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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e04dc3d | Shit, Violence, bullets in the brain Unavailing. We're in too deep to pull out. Waiting for an orgasm, Mr. Baldwin? Yes, waiting for an orgasm that's all. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 38da9cf | Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch! Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss! Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity! Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent .. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 48917d5 | Mind is shapely, Art is shapely. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| facae41 | Earth pollution identical with Mind pollution, consciousness Pollution identical with filthy sky | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 6226b72 | who sought heaven under a mountain of stone, sat thinking till he realized the land of blessedness exists in the imagination - | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 02b095e | The grime was no man's grime but death and human locomotives, all that dress of dust, that veil of darkened railroad skin, that smog of cheek, that eyelid of black mis'ry, that sooty hand or phallus or protuberance of artificial worse-than-dirt--industrial--modern--all that civilization spotting your crazy golden crown-- and those blear thoughts of death and dusty loveless eyes and ends and withered roots below, in the home-pile of sand and.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 49a6299 | No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love-- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love --cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 79d5ed6 | Scream in despair over Meat and Metal Microphone | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| de66242 | I eat a catfish sandwich | ginsberg | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 413af38 | I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness. | beat-generation escape introspection | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 1af7e5f | An Eastern Ballad" I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 01242d2 | Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success. | iceland past present | Edward Gorey | |
| 1d03e84 | The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice. | Edward Gorey | ||
| fad1de0 | Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had better say it because it accounts for a good deal of my behaviour. There is a strong streak in me that wishes not to exist and really does not believe that I do, so that I tend to become unnerved when these curious ideas are proved to be not really true because someone (in this case you) has responded to something I have said or done just as if I were an actual p.. | Edward Gorey | ||
| ef0261c | On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which might apply. | writing | Edward Gorey | |
| de98706 | Death turned to leave the room, but stopped when Hex began to write furiously. He went back and looked at the emerging paper. +++ Dear Hogfather, For Hogswatch I Want OH, NO. YOU CAN'T WRITE LETT... Death paused, and then said, YOU CAN, CAN'T YOU. +++ Yes. I Am Entitled +++ Death waited until the pen had stopped, and picked up the paper. BUT YOU ARE A MACHINE. THINGS HAVE NO DESIRES. A DOORKNOB WANTS NOTHING, EVEN THOUGH IT IS A COMPLEX MAC.. | terry pratchett | ||
| b4ada7a | Those who sought her never found her, yet she was known to come to the aid of those in greatest need. And, then again, sometimes she didn't. She was like that. She didn't like the clicking of rosaries, but was attracted to the sound of dice. No man knew what She looked like, although there were many times when a man who was gambling his life on the turn of the cards would pick up the hand he had been dealt and stare Her full in the face. Of.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 803ad82 | Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. | light | Terry Pratchett | |
| a14bcbb | I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c314379 | SEE THE MAN NEXT TO HIM? WITH THE LITTLE MOUSTACHE AND THE GRIN LIKE A LIZARD? Death pointed with his scythe. 'Yes?' HIS COUSIN, THE DUKE OF STO HELIT. NOT THE NICEST OF PEOPLE, said Death. A HANDY MAN WITH A BOTTLE OF POISON. FIFTH IN LINE TO THE THRONE LAST YEAR, NOW SECOND IN LINE. BIT OF A SOCIAL CLIMBER, YOU MIGHT SAY. | mort | Terry Pratchett | |
| bfed242 | It was a little like stealing. It was exactly like stealing. It was, in fact, stealing. But there was no law against it because no one knew the crime existed, so is it really stealing if what's stolen isn't missed? And is it stealing if you're stealing from thieves? Anyway, all property is theft, except mine. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 021009b | In front of the group was a legless man on a small wheeled trolley, who was singing at the top of his voice and banging two saucepans together. His name was Arnold Sideways. Pushing him along was Coffin Henry, whose croaking progress through an entirely different song was punctuated by bouts of off-the-beat coughing. He was accompanied by a perfectly ordinary-looking manin torn, dirty and yet expensive looking clothing, whose pleasant tenor.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5ac3b57 | Many bad things were done under the Evil Empire" she said. "The best we can do now is undo them. Will you assist in this endeavor?" "In every way that I can" said Nutt. "I would like you to teach them civilized behavior," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes, of course, I think, that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?" There was a brief outburst of laughter from Vetinari, who.. | humor orcs | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7bc5778 | The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. | time | Terry Pratchett | |
| d4200f3 | That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing! | inspiration life | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4c7efb0 | And the new day was a great big fish | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ff381d6 | no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away--until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 07b9733 | Mister Rob Anybody and sundry others?" said one of the figures in a dreadful voice. "There's naebody here o' that name!" shouted Rob Anybody. "We dinna know anythin'!" "We have here a list of criminal and civil charges totaling nineteen thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three separate offenses-" "We wasna there!" yelled Rob Anybody desperately. "Isn't that right, lads?" "-including more than two thousand cases of Making an Affray, Causing a.. | lawyers | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7e61ba4 | Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off." Vimes shrugged. "He's got a very pointed look if I don't use the sugar tongs, I know that." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6663eff | The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she'd found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8cf681c | Of course, he was in favor of Armageddon in general terms. If anyone had asked him why he'd been spending centuries tinkering in the affairs of mankind he'd have said, "Oh, in order to bring about Armageddon and the triumph of Hell." But it was one thing to work to bring it about, and quite another for it to actually happen. Crowley had always known that he would be around when the world ended, because he was immortal and wouldn't have any .. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0549c69 | Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4052dcf | And that was fine, except that she didn't have any old friends anymore. Kids back home who'd been friendly were now...respectful, because of the hat. There was a kind of wall, as if she'd grown up and they hadn't. What could they talk about? She'd been to places they couldn't even imagine. Most of them hadn't even been to Twoshirts, which was only half a day away. And this didn't worry them at all. They were going to do the jobs their fathe.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a096b9a | But we don't do things like that!" said Vimes. "You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7aaa6d1 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8a7bef0 | It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad | husband marriage toads wife | Terry Pratchett | |
| 14fcf85 | When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 05a0ccb | There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8d11271 | Good evening, gentlemen!' said the vampire. 'Please pay attention. I am a | humor vampires | Terry Pratchett | |
| 089908c | It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4cffd29 | All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dd964d0 | Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 49737ff | I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e3814ac | And then she woke up and it was all a dream.' It was just about the worst ending you could have to any story. | Terry Pratchett |