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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8b4709 | I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.' ... We sat there, side by side, on the old wooden bench, not saying anything. I thought about adults. I.. | children growing-up | Neil Gaiman | |
| fd5c933 | Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f8c0a8e | Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e9ba0a3 | I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for one until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f3b64b3 | The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 076c6c7 | When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e256cc2 | The second thing I thought was that I knew everything. Lettie Hempstock's ocean flowed inside me, and it filled the entire universe, from Egg to Rose. I knew that. I knew what Egg was - where the universe began, to the sound of the uncreated voices singing in the void-and I knew where the Rose was -the peculiar crinkling of space on space into dimensions that fold like origami and blossom like strange orchids, and which would mark the last .. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c088a1e | Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt. | life sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 5cf2531 | We all--adults and children, writers and readers--have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0d46846 | It is as natural to die as it is to be born. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a2f47ae | I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| d6da912 | Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| ad732f0 | H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. | barbarism customs law nature self-centered | George Bernard Shaw | |
| ddd6e9a | I have never sneered in my life. Sneering doesn't become either the human face or the human soul. I am expressing my righteous contempt for Commercialism. I don't and wont trade in affection. You call me a brute because you couldn't buy a claim on me by fetching my slippers and finding my spectacles. You were a fool: I think a woman fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight: did I ever fetch your slippers? I think a good deal more of .. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| dfe019c | I firmly believe if you want to be a guitar player, you better start on acoustic and then graduate to electric. Don't think you're going to be Townshend or Hendrix just because you can go wee wee wah wah, and all the electronic tricks of the trade. First you've got to know that fucker. And you go to bed with it. If there's no babe around, you sleep with it. She's just the right shape. | Keith Richards | ||
| b9d1978 | it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors. | opposite | A.S. Byatt | |
| 16308e7 | We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| acafd73 | Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master's sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence. | Robert Greene | ||
| 83472e5 | Your new identity will protect you from the world precisely because it is not "you"; it is a costume you put on and take off. You need not take it personally. And your new identity sets you apart, gives you theatrical presence. Those in the back rows can see you and hear you. Those in the front rows marvel at your audacity." -- | Robert Greene | ||
| e7f1e8b | Learn the lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay. | Robert Greene | ||
| 22c57de | Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C. OBSERVANCE | Robert Greene | ||
| c7ce056 | Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes | Dan Brown | ||
| 8581a89 | Learn to move fast and adapt or you will be eaten. The best way to avoid this fate is to assume formlessness. No predator alive can attack what it cannot see. OBSERVANCE | Robert Greene | ||
| 08c7784 | Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. TACITUS, c. A.D. 55-120 | Robert Greene | ||
| b9e1b31 | Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind--to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touche.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 9a92d34 | It's the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves. | John Sandford | ||
| d682cc4 | None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3390ea9 | What happened next depends on how much you believe. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 937550b | There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c16a370 | Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days | Mitch Albom | ||
| e5ff80c | We cannot stop what Heaven chooses. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f4940b4 | And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c2cac82 | Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9678257 | Time,' the Captain said, 'is not what you think.' He sat down next to Eddie. 'Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning... I figure it's like in the Bible, the Adam and Eve deal...Adam's first night on earth? When he lays down to sleep? He thinks it's all over, right? He doesn't know what sleep is. His eyes are closing and he thinks he's leaving this world, right? Only he isn't. He wa.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7e9932b | Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both. | Mitch Albom | ||
| cc548e1 | Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2dfe412 | I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ac841c4 | The pain you go through in life doesn't really touch you . . . not the real you. . . . You are so much lighter than you think. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2c99307 | Mma Ramotswe thinking about what her father taught her...) "Having the right approach to life was a great gift in this life....Do not complain about your life. Do not blame others for things that you have brought upon yourself. Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself...You can do that in the company of an .. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 99ba7a7 | She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we long to know that we long for them, especially if the longing is impossible, or inappropriate. . . to be loved by the unlovable was not something that most people could cope with. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 52aa7bc | Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... | death england london suburbia | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 1883497 | I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time - look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. Why not give America a spokeswoman who ain't much to look at but is competent as Hell? If accomplishments actually count for women, this ought to be a no-brainer. | underwear women | John Scalzi | |
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