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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c30e755 | Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| fb0f8ec | My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 7d87694 | A junkie spends half his life waiting. | junkie drug-addiction waiting drugs heroin | William S. Burroughs | |
| 7436e29 | If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 8a9ae06 | Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| f45abf3 | Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 0b70353 | Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go? | William S. Burroughs | ||
| b43f824 | Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't "dig" what it means, no one can ever tell you." | truth-telling humor junkie reality-check | William S. Burroughs | |
| c22c16d | Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 342cd10 | I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love--that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time. | love-as-a-western-concept love physical-attraction | William S. Burroughs | |
| 3a72a87 | We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place. | dream psychology | William S. Burroughs | |
| b481ab5 | Mohammed? Are you kidding? He was dreamed up by the Mecca Chamber of Commerce. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| ca8a40a | If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. | Epictetus | ||
| f2b0ee4 | Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas. | Epictetus | ||
| d7e40da | Life there was hard and it made people hard. | people | Jeannette Walls | |
| c3c690f | Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them. | Luanne Rice | ||
| c927ae4 | Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 22790cd | Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. | joseph-heller courage confidence positive dread | Joseph Heller | |
| f5feda2 | He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it. | Michael Crichton | ||
| f11d867 | All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 84e8b29 | Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. .. | kids logic school | Michael Crichton | |
| 769968b | Indeed ... but no sand this time, so the lever goes up into fourth, and now there's no sound except wind. Screw it all the way over, reach through the handlebars to raise the headlight beam, the needle leans down on a hundred, and wind-burned eyeballs strain to see down the centerline, trying to provide a margin for the reflexes. But with the throttle screwed on there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be .. | motorcycles lsd | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| bf05ec4 | History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened." | history the-wave generation | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 98e80e3 | Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| ed7a87e | It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand. | relationships | Aimee Bender | |
| 28cbcef | Credo quia absurdum - I believe because it is absurd. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 1971733 | He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. | bean | Orson Scott Card | |
| f68e1e6 | If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 51fef0e | The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy. | war learning ender mentor strategy | Orson Scott Card | |
| 253343e | If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. | luthe sarcasm | Robin McKinley | |
| a77bdaf | It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.) | Robin McKinley | ||
| d4cebf5 | Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| fd6acd8 | No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 363ab9c | Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 5734df7 | Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. | wallowing unrequited-love | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 62bbde5 | I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loya.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 830c53c | Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night." | old-woman-nora scotland | Karen Hawkins | |
| e20accb | It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 2b24d9c | The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small | Gore Vidal | ||
| 2a4f972 | That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. | good-and-evil violence laws | Anthony Burgess | |
| 85891d2 | I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| e4941f0 | You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 565480d | If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| b790b4e | Y cuando te hayas consolado (uno siempre termina por consolarse) te alegraras de haberme conocido | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |