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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc0ed57 | How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with love and adoration; a few years passed, the children grew up, and persons not of their kin were more important to their happiness than father or mother. Indifference displaced the blind and instinctive love of the past. Their m.. | maugham parents | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 05ced26 | But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design. | life pain suffering unhappiness | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 4df47ee | He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| efa0af0 | He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. | hard heroism life | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 180c0d4 | She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you." Waddington, smiling, translated the question. "She says I'm good." "As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue," Kitty mocked." | virtue | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 180e68b | The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. | authors british humor | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| f1b956b | Every previous revolutionary movement in human history has made the same basic mistake. They've all seen power as a static apparatus, as a structure. And it's not. It's a dynamic, a flow system with two possible tendencies. Power either accumulates, or it diffuses through the system. In most societies, it's in accumulative mode, and most revolutionary movements are only really interested in reconstituting the accumulation in a new location... | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| e2546b1 | I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography. | mankind men | Alan Moore | |
| 0b6eab7 | If the writer were more like a reader, he'd be a reader, not a writer. It's as uncomplicated as that. | readers writers writing | Julian Barnes | |
| c74f7ac | I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 2e70b73 | It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to. | Julian Barnes | ||
| f2a4cfb | There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 23bc0a6 | life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 1e09425 | You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances. | Julian Barnes | ||
| ed06bde | That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man. | Anton Myrer | ||
| d7699da | I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 798175d | It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh. | daenerys-targaryen justice revenge | George R.R. Martin | |
| fda0434 | In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight." - Jaime" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 72d979e | It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 23d6121 | He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule." | hand jaime-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| bc1059d | Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling. "Because winter is coming." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| dc6556d | You would not believe half of what is happening in King's Landing, sweetling. Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim, and the blind. I always anticipated that she would beggar the realm and destroy herself, but I never expected she would do it quite so fast. It is quite vexing. I had hoped to have four or five quiet years to plant some seeds and allow some fruits to ripen, but now . . ... | cersei-lannister petyr-baelish | George R.R. Martin | |
| eaed98f | Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 790851e | All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or reassuring. Even the sky was grey. | grey jeyne-poole sad theon-greyjoy wedding winterfell | George R.R. Martin | |
| 110d72b | Lewis: "Oh, no." Kaitlyn: "Lewis?" Lewis: "Hi, Kaitlyn. Hi. Rob." Rob: "G'way, Lewis. I'm sleeping." Kaitlyn: "Hi. Anna." Anna: "Hi, Kait." Lewis: "Hi, Anna." Gabriel: "And good night, John-Boy! Shut the hell up, all of you!" | L.J. Smith | ||
| 90113bf | Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech. | Meg Cabot | ||
| a5a82b9 | my grandmother has given me her own version of the precious gift: the most precious gift any teenager coul ask for: MY GRANDMOTHER HAS GIVEN MY MY OWN SEX PLACE!!!!! | Meg Cabot | ||
| e8cfb23 | Oh, Jason, I couldn't get my locker open...I know, I tried twisting it right, then left, but it wouldn't budge. I guess I'm just not strong enough. Could you help me? Please? Oh, great. Oh, Jason, you're so strong... Seriously? That was me now? On the other hand , a guy was following me. | Meg Cabot | ||
| d47a580 | The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in | teen-idol thatsaquote | Meg Cabot | |
| c71608b | The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now." -- | future | William Gibson | |
| d986b08 | Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted. | William Gibson | ||
| f687e23 | Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. | dream-state fading lost slipping-away vulnerability | William Gibson | |
| b3982e6 | There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it. | Elise Broach | ||
| 4ef7652 | Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 2e1ce80 | Yo sueno que estoy aqui de estas prisiones cargado, y sone que en otro estado mas lisonjero me vi. ?Que es la vida? Un frenesi. ?Que es la vida? Una ilusion, una sombra, una ficcion, y el mayor bien es pequeno: que toda la vida es sueno, y los suenos, suenos son. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 5ca2623 | Help People Reach Their Full Potential Catch Them Doing Something Right | Kenneth H. Blanchard | ||
| 7200f82 | The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9fdbf71 | Life is the greatest show on earth! | Sara Gruen | ||
| a48bb38 | bd' b`ysh mjd khylk , l dhkrtk | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 8d5c112 | I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it. | routine society structure | John D. MacDonald | |
| 1653bb3 | A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day. | knowledge literature nature perfection reading words | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 5daefd0 | When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment. | man sentiments | Agatha Christie | |
| 21ee9e9 | Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world? | Agatha Christie | ||
| d98a69b | Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books. | library | Alberto Manguel |