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| 6322f61 | But gay marriage is coming to America first and foremost because marriage here is a secular concern, not a religious one. The objection to gay marriage is almost invariably biblical, but nobody's legal vows in this country are defined by interpretation of biblical verse - or at least, not since the Supreme Court stood up for Richard and Mildred Loving. A church wedding ceremony is a nice thing, but it is neither required for legal marriage .. | gay-rights marriage same-sex-marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4088567 | The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1435933 | Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| f9909e7 | In order to elucidate especially and most clearly the origination of this error (...) let us imagine a man who, while standing on the street, would say to himself: "It is six o'clock in the evening, the working day is over. Now I can go for a walk, or I can go to the club; I can also climb up the tower to see the sunset; I can go to the theater; I can visit this friend or that one; indeed, I also can run out of the gate, into the wide worl.. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 698fcb7 | I tried to love you less.I couldn't. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 0a1c6ae | I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone." | love poetry sonnet | Neil Gaiman | |
| 46947a2 | Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. | growing-up life | Neil Gaiman | |
| 4b77114 | It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 72c323e | Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children? | media | Neil Gaiman | |
| 59ee136 | But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9073311 | I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them. | desert elderly mirage | Neil Gaiman | |
| af0f4b6 | It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3d5008f | There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f159f46 | Now me," said Mr. Vandemar. "What number am I thinking of?" "I beg your pardon?" "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully." | wordplay | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0fdf944 | When people tell you there's something wrong with a story, they're almost always right. When they tell what it is that's wrong and how it can be fixed, they're almost always wrong. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a8e0945 | Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." | authors goals goals-in-life growing-up writers | Neil Gaiman | |
| 445910b | You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But -- you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar... Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven? | heaven hell | Neil Gaiman | |
| 06744c0 | Literary critics make natural detectives. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| e0342fb | On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| ceb9796 | The people around you are generally mysterious. You are never quite sure about their intentions. They present an appearance that is often deceptive--their manipulative actions don't match their lofty words or promises. All of this can prove confusing. Seeing people as they are, instead of what you think they should be, would mean having a greater sense of their motives. | Robert Greene | ||
| fa12e59 | If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well. | Robert Greene | ||
| 6077cf9 | It is natural to want to employ your friends when you find yourself in times of need. The world is a harsh place, and your friends soften the harshness. Besides, you know them. Why depend on a stranger when you have a friend at hand? Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. TACITUS, c. A.D. 55-120 The problem is that you often do not know your friends as well as you imagine... | Robert Greene | ||
| 7d110b0 | It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics. | Robert Greene | ||
| 122296f | That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate on life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. | mitch albom | ||
| 8a6893a | Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0aa81d0 | But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future. | Mitch Albom | ||
| cb417d0 | Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b1c4f72 | There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e2dbe69 | You ugly rat-faced birds. You call yourself a bird? You call yourself an owl? You ain't no decent kind of fowl! They call you Jatt? They call you Jutt? I'm gonna toss you in a rut! Then I'm gonna punch you in the gut! Then your gonna wind up on your butt! Think you're all gizzard! I seen better lizards. One-Two-Three-Four, You're goin' down, won't ask for more. Five-Six-Seven-Eight, You ain't better than fish bait... Nine-Ten-.. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 955d65f | Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work. | science-fiction telepathy | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2a5faab | But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. | artist artistic bohemian bohemianism | Philip K. Dick | |
| 9325583 | Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died--in his thirties--of kidney disease. And had been buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. Thinking this, he wondered if Mozart had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time. Maybe I have too, Rick thought as he watched the rehearsal move along. This rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die, eventually .. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 25857ea | I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is *good* sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that the mind, like the author's, begins to create... | Philip K. Dick | ||
| dfe757e | But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 4caf574 | hl ykml lrjl l bl`shq ? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 287b03e | We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. | georgia missionaries | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 9e23faa | What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger. They had stood that way for a long time in front of the fire, its burning tossing ruddy chunks of light, the shadow of their bodies a single column against the rock. The minutes ticked by from the round.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| b811064 | Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| bf51165 | Morphine hits the backs of the legs first, then the back of the neck, a spreading wave of relaxation slackening the muscles away from the bones so that you seem to float without outlines, like lying in warm salt water. As this relaxing wave spread through my tissues, I experienced a strong feeling of fear. I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| f2cc49b | The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a separate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common 'hallucinations' of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subject's body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the 'Other Half' worked qui.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 9be5bb6 | While in general I avoid the use of torture - torture locates the opponent and mobilizes resistance - the threat of torture is useful to induce in the subject the appropriate feeling of helplessness and gratitude to the interrogator for withholding it. And torture can be employed to advantage as a penalty when the subject is far enough along with the treatment to accept punishment as deserved. To this end I devised several forms of discipli.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| b1a0d6d | An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself. | philosophy stoic | Epictetus | |
| 95e8139 | Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 98fc973 | It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty. | inspirational meaningful symbolic | Jeannette Walls |