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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0881a5e | The amateur dreads becoming who she really is because she fears that this new person will be judged by others as "different." The tribe will declare us "weird" or "queer" or "crazy." The tribe will reject us. Here's the truth: the tribe doesn't give a shit. There is no tribe. That gang or posse that we imagine is sustaining us by the bonds we share is in fact a conglomeration of individuals who are just as fucked up as we are and just as te.. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| b8f6e0e | The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 6a0e0c3 | A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen. | Anne Carson | ||
| ff7f91b | She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate. | Euripides | ||
| 77cfe74 | My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God. | Euripides | ||
| a0c632d | One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing f.. | Beryl Markham | ||
| da4a4fb | La vida es tan corta y el oficio de vivir tan dificil, que cuando uno empieza a aprenderlo, ya hay que morirse. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 86e39a0 | Pero, en general, la humanidad me parecio siempre detestable. No tengo inconvenientes en manifestar que a veces me impedia comer en todo el dia o me impedia pintar durante una semana el haber observado un rasgo; es increible hasta que punto la codicia, la envidia, la petulancia, la groseria, la avidez y, en general, todo ese conjunto de atributos que forman la condicion humana pueden verse en una cara, en una manera de caminar, en una mirad.. | misanthropy | Ernesto Sabato | |
| a60ae27 | Get over it,' Sherlock said, and looked at her husband. 'No, no, bad dog, keep quiet. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 98d90ad | To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to crouch at man's feet, this grief has never come. Unlike man, whose gods are of the unseen and overguessed, vapors and mists of fancy eluding the garmenture of reality, wandering wraiths of desired goodness and power, intangible outcroppings of self into the realm of spirit - unlike man, the wo.. | god man nature power religion | Jack London | |
| 33fdfa5 | For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work. | Jack London | ||
| ff745f4 | The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it. | Jack London | ||
| 422b74b | One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life...people on the left need to acknowledge - we need to grapple with - the question of religion. | bell hooks | ||
| 6faa6eb | You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. Upon my word I will!" and Laurie meant what he said." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 6bf2b0c | I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing the right and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a4aae69 | You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b2ba311 | on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. | louisa-may-alcott women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7f5a3f7 | There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment," said Tempest with a bitter smile. Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 804140b | Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f4f4ae7 | Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5f80fe9 | Si seulement je pouvais m'arreter de penser, ca irait deja mieux. Les pensees, c'est ce qu'il y a de plus fade. Plus fade encore que de la chair. Ca s'etire a n'en plus finir et ca laisse un drole de gout. Et puis il y a les mots, au-dedans des pensees, les mots inacheves, les ebauches de phrases qui reviennent tout le temps. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 84febf6 | You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself --in my mind. Painfully conscious. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 52a5ed3 | know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence--and there's quite enough existence as it is. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 79ceac3 | Je crois que c'est moi qui ai change: c'est la solution la plus simple. La plus desagreable aussi. Mais einfin je dois reconnaitre que je suis sujet a ces transformations soudaines. Ce qu'il y a, c'est que je pense tres rarement; alors une foule depetites metamorphoses s'accumulent en moi sans que j'y prenne garde et puis, un beau jour, il se produit une veritable revolution. C'est ce qui a donne a ma vie cet aspect huerte, incoherent. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| ffa59f7 | On meurt toujours trop tot -- ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est la, terminee: le trait est tire, il faut faire la somme. Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| fb78d2c | INEZ: To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore.Your silence clamours in my ears. You can nail up your mouth, cut your tongue out - but you can't prevent your being there. Can you stop your thoughts? I hear them ticking away like a clock, tick-tock, tick-tock, and I'm certain you hear mine. It's all very well skulking on your sofa, but you're everywhere, and every sound comes to me soiled because you've.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| a1c0251 | They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time, and they are quite right. Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 040031c | Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? | religion strategy wisdom | Frank Herbert | |
| d896d0d | Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 977f7bf | Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. | learning | Frank Herbert | |
| 579c292 | Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now! | Frank Herbert | ||
| 2d46039 | They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4ba5937 | O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 07da409 | It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6e5256a | Prophets have a way of dying by violence. | Frank Herbert | ||
| bb31758 | An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old marke.. | progress | Neal Stephenson | |
| e7fa35c | Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 8e1a42a | Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten - when Larry Cobb was sober. | drunk drunkenness | Raymond Chandler | |
| 62005dc | You know, you spend your childhood watching TV, assuming that at some point in the future everything you see will one day happen to you: that you too will win a Formula One race, hop a train, foil a group of terrorists, tell someone 'Give me the gun', etc. Then you start secondary school, and suddenly everyone's asking you about your career plans and your long-term goals, and by goals they don't mean the kind you are planning to score in th.. | goals humor life television | Paul Murray | |
| 4b0da35 | She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| de435c6 | Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful. | life reflection world | Michael Cunningham | |
| 5f8853d | We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some di.. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| d112609 | Your self...is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread. | identity self | Tom Wolfe | |
| 2213734 | The physical power of real love is staggering, because real forgiveness is staggering... | Ted Dekker |