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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d3bae4a | But the address, if it ever existed, never was sent, which made me sad, there was so much I wanted to write her: that I'd sold two stories, had read where the Trawlers were countersuing for divorce, was moving out of the brownstone because it was haunted. But mostly, I wanted to tell about her cat. I had kept my promise; I had found him. It took weeks of after-work roaming through those Spanish Harlem streets, and there were many false alar.. | Truman Capote | ||
| 86f2959 | Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there. | highway santa-fe trains water | Truman Capote | |
| c6816d0 | Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing. | marriage women | Truman Capote | |
| 98c6adb | And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself. | Truman Capote | ||
| 81be1a2 | The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick." | Truman Capote | ||
| 23e2fa9 | It's like Tiffany's," she said. "Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky. They only look right on the really old girls. Maria Ouspenskaya. Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds. I can't wait." | Truman Capote | ||
| 1c75835 | he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life | Edith Wharton | ||
| 780c541 | Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 85343ee | A woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself | Edith Wharton | ||
| ac09a71 | She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air. | Edith Wharton | ||
| b6db7df | We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 29fd0fc | The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b7b9ef5 | If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too easy. Too obvious. It was like coming across an Irishman who actually was stupid, a mother-in-law who actually was fat, or an American businessman who actually did have a middle initial and smoked a cigar. You feel as if you are unwillingly performing in a music-hall sketch and wishing you could rewrite the script. If Helmut and Kurt had been.. | german humour stereotypes | Douglas Adams | |
| b8c192e | The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 91a84ac | I don't know what this great thing I'm meant to be doing is, and it looks to me as if I was supposed not to know. And I resent that, right? "The old me knew. The old me cared. Fine, so far so good. Except that the old me cared so much that he actually got inside his own brain--my own brain--and locked off the bits that knew and cared, because if I knew and cared I wouldn't be able to do it. [...] "But this former self of mine killed himse.. | thought | Douglas Adams | |
| 8d8ef44 | I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 334d0a5 | It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, the.. | advice life-decisions | Douglas Adams | |
| 30c8dbe | You'll have a national Philosopher's strike on your hands! | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9823099 | From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4862c25 | Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d2133ac | Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with! | humor lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5e3faf6 | Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!" | humor swelling | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a9b7adf | Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 85d59e2 | Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them. Therefore she remained in the Hidden Kingdom, and abode with Melian, and of her learned great lore and wisdom concerning Middle-earth. | doriath galadriel melian middle-earth middle-earth-first-age | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0a7a978 | Every worm has his weak spot. lkl 'f`~ nqT@ D`f | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4537657 | the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened, | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6fad30c | Yet dawn is ever the hope of men. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fd6599a | They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night .. | humor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 4c332e8 | There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. | beginning eru | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ac8748b | But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d6547a4 | Good stories deserve a little embellishment. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 931d6e5 | Faithful heart may have froward tongue. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 93f807c | Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4b660f0 | You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 36a3a6e | as young and as ancient as Spring.... | spring | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5de1577 | I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery. | politics | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5d3f6d4 | At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away. | friendship frodo j-r-r-tolkien sam the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 67b2cae | You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth. | invention myths | Humphrey Carpenter | |
| 5025137 | There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be. | inspirational | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 95bffb1 | Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwe and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. | mandos manwë silmarillion varda | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 064d259 | All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f4f4cd2 | But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e415cab | For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Cirdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed. | isildur lord-of-the-rings sauron the-one-ring the-ring-of-power | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9b41778 | We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. | David McCullough |