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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4cab83c | For better or worse, every decision we make, good or bad, small or large, puts us on a course to nightmares we don't see coming until they're in our face. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 307b35f | Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . . " -- | Elizabeth George | ||
| d707759 | Good, better, best Never let it rest, | Thomas Hardy | ||
| f971c62 | Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?' 'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel. | far-from-the-madding-crowd gabriel-oak rivals thomas-hardy unrequited-love | Thomas Hardy | |
| 399b6bf | I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 14a5877 | I am so far removed, from everything, that I can't even cry. There's a chasm between me, where I am, and the world I am in. The world I move my feet through. The atmosphere I breathe is like golden syrup, twenty-seven atmospheres thick. I'm wading through the world, consumed with ... consumed. And I'm wading through the swamp that my body has become. | Luke Davies | ||
| d26b0cb | It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language--some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d0dd534 | Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 2eed001 | The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves. We are intermittent creatures, always falling to little ends and rising to new beginnings. Our soon-tired consciousness is meted out in chapters, and that the world will look quite different tomorrow is, both for our co.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| efe7466 | You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people. | Andy Warhol | ||
| d4dfafb | The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better. | Andy Warhol | ||
| 32a5a61 | A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't. Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur. | relativism | Roger Scruton | |
| 0de01bd | Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 26020ec | It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the harbor, with something written on it about "Give me your hungry...your oppressed...give me pretty much everybody"-that's the way I remember it, anyway. The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn't it? Who the hell America if not everybody else? We are-and be-a big, messy, anarchistic polyglot of dialects and accents and different skin tone.. | pluralism tolernace | Anthony Bourdain | |
| d99f96a | If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing others, she's acting like a man. And if she acts like a man, people dislike her. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f7682d1 | grounded hope"--the understanding that if you take action you can make things better." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 6f08e03 | And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym? | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 31ec321 | I see now that there is a great deal in what Aunt Almeria says. She considers that there are terrible pitfalls in Society." Sir Richard shook his head sadly. "Alas, too true!" "And vice," said Pen awfully. "Profligacy, and extravagance, you know." "I know." She picked up her knife and fork again. "It must be very exciting," she said enviously." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 438e183 | Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since!" "How odd!Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it!" "There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it!" | humour regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| 88b236a | I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!" | patience | Georgette Heyer | |
| 3f3c1e0 | Wonderful!" said the Duke. "We progress!" "We...? Progress? You said we? Progress?" "It seems I erred," Avon sighed. "We remain at the same place." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| cddcf97 | My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ff94b8f | Have you any brothers?" demanded Mr. Beaumaris. "No," said Mr. Scunthorpe, blinking at him. "Only child." "You relieve my mind. Offer my congratulations to your parents!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 43193b5 | Queer creatures, females," mused Mr. Standen, shaking his head. "Fellow's only got to be a rake to have 'em all dangling after him. Silly, really, because it stands to reason---- Well never mind that!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 636e386 | Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| dee7296 | Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and Miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch! | humour | Georgette Heyer | |
| 9df04bb | With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me. | heaven hope | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 0610604 | There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| e859c40 | I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit. | horror humor | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 95c4c9d | A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain - a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space .... Therefore we must judge a.. | fantastic fantasy horror supernatural weird | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| a977a99 | Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 5fa0f12 | What is remarkable is that there are no traces of evolution from simple to sophisticated, and the same is true of mathematics, medicine, astronomy and architecture and of Egypt's amazingly rich and convoluted religio-mythological system (even the central content of such refined works as the Book of the Dead existed right at the start of the dynastic period). 7 The majority of Egyptologists will not consider the implications of Egypt's early.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| a8d59d2 | I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 8761756 | The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doin.. | contrarian rum-tum-tugger | T.S. Eliot | |
| 372d9a5 | Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession. Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives And more - I am tempted to say, ninety-nine; And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives And the village is proud of him in his decline. At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy, When he sits in the sun on the vicara.. | cats old-deuteronomy village-life | T.S. Eliot | |
| 5a71321 | Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| c49c385 | All cases are unique, and very similar to others. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| b57febb | Datta, dayadhvam, damyata (Give, sympathize, control) | T.S. Eliot | ||
| cb9d663 | Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. | death poetry | T.S. Eliot | |
| f8abb31 | The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body healthy. It should make its tranquillity and gladness shine out from within; should form in its own mold the outward demeanor, and consequently arm it with a graceful pride, an active and joyous bearing, and a contented and good-natured countenance. The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| e65dfe6 | In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men." | Desmond Morris | ||
| b649016 | It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had .. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 587efac | I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble. | Amy Hempel | ||
| ddaf0c3 | Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. | Amy Hempel |