. it's the antidote to disillusion. the counterpoison."_Eric Packer" | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| c742c72 | chr dshwrtryn khr dr jhn yn st khh prndh y r mtq`d khny, azd st? | Richard Bach | ||
| b317ccf | Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream. | Richard Bach | ||
| 27fbf5a | I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| d96784d | Come on, Rachel!" Jenks shrilled. "You're a badass, not a bad witch!" | rachel | Kim Harrison | |
| 7a5af08 | No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice. | funny rachel stoned | Kim Harrison | |
| 81f8e68 | The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past. | Joan Didion | ||
| d39f9fb | As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become... | Joan Didion | ||
| 59568cf | The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence. | Paul Auster | ||
| 3218470 | You are all my reasons. | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 0466227 | The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see | willful-ignorance | Ayn Rand | |
| e608f5a | You want to do it?" "I might. If you offer me enough." "Howard--anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul..." "That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul--would you understand why that's much harder?" | Ayn Rand | ||
| 5a5a629 | There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours | love | Ayn Rand | |
| b2778a3 | Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he's honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he's great in the eyes of others. | Ayn Rand | ||
| e213d44 | One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes | Ayn Rand | ||
| 340994f | He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller. | Anne Tyler | ||
| c5e99c5 | But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. | regret risk-taking | Anne Tyler | |
| 34b3800 | Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available. | criminals injustice police | Frank Herbert | |
| 0c3a250 | If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 78ac464 | But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 54944c4 | American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. | cities rubbish trash waste | John Steinbeck | |
| 50b3c85 | But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even .. | self-trust | John Steinbeck | |
| f396fe6 | If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. | reputation | John Steinbeck | |
| ead46b1 | Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d21abda | there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth? | Neil Strauss | ||
| 252632e | I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex. | shower-sex | Nora Roberts | |
| 4df3427 | Oh, go to hell." But there wasn't any heat in the response. "You're not supposed to smile when you say that." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 1f24da2 | Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. --Prince Carrick | Nora Roberts | ||
| 04d69e2 | Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon. | mind-power thoughts | Napoleon Hill | |
| adf8815 | If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d97fc3a | We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 80bd947 | If you consistently say thanks, being grateful is easy. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 5c50322 | We're all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world | professional work writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 3428d75 | Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. | Anne Carson | ||
| 6e3e790 | He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands. | Annie Proulx |