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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da21f2f | Do you wonder where poetry come from? Where do we get the songs we sing and the tales we tell? Do you ever ask yourself how it is that some people can dream great, wise, beautiful dreams and pass those dreams on as poetry to the world, to be sung and retold as long as the moon will wax and wane? Have you ever wondered why some people make beautiful songs and poems and tales, and some of us do not? It is a long story, and it does no credit t.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8e45a22 | I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely bring a dream back as a tale: it will have transformed from gold into leaves. from silk to cobwebs, on waking | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8401912 | Take what you have learned, and move on. | sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 3fb7c6c | That is how the worlds will end, in ash and flood, in darkness and in ice. That is the final destiny of the gods. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 593cbf2 | For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things. | lasting-love love-illusions | Lorrie Moore | |
| 86f38e8 | We are all savages | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 4cf862d | Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true. | reality | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 1084ff0 | No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| d19bda3 | There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and .. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| b76e170 | Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven. | eternity heaven | George Bernard Shaw | |
| f917572 | I remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted in five states." "Great," Amy groaned. "I sent you to a tutorial with a crook." "It got us in here, didn't it?" "I guess I'm grateful to him, then," Amy said doubtfully. "Don't be," Dan said. "The first lock I opened was on your diary. Don't worry, I read two pages and fell asleep." | Jude Watson | ||
| 306ee76 | There's something wrong with the brakes." He didn't recognize his shaky, weak voice. He pumped them again. Nothing. "There's something wrong with the BRAKES?" "I don't think we have any." "We don't have any BRAKES?" "Bro, it doesn't help to repeat everything I say!" Jonah yelled." | Jude Watson | ||
| 9541d06 | Just then he noticed that Amy had that look, as though she wanted the street to buckle and split so she could fall right in. Dan saw the cool crowd from her school hanging at a table in the front. So was why she didn't want to go in. Evan Tolliver was at the head of the table. Dan sighed. Even, the human supercomputer, was Amy's dream crush. Whenever Evan was near, she got her stutter back. "Oh, excuse me, I didn't notice Luke Skywalker,.. | dan-cahill evan-tolliver the39clues | Jude Watson | |
| ec29e4d | Never appear overly greedy for attention, then, for it signals insecurity, and insecurity drives power away. Understand that there are times when it is not in your interest to be the center of attention. When in the presence of a king or queen, for instance, or the equivalent thereof, bow and retreat to the shadows; never compete. | Robert Greene | ||
| ce0217c | When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you. | Robert Greene | ||
| 47a61a8 | You must be the mirror, training your mind to try to see yourself as others see you. | Robert Greene | ||
| 2fb99f5 | Uh-oh! BEWARE!!!" said Fensler. "Never, ever marry the best sex of your life. It only happens with someone who is very dangerous for you. It's passionate, exciting, but it generally indicates that you are pushing each other's dysfunctional buttons. Be very wary of men you are crazily sexually attracted to-they're the dangerous ones for you. That's what all analysis says in one form or another." | Plum Sykes | ||
| 692b3e6 | People don't die because of loyalty." They don't?" She smiled. "Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?" Eddie shrugged. Better," she said, "to be loyal to one another." -- | Mitch Albom | ||
| 92e8a6c | All parents damage their children. IT cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. The damage done by Eddie's father was, at the beginning, the damage of neglect... All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence. And now, someplace beoynd death, Edd.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 02414f7 | You don't miss things. You miss people. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2302ab5 | Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1c7c352 | We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And Just as shadows die when light changes, the sadness can depart once we see the truth." "What's the truth?" Annie asked. "That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you." The old woman smiled. "And the world is so full of need." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4674b3c | If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. | Mitch Albom | ||
| eeb198b | Don't get too attached to anything. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 17a65e5 | He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ab5e87f | People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f0c13e1 | As children grow, they gravitate to their fates. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 75d5d09 | You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance--to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it. I can only say that some of my saddest sounds have been heard in such places. A song inside a cage is never a.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 71a20bb | You want more?" she asked a bit breathlessly. "Even after what we did?" | romance romantica | Emma Holly | |
| da0bffb | I despise you and I love you, you who are my damnation and salvation both. | John Scalzi | ||
| 1f88670 | 'n ljrym@ lty tflt mn l`qb tkrs lthm byn lns wtz`z` lthq@ fy l`dl@ llhy@ wtmhd lrtkb lmzyd mn ljry'm | justice | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| efd992b | If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole. | Richard Adams | ||
| 5f7111b | The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty. | Matthew Scully | ||
| a95c32f | If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an .. | gluttony morality reason taste | Matthew Scully | |
| 9710c3d | Real gold fears no fire. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5f0145f | It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. | fantasy | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 475ae60 | Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Gloin! | parting | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a014744 | Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. | Annie Proulx | ||
| ab61206 | You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country--indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky--provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like a deep note that cannot be heard but i.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| c23e625 | Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face. | society | William S. Burroughs | |
| 7faa1d7 | The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as "Do not lie." Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, "How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?" Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second be.. | morality philosophy proof stoic stoicism | Epictetus | |
| b9723a1 | There is no remedy against this reversal of the natural order. Man cannot escape from his own achievement. He cannot but adopt the conditions of his own life. No longer in a merely physical universe, man lives in a symbolic universe. Language, myth, art, and religion are parts of this universe. They are the varied threads which weave the symbolic net, the tangled web of human experience. All human progress in thought and experience refines .. | mediation symbol | Ernst Cassirer | |
| 92a6ec9 | You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him." -- | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 024c306 | My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still. | Sebastian Faulks |