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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 314226f | Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put it's trust in life! | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 0a4ae51 | There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 209b078 | O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of some one dead you have loved. I shall never forget her.... Pass the bottle. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| f5ae4f5 | No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man all is inborn strength to fight hunger properly. It's really easier to f.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 49760ae | It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| cd9d552 | With my friends, the sad truth is that our best "best friend" days are behind us. In college, we used to be able to meet each other in the common area of our off-campus housing, excited about our evening ahead, which consisted of someone making an enormous tureen of pasta and drinking wine from a box while we took turns regaling each other with details of our terrible love lives." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 41f72b7 | I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c86fd26 | There are not many relationships more powerful than that of two women who fall fast and deep into a friendship. It was heartbreaking to be loved and left. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 964513f | 1) There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. (2) I would like to be friends with Beyonce Knowles. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| fce32ea | What? I have a cold. Don't get a look of terror on your face. The worst that could happen is that you'll get a cold, too. You don't have to theatrically Purell a thousand times a day and look all panicky every time I come into the room. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b382db9 | Sometimes a story just needs an ending, and I used to not be a creative enough person to think of an ending to a romantic story that isn't a wedding or a death. This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life. All I had to do now was move on. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| d0eb8ec | What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 8124f80 | For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 2eacb3f | The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 67ff652 | O que lembro, tenho. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| a3bbdd4 | To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love. | Richard Russo | ||
| 1d832e5 | Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds of suddenness, aware that speed was trump. "Slow" works in an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower." | slow speed | Richard Russo | |
| ccb3897 | That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears. | Richard Russo | ||
| 1d296e2 | At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars. | Richard Ford | ||
| 82befa1 | What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all;... to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try. | Richard Ford | ||
| a981480 | She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind. | Richard Ford | ||
| 7e6729e | H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap... | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 4988d91 | There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| dc89b44 | He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 6ba48b0 | This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war. | children war | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 5f3a167 | She smiled and sipped from her glass. There was altogether too much of her sitting there, the broad expanse of thigh cradled in the insubstantial stocking and the garters with the pale flesh pursed and her full breasts and the sootblack piping of her eyelids, a gaudish rake of metaldust in prussian blue where cerulean moths fluttered her awake from some outlandish dream. Suttree gradually going awash in the sheer outrageous sentience of her.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 192e8cb | Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat. Above all else they appeared wholly at venture, primal, provisional, devoid of order. Like beings provoked out of the absolute rock and set nameless and at no remove from their own loomings to wander ravenous and doomed and mute as gorgons shambling the brutal wastes of Gondwanaland in a time before nomenclature was and each was all. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 0d7e49b | He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness. He said these things to me with great earnestness and great gentleness and in the light from the portal I could see tha.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| eebc7f8 | It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine... | hobbesian | Cormac McCarthy | |
| a79c5dc | As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 40a1a12 | In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. Deep stone flues where the water dripped and sang. Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. Until they stood in a great stone room .. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 7cd6866 | Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 8f3ff0a | Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| e257e44 | For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 348674a | He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 3940fc9 | Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions. | success | David Mamet | |
| 790034a | This can't go on all the time...all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| e28d596 | There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged. | writing | Annie Dillard | |
| 85d9bc3 | Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. | death life passage time | Annie Dillard | |
| 06b38c8 | Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. "The most demanding part of living a lifet.. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 02436c4 | There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it. | wisdom | Annie Dillard | |
| 76978dd | Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2ee444c | Nell's husband has short-man syndrome. Eddie is one of those deadly dull people who is so upbeat that I suspect he would subconsciously like to go through the neighborhood, house by house, with a machine gun. He seems oblivious to the effect that his long, rambling monologues have on people - he doesn't notice the blank faces, the fingers flexing like those of people buried alive, the ocular tics. You could write down his words verbatim, sh.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9800f48 | Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integri.. | beauty faces feature older | Anne Lamott |