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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1bcf566 | If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d9a04ed | I'm in love. So kill me. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0524e6e | The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5af00b3 | Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2fb0063 | If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel. And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule. | sex | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 91eb0cc | Our way of getting nostalgic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all because we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, reinvent ourselves. Adapt. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fb09ab6 | I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom. I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't s.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 87b87fb | We are all connected on the inside. Your ass is just the far end of your mouth. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f53d166 | We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 81a04dd | It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9688f18 | On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. | tyler-durden | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| db29e0d | You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency." | Ian Fleming | ||
| 2f0954f | Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 32ca538 | It reads better than it lives | Ian Fleming | ||
| 08cbeb0 | He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. | Ian Fleming | ||
| d714416 | One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings." | catholicism | Rumer Godden | |
| 60320ff | The cycle of violence needs extreme love to break it. | Sarah Macdonald | ||
| a1ea5f6 | she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d837e0a | as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| b0d2834 | Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 62a3d7a | She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them. But often I did - with time I learned where to look - and tried to fit them together. It pained me that she felt she couldn't come to me with it, but I knew it would hurt her more to know that I'd uncovered what she hadn't intended for me to find. In some fundamental way I think.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 97d8427 | So many words get lost. They leave the mough and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon'tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglassI'veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme... There was a time when it wasn't uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their d.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| e7cc888 | When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on. | life | Bill Bryson | |
| 6bc9407 | I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game. It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless. It is the only competitive activity of any type, other than perhaps baking, in which you .. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 9d2f6b1 | In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications, you are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 106543c | It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. | inspirational universe | Bill Bryson | |
| cd965f8 | These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous hominids who roamed the earth, they could choke on food. That may seem a trifling point, but the slight evolutionary change that pushed man's larynx deeper into his throat, and thus made choking a possibility, also brought with it the possibility of sophisticated, well articulated speech. Other mammals have no .. | bill-bryson cro-magnon language mammals mother-tongue | Bill Bryson | |
| e5c72f5 | Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 8d4f349 | The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you. | spirituality | Karen Armstrong | |
| 762f43b | We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context that set it apart from everyday life; it must be experienced as part of a process of personal transformation. None, of this surely applies to the novel, which can be read anywhere at all witout ritual trappings, and must, if it is any good, eschew the overtly didactic. Yet the experience of reading a novel has cert.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 437447a | A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum." -- | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2903453 | Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9db21da | He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a h.. | hollywood humor jewish satire | Michael Chabon | |
| aacfc13 | When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 8f3ce14 | That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather's view: to render memory unnecessary. | Michael Chabon | ||
| af7fb13 | The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim--even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon--feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 43a3244 | kl lTrq tw'd~ l lmkn nfsh lkn khtr Tryqk wtb`h l~ lnhy@ .. l tHwl n tsyr f~ kl lTrq f~ nfs lwqt ! | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fc6059a | Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0f23383 | Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 924e617 | You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c19663e | From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a21ea33 | I have learned to suffer in silence. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 03c286b | fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul. | human soul the-zahir | Paulo Coelho | |
| 902a967 | Happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution. | Paulo Coelho |