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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c57931 | n Htrm msh`r lGyr hy 'fDl wsyl@ lHy@ mzdhr@ ws`yd@ mn l`lqt wl`wTf. | José Saramago | ||
| 3581714 | lHdhr l yfyd l fy t'khyr m l ymkn tjnbh. | José Saramago | ||
| 17a1c5b | It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. | society technology | Isaac Asimov | |
| fc40f56 | There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| f2d7fea | There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d571959 | I dream with my eyes open. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5c13946 | Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words. | Don DeLillo | ||
| f3a5038 | I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book. | John Bunyan | ||
| fea0c8b | Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. | temptation | John Bunyan | |
| 46219dc | Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| c4fc7ed | Are we letting her drink beer again?" "Hell yes we are, and it's hilarious." | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 6b3483f | I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 41ec9b7 | Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves. | writers | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 9326492 | It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e139477 | Has it ever happened, you've seen a striking film, beautifully written and acted and photographed, that you walk out of the theater glad to be a human being and you say to yourself I hope they make a lot of money from that? I hope the actors, I hope the director earns a million dollars for what they've done, what they've given me tonight? And you go back and see the movie again and you're happy to be a tiny part of the system that is reward.. | Richard Bach | ||
| e540817 | I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 8c37f07 | He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| dd56a93 | Standing is stupid, Crawling's a curse, Skipping is silly, Walking is worse. Hopping is hopeless, Jumping's a chore, Sitting is senseless, Leaning's a bore. Running's ridiculous, Jogging's insane- Guess I'll go upstairs and Lie down again. | standing | Shel Silverstein | |
| f5fe1d1 | I--I adore you, too. Well, I don't know if I adore you. That's not really the word I'd use. But I--I--" I managed to wrench it out. God, this was hard! "I love you." "Of course you do," he said, totally unsurprised. "WHAT? I finally tell you my deepest, most personal feelings and you're all, 'Yeah, I already got that memo'? This, this is why you drive me nuts! This is why it's so hard to tell you things! I take it back." | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 6d051da | The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 09d56ec | Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough presence of mind not to poke him in the chest with a finger. His face went startled, then cloric. "The only thing between your head and my foot becoming real close and personal right now is my questionable professionalism. And if you ever threaten me again, I'll slam you halfway across the room .. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3f0b651 | I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever." -- | Kim Harrison | ||
| ae9d6d6 | I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay. | Joan Didion | ||
| ebfa052 | The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. | invention | Nikola Tesla | |
| cba29b9 | I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it. | fearlessness insanity nothing-to-lose | Paul Auster | |
| 35cd971 | T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of. | bookworm literature passion reading | Paul Auster | |
| 6ff097f | This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. | William Golding | ||
| f3d951f | Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in! | William Golding | ||
| da257ff | The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble... | William Golding | ||
| fc7a2c6 | They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. | Golding William | ||
| 485cc8f | I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant .. | Alice Sebold | ||
| a10c09b | If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 47b6901 | Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 4aec229 | What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it." "Isn't it?" | howard-roark inspiration passion | Ayn Rand | |
| 90371f4 | She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c538647 | The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones. Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye and watched the quadr.. | Billy Collins | ||
| d85dcbb | Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight. | life rome | Robert Harris | |
| 059bd3c | Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. | John Steinbeck | ||
| dd3627a | I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1cbedc1 | The flies have conquered the flypaper. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d87d2e0 | It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing. | John Steinbeck | ||
| bcf81b1 | Regarding "thou mayest": And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0f89b4c | A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7de4e3d | Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain, shared with no one. | John Steinbeck |