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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 .. | novelists writing | 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 | ||
| 5e1beaf | falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage. | love nick-hornby self-hate | Nick Hornby | |
| 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. | maturity stability | 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. | endings life | 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!" | humor mercy-thompson silver-borne 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 | ||
| 933f25c | Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!) | humor writing | Nick Hornby | |
| 7f6bbe4 | For remember, that it is altogether your world now. You and all the rest. We have delivered you from evil, but the evil that is inside men is at the last a matter for men to control. The responsibility and the hope and the promise are in your hands-your hands and the hands of all men on this earth. The future can not blame the present, just as the present can not blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce ca.. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 797bcf5 | Though fallen low God raised her up | god love reedeeming | Francine Rivers | |
| 7a47d33 | Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him | faith hope inspirational love truth | Karen Kingsbury | |
| 242732b | Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. | Alice Walker | ||
| de298a5 | But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 98afc33 | It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 84d2cbe | It was Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series, 1997-2003, not the lackluster movie that preceded it) that blazed the trail for Twilight and the slew of other paranormal romance novels that followed, while also shaping the broader urban fantasy field from the late 1990s onward. Many of you reading this book will be too young to remember when Buffy debuted, so you'll have to trust us when we say that nothing quite like.. | joss-whedon pop-culture twilight vampires | Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | |
| 3d74068 | I couldn't picture heaven. How could a place be any good at all if it didn't have the things there you enjoyed doing? If there were no comic books, no monster movies, no bikes, and no country roads to ride them on? No swimming pools, no ice cream, no summer, or barbecue on the Fourth of July? No thunderstorms, and front porches on which to sit and watch them coming? Heaven sounded to me like a library that only held books about one certain .. | Robert R. McCammon | ||
| f1bdd1e | Worse even than your maddening song, your silence." -" | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 7acba52 | You are twenty. You are not dead, although you were dead. The girl who died. And was resurrected. Children. Witches. Magic. Symbols. Remember the illogic of the fantasy. The strange tableau in the closet behind the bathroom: the feast, the beast, and the jelly-bean. Recall, remember: please do not die again. Let there be continuity at least - a core of consistency - even if your philosophy must be always a moving dynamic dialectic. The thes.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| af6f8fc | Ennui Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe, designing futures where nothing will occur: cross the gypsy's palm and yawning she will still predict no perils left to conquer. Jeopardy is jejune now: naive knight finds ogres out-of-date and dragons unheard of, while blase princesses indict tilts at terror as downright absurd. The beast in Jamesian grove will never jump, compelling hero's dull career to crisis; and when insouciant ange.. | poems | Sylvia Plath |