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| 3a16819 | How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Ale.. | Norton Juster | ||
| ab4f63a | You see," he continued, beginning to feel better, "once there was no time at all, and people found it very inconvenient. They never knew wether they were eating lunch or dinner, and they were always missing trains. So time was invented to help them keep track of the day and get to places where they should. When they began to count all the time that was available, what with 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a d.. | norton phantom the time tock tollbooth watchdog | Norton Juster | |
| 6d6b5fa | But live while you live, tomorrow you die... | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4ece66f | Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what are the chances?" Jazza: "I bet all of the victims thought that." Rory: "But still, what are the chances?" Jazza: "Well, I imagine they are several million to one." Jerome: "Not that high. You're only dealing with a small part of London. And while there might be a million or more people in that area, the Ri.. | jazza jerome odds rory serial-killer | Maureen Johnson | |
| b509e94 | Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 14188da | You should really, like, dump her and date me instead,' May heard herself saying, all confidence. 'I'm not as irritating. I mean, I'm irritating, but I'm not as bad as she is. And you know me better. Wouldn't that be funny? I mean, we've already hooked up, so we're good.' We broke up,' Pete said quickly. His voice was so bright that May could hear the smile coming through. For a moment she was confused. Who, you and me?' No. Nell and i.' Oh.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 199a6ab | She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 91fce14 | Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 420bfec | I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry." | london-weather perfect-descriptions-of-places rain weather | Maureen Johnson | |
| cd499c8 | T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world. | philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| 0864855 | Nothing puzzles God | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 7eef28f | THIS PAST, THE NEGRO'S PAST, OF ROPE, FIRE, TORTURE...DEATH AND HUMILIATION; FEAR BY DAY AND NIGHT, FEAR AS DEEP AS THE MARROW OF THE BONE...THIS PAST, THIS ENDLESS STRUGGLE TO ACHIEVE AND CONFIRM A HUMAN IDENTITY...YET CONTAINS, FOR ALL ITS HORROR, SOMETHING VERY BEAUTIFUL.... PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SUFFER CAN NEVER GROW UP, CAN NEVER DISCOVER WHO THEY ARE.... --James Baldwin | 50 Cent | ||
| 11104f7 | Being in trouble can have a funny effect on the mind. I don't know if I can explain this. You go through some days and you seem to be hearing people and you seem to be talking to them and you seem to be doing your work, or, at least, your work gets done; but you haven't seen or heard a soul and if someone asked you what you have done that day you'd have to think awhile before you could answer. But at the same time, and even on the self-same.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 589c1e7 | It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating on.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 7e5482b | Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be revealed only to a particular man, and, then, only at his insistence. But men have no secrets, except from women, and never grow up in the way women do. It is very much harder, and it takes much longer, for a man to grow up, and he could never do it at all without women. This is a mystery which can terrify and immobilize a woman, and it is always the key.. | capitalism imagination love maturity men women | James Baldwin | |
| 619683a | I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once--I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time. | lost-love | James Baldwin | |
| f6a890a | There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achi.. | african-americans america compassion love politics race race-relations racism white-people | James Baldwin | |
| 1db2ac5 | She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 97f95e6 | Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. | distribution famine food hunger | Michael Dorris | |
| e1a3a8f | Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free. | John L. Parker Jr. | ||
| 9e2e629 | You're the predator right up until you're prey. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 7570b75 | I actually read history. It's like reading prophecy, you know. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| ddb4ba8 | The mechanic had laid out two suits of their Martian-made light combat armour, a number of rifles and shotguns, and stacks of ammunition and explosives. "What," Holden said, "is all this?" "You said to gear up for the drop." "I meant, like, underwear and toothbrushes." | explosives rifles shotguns toothbrushes underwear | James S.A. Corey | |
| 4681dea | A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 56d2533 | She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| eeed702 | For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 911c79a | When I tried to show him how an electromagnet works by making a little coil of wire and hanging a nail on a piece of string, I put the voltage on, the nail swung into the coil, and Jerry said, "Ooh! It's just like fucking!" | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| f8e61f3 | Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food. | David Weber | ||
| 9d8b10a | WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'. | David Weber | ||
| 9d67f42 | Under the redwood tree my grave was laid, and I beguiled my true love to lie down. The stream of our kiss put a waterway around the world, where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship. My hair made a shroud, and kept the coyotes at bay while we wrote our cyphers with anatomy. The winds boomed triumph, our spines seemed overburdened, and our bones groaned like old trees, but a smile like a cobweb was fastened across the mouth of the cav.. | Elizabeth Smart | ||
| 7d9f2f0 | But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? | life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 03b9c93 | I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant. | marrying proposal | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 04b3a7a | Ten good lines out of four hundred, Emily--comparatively good, that is--and all the rest balderdash--balderdash, Emily." "I--suppose so," said Emily faintly. Her eyes brimmed with tears--her lips quivered. She could not help it. Pride was hopelessly submerged in the bitterness of her disappointment. She felt exactly like a candle that somebody had blown out. "What are you crying for? demanded Mr. Carpenter. Emily blinked away tears and trie.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 794119c | there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets. | secrets | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 900447c | Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 01e4379 | Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 6c63758 | We belong to the race that knows Joseph | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9bb7ca9 | Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 57e5a00 | It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night. | people | L.M. Montgomery | |
| cd42cc3 | If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't. | brains-or-beauty smart-or-pretty wit | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ccea646 | Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d447d31 | Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 170aca9 | Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4546eec | Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires. | domination feminism ideology imperialism oppression politics radical-feminism society | Bell Hooks |