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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8956077 | On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or .. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 9d21834 | Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present ... Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. | housework sisyphus | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 821de09 | We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving praise showered on the "real woman"; nor be won over by men's enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share." | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 4167536 | The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 06467cf | If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression. | philosophy simone-de-beauvoir the-second-sex | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| ec0e04c | Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible ou je puisais des conseils et des secours. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 2b431cc | He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant." | Peter Straub | ||
| 83a6e38 | Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. | peter-straub thinking | Peter Straub | |
| 8ff6e88 | Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| d6069ab | This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers! | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 37a2a85 | Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 173021f | How can it be described? How can any of it be described? The trip and the story of the trip are two different things. The narrator is the one who has stayed home, but then, afterward, presses her mouth upon the traveler's mouth, in order to make the mouth work, to make the mouth say, say, say. One cannot go to a place and speak of it; one cannot both see and say, not really. One can go, and upon returning make a lot of hand motions and indi.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| ef3d4c9 | The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you're already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you're anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal's office: "So what's this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?" You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your ha.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8260309 | And though he continued never to express a single word of love for me, not in any way of his several languages, I could not take a hint. Let the hint be written across the heavens in skywriting done by several planes - I was dense. Even skywriting, well, it wasn't always certain: it might not cover the whole entire sky, or some breeze might smudge it, so who could really say for sure what it said? Even skywriting wouldn't have worked! Sever.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| ad13013 | PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 1c6aa29 | Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. | preface sacrifice | George Bernard Shaw | |
| d73898e | I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've s.. | language | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 3cdcb03 | German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| bed6b53 | All professions are conspiracies against the laity. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 3c7950f | Repressed and suppressed feelings require counter-energy to keep them submerged. It takes energy to hold down our feelings. As these feelings are relinquished, the energy that had been holding down the negativity is now freed for constructive uses. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 131071d | The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| b3836c6 | It hurts," Nellie said. "I know," Reagan said. "No pain, no gain." "Do you think they made that expression up for ?" | Jude Watson | ||
| b674291 | There is in this valley a beating heart. It is always and ever there. And when I am gone, it will beat for you and when you are gone, it will beat for your children and theirs, forever. Forever. Until there is no water, no air, no green in the spring or gold in the autumn, no stars in the sky or wind from the north. And when you cannot speak, it will speak for you. When you cannot see, it will be your eyes. When you cannot remember, it will.. | remembrance | Robert Goolrick | |
| 32e0b54 | Our successes and failures in life can be traced to how well or how badly we deal with the inevitable conflicts that confront us in society. | Robert Greene | ||
| 40ae444 | Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and urgency, will create strategies that will always miss the mark. | Robert Greene | ||
| f033cd2 | If the world is like a giant scheming court and we are trapped inside it, there is no use in trying to opt out of the game. That will only render you powerless, and powerlessness will make you miserable. Instead of struggling against the inevitable, instead of arguing and whining and feeling guilty, it is far better to excel at power. In fact, the better you are at dealing with power, the better friend, lover, husband, wife, and person you .. | Robert Greene | ||
| cda16a2 | Learn to use the knowledge of the past and you will look like a genius, even when you are really just a clever borrower. | Robert Greene | ||
| d3500fc | When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face. | Robert Greene | ||
| 1f1b1f7 | The most important of these skills, and power's crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings. | Robert Greene | ||
| ce4c03e | Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers. | growing-older nostalgia | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| 55c8d26 | A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning. | kate-elliott kiss | Kate Elliott | |
| a2e0495 | you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello." | prayer | Stormie Omartian | |
| d8e804b | A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause. | Ben Bova | ||
| 673e518 | This is crap," Shaun said, withdrawing his arm. "Right," I agreed. "Absolutely fucking crap." "No argument." "I want to punch somebody right about now." "Not it," Rick said. "I punch back," Steve said." | punching | Mira Grant | |
| bda99a0 | I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone. | Rick Steves | ||
| 5cd5fb8 | The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e755310 | someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. | human-experience medication prescription-drugs psychiatry shutter-island | Dennis Lehane | |
| 496ded9 | Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87) | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b32476e | But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a984475 | Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f2b841b | Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're .. | William Goldman | ||
| 9798699 | There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them. | william goldman | ||
| f79d889 | Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future. | omerta | Mario Puzo | |
| 58cb815 | You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end. | Mario Puzo |