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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2d98e8b | The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 73db597 | Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 96ab7d7 | Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 64c438f | The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| dd5494a | They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| e50af72 | Something good will come out of all things yet--And it will be golden and eternal just like that--There's no need to say another word. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| bc91e43 | I liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 02197ce | Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow? | philosophy | Annie Dillard | |
| 54f9252 | She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the los.. | loss time youth | Annie Dillard | |
| 1d4b1dd | I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again | Annie Dillard | ||
| f58c33d | I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 1134c26 | The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse w.. | god life listening mountains nature stars | Annie Dillard | |
| e72601a | What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to impress myself at all times with the fullest possible force of their very reality. I want to have things as multiply and intricately as possible present and visible in my mind. Then I might be able to sit on the hill by the burnt books where the starlings fly over, and see not .. | landscape reality seeing spirituality | Annie Dillard | |
| 7c371c6 | I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die. | living living-life living-well | Anne Lamott | |
| d54b74c | Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and is the real payoff. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 19c0a08 | Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 66f7f2e | Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 75983ce | Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5281ba8 | and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear... | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9d2aed7 | And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c35b056 | These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c944ef3 | The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3788cb5 | In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13) | Mary Roach | ||
| 1e2633a | It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 374c524 | Bertie, do you read Tennyson?" "Not if I can help." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| ef03f53 | We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 5377db5 | A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 21f6d17 | You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning) | Amy Tan | ||
| 0e2aa4c | How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and h.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 0f1abc3 | She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine.. | relationships | Amy Tan | |
| ea5b48d | I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing. | Amy Tan | ||
| 26c58a3 | As she grew older, she was aware of her changing position on mortality. In her youth, the topic of death was philosophical; in her thirties it was unbearable and in her forties unavoidable. In her fifties, she had dealt with it in more rational terms, arranging her last testament, itemizing assets and heirlooms, spelling out the organ donation, detailing the exact words for her living will. Now, in her sixties, she was back to being philoso.. | death | Amy Tan | |
| 39f36f8 | If I Should Die Before You Do When you wake up from death, you will find yourself in my arms, and I will be kissing you, and | Richard Brautigan | ||
| ae5646f | Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 6332c9b | High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the bumps, sand off the sharp corners. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 35fa669 | Earlier in the twentieth century some critics called fascism "capitalism with the gloves off," meaning that fascism was pure capitalism without democratic rights and organizations." -- | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 969fa71 | With regard to freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and prefer Stalinist/fascist standards. It is unfortunate that it remains necessary to stress these simple truths. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 093d153 | We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves. | judaism self-awareness | James A. Michener | |
| 8487ac7 | I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4bf73cd | When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 7c1e95d | She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven't done in years-- barnyard sounds. | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| de72e49 | Don't be afraid to be unique. Love yourself before you love another. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| cec2550 | El deseo por abalanzarme sobre sus brazos y sentir su calor rodeandome es tan poderoso que me pregunto si es medicamente posible sentir una adiccion semejante por Otro ser humano. -Brit | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 68c8fb5 | Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I'm not a pirate, and she's not my captured princess. | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles |