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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e008b38 | There is one thing that, more than any other, throws people absolutely off their balance -- the thought that you are dependent upon them. This is sure to produce an insolent and domineering manner towards you. There are some people, indeed, who become rude if you enter into any kind of relation with them; for instance, if you have occasion to converse with them frequently upon confidential matters, they soon come to fancy that they can take.. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 7779da6 | If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world. | suffering | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 70ff943 | I often feel caught in a dilemma: on the one hand I wish to be more natural with you and yet, on the other hand, because I feel that you're easily wounded and that you give my comments inordinate power, I feel I must consider my wording very, very carefully. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 0b51a60 | One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 9a91f8e | The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species, so man and wife together undergo the oppression of an institution they did not create. If it is asserted that oppress , the husband is indignant; he feels that is the one who is oppressed - and he is; but the fact is that it is the masculine code, it is the society developed by the males and in their interest, .. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| d8ac446 | Je sais qu'on ne peut jamais se connaitre, mais seulement se raconter. | self-knowledge | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 7c312c5 | There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life," said Spider. "These things are wine, women and song"... "Curry's nice too" pointed out Fat Charlie" | nice song wine women | Neil Gaiman | |
| b18a399 | It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. | death death-and-dying etiquette perspective self-censorship significance truth | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0b9e7f8 | Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree. | stars worlds | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0659a9a | You," she told him, "are so full of shit, it's a wonder your eyes don't turn brown." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 47273ec | I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fd05e25 | I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 86c78b6 | Another piece of advice: I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work. So you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool. There are other people around who can do the mediocre meat and potatoes work that anybody can do. So let them do that. You make the art that only you can make. You tell the stories only you can tell. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f912c19 | A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis w.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2f28c69 | Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fc4af5c | Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too. | literature readers | Neil Gaiman | |
| 140298a | Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchet | ||
| c4d366f | You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell. | hell | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | |
| 2d2e17a | It is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7b9f14b | As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...]. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fe16aee | So computers are tools of the devil?" thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him." | Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman | ||
| d4ccc32 | It must be good to have somewhere that you belong. Somewhere that's home. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c2896eb | Islington smiled superciliously. "Lucifer?" It said. "Lucifer was an idiot. It wound up lord and master of nothing at all." The marquis grinned. "And you wound up lord and master of two thugs and a roomful of candles?" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 20faeb2 | It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 83c640b | Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not o.. | inspirational-quotes neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 45dd49a | I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall. | inspirational sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 078757f | Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 46040b1 | I am the most unhappy soul alive. | Neil Gaiman The Sandman | ||
| 8da76a1 | You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart. | Peter Straub | ||
| 0750dec | almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings. | jewelry | Victoria Finlay | |
| d020a89 | I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 7a5b4d6 | Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 832541b | My life is full of broken halos. | Keith Richards | ||
| 662fbc4 | A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing." | A.S. Byatt | ||
| d9ca733 | Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits an.. | fairy-tales-for-adults | A.S. Byatt | |
| d4a1865 | shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so | Rachel Caine | ||
| df37efd | Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties. | anxiety canon literature | Harold Bloom | |
| 92198c1 | You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 38578e1 | When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying | Robert Greene | ||
| 7d70f1d | It takes great talent and skill to conceal one's talent and skill. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, 1613-1680 Halliwell | Robert Greene | ||
| 7588154 | Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses. | Robert Greene | ||
| dd46e52 | With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so. | perserveance task-interest-selection | Robert Greene | |
| f78837b | 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 | |
| 6bae8cd | First she got Jesus, probably fifteen years ago, and that didn't work out, so she tried Scientology, and that didn't help, but it cost a lot of money, so she tried Buddhism and yoga, and those didn't work, so she started drinking. I think that helped, because she's still drinking. | John Sandford |