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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f575669 | There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. [...] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself. | Paul Auster | ||
| 0e446ca | The room was a machine that measured my condition: how much of me remained, how much of me was no longer there. I was both perpetrator and witness, both actor and audience in a theater of one. I could follow the progress of my own dismemberment. Piece by piece, I could watch myself dissapear. | Paul Auster | ||
| 75358c4 | J'existe, c'est tout. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 7ac75e6 | Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak. | Alice Sebold | ||
| e42b72c | Every day a question mark. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 9d3e144 | I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing. | Nora Roberts | ||
| c607427 | It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 3e577de | Serenity comes from the ability to say "Yes" to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say "No" to the wrong choices made by others." | metaphysics philosophy serenity | Ayn Rand | |
| 77ec606 | When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b628e02 | When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit--and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it. | morality religious | Ayn Rand | |
| 881df8c | Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you." | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6add84e | I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke a cigarette thinking. I wonder what great things have come from those hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind - and it is only proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 645d7b4 | He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done. | new-york-city | Ayn Rand | |
| 3bd5c63 | While anarchy can often turn a humdrum weekend into something unforgettable, eventually the mob must be kept from . And while it would be nice if that "something" was simple human decency, anybody who has witnessed the "50% Off Wedding Dress Sale" at Filene's Basement knows we need a backup plan--preferably in writing. On the other hand, too many laws can result in outright tyranny, particularly if one of those laws is " ." Somewhere betwe.. | anarchy congress fascism legislature | Jon Stewart | |
| 8ef3a14 | Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 7b76f6b | It's never simple." Avery slid an arm around Hope's waist. "It shouldn't be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 31e5d6d | I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 20466c4 | Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes .. | music rock-and-roll | Nora Roberts | |
| 487518f | Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 804c1a8 | This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 21e573a | All of them had a restlessness in common. | restless restlessness | John Steinbeck | |
| e39cb4b | Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans | travel | John Steinbeck | |
| d1f4d93 | People don't take trips--trips take people. | trip | John Steinbeck | |
| a012099 | But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ff6addc | When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3bb2e7e | Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, "It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 307b276 | It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay--and that one day, should be sooner than later, in my opinion, the right woman can and should be leader of the free world. But you can't understand the male bonding rituals any more than men can understand why the vast majority of women are obsessed with shoes and other footwear. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 239631f | Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" | Nora Roberts | ||
| 7e51e2d | What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 1e62814 | We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 3c323ae | A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. | Arthur Golden | ||
| bf888bc | You're a cold bitch, Dallas." "Yes, I am." "Well, I suppose if I'd been murdered I'd want a cold bitch looking for my killer." | Nora Roberts | ||
| c50a62e | Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith. | Dan Brown | ||
| d1038d8 | lkhwf yshlW 'kthr mn y 'd@ Hrb 'khr~ | Dan Brown | ||
| aceed65 | Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe. | Dan Brown | ||
| 73e61b2 | Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease--they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor. | Dan Brown | ||
| ad3e145 | To believe in God is a good thing, a right thing. But when you reinforce your belief with words you take from the Old Testament that you seek out, and interpret in the ways that suit your needs best, that is hypocrisy, | V.C. Andrews | ||
| fd6349b | Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| 93a7e91 | I write a note and tape it to my window-- I'M NOT A DETECTIVE. BE SPECIFIC! | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| dcf2dce | The stars are duller than an old pocket knife, they used to sparkle like five-carat diamonds. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| fa433cb | Find the gift in the little things. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 731d333 | We don't talk. We just swing. There is comfort in the act of swinging. True, unexpected comfort. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 7b099d9 | He cups my face with both hands leans in, eyes lingering a sweet second before his lips are there on mine, teasing, playing, tasting, kissing. When he pulls away, I'm breathless. He nuzzles my ear. "Now that's thrilling." You got that right." -- | thrilling | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 3204824 | I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you're through. | Julia Quinn |