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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ff9085 | He was not quite sure how to phrase it, so he finally went with, haltingly, "I don't enjoy being at the center of attention." Her head tilted to the side, she regarded him for a long moment before saying, "No. You don't." And then: "You were always a tree." "I beg your pardon?" Her eyes grew sentimental. "When we performed our awful pantomimes as children. You were always a tree." "I never had to say anything." "And you always got to stand .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 7f65234 | You don't just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you're in love with someone and want to express that love physically. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 662ef37 | History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. | history life simplicity | Jared Diamond | |
| 02f1717 | To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who is right or wrong, admirable or selfish, a good guy or a bad guy. My conclusion is instead a prediction, based on what I have seen happening in the past. Businesses have changed when the public came to expect and require dif.. | economics politics power public | Jared Diamond | |
| 8860bc4 | Science is often misrepresented as 'the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.' Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world. | knowledge science | Jared Diamond | |
| 0e6600d | There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 438aa01 | Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront. | James Frey | ||
| 0c013fe | You care if I say motherfucking around you? I smile. I'd be fucking offended if you didn't. | James Frey | ||
| d90884e | He smiles, even though he knows it will never be like that again, even though he knows the world no longer wants what he has, what he loves, what he has devoted his life to building and maintaining. He lies in bed and stares at the photo and smiles. His brain says let it go, sell it. His heart says no. His sense of reason and his brain tell him to do it. His heart says no. Whenever he allows himself to hear it, his heart says no, no, no. Al.. | James Frey | ||
| 2f2a1de | I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of blood from my nose, sometimes I wake scared and shaking. I read, go to museums and visit Lilly in the afternoon. Sometimes I read to her, sometimes I talk to her, sometimes I just sit and remember the times, remember the times, remember the times." (James Frey, pg.119)" | James Frey | ||
| 9142e4a | Love only brought me lonliness and horror. | James Frey | ||
| 05dbe97 | Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous. | moving-forward progress war | Steven Pressfield | |
| 2eeea06 | It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. | write writing writing-life writing-process | Steven Pressfield | |
| 0a24e45 | War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuo.. | virtue war warrior warrior-ethos | Steven Pressfield | |
| 9a707e9 | Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade." | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 2bed5d3 | death is the only water to wash away this dirt | Euripides | ||
| de2a47e | De los muchos rostros que (como todos los seres humanos) Alejandra tenia, aquel era el que mas le pertenecia a Martin; o, por lo menos, el que mas le habia pertenecido: era la expresion profunda y un poco triste del que anhela algo que sabe, por anticipado, que es imposible; un rostro ansioso pero ya de antemano desesperanzado, como si la ansiedad (es decir, la esperanza) y la desesperanza pudieran manifestarse a la vez. Y, ademas, con aque.. | Ernesto R. Sabato | ||
| 75a49de | Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories | Jon Ronson | ||
| d8e3fd2 | The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones." | mental-health psychology | Jon Ronson | |
| 83ea093 | we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more | Carl Jung | ||
| d49f54d | Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked m.. | parenting | Louisa May Alcott | |
| f3069a5 | The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 252aefb | All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. | government ideology magnetism mythology politics power religion science-fiction | Frank Herbert | |
| 59fb2ce | Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 91152c1 | Humans are almost always lonely. | loneliness | Frank Herbert | |
| 67feb8d | I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 35b9359 | I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me. | Charles Dickens | ||
| b5102bc | Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate | resource-economics | Frank Herbert | |
| 6f8e5a4 | We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 17c0044 | The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance. | Charles Dickens | ||
| def3e34 | Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 678b6c0 | I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for. | contentment diligence generosity service usefulness work | Charles Dickens | |
| cf42a4b | and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. | humor | Charles Dickens | |
| 44e1cd1 | Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does. | Philip Roth | ||
| b4220f7 | But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamor.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| eaf1470 | Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free.. | society war | Neal Stephenson | |
| 20c914d | when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 76b3c11 | I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you. | dawson-cole happiness love nicholas-sparks true-love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 3704e35 | I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired and full of no coffee. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3721935 | She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens. | metaphors noir-style | Raymond Chandler | |
| ed9765f | I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in jail more than once and I don't do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don't like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 02a1070 | Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal--the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth--is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition." | tradition | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| f4a5236 | I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life." I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one." | hair haircut identity life self | Michael Cunningham | |
| 1c1dc3b | Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in a loving, sane family. You could take a risk like that. But in my family we didn't go around saying we loved each other. We went around screaming at each other. So what do I do, when you say you love me? I go and undermine it. | Jeffrey Eugenides |