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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1457b22 | Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living. | perseverance living | Nancy E. Turner | |
| 2548849 | What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad. | life vikings | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 02599f4 | If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| dae2fb1 | Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7ddc216 | Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2b86089 | You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it's not always your heart that betrays you. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3559afd | It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli | fear love | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 67ca845 | Every day I am thankful for Luke, the real love of my life, my Prince Charming, my rescuer. He saved me from my biggest enemy, myself. | luke | L.D. Davis | |
| d7772da | I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| f12b440 | lbTwn lfrG@ tstyqZ bkran . | José Saramago | ||
| e41032e | Ht~ fy 'sw' lmHn qd tjd khyran kfyan ymknk mn Html lmHn@ ! | José Saramago | ||
| 384aebf | lns yt`wdwn y shy . | José Saramago | ||
| f70b4c0 | la muerte, por si misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre. | men muerte hombre | José Saramago | |
| 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 | ||
| ef60845 | The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 0f94304 | Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice. | writing-advice | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fd2b16b | Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 198e1d0 | said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. | naturalisation united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 84f5b26 | Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said as much to Edward. To reprint Nazi propaganda and to make a theocratic claim to Spanish soil was to be a protofascist and a supporter of 'Caliphate' imperialism: it had nothing at all to do with the mistreatment of the Palestinians. Once again, he did not exactly disagree. But he was anxious to emphasize that the.. | andalusia ariel-sharon azmi-bishara bosnia-and-herzegovina caliphate chemical-weapons fatah halabja halabja-poison-gas-attack israelis knesset leftists politics-of-israel takbir gaza national-security iran henry-kissinger balkans hamas plo noam-chomsky catholics war-crimes theocracy bosnian-war oil kosovo kosovo-war bill-clinton christians muslims baath-party saddam-hussein nazism edward-said spain imperialism united-states fascism islam islamism propaganda antisemitism fanaticism israel palestinians religious-extremism cia | Christopher Hitchens | |
| babbb62 | I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. | worship deification personal-life sadism privacy kim-jong-il north-korea | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9885a9b | Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's. | grudges savant-syndrome forgiveness memory | Christopher Hitchens | |
| da6db94 | A qui ecris-tu? -A toi. En fait, je ne t'ecris pas vraiment, j'ecris ce que j'ai envie de faire avec toi... Il y avait des feuilles partout. Autour d'elle, a ses pieds, sur le lit. J'en ai pris une au hasard: "...Pique-niquer, faire la sieste au bord d'une riviere, manger des peches, des crevettes, des croissants, du riz gluant, nager, danser, m'acheter des chaussures, de la lingerie, du parfum, lire le journal, lecher les vitrines, prendre.. | love couple | Anna Gavalda | |
| 41154f1 | I didn't say anything; I could find no words that would express the swirled chaos of emotions inside me. So I just watched him go right out the door. | broken-hearted-quotes amazing-writing anna j-m-richards tall-dark-streak-of-lightning broken-heart left-alone hurt emotions lonely | J.M. Richards |