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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ecf96f | klm `tqdt 'nk t`rf jwb lsw'l , tktshf 'n lsw'l l m`n~ lh | Paul Auster | ||
| 00c149c | Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in. | Paul Auster | ||
| 6fea211 | And don't worry." Bob, Carter's best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. "I've got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line." "You're a treasure, Bob." She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh." | Nora Roberts | ||
| ad18842 | It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket. | agreement amon-byrne averill bayar han-alister | Cinda Williams Chima | |
| f9e5bc2 | To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror. | mortality | Frank Herbert | |
| 20d33de | A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful. | popularity | Frank Herbert | |
| 3cc45c3 | Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7ebf61c | I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 3ca28e3 | Howard Roark built a temple to the human spirit. He saw man as strong, proud, clean, wise and fearless. He saw man as a heroic being. And he built a temple to that. A temple is a place where man is to experience exaltation. He thought that exaltation comes from the consciousness of being guiltless, of seeing the truth and achieving it, of living up to one's highest possibility, of knowing no shame and having no cause for shame, of being abl.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 145ddc3 | I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. | freedom-of-thought | Ayn Rand | |
| 0c64099 | Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes." | Ayn Rand | ||
| bd20373 | Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 8a7b630 | Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 13ce4ea | The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. | responsibility | Ayn Rand | |
| a590721 | She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought- and never worried about it again. | Ayn Rand | ||
| bd398ef | We are on strike against martyrdom--and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours--and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others. | ayn-rand individualism objectivism rational-egoism | Ayn Rand | |
| 434b07c | She sat at the window of the train....The window frame trembled with the speed of the motion, the pane hung over empty darkness, and dots of light slashed across the glass as luminous streaks, once in a while...She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up...It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6565fb9 | Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence... | Ayn Rand | ||
| 9062c46 | This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark. | Billy Collins | ||
| 70c5736 | The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor | Billy Collins | ||
| 1589988 | admh fkhr mykhnnd zdstddn ykh `zyz mthl trkh khrdn sygr st. rwz wWl khyly skht st. rwz b`d skhty khmtr myshwd w bh tdryj z byn myrwd w hrchh khh mygdhrd tHmWlsh asntr w asntr myshwd. mW mn mygwym mthl abnkhwrdn st. hrrwz byshtr mtwjWh zdstrftn `zyzt myshwy>> | Anne Tyler | ||
| dc16a79 | A police state is a country run by criminals | Robert Harris | ||
| 17ea9a6 | I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 60f2b66 | I seen it over an' over--a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c8ab4f1 | The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 181bff7 | A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 794b00c | When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. | travel-writing | John Steinbeck | |
| a43c2cc | Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 39f5bca | All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 37f86d8 | Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ca1b0ac | To win the game was to leave it. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 926a20c | So, you're hitting on Clare the Fair." "I'm not hitting on her. I'm exploring the possibility of seeing her on social terms." "He's hitting on her," Owen said around a mouthful of chips. "You've still got that thing you had for her back in high school. Are you still writing bad song lyrics about heartbreak?" "Suck me. And they weren't that bad." "Yeah, they were," Ryder disagreed. "But at least now we don't have to listen to you playing you.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| f1f831d | Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised." | Nora Roberts | ||
| e454fb4 | When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There's nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again. | Nora Roberts | ||
| ad03441 | She forced herself to...turn and face him. It was easier with the width of the room between them. "I wanted to be able to take this relationship at face value, to enjoy it for what it was.... And I wanted to be sure I could walk away when it was over, completely unscathed. The problem is I can't. When you walked in this morning, all I could think was how much I'd wanted to see you, how much I'd missed you, how unhappy I'd because we were an.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a954531 | A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it." | Nora Roberts | ||
| ea3fa2a | Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 0b164d1 | Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 564f432 | I'm messing this up. I love you. I should've started with that. I swear I trip up more with you than anybody. I love you, Clare. I always did, but it's different loving who you are now. It's so damn solid. You're so solid, so steady, strong, smart. I love who you are, how you are. I love those boys, you have to know. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 9bbd932 | it is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of god. | dan brown | ||
| 33b15c2 | Ich meine, die Bibel hat doch alle Ingredienzien eines Dan-Brown-Bestsellers. Volkermord, Inzest, Vergewaltigung und irgendwas Abgefahrenes mit Religion. | satire satirisch | Marc-Uwe Kling | |
| 5fde78b | Circumstances shape who we are and who we become. I believe that. But I also believe we have choices. There are always choices. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 1a9f7b9 | He reaches over for my hand. Holds it there, on my leg. My heart skips a beat, and I gave his hand a little squeeze as I put all of my carefully selected words away. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 0b540d7 | And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face. Having a ghost boyfriend WAS weird | simile | Lisa Schroeder |