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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19d0f3d | Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. | William Blake | ||
| c170811 | It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 900b18d | It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| fcbe93e | With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| a000d84 | Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Perhaps better with music? But music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world. The fact is, the real experience can't be described. I think, bitterly, that a row of asterisks, like an old-fashioned novel, might be better. Or a symbol of some kind, a circle perhaps, or a square. Anything at all, but not words. The.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| e10edc0 | Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth. | structure thinking | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| b552193 | It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world. | Leif Enger | ||
| c286f3c | If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor. | sisterhood life womanhood pride sexuality | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 7c0f8a8 | Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else. | David Almond | ||
| 8db4b78 | A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own. | Avi | ||
| 0bb7110 | What softened your heart?" I asked softly. "Good music and a friend." I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power" "So does friendship," he supplied frankly." -- | music story-of-a-soul friendship-and-love | Amy Harmon | |
| 68e1321 | Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that's how we know we've lived. How we know we've truly loved. | Amy Harmon | ||
| c679c91 | Every second I am a bird, I long to be a man. For you. For me. For the child I was so desperate to create. Not for Jeru. For us. You said I choose you because you are of use to me. And I did. But know this, Lark. I have loved you every moment of every day, and I will love you until i cease to be. Bird, man, or king, I love you, and I will always love you | Amy Harmon | ||
| dcb7ac5 | Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the most beautiful things. Garbage cans at the ends of alleyways look like they've been up all night talking with each other. Doorways with peeling paint look like the wise lines around an old feller's eyes. I stop and stare but can't stay because men always think I'm selling something. Or worse, giving something away. I wish I cou.. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| d5dbab0 | If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way. | fate life | David Mitchell | |
| 4b2d3cd | Five years later, I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself crying. It's not just that I can't hold Aoife again, it's everything: It's grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted, the Gulf Stream we redirected, the rivers we drained, the coasts we flooded, the lakes we choked with crap, the seas we killed, the species we drove to extinction, the pollinators we wiped out, the oil we squandered, the drugs we rendered impot.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 67e55f3 | You only value something if you know it'll end. | value | David Mitchell | |
| f7a9eba | Often I think boys don't become men. Boys just get papier-mached inside a man's mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there. | David Mitchell | ||
| 57f8d7e | Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrodinger's cat inside a box you can never ever open. | pain loss hope uncertainty | David Mitchell | |
| b4e0503 | Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively. | David Mitchell | ||
| 256424e | Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| ad65f97 | Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| f5225ab | When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 72b7934 | Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth | respect | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 6699751 | Authors who commit suicide find their Lovelybones-eye view from the afterlife brings them no comfort: David Foster Wallace : Oh my God - look at that dreadful biography of me... and it's selling too... it's like they're murdering me all over again ... oh if I could only commit suicide all over again - but up here, you can't! John Kennedy Toole : Oh shut up you preening self-regarding self-annotating depressing pedant, what about ME?? My God.. | 아이스구입 아이스정품구입 아이스정품판매 작대기구매 작대기구입방법 작대기정품판매 작대기판매 정품아이스구매 정품아이스구입 | ┏ 텔레/위커:LTEhigh ┓음악감상할때 If there was only a way to commit suicide again up here again... but there | |
| ee33a03 | This was my second read of this unbelievable masterpiece from John Kennedy Toole who committed suicide 21 years before this book was rediscovered and published by his mother (he was thus the only person to receive a posthumous Pulitzer in 1981). Ignatius P Reilly is so incredibly unforgettable. I laughed from cover to cover. The parrot on his shoulder reminded me of the Mexico episode in Bellow's Augie March (which I also loved and reviewed.. | 대마초구입방법 대마초구입사이트 대마초정품판매 대마초판매 대마초판매사이트 떨구입 떨구입방법 떨판매하는곳 떨판매 | ┏ 텔레/위커:LTEhigh ┓음악감상할때the resemblance with IP Reilly would be striking | |
| fa3e855 | Come here, cat. You wouldn't want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow. | funny time-travel | Connie Willis | |
| 967f471 | TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR. | Connie Willis | ||
| 559e7bf | He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last. | Colum McCann | ||
| 32f4627 | You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 658acf6 | One day Bird had approached his father with this question; he was six years old: Father, where was I a hundred years before I was born? Where will I be a hundred years after I die? Father, what will happen to me when I die? Without a word, his young father had punched him in the mouth, broke two of his teeth and bloodied his face, and Bird forgot the fear of death. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| f6e29ec | No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 9c7b76e | Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had. | overcoming-fear | Natalie Babbitt | |
| 7de8cdc | Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. | Peter Singer | ||
| 3c3032b | If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die | thought-provoking sad | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 134711c | I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him. | the-yellow-wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
| 4e67381 | I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating. | Michael Jackson | ||
| 64fad20 | If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver | michael-yew small son | Rick Riordan | |
| f2ce568 | I'm a perfectionist; I'll work until I drop. | Michael Jackson | ||
| 10ea348 | In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. | writing | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 0bb49cf | The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away). They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new, And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do; He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate, Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait; He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky, And blew his tr.. | misery devil | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 2f5fef1 | if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 81a7980 | Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason... The old humility was .. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| f497910 | I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers in arms. Whether it was but recently (for time is nothing), or at the beginning of the world, I sent you out to war. I sat in the darkness, where there is not any created thing, and to you I was only a voice commanding valour and an unnatural virtue. You heard the voice in the dark, and you never heard it a.. | G. K. Chesterton |