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| 553e4b3 | But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pinewoods or prairie. One went: Don't wanna sleep, Don't wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky; and this one seemed to gratify her the most, for often she continued it long after her hair hard dried, after the sun had gone and there were l.. | Truman Capote | ||
| 118fcfd | Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. | love hypocrites hell | Truman Capote | |
| 2047841 | Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in. | luxury | Edith Wharton | |
| 437f733 | Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6e25441 | At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant! | dr-who shada | Gareth Roberts | |
| 8051d60 | For as long as he could remember, he'd suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ab7d5af | Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2604d4f | Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." | humor computers meaning-of-life | Douglas Adams | |
| bc97e17 | Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e5f9fa5 | You know," said Arthur thoughtfully, "all this explains a lot of things. All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 469abaf | The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5337a78 | You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose. | advice | Douglas Adams | |
| 63d8444 | There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? | Douglas Adams | ||
| da85597 | The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be. | science kakapo | Douglas Adams | |
| 405cb4d | Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2587b65 | When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4a529c9 | That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party. | quote pippin | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7a97a17 | I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8cdad1c | Never is too long a word even for me... | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ea641be | Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother. | heroic death life | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 93e417f | Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli. 'Maybe,'said Elrond,'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. | wisdom | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0bb92f2 | Yes, that's so,' said Sam. 'And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might sa.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 41219e3 | Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| de740e3 | No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. | writing | David McCullough | |
| 124f04e | Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts. | Herman Melville | ||
| 6ec833e | Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before death is what counts. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 582a0a4 | How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and w.. | war hate history fun books uncaring classism starving history-repeating-itself cave bombs forgotten rich poor mistakes ignorance | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0ddeaec | It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our impurity in thoughts, words and deeds can indeed put us in a remorseful mood and create in us the hope for a forgiving gesture. But if the catastrophical events of our days, the wars, mass murd.. | heart pious | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 24aa716 | The man who articulate the movements of his inner life, who can give names to his varied experiences, need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering. He is able to create space for Him who heart is greater than his, whose eyes see more than his, and whose hands can heal more than his. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3f5eb4c | The world is evil only when you become its slave. | sin | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 34b17a3 | The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| d08abfe | You often say,'I would give, but only to the deserving.' The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| c519bb0 | Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store's checkout girl grow horns. Imagine growing younger instead of older. Imagine feeling more powerful and more capable of falling in love with life every new day instead of being scared and sick and not knowing whether to stay under a sheet or venture forth into the cold. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3efcd88 | My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c025bc8 | It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5446b4a | I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even .. | consumer-culture end-of-the-word feudalism technology | Douglas Coupland | |
| 58661a9 | I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I have never learned to do, and all I remember is falling. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5969723 | You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures. You popped out of your mother's belly, I saw your eyes, and I knew that you were already you. And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature--the core me--essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments be.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 520062d | What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 87b3fc8 | I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian. | politics objectivity journalism | Howard Zinn | |
| 1df85b6 | Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right? | zombies | Richard Kadrey | |
| dda6fc3 | If fucking up is power, I should be the Hulk by now. | power | Richard Kadrey | |
| d7e5fca | The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power o.. | women publicity envy fashion glamour | John Berger | |
| 9a3206c | To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. ( The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguise. To be on display is to have the surface of one's own skin, the hairs of one's own body, turned into a.. | John Berger |