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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 639b956 | Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks. | Michael Chabon | ||
| f332b8a | It was in this man's class that I first began to wonder if people who wrote fiction were not suffering from some kind of disorder--from what I've since come to think of, remembering the wild nocturnal rocking of Albert Vetch, as the midnight disease. The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at every conscious moment its victim--even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon--feels like a person lying in a s.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| a0f4320 | It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 3276a35 | I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8c546a4 | Having lost his mother, father, brother, an grandfather, the friends and foes of his youth, his beloved teacher Bernard Kornblum, his city, his history--his home--the usual charge leveled against comic books, that they offered merely an escape from reality, seemed to Joe actually to be a powerful argument on their behalf... The escape from reality was, he felt--especially right after the war--a worthy challenge... The pain of his loss--thou.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 7faa8e4 | n mzH@ SGyr@ ymkn 'n tj`l k's lm`n@ yfyD!! | Paulo Coelho | ||
| eee57de | If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 461c04b | icen que a lo largo de nuestra vida tenemos dos grandes amores; uno con el que te casas o vives para siempre, puede que el padre o la madre de tus hijos, esa persona con la que consigues la compenetracion maxima para estar el resto de tu vida junto a ella. Y dicen que hay un segundo gran amor, una persona que perderas siempre. Alguien con quien naciste conectado, tan conectado que las fuerzas de la quimica escapan a la razon y te impedira, .. | true quote love coelho book tragic verdad sad | Paulo Coelho | |
| 21e682d | And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly. | life inspirational routine | Paulo Coelho | |
| b14df4b | Man struggles to survive, not to succumb | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 95cad0a | He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know? | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 470c8fa | At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything. | destiny moment lives | Paulo Coelho | |
| d2d1b30 | I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent." The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c01f12e | 'Hbk , 'Hbk ln kl 'nw` lHb fy l`lm kl'nhr ldfq@ l~ lbHyr@ nfsh, Hyth tltqy wttHwl l~ Hb 'wHd ytHwl bdwrh l~ mTr wybrk l'rD. 'Hbk knhr ywjd lZrwf lmly'm@ ll'shjr wlshjyrt wlzhr lky tnmw `l~ Dftyh. 'Hbk knhr yrwy Zm' l`Tsh wynql lns l~ Hyth yrydwn . 'Hbk knhr y`y 'n `lyh 'n yt`lm kyfy@ tGyyr tdfqh fwq lshllt wlrkwd fy lmy@ lDHlh. 'Hbk l'nn kln mwlwdwn fy lmkn dhth, mn lmnb` dhth, ldhy yzwdn blm bl nqT`. wldh, mt~ sh`rn blD`f, kl m `lyn f`lh h.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7cbf616 | You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 931221a | The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| eca1b56 | we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 23b04ae | God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. | success religious inspirational quotes-to-live-by | Paulo Coelho | |
| 167c162 | That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 58cd977 | Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. From that point onwards, things change, the man and the woman come into play, but what happens before - the attraction that brought them together - is impossible to explain. It is untouched desire in its purest state. When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 33d7a06 | and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cfa5580 | Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c44843f | She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6867c37 | Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e93d48d | I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| c9c5ac1 | I thought it was, "If a body catch a body," Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and no ones around - nobody big I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of this crazy cliff. What i have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they are going I have to come out from .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| cc11dfc | yh chyzy khh khyly rwm tthyr gdhsht yn khnwmh bwd khh bGlm nshsth bwd w hmh sh gryh my khrd.hr chy fylmh mzkhrf tr my shd byshtr gryh my khrd. adm fkhr my khrd chwn adm mhrbwnyh drh gryh my khnh wly z yn khbr nbwd. mn bGlsh nshsth bwdm w khwb my dwnm.yh bchh hmrsh bwd khh Tflkh khyly khsth shdh bwd w my khwst brh dstshwyy wly khnwmh hy bhsh my gft arwm bgyrh w mwZb rftrsh bshh.ndzh y ykh grg mhrbwn bwd.b`Dy h yn Twry n. wsh yh fylmi chrt w .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| ec20c52 | You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| aa6e33b | There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being--flesh, blood, skin, hair--but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind .. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ee847bb | And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 72a5cad | What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs. "I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| a2abb74 | At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the opposite of helplessness or damage or craving or suffering or shame. But she was never really happy and already, in a matter of days, she had reached a stage in our relationship where she no longer really cared about me or any thoughts or ideas I might have had. | jamie | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 2225867 | Things changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made by people you don't even know that it requires you to lose any sense of reality you might have once acquired, expectations so unreasonable you become superstitious about ever matching them. | bryan easton ellis the-informers japan | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| b7b8b86 | I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs. | patrick-bateman | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| f9aa05d | There something beneath the surface of things. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| b3ce82c | Fear never shows up and the party ends early. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| b59c568 | The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything -- all the pain I felt, the betrayal -- I couldn't help but recognize a truth while sitting in that screening room. In the book everything about me had happened. The book was something I simply couldn't disavow. The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 8ff8d80 | The only cheese I have in the apartment is a wedge of Brie in the refrigerator and before leaving I place the entire slice--it's a really big rat--along with a sun-dried tomato and a sprinkling of dill, delicately on the trap, setting it. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| c92bbad | What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior. | Scott Turow | ||
| 8074809 | Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't live without my freedom, yeah yeah.' That's pretty much every song." | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| d764a90 | He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 284b51e | When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 0baf2e1 | All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2d4e83a | A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be). And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he does comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire. The bourgeois is cons.. | Hermann Hesse |