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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6bd57ea | Judge not, lest ye be judged. | Libba Bray | ||
| 000b98b | As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions about who holds power, who abuses it, who profits from it, and at what cost to our democracy. It is a time of questions about what makes us American, of shifting identities, inclusion and exclusion, protest, civil and human rights, the strength of our compassion versus the weakness of our fears, and the seductive lure of a mythic "great" past tha.. | americans future inspirational-quote past present | Libba Bray | |
| bd205b6 | Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon. | happiness inspirational stress | Susan Sarandon | |
| 5d59d09 | Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 41a6840 | the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. | marriage | Ann Patchett | |
| cbc7019 | Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 93179c8 | Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?" she says." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 76e4447 | That big glorious mountain. For one transitory moment, I think I may have actually seen it". For one flash, the Mommy had seen the mountain without thinking of logging and ski resorts and avalanches, managed wildlife, plate tectonic geology, microclimates, rain shadow, or yin-yang locations. She'd seen the mountain without the framework of language. Without the cage of associations. She'd seen it without looking through the lens of everythi.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0541e66 | Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 92cdb70 | Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aa40cb1 | Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6f281ec | The most boring thing in the entire world," Brandy says, "is nudity." The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ...The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. So Brandy never asked me anything." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 61c913f | Human beings don't cultivate ideas. On the contrary...Ideas cultivate us. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8c2af81 | The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a65fe6e | If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate. | reincarnation | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 974bb3f | There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7620db6 | You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a7eeba7 | Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a95ff0f | Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done... | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 85e0c38 | You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying, organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0e007f0 | You are permanent, but this life is not. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c49740a | This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion." | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 15f3740 | It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has ha.. | applause dancing singing stage theater war | Noel Streatfeild | |
| b2956db | History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. | P.D. James | ||
| f11a62b | In the hall, Tina whisper hisses, "Retreat! Retreat!" The sounds of heels clip clopping follows before... stumble crash bang Mimi laughs her ass off and says, "We have a man down! I repeat. We are a man down!" Lola laughs hard and yells out, "We're so bad at this! Best mission ever! The sound of giggles and heels approach my room. I put an arm under my head to elevate it. I want to see what these goofballs are doing. Tina's first through th.. | laugh-out-loud-at | Belle Aurora | |
| 153ec95 | And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 11962c4 | Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. Anyway, being a fish, you knew how to swim. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. Perhaps t.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 928068b | In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry. | life | Nicole Krauss | |
| a011b09 | But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 8f268b2 | and at the table next to her was a little boy in a soccer uniform sitting with his mother who told him, A wave of happiness came over me. It felt giddy to be part of it all. To be drinking a cup of coffee like a normal person. I wanted to shout out: | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 837a274 | One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,' he says, 'is that we are not the culmination of anything. There is nothing inevitable about our being here. It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 567a177 | In the morning a new man was behind the front desk. "And how did you enjoy your stay, Sir?" he asked smoothly. "It was singularly execrable," I replied. "Oh, excellent," he purred, taking my card "In fact, I would go so far as to say that the principal value of a stay in this establishment is that it is bound to make all subsequent service-related experiences seem, in comparison, refreshing." He made a deeply appreciative expression as if t.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| db7bcf3 | I hung up again and looked at Katz. "What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief." | Bill Bryson | ||
| fe69fe0 | Bipedalism is a demanding and risky strategy. It means refashioning the pelvis into a full load-bearing instrument. To preserve the required strength, the birth canal in the female must be comparatively narrow. This has two very significant immediate consequences and one longer-term one. First, it means a lot of pain for any birthing mother and greatly increased danger of fatality to mother and baby both. Moreover, to get the baby's head th.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 6197359 | In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. | learning students | Bill Bryson | |
| c817876 | He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and dress him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| d866cd7 | In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The object was to find a verbal formula to define the Brahman, the ultimate and inexpressible reality beyond human understanding. The idea was to push language as far as it would go, until participants became aware of the ineffable. The challenger, drawing on his immense erudition, began the process.. | religion theology | Karen Armstrong | |
| 47f6852 | a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. | indulgence self-destruction | Dan Simmons | |
| 64d7b1e | Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. | Dan Simmons | ||
| f7a3d3e | speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'... | Dan Simmons | ||
| 6da1cda | Context is to data what water is to a dolphin | Dan Simmons | ||
| 6a299aa | By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| d43e6c5 | The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary. | earth | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 8633178 | I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has. | Michael Chabon |