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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 38eb594 | It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 89f59dc | His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and d.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| aa0511b | Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, | Joseph Heller | ||
| 383761c | Help!' he shrieked shrilly in a voice strangling in its own emotion, as the policemen carried him to the open doors in the rear of the ambulance and threw him inside. 'Police! Help! Police!' The doors were shut and bolted, and the ambulance raced away. There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him. Yossarian smiled wryly at the futile and ridiculous cry for.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 4b41a31 | Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. | Joseph Heller | ||
| fff2d60 | I'm cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I'm cold.' 'You're going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You're going to be all right.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there. There, there. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 34dd44e | The colonel dwelt in a vortex of specialists who were still specializing in trying to determine what was troubling him. They hurled lights in his eyes to see if he could see, rammed needles into nerves to hear if he could feel. There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystol.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c23b5e4 | Because it's better to die on one's feet that+n live on one's knees," Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty convivtion. "I guess you've heard that saying before." "Yes, I certainly have," mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. "But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees." | Joseph Heller | ||
| afbb7f0 | Yossarian - the very sight of the name made Colonel Cathcart shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word "subversive" itself. It was like "seditious" and "insidious" too, and like "socialist," "suspicious," "fascist" and "Communist." It was an odious, alien, distasteful name, a name that just did not inspire confidence." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 6b79eb5 | They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?" | joseph-heller | Joseph Heller | |
| 431ae4a | I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain. | azar nafisi | ||
| 41ed9bc | You would think that people who had experienced injustice would be loath to inflict it on others, and yet they do so with alacrity. The victims become victimizers with a chilling righteousness. This is the nature of fanaticism, to attract and provoke extremes of behavior. And this is why fanatics are all the same, whatever specific form their fanaticism takes. | religion | Michael Crichton | |
| d87951c | When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately? | Michael Crichton | ||
| 2753ef5 | But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 8fe0407 | Comprendre... Vous n'avez que ce mot-la a la bouche, tous, depuis que je suis toute petite. Il fallait comprendre qu'on ne peut pas toucher a l'eau, a la belle eau fuyante et froide parce que cela mouille les dalles, a la terre parce que cela tache les robes. Il fallait comprendre qu'on ne doit pas manger tout a la fois, donner tout ce qu'on a dans ses poches au mendiant qu'on rencontre, courir, courir dans le vent jusqu'a ce qu'on tombe pa.. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| fca179b | One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured firepower demonstration, which occured one Sunday morning about three-thirty. For reasons that were never made clear, I blew out my back windows with five blasts of a 12 gauge shotgun, followed moments later by six rounds from a .44 Magnum. It was a prolonged outburst of heavy firing, drunken laughter, and crashing glass. Yet the neighbors re.. | hunter-s-thompson | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 5d14306 | Reality itself is too twisted. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| f2138b8 | The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong. | Scott Adams | ||
| d38757b | The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere. | Susan Cooper | ||
| fb15058 | Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me. | Toni Morrison | ||
| af1e911 | You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Hagar, don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 0c18b29 | I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean a thing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 1194be0 | Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For the first time he honestly wished he could work miracles. | racism | Toni Morrison | |
| 4b7cde8 | Why are you so afraid of the word 'Fascism,' Doremus? Just a word--just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours--not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini--like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days--and have 'em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. 'Nother words, have a doctor who won't take any.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 5659844 | So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. | patience | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 805d64c | Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on something. I respect that kind of care for what is being done. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they.. | advice language on-writing words writing | Raymond Carver | |
| 08a3667 | She won't give him back his look. | Raymond Carver | ||
| f35c66d | The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. | apathy auschewitz evil genocide good hitler hollow holocaust indifference rwanda sentiment south-sudan sudan talk tolerance west | Philip Gourevitch | |
| 67f226f | Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. | Alice Walker | ||
| d3ab065 | Facts always are sensational. | Saul Bellow | ||
| c78e117 | Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future! | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 85dd6ff | I hadn't slept for seven nights. My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, luminous course of the second hand and the minute hand and the hour hand of the bedside clock through their circles and semi-circles, every night for seven nights, without missing a second, or a minute, or an hour. The reason I hadn't washed my clo.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 150c0ea | I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| e8c83df | There is more than one good way to drown. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d288858 | I know what you're thinking. 'How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,' right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top 100 Literary Classics,' not to mention every Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath or Bronte sisters' book ever written. And fuck you very much for judging me, by the way. | high-school humor issues new-adult sexual-abuse slut-shaming teen | Isobel Irons | |
| dd31494 | What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Yet I am not a cretin: lame, blind and .. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9dc3464 | Shut up in public those bloody private wounds. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| a7c28bf | I was here on earth because I chose to be. | John Cheever | ||
| b826b2c | It's important, no doubt, to understand the person we love. If we cannot manage this, it's necessary, at least, to believe we understand them. I must confess that over the entire eight years I only rarely enjoyed the contentment of the second possibility, let alone the first. | understanding-others | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 8eaf84d | lsh`ru shqyq lrsm , w llwn shqyq lklm@ . | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 4e3d740 | I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 2981a8b | We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301). | travel-writing wandering | Jack Kerouac | |
| 707b431 | Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 2207530 | A man who has grown up in an orphanage cannot take a dog to the pound. Even if it is a Chihuahua. | Karin Slaughter |