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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0172391 | Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunt.. | history | Jared Diamond | |
| 3191508 | if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace. | James Frey | ||
| 3fa9077 | People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics. | James Frey | ||
| 672c198 | It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do. | James Frey (Author) | ||
| 113e39f | When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the woman watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she puts her arm around him and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and I don't blame her and as I open my magazine my heart breaks and I hope that the little boy doesn't grow up to be anything like me. | James Frey | ||
| fab3e6b | Were it up to me, I would be with Lilly. Were it up to me I would be asleep in her arms. She's dead, in a cooler in some fucking morgue, and i'll never sleep in her arms again. The thought of it makes me sick, and it makes me want to join her. The rose will help me. It is time to start the killing. Time to fucking start." (James Frey, pg.39)" | James Frey | ||
| bc388a4 | She feels and she cries. It is to be admired. | James Frey | ||
| 5b3411c | That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person. | John Gray | ||
| 4da6e3c | Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness. If we think of resting from our labours, it is only in order to return to them. In thinking so highly of work we are aberrant. Few other cultures have ever done so. For nearly all of history and all prehistory, work was an indignity. | John Gray | ||
| 44a081c | Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now." -- W. H. Murray," | Steven Pressfield | ||
| cf4b7d0 | she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. | artist inspiration writer | Steven Pressfield | |
| 0601a7b | Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? | writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 920f6ed | Consider incompleteness as a verb. | Anne Carson | ||
| 02047a1 | I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure. | Anne Carson | ||
| e1a3a1b | Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love. | desire eros eros-the-bittersweet literature novels philosophy reading writing writing-craft | Anne Carson | |
| fe91d76 | To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words. | guilt medea morality wicked | Euripides | |
| 6ef1b41 | The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own judgment. | Euripides | ||
| 5935d41 | The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. | truth | George Pelecanos | |
| 105488d | A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alo.. | Beryl Markham | ||
| cf59228 | When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| f192798 | There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame. | Jack London | ||
| 5619f65 | It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee. | maureen-johnson the-name-of-the-star ya young-adult | Maureen Johnson | |
| 4109a1b | He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread. | Jack London | ||
| 8ea1d7b | Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave. | Jack London | ||
| bc748ab | It was an old song, old as the breed itself - one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred. When he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, and the fear any mystery of the cold and dark that was to them fear and mystery. And that he should be stirred b.. | Jack London | ||
| 8e276e3 | In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have in some way made their peace with the world and their destiny within it, do not need to expend effort censoring or otherwise controlling their thoughts. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 29bc543 | There seems to be a vicious cycle at work here, making ours not just an economy but a culture of extreme inequality. Corporate decision makers, and even some two-bit entrepreneurs like my boss at The Maids, occupy an economic position miles above that of the underpaid people whose labor they depend on. For reasons that have more to do with class -- and often racial -- prejudice than with actual experience, they tend to fear and distrust the.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 8e2e9d4 | proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. | louisa-may-alcott women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| dbc3baa | What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg." | vacation | Louisa May Alcott | |
| eb21344 | And Polly did n't think she had done much; but it was one of the little things which are always waiting to be done in this world of ours, where rainy days come so often, where spirits get out of tune, and duty won't go hand in hand with pleasure. Little things of this sort are especially good work for little people; a kind little thought, an unselfish little act, a cheery little word, are so sweet and comfortable, that no one can fail to fe.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7a2e011 | For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life--uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 54ea896 | Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6387777 | for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 06ac0c7 | Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change | systems | Frank Herbert | |
| 44a209c | Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them? | jessica | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 0b4cc5c | If you have not touched the rocky wall of a canyon. If you have not heard a rushing river pound over cobblestones. If you have not seen a native trout rise in a crystalline pool beneath a shattering riffle, or a golden eagle spread its wings and cover you in shadow. If you have not seen the tree line recede to the top of a bare crested mountain. If you have not looked into a pair of wild eyes and seen your own reflection. Please, for the go.. | camping canyon environment mountains nature west wilderness | Daniel J. Rice | |
| a490fdc | The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories. | Jane Smiley | ||
| c1e613f | If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 7ae85e1 | I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard." | religous spiritual | Frank Herbert | |
| d25e6bc | Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 31bcbb6 | It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all." -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1e29e10 | Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make speedy decisions when necessary. They fit an ancient human demand for a parental (tribal/feudal) hierarchy where every person knows his place. It is valuable to know your place, even if that place is temporary. It is galling to be held in place against your will. This is why I teach about.. | tyranny | Frank Herbert | |
| f3505b1 | There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake." | Frank Herbert | ||
| bb90433 | The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow... | Frank Herbert |