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| 9a54475 | War's never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don't suppose that's the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3c44fd6 | Evil has only the power that we give it. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2e014d0 | I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 529b1a2 | I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f858003 | Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 10630c8 | You can't ever have my books. | fahrenheit-451 mgg ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| 5854480 | I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and morals. It was that love that was no more bad than wind and sea and sand lying side by side forever. It was made of all the warm long days together at the beach, and the humming quiet days of droning education at the school. All the long Autumn days of the years past when I carried her books home from school. | beach child education fall forever love morals october school | Ray Bradbury | |
| e10f973 | But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created so that we can appreciate its beauty without clinging to it as if it were a lasting possession. Our lives can indeed be seen as a process of becoming familiar with death, as a school in the art of dying . . . all these times have passed by like friendly visitors, leaving you with dear memories but also with the.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| b2e20bb | The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of GOD...people who are so deeply in love with JESUS that they are ready to follow HIM wherever HE guides them, always trusting that, with HIM, they will find life and find it abundantly | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 8a6ae1f | Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the pas.. | dignity doubts failure failures god grace guilt home identity love son sonship worries worry worthlessness | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| d0c6c3a | In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 967693a | The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 3f64f17 | Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 618fb42 | The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny | Wole Soyinka | ||
| 4bba9ab | Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 6062c66 | Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 8e1754a | We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| d596072 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility. " | Tom Wolfe | ||
| cebbe8f | Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus." -- | ken-kesey | Tom Wolfe | |
| b75b1e8 | A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| b7b5864 | For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, | Chaucer Geoffrey | ||
| 5824844 | Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| ac9c2d9 | Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 0138d84 | This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone. | life nostalgia technology telephone | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 035f6fb | I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| a444a51 | The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. | life philosophy | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| b571675 | From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| cd00a62 | Dreaming her way backward in time, resurrecting images, the young girl realized, with wonder, that the absent are always present, that you don't make them go away simply because you get on a train and head off in a particular direction. | Carol Shields | ||
| 78295e5 | One of the century's most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." | William Styron | ||
| 060948f | Hold him. Because if Jericho dies, I'm going to tear his heart out of his chest and feed it to him. (Delphine) Given the ass-whipping you just gave him, I'm sure you will. Remind me to -never- upset that woman. (Zeth) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0f7a9d6 | Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| b463905 | Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 7f2cadb | Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 47a305c | Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she?" | hope mateson | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 70f9003 | Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem, my heart hammering so hard I was sure he could hear it. when I inched closer, not wanting to intrude, he tugged me in front of him and I stumbled, half falling onto his lap. I tried to scramble up, cheeks burning, but he pulled me down onto his knee, one army going around my waist, tentative, as if to say I.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 7d30738 | Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched) | stereotypes | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 66b9001 | because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't want to pretend she never existed. So before I start forgetting, I have to get down exactly who she was, and exactly how she felt about everything. She was me a lot longer than I've been me so far. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| a2f3cbf | Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her." | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 8463a33 | She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good. | curvy flesh lord scrawny woman | Jim Thompson | |
| abe11f4 | Yeah, Johnnie,' I said, 'it's a screwed up, bitched up world, and I'm afraid it's going to stay that way. And I'll tell you why. Because no one, almost no one, sees anything wrong with it. They can't see that things are screwed up, so they're not worried about it. What they're worried about is guys like you. 'They're worried about guys liking a drink and taking it. Guys getting a piece of tail without paying a preacher for it. Guys who know.. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 1976638 | If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow. | bossy marriage narrow-minded | Jim Thompson | |
| 5241f70 | I knew-though I didn't recognize the fact-that I wasn't all right. | murderer psychopath serial-killer | Jim Thompson | |
| 0569609 | Wildly, he declared that she was a whore at heart, that she had always been a whore, that she had been one when he met her. That was not true. In her early working life, as a photographer's model and cocktail waitress, she had occasionally given herself to men and received gifts in return. But it wasn't the same as whoring. She had liked the men involved. What she gave them was given freely, without bargaining, as were their gifts to her. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 19fe529 | Well. Well? What are you going to do? What are you going to say? What are you going to say when you're drowning in your own dung and they keep booting you back into it, when all the screams in hell wouldn't be as loud as you want to scream, when you're at the bottom of the pit and the whole world's at the top, when it has but one face, a face without eyes or ears, and yet it watches and listens.... What are you going to do and say? Why, par.. | Jim Thompson |