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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9390a52 | Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or do.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| adf855f | We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2ca3c2c | A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all. | Joanne Harris | ||
| ca315ce | Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves. | people opinion | Sue Grafton | |
| a5bfb6d | Let the night come. We are not afraid. | lost-souls | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| b21fdea | Terry remembered a summer two or three years ago when there had been a plague of luna moths (...) One night Ghost has mused aloud that to the bats, the moths' blood must taste like creme de la menthe. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 4a82cd7 | After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality. | racism hypocricy george-zimmerman trayvon-martin black-and-white black-history privilege white-privilege race-relations willful-ignorance | Tim Wise | |
| 0817240 | What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did? | Tim O'Brien | ||
| c30583e | You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you. | Louis Sachar | ||
| e85b179 | Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. | family impermanence | Gregory Maguire | |
| 26858f8 | The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 6c43c2b | The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny. | money relationships girlfriends | Kathy Acker | |
| cb08852 | Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party. | new-york-city | Kathy Acker | |
| 654bdd6 | Sex. You can't lie to yourself sexually. If you don't want it, it's the most disgusting thing in the world. | rape sex faking-it force | Kathy Acker | |
| 70f3687 | If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters. | greek-poetry | Kathy Acker | |
| aea913d | I am Outcast." "The kids behind me laugh so loud I know they're laughing about me. I can't help myself. I turn around. It's Rachel, surrounded by a bunch of kids wearing clothes that most definitely did not come from the EastSide Mall. Rachel Bruin, my ex-best friend. She stares at something above my left ear. Words climb up my throat. This was the girl who suffered through Brownies with me, who taught me how to swim, who understood about m.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c542be1 | Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| e4d787d | If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now. Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative. | slavery america us united-states-of-america white-people possessions native-americans usa united-states ownership race-relations | Colson Whitehead | |
| 5a7976d | If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 5e8dc4f | Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. | John Fowles | ||
| d2396d7 | I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel. | John Fowles | ||
| 2cf5ed6 | You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 10b3d1b | Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. | conformity law | Pat Conroy | |
| 646ffd8 | I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home. | heaven home | Pat Conroy | |
| 370893a | I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. | potential | Pat Conroy | |
| cd0891d | Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested...." -- | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| cb93884 | The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it. | time success productivity | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 171b2c8 | I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e14f054 | Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. | history politics historical-determinism apolitical apathy marxism determinism | Terry Eagleton | |
| f67c6ea | When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered. | Norton Juster | ||
| f97ebe8 | Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?" she inquired. "Or the quiet and calm just as the storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? E.. | Norton Juster | ||
| 85f933d | i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 902d8be | I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater." "It would would be easier if you just said porn," Scarlett said. "No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 15685fb | Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. | James Gleick | ||
| b04587a | If I could make you stay, I would,' he shouted. 'If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you--if I could make you stay, I would.' He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. 'One day, perhaps, you will wish I had. | love | James Baldwin | |
| c12a45b | I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms. | James Baldwin | ||
| e9ef580 | The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while. | prairie land | Willa Cather | |
| b2e5879 | A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it. | Robert Cormier | ||
| a03db6a | Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 60c2f99 | They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him | Ralph Ellison | ||
| c79359b | If life transcends death Then I will seek for you there If not, then there too | poetry love love-poetry chrisjen-avasarala haiku life-after-death | James S.A. Corey | |
| 9955af5 | It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in a great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are fully appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to view life as part of this universal mystery of greatest depth, is to.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 96974a0 | We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of .. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 8c1b16c | Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own. | sleep love | L.M. Montgomery |