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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e364051 | The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her. | death existentialism | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 18f45fb | Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. | inspirational women-s-rights | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| daa5abb | Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice | children poetry | Maurice Sendak | |
| d48ac74 | There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b99218b | Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll still be the worst single president they've ever had until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you...You don't get to make a differen.. | presidency | Neil Gaiman | |
| a8dda88 | They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it? | lucifer | Neil Gaiman | |
| 9438ab1 | Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. "If you want your children to be intelligent," he said, "read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 119dc10 | The Priestess Her skin was pale, and her eyes were dark, and her hair was dyed black. She went on a daytime talk show and proclaimed herself a vampire queen. She showed the cameras her dentally crafted fangs, and brought on ex-lovers who, in various stages of embarrassment, admitted that she had drawn their blood, and that she drank it. "You can be seen in a mirror, though?" asked the talk show hostess. She was the richest woman in America,.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0e6e3f9 | None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you -- even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football te.. | neil-gaiman religion | Neil Gaiman | |
| 72db546 | Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b807d60 | But that's how it goes; you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you. | humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2a8e036 | We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. We have an obligation to use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside. We have an obligation to use the.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 04e3818 | It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that, one day, worn out from the sheer effort of moving and living, he had stretched out on the plain and fallen into a sleep so profound that centuries passed between heartbeats. | giants sleep | Neil Gaiman | |
| d7125a5 | Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it. | organizing | Neil Gaiman | |
| c34d49c | When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9c3455b | Remember your name. Do not lose hope --- what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e199b5a | What do I do now?" "I don't know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 65940e0 | Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. | Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9915737 | I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves. | ideas | Neil Gaiman | |
| 9372660 | You grow up readings about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and just when you think the world's all full of amazing things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hanging about millions of years. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9566ce3 | Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds. | stories | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8eb2288 | What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true." | humor the-them | Neil Gaiman | |
| 7894922 | You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0538740 | Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 5b01075 | Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 38d162b | Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce | Lorrie Moore | ||
| bc9e10a | If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| a895f42 | Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 1730f5a | And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues. | Keith Richards | ||
| 68e4125 | Behind all of the "I can'ts" are merely "I won'ts." The "I won'ts" mean "I am afraid to" or "I am ashamed to" or "I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail." Behind that is anger at ourselves and circumstances engendered by pride. Acknowledging and letting go of these feelings brings us up to courage and, with that, finally acceptance and an inner peacefulness, at least as it regards the area which has been surmounted. Apathy and .. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 3a664ce | we hang on to pain. It certainly satisfies our unconscious need for the alleviation of guilt through punishment. We get to feel miserable and rotten. The question then arises, "But for how long?" | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 7b82323 | We need you to go out there and cover for us while we search for whoever's bugging us," Amy said. "Whoever it is, he or she is probably nearby." "All you have to do is keep talking. We've thought a lot about this, and we think you have the necessary skills," Dan said. "Very funny, Dan-o. But true. When it comes to nonstop chat, I'm the champ," Nellie agreed. Nellie turned off the shower and they all returned to the main room. "That pool is .. | nellie | Jude Watson | |
| 409cec0 | Things had changed between them nevertheless. They were children of a time and culture which mistrusted love, 'in love', romantic love, romance , and which nevertheless in revenge proliferated sexual language, linguistic sexuality, analysis, dissection, deconstruction, exposure. They were theoretically knowing: they knew about phallocracy and penisneid, punctuation, puncturing and penetration, about polymorphous and polysemous perversity, .. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| d963a71 | Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) | personality | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| 7851b8e | We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 9bc7939 | Becoming the observer (step back) you begin to live in process, trusting where our source is taking you. You begin to detach from the outcome. That detachment allows you to stop fighting and allows things to just come to you; you no longer make things happen but allow them to show up. The fight is gone! | outcome process | Wayne W. Dyer | |
| 02271a3 | Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 1f6a672 | Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion known to man, something deeply inscribed in our nervous system and subconscious. Over time, however, something strange began to happen. The actual terrors that we faced began to lessen in intensity as we gained increasing control over our environment. But instead of our fears lessening a well, they began to multiply in number. We started to worry about our status in society- whether people liked us, .. | Robert Greene | ||
| c703be1 | A bold act requires a high degree of confidence. People who are the targets of an audacious act, or who witness it, cannot help but believe that such confidence is real and justified. They respond instinctively by backing up, by getting out of the way, or by following the confident person. A bold act can put people on their heels and eliminate obstacles. In this way, it creates its own favorable circumstances. | Robert Greene | ||
| 6392170 | There are many paths to mastery, and if you are persistent you will certainly find one that suits you. But a key component in the process is determining your mental and psychological strengths and working with them. To rise to the level of mastery requires many hours of dedicated focus and practice. You cannot get there if your work brings you no joy and you are constantly struggling to overcome your own weaknesses. | weaknesses working-with-your-strengths | Robert Greene | |
| f73d152 | Somewhere along the line, it occurred to him that he hadn't spoken to Virgil Flowers. He'd probably taken the day off, and knowing Flowers, he'd done it in a boat. The thing about Flowers was, in Lucas's humble opinion, you could send him out for a loaf of bread and he'd find an illegal bread cartel smuggling in heroin-saturated wheat from Afghanistan. Either that, or he'd be fishing in a muskie tournament, on government time. You had to ke.. | John Sandford | ||
| 1462042 | I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: "But who will guard these bandits?" he answered: "Worse bandits." | Henri Charrière | ||
| b49d212 | Sometimes when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9986958 | Dor shook his head. "The phrase. What does it mean?" Sarah wondered if he was kidding. "Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you're saying goodbye and it's like no time passed at all?" His eyes drifted. He liked it. "Time flies." "With you," she added." | Mitch Albom |