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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d31ba5 | I am made, crudely, for success. | yoel-goldenberg | Sylvia Plath | |
| f4f0e5e | I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 986d851 | shyd ykh rwz ykh nfr | Sylvia Plath | ||
| fc44fab | With me, the present is forever and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand...hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some gi.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 5f45f85 | Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life. | happy-life | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 5387b38 | When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and a.. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 515bc43 | We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| b56e3b3 | But I think it must be easier for a girl to marry someone she doesn't know, because the more you get to know men, the harder it is to love them. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 9f34617 | I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge. | vernon-god-little | D. B. C. Pierre | |
| 4a5e0e9 | Red tape has killed more people than bullets... | Ben Bova | ||
| 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. | alone color-master handmade | 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 | girls high-school sex | 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. | hot soup tzu | 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 funny-but-sad goals humor life | 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. | inspirational motivational | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6212f46 | I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide. | valentine | Orson Scott Card | |
| 755a4d1 | I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5e40369 | But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 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 | ||
| 0017096 | It was really dreadful to be so different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 69b9e44 | Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul. Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy; but a boy has his dreams as have others, and in Gilbert's future there was always a girl with big, li.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 29553f1 | These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 0e0add0 | Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind. | women | Barbara Taylor Bradford | |
| 613bec3 | As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters. | Erin Blakemore | ||
| 9cba07b | No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America. | america equality nature nature-vs-nurture | Thomas Jefferson | |
| aa9c89e | not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. | writing | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 18e2c76 | But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over. | government politics thomas-jefferson | Carl Sagan | |
| 349fa56 | This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time.. | addiction drug-addiction drugs health | Philip K. Dick | |
| 6ca4234 | What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? | english-language grammar humor lynne-truss punctuation sentence-structure | Lynne Truss | |
| 442f3bd | Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect. | sensitivity | Lynne Truss | |
| 3d9e10e | We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable. | language punctuation thinking | Lynne Truss | |
| 1954a23 | There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 54a86f8 | Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. | Nora Ephron | ||
| e54faa0 | Well well well. What makes, bratty. What gives, this fine bright middle of the nochy?" He said: "I'll give you just ten seconds to wipe that stupid grin off of your face. Then I want you to listen." "Well, what?" I said, smecking. "Are you not satisfied with beating me near to death and having me spat upon and making me confess to crimes for hours on end and then shoving me among bezoomnies and vonny perverts in that grahzny cell? Have yo.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| f58fd1f | The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| a6f5207 | I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 89f39b2 | You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture your features. You are Humanity and your face comes into my mind simply as man incarnate. You, our beloved fellowman, did not know who we might be, and yet you recognized us without fail. And I, in my turn, shall recognize you in the faces of all mankind. You came towards me in an aureole of charity and magnanimity be.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 482882b | Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 4c687cd | Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over ther.. | love tame | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |