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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4448fb5 | Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter! | Margaret Weis | ||
| b768836 | get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet! ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!! | Margaret Weis | ||
| d807656 | Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan | sophocles tragedy | Anne Carson | |
| 0900c44 | Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. | Euripides | ||
| 7efc758 | There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. | science | Euripides | |
| 58b41f5 | I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| b1c05b0 | Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 080732e | Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless. | Jack London | ||
| 7b5932e | Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman. He was becoming anti-social. Daily he found it a severer strain to be decent with people. Their presence perturbed him, and the effort of conversation irritated him. They made him restless, and no sooner was he in contact with them than he was casting about for excuses to get rid of them. | Jack London | ||
| 41a3f14 | His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him. | Jack London | ||
| fe3d60c | There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil. | Jack London | ||
| b9140de | On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. | Jack London | ||
| 04b7d3c | Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so. | image love superficiality | Jack London | |
| 37214d2 | Always has woman crouched close to earth like a partridge hen mothering her young; always has my wantonness of roving led me out on the shining ways; and always have my star paths returned me to her, the figure everlasting, the woman, the one woman, for whose arms I had such need that clasped in them I have forgotten the stars. For her I accomplished Odysseys scaled mountains crossed deserts; for her I led the hunt and was forward in battle.. | Jack London | ||
| f9d54c6 | The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| d87d167 | To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample evidence that animals -- rats and monkeys, for example -- that are forced into a subordinate status within their social systems adapt their brain chemistry accordingly, becoming 'depressed' in humanlike ways. Their behavior is anxious and withdrawn; the level of serotonin (the neurotransmitter boosted .. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| c7d9e22 | Into each life some rain must fall, Somedays must be dark and sad and dreary. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 22bd67c | You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need much advice of mine after my good man has spoken. I read somewhere that every inch of rope in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so wherever a bit of it is found it is known. That is the text of my little sermon to you. Virtue, which means honour, honesty, courage, and all that makes character, is the red thread that marks a good man .. | virtue | Louisa May Alcott | |
| ca9b97e | men never forgive like women. | louisa-may-alcott men women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 5fe3b59 | The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who trul.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 31e6ec8 | Well, now there is a very excellent, necessary, and womanly accomplishment that my girl should not be without, for it is a help to rich and poor, and the comfort of families depends upon it. This fine talent is neglected nowadays and considered old-fashioned, which is a sad mistake and one that I don't mean to make in bringing up my girl. It should be part of every girl's eductation, and I know of a most accomplished lady who will teach you.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3c0b244 | Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole. | louisa-may-alcott men women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| f74a63f | nothing seemed impossible in the beginning... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7ff33c3 | Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner." | Alcott Louisa May | ||
| 1845d43 | and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 0d0ac0f | The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. It is nowhere written that "the good" exists, that one must be honest or must not lie, since we are now upon the plane where there are only men. Dostoe.. | god meaning | Jean Paul Sartre | |
| 06767d1 | But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself." | emptiness philosophy | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 256aecf | Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love--or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories. | love orestes surrender the-flies | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| bdc79b6 | For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3239f57 | Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man.... | atheist atheistic beliefs consistency definition essence existence existentialism humanism humans jean-paul-sartre man sartre views | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 752d438 | Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom--ah the soul-destroying boredom--of long days of mild content. | mundane the-flies zeus | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| afe33f7 | My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 8574689 | You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something. | nausea truth | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 27daeb9 | There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 15e5cb0 | Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom. | Frank Herbert | ||
| de1705c | History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run. | history | Frank Herbert | |
| 1a11ffe | I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which civilized humankind works very hard to suppress. What price will you pay for that suppression?.. | frank-herbert god-emperor-of-dune | Frank Herbert | |
| a97b6bb | The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. | dune ecology science wildlife | Frank Herbert | |
| ea53f8a | No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. | identity self-awareness truth | Frank Herbert | |
| e95ced0 | Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. | power self | Frank Herbert | |
| b79e641 | My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you! | god prayer religion | Frank Herbert | |
| 9d0b07d | A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 583fd65 | TO THE LADY JESSICA- May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. My kindest wishes, MARGOT LADY FENRING | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6553a89 | Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames. | Neal Stephenson |