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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6aee0bc | If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior. | humanity language society writing | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 57aac83 | Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy" -- | history | Evan Thomas | |
| 7ed4cff | It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 3677a30 | In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them. | reading writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| d0b06fd | Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 4fd9593 | Girls are cruelest to themselves. Someone like Emily Bronte, who remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman, had cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow. | girls poem poetry self-cruelty the-glass-essay women | Anne Carson | |
| 65a0e62 | I'm not interested in Bob Marley telling me to 'lively up' myself. The only music that satisfies me is Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor's voice crying through industrial rhytms. In the August evenings, I lie on my bed with earphones, letting his laments roll through me like unrepentant thunderstorms. I envy the courage that carries his voice into the world. He doesn't berate himself for pain and anger; he howls. And this delights me, even t.. | depression shame | Kiera Van Gelder | |
| a159808 | Farewell to thee! but not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of thee: | poetry | Anne Brontë | |
| 132261a | I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. | fear fitz mankind nature robin-hobb wisdom | Robin Hobb | |
| 8c0cbdd | Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 64f5d26 | Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 520670b | Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable. | love | Robin Hobb | |
| 3211eb5 | A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind. | sleep | Robin Hobb | |
| b37d792 | Everyone doesn't have to do everything," she told me. "People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created by other people, things I could never make or do. I wouldn't trade that for anything." | inspirational | Will Schwalbe | |
| ab8e816 | In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. | deconstruction language poetry | Charles Simic | |
| 613f1e1 | Making art in America is about saving one's soul. | Charles Simic | ||
| d2eceb5 | While you sit Like a rain puddle in hell | Charles Simic | ||
| 055455d | When you play chess alone it's always your move. | Charles Simic | ||
| 0253c30 | It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss. | goodbye kiss noir prison | Cornell Woolrich | |
| c9d7693 | I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander," he whispered in her ear. "And you were worth every second of it." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 435a50f | Hay dias en que la recuerdo y me pregunto: ?Que estara haciendo? Hay noches en que la extrano y me pregunto: ?Que me estoy haciendo? | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 521f4fa | La verdad, habia en ella algo que era imposible no admirar, por esas razones que nos llevan a apreciar las obras bien hechas, aunque sean perversas. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 5308634 | Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 097a84f | Teach her that to love is not only to give but also to take. This is important because we give girls subtle cues about their lives--we teach girls that a large component of their ability to love is their ability to sacrifice their selves. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ee8617a | Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don't teach boys to do the same? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 934c0c6 | Beware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite. It is the idea of conditional female equality. Please reject this entirely. It is a hollow, appeasing, and bankrupt idea. Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not. Feminism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 488beb7 | Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the t.. | luck math probability statistics | Leonard Mlodinow | |
| 229dfb5 | He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good. | falseness trickery | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 6511ead | I know, 0 Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience, that thy true heart of a friend is yearning day and night for me. I know that thou art ready to cover me with gifts, make me prefect of the pretorian guards, and command Tigellinus to be that which the gods made him, a mule-driver in those lands which thou didst inherit after poisoning Domitius. Pardon me, however, for I swear to thee by Hades, and by the shades of thy mot.. | petronius sarcastic-humor | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 6990c12 | I am not who I was, but I know who I am. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| d0e966a | For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me | war | Christopher Paolini | |
| bb45620 | You shouldn't let him hit you so much" observed saphira "Yes I realize that'" he growled. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 7d9ea41 | The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. | eragon paolini | Christopher Paolini | |
| 8448375 | Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 432180a | Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings. | love | Anaïs Nin | |
| e012527 | A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm. | poetry sexuality | Anaïs Nin | |
| 8f6ccc2 | Her elongated eyes did not close as other women's eyes did, but like the eyes of tigers, pumas and leopards, the two lids meeting lazily and slowly; and they seemed slightly sewn together towards the nose, making them narrow, with a lascivious, oblique glance falling from them like the glance of a woman who does not want to see what is being done to her body. All this gave her an air of being made love to, which aroused the Baron as soon as.. | delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| 1d36a49 | You know I've always wanted to break the molds which life forms around one if one lets them. -Why? -I want to trespass boundaries, erase all identifications, anything which fixes one permanently into one mold, one place, without hope of change. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| c469caa | The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| a05ca92 | The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two beings. When I return to Hugo in the evening, to the peace and warmth of the house, I return with deep contentment, as if this was the only condition for me. I bring home to Hugo a whole woman, freed of all 'possessed' fevers, cured of the poison of restlessness and curiosity which used to threaten our marriage, cured through action. Our love li.. | cheating desire faithful love passion | Anaïs Nin | |
| 1f15bf6 | If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| fcd0b2c | Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments. | love morality | Anaïs Nin | |
| 44dbe33 | The light was crude. It made Artaud's eyes shrink into darkness, as they are deep-set. This brought into relief the intensity of his gestures. He looked tormented. His hair, rather long, fell at times over his forehead. He has the actor's nimbleness and quickness of gestures. His face is lean, as if ravaged by fevers. His eyes do not seem to see the people. They are the eyes of a visionary. His hands are long, long-fingered. Beside him All.. | heartthrob | Anaïs Nin | |
| 52ad086 | I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease, a proliferation as dangerous as cancer. My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a WHOLE, whereas I was made up of a multitude of selves, of fragments. | Anaïs Nin |