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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fdb3614 | By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| b267a9e | I had all the characteristics of a human being-- flesh, blood, skin, hair-- but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning. Something horrible was happening and yet I couldn't figure out why-- I couldn't put my.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 7afa5e9 | Why do I sense hostility on your part, Patrick?" she asks softly, then sips her wine. "Maybe because I'm hostile," I spit out. "Maybe because you sense this." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 66b7b24 | A strange mood has seized the almost-educated young. They're on the march, angry at times, but mostly needful, longing for authority's blessing, its validation of their chosen . The decline of the West in new guise perhaps. Or the exaltation and liberation of the self. A social-media site famously proposes seventy-one gender options - neutrois, two spirit, bigender...any colour you like, Mr Ford. Biology is not destiny after all, and there.. | social-justice social-media university | Ian McEwan | |
| 6a89a63 | It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection. | Ian McEwan | ||
| eca2646 | In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational. | Ian McEwan | ||
| cbc8d3b | Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself. | Ian McEwan | ||
| aaa9a27 | We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind. | Ian McEwan | ||
| e57c9a7 | Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 05c467f | But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? | Milan Kundera | ||
| fcfe82b | But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33) | Milan Kundera | ||
| a18c060 | Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics. | politics | Milan Kundera | |
| 4b91f9c | Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)" | Milan Kundera | ||
| 388e94d | vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. | milan-kundera | Milan Kundera | |
| ca4a3e4 | What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8b90e4c | I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore the.. | football life | Nick Hornby | |
| 0c92303 | Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce. | dystopia future | Tad Williams | |
| 8d87c3d | Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 105c847 | The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging to the frail hope that these memories of mine were nothing but a dream or a delusion. I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried t.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d5fe488 | I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can'.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c43cc68 | I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. | norwegian-wood | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7a10873 | it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 074941f | This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 56ad395 | Once I began a book, I couldn't put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. But I had almost no desire to talk with anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cc25b47 | I always say--a prejudice on my part, I'm sure--you can tell a lot about a person's character from his choice of sofa. Sofas constitute a realm inviolate unto themselves. This, however, is something that only those who have grown up sitting on good sofas will appreciate. It's like growing up reading good books or listening to good music. One good sofa breeds another good sofa; one bad sofa breeds another bad sofa. That's how it goes. There .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cce8e90 | It's pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b4ee686 | among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 0cf0b4f | That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 325469b | Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes." Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which .. | life philosophy religion | W Somerset Maugham | |
| 23baba8 | Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else. | Kim Edwards | ||
| c806eb1 | I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me? | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c70baad | It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 4e424e9 | I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics. | humor love marriage | Woody Allen | |
| 8a8e202 | She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. | Woody Allen | ||
| 0d3d5c3 | He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn't seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked. | Steve Martin | ||
| 9ffb5d3 | when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable... | Steve Martin | ||
| 0ae9a7d | Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2c16602 | I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs. | love men ps-i-love-you | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 50cdd9d | Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous. | celestine flawed ya young-adult | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 994b2bf | You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2ff956d | Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c1b14b7 | There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3d8ada1 | simply-quotes Follow I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. | long-distance-love love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6932cda | I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...You don't love someone because they're perfect...You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. | Jodi Picoult |