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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5238402 | But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack." | John Scalzi | ||
| 4c12bda | It is true, as we are often reminded, that kindness to animals is among the humbler duties of human charity--though for just that reason among the more easily neglected. And it is true that there will always be enough injustice and human suffering in the world to make the wrongs done to animals seem small and secondary. The answer is that justice is not a finite commodity, nor are kindness and love. Where we find wrongs done to animals, it .. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 4df0f52 | He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself). | grumbling heart kind kindheartedness leaf-by-niggle swearing temper | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7fb113e | For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| fb974ae | One of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. | Annie Proulx | ||
| ff75336 | All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 107739a | We're very near a certain point where money doesn't mean anything... They say: How much money is this going to cost? This is really a totally meaningless concept. Money determines less and less our reality. Money is not constant factor, it's simply a process dependent entirely on acceptance for its existence. We already see situations without money, and I think that we're coming closer and closer to it. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 932ba58 | It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often. | Epictetus | ||
| 64bdefe | If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| c9442f7 | He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 84bff6f | It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we're going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| 89877dc | It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa" | dukkha enlightenment four-noble-truths samsara suffering | Lama Surya Das | |
| 50f4a2c | In a world that lives like a fist | Mark Nepo | ||
| 97c479d | Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject of religion altogether if we can." The chaplain was apologetic. "I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God." | public-prayer religion | Joseph Heller | |
| f63484e | He was polite to his elders, who disliked him. Whatever his elders told him to do, he did. They told him to look before he leaped, and he always looked before he leaped. They told him to never put off until the next day what he could do the day before, and he never did. He was told to honor his father and his mother, and he honored his father and his mother. He was told that he should not kill, and he did not kill, until he got into the Arm.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f59e6db | When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering. | Joseph Heller | ||
| d333e12 | That's another thing that pisses me off about that Michelangelo statue of me in Florence. He's got me standing there uncircumcised! Who the fuck did he think I was? | Joseph Heller | ||
| 1c685de | Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. | Joseph Heller | ||
| fc98321 | I get the willies when I see closed doors. | phobias willies | Joseph Heller | |
| 56ca1d7 | Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one? | Joseph Heller | ||
| cffca8d | I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is. | Joseph Heller | ||
| d219208 | He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him, and no one ever said anything. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 6f905e0 | I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to do. | work | Joseph Heller | |
| 1176fc7 | I see everything twice! | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5107abb | But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f52d89a | Captain Flume was obsessed with the idea that Chief White Halfoat would tiptoe up to his cot one night when he was sound asleep and slit his throat open for him from ear to ear. Captain Flume had obtained this idea from Chief White Halfoat himself, who did tiptoe up to his cot one night as he was dozing off, to hiss portentously that one night when he, Captain Flume, was sound asleep he, Chief White Halfoat, was going to slit his throat ope.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5eb06ee | That's a horrible dream!" Major Sanderson cried. "It's filled with pain and mutilation and death. I'm sure you had it just to spite me. You know, I'm not even sure you belong in the Army, with a disgusting dream like that." | Heller Joseph | ||
| 242fba3 | The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 880adda | This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They became supernovas of nothingness that turned into black holes of pathetic shit as they sank in on themselves and disappeared from existance. People like that were not even missed. | sex-lies-murder-fame | Lolita Files | |
| dada7e9 | Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 246b180 | Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity. | Judith Butler | ||
| 385418d | I was asleep when our plane hit the runway, but the jolt brought me instantly awake. I looked out the window and saw the Rocky Mountains. What the fuck was I doing here? I wondered. It made no sense at all. I decided to call my attorney as soon as possible. Have him wire me some money to buy a huge albino Doberman. Denver is a national clearing house for stolen Dobermans; they come from all parts of the country. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 5107401 | Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old people and fleece the weak and helpless. They want to lay in enough cash to weather the known horrors of January and February. There is always a rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of organized perverts w.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 34927fb | There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 5f0045b | Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are. | Scott Adams | ||
| 084bb5b | We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us. | Toni Morrison | ||
| cd0193e | Sula was wrong. Hell ain't things lasting forever. Hell is change." Not only did men leave and children grow up and die, but even the misery didn't last. One day she wouldn't even have that. This very grief that had twisted her into a curve on the floor and flayed her would be gone. She would lose that too. Why, even in hate here I am thinking of what Sula said." | Toni Morrison | ||
| f7a32a2 | Correct what you can; learn from what you can't. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 292cfbd | Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition. | danger emotion planning | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 223e4bb | No matter even if you are cold, I like you better than anybody in the world. One time I said that you were my soul. And that still goes. You're all the things that I see in a sunset when I'm driving in from the country, the things that I like but can't make poetry of. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 433a81f | Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 1d06b85 | They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway. | everything-stuck-to-him family fighting relationships winter | Raymond Carver | |
| bd67998 | In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feeling that it could mean something. Mostly I was glad to find out that I could write at all. In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes .. | motivation writing | Tobias Wolff | |
| 37744d0 | You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home. | Tobias Wolff |