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| 6839641 | There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coff.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e48f950 | Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all. | reality worlds-end | Neil Gaiman | |
| b93d80c | You don't discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b6ade6b | But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| c335ef4 | You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could. | love men | George Bernard Shaw | |
| b5d939e | The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out. | george-bernard-shaw pygmalion shaw strength | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 54fc8d7 | What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults. | education | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 02a7ba3 | 3. Escape. Escape is the avoidance of feelings through diversion. This avoidance is the backbone of the entertainment and liquor industries, and also the route of the workaholic. Escapism and avoidance of inner awareness is a socially condoned mechanism. We can avoid our own inner selves and keep our feelings from emerging by an endless variety of pursuits, many of which eventually become addictions as our dependency upon them grows. People.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 80ff22a | Nooooooooooo!" Screaming the word, Amy and Dan moved as one. Time slowed down, which, Dan knew from experience, often happened when you were in midair. By the time they leaped onto the hood of Fiske's car (oops, dents), and Dan had ripped off a windshield wiper to use as a weapon (probably not the best idea, but hey, he was improvising), Scarey Harley Dude had turned around. He strode off in his motorcycle boots, moving swiftly to his bike .. | amy cahill dan vespers-rising | Jude Watson | |
| 882d2f5 | Sometimes between lunch and dinner, when there's a lull, Jill and Shaniqua and I will sit around and fantasize about what we'd do if a REAL celebrity walked into the place, like Chad Michael Murray (although we've gone off him a bit since his divorce) or Jared Padalecki, or even Prince William (you never know. He could have gotten his yacht lost, or whatever.) | Meg Cabot | ||
| 1603601 | Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. | Harold Bloom | ||
| bc770e7 | M]any believe that by being honest and open they are winning people's hearts and showing their good nature.They are greatly deluded. Honesty is actually a blunt instrument, which bloodies more than it cuts. Your honesty is likely to offend people; it is much more prudent to tailor your words, telling people what they want to hear rather than the coarse and ugly truth of what you feel or think. More important, by being unabashedly open you m.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 89d0b55 | We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ea8b589 | Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3b7247b | You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?" | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4f71d2f | Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks. | lost-loved-one | Mitch Albom | |
| a34a4ee | Did I lose you?" "Never." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 69ed349 | A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 20b72dc | Special things have a way of surviving. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 85ced0f | When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with. | John Scalzi | ||
| d9c7752 | In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6b625fe | Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ae24e6c | The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of rising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately--and against ordinary experience--vanished. The man contains--not the boy--but earlier men, he thought. History began a long time ago. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 28fddf7 | Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 9e1d9dd | You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?" | sickness world | Philip K. Dick | |
| 1352c58 | We're all dreaming," Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for hi.. | dreaming dreams drugs insanity reality | Philip K. Dick | |
| c918f5e | Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is killing me; I have no enemy, no antagonist; I am merely expiring, like a magazine subscription: month by month. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c2718fb | Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f118c57 | Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane - not just insane but totally so - or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. | insanity mental-health psychiatrist sanity | Philip K. Dick | |
| 0626043 | The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The.. | lifestyle manipulation misrepresentation | Philip K. Dick | |
| 4339a7f | Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way he can halt the process; he is helpess. This sense of helplessness generates a need to gain some control over the impending pain -- any kind of control will do. This makes sense; the subjective feeling of helplessness is more painful than the impen.. | science-fiction | Philip K. Dick | |
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| b8d4e12 | kn shhran klHlm, wlkn l'Hlm l tdwm. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 393a7d7 | Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire be.. | idiot pain | William S. Burroughs | |
| a42808d | The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 1fe5755 | I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| bcbf213 | If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. Whe.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| d97dbac | I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact. | fear loneliness sanity | William S. Burroughs | |
| 15787ce | I was lying there trying to control the fear. I did not know much about this uremic poisoning. A woman I'd known slightly in Texas had died of it after drinking a bottle of beer ever hour, night and day, for two weeks. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 231da1b | Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh. | freedom junkie | William S. Burroughs | |
| 64a7e90 | Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido... | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 0437144 | If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution. | transformation-of-the-individual | William S. Burroughs | |
| 2f7b2f4 | Sit down on your ass, or what's left of it after four years in the navy. | William S. Burroughs |