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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8c9e243 | He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9f77bcf | Then, for more than ten days, they did not see the sun again. The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash, and the vegetation was thicker and thicker, and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boot.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 2b1f84c | Habia estado en la muerte, en efecto, pero habia regresado porque no pudo soportar la soledad. | realismo-magico soledad | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| eb6ee95 | He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ. | myth omens symbols | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 92b9948 | Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 1076c29 | When at last we are sure You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms Must be properly filled So that you and your heirs May be properly billed. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 6a40b35 | And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 4a0baac | The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. Still, lovers quarrel. Frequently, they quarrel simply to recharge the air between them, to sharpen the aliveness of their relationship. To precipitate such a quarrel, the sweaty kimono of sexual jealousy is usually dragged out of the hamper, although almost any excuse will do. Only rarely is the spat rooted in the beet-deep soil of serious issue, .. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 1cbf73b | Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more. | Tom Robbins | ||
| b823f4b | Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d0d66bd | Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine. | difference-of-opinions intolerance religious-bigotry religious-violence transubstantiation | Jonathan Swift | |
| 61cd121 | In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| ff5d3f5 | Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike. | humans kim-stanley-robison robots science-fiction work | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 6143133 | Well, it's amazing what you can find in this world if you're willing to sleep with people. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 4399590 | Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like quite a tragedy. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 563f65d | If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many c.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| ef58f1d | It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a8bec92 | You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 49b9045 | Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world. | world | Douglas Coupland | |
| 277cb29 | With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0940d91 | Life always wins. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| ca44883 | Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| f0580ff | When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry-loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact-loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3db6d4c | The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6e3c38a | My arm draped her shoulder; we both felt safe, as if we were a complete solar system unto ourselves, dangling in the sky, warm heated planets inside a universe of stars. -Richard | happiness inspiration love | Douglas Coupland | |
| 5cbae49 | For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised ever again. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3a91d95 | Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. | politics process | Howard Zinn | |
| 65b0af6 | Do not mistake me, Inrithi. In this much Conphas is right. You are all staggering drunks to me. Boys who would play at war when you should kennel with your mothers. You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill not daring. It is not a trial of souls, nor the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iro.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| de0a65d | The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| de1582e | He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm." | humor tamora-pierce | Tamora Pierce | |
| cc5ab94 | Tortall and the Queens Riders! | queen tamora tortall | Tamora Pierce | |
| c724c97 | Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic." | corn-syrup insulin organic | Michael Pollan | |
| 4673240 | Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order | Tom Stoppard | ||
| c8daa6a | Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
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| 4c72d83 | yS`b `l~ lmr 'n ytkhyl lmdh wkyf ySbH lnsn `shqan? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4b1fff5 | I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved. | ivan | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| ee2ae36 | everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go! | home life people somewhere time | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| aa8f64d | The dreamer--if you want an exact definition--is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cf31458 | There's hope around the corner. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 64c5beb | I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself." | humor personality | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 51d7464 | Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| e21ac12 | people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 3bbef97 | I don't want a beautiful week with you. I want a beautiful lifetime. | Penny Reid |