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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ced20fb | Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want. | Sara Zarr | ||
| cc6186f | It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 3553bfc | He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it. | Sara Zarr | ||
| babcddd | Sometimes I still stare into space and think about Cameron. I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. I don't mean the usual faint impression: He was cute, she was nice, they made me laugh, I wish I'd known her better, I remember the time she threw up in class. And I don't just mean they change you. A lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 621b92e | I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go. | tom | Joseph Delaney | |
| 25c2a28 | Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5255955 | The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9aad84f | Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4bbb84b | The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e295372 | The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d2493bb | We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire fo.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e37eac4 | I was wrong. God's law is only Love. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 853ead6 | It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 10cf827 | Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. | writing walter-pater prose style soul | Oscar Wilde | |
| ca6e4b4 | God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then--who knows?--rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 183e133 | The world is made by the singer for the dreamer. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 339cf09 | I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. | words men women flattery hypocrisy | Oscar Wilde | |
| 41f82cd | Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you...Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, a.. | world youth life temptations | Oscar Wilde | |
| 6c78874 | With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 53a7c6b | one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever p**s one off. | Spider Robinson | ||
| f50d068 | How come it can't fly no better than a chicken?" "Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." | Toni Morrison | ||
| a5ea7de | Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it. | Toni Morrison | ||
| fcfa410 | In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. | depression hollow-pursuits drugs | Terri Blackstock | |
| 25a46f6 | Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| eb7e725 | Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible f.. | politics science | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 8c18428 | lTyb@ wHdh l tkfy. l bd mn Hkm@ brd@ qsy@ llTyb@ ky tHqq lkhyr. lTyb@ bl Hkm@ tw'dy Htm l~ lshr. | الطيبة | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 9d8fde7 | Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 1937bd6 | Two bodies attract each other directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance.' It sounds like a rule for simple physical facts, does it not? Yet it is nothing of the sort; it was the poetical way the old ones had of expressing the rule of propinquity which governs the emotion of love. The bodies referred to are human bodies, mass is their capacity for love. Young people have a greater capacity for love.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| eadb8ae | Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 29a460b | Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from--but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once--and you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. | fate | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 760e034 | Let's skip [Mobile Infantry] tradition for a moment. Can you think of anything sillier than being fired out of a spaceship with nothing but mayhem and sudden death at the other end? However, if someone must do this idiotic stunt, do you know a surer way to keep a man keyed up to the point where he is willing than by keeping him constantly reminded that the only good reason why men fight is a living, breathing reality? "In a mixed ship [men .. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f25a6ea | Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 5e2d7ba | A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'...and the other twenty percent isn't very important. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| bfa9b74 | Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b7ad7bf | Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| a2b38cf | Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b5685d0 | I belong to this notebook and this pencil. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0ed0aea | You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 48ce90d | Blood is thicker than water," The young man said As he knifed his friend For a drooling old bitch And a house full of lies." | murder family friendship blood-is-thicker-than-water | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 4ffad9d | No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things | old-man-and-the-sea | Earnest Hemingway | |
| cfb3a99 | Man is not made for defeat. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| eaf7a3e | Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude. | intrude private souls | Mary Balogh | |
| 9bc686b | The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. | pain life | Mary Balogh | |
| 7ca9c95 | Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journe.. | next moment | Mary Balogh |