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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ab42bf | Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times .. | alcohol anxiety art balance be-okay chest coffee crying drinking ed fine flowers focus grateful gratitude happiness hope hopeful hopeless hurt inspiration joy lovely lovers madness mental-health music new-day okay panic panic-attack panic-attacks park recovery sad sadness self-destruction self-harm sing singing sky smoking songs sound spring starving tears walking well-being wellness | Charlotte Eriksson | |
| 01c8f2d | Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed. | Nancy Straight | ||
| 63195d0 | How much of our earth has been wet by blood because of jealousy! And at the end of life, what does it all matter? We grow old and the young look at us and can never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c24ae70 | He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he stared at them the answer slipped out of his grasp... But he had to think now, and he stared at the smoke-dimmed stars in the hope that they would help him, but all they did was go on shining. | confusion stars | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 48712aa | Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech. | Norah Vincent | ||
| 3ddfbc6 | It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more. | mars-venus | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 4970510 | on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out. | focus pax-templi | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| cad5958 | Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you'll just let it happen. (Marianne) | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3b970a1 | I thought we were the good guys," he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it's evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| bc6c4e6 | My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a31e526 | If I let you get killed, the other bodyguards will make fun of me. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d571297 | I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| aa9537a | There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 126e46f | I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake | romance romantic-gestures | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| c92be84 | I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything. | Luke Davies | ||
| afd1912 | We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3e05ac6 | The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. | Sam Harris | ||
| 75e5c9d | The problem is that moderates of all faiths are committed to reinterpreting, or ignoring outright, the most dangerous and absurd parts of their scripture--and this commitment is precisely what makes them moderates. But it also requires some degree of intellectual dishonesty, because moderates can't acknowledge that their moderation comes from outside the faith. The doors leading out of the prison of scriptural literalism simply do not open .. | Sam Harris | ||
| 02d58e1 | Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality. | Sam Harris | ||
| 2c6a344 | An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists. | Sam Harris | ||
| e625607 | There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to be in touch with reality, to remove doubt, etc. Alternately one might say that motivation is an aspect of cognition itself. Nevertheless, motives like wanting to find the truth, not wanting to be mistaken, etc., tend to align with epistemic goals in a way that many other commitments do not. As we have begun to see, all reasoning.. | emotion morality motivation religion | Sam Harris | |
| 8ede382 | If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil. | Sam Harris | ||
| f5ab5ff | Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| fb6204b | Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 06e2c18 | lwjwd llTrq lqSyr@ 'w lmbshr@ . | José Saramago | ||
| 553d60d | lSwt hw bSr mn l ystTy` lrw'y@ | José Saramago | ||
| 01a0071 | Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer, | José Saramago | ||
| 5c83a5a | in order to invent heaven and hell a man would need to know nothing except the human body | José Saramago | ||
| f3c355f | Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer, we were already blind the moment we turned blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind | José Saramago | ||
| 09adbe6 | The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them. | José Saramago | ||
| 29a17b9 | quero encontrar a ilha desconhecida, quero saber quem sou quando nela estiver, Nao o sabes, Se nao sais de ti, nao chegas a saber quem es. | José Saramago | ||
| d6cbd98 | Without a future, the present serves no purpose, | José Saramago | ||
| 5acaf79 | Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always .. | society | Isaac Asimov | |
| bfcc405 | The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 95364a3 | A horse having a wolf as a powerful and dangerous enemy lived in constant fear of his life. Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally. Whereupon he approached a man, and offered an alliance, pointing out that the wolf was likewise an enemy of the man. The man accepted the partnership at once and offered to kill the wolf immediately, if his new partner would only co-operate by placing his greater speed at the man'.. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 5743460 | If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count. | smoking | Isaac Asimov | |
| 42c446d | Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. | destructive government happiness new power | Cory Doctorow | |
| 8793840 | But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,... | Jules Verne | ||
| eedfd3e | With time and thought, one can do a good job. | Jules Verne | ||
| 1dc58c0 | You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a07c848 | Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20) | Don DeLillo | ||
| 66befac | Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 74cdc17 | Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 38d949b | It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. | reality self | Frank Kermode |