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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d673366 | I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled. | fools protagonists villains | L.M. Montgomery | |
| f77511e | The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 99db4fb | The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 96564c3 | Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 058082b | A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces. | appearances clowns faces photographs sadness | Enid Blyton | |
| ca2ba0b | Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 7fdcdfa | Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men. | bell hooks | ||
| c0bbb29 | This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and witho.. | patriarchy womanism | bell hooks | |
| 6f96d0a | A huge majority of parents use some form of physical or verbal aggression against children. Since women remain the primary caretakers of children, the facts confirm the reality that given a hierarchal system in a culture of domination which empowers females (like the parent-child relationship) all too often they use coercive force to maintain dominance. In a culture of domination everyone is socialized to see violence as an acceptable means.. | bell hooks | ||
| ede0344 | I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock.. | music | Cornel West | |
| 7eaed1c | The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. | envy love | John Berger | |
| f92ff78 | No matter how the official narrative of this turns out," it seemed to Heidi, "these are the places we should be looking, not in newspapers or television but at the margins, graffiti, uncontrolled utterances, bad dreamers who sleep in public and scream in their sleep." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5055d04 | Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,-- Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not Chronology, for that is left to Lawyers,-- nor is it Remembrance, for Remembrance belongs to the People. History can as little pretend to the Veracity of the one, as claim the Power of the other,-- her Practitioners, to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc, spy, and Taproom Wit,-- t.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 441d2ba | It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights - but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety. | love romantic | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 7e88343 | You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| e70cad3 | If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 5df7f16 | I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 180613e | There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises. Even little ones, like your cooking stew over your Bunsen burner. You may be in the middle of an experiment, but you still remember to feed your family. That's enough to keep my heart optimistic, no matter how pessimistic my mind. And you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. T.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| def3284 | Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom. | juvies | Katherine Paterson | |
| 275d492 | sbb t`s@ lnsn ykmn fy 'nWh l yryd lrkwn l~ Hjrth Hyth yjb 'n ykwn | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 9c24138 | All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| ab793da | I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| a7746d3 | I'll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I'll have one of my fits. You'll see, I'll swallow my tongue and die. Don't leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I'll die if you go. | gone jalil leaving mariam nana | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 3120055 | Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| feebf51 | At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d11918f | Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3f61805 | In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an en.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 168372a | Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 559570b | One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten. | correlation statistics | Thomas Sowell | |
| be7630b | The house was very quiet, and the fog--we are in November now--pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost. | autumn autumnal description e-m-forster fall howards-end november quiet | E.M. Forster | |
| 5ffb0bd | Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned . . . . | E.M. Forster | ||
| 66f97fd | The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. | morality religion religious-extremism | Sarah Vowell | |
| 337c8ab | I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the way to the Maine border on their first New Hampshire meet and greet. I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the .. | nerd nerdiness nerds opinion patriotic patriotism politics politics-of-the-united-states | Sarah Vowell | |
| 197c0bb | Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art-before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is toaster waffles shaped like cartoon characters." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 75c363c | Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause-straight up-I don't get it." | Gordon Korman | ||
| b3a1247 | They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| dbe14e5 | knt 'sh`r `l~ ldwm b'ny mkhtlf@, wmndh w`yt `l~ ldny knt mhmsh@; flm 'kn 'ntmy f`lan l~ 'srty, wl~ wsTy ljtm`y, wl~ jm`ty. w'Zn 'n hdh lsh`wr bl`zl@ hw ldhy ywld l'sy'l@ lty tdf` l~ lktb@, wmn khll lbHth `n ljbt twld lktb. | Isabel Allende | ||
| bb2053a | La vida es una tapiceria que se borda dia a dia con hilos de muchos colores, unos pesados y oscuros, otros delgados y luminosos, todos los hilos sirven. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4e08853 | l yHtj lmr l~ mwhb@ lykwn fnnan, nh bHj@ l~ ljr'@ fqT. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9e1cf12 | Remember that all the others are more afraid than you | Isabel Allende | ||
| 3336d84 | Christianity is a religion in a rush. | religion | Yann Martel | |
| cf5aa6b | Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two lows of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9dd917d | It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ebca85f | If you're not Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you," said Ron, "but no pressure." "Ron!" Lily and Hugo laughed, but Albus and Rose looked solemn. "He doesn't mean it," said Hermione and Ginny, but Ron was no longer paying attention. Catching Harry's eye, he nodded covertly to a point of some fifty yards away. The steam had thinned for a moment, and three people stood in sharp relief against the shifting mist. "Look who it is" Draco Malfoy was s.. | J.K. Rowling |