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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3f4154d | One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay "in shape" so that when the big day comes you will be ready. What you need is "anarchist calisthenics." Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it's only jaywalking. Use your own head to jud.. | James C. Scott | ||
| 227bc1c | The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 95bbdd0 | The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality. | life-lessons rational reality truth | Robert Greene | |
| 535f211 | JUDGMENT Be wary of friends--they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them. | Robert Greene | ||
| 3d246ba | When hope is gone, time is punishment. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 22f88bf | All who are born are always dying. | dying living | Mitch Albom | |
| 3d7e045 | Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 00a4734 | We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7f45d43 | Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| caf64bf | The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque. | mentally-disturbed religion science | Philip K. Dick | |
| 8295753 | lmwt ybd' bldhkr@ , wmwt ldhkr@ 'qs~ 'nw` lmwt , ffy qbDth t`ysh mwtk w'nt HyW , wturad w'nt l tdry l~ l'mWiy@ ! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 72c1ff3 | For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4e99016 | Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 572e6e7 | For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end. | noldor oath oathbreaker oathkeeper oaths sons-of-feanor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 1b5489c | You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| c74ebce | Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 4bcffd1 | ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is this process whereby a fresh, stimulating, humanly helpful idea is changed into robot dogma that is deadly. In terms of hazardous vectors released, the transformation of ideas into dogma rivals the transformation of hydrogen into helium, uranium into.. | repression | Tom Robbins | |
| f068927 | Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| e3459e6 | While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it. | Joseph Heller | ||
| ec0116a | There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our ener.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 7fd6ba0 | In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 92999dd | I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear." | Raymond Carver | ||
| 9253092 | If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and rea.. | short-stories thought writing | Raymond Carver | |
| 6dc25d0 | Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known. | Alice Walker | ||
| fb360ec | All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems! | Saul Bellow | ||
| bab785d | Sanity: You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all, sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that... I think; therefore I am. There are hairs on my face; therefore I shave. My wife and child have been critically injured in a car crash; therefore I pray. It's all logical, it's all sane. ...there's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face.. | Richard Bachman (Pseudonym) Stephen King | ||
| 5fd288c | None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 3b1265f | We'll all be glad to see you die. No one's going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I'll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe we all will." It" | Richard Bachman | ||
| d8f0b16 | The sea at the horizon was yet unchanged. It glittered blue and ageless, full of dancing points and nets of light in the late afternoon sun. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 10a30d1 | places are the same unless your mind changes. There's no magic place to get your mind right. If you feel like shit, everything you see looks like shit. I know that. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 5e7220d | To hell with you. You just don't want to admit it. Those people, they're animals. They want to see someone's brains on the road, that's why they turn out. They'd just as soon see yours." "That isn't the point," McVries said calmly. "Didn't you say you went to see the Long Walk when you were younger?" "Yes, when I didn't know any better!" "Well, that makes it okay, doesn't it?" McVries uttered a short, ugly-sounding laugh. "Sure they're anim.. | Richard Bachman | ||
| a119c14 | Love is a fake!" Olson was blaring. "There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good shit, and that's all!" | insanity reality | Richard Bachman | |
| 8f5f937 | The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 544769e | I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mounta.. | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 4760ea9 | The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ceaf0bc | So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| bd79a20 | Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? | heart love poetry | Sylvia Plath | |
| 57b004f | I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and saying "Ah!" in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out. Then he would lean back in his chair and match the tips of his fingers together in a little steeple and tell me why I couldn't sleep and why I couldn't read and .. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 4515ea9 | If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 678c440 | I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not. | the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 6f1e828 | kn khlfy zmn l mHdwd HtW~ qbl 'n 'wld , wb`d 'n mtW 'yDan , zmn l ynthy ! lm 'fkr bhdh w'n Hy . knt '`ysh wsT Dw byn zmnyn mZlmyn . | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| cc06414 | Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor count.. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 3331506 | does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 5f36995 | Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe? | peace | Brian Jacques |