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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0bebfdb | If you can repress for a moment your spinster-like longing to meddle in my affairs,' said Lymond cuttingly, from the door, 'I am waiting to go. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b9f2385 | Talk to me, Richard. It isn't difficult. Move the teeth and agitate the tongue. Tell me news of the family. Am I superseded yet? Oh, Richard, a blush! | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| cf931c7 | He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure--if he survives the experience. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6122648 | I am not blind, nor deaf. I know you all believe me weak, frightened, feeble. Your father knew me better. Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon the grass? But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| dd5f11a | It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 908bf4c | The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn" | inspirational spirit | Charles de Lint | |
| e64bea3 | Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome .. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 5e281f9 | For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two pol.. | philosophy soul spirituality truth | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7b51ad6 | Even the wolf has two, and more than two, souls in his wolf's breast, and he who desires to be a wolf falls into the same forgetfulness as the man who sings: "If I could be a child once more!" He who sentimentally sings of blessed childhood is thinking of the return to nature and innocence and the origin of things, and has quite forgotten that these blessed children are beset with conflict and complexities and capable of all suffering. Ther.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 596d643 | Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 41cfbb7 | Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell." - General Agamemnon " | Brian Herbert | ||
| 52f2141 | Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 503a7fe | A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure? | Marguerite Duras | ||
| f753c21 | I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| ff4a238 | I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea. | writing | Marguerite Duras | |
| 3a13e07 | You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been. | the-lover | Marguerite Duras | |
| a24e6e5 | and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!" | Stevenson Robert Louis | ||
| 697caf8 | My heart is a Latin American food stall and your love is a health inspector from Zurich. | love | Tom Robbins | |
| 5b2807d | Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 7c593a0 | Champagne was discovered by a Catholic monk," said Bernard. "Took one swallow and burst out of his cellar yelling, 'I'm drinking stars, I'm drinking stars!' Tequila was invented by a bunch of brooding Indians. Into human sacrifice and pyramids. Somewhere between champagne and tequila is the secret history of Mexico, just as somewhere between beef jerky and Hostess Twinkies is the secret history of America. Or aren't you in the mood for epig.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 859d2fa | If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, | Tom Robbins | ||
| 34179f6 | It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose. | gratitude idealization together turbulence | Tom Robbins | |
| 8c1270a | Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there'.. | life tom-robbins | Tom Robbins | |
| 9798b3e | The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 8a54a12 | Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convi.. | evil fun life piety play transcendence vigilance | Tom Robbins | |
| ebbf371 | Telling a lie is an act with a sharp focus. It is designed to insert a particular falsehood at a particular point in a set or system of beliefs, in order to have that point occupied by the truth. This requires a degree of craftsmanship, in which the teller of the lie submits to objective constraints imposed by what he takes to be the truth. The liar is inescapably concerned with truth-values. In order to invent a lie at all, he must think h.. | Harry G. Frankfurt | ||
| 4ed0163 | Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind, she defines each of these elements: Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self-criticism. Common humanity: Common humanity recognizes that suffering and feelings of personal inadequacy are part of the shared human experience--something we all go t.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 37349e8 | Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it's about creating a clearing. It's opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question. | Brené Brown | ||
| dc5315c | The most powerful emotions that we experience have very sharp points, like the tip of a thorn. When they prick us, they cause discomfort and even pain. Just the anticipation or fear of these feelings can trigger intolerable vulnerability in us. We know it's coming. For many of us, our first response to vulnerability and pain of these sharp points is not to lean into the discomfort and feel our way through but rather to make it go away. We d.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 5e805cf | Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| 2c3e8ea | When we're kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others. Our children learn how to be self-compassionate by watching us, and the people around us feel free to be authentic and connected. | Brené Brown | ||
| 17cefd2 | There's a great quote from the movie Almost Famous that says, "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." | Brené Brown | ||
| 06fa93a | the women and men I interviewed who had the strongest sense of true belonging stayed zoomed in. They didn't ignore what was happening in the world, nor did they stop advocating for their beliefs. They did, however, commit to assessing their lives and forming their opinions of people based on their actual, in-person experiences. They worked against the trap that most of us have fallen into: I can hate large groups of strangers, because the m.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7baa00c | We either own our stories (even the messy ones), or we stand outside of them--denying our vulnerabilities and imperfections, orphaning the parts of us that don't fit in with who/what we think we're supposed to be, and hustling for other people's approval of our worthiness. Perfectionism is exhausting because hustling is exhausting. It's a never-ending performance. | Brené Brown | ||
| 09e1639 | Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle. | Brené Brown | ||
| 525492e | When we pretend that we can avoid vulnerability we engage in behaviors that are often inconsistent with who we want to be. | Brené Brown | ||
| 77e2418 | Show me a woman who can hold space for a man in real fear and vulnerability, and I'll show you a woman who's learned to embrace her own vulnerability and who doesn't derive her power or status from that man. Show me a man who can sit with a woman in real fear and vulnerability and just hear her struggle without trying to fix it or give advice, and I'll show you a man who's comfortable with his own vulnerability and doesn't derive his power .. | Brené Brown | ||
| 15e65d3 | I was already tired of talking, and I'd said very little. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4bff69f | Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4483d85 | I was not that man: I didn't hate and fear all women. I was a one-woman misogynist. If I despised only Amy, focused all my fury and rage and venom on the one woman who deserved it, that didn't make me my father. That made me sane. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 60a01ee | Leis go brown, tectonic plates shift, deep currents move, islands vanish, rooms get forgotten. | Joan Didion | ||
| 018abbe | To think one thought meant thinking the opposite thought, and no sooner did that second thought destroy the first thought than a third thought rose up to destroy the second. | Paul Auster | ||
| 00d3666 | It's an essential part of becoming more creative. Expand your interests in life. Seek out new, interesting experiences, no matter how mundane or inconsequential they might seem to others. Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles. | Sean Patrick | ||
| f69cb74 | When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. | Nikola Tesla |