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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 47fec35 | If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined. | gambling vice | Michael Crichton | |
| b60aa56 | Only assholes put a nickname on their business card. | Michael Crichton | ||
| a453532 | You disgust me, all of you, with your happiness! With your life that must be loved at all costs. [...] I spit on your idea of life! [...] You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell! [...] I do not want to understand. I am here for something other than understanding. I am here to tell you no, and to die. To tell you no and to die. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| 7442844 | Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination. | Judith Butler | ||
| 5236f10 | I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them? | life stories | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| c33506a | While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on. | Aimee Bender | ||
| b2a1f7e | The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, let's the texter/former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless. | cigarettes smoking | Aimee Bender | |
| 4ea1a97 | The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal. | participate world | Aimee Bender | |
| 08d98a4 | I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 1d669ba | I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page. | myth poetry | Steve Erickson | |
| 5bd3441 | Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mind.. | discovery humanity intelligence pequeninos stupidity | Orson Scott Card | |
| 45bc3c3 | I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable. | cruel honest suffering | Orson Scott Card | |
| b8c8af1 | Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each .. | religion | Orson Scott Card | |
| ad3bda3 | While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights. | ender humans kids life love reality truth | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8b718b3 | we're all trying to decide wether your scores are up there are a miricule or a mistake. a habit | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a3b5d3f | They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn't just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don't.. | language reading telepathy writing | Orson Scott Card | |
| 3ee9686 | No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do. There was no place in that list for "feel." Not that Bean didn't have feelings. He simply refused to think about them or dwell on them or let them influence his decisions, when anything important was at stake." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0e9d5bf | Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold your stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and rep.. | humiliation stupidity | Orson Scott Card | |
| b35a1f5 | to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story-what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regretted, what they rejoiced in. That's the story that we never know, the story that we never can know-and yet, at the time of death, it's the only story truly worth telling. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 94be176 | Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a188fd0 | All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| fea49c5 | Boorab's spear was a window pole. He stood on the second step, barring their way. "Who goes there? State y'business, wot?" Brother Hoben tapped an impatient paw on the bottom step. "Come out of the way, please. We'ew going to the walltop." The hare twitched his whiskers officiously. "No Dibbuns allowed up here. You're not Dibbuns, are you?" Cregga took hold of the window pole he was clasping and lifted both Boorab and the pole, with one .. | redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| f23aa41 | Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved. | mice robins | Robin McKinley | |
| 91c7c6e | Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous. | friendships swords | Robin McKinley | |
| 66d7ed2 | I'm going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook below and a December fir wood beyond, where I've heard harps swept by the fingers of rain and wind. There is a pond nearby that will be gray and brooding now. There will be two oldish ladies in the house, one tall and thin, one short and fat; and there will be two twins, one a perfect model, the other what Mrs. Lynde.. | love | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 781c54c | Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart...learn to love it and then let it go in turn. Spring, lovely as it was, must yield to summer and summer lose itself in autumn. The birth...the bridal...the death... | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| df15f17 | Every war is more or less a woman's war. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 05f8fcc | But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject." | truth | Dick Francis | |
| 9b0a836 | I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings. | Dick Francis | ||
| e5ec6eb | Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas? | Lynne Truss | ||
| 3c244be | Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world? | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| d936f17 | Touch and away, Jack?' asked Stephen. 'Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?' To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?' Perhaps not quite directly. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 8bb1b41 | I've noticed that women often have a desire to change men, even the ones they love." "I've noticed that, too." Dougal frowned. "Which is odd, when you think about it. Because if you didn't like the way a man is, why would you attach yourself to him to begin with?" | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 48571eb | You see the suffering of children all the time nowadays. Wars and famines are played out before us in our living rooms, and almost every week there are pictures of children who have been through unimaginable loss and horror. Mostly they look very calm. You see them looking into the camera, directly at the lens, and knowing what they have been through you expect to see terror or grief in their eyes, yet so often there's no visible emotion at.. | emotional-development | Mary Lawson | |
| f31e9f3 | tshbh l`lq@ byn lymn wl`ql wlkhwf 'Hyn l`b@ l'Tfl lty tsm~ lHjr wlwrq@ wlmqS, flkhwf yzyH l`ql, wl`ql ytHd~ lymn, wlymn yGlb lkhwf. | Al Gore | ||
| c3e709b | She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 1932074 | Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction. | Henning Mankell | ||
| e969a89 | Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 06d23ad | THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF THE FEAR OF DOING SOMETHING IS TO GO OUT AND DO IT. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| adb35b1 | I will handle it | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 71be6f6 | Patience means knowing it will happen . . . and giving it time to happen. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 2d94f53 | Artists don't create society, they reflect it | Ben Elton | ||
| e6853ed | andhk lm 'stT` 'n 'fhm shyy', fqd kn `lyW 'n 'Hkm `lyh mn khll l'f`l l l'qwl. nh `TWrtny w'Dtny. lm ykn `lyW 'n 'hrb! kn `lyW 'n 'tnb' bHnnh lmkhtby khlf Hiyalh lsdhj@. n lzhwr mtnqD@ jd! wlknWy knt SGyr jd lky 'Hsn mHbth. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| b23a838 | Ma fleur est ephemere, se dit le petit prince, et elle n'a que quatre epines pour se defendre contre le monde! Et je l'ai laissee toute seule chez moi! | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |