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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9744f1c | A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| f78cce0 | Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue!" cried Mr. Wonka. "It's such a waste of precious time!" | Roald Dahl | ||
| efe889a | Do you wonder then that this man's behaviour used to puzzle me tremendously? He was an ordinary clergyman at that time as well as being Headmaster, and I would sit in the dim light of the school chapel and listen to him preaching about the Lamb of God and about Mercy and Forgiveness and all the rest of it and my young mind would become totally confused. I knew very well that only the night before this preacher had shown neither Forgiveness .. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 95db1d9 | The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 394e9bb | A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY!" - Danny, the champion of the world." | Roald Dahl | ||
| 8d4d4bc | let your love out | Roald Dahl | ||
| e1ee77c | So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 44234db | The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it. | Jim Trelease | ||
| 47ddc95 | Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 02a8155 | You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 2afa46d | There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 73bb550 | It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 55b65de | I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 70b599f | If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth? | Elie Wiesel | ||
| ccab1bb | You're just a young kid. What are you doin' here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why... bird-doggin' chicks and bangin' beaver. What are ya doin' here, for Christ's sake? What's funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin' but complain about how you can't stand it in this place here and then you haven't got the guts just to walk out! | Ken Kesey | ||
| 1569e9e | Colonel Matterson reading from wrinkled scripture of that long yellow hand: The flag is America. America is the plum. The peach. The watermelon. America is the gumdrop. The pumpkin seed. America is television. Now, the cross is Mexico. Mexico is the walnut. The hazelnut. The acorn. Mexico is the rainbow. The rainbow is wooden. Mexico is wooden. Now, the green sheep is Canada Canada is the fir tree. The wheat field. The calendar. The night .. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 3e74b17 | Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back -- he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low -- that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 1d7cb52 | The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| d5c92d6 | Then--as he was talking--a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do... | Ken Kesey | ||
| edfb87d | Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in" | cafe | Ken Kesey | |
| 4c9a827 | It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them? | wisdom | Ken Kesey | |
| cfadbdf | He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 28cc7b9 | That aunt of mine; boy, she used to wear make-up all week long so terrible thick that - well, she started about Wednesday layering it on, and she never washed, and every day she slapped down a new layer. Until Sunday. Then on Sunday she kind of peeled it off to go to church. *** Boy, she was a case; I used to hope she'd skip a Sunday - sleep through to Monday or something - because I knew two weeks' worth of make-up and she'd set up like a .. | cosmetics humor | Ken Kesey | |
| 94d7653 | No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 332c220 | Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up . . . | Ken Kesey | ||
| f1aa509 | To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| ac8a9ee | You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go... Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous.. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 90c6406 | I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' Bernard began to sing again. Timidly, Leigh-Cheri joined in. Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bfef45e | Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5bb11d1 | we, with our propensity for murder, torture, slavery, rape, cannibalism, pillage, advertising jingles, shag carpets, and golf, how could we be seriously considered as the perfection of a four-billion-year-old grandiose experiment? perhaps as a race, we have evolved as far as we are capable, yet that by no means suggests that evolution has called it quits. in all likelihood, it has something beyond human on the drawing board. we tend to refe.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 7f7f249 | This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5fb6446 | The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4c5c3bd | Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think? Perfectionism is a hustle. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6d047d3 | When we apologize for something we've done, make amends, or change a behavior that doesn't align with our values, guilt--not shame--is most often the driving force. We feel guilty when we hold up something we've done or failed to do against our values and find they don't match up. It's an uncomfortable feeling, but one that's helpful. The psychological discomfort, something similar to cognitive dissonance, is what motivates meaningful chang.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6e3a508 | we can never go back. We can rise up from our failures, screwups, and falls, but we can never go back to where we stood before we were brave or before we fell. Courage transforms the emotional structure of our being. This change often brings a deep sense of loss. During the process of rising, we sometimes find ourselves homesick for a place that no longer exists. We want to go back to that moment before we walked into the arena, but there's.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 27faa15 | When we feel good about the choices we're making and when we're engaging with the world from a place of worthiness rather than scarcity, we feel no need to judge and attack. | Brené Brown | ||
| df1b297 | Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean. | Brené Brown | ||
| d15b564 | Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. | open-mind wisdom | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 4a982d0 | History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| fbebaf8 | Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man? | equality faith government history | Howard Zinn | |
| 16cebc9 | I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. | education educational-enrichment educational-inequity knowledge-acquisition learning | Howard Zinn | |
| 839a240 | if i were rain, that join sky and earth that otherwise never touch, could i join two hearths as well? | Tite Kubo | ||
| 3cb8aad | Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. | wisdom | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 0d3f9bf | Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here. | humor metafiction writing | Roger Zelazny |