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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e9a275 | But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it. | Jack London | ||
| 49595ab | Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the littl.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 28abe5c | Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. | religion primness doctrine exaggeration | Charles Dickens | |
| bb72f94 | I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both. | Charles Dickens | ||
| b11456e | Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. | self-deprecation | Charles Dickens | |
| 34c1017 | and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 306e640 | Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first [met you]. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since,--on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted .. | unrequited-love | Charles Dickens | |
| 6212809 | She is rotting quietly under her skirts with a melancholy smile, like the odour of violets given off by a decomposing body. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 4aab712 | A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. | Jane Smiley | ||
| ae296c8 | We have eternity, beloved." "You may have eternity. I have only now." "But this is eternity." | present-moment | Frank Herbert | |
| 512504b | Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. | uncertainty technology | Frank Herbert | |
| 592946e | If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief. | Frank Herbert | ||
| d34ab2e | The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 38fd0b7 | When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 2a19b0d | The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bon.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| e7bace2 | Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover? | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c0abdac | Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? | god | Neal Stephenson | |
| 89c79bc | Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's add.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| cfcbfaf | There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9801f24 | Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications. | evolution science philosophy | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 8f63a3d | If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. Keeping that awestruck vision of the .. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 29bf3ba | What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story? | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 820c57c | and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's all I can do not to scream, 'Bitch, you can't even help yourself. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 64df468 | Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater | living slater | Ted Dekker | |
| 3795c8a | Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century. | love-letter | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 5a2244d | We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| aa779f5 | F]or us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laugther; and with the garbage of liveliness stuffed down us untill our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying, in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart. | Truman Capote | ||
| baa450f | It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. | amusement | Edith Wharton | |
| 21a2010 | The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7e4740d | Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart | sad | Edith Wharton | |
| d49ca18 | It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. | old-world copy stupid | Edith Wharton | |
| c99d894 | She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 758b2ec | You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've had enough.' Ford was running after him. Very very fast. 'And then I will do it again!' yelled Arthur, 'And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them! | violence humor science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| d963485 | Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. | humor cowardice | Douglas Adams | |
| 675798e | The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul. It had indeed been an error. It had been late one night-- of course. It had been a difficult day-- of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system-- of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In.. | humor sci-fi | Douglas Adams | |
| bbbf555 | He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn't stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 17d194d | You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e2fd37c | There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e2675e0 | He turned slowly like a fridge door opening. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b774315 | For my present purpose I require a word which shall embrace both the Sub-Creative Art in itself, and a quality of strangeness and wonder in the Expression, derived from the Image: a quality essential to fairy-story. I propose, therefore, to arrogate to myself the powers of Humpty-Dumpty, and to use Fantasy for this purpose: in a sense, that is, which combines with its older and higher use as an equivalent of Imagination the derived notions .. | literacy | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 855c904 | Then suddenly he beheld his sister Eowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white; and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him. 'Eowyn, Eowyn!' he cried at last: 'Eowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!' Then witho.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 15d7c5b | I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man's pity. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9bad6b8 | Tres Anillos para los Reyes Elfos bajo el cielo. Siete para los Senores Enanos en palacios de piedra. Nueve para los Hombres Mortales condenados a morir. Uno para el Senor Oscuro, sobre el trono oscuro en la Tierra de Mordor donde se extienden las Sombras. Un Anillo para gobernarlos a todos. Un Anillo para encontrarlos, un Anillo para atraerlos a todos y atarlos en las tinieblas en la Tierra de Mordor donde se extienden las Sombras. | tolkien spanish el-señor-de-los-anillos one-ring the-lord-of-the-rings español | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3bff32b | These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. | tolkien deforestation earth-first ecocide peta vegetarianism vegan vegetarian meat environment ecology elves | J.R.R. Tolkien |