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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 58139d7 | If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring. | Jon Ronson | ||
| cc8727a | We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| a39b618 | The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 37e7421 | Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| f85fcba | War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living. | distractions illusions life war | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 043950e | A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 91e1fd2 | the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. | creation-myths mythology science | Richard Dawkins | |
| cf22cba | Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| a51ea49 | This is the meanest thing anyone's ever done to me," I said, through my tear-clogged throat. "I want you to know that." But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn't true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that's ever happene.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| a81821a | What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist's subject be religious to be Christian? I don't think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, an.. | beauty christian-art christianity god truth | R.C. Sproul | |
| e0f059d | I've often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores. | jesus materialism retail | R.C. Sproul | |
| e17e077 | You, me---we're not the same, but we---our lives---somehow fit together. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 6b5cecb | You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close. | power president | David Baldacci | |
| 9f27ed5 | She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things. | Betty Smith | ||
| 01434eb | HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels. GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs (An aside to NICK) them which is still sloshable--(Back to HONEY) and get down to bone...you know what you do then? HONEY: (Terribly interested) No! GEORGE: When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside.. | facade labels marrow | Edward Albee | |
| d726580 | The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1755114 | Books to me are not expanded journal articles, but reading experiences, and the academics who tend to read in order to cite in their writing--rather than read for enjoyment, curiosity, or simply because they like to read--tend to be frustrated when they can't rapidly scan the text and summarize it in one sentence that connects it to some existing discourse in which they have been involved. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 40aed20 | I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything. | gertrude-stein narration narrative writing | Gertrude Stein | |
| 60cc3c5 | The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own. | family loved-ones | Kate Mosse | |
| 85a51b8 | Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion than a particular religion--and this no known religion can tolerate. Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 3f8598c | A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| a09a40d | There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, writte.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 223db62 | The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3470b30 | I love badly. That is too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 42a9dc6 | Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk becau.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3217031 | Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d0fe37d | Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 26602e7 | only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2e3c1e0 | Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a cafe. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d273339 | For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. | fate jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 761a028 | A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? | imagination reading | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 539c9d9 | I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7fcc4ac | Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer. | self-esteem | Joanne Harris | |
| 1257fd1 | Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place | Joanne Harris | ||
| a0da56a | Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.) | Joanne Harris | ||
| a28d900 | Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue, and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. | Joanne M. Harris | ||
| 815224e | Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates? | Joanne Harris | ||
| 6c88d73 | Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage. | Gary Chapman | ||
| dc07b5f | Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated. | Gary Chapman | ||
| fcc3eda | I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to a war they didn't understand and didn't want to understand. I held them responsible. By God, yes, I did. All of them - I held them personally and individually responsible - the polyestered Kiwanis boys, the merchants and the farmers, the pious ch.. | vietnam war | Tim O'Brien | |
| 93d3e29 | What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again. | stories writing | Tim O'Brien | |
| 0e40a89 | Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, o.. | war | Tim O'Brien | |
| 60cb12a | They were afraid of dieing, but they were even more afraid to show it. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 67f0168 | It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong. | wrong | Louis Sachar |