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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24ab8a6 | For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces. | humanity machines monkeys reflection thought | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 686df02 | He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot. | humor | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 360435e | In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises. | me rockandroll yoga | Jim Morrison | |
| d0b1101 | I guess all that's left is to love the fire. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 9e7a2f3 | There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f747bde | All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| ea9ec6a | Maybe you could just keep that in reserve. Maybe just take a shot at startin over. I dont mean start again. Everybody's done that. Over means over. It means you walk away. I mean, if everthing you are and everthing you have and everthing you have done has brought you at last to the bottom of a whiskey bottle or bought you a one way ticket on the Sunset Limited then you cant give me the first reason on God's earth for salvagin none of it. Ca.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 0e183fc | He told the boy that although he was huerfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this passion he would become estranged from men and so ultimately from himself. He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them .. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f3acdf3 | They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectura.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| de64151 | Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. | David Mamet | ||
| d4f8ca3 | I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 604f338 | I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be (talk about miracles). Then something comes up, and I overreact and blame and sulk, and it feels like I haven't made any progress at all. But it turns out I'm less of a brat than before, and I hit the reset button much sooner, shake it off, and get my sense if humor back. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 63ee338 | Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting. | gratitude | Anne Lamott | |
| cc42d89 | I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world. | humor religion | Anne Lamott | |
| eb0e6d3 | To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be? | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5444f84 | One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs .. | Mary Roach | ||
| ef867bc | Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through. | humour motto wodehouse | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 25b461f | It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 102961a | It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. | Amy Tan | ||
| 3b3b7c1 | Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears. | strength-through-adversity tears | Amy Tan | |
| 698f41f | what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| c063aa0 | I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While" to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn't nearly so important; it comes in its own time." | Eudora Welty | ||
| b071a41 | the qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones has, and has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians--none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse--because I don't understand enough. But worl.. | qualifications world-affairs | Noam Chomsky | |
| e070f85 | Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ff0455e | I brought a condom," I tell her when I slide her panties down. We're both hot and sweaty, and I can't resist hr anymore. "I did, too," she whispers against my neck. "But we might not be able to use it." "Why not?" I expect her to tell em this was all a mistake, that she really didn't mean to get me all hot and bothered just to tell me I'm not worthy enough to take her virginity, but it's the truth. She clears her throat. "It all d-d-depends.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 92d3692 | A summer apart changes people.s | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2647776 | Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 5845d02 | Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em. Having a face Adonis would admire is one of the few advantages I've been given in life, and I use it to it's full potential whether it's for good or evil. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ee0004b | Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]" | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2788159 | Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7ee6f3f | Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' -- 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old -- it is the.. | surrealism | Salman Rushdie | |
| adceb3e | If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| e0bf215 | Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| d78da70 | This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses. | finding-strength-in-love human-nature love love-that-lasts lovers philosophy-of-love romance strength weakness | Salman Rushdie | |
| 5080a03 | He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by. | life | Salman Rushdie | |
| 0455171 | All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang. | liberty | Salman Rushdie | |
| 2b35810 | I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 70b81aa | When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that l.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| ba306e8 | Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| dc3bd7a | All names mean something. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 0c77f63 | Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who set herself the task of falling in love with her husband bit-by-bit, but who could n ever manage to love one part, the part, curiously enough, which made possible her motherhood; whose feet were hobbled by verrucas and whose shoulders were stooped beneath the accumulating guilts of the world; whose husband's unlovable organ failed to rec.. | love motherhood | Salman Rushdie | |
| 4405039 | Do not start me on | literary-criticism novels the-davinci-code writing | Salman Rushdie | |
| 3ca36fe | I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, a.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| c92c87b | The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one. | Salman Rushdie |