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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 224e6c6 | teasing is arousal without the promise of release! | Ali Vali | ||
| 040ccdc | It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it. | new-york postmodern power | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 9bfa0cf | In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple. | judgment penance responsibility self-determination | Ellis Peters | |
| 00d07d1 | You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me. | Brenda Novak | ||
| a211029 | But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. | love | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 1a7e699 | These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn't be human. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 2df4383 | The world is a giant eye, staring back at the stars. When it tires, it closes its lids--just as I am doing now--and gives way to dreams, which is why the night is so much more mysterious than the day. | night | Sean Stewart | |
| a54a99e | For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime. But then had come.. | humility nature sublime technology wonder | Alain de Botton | |
| 9785897 | To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. | newspapers reading | Alain de Botton | |
| c869e44 | We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. | anxiety desire happiness materialism possessions self-knowledge status | Alain de Botton | |
| aa4593c | Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance. | Alain de Botton | ||
| d29eb27 | At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums? | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0f754ea | He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. | Edith Hamilton | ||
| 09502cb | If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 505f3a5 | it would be false to say that because we're on the side of justice, we can go ahead and destroy our opponents and the world will be at peace. [...] Now, I know that there are such things as good and evil in the world, and that people do good things. But people who do good things are not necessarily good people, they just happen to be people who have done good things. The next instant they might wind up doing something bad, and if we don't t.. | human-nature | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| 50c5834 | first don't panic, second don't panic and third DID I MENTCHIN NOT TO PANIC?! | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| f21746f | I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 487e98b | Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want." | Emily Giffin | ||
| 146da9f | Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like. | life marriage relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| 7db378a | How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? | power | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 56028f0 | But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, | school | William Blake | |
| 0ca85ef | me doy cuenta de que por lo general la muerte es un proceso, mas que un suceso. Generalmente la gente se muere poco a poco, acumulativamente. Se pudren lentamente en residencias u hospitales, o sitios como este | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 373fecc | Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| bdaa334 | I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs. | tax trainspotting usa | Irvine Welsh | |
| 99cd747 | Analysing novels meant ripping oot their soul and it destroyed my enjoyment of them. Ah couldnae allow masel tae be trained tae thing that way. Only by refusing tae study literature was ah able tae maintain ma passion for it. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 4c52478 | Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboot. Ken Billy, ma brar, likes? He's jist signed up tae go back intae the fuckin army. He's gaun tae fucking Belfast, the stupid cunt. Ah always knew that the fucker wis tapped. Fuckin imperialist lackey. Ken whit the daft cunt turned roond n sais tae us? He goes: Ah cannae fuckin stick civvy street. Bein in the army, it's like being a junky. The only diff.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ba5fc38 | Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd witnessed it within my own community and decided that it was something I wanted to be part of, I smile. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 66eb00c | As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f98b4c2 | Everytime ye go to jail, the probability ay ye ever becoming free fae that kind of life decreases. It's the same every time ye go back tae smack. Ye decrease yir chances of ay ever bein able tae dae withoot it. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 3104f8b | How did it make you feel? | past reflection | Irvine Welsh | |
| 0686216 | Ye see, Rab, it's due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our soul is located anywhere in our bodies, it's up our arses. That's where it all goes. It makes sense. That's why we're obsessed with anal jokes, anal sex, anal hobbies... the arsehole - not the brain, not space - is the last frontier. That's what makes us revolutionaries. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 4a44878 | It's a bad one, man. Ah sit thaire jist likes, stunned; feeling aw raw n hollowed oot fae the inside. It's like whin you've been knocked back by a bird ye fancy, no thit that's happened tae me for a long time bein wi Ali likes but, like ye've been intae a lassie for ages, n ye sort go, eh, awright, what aboot, likesay, you n me, likes, eh ... n she goes: naw. No way. Fuck off. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 46fe492 | A surge ay euphoria comes ower me as ah clock that nippy wee cockney cunt, Nicksy; he's on the baw, giein it loads, mouthing off, so ah steam in wi a dirty two-fitted tackle on him. 'Take that, ya English bastard! | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f15d728 | She's so fucking beautiful it don't bear thinking about. I could hardly keep my eyes on the fucking road. I sort of felt like I was wasting time whenever I wasn't looking at her face. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f733b2d | They filed out into the cold night at closing time, heading for Begbie's place with a carry-out. They'd already spent twelve hours drinking and pontificating about Matty's life and his motivations. In truth, the more reflective of them realised, all their insights pooled and processed, did little to illuminate the cruel puzzle of it all. They were no wiser now than at the start. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 1bbc405 | No pasa nada..., se pondra bien..., saben lo que hacen..., se pondra bien.>> Y se que no es cierto, pero abrazo a Janey y pienso en lo mucho que puede llegar a cambiar una vida en lo que tarda uno en meterse un pico. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 8b36cfd | History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith. | parenting | Irvine Welsh | |
| 264303f | Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye found a dealer whae didnae use. We called Johnny 'Mother Superior' because ay the length ay time he'd hud his habit. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 24d5974 | but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f2a417e | Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ac1c8ce | Basari ve basarisizlik arzunun tatmin edilmesi ya da icinde kalmasi anlamina gelir. Arzu ya kisisel durtulerimize bagli olarak baskin bir bicimde icseldir, ya da esasen reklamlarla veya medyanin ve populer kulturun sundugu rol modelleriyle uyarilmis bir bicimde, dissal. Tom benim basari ve basarisizlik kavramlarimin toplumsal duzeyden cok kisisel duzeyde gecerli oldugu gorusunde. Toplumsal odulu kabul etmedigim icin basari (ve basarisizlik).. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| e9c8193 | Yo me hago dano y me saboteo a mi mismo para no hacer dano a nadie que no se lo merezca. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| bfa9827 | we need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked over. Because we're men? No. Because we're consumers. Because those are things we like, things we intrinsically feel or have been conned into believing will give us value, release satisfaction. We value them so we need to at least have the illusion of their availability. For tits and arse read coke, crisps, speedboats, cars, houses, computers, des.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 3947916 | But I really thought that me and her had something. Then I thought about how a lot of people, black and white don't like the idea of a white geezer and a black bird getting it on. One day it won't matter a fuck, we'll all be coffee-coloured with a tint of yellow. Till then we got a load of grief tae get through. | Irvine Welsh |