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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c60ea76 | Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life's just begun I know you feel it too | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 241e2ec | I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway? | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| c1a7cc3 | On Hayao Miyazaki I told Miyazaki I love the "gratuitous motion" in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. "We have a word for that in Japanese," he said, "It's called ma. Emptiness. It's there intentionally." | writing-advice | Roger Ebert | |
| edb4468 | That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. | circle-of-life death immortality life mortality | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 5e65bbd | Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo. | women | H. Rider Haggard | |
| b2287e1 | Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 81bfb6a | Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glam.. | genius reality william-blake writing | Brenda Ueland | |
| 4ba9c6c | William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise. | Sogyal Rinpoche | ||
| d9a0759 | Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d3ef653 | Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| c6d8d90 | N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, vain-glorious self-adoration, way past the fuckin ego even. Ah'm findin somethin...ah'm...but it's what bein a hard man is aboot; it's a journey, a fuckin self-destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big, stong, stiff-hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye .. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 00f4b4d | we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| e46ecd6 | Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals, or places like this. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 56bebbc | Ma best mate is possibly Tommy. Cares aboot things, aboot people; maybe just a wee bit too much for the kind ay world we're compelled tae live in. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 3425f68 | but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up. | sick-boy skagboys | Irvine Welsh | |
| eb32b08 | Drugs are always fun. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 4ac480d | This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam ... that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body. It takes as well as gives, it washes away ma endorphins, ma pain resistance centres; they take a long time tae come back. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 7ba69f0 | The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 014a01b | That's the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they're civil tae your face and can put up a good front. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 5e29db2 | Why is it that because ye use hard drugs every cunt feels that they have a right tae dissect and analyse ye? Once ye accept that they huv that right, ye'll join them in the search fir this holy grail, this thing that makes ye tick. Ye'll then defer tae them, allowin yersel tae be conned intae believin any biscuit-ersed theory ay behaviour they choose tae attach tae ye. Then yir theirs, no yir ain; the dependency shifts from the drug to them.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 26f1833 | If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f9f2c7b | Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tea absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken all the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ay sound mind etcetera etcetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, because it's seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whit they huv tae offer. Choo.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 0ed7843 | I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie. I believe in punk rock. In northern soul. In acid house. In mod. In rock and roll. I also believe in pre commercial righteous, rap and hip hop. Tha.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 58f2f0c | Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ah sound mind, ectetera, ectetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, because it's seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whut they huv tae offer. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f5b3101 | Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| e521780 | The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister. | greed shopping tacky | Irvine Welsh | |
| c3bbdb7 | Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be. Ah suppose if bringing death and despair is yir life's work, then being somewhere like this must feel like a result; the job's already done and you can just kick back and relax. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| b3d5c49 | Perche adesso so che fare le cose non ti ferisce:resti ferito se le eviti. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 294be1d | So this is how cunts that never shag fuckin well live. A life oy impotence, resentment, anger and frustration; nae fuckin exuberance in life, forced tae become an Internet troll or a miserable drunk in a boozer. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2737fd4 | You call me Red again, Mister, and you won't need one. What you'll need is a pine box and a preacher to read about you lyin' down green pastures. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 3528de5 | We try to have things both ways. We've always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn't treat us by rule? | Doris Lessing | ||
| a0592d5 | I can't help but recall, at this point, a horribly elitist but very droll remark by one of my favorite writers, the American "critic of the seven arts", James Huneker, in his scintillating biography of Frederic Chopin, on the subject of Chopin's etude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor, which for me, and for Huneker, is one of the most stirring and most sublime pieces of music ever written: "Small-souled men, no matter how agile their fingers, shoul.. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| e0679c7 | And she swung the old oar at him with all her strength. It hit with a great thwack, splintering in two, and he went over the side, into the dark, cold waters of the lake, sinking like a stone. It took her two seconds. And then she let out a scream for help, tossing the broken oar away from her, and jumped into the water after him. It was very cold, numbingly so, and as it closed over her head she grabbed for him, wrapping her arms around hi.. | murder romance | Anne Stuart | |
| 9bea102 | apakah kebahagian harus negatif? (cerpen Avi) | Seno Gumira Ajidarma | ||
| a578e1b | Food for thought requires a mind with teeth. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 4f475d3 | To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom." | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| faa1e6e | Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you? | secrets | David Mitchell | |
| 1841066 | Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions? | David Mitchell | ||
| 45d4ead | Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done? | David Mitchell | ||
| 9139cf6 | Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?" -- | nuclear war weapons-of-mass-destruction wmd | David Mitchell | |
| 5b215a9 | The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. | humor | David Mitchell | |
| 19c0183 | If you love and are loved, whatever you do affects others. | David Mitchell | ||
| e8bc74e | All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. | David Mitchell | ||
| 11afd6e | Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find? | David Mitchell |