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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 | |
| 1ad0924 | When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished. | self-awareness | Mitch Albom | |
| fd3335d | What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2f70b39 | He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 58cc260 | What will you do with the time you have left? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1d00a4f | She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 070a2dc | There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b4bafc2 | el amor no se piensa: se siente o no se siente. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7c5c4ed | lymn lHq nfyD ls`d@ ltfh@ | happiness | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 2d4d572 | m fy'd@ l`ql fy `lm l m`qwl | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f1960fb | 'lm y`bdwh bl'ms? 'lm ykn lqy'd wlz`ym wlm`lm wlmlhm? 'y nfq w'y khs@ w'y jbn! jyl ystHq ltSfy@ mn nSdq?! 'nSdq m yuql lan ?! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| ad211bf | lw Hrf lw`@ yTmH bHmq@ ly twhm lqdr@ `ly tGyyr ltrykh | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| b0dfd19 | lHb hw lHb , wlda~ HDwrh ttlsh~ lqwa~ lmDd@ jmy`an fy GmD@ `yn. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5e6c392 | Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 0442b79 | On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy. | eliza eliza-hamilton hamilton legacy legacy-quotes lin-manuel-miranda | Jeremy McCarter | |
| c576fdb | and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear o.. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 5014700 | There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| ab776e6 | A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it. | virtue | Epictetus | |
| f1756ea | What then, is it not possible to be free from faults? It is not possible; but this is possible: to direct your efforts incessantly to being faultess. For we must be content if by never remitting this attention we shall escape at least a few errors. When you have said "Tomorrow I will begin to attend," you must be told that you are saying this: "Today I will be shameless, disregardful of time and place, mean;it will be in the power of others.. | Epictetus | ||
| e1d2bc0 | Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire. | freedom | Epictetus | |
| 1de6c04 | Remember that you must behave as at a banquet. Is anything brought round to you? Put out your hand, and take a moderate share. Does it pass you? Do not stop it. Is it not come yet? Do not yearn in desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. So with regard to children , wife, office, riches; and you will some time or other be worthy to feast with the gods. And if you do not so much as take the things which are set before you, but are ab.. | Epictetus Epictetus | ||
| 3da6b45 | Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing." | daughter determination mixed-feelings mother strong-willed-child | Jeannette Walls | |
| 869dd8e | I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even people who seemed to have it all had their secrets. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| daadcc0 | If you want to be treated like a mother," I said, "you should act like one." -- | Jeannette Walls | ||
| aeea754 | If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own. | eyes eyesight glasses parenting-tip | Jeannette Walls | |
| e72529c | Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 57574dc | Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive. | feeling pettiness | Sebastian Faulks | |
| ea30c6d | Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance." | Luanne Rice | ||
| bff17be | Age is real life is short. It's foolhardy to deny it. We grow up, our bodies grow frail, death is coming. There's so much I want to do! There's a whole world out there I havent seen, ppl I havent met and who havent know me. God, there 're a million books I want to read. I dont want to sleep... I want to be awake. This is my life - I want to live it | Mary Alice Monroe | ||
| 5a6f8a3 | By meditating, we're learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such as illusory feelings of scarcity and fears of deprivation. We gradually learn to be more conscious and make better choices. We develop simplicity instead of comlexity, open-mindedness instead of narrow-mindedness, flexibility rather than rigidity. We feel ourselves to be mor.. | Lama Surya Das |