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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ccc13d9 | I have seen myself backward. | realization self-awareness | Philip K. Dick | |
| 5e1d3a8 | I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 333cea8 | From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt's money-gulping door. "I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it." | commercialisation humour | Philip K. Dick | |
| 1caf340 | Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3bbfeff | God damn it, there are nice things in the world - and I mean things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 14156ed | I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| aec305f | Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 47a9e72 | Wildlife, we are constantly told, would run loose across our towns and cities were it not for the sport hunters to control their population, as birds would blanket the skies without the culling services of Ducks Unlimited and other groups. Yet here they are breeding wild animals, year after year replenishing the stock, all for the sole purpose of selling and killing them, deer and bears and elephants so many products being readied for the m.. | hunting | Matthew Scully | |
| a5d48c8 | For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change. | nausea resentment | William S. Burroughs | |
| f5ccf90 | The water you kids were playing in, he said, had probably been to Africa and the North Pole. Genghis Khan or Saint Peter or even Jesus may have drunk it. Cleopatra might have bathed in it. Crazy Horse might have watered his pony with it. Sometimes water was liquid. Sometimes it was rock hard- ice. Sometimes it was soft- snow. Sometimes it was visible but weightless- clouds. And sometimes it was completely invisible- vapor- floating up into .. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| edb5c1b | You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races. | life race | Jeannette Walls | |
| 4a9b29f | One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you. | night | Sebastian Faulks | |
| f89ba96 | The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 432331f | You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. To the earth...a million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us. | Blake Crouch | ||
| bd55dc0 | People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense. | Michael Crichton | ||
| ddc7eb9 | A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years. | vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 009f374 | Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster. | Scott Adams | ||
| 762db2f | We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt. | Alice Walker | ||
| f07f4c2 | Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there. | Alice Walker | ||
| 629b8af | If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 821863d | The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing. | humanity | Richard Bachman | |
| 1e169c4 | I feel that if I'm going through this hellish decline, you should be going through one also . . . misery loves company, and I guess we've all got a streak of one hundred percent gold-plated bastard in our natures, tangled up so tightly with the good part of us that we can never get free of it. | tit-for-tat | Richard Bachman (Stephen King) | |
| 2046a2a | He wondered how far his legs would carry him on their own - how long before his brain took over them and began punishing them, making them work past any sane limit, to keep a bullet from crashing into its own bony cradle. | endurance pain | Richard Bachman | |
| e60b84d | He was going to make this happen. His feet and his head was set, and when he got that way, he always did what he said he was going to do. It was his pride. The only one he had. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 674a59b | Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of. | Richard Bachman | ||
| d3a1764 | turnpike itself. Garraty | Richard Bachman | ||
| a73bbba | EXPLOSIVE IN MY COAT POCKET--THE VARIETY THEY CALL BLACK IRISH. TWELVE POUNDS IS ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WITHIN A THIRD OF A MILE AND PROBABLY ENOUGH TO EXPLODE THE JETPORT FUEL STORAGE TANKS. IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS | Richard Bachman | ||
| 4845914 | Sie pflegten mir Angst zu machen, und sie machen mir immer noch Angst, aber jetzt langweilen Sie mich auch noch, und ich habe mich entschlossen, das nicht mehr hinzunehmen | richard-bachmann stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| 755c5a2 | It just...it seems hard to say anything that isn't the wrong thing. | Richard Bachman Stephen King | ||
| ed60ca8 | Why do you make our case (which is hell enough, and we have enough to test us in these coming cruel years) so utterly and absolutely rigid? I can take the even harder horror of letting myself melt into feeling again, and knowing it must freeze again, if only I can believe it is making a minute part of time and space better than it would have been by stubbornly staying always apart when we have so little time to be near. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d978c1c | I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head. Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it. Now everything seems either far and sad and cold, like a piece of shale at the bottom of a.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| b0f580b | I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 58cc8d8 | I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 8030678 | What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy? | men murder | Sylvia Plath | |
| 21468f9 | The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels, Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fan Of silver as the rondo slows; now reels Begin on tilted violins to span The whole revolving tall glass palace hall Where guests slide gliding into light like wine; Rose candles flicker on the lilac wall Reflecting in a million flagons' shine, And glided couples all in whirling trance Follow holiday revel begun long since, Until near twelve the strange.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 2d49a10 | Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing -- singing, laughing, learning. The responsibility, the awful responsibility of managing (profitably) 12 hours a day for 10 weeks is rather overwhelming when there is nothing, noone,.. | time-management | Sylvia Plath | |
| ae6f3e3 | The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| fa9f3b0 | My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me. | dreams god-s-will | Stormie Omartian | |
| fa55ec0 | When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| d153ee1 | Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| dd2a061 | So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 9a9869d | Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. | boorab brian-jacques redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| 4432625 | I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents -- happy or otherwise -- and taking advantage of these." | Robin McKinley | ||
| 5367783 | Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do." "Oh," said Harry. "You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought. "Thanks," said Harry." | Robin McKinley |