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| b3e75bb | I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it. | Bill Bryson | ||
| db9b029 | Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a cl.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 73a2544 | Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion | writing | Dan Simmons | |
| d6089a0 | Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9a16072 | The only mistake is not to risk making one. | Max Lucado | ||
| aa762ff | You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness. | heaven religion god love lucado forgiveness | Max Lucado | |
| 16d8d17 | Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b7ee0f6 | As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. | victim choose | Paulo Coelho | |
| 5eda6d0 | No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4e43efd | People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3fe0fca | I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 831ae6b | Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, .. | relationships people | Paulo Coelho | |
| 59eeb05 | Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0be8e25 | Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d08f2ee | l Hy@ tktml mn dwn lms@ jnwn. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 006a808 | What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| be91127 | The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 04f1e2a | All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 66fa250 | I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2c9a52d | Cuando una persona desea realmente algo, el universo entero conspira para que pueda ralizar su sueno. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e8da286 | kl m Htj lyh fy hdhh llHZ@ hw 'n t`nqyny; fl`nq Hrk@ qdym@ bqdm lnsny@dhth, wm`nh 'b`d bkthyr mn lq jsdyn. l`nq y`ny 'nny l 'sh`r b'nk thddyny, wl 'khsh~ mn qrby mnk l~ hdhh ldrj@, 'stTy` 'n tsrkhy, w'n 'sh`r blrtyH, w'n 'sh`r blHmy@ wbHDr@ mn ymkn lh 'n yfhmny. yql nh fy kl mr@ n`nq fyh 'Hd bHrr@, nksb ywm Dfy fy lHy@. ldh rj , `nqyny lan | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a1443a1 | To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fac4ae0 | Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy." In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4bed4e3 | Me habian regalado un libro de Paulo Coelho... "Cuando quieres algo, todo el universo se conjura para que realices tu deseo", dice. Creo que Paulo Coelho no se ha topado nunca con los talibanes y nuestros politicos inutiles." -- | corrupción políticos | Malala Yousafzai | |
| 9c44b89 | Life doesn't come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -" | life-quotes life risk-it the-alchemist risks | Paulo Coelho | |
| e7badbf | D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you sta.. | ending-lines holden-caulfield | J.D. Salinger | |
| 60381c9 | Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| cc21aa0 | Did you know, God damn it, that Les was all for bringing a tangerine in to you last night before he went to bed? My God. Even Bessie can't stand stories with tangerines in them. And God knows I can't. If you're going to go on with this breakdown business, I wish to hell you'd go back to college to have it. Where you're not the baby of the family. And where, God knows, nobody'll have any urges to bring you any tangerines. And where you don't.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 35fc602 | He's the boy next door, aren't you honey?" "No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ea48de2 | Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 1ddec50 | I'm resourceful," Price is saying. "I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society can afford to lose me. I'm an " | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 163bda4 | What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 61dee32 | And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| c3c7218 | If you can't make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| f9346b4 | The things I could do to you with a coat hanger. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 64189d6 | but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 3eae2c8 | At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead. | inspirational satire | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 700d7c1 | and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take off my clothes and lie on her bed and she goes into the bathroom and I wait a couple of minutes and then she finally comes out, a towel wrapped around her, and sits on the bed and I put my hands on her shoulders, and she says stop it and, after I let her go, she tells me to lean against the headboard and I do and then she takes off the towel an.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 17165d6 | These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as "Will I ever do time?" and "Did this girl have a trusting heart?" The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it anymore. And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, .. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 152deb8 | There is no time for the innocent. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| c923ca5 | The conversation follows its own rolling accord - no real structure or topic or internal logic or feeling; except, of course, for its own hidden, conspiratorial one. Just words, and like in a movie, but one that has been transcribed improperly, most of it overlaps. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| f99e922 | She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?" I ask her, swallowing." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 830e1d2 | I'm also staring at the fortune cookie. Its got a lot of blood on it and I shrug and say, as jovially as I can, "Oh, you know me." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 5c47124 | How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll have to test me out." "You have my info," she says. "I'll think about it." "Rain," I say. "That's not your real name." "Does it matter?" "Well, it makes me wonder what else isn't real." "That's because you're a writer," she says. "That's because you make things up for a living." "And?" "And"-- she shrugs--"I've noticed that.. | sanity lies writing reality truth socializing | Bret Easton Ellis |