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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f875c54 | An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7a70fbc | That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself. | lie | Jodi Picoult | |
| 2e56034 | We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical | life | Charles Frazier | |
| 81a1460 | Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. | Charles Frazier | ||
| d8b9486 | If ye have to ask yourself if you're in love, laddie--then ye aren't, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| da06be0 | Ye're mine, Sassenach. And I would do anything I thought I must to make that clear. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e5b07aa | No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object. | dies soul suffering | Diana Gabaldon | |
| e523c41 | If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1e8f39c | We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't. | kill | William Faulkner | |
| d34587c | no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were... | William Faulkner | ||
| 1bd69c7 | But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again. | william-faulkner | William Faulkner | |
| f455775 | The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn't really love that bank-account nearly as much as foreigners like to think because he will spend almost any or all of it for almost anything provided it is valueless enough) but his motor-car. Because the automobile has become our national sex symbol. We cannot really enjoy anything unless we can go .. | cars love sex | William Faulkner | |
| a2482a9 | For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating.. | William Faulkner | ||
| 7a66029 | He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every p.. | James Joyce | ||
| 436d09d | et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.) | Ovid | ||
| 47ef28d | I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. | space time | James Joyce | |
| aa8275a | In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? | James Joyce | ||
| 35dcd74 | To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. A wild angel appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on! | James Joyce | ||
| 7e382e2 | I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| baf11d7 | All I wanted was humor and wisdom. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| faebe56 | Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to --.. | civilization growth human-condition humanity rebellion revolution society | Wallace Stegner | |
| e17a18c | Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . | inspirational wilderness | Wallace Stegner | |
| 3f9cee8 | If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped m.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 917f3d1 | No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. | time | Wallace Stegner | |
| 577d25b | Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn an man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else -- pathway to the stars,.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 790f5c4 | There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memor.. | funny humor humour | Roald Dahl | |
| 2e5875d | I can't do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can't fix your stuttering. I can't wipe the razorblade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can't give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 7796e14 | Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; | love | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 97f5a07 | I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a044d9a | Children inherit their parents' madness. | humor truth | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| e9cd490 | For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0b1f5c6 | Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9bcc114 | Descubri que mi obsesion de que cada cosa estuviera en su puesto, cada asunto en su tiempo, cada palabra en su estilo, no era el premio merecido de una mente en orden, sino al contrario, todo un sistema de simulacion inventado por mi para ocultar el desorden de mi naturaleza. Descubri que no soy disciplinado por virtud, sino como reaccion contra mi negligencia; que parezco generoso por encubrir mi mezquindad, que me paso de prudente por mal.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a1abeaf | People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 18e80b8 | The most important thing is love," said Leigh-Cheri. "I know that now. There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon." Leigh-Cheri sent that message to Bernard through his attorney. The message continued, "I'm not quite 20, but, thanks to you, I've learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are nev.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6ad79b5 | That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence. | imagination mind psychology | Tom Robbins | |
| 594d6a1 | The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. | ignorance tyranny | Tom Robbins | |
| f577f2f | Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else. | foolishness wisdom | Tom Robbins | |
| 2fbac7c | Live the beauty or your own reality. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bf00186 | Connection is why we're here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. | Brené Brown | ||
| 4d54d81 | Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are. | Brené Brown | ||
| 1a01cdf | Even in the context of suffering--poverty, violence, human rights violations--not belonging in our families is still one of the most dangerous hurts. That's because it has the power to break our heart, our spirit, and our sense of self-worth. It broke all three for me. And when those things break, there are only three outcomes, something I've borne witness to in my life and in my work: 1. You live in constant pain and seek relief by numbing.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 182fb28 | Hope is really a thought. | Brené Brown | ||
| 47dd7a8 | Grace will take you places hustling can't. | Brené Brown |