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| e0bb0fe | I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I've seen, such that I see nothing for the first time. A bonny girl, her hair fiery red, reminds me only of another hundred such lasses, and their mothers, and what they were as they grew, and what they looked like when they died. It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things. | wistful | Neil Gaiman | |
| dcac382 | I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 65952ac | The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back. | love | Neil Gaiman | |
| bd286df | It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2fa7e51 | You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1a52184 | Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| caa8384 | We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 5fec71e | Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 97aa308 | Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? | hell music | George Bernard Shaw | |
| f934650 | Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian. DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan." | Jude Watson | ||
| 4e9175e | Just then a word floated out through the buzz saw of Zapata-speak: . Dan tuned back in. "...the most beautiful tomb in Egypt," Ms. Zapata was saying. "You probably know the queen because there's a famous bust of her." A photo flashed on the screen. Dan raised his hand. "That's Nefertiti," he said. "Different queen." Ms. Zapata frowned. She looked at her notes. "You could be right, Dan. Uh...let's move on." Another slide flashed on-screen. .. | nefertari the39clues | Jude Watson | |
| d2e31e0 | How true it was that one needed to be seen by others to be sure of one's own existence. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 83cd154 | The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of .. | frontal-cortex genes | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| dc14f67 | True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement. | Robert Greene | ||
| c540c44 | There is a popular saying in Japan that goes "Tada yori takai mono wa nai," meaning: "Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge." THE UNSPOKEN WAY, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988" | Robert Greene | ||
| 60cadb4 | We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9770849 | Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. | reincarnation trees | David Mitchell | |
| 8bfe6f2 | You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish. | heartbreak | Plum Sykes | |
| 15d62f3 | Time flies with you | mitch-albom the-time-keeper thoughtful | Mitch Albom | |
| 5cc73de | You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5636127 | In every artist's life, there comes a person who lifts the curtain on creativity. It is the closest you come to seeing me again. The first time, when you emerge from the womb, I am a brilliant color in the rainbow of human talents from which you choose. Later, when a special someone lifts the curtain, you feel that chosen talent stirring inside you, a bursting passion to sing, paint, dance, bang on drums. And you are never the same. | Mitch Albom | ||
| d14212b | It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor." | inspirational late plan time | Mitch Albom | |
| fa67ce4 | but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5424f34 | No one gets left behind, remember? | five-people-you-meet-in-heaven left-behind war | Mitch Albom | |
| cfbb0cf | The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| ec10246 | Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 968fcc1 | Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8b58253 | I don't judge, not even myself. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2fcf495 | There is a line somewhere in that translates out to, roughly, 'The world is awful.' Yes, I said to myself as I shot across the Bay Bridge not giving a fuck how fast I drove, that sums it up. That is high art: 'The world is awful.' That says it all. This is what we pay composers and painters and the great writers to do: tell us this; from figuring this out, they earn a living. What a masterful, incisive insight. What penetrating intelligen.. | dubious-revelation world | Philip K. Dick | |
| f2002a8 | Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 531ab49 | I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote . It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." ." | opera rejection wagner | Philip K. Dick | |
| c375164 | Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f0c0b31 | Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b906f72 | Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? | fascism future german government nazism power psychosis totalitarianism | Philip K. Dick | |
| a7400f9 | Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step. | science-fiction | Philip K. Dick | |
| 815e45e | I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e2984ad | Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e8e9680 | Sometimes I dream--" "I'll put that on your gravestone." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0daafef | In a civil war... every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a6cf9c0 | but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall--falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go un.. | death degradation dying oblivion | Philip K. Dick | |
| 8c09668 | ql lshykh `bd rbh lty'h: m byn kshf lnqb `n wjh l`rws wsdlh `l~ jthth l lHZ@ mthl khfq@ qlb. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| fbaa75d | 'l m '`jb l`wlm lt~ tnTw~ `lyh lnfws. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5afe9f2 | O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an.. | chorus globe-theatre history-plays imagination stage staging theatre | William Shakespeare | |
| d95ef3e | Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course,.. | Frances Mayes |