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| 2e00efb | I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| b8651f5 | But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content. All my heart is yours, sir; it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 1aad74d | Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait .. | goodbyes hurt lucy-snowe villette | Charlotte Brontë | |
| d574bfa | lqd mnHn llh -l~ Hdin m- lqdr@ `l~ Sn` qdrn b'nfsn. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 1eb1541 | Who you, Miss Snowe?"... "Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise." | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| d8030a5 | Do you think that I am a machine? That I can bear it? Do you think because I'm poor, plain, obsure, and little that I have no heart? That I'm without soul? I have as much heart as you and as much soul. And if God had given me as much beauty and wealth, I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 37a9a38 | You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new. | siblings | Charlotte Brontë | |
| bd755b5 | Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 792770d | you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you. besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissio.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| db07035 | I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 3c4fe61 | Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 7c86967 | They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 920c4b7 | Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.' I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be he.. | humor invasion irony native-americans parody reservations usa | Adam Rex | |
| 8ce875b | A poem should not mean But be. | Archibald MacLeish | ||
| bf18930 | Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd in one self place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 1d12802 | I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| bacd61f | But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. | happy think-for-yourself | Jon Krakauer | |
| ed89433 | the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 74159fd | Chastity and moral purity were qualities McCandless mulled over long and often. Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tol!stoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata," in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces "the demands of the flesh." Several such passages are starred and highlighted in the dog-eared text, the margins filled with cryptic notes printed in McCandless's distinc!tive hand. .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 65de66b | What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain? | Bette Greene | ||
| a55d3ae | What are you thinking?" She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not." | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 9a32ad5 | She was delicately morbid in all her gestures, sensitive, arrogant, vulnerable to flattery. She veered between extravagant outbursts of opinion and sudden, uncertain halts, during which she seemed to look to him for approval. She was in love with the idea of intelligence, and she overestimated her own. Her sense of the world, though she presented it aggressively, could be, he sensed, snatched out from under her with little or no trouble. Sh.. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| f445056 | Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1290cd7 | There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair | women | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 348b09c | From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| f512299 | If you think you are powerless, then you are | power-of-words self-worth | Monica Ali | |
| e834ad0 | I have no idea why she needs them. I just know that I'd face another plague to get them for her if I had to. Fortunately, it's a lot easier than that. - Elder | Beth Revis | ||
| dfb8356 | The Hierarch of Rak Urga drew himself up. "This is not a request, Urgit. I'm not asking you." "Good. Because I'm not going." "I command you to go." "I don't think so." "Do you realize to whom you're talking?" "Perfectly, old boy. You're the same tiresome old Grolim who's been boring me to tears ever since I inherited the throne from that fellow who used to chew on the carpets back in Rak Goska. Listen carefully, Agachak. I'll use short word.. | David Eddings | ||
| 51fb2e5 | Your extensive travels must have been fatiguing," Zakath said in that same flat tone, "particularly for the ladies. I'll see to it that your return journey to Mal Zeth is made in easy stages." "Your Majesty is very kind, but we're not going back to Mal Zeth." "You're wrong, Belgarion. You going back to Mal Zeth." "Sorry, I've got a pressing engagement elsewhere." "I'll convey your regrets to Zandramas when I see her." "I'm sure she'd be .. | David Eddings | ||
| cc29aa0 | Operating by trial and error mostly, we've evolved a tacitly agreed upon list of the elements that make for a good fantasy. The first decision the aspiring fantasist must make is theological. King Arthur and Charlemagne were Christians. Siegfried and Sigurd the Volsung were pagans. My personal view is that pagans write better stories. When a writer is having fun, it shows, and pagans have more fun than Christians. Let's scrape Horace's Dulc.. | David Eddings | ||
| 19e4779 | Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 4ab18b9 | We would prefer to say that such people cannot exist, that there aren't any," writes Solzhenitsyn. "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law." This is the foundation of the Dream -- its adherents must not just believe in it but believe that it is just, believe that their possession of the Dream is the natural result of grit, honor,.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 00130ca | I am sorry that I cannot make it okay. I am sorry that I cannot save you -- but not that sorry. Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it. The fact is that despite their dreams, their lives are also not inviolable. When their own vulnerability becomes real -- when the police decide that tactics for the ghetto should enj.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e88a735 | In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as a pervasive system both native and essential to that body. From that perspective, it seemed possible that the success of one man really could alter history, or even end it. | obama racism-in-america white-supremacy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 860e470 | There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for the day when we can struggle against anything else. But having been, by that very racism, pinned into ghettoes, both metaphorical and real, our options for struggle are chosen long before we are born. And so we struggle out of fear for our children. We struggle out of fear for ourselves. We struggle to avoid our feelings, .. | american-history struggle-against-racism systematic-racism | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| f093be5 | Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is to think that they are beyond the design flaws of humanity, has done to the world. But you cannot arrange your life around them and the small chance of the Dreamers coming into consciousness. Our moment is too brief. Our bodies are too precious... | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0fa257d | Black-on black crime' is jargon, violence on language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 042ea83 | It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves | philosophy | Slavoj Žižek | |
| e5e2f08 | The hardest part about being an outcast, isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 8bc4d15 | Whenever I hurt myself, my mother says it is the universe's way of telling me to slow down. She also tells me to put some coconut oil on it. It doesn't matter what it is. She often hides stones underneath my pillow when I come home for the weekend. The stones are a formula for sweet dreams and clarity. I dig them out from the streets, she tells me what each one is for. My throat hurts, so she grinds black pepper into a spoonful of honey, ma.. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 4791c4e | If you grow up the type of woman men want to look at, You can let them look at you. But do not mistake eyes for hands, Or windows for mirrors. Let them see what a woman looks like. They may not have ever seen one before. If you grow up the type of woman men want to touch, You can let them touch you. Sometimes it is not you they are reaching for. Sometimes it is a bottle, a door, a sandwich, a Pulitzer, another woman - But their hands found .. | womanhood women women-s-inspirational women-s-strength | Sarah Kay | |
| abf71d4 | You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 936d8bb | It is not fashionable to quote Stalin but he said once, "half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a traffic accident is a national tragedy." | John le Carré | ||
| d199743 | Of course I told him about you," Liesel said. She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it" | Markus Zusak |