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| 0c3b995 | Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side." -- | humor star-trek | Sharyn McCrumb | |
| 22e6546 | Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| d326897 | The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant th.. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| f9bacfe | But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 24217c4 | It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you." | Ayn Rand | ||
| a5a03f9 | To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 02e1fa5 | But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon th.. | ayn-rand freedom individuality | Ayn Rand | |
| d2a307d | The "pleasure" of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of consciousness. And so are the kind of social gatherings, held for no other purpose than the expression of hysterical chaos, where the guests wander around in an alcoholic stupor, prattling noisily and senselessly, and enjoying the illusion of a universe where one is not burdened with purpose, logic, reality or awareness." | Ayn Rand | ||
| efa1c0e | When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 7979319 | writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 9691408 | I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 98 | Ayn Rand | ||
| 555629b | If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else. | noremorse self skin | Don De Grazia | |
| e1d0563 | Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy as a bond between us. Give us your hand. Look ahead. It is our own world, Golden One, a strange, unknown world, but our own. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 21b55e9 | There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 7e6a495 | You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' | Anne Tyler | ||
| 5cd200d | Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 42c400e | A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 595c0bc | it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre... | france historical-fiction military | Robert Harris | |
| 09e2d46 | People perish. Books are immortal. | historical literature | Robert Harris | |
| f3a1b3f | A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it's halfway to being just like every other bloody book that's ever been written. | writing | Robert Harris | |
| d7357e3 | I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there? Remember how he gets confused and uneasy, sometimes just stands and looks for an answer? Well, then they have to give him a horse or his heart will break. He has to get his horns into something solid or his spirit dies. Well, I'm that horse. .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 55338f6 | The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it. | feeling thought | John Steinbeck | |
| 562f446 | The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e2da887 | If you are in love -- that's a good thing -- that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you. [...] If it is right, it happens -- The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3b4383c | The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3a98ab3 | I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma", he said, "if it was the law they was workin' with, why we could take it. But it ain't the law. They're a-working away at our spirits. They're a-tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They're tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way.. | law police | John Steinbeck | |
| 853f174 | Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e108669 | Well, Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d2dee22 | Men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals.... What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals? | love ulcers | John Steinbeck | |
| 0b07f31 | Because he loved true things he tried to explain. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7492bf2 | In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the Children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream. And it might be that a sick child threw despair into the hearts of twenty families, of a hundred people; that a birth there in a tent kept a hundred people quiet and awestruck trough the night and filled a hundred people with the birth-joy in t.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a93a498 | The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 838cb3c | There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 38b4e5a | We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 9d4015b | Then again, no matter what your point of view may be, you can always find someone with a Ph.D to support it. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 7f5b0cf | Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 7d80075 | My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 9ce70af | I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 2182aa6 | In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7f8fff5 | Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past. | Arthur Golden | ||
| f885fe3 | Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will. | fate niall nora-roberts | Nora Roberts | |
| a0f8cd7 | The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that. | Nora Roberts | ||
| d24ab22 | Some romantic you are," Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back."Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet?" "They got dropped," Diana said flatly." | Nora Roberts | ||
| cd269d5 | Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on. | Nora Roberts |