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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc202cd | Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 19a5af3 | When do I see a photograph, when a reflection? | photography reflection | Philip K. Dick | |
| b791fd9 | What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0daddae | They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed - all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's his response. And he's laughing, of .. | writing novelists | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2a4cae9 | The universe will never be extinguished because just when the darkness seems to have smothered all, to be truly transcendent, the new seeds of light are reborn in the very depths. That is the Way. When the seed falls, it falls into the earth, into the soil. And beneath, out of sight, it comes to life. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3205b84 | Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b7f6bdf | ldw lHqyqy bydk 'nt wHdk. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 9e566fb | That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don't know how a person could ever describe that scent. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5bedffa | Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you. | self | Masamune Shirow | |
| 75272ed | God save the Queen and a fascist regime ... a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlas.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| d971cc8 | He remembers his fathers last words: "Stay out of churches, son. All they got a key to is the shit house. And swear to me you'll never wear a lawman's badge." | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 53924d8 | Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 8fa0d69 | The simplest questions are the most difficult. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| ca2d947 | You put your time where your priority is. | time | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 8a57a2c | Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 81b47d4 | Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all. | Joseph Heller | ||
| b94495c | As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy. | Joseph Heller | ||
| bd61a6f | So it's Mr. Wiggin and Who The Hell Are You.' 'About right,' Bean replied. | nameless-hero | Orson Scott Card | |
| 98e430b | Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c9cea8d | When Svejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever drea.. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| d65c94d | After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| a0df0ac | What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| d1ef729 | But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and something solid to call my own at least until I got tired of it. There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detatched. | stability maturity | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 90a0151 | I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 78d078b | But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 533072e | Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened. | visionary | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| a778610 | Fuck the Pope | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| f4f3f68 | This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| dfc0524 | And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning. | life endings | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| e745901 | When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. "Scott?" Adam said as we headed upstairs. "Yeah?" "Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don't want to see you lying in the walkway again." "Yessir!" | mercy-thompson silver-borne humor threats | Patricia Briggs | |
| 5d0ad65 | If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power. | Scott Adams | ||
| 53bc978 | The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day | Scott Adams | ||
| 52904de | That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. | color-master handmade alone | Aimee Bender | |
| 6c4c27c | Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia | sex high-school girls | Aimee Bender | |
| 3d9a659 | The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 42b96a8 | Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing. | intentions | Orson Scott Card | |
| d7416cc | Come on," he said to Valentine one day. "Let's fly away and live forever." "We can't," she said. "There are miracles even relativity can't pull off, Ender." "We have to go. I'm almost happy here." "So, stay." "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." So they boarded a starship and went from world to world. Wherever they stopped, he was always Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always Valentin.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2a72bae | One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. | tzu hot soup | Orson Scott Card | |
| f0b58b6 | I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out. | death humor life funny-but-sad goals | Orson Scott Card | |
| ac68cc8 | Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5a431fe | But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5f1b5ff | There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. | motivational inspirational | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6212f46 | I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide. | valentine | Orson Scott Card | |
| 3a04e38 | Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend. | Brian Jacques |