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| 645f3c2 | Just curious,she mouthed. "What? I didn't catch that." Jjuussttccuurriioouuss.She drew it out this time, hoping he'd be able to read her lips. "If you spoke out loud," he drawled, "I might understand what you're saying." Caroline stamped her foot in frustration, but when it landed, it landed on something considerably less 'flat than the floor. "Owww!" he yelled. Oh! His foot!Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry , she mouthed.I didn't mean it. "If.. | humourous-situations julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 065f733 | James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh. | rose smack | Julia Quinn | |
| 7c1ed93 | emotion is first of all and in principle an accident | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 4415a9d | A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 2b58b6e | The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it's comforting; because it's so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so. | Michael Lewis | ||
| cb05f40 | While one might expect that suicide is highest among people whose lives are the hardest, research by Lester and others suggests the opposite: suicide is more common among people with a higher quality of life. "If you're unhappy and you have something to blame your unhappiness on--if it's the government, or the economy, or something--then that kind of immunizes you against committing suicide," he says. "It's when you have no external cause t.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 0f67a8c | He found himself one night in a bar standing beside a gorgeous woman. "Would you be willing to sleep with me for $1 million?" he asked her. She looked him over. There wasn't much to see--but still, $1 million! She agreed to go back to his room. "All right then, " he said. "Would you be willing to sleep with me for $100?" "A hundred dollars!" she shot back. "What do you think I am, a prostitute?" "We've already established that. Now we're ju.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 5cf9d39 | We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong. | James Frey | ||
| 215386b | He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow. | James Frey | ||
| 1492929 | The difference in the brains of men and women was imposed by nature, and only cemented by culture. | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 823090c | When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 2279ebc | Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| b31e18e | Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 7e5bae4 | Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure. | failure validation | Steven Pressfield | |
| eb16d75 | How do you know they're magic and not some mechanical device of the dwarves?" Tanis asked, sensing that Tas was hiding something. Tas gulped. He had been hoping Tanis wouldn't ask him that question. "Uh," Tas stammered, "I---I guess I did sort of happened to, uh, mention them to Raistilin one night when you were all busy doing something else. He told me they might be magic. To find out, he said one of those weird spells of his and they--uh-.. | Margaret Weis | ||
| 1ca3d7f | Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. | Anne Carson | ||
| a362ee2 | Four of the roses were on fire. They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets and howling colossal intimacies from the back of their fused throats. - XXVII. MITWELT | Anne Carson | ||
| a43b47f | What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary technique is the sense of banditry. To loot someone else's life or sentences and make off with a point of view, which is called "objective" because you can make anything into an object by treating it this way, is exciting and dangerous." | Anne Carson | ||
| 380c1e0 | Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burst into being, be a mighty bull, a hundred-headed snake, a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus! | Euripides | ||
| c1ca707 | O Dionysus, we feel you near, stirring like molten lava under the ravaged earth, flowing from the wounds of your trees in tears of sap, screaming with the rage of your hunted beasts. | Euripides | ||
| c59d2e4 | What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are? | Euripides | ||
| 2b65554 | I]t is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. | Beryl Markham | ||
| f30689a | I had never realized before how quickly men deteriorate without razors and clean shirts. They are like potted plants that go to weed unless they are pruned and tended daily. A single day's growth beard makes a man look careless; two days', derelict; and four days', polluted. Blix and Weston hadn't shaved for three. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 5065c85 | A veces creo que nada tiene sentido. En un planeta minusculo, que corre hacia la nada desde millones de anos, nacemos en medio de dolores, crecemos, luchamos, nos enfermamos, sufrimos, hacemos sufrir, gritamos, morimos, mueren y otros estan naciendo para volver a empezar la comedia inutil. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| b6a1ce8 | Me sente por ahi y llore. El agua sucia, abajo, me tentaba constantemente: ?para que sufrir? El suicidio seduce por su facilidad de aniquilacion: en un segundo todo este absurdo universo se derrumba como un gigantesco simulacro. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 9466168 | I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There's probably a third category--the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I've never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don't try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients t.. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 4433175 | He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not been helped any by the molding he had received at the hands of society. The hands of society are harsh, and this man was a striking sample of its handiwork. He was a beast - a human beast, it is true, but nevertheless so terrible a beast that he can best be characterized as carnivorous. | Jack London | ||
| b7b78dc | in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. | Jack London | ||
| 6e53f94 | Why didn't you dare it before? he asked harshly. When I hadn't a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden? That's the question. I've been asking myself for many a day. My brain is the same old brain. And what is puzzling me is why they want me now. Surely they don't want me for myself, for myself the same olf self they did not want. They must want me for something else, for somethin.. | love martin-eden thought | Jack London | |
| df3dc90 | His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness. It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable. The man in the red sweater had proved that. | Jack London | ||
| 91e8b4c | Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling." | Jack London | ||
| af2570f | Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d338dfc | I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9a22588 | It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment... | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 27c66a4 | It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants | greed restraint want | Louisa May Alcott | |
| cba91af | Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f81b237 | You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. | dance writing | Anne Lamott | |
| daed91c | The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 7c0753d | I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure .. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 2051f0d | You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me--and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| e2fb2f8 | There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding. | Julia Golding | ||
| d0e16ba | I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 1fccb68 | You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably much face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b765fb6 | the sleeper must awaken | Frank Herbert |