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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 624ed17 | In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel. | Nick Flynn | ||
| fead013 | I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, fo.. | on-keeping-a-notebook self | joan didion | |
| b7c6061 | To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home. | Joan Didion | ||
| 1ccc251 | There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible | Joan Didion | ||
| a3d4d3d | Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors. | Paul Auster | ||
| e3a4966 | Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you?' said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. 'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are? | William Golding | ||
| 6cd6042 | When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 3b3efa4 | If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 4e47528 | He never felt lonliness except when he was happy. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 1ea3cbc | The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b107bf9 | Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! | Anne Tyler | ||
| 4d971d6 | Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 83e26bf | The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure .. | Jon Stewart | ||
| 4aebf43 | Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 9454a78 | Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4918b15 | Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a4ac9b8 | Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. | money the-winter-of-our-discontent | John Steinbeck | |
| 07413ee | Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9df280a | Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 46b7028 | I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 22050af | You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. | Frank Herbert | ||
| aba830c | Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone? | Nora Roberts | ||
| 352e593 | What are these?" Meg looked at the rings of keys in Nate's hand, deliberately furrowed her brow. "Those would be keys." "Why do you need so many keys?" "Because there are so many locks? Is this a quiz?" He jingled them in his palm while she continued to give him a sunny, innocent smile. "Meg, you don't even lock your doors half the time. What are all these keys about?" "Well... There are times a person needs to get into a place, and hey, th.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| ff5252b | The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 884d1ef | To fly or not to fly, that's the question. | Dan Brown | ||
| f17a344 | Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend. | Dan Brown | ||
| 8bd83b7 | If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself. | George S. Clason | ||
| 105519e | Thank you for a lullaby last night. Thank you for the boy who sang it. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| e73bd31 | Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. | John Grisham | ||
| 7190766 | Biological clock? I don't even own a watch. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 4a1d326 | Funny how life messed with you. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 681f430 | With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. | Jared Diamond | ||
| b30aad7 | Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. | history planning reconsideration society success values | Jared Diamond | |
| 5c6e259 | W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. | death fanaticism radicalism war | Jared Diamond | |
| b3f4db4 | The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love. | James Frey | ||
| 52179cb | She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis. | James Frey | ||
| ab20243 | Life is hard, Kid, you gotta be harder. You gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it. | James Frey | ||
| 0552beb | Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 7122f82 | I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. | medea play | Euripides | |
| 14d9e52 | After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work | Beryl Markham | ||
| 2f2180f | The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. | heart life story | John Eldredge Brent Curtis | |
| 79f5ce5 | But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack. | wild wolves | Jack London | |
| e72531b | There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; | Jack London | ||
| cce6b57 | children should draw [a husband & wife] nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and [your husband] had nothing to do but support them. . . . don't neglect husaband for children, don't shut him out of the nursery, but teach him how to help in it. His place is there as well as yours, and the children need him; let him feel that he has his part to do, and he will do it gladly and faithfully, and it will be better for you.. | Louisa May Alcott |