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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 00930ca | Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said? | Richard Russo | ||
| 3e9dc9d | the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life. | Richard Ford | ||
| 16ef94b | There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 4fa510a | Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 0af1e26 | I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. | life sojourn | Annie Dillard | |
| c73de25 | He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2d363a7 | I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles. They cramp around our wounds -- the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both -- to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don't even know that the wounds and the cram.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a079049 | The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat. | sex | Mary Roach | |
| e9a97e1 | Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+! | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 853a587 | If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard. | humor names | Simone Elkeles | |
| a6956bb | It reminds me of myself - seemingly perfect on the outside but inside is all a mush. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 3e8b0e9 | Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other "eps ' he has. The butterflies in my stomach have just multiplied tenfold as my wandering gaze meets his." | male-beauty perfect-chemistry sex-appeal simone-elkeles | Simone Elkeles | |
| 61d43b2 | Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 436f5ae | My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 37f5ec7 | everything is relative, one man's absolute belief is another man's fairy tale; | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f5e3d2b | The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Wh.. | addicts biblioholism passion readers reading | John Barth | |
| 44f0d88 | All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. | William Shakespeare | ||
| bedb98b | Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. | claudio comedy friendship-and-love love play | William Shakespeare | |
| 5c5eed9 | He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both. | graciousness humility kindness meekness | William Shakespeare | |
| 5795b37 | In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage. | war | William Shakespeare | |
| 5dc5ad2 | I drink to the general joy o' the whole table." Macbeth" | joy life party shakespeare toast | William Shakespeare | |
| ecf5d41 | For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: | death julius-caesar | William Shakespeare | |
| 6e3b6be | Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed. | foul-words much-ado-about-nothing shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| d514d3e | Screw your courage to the sticking-place | fear | William Shakespeare | |
| d515c1d | LUCIUS. Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds? AARON. Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day- and yet, I think, Few come within the compass of my curse- Wherein I did not some notorious ill; As kill a man, or else devise his death; Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it; Accuse some innocent, and forswear myself; Set deadly enmity between two friends; Make poor men's cattle break their necks; Set fire on bar.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 03f201b | Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! | mankind | William Shakespeare | |
| 9fade1d | He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 57d1f4e | But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies... | William Shakespeare | ||
| b62e63f | Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d816db4 | The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription. | Henry James | ||
| 0eb1048 | The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 8ae5de6 | I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| ddb4cce | In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6ced3c2 | The directness of her question throws me. "I don't know. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities...to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times"- my voice grows quiet - "that we've missed our chance." "Anna." Mer pauses. "That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard." "But--" "But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world." | paris romantic | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 929f885 | I finally realized how absurd it was that I'd worried so much about what my classmates thought about me. It's not like I wanted to look like them. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1cf0313 | The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive. | James Redfield | ||
| 8342d3a | Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn't forget the basic necessity of eating. | James Patterson | ||
| c280185 | And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me. And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to medium rare and then ate me! I really, really, really hope I haven't just given away the ending of this story. | james-patterson | James Patterson | |
| e4be766 | Love hurts, | James Patterson | ||
| fe37562 | Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez. "Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one." I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin." | James Patterson | ||
| 3c5166f | Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. | James Patterson | ||
| bf1b67a | I am starfish! | James Patterson | ||
| 24fbeea | To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I. | James Patterson | ||
| b832e37 | Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND) | James Patterson |