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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f3868a | hw l ydry bqswth mthl lsht | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 2c0ea3f | lshkw~ h~ lG@ lnsn lmshtrk@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5d53f37 | lys kltjrb kshf `n mTw~ lnfws. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 17ba7de | One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today? | Frances Mayes | ||
| 527eb49 | When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning. | euphemism morality reason | Matthew Scully | |
| 709d577 | Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]" | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| a8e926c | These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But you are neither possession nor speech. | Epictetus | ||
| 4812d90 | We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. | Epictetus | ||
| cb5e48f | God save me from fools with a little philosophy--no one is more difficult to reach. | fool philosophy | Epictetus | |
| 4c7f462 | But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 36668fd | The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 4c34c89 | You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. | hate love | Jeannette Walls | |
| c8d9e6a | What doesn't kill you will make you stronger | life parenting | Jeannette Walls | |
| 737bcbe | Don't be afraid of your dark places," Mom told her. "If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 06d4003 | quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots | interpretation | Joseph J. Ellis | |
| a47328c | It was possible that there were other vus of which he had never heard and that one of these other vus would explain succinctly the baffling phenomenon of which he had been both a witness and a part; it was even possible that none of what he thought had taken place, really had taken place, and that he was dealing with an aberration of memory rather than of perception, that he never really had thought he had seen what he now thought he once d.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e112960 | It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 342c525 | Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you | Joseph Heller | ||
| c9a0625 | America is not going to be destroyed " he shouted passionately. "Never?" prodded the old man softly. "Well..." Nately faltered. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f0e2333 | You don't need to see different things, but rather to see things differently. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| df5ab74 | Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 566f2d7 | But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 071d2b8 | What the hell are you getting so upset about?" he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. "I thought you didn't believe in God." "I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be." | faith | Joseph Heller | |
| a7413ba | Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition. Instead, of being liked, he was dead, a bleeding cinder on the barbarous pile whom nobody had heard in those last precious moments while the plane with one wing plummeted. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 365ef31 | All over the world, boys on every side of bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. | Joseph Heller | ||
| a105cb7 | Colonel Cathcart stopped in his tracks. "What atheists?" he bellowed defensively, his whole manner changing in a flash to one of virtuous and belligerent denial. "There are no atheists in my outfit! Atheism is against the law, isn't it?" "No, sir." "It isn't?" The colonel was surprised. "Then it's un-American, isn't it?" "I'm not sure, sir," answered the chaplain. "Well, I am!" the colonel declared. "I'm not going to disrupt our religious s.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| faa28f9 | Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. | Joseph Heller | ||
| ab02eb3 | Of course you're dying. We're all dying. Where the devil else do you think you're heading? | Joseph Heller | ||
| a22ec65 | That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 09b4f38 | I lost my balls! Aarfy, I lost my balls! | Joseph Heller | ||
| 9b5b359 | Chief White Halfoat:] Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a nigger, kike, wop, or spic. | indian racism | Joseph Heller | |
| bc8bccb | That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art... | Joseph Heller | ||
| bf66849 | Last night in the latrine. Didn't you whisper that we couldn't punish you to that other dirty son of a bitch we don't like? What's his name?" "Yossarian, sir," Lieutenant Scheisskopf said. "Yes, Yossarian. That's right. Yossarian. Yossarian? Is that his name? Yossarian? What the hell kind of a name is Yossarian?" Lieutenant Scheisskopf had the facts at his finger tips. "It's Yossarian's name, sir," he explained." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 0e182e7 | There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally fewer people inside the hospital who were seriously sick. There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate. Few people died unnecessarily. People knew a lot more about dying inside the hospital and made a much neater job of it. They couldn't domi.. | disease health hospital war | Joseph Heller | |
| ab31719 | I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f232ace | Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back. | reality television | Michael Crichton | |
| dbac944 | We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 20b2687 | Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c4e65c2 | The ultimate lesson is that science isn't special - at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were only a few dozen important workers in every field. But there are now three million researchers in America. It's no longer a calling, it's a career. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren't saints, they're human beings, and they do what human beings do - lie, cheat, s.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 3fd56d6 | laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived. | Judith Butler | ||
| 58161f1 | October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends .. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 478c765 | But I thought we might get naked, just like Adam and Eve, so natural..." I gasped. I'd forgotten all about that part of my conversation with Scott! Utter humiliation. I curled into a tighter ball. "Oh, come on. You haven't even thanked me yet." "For what?" I asked, still not looking. "For saving you from snogging that plonker. You didn't really fancy him, did you?" My cheeks burned, and I was glad to be turned away from him. I kept my mouth.. | Wendy Higgins | ||
| cc50470 | it is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing. | Scott Adams | ||
| b04c856 | The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends. | Scott Adams |