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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbfb53c | Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool! | ataraxy self-confidence | Armistead Maupin | |
| b4e7139 | You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for amusement: as skilled furniture makers enjoy making furniture, as drunkards like drinking, as judges li.. | writing | John Fowles | |
| 2136634 | The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 071cb4e | The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1ac5210 | I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance." | math | Maureen Johnson | |
| e7b067b | Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 3e8afd0 | You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| ebcfa0b | The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do. | exploitation philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| cef6a43 | Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality, for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his.. | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| fce5358 | The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family." "That cannot be," said Machi. "You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies." -- | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 6be2296 | There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 34b5835 | Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the con.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 4403908 | I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. | Willa Cather | ||
| d2d791e | Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 4e55ee5 | I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value. | richard-feynmann self-value thought-provoking values-in-life | Richard P. Feynman | |
| 8c26477 | Normal' is a dryer setting. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| fc55c35 | Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones. | night | L.M. Montgomery | |
| db7f46c | Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 44f1d06 | The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 94e8c9a | It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7b1f40a | None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109) | Cornel West | ||
| 3f407c1 | Besides Getting my ass kicked, my main accomplishment on this trip has been to massacre an incredible number of completely innocent clothes. I'm the Joseph Stalin of laundry. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 617eadc | All publicity works upon anxiety. | John Berger | ||
| f0daef3 | I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both. | John Berger | ||
| 732db84 | His lips rise. "I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don't come off like a complete prick." I think he just called me stupid." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| c093d0c | Ryke smiles back, like he's proud of me. "It's yours, little brother. I believe in you." -- | Krista Ritchie | ||
| fca59b4 | My hand lowers to the small of her back, and I leave her with one last kiss to the forehead that feels more genuine than all the others. "You've bewitched me, body and soul." She glares. "And you ruined it with a quote from Pride and Prejudice." I grin. "What? I thought we were purposefully being cliche." "Maybe next time, quote the book and not the film." My eyebrow arches and I recite theatrically, "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, ha.. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 8af9d07 | I FUCKING LOVE HER!" I scream, my heart thrashing in my ribs." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 3fb26f2 | I don't need you," she repeats, her voice breaking. "You're right," he says softly. "You don't need a man, Rose." He pauses and I barely hear him whisper, "But you do need me." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| fd0d0b8 | You remember those twin statues of the Buddha that I told you about? Carved out of a mountain in Afghanistan, that got dynamited by the Taliban back in the spring? Notice anything familiar?" "Twin Buddhas, twin towers, interesting coincidence, so what." "The Trade Center towers were religious too. They stood for what this country worships above everything else, the market, always the holy fucking market." "A religious beef, you're saying?" .. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 62b0180 | Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 0999382 | It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| cbc751b | lqd `jb bry'H@ lbHr ldrj@ n shth~ lHSwl `lyh , wlw mr@ .. nqy@ dwn shwy'b wbkmyt wfrh tskrh . | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 157e4aa | It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| c23c2ab | Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between u.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d789b5f | But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 58a9bbb | After all, life is not a Hindi movie. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c754213 | Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c903e6e | Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn't look forced. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too | the-kite-runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 85eb38b | She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters -- the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their pi.. | passion truth | E.M. Forster | |
| e118a3c | You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish--not sit intending on a chair. | purpose resolve | E.M. Forster | |
| 1ed20e0 | Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 3c56fc6 | For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men. | one-sided-love possibilities | Ivo Andrić | |
| 02e1b85 | Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn. | Isabel Allende |