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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e23b95 | May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens. "Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go." | kittens | William S. Burroughs | |
| f6c3d20 | Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| d141d46 | Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden. | true true-to-life | William S. Burroughs | |
| aad473d | The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| b59c8ab | If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. | Epictetus | ||
| e70bf40 | Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad? | Epictetus | ||
| 624ab8f | The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. | Marcus Aurelius | ||
| 59e0b5a | On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. | Epictetus | ||
| 82b82ba | But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| d7079ef | You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f090952 | Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 7799d7f | Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years. "I think you're crazy," was the way Clevinger had responded to Dunbar's discovery. "Who wants to know?" Dunbar answered. "I mean it," Clevinger insisted. "Who cares?" Dunbar answered. "I .. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 59b90e0 | How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President? | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a1303fb | Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you. | Scott Adams | ||
| 26e8d3c | It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds. | Toni Morrison | ||
| d9246eb | Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 605e44f | I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess .. | toni-morrison | Toni Morrison | |
| 18f67f2 | You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah" -- | Francine Rivers | ||
| 3ee1c6e | Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption. | Francine Rivers | ||
| e3ffc94 | Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 6112281 | It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 27949db | But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was." | Saul Bellow | ||
| 5316d4e | Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f68f185 | to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 2adeac4 | I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 78c3685 | The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 657f92a | So I am led to one or two choices! Can I write? Will I write if I practice enough? How much should I sacrifice to writing anyway, before I find out if I'm any good? Above all, CAN A SELFISH, EGOCENTRIC, JEALOUS, AND UNIMAGINATIVE FEMALE WRITE A DAMN THING WORTHWHILE? Should I sublimate (my how we throw words around!) my selfishness in serving other people- through social or other such work? Would I then become more sensitive to other people.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ea05192 | 'n t`ys@ lny l 'fhm myqwl qlby | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| ca38b3f | After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share? | memories museums novels sincerity | Orhan Pamuk | |
| e0570cf | The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time. | love romance | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 101e7d0 | I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 96a4039 | Nothing ever truly faded. Time only dulled the edges. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 63287aa | It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. | color-master | Aimee Bender | |
| 3cae4a3 | A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| cd38440 | I looked for perfection, and I found something better. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 062d64e | Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3d2e280 | Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c3bb561 | Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 76c54b3 | O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons! | bible compassion | Orson Scott Card | |
| d3f8e64 | Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth. | ender petra | Orson Scott Card | |
| aaa38e4 | The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8588424 | But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. | lies stories the-truth | Orson Scott Card | |
| a6e8ea6 | The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet. | toilet-humor | Orson Scott Card | |
| 4d6bceb | you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finall.. | captain-dimak catching-mistakes children information mistakes misuse-of-time teaching time | Orson Scott Card |