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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e268125 | People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are | Charles Dickens | ||
| d2da87d | Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 06f278f | W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great par.. | words | Charles Dickens | |
| 87e002a | I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all. | Charles Dickens | ||
| c8aa135 | So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you! | chimes inspirational new wise year | Charles Dickens | |
| 88ca7e2 | Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. | Charles Dickens | ||
| a6ca7fb | So it comes to this; one doesn't need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn't sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn't it? Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? ...Ah, I see; it's life without a break. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 08c6c69 | There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life. | existentialism life-philosophy | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| de960a0 | The Nausea has not left me and I don't believe it will leave me so soon; but I no longer have to bear it, it is no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 1b4483f | There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 859b4d1 | Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. | logic survival | Frank Herbert | |
| ba30d96 | When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has t.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f786b12 | The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied .. | efficiency humor knights propriety rescue | Raymond Chandler | |
| 31e0af7 | I'm killing time and it's dying hard. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 6c3a379 | But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already played a major role in determining who or what we are. The "independent" mind struggling to protect itself from alien and dangerous memes is a myth. There is a persisting tension between the biol.. | me memetics | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| b18f0aa | To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant--inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. | creationism evolution science | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| bf35e1e | She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me!" .... "The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me!" .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)" | Ted Dekker | ||
| 2b7713e | What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like? | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 87409fe | All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 45dae00 | people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren't getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 16f9d6a | we're responsible for our own lives. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 0cc2c26 | If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| fb7997a | I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating. | Truman Capote | ||
| 4739929 | Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing. | city description human life summer | Truman Capote | |
| 1410c25 | Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 200bd5e | He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c90d90b | Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c5eb22a | Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life. | mysteries | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
| 051bffb | Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy. | h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy humor humour science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 55246b3 | Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully. | self-assurance self-confidence | Douglas Adams | |
| b7484f2 | Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 854a3a6 | Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?" | Douglas Adams | ||
| fdc24a7 | There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence. | hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| 73deddd | The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," | Douglas Adams | ||
| 1ab9561 | I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone. | hobbit j-r-r-tolkien the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c13dde2 | It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious. | book-1 chapter-1 gandalf lord-of-the-rings precious ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6b2e99d | Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9d43944 | Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took" | tolkien two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 17a37a3 | He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can. | sci-fi | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 399e386 | was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ffbdc54 | I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0458501 | Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a3de0f5 | Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c21656d | You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game. | Bryce Courtenay |