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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed5849a | any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 75eb1d5 | Ideology is a virus. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 1d2a0df | Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 774a59f | But I have to warn you that this is the word--'politics'--that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 91e8018 | The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| a5776ee | There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 771eaf7 | One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is ever happy anywhere. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 5e0e399 | What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') | ricardian | Paul Murray Kendall | |
| 7249469 | People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| c24e0ab | Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. | philosophy science | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 75f94f4 | a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 4c3e85d | We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| e289d89 | It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later, to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk, the anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers; and even the sex, once she and Richard reached that point, was ardent but awkward, unsatisfying, ore kindly than pa.. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| cdc6f1a | Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape. | Ted Dekker | ||
| f6686de | And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 2aa12c7 | You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems! | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| c1477b3 | Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 02e09e4 | But now, Mr. Bates didn't scream or try to get the truck's license plate, nor did Mrs. Bates, who had once wept when we set off firecrackers in her state-fair tulips - they said nothing, and our parents said nothing, so that we sensed how ancient they were, how accustomed to trauma, depressions, and wars. We realized that the version of the world that they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their car.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 3af82b4 | We knew the pain of winter wind rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other, but sometimes, after one of us had read a long portion of the diary out loud, we had to fight back the urge to hug one another .. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 3ea94b5 | The more you learn, the harder the lessons get. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 534e0ea | Being is seeing in the human dimension. | seeing | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 4de9e34 | churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply. | gospel parishioners spiritual | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 53096d5 | If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9e9a987 | When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 211f9fa | Silence is the warrior's art -- and meditation is his sword. With it, you'll cut through your illusions. But understand this: the sword's usefulness depends upon the swordsman. If you don't know how to use the weapon properly, it can become a dangerous, deluding, or useless tool. Meditation can initially help you to relax. You may put your 'sword' on display, proudly show it to friends. The gleam of this sword distracts many meditators unti.. | Dan Millman | ||
| aefd973 | Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together. | solitude unreality | Edith Wharton | |
| a81ee66 | Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. | solitude the-house-of-mirth | Edith Wharton | |
| d823ee0 | They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that is smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c219323 | Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend! | hypocrisy new-york pulitzer-prize social-criticism | Edith wharton | |
| e3ffc28 | Marriage is one long sacrifice. | sacrifice unhappiness | Edith Wharton | |
| ac7d861 | The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay. | maturing self-awareness | Edith Wharton | |
| ddf6d7e | A smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9e37376 | As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep | marriage | Edith Wharton | |
| 63dc934 | Her failure was a useful preliminary to success. | success | Edith Wharton | |
| c13aeb0 | He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe. | cornflakes fish h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| 6817287 | The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light. | light mystery | Douglas Adams | |
| 5679cd0 | You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need--for which you need more money. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7ef45a1 | I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course." "Pity", said Arthur. "It sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8f0dc51 | It gives me my headache just trying to think down to your level | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3823d28 | And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. | satire | Douglas Adams | |
| 52edb76 | and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a78e91b | The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.' There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight became blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf cou.. | galmod gandalf grima snake | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 723e482 | And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside. | battle gandalf | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 01c3eae | After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. | legends myths writing | J.R.R. Tolkien |