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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9370864 | False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b6f4dd3 | Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| fcc1199 | I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 72164ed | Remorse is the poison of life. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 59778e3 | Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voic.. | reason | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 8c99b05 | I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. | mrs-reed school | Charlotte Brontë | |
| cf93a14 | Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 66dea4b | The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 337230d | I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 6ba1273 | What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land in which men were contented, uncontradicted, and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make m.. | chivalry flattery selfishness southern-women | Margaret Mitchell | |
| dd85300 | I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler) | gone-with-the-wind margaret-mitchell money rhett-butler war | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 28ae465 | Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion | love separation weariness | Edmund Spenser | |
| 035dea1 | If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer) | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3e51712 | I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| c4d82cf | No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 0b5982a | When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 227e59c | Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. | notoriety success | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 02cd166 | Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again." | cleanliness pigsty | Catherine Marshall | |
| e5ca25d | If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. | Bill Clinton | ||
| 54c47f3 | But why run? Run where? What's the point? Seems silly, running. May as well stand here. And wait. The world seems slow. | Beth Revis | ||
| 435db9b | Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut." | David Eddings | ||
| 8cb8eb3 | I can't abide snakes." "I don't even think of her as a snake." "Ce'Nedra," he said patiently, "she's long and skinny, she wriggles, she doesn't have any arms or legs, and she's poisonous. By definition, she's a snake." "...I'm bitterly disappointed in you, Prince Kheldar. She's a sweet, loving, brave little creature, and you're insulting her." He looked at her for a moment, then rose to his feet and bowed floridly to the earthenware bottle.. | David Eddings | ||
| ffc1117 | Mimbrates are the bravest people in the world --probably because they don't have brains enough to be afraid of anything. Garion's friend Mandorallen is totally convinced that he's invincible." "He is," Ce'Nedra said in automatic defense of her knight. "I saw him kill a lion once with his bare hands." "...I heard him suggest to Barak and Hettar once that the three of them attack an entire Tolnedran legion." "Perhaps he was joking." "Mimbrate.. | David Eddings | ||
| c68245e | Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their own societies, and I supposed even their own cultures. They don't even pay attention to us, do you?" "Only when we inconvenience them...It teaches us humility," Garion agreed." | David Eddings | ||
| 9ea8d5e | You speak of afraid. Yet fear is something you generate in yourself, from your mind's lack of control; and you will learn to look at it and discover for yourself when you choose to be afraid. The first thing you must do is acknowledge that the fear is yours, and you can bid it come and go at will. Begin with this; whenever you feel fear that prevents choice say to yourself: 'What has made me feel fear? Why have I chosen to feel this fear .. | fear-of-failure | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 88783e8 | It does not matter that the "intentions" of individual educators were noble. Forget about intentions. What any institution, or its agents, "intend" for you is secondary. Our world is physical. Learn to play defense--ignore the head and keep your eyes on the body. Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve th.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1d3c16b | This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore. | creepy dark-falls death factory gas grief living-dead murder normal people plastics poison pollution small-town townsfolk yellow zombie | R.L. Stine | |
| ba66929 | Is this your holiday homework?" asked Sarah. "Don't do it, Rose! And Eve will write you a note to say it's iniquitous to give eight-year-olds homework. You will, won't you, Eve?" "I could never spell 'iniquitous,' Sarah darling!" "Hot concrete," said Rose mournfully, prodding her porridge. "Write this," ordered Saffron. "'The ancient Egyptians are all dead. Their days are very quiet.' Porridge is meant to look like hot concrete. Eat it up.... | homework morning sisters | Hilary McKay | |
| 60ca79e | It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment. | death | John le Carré | |
| 11da133 | Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided. | treason | John Le Carré | |
| 4025445 | Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine? | John le Carré | ||
| c4aa68e | I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's 'policy' is benevolent, can you now? | politics war | John le Carré | |
| c2c4186 | Es el tipo de cosas que nunca sabre o llegare a comprender: de que son capaces los humanos. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3a1bf09 | When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate the most. Sometimes I manage to float far above those three moments. I hang suspended, until a septic truth bleeds toward clarity. That's when I see them formulate: THE COLORS RED: [rectangle] WHITE: [circle] BLACK: [swastika] They fall on top of each other. The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3ee08da | The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4ca5b9c | There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. | George Eliot | ||
| 217c3c7 | When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was--he only saw the brightness of the Lord. | George Eliot | ||
| f4320d3 | A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." --WORDSWORTH." | George Eliot | ||
| 2807956 | The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. | conviction | George Eliot | |
| c25a256 | You want to dance with me, angel tits? | Edward Albee | ||
| bfa41df | The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in her case not indifference but hostility. The world did not say to her as it said to them, Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me. The world said with a guffaw, Write? What's the good of your writing? | Virginia Woolf | ||
| df0c379 | I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving -- on the earth the trees, in the sky the clouds. I look up, through the trees, into the sky. The clouds lose tufts of whiteness as the breeze dishevels them. If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever; if this moment could stay for ever. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7fa9c25 | For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. While one drowns us the other gnaws us. If we survive the teeth, we succumb to the waves. A man who can destroy illusions is both beast and flood. Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. R.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 17fe975 | She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps into emptiness, alone. | Virginia Woolf |