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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 11c77d1 | You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here. -Reggie Love | reggie-love | John Grisham | |
| c5186b9 | In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters | James Frey | ||
| 4c6e765 | I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me. | James Frey | ||
| bc7e5a1 | Next morning I went over to Paul's for coffee and told him I had finished. "Good for you," he said without looking up. "Start the next one today." | writing writing-advice | Steven Pressfield | |
| b4a6092 | Start before you're ready. | self-help | Steven Pressfield | |
| 35be73e | The song we're composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| ce943d1 | A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 956255f | He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep. | Euripides | ||
| 21957e6 | He who believes needs no explanation. | Euripides | ||
| a4babbd | For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. | love passion sincerity soul trauma | Euripides | |
| 78d04f8 | In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and lonely, mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, my whole life. And in one of those transparent lengths of the stone wall I had seen this girl and had gullibly believed that she was traveling another tunnel parallel to mine, when in reality she belonged to the broad world, to the world without confines of those who do not live in tunnels; and perhaps she had peeped into o.. | loneliness melancholy | Ernesto Sabato | |
| 7220225 | Women need a reason to have sex; men need only a place. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| ce5b85c | Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 9645b38 | Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 4cb3b42 | Louisa May Alcott is right. An extraordinary girl can't have an ordinary life. Don't judge yourself. Love yourself. | Caroline Kepnes | ||
| 17b4bff | I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. | jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott men | Louisa May Alcott | |
| a19b350 | books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life. | jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 86b52f7 | The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature. | love | Charles Dickens | |
| fe70c2f | There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect | quarrels | Charles Dickens | |
| 656a7c2 | She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads. | heads hearts heaven logic | Charles Dickens | |
| affe2d6 | It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, said Mr. Bumble. So cry away. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 2cd6040 | I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it would never have done to have an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High Street. I whistled and made nothing of going. But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown an.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 5da5d22 | That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. | procrastination | Charles Dickens | |
| a3130d1 | Something is beginning in order to end: adventure does not let itself be drawn out; it only makes sense when dead. I am drawn, irrevocably, towards this death which is perhaps mine as well. Each instant appears only as part of a sequence. I cling to each instant with all my heart: I know that it is unique, irreplaceable -- and yet I would not raise a finger to stop it from being annihilated. This last moment I am spending -- in Berlin, in L.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| fd25ec3 | THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 39a91ed | Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 342ba47 | Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 354a252 | Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it." | radio songs | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| e8dac0e | you have to 'lose your mind' before you can come to your senses. | Dan Millman | ||
| a20809f | There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 5b60beb | I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5e13b02 | Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' " As the door cl.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| da43138 | And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air. | fantasy faramir romance | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0b41df5 | No dire no lloreis, pues no todas las lagrimas son amargas. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2bc3fce | I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded Dwarves. Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1196025 | Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make. If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy would languish until they were cured. If.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| abd538a | Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Anduril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dunadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly! | elendil sword-that-was-broken | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e502456 | Do I not say truly, Gandalf,' said Aragorn at last, 'that you could go whithersoever you wished quicker than I? And this I also say: you are our captain and our banner. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2acfa96 | And Eowyn looked at Faramir long and steadily; and Faramir said: 'Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Eowyn! But I do not offer you my pity. For you are a lady high and valiant and have yourself won renown that shall not be forgotten; and you are a lady beautiful, I deem, beyond even the words of the Elven-tongue to tell. And I love you. Once I pitied your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, wer.. | faramir love | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| a502ee9 | You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)" | history | David McCullough | |
| 5240204 | The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they wo.. | David McCullough | ||
| 049fb9c | For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown. | Herman Melville | ||
| f245bcb | He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cdc34a6 | The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. | dandelion-wine world | Ray Bradbury |