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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b801f17 | But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 1fededa | You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7e9f634 | They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough. | Henry James | ||
| 2458a0f | Most of the young men of talent whom I have met in this country give one the impression of being somewhat demented. Why shouldn't they? They are living amidst spiritual gorillas, living with food and drink maniacs, success-mongers, gadget innovators, publicity hounds. God, if I were a young man today, if I were faced with a world such as we have created, I would blow my brains out. | Henry Miller | ||
| 4fe7fa5 | Better to separate than never to marry. | Henry Miller | ||
| 466d70a | The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it. | Henry Miller | ||
| a2344ae | t`tmd qw@ mwq` lnsn fy lHy@ `l~ drj@ kf@ drkh llwq`, wklm nqSt kfy'th yzdd tshwshh wbltly ytnm~ sh`wrh b`dm l'mn, fySbH bHj@ l~ 'whm ytky' `lyh lyjd lmn ldhy ynshdh. wklm zddt kfy'th tzdd mknyth fy lwqwf `l~ qdmyh wyjd jwhrh dkhl dhth. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4f5625d | The source of irrational authority, on the other hand, is always power over people. This power can be physical or mental, it can be realistic or only relative in terms of the anxiety and helplessness of the person submitting to this authority. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Criticism of the authority is not only required but forbidden. Rational authority is based u.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 982a970 | In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine. Man becomes a 'nine to fiver', he is part of the labour force, or the bureaucratic force of clerks and managers. He has little initiative, his tasks are prescribed by the organisation of the work; there is even little difference between those hig.. | individuality | Erich Fromm | |
| f6e34e7 | In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album -- or song -- you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have. | dedication talent work | Michael Jackson | |
| 4a2bd9a | Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 267b4fb | The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 30e6900 | Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a4ecdb1 | Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. | fashions ideals worldviews zeitgeist | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8434a8c | I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me. | philosophy | G.K. Chesterton | |
| a0af7ee | Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is civilised. He finds it because he is experienced; or, what is often much the same thing, because he is exhausted | despotism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f677e78 | Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c0e5066 | It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9eeb3b7 | The secret of life lies in laughter and humility. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 5447887 | Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else... Every act is an irrevocable selection and exclusion. Just as when you marry one woman you give up all the others, so when you take one course of action you give up all the other courses... Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d1f26fc | There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 64cec95 | Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9a5ed44 | Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7ba7019 | Private lives are more important than public reputations. | reputation | G.K. Chesterton | |
| bf10012 | The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend th.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 04606da | But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty. | socialism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| e2ef450 | The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9f9b499 | A naked moon stood in a naked sky. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| 1513839 | They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light. | Umberto Eco | ||
| c6f213d | For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 0ee2c58 | From now on, every ghost who enters the world of the dead will have to come with a story, the story of his or her life, and tell it to the harpies. It doesn't have to be a big adventure; it can just be a description of a day playing with the children, like Lyra's, or whatever it might happen to be. In exchange for this true story, the harpies will lead that ghost outside to dissolve into the Universe and be one with everything else. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 59d223c | Everything about her in that moment was soft, and that was one of his favorite memories later on--her tense grace made tender by the dimness, her eyes and hands and especially her lips, infinitely soft. He kissed her again and again, and each kiss was nearer to the last one of all. Heavy and soft with love, they walked back to the gate. Mary and Serafina were waiting. "Lyra--" Will said. And she said, "Will." | philip-pullman the-amber-spyglass | philip pullman | |
| 8a67512 | He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 111b848 | the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 28c153b | And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra." | Philip Pullman | ||
| 501a5b1 | If you wanted to divert a mighty river into a different course, and all you had was a single pebble, you could do it, as long as you put the pebble in the right place to send the first trickle of water that way instead of this. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 9f57418 | And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. And he knew that if he spoke, she wouldn't be able to resist; so the daemon held himself quiet so as not to distress the human who was abandoning him, and now they were both pretending that it wouldn't hurt, it wouldn't be long before they were together again, it was all for the best. But W.. | love sacrifice soul | Philip Pullman | |
| c8522a6 | And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? | Philip Pullman | ||
| 1e55f1a | The hand that holds the money cracks the whip. | James M. Cain | ||
| b5af705 | They threw me off the haytruck about noon. | James M. Cain | ||
| 0072671 | He strained to say something else. I leaned toward him. He focused on me. "Rape," he promised. "Many, many times. Until you bleed . . ." "I'm so flattered." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 24bde0a | Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 24ed85a | Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f56c467 | It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you. | Ilona Andrews |