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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9e9fae6 | Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul. | David Mitchell | ||
| c9c5e9c | She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky. | storytelling | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 58a1fa8 | You look beautiful - David | nature | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 4a355d1 | You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock." | plitting scott-westerfeld sherlock | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 90e3dad | Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. | humanity nature-of-human religion spirits | Scott Westerfeld | |
| e66338d | The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. --Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (part 3, Pretties) | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 16e271d | Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say. | Ted Chiang | ||
| b3a8ff5 | Volger looked out across the glacier, his hands deep in his pockets. "May I be frank?" Alek laughed. "Feel free to put aside your usual tact." "I shall," Volger said. "When your father decided to marry Sophie, I was one of those who tried to talk him out of it." "So I have your dismal powers of persuasion to thank for my existence." "You're very welcome." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d2c72ca | Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 0eefa5c | You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| f38e139 | Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. | hero heroism selflessness | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 4ff901f | There's only one choice now: finish what Zampano himself failed to finish. Re-inter this thing in a binding tomb. Make it only a book. | mr-monster | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| ba096d4 | Immensely clever story, and quite creepy, in a delightfully scary way. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| f6a3e1d | There is only a black fence and a wide field and a barn of Wyeth red. The smell of anger chokes the air. Ravens of September rain descend. Some say a mad mad hermit man lived here talking to himself and the woodchuck. But he's gone. No reason. No sense. He just wandered off one day, past the onions, past the fence. Forget the letters. Forget love. Troy is nothing more than a black finger of charcoal frozen in lake ice. And near where the ow.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| cf63d38 | i miss u i love you there's no second ive lived you can't call your own | house-of-leaves letters love romance | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 0848cd1 | Of course there always will be darkness but I realize now something inhabits it. Historical or not. Sometimes it seems like a cat, the panther with its moon mad gait or a tiger with stripes of ash and eyes as wild as winter oceans. Sometimes it's the curve of a wrist or what's left of romance, still hiding in the drawer of some long lost nightstand or carefully drawn in the margins of an old discarded calendar. Sometimes it's even just a va.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 368bd24 | Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. | writer-s-block writers-on-writing writing | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 683250f | I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 136c663 | Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3dbee39 | Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh against the withered thighs of old white ladies in public conveyances a great deal and eliciting more than one shriek of panic. Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too brok.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3202d65 | She had been wrong in thinking Christ had been called up against his will to fight in a war. He didn't look - in spite of the crown of thorns - like someone making a sacrifice. Or even like someone determined to "do his bit". He looked instead like Marjorie had looked telling Polly she'd joined the Nursing Service, like Mr Humphreys had looked filling buckets with water and sand to save Saint Paul's, like Miss Laburnum had looked that day s.. | sacrifice | Connie Willis | |
| c7cedd4 | Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. | environmentalism environmentalists logistics people practicality realism | David Brin | |
| ced05a2 | Great minds sink alike, right? | Jay McInerney | ||
| 3a986a6 | What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. | Colum McCann | ||
| a3a6c02 | Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for. | Colum McCann | ||
| 387bcaf | She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison. | Colum McCann | ||
| fb0b59e | He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites. | Colum McCann | ||
| 2ea35c3 | I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 9f9460d | But it's enough, just having this day. It's the knowing there's something different, something special up there waiting. It's the knowing you could choose to change your days--climb up there and throw yourself right down the throat of the only and last and greatest terrible secret in the world. Except you don't climb up. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| f3bd0d3 | Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 9a6fb85 | It is easy to take a stand about a remote issue, but speciesists, like racists, reveal their true nature when the issue comes nearer home. To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, or the freedom to lie .. | vegan vegetarian | Peter Singer | |
| 12bc675 | If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance | inspirational life love | Danielle Steel | |
| 68743c9 | If you say I hide things because I'm shy, that can't be right. I've finally realized it's for a different reason-- that I don't want to see the darkness that lies in my heart | hiding-things | Natsuo Kirino | |
| bd15a95 | To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her, which is the most terrible bond of all | Henry Miller | ||
| b79a422 | Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one | Henry Miller | ||
| 0374c8e | Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. | Henry Miller | ||
| 1614196 | Talk is only a pretext for other, subtler forms of communication. When the latter are inoperative speech becomes dead. If two people are intent upon communicating with one another it doesn't matter in the least how bewildering the talk becomes. People who insist upon clarity and logic often fail in making themselves understood. They are always-searching for a more perfect transmitter, deluded by the supposition that the mind is the only ins.. | talk | Henry Miller | |
| 64e7141 | All my life I have felt a great kinship with the madman and the criminal. Practically all my life I have dwelt in big cities; I am unhappy, uneasy, unless I am in a big city. My feeling for Nature is limited to water, mountain and desert. These three form a trine which is more imperative, for me, than any spiritual alimentation. But in the city I am aware of another element which is beyond all these in power of fascination: the labyrinth. T.. | Henry Miller | ||
| b02e82b | I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face. | Henry Miller | ||
| 19081da | So quietly flows the Seine that one hardly notices its presence. It is always there, quiet and unobtrusive, like a great artery running through the human body. In the wonderful peace that fell over me itseemed as if I had climbed to the top of a high mountain; for a little while I would be able to look around me, to take in the meaning of the landscape. Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; clo.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 79e9e28 | It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the woman I loved and lost, the unattainable one [...] I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable. --Henry Miller, Stand Still like the Hummingbird (1962) | Henry Miller | ||
| 7b53c1a | Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely." -- | inspirational spiritual | Jimmy Carter | |
| d3f89db | The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens--and honor its own previous commitments--by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States.. | israel palestine peace united-states | Jimmy Carter | |
| 6d3c27d | If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'. | Erich Fromm |