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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ecb0c0 | The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like , and have that be all right. | disabilities | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 7c1f185 | Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender b.. | gratitude | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 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. | drug-addiction drugs heroin junkie waiting | 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." | humor junkie reality-check truth-telling | 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 love-as-a-western-concept 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. | confidence courage dread joseph-heller positive | 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 .. | lsd motorcycles | 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." | generation history the-wave | 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 | ||
| 4a1db27 | I sure did live in this world.' 'Really? What have you got to show for it?' 'Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.' 'Lonely, ain't it?' 'Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 07a23d0 | I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 84e76b4 | They were staggered to learn that a real tangible person, living in Minnesota, and married to their own flesh-and-blood relation, could apparently believe that divorce may not always be immoral; that illegitimate children do not bear any special and guaranteed form of curse; that there are ethical authorities outside of the Hebrew Bible; that men have drunk wine yet not died in the gutter; that the capitalistic system of distribution and th.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| cab7a3a | Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. | discipleship sin | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 6f211fe | I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'why not?' 'because you'll just end up using it against me. | falling-in-love | Francine Rivers | |
| b88da62 | All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon. | Raymond Carver | ||
| d4343de | The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 95252a2 | I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 4441d6b | I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me. | page-147 sylvia-plath the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| ea56e62 | She must be very secure in herself, I suppose, in them, for it not to bother her, to walk where another woman has walked before. She obviously doesn't think of me as a threat. I think about Ted Hughes, moving Assia Wevill into the home he'd shared with Plath, of her wearing Sylvia's clothes, brushing her hair with the same brush. I want to ring Anna up and remind her that Assia ended up with her head in the oven, just like Sylvia did. | Paula Hawkins | ||
| 06c16fb | The day I went into physics class it was death. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 33f3169 | Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| fb28c3a | We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything | John Updike | ||
| a4fbd1a | Don't leave your relationships to chance. Pray for godly people to come into your life with whom you can connect. Don't force relationships to happen. Pray for them to happen. Then when they do, nurture them with prayer. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 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 |