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8d0b54c There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we 'friend' each other when we don't know who we are really talking to - we fuck strangers. We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitized version - it is easier, because w.. technology A.M. Homes
e98a150 The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present. Elizabeth Peters
9f0ed10 I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn't going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me. humor Laurell K. Hamilton
40b629c How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture? Laurell K. Hamilton
e40a2e3 My least favorite thing was a man who had severe white-man's ass, where the jeans just bagged over the butt. I wanted something to hold on to, something to sink my teeth into. When I said I liked meat on my men I didn't just mean one thing. humor Laurell K. Hamilton
7e0e295 murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel" Laurell K. Hamilton
5e01eba Je reve de toi. Laurell K. Hamilton
869335a Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind. oxymoron sarcasm Laurell K. Hamilton
c154ebb He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting. Laurell K. Hamilton
1484d95 He doesn't pretend," the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. "Nice rings. You got anything else pierced?" "Yes," Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. "Me too," he said." Laurell K. Hamilton
8b1665f I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own. Laurell K. Hamilton
7d90451 Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way. Laurell K. Hamilton
2d70ecd How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives. Mystics and contemplatives have made this claim for ages--but a growing body of scientific research now bears it out. Sam Harris
69b0290 Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world. Sam Harris
e0884e6 To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden Sam Harris
72ebb2c Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. Sam Harris
46ddbd6 Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. Sam Harris
f7711e3 Once a person believes - really believes - that certain ideas can lead to eternal happiness, or to its antithesis, he cannot tolerate the possibility that the people he loves might be led astray by the blandishments of unbelievers. Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one. Sam Harris
f1c8113 bmwjh@ lmHn@ t`rf mn hm 'Sdqk sw bldlyl lZhr 'w bltnbw' . José Saramago
03bf9b5 l'`tqd 'nn `myn , bl '`tqd 'nn `myn , `myn yrwn , bshr `myn ystTy`wn 'n yrw , lknhm l yrwn José Saramago
9945602 lntqm l`dl hw f`l nsny, fn lm tkn llDHy@ Hqwq `l~ lqtl ln ykwn hnk `dl wl nsny@ José Saramago
a91f133 shkr ltjrb@ lHy@ lqsy@, lm`lm l'ssy lkl lnDbTt, José Saramago
0c5951c lntZr yw'dy l~ m hw 'kthr mn bTl lmfjat, nh ykhdWr lnf`lt, fkl m ntmnh 'w nkhshh nkwn qd `shnh khll tmnyn lh 'w khshytn mnh. José Saramago
5df5293 Quando me das a mao, quando te encostas a mim, quando me apertas, nao preciso ver-te por dentro. José Saramago
0010335 Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation! Isaac Asimov
f263ca6 Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. Isaac Asimov
170b41f Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us. Isaac Asimov
f32dd2b You don't need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life. Isaac Asimov
dbb5cfe I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help." Cory Doctorow
bcc91f3 If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. Jules Verne
431cdbd People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live. Don DeLillo
9d9e38d But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are perfectly. And they don't do this in words or images, necessarily; the connection is a lot less direct and more complicated than that. When I was first beginning to write seriously, I read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and suddenly knew what I was, and what I wanted to be, for better or worse. It's a process something like falling .. Nick Hornby
22d6583 Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving. Don DeLillo
f73679a Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers at Immigration, getting into a massive cab that didn't have a moment to waste, and falling in love as soon as we shot onto the bridge and I saw Manhattan rise up through the looks of parental terror reflected in the window. I lost my virginity.. drugs empty headache immigration liberal-arts load-shedding manhattan new-york party tired Mohsin Hamid
2da3ebb Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers. Richard Bach
82d4a89 If we don't accept any common beliefs, we can't exist in spacetime. But when we don't believe in age, at least we don't have to die because our numbers change. [...] When you don't believe in birthdays, the idea of aging turns a little foreign to you. You don't fall into trauma over your sixteenth birthday or your thirtieth or the big Five-Oh or the deadly Century. You measure your life by what you learn, not by counting how many calendars .. Richard Bach
dee2375 It's okay is a cosmic truth...It's okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn't bother to pay the fare. Richard Bach
31eef56 I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet. Richard Bach
3e1aa54 Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me. Dashiell Hammett
08718ff He said: "I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means you'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you." He cleared his throat. "If they hang you I'll always remember you." Dashiell Hammett
237ece3 At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. Norman Maclean
2ee24c7 You guys take over while I go put on a shirt." Mrs. Kulavich had edged close enough to hear him. She beamed at him. "Don't bother on my account," she said. "Sadie!" Mr. Kulavich said in rebuke. "Oh, hush, George! I'm old, not dead!" "I'll remind you of that the next time I want to watch the Playboy Channel," he growled." Linda Howard
26dfe5f amusement in her eyes and had to grin. "How are you feeling?" he asked, his voice dropping to a low, intimate tone that excluded everyone else in the cafe and made several women draw in their breath. Her mouth quirked in that self-amusement that made him want to grab her to him. "This isn't one of my good days. The only thing holding me together is static cling." "Come home with me, and I'll take care of you." She looked him i.. Linda Howard
ac4da2f You see?" he asked, his voice softening to a velvety punas he felt her tremble. His warm breath stirred her hair. "All I have to do is touch you. It's the same for me, Faith. I don't like this worth a damn, but by God, I want you, and we're going to do something about it." Linda Howard