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| bef52c1 | There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling us the real truth about what really happened, but if you turn any competent historian over and look at his damp underside, you'll find a storyteller, and you can believe me when I tell you that no storyteller's ever going to tell a story without a few embellishments. Add to that the fact that we.. | David Eddings | ||
| b137abd | The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had a special warm feeling for kitchens and those peculiar sounds and smells that seemed somehow to combine into a bustling seriousness that had to do with love and food and comfort and security and, above all, home. No matter how high Garion rose in life, he never forgot that all his memories began in that kitchen. | David Eddings | ||
| 7130d47 | ROTHKO: (Explodes) 'Pretty.' 'Beautiful.' 'Nice.' 'Fine.' That's our life now! Everything's 'fine'. We put on the funny nose and glasses and slip on the banana peel and the TV makes everything happy and everyone's laughing all the time, it's all so goddamn funny, it's our constitutional right to be amused all the time, isn't it? We're a smirking nation, living under the tyranny of 'fine.' How are you? Fine.. How was your day? Fine. How are .. | John Logan | ||
| a44d589 | Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not, | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| a00b111 | Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything. | hear see voice | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 2f48570 | We want you to tell us about vampires." Simon grinned. "What do you want to know? Scariest is Eli in Let the Right One In, cheesiest is late-era Lestat, most underrated is David Bowie in The Hunger. Sexiest is definitely Drusilla, though if you ask a girl, she'll probably say Damon Salvatore or Edward Cullen. But..." he shrugged, "You know girls." Julie's and Beatriz's eyes were wide. "I didn't think you'd know so many!" Beatriz exclaimed. .. | vampires | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4ef8f05 | Everyone who is not happy must be shot. | violence shooting oppression | John le Carré | |
| 5bb0db4 | He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a67e417 | Even enemies were an inch away from friendship. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 7cbba05 | An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid. | stupidity | Markus Zusak | |
| 7c75f7e | Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3e2244b | The conversation of bullets. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 394a456 | for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 2245d15 | At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like a body being bent by the wind. At night, when I woke up and the moon and the stars were out, I would see in the sky things that filled me simultaneously with dread and longing. I remember that once, one Christmas Eve, I saw a great naked women,.. | nature fear hallucinations goddess night | Gustave Flaubert | |
| f504d49 | She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| cc593d9 | Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair. | George Eliot | ||
| c37b39c | It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. | father-and-son | George Eliot | |
| f74b264 | What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! | George Eliot | ||
| ddc9f39 | Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 12c293f | For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| dbf756d | For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may have many thousand...and these selves of which we are built up, one on top of the other, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own... so that one will.. | life | Virginia Woolf | |
| 4792e1a | when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive" -- | Sharon Creech | ||
| 519e79c | I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody? | struggles questions-in-life | Ned Vizzini | |
| cad817c | Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2e90242 | I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love. | love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 3b2b3a4 | Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ac4f5b5 | Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| be8a673 | Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. | wretch | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f1519e8 | I still can't say whether I ever want children....I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 545a021 | But I love him." "So love him." "But I miss him." "So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it." | love unrequited-love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e491c1c | A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 41aab90 | The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8944ee6 | The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning. | philosophy | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 34d51ba | That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 6dea3fd | The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The res.. | feminism | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| abc8253 | He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7358794 | In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in th.. | David James Duncan | ||
| b0c1122 | I'll eat you up! | Maurice Sendak | ||
| 46483c5 | God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley." -- | Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman | ||
| e1d7582 | This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fde5be8 | One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one]. | the-sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 7d505dc | Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 13293a9 | When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b7f299f | It was as if some people believed there was a divide between the books that you were permitted to enjoy and the books that were good for you, and I was expected to choose sides. We were all expected to choose sides. And I didn't believe it, and I still don't. I was, and still am, on the side of books you love. | gaiman newbery-medal-acceptance-speech neil-gaiman the-graveyard-book | Neil Gaiman |