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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 83c7420 | I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2746c81 | The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew." Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3c1ebd5 | So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can't control life, at least you can control your version. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a926f53 | Inside the hole, the red lips say, "we all grew up with the same television shows. It's like we all have the same artificial memory implants. We remember almost none of our real childhoods, but we remember everything that happened to sitcom families. We have the same basic goals. We all have the same fears." The lips say, "The future is not bright." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 28ebc37 | I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most yo.. | fight-club perfection | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 839b2bf | The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4b3c888 | As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e42cc67 | You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2dbd0a2 | No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3e816bf | Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is. | fight guns tyler-durden | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 69e2d32 | In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve meansa 'dig with a spade'; it means hard work. In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself. It needs sturdiness. You will be lonely, you will be depressed; you must expect it; if you were training your body it would ache and.. | lonliness solitude | Rumer Godden | |
| ef22980 | Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days. | P.D. James | ||
| 340deca | All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing. | murder pd-james the-murder-room | P.D. James | |
| baa5a84 | Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try." | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 1c20de6 | She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| bcbe846 | It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you. | nicole-krauss the-history-of-love | Nicole Krauss | |
| 6c89548 | Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience. | 1990s adventure bulgaria city-centre country crisis death eastern-europe europe european europeans night-club nightlife post-communist sofia travel | Bill Bryson | |
| e06daba | And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry. | Bill Bryson | ||
| e52578a | Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 9b46140 | The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their polemic entirely fails to mention the concern for justice and compassion that, despite their undeniable failings, has been espoused by all three of the monotheisms. Religious fundamentalists also develop an exagerrated view of their enemy as the epitome of evil. This tendency makes critique of the new at.. | nihilism religion | Karen Armstrong | |
| dacad44 | You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start. | Laura Dave | ||
| 8725c2f | Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written. | leadership politics zeitgeist | Dan Simmons | |
| d3d41e2 | Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference. | evolution indifference | Dan Simmons | |
| ecfe345 | The day is perfect and I hate it for being so. | Dan Simmons | ||
| eb02c0f | all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live. | good-things life sleep | Dan Simmons | |
| c14d4f2 | But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that. | thoughts | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 3f65374 | Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I." | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 06b28f6 | My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 026dcbe | We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cbc9471 | wymknn 'yD , 'n nsmH lrfq 'rwHn n yhjrwn , bdwn 'n nqblhm , 'w nlHZhm , w`ndh , swf nHtj l~ tjsyd jdyd ky njdhm , wbsbb 'nnytn hdhh , yHkm `lyn b'qs~ `qb khtr`h lbshr l'nfshm ,whw ( lwHd@ ) | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 70c9f01 | There are four obstacles. First: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. The second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. The third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. The fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8790884 | I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope - | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a73c6e5 | Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b57eb65 | God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around. | finding-god god keep-watch mist | Paulo Coelho | |
| 114dd02 | lDyq lys fy l`lm .. nm fy lTryq@ lty nrh bh | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 17a0e41 | The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d033584 | People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a79794d | m dmt fy lHy@ .. f'nt lm tSl b`d l~ Hyth kn ynbGy 'n ttwjd | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5ac0a0b | Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2a1442d | Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they're not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; and as life goes on, he develops an ever-greater need to be loved in return, even if t.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| bce2621 | We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b8230a1 | n kl mn fryd , ymlk Sfth lkhS@ , wGry'zh , w'nw` mn lldh@ ystmt` bh , wrGb@ fy khwD lmGmrt . Gyr 'n lmjtm` yfrD `lyn dwm Tryq@ jm`y@ fy lslwk , wl ykf lns ytslwn lm `lyhm ltSrf `l~ hdh lnHw . hm ytqblwn dhlk bkl bsT@ | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d3a267d | When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, they do not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real always finds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, they do not hesitate, they do no.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2ad5dcf | If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. | Paulo Coelho |