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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 85d7698 | Kogda ty glavnyi, tebe prikhoditsia dumat' i nado byt' mudrym, v etom vsia beda. | William Golding; introduction by E. M | ||
| a8428de | Listen, Ralph. Never mind what's sense. That's gone--- | William Golding | ||
| 7fa634f | We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. | humankind-human-nature | William Golding | |
| 54a0f95 | Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable amount of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. | William Golding | ||
| 1557482 | If you don't change your hairstyle because it's mostly fallen out and you don't shave, you've no cause to go chasing yourself in a mirror. | William Golding | ||
| 955269a | Queria explicar que la gente nunca resultaba ser del todo como uno se imagina que es. | William Golding | ||
| dee6eb4 | I was an estructuralist at the age of seven, which is about the right age for it. | William Golding | ||
| 91ba46d | As long as there's light we're brave enough | William Golding | ||
| 81b7be2 | The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world. All at once they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth. | William Golding | ||
| 6fb9e71 | Che idea, pensare che la Bestia fosse qualcosa che si potesse cacciare e uccidere! [...] Lo sapevi, no?... Che io sono una parte di te? Vieni vicino, vicino, vicino! che io sono la ragione per cui non c'e niente da fare? Per cui le cose vanno come vanno? | William Golding | ||
| cd23238 | Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him." | Alice Sebold | ||
| 918984f | These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell... | Alice Sebold | ||
| c4989e6 | When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 52820d2 | As I watched my family sip champagne, I thought about how their lives trailed backward and forward from my death and then, I saw, as Samuel took the daring step of kissing Lindsey in a room full of family, became borne aloft away from it. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 532e300 | Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before | Alice Sebold | ||
| 56647e7 | He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. | death inspirational loss love | Alice Sebold | |
| 788e7e1 | Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it's really learning. The questions, What's being taught? What's the goal? How do the lectures and assig.. | grades grading-systems learning public-school school-system teaching | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| e9c484a | Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 552e45f | We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us. | individuality intelligence objectivism schooling students teachers | Ayn Rand | |
| 64f1701 | The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused in most people. And so, for the first time, they could see him as he was: a man totally innocent of fear. The fear of which they thought was not the normal kind, not a response to a tangible danger, but the chronic, unconfessed fear in which they all lived. They remembered the misery of the moments when, .. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 7f3a66b | Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 00eebcc | You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 571fb96 | I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| fd59d2a | If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their alt.. | vice virtue | Ayn Rand | |
| fef8161 | Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 3a5442e | Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| dc7f018 | How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you--except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think? It's not boring to y.. | howard-roark mallory | Ayn Rand | |
| ba02a7c | Yes! And isn't that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he's honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he's great in the eyes of others... | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6158c75 | Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. | Ayn Rand | ||
| cd1a395 | An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader - not as a looter; as a producer - not as a Attila. | trader | Ayn Rand | |
| 82f1e89 | The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 8b71e73 | No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon) | objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| bce4aa1 | When we learn how to be in an intimate relationship without abandoning our sense of self, when we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, when we learn how to cooperate with others without betraying our standards and convictions, we are practicing self-assertiveness. | Nathaniel Branden | ||
| df8c32a | You know the parlor trick. wrap your arms around your own body and from the back it looks like someone is embracing you her hands grasping your shirt her fingernails teasing your neck from the front it is another story you never looked so alone your crossed elbows and screwy grin you could be waiting for a tailor | loneliness poetry | Billy Collins | |
| f843545 | That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with. | Anne Tyler | ||
| c121933 | You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, f**k it. | Jon Stewart | ||
| 9c96237 | Rained gently last night, just enough to wash the town clean, and then today a clean crisp fat spring day, the air redolent, the kind of green minty succulent air you'd bottle if you could and snort greedily on bleak, wet January evenings when the streetlights hzzzt on at four in the afternoon and all existence seems hopeless and sad. | cleansed crisp green mink-river minty rain | Brian Doyle | |
| 9ff30db | Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. | Brian Greene | ||
| ed9ce82 | You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election. | Robert Harris | ||
| 038251d | There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7e41ac4 | In the bathroom two water tumblers were sealed in cellophane sacks with the words: "These glasses are sterilized for your protection." Across the toilet seat a strip of paper bore the message: "This seat has been sterilized with ultraviolet light for your protection." Everyone was protecting me and it was horrible." -- | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3d1acea | We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0f25786 | It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b1a2836 | I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon. | John Steinbeck |