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| c82af55 | I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics. | education | Henry David Thoreau | |
| a49e5f6 | I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is well adapted to our weakness as our strength. The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined n.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 827c93a | Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodon.. | literature | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 0f25a3f | In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, fi.. | first myself person self walden writing | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 54c95c2 | No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 055fe99 | What we consume now is not objects or events, but our experience of them. Just as we never need to leave our cars, so we never need to leave our own skulls. The experience is already out there, as ready-made as a pizza, as bluntly objective as a boulder, and all we need to do is receive it. It is as though there is an experience hanging in the air, waiting for a human subject to come alone and have it. Niagara Falls, Dublin Castle and the G.. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| 14764ef | In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black. | metaphysics | Terry Eagleton | |
| 62048b0 | Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." | Norton Juster | ||
| 9e40fbe | They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star -- and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are.. | Norton Juster | ||
| b0b88a4 | Don't you know anything at all about numbers?" "Well, I don't think they're very important," snapped Milo, too embarrassed to admit the truth. "NOT IMPORTANT!" roared the Dodecahedron, turning red with fury. "Could you have tea for two without the two -- or three blind mice without the three? Would there be four corners of the earth if there weren't a four? And how would you sail the seven seas without a seven?" "All I meant was--" began Mi.. | Norton Juster | ||
| d7b0caf | So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement? | agree-to-disagree agreement disagree disagreement epic logic milo the-mathematician the-phantom-tollbooth | Norton Juster | |
| 9eca6a3 | AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything." | Norton Juster | ||
| 7fe2861 | You want to play?" Ellis yelled. "All right, then! I played as a kid, bitches!" "There!" Oliver yelled. "That way! Toward Boulevard Peripherique. There! There!" The car swerved abruptly to the right. Ginny heard Keith swear for a solid ten seconds." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 1359231 | They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 5d9dbc0 | This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| cd5dc85 | Want to make it a date, haircut?' she asked. 'As soon as I can scrape together the cash for the train ticket?' What's with the "haircut," ?' he asked. 'I thought we were past that.' We'll be past that,' she said." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 6f6b3a3 | I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence. | lingering pensive stuck | Maureen Johnson | |
| 748cbec | Look! A riddle! Time for fun! Should we use a rope or gun? Knives are sharp and gleam so pretty Poison's slow, which is a pity Fire is festive, drowning's slow Hanging's a ropy way to go A broken head, a nasty fall A car colliding with a wall Bombs make a very jolly noise Such ways to punish naughty boys! What shall we use? We can't decide. Just like you cannot run or hide. Ha ha. Truly, Devious | murder-mystery poem | Maureen Johnson | |
| dd19175 | Background: Morgan is a female warrior looking for a fight. Adhemar is your garden variety male.) A man near the door leered at her. Adhemar immediately stepped in front of her, but Morgan pushed him aside. She looked at the man and smiled pleasantly. Ah, something to take her mind off her coming journey. "Did you say something?" she asked. "Aye," he said, "I asked it you were occupied tonight, but I can see you have a collection of lads he.. | female-hero | Lynn Kurland | |
| bec179b | He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 96301e2 | The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| c5f9d89 | You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know. | James Baldwin | ||
| 14f22d7 | Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in its proper orbit, nothing impossible, the entire world attainable. | Robert Cormier | ||
| ea41fa8 | And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action. | protest | Ralph Ellison | |
| 0407fee | Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 470addb | There's a dignity in consequences. | dignity | James S.A. Corey | |
| 282bbbf | She didn't know a lot about politics - yet - but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse. | David Weber | ||
| 23e006c | It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry. | manhood reality | Elizabeth Berg | |
| f1f020d | A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4f468bd | You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible. | italics l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a451383 | Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." -- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables" -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8355a85 | She had always envied the wind. So free. Blowing where it listed. Through the hills. Over the lakes. What a tang, what a zip it had! What a magic of adventure! | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0546526 | The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 587d231 | Perhaps LOVE unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship.. as a golden hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 98b8154 | Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father." "Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules." "The first one is, catch him." "He's caught. Go on." "The second one is, feed him well." "With enough pie. What next?" "The.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4aeae9b | Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d0ca097 | I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ccfcb94 | determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| cd209c3 | Gilbert had finally made up his mind that he was going to be a doctor. "It's a splendid profession," he said enthusiastically. "A fellow has to fight something all through life. . .didn't somebody once define man as a fighting animal?. . .and I want to fight disease and pain and ignorance. . .which are all members one of another. I want to do my share of honest, real work in the world, Anne. . . add a little to the sum of human knowledge th.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a6130c8 | Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,' said Anne with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5644010 | What love commences can be finished by God alone. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2c567ce | He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs. | Victor Hugo | ||
| cc53ad6 | They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered. | heather honeysuckle nature night reeds scents sounds thyme | Enid Blyton | |
| 133c854 | Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!" | fiction humor | Enid Blyton |