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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9362f83 | Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1fa270f | There are no whores in Scaithe's Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many women who, if pressed, would describe themselves as much-married, with one husband on this ship here every six months, and another husband on that ship, back in port for a month or so every nine months. The mathematics of the thing have always kept most folk satisfied; and if ever it disappoints and a man returns to his wife .. | sea whores | Neil Gaiman | |
| 997890e | The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before | art-matters inspirational | Neil Gaiman | |
| b798377 | The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7253042 | I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of stars. | sandman snow stars worlds-end | Neil Gaiman | |
| 3edeb46 | Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 12d8d8f | Dan was doing his best Ian Kabra impersonation, looking around the store as though inspecting it for cockroaches. Amy tried to turn her snort of laughter into a cough. "Espresso?" The saleswoman materialized seemingly out of nowhere. Amy realized that the full-length mirror on the wall was actually a door. If she were Amy Cahill, she would blush and shake her head no, just because she didn't want to cause any bother. She imagined what Natal.. | Jude Watson | ||
| eb9035d | You don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate. | ethics morality philosophy veganism | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| cf4f8f5 | We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. | Harold Bloom | ||
| c74cba7 | the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. | Harold Bloom | ||
| a1e4c22 | I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| b7c9dbb | Learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them. | Robert Greene | ||
| 99fc4b4 | Think of the mind as a river: the faster it flows, the better it keeps up with the present and responds to change. The faster it flows, also the more it refreshes itself and the greater its energy. Obsessional thoughts, past experiences (whether traumas or successes), and preconceived notions are like boulders or mud in this river, settling and hardening there and damming it up. The river stops moving; stagnation sets in. You must wage cons.. | Robert Greene | ||
| afb4f33 | If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become--an individual, a Master. | Robert Greene | ||
| ccba39c | But the greatest battle of all is with yourself--your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself. | Robert Greene | ||
| 263e334 | I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively. | David Mitchell | ||
| 32ea0b3 | This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. | inspirational opening-lines philosophical | Mitch Albom | |
| 02deb43 | It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard? | Mitch Albom | ||
| cb45e9b | Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance. | Mitch Albom | ||
| dbc9b5c | It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 61152d3 | I hated to serve men in any way. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c28301b | Scout - oblivious to our jokes at her expense - pushed forward. "I don't understand why you're arguing with me. You know you have no chance." Michael clutched at his chest dramatically. "You're killing me, Scout. Really. There's chest pain - a tightness." He faked a groan." -- | Chloe Neill | ||
| a6850a5 | Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new cus.. | exclusion immigration judgement punishment slavery | Laura Esquivel | |
| 8276063 | Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 26fbc20 | Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us. | John Scalzi | ||
| 3d7a335 | Guns don't kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do. | John Scalzi | ||
| 7ce3032 | I love you forever' really means 'Just trust me for now,' which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the "now," year after year." | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 3c48608 | The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 7aa8c3b | Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don't know. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 633ef29 | Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart. | flow pkd taste | Philip K. Dick | |
| e11bdb0 | Every junkie, he thought, is a recording. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6b24971 | How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it. | memories nostalgia | Philip K. Dick | |
| 990fd96 | The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 41ebada | y lh mn dhkryt khlyq@ b'n tfqd lHy@ kl qym@. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8460835 | l yb`d n ykwn lkl shy' qymh dhtyh..wl yb`d kdhlk l ykwn lh qym@ lbth..km mlywn mn lbshr ylfZwn nfshm fy hdhh llHZh..fy lwqt nfsh yrtf` Swt Tfl blbk `l~ fqd l`bh ..w Swt `shq ybth llyl wlkwn mt`b qlbh ...''DHk m bky ?? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 97d4949 | paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality." -- | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 711935d | 'nt tkhtr lkbry wlw klfk lkthyr, wlm tkn tjd b`ndk `ndn l lmHb@ wltsmH wlkn ldny lyst 'mk wl 'khwtk | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0264510 | lmr'@ lmuHb@ l`b@ f~ yd lrjl | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| b126a15 | Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate. " | Frances Mayes | ||
| 5f66bab | A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass. | Richard Adams | ||
| ea138bd | It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. Do you realize that this is the very path that goes through Mirkwood, and that if you let it, it might take you to the Lonely Mountain or even further and to worse places?" | frodo the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c7bd332 | I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say "I don't take any shit!" and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man .. | americans | William S. Burroughs | |
| fc374e7 | There is a Senate and a Congress who carry on endless sessions discussing garbage disposal and outhouse inspection, the only two questions over which they have jurisdiction. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 3fbdc97 | Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell. | William S. Burroughs |