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| a281bb6 | What is that old children's rhyme, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me'? Anyone who says that doesn't understand the power of words. They can cut deeper than any knife, hit harder than any fist, touch parts of you that nothing physical will ever reach, and the wounds that some words leave never heal, because each time the word is thrown at you, labeled on you, you bleed afresh from it. It's more like a whip t.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 8cf4d15 | I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified holster strapped to the headboard of my bed. The crucifix was cool metal around my neck. I was as safe as I was going to be and almost too tired to care. I took one more thing to bed with me, a stuffed toy penguin named Sigmund. I don't sleep with him often, just every once in a while after someone tries to kill me. Eve.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0187667 | That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0e7647b | I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ad96dbc | You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 20e077f | When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| cfbaef8 | Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time I fuck it feels as if I am wrestling with demons. | Luke Davies | ||
| 2683047 | Spirituality must be distinguished from religion--because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences. | Sam Harris | ||
| 316c530 | Some people are content in the midst of deprivation and danger, while others are miserable despite having all the luck in the world. This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to tr.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 202c0c4 | On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice. | Sam Harris | ||
| 4a6519e | Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love | Sam Harris | ||
| 22f24a0 | I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 4bc0bdf | there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. | loss | José Saramago | |
| 2cfa3ab | Contrary to what most people think, making a decision is one of the easiest decisions in the world, as is more than proved by the fact that we make decision upon decision throughout the day, there, however, we run straight into the heart of the matter, for these decisions always come to us afterward with their particular little problems, or, to make ourselves quite clear, with their rough edges needing to be smoothed, the first of these pro.. | José Saramago | ||
| 2031e08 | What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made." -- | work | Isaac Asimov | |
| 9b22f5a | The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| af6c22d | One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 2479f6a | all the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy, until Hari Seldon, and very few men thereafter, could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located - so that each might grope toward the .. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| b35ed18 | Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 0ebf2a7 | Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade. | Ernest Cline | ||
| b6d1e24 | Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 5dae6cd | The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite'...The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility. | Jules Verne | ||
| bd47527 | The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it. | ennui life postmodern | Don DeLillo | |
| b2910a4 | Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I mean long journeys across gray space. I mean danger, the edge of every void, the circumstance of one man imparting an erotic terror to the dreams of the republic. Understand the man who must inhabit these extreme regions, monstrous and vulval, damp with memories of violation. Even if half-mad he is absorbed .. | britain-handjobs-america cbgb no-wave | Don DeLillo | |
| 11dc4d6 | At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 93ad817 | History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experience. Even if we believe that history is a workwheel powered by human blood -- read the speeches of Mussolini -- at least we've known the thing together. A single narrative sweep, not ten thousand wisps of disinformation. (82) | Don DeLillo | ||
| 65c27e3 | Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted display cabinets full of trays that hold soft wet lumpy matter in pale colours. High enough cabinets so you had to stand on tiptoes to give your order. Shouts, accents. In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere. Men shout as they die to be noticed, remembere.. | death dying | Don DeLillo | |
| 0ada236 | The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamily self-aware, the submicroscopic moments. He said this more than once, Elster did, in more than one way. His life happened, he said, when he sat staring at a blank wall, thinking about dinner. An eight-hundred page biography is nothing more than dead conjecture, he said. I almo.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| b7796e2 | We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them. | Tony Judt | ||
| 8a81647 | I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck | ramona-flowers scott-pilgrim | Bryan Lee O'Malley | |
| c41ca60 | Everyone who's born has come from the sea. Your mother's womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they're born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean -- walking on the land. | thought-provoking | Timothy Findley | |
| 2c71528 | but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 5611d93 | Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where money-making is concerned, nothing compresses the time frame needed to leap from my-shit-just-sits-there-until-it-rains poverty to which-of-my-toilets-shall-I-use affluence like an apprenticeship with someone who already has the angles all figured out. | poverty school shit success | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 29f0d96 | Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember. | Richard Bach | ||
| a580de1 | To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 6176984 | I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two..." | humor mathematics smartass | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 32905c1 | When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows. | gods responsibility self-respect | Michael Moorcock | |
| 7742449 | I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched... Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river. Even the anatomy of a river was laid bare. Not far downstream was a dry channel where the river had run once, and part of the way to come to know a thing is through its death. But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this no.. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 52cf0e8 | To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy | Norman Maclean | ||
| 712afa8 | I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder. | Linda Howard | ||
| 6f32d80 | The Voice No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you - just listen to The voice that speaks inside. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 2622b5e | RAIN I opened my eyes And looked up at the rain. And it dripped in my head And flowed into my brain, And all that I hear as I lie in my bed Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head. I step very softly, I walk very slow, I can't do a handstand- I might overflow, So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said- I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 68a53e7 | Did vampirism encourage Stockholm syndrome? | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| e59efe3 | Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life! And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink. | MaryJanice Davidson |