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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d98769a | You feel like quitting, like giving up. You can't understand why the road doesn't get easier, why God doesn't remove the stones and straighten the path. If God did that, you might never get to the top, because the bumps are what you can climb on. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 05695e3 | ndm tHyn lfrS@, ymkn Ht~ llTybyn 'n ytHwlw l~ mtSlbyn wmtjbryn | النفس | José Saramago | |
| 69c666b | The robot had no feelings, only positronic surges that mimicked those feelings. (And perhaps human beings had no feelings, only neuronic surges that were interpreted as feelings.) | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 4dd9024 | There is no Master but the Master," he said, "and QT-1 is his prophet." -- | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 25bcb31 | There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| fbf70f9 | And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots. | insubordination mayor politics | Isaac Asimov | |
| ef54b02 | the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out." | kindle | Cory Doctorow | |
| 566cfb6 | We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing. | labour-movement occupy-wall-street revolution-movements | Cory Doctorow | |
| ef129f1 | Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want. | math numbers | Jules Verne | |
| 4b70718 | So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. | Jules Verne | ||
| 24f7991 | No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal | Jules Verne | ||
| 3a84763 | All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived. | Jules Verne | ||
| 6ddfee7 | The only private language I know is self-exaggeration. I think I've grown a second self in this room. It's the self-important fool that keeps the writer going. I exaggerate the pain of writing, the pain of solitude, the failure, the rage, the confusion, the helplessness, the fear, the humiliation. The narrower the boundaries of my life, the more I exaggerate myself. If the pain is real, why do I inflate it? Maybe this is the only pleasure I.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| c0de53d | Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 7d3f3c8 | Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said." | Don DeLillo | ||
| dc529c6 | Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e664f14 | World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| e82cec4 | Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 1c2daad | To plot is to live. [...] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Pic.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a7fa905 | Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 28a938c | Not that the heart can be good without knowledge, for without knowledge the heart is empty. But there are two kinds of knowledge: the first is alone in its bare speculation of things, and the second is accompanied by the grace of faith and love, which causes a man to do the will of God from the heart. "The" | John Bunyan | ||
| 9e8d186 | I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 98a7dbd | For we were not always burdened by debt, dependent on foreign aid and handouts; in the stories we tell of ourselves we were not the crazed and destitute radicals you see on your television channels but rather saints and poets and -- yes -- conquering kings. built the Royal Mosque and the Shalimar Gardens in this city, and built the Lahore Fort with its mighty walls and wide ramp for our battle-elephants. And we did these things when you.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 8f7ee65 | You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection. | desire love relationships | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 4487d03 | Let me begin again as a speck of dust caught in the night winds sweeping out to sea. Let me begin this time knowing the world is salt water and dark clouds, the world is grinding and sighing all night, and dawn comes slowly, and changes nothing. | poetry | Philip Levine | |
| a914387 | Le paradis, c'est simplement d'etre soi-meme parfait. | Richard Bach | ||
| 3afb77a | I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could manage their r's give it the same pronunciation. I still didn't see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves' word for dictionary. A few years later I wen.. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| f132ca4 | Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| dad1c38 | I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| d41272d | As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from an original state of grace. Somehow, I early developed the notion that he had done this by falling from a tree. As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he oft.. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 9f9d626 | You like to tell true stories, don't you?' he asked, and I answered, 'Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.' Then he asked, 'After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it? Only then will you understand what happened and why. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. | Norman Maclean | ||
| a5758df | I'm really not hungry," she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. "Just a few bites," he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. "You need to keep up your strength for tonight." She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. "Why? Are you planning something special?" "I suppose I am," he said consideringly. "It's special every time we make love." | eat making-love | Linda Howard | |
| ca43da2 | She felt both relaxed and protected with him, at least from outside forces. Nothing, it seemed, could protect her from him, and tonight she wasn't even certain she wanted to be. Claimed, and mated. She was his, but was he hers? And if he was, what in hell did they do about it? "I don't even know what you want," she said fretfully, beginning to lose herself in rising sensation. "This," he muttered in a dark, rough tone. "You. Everything." | Linda Howard | ||
| 625c6d2 | It's not something I can control, damn it. Every man I know wakes up with a hard-on." "Maybe so, but they do not - repeat, - rub it on me." " wasn't rubbing it on you! It was just me!" "And it was just your hair that I pulled, wasn't it?" she asked sweetly." | Linda Howard | ||
| 36c99bc | It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith. | Linda Howard | ||
| e520d39 | Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last. | Kevin Brockmeier | ||
| 52758a4 | You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul. | life rube-goldberg soul | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| 536b46d | I stopped and asked him if he was all right, and he said he was tired of remembering everything he wanted to forget and forgetting everything he wanted to remember. | Kevin Brockmeier | ||
| eaf6097 | I swore we'd never be together, but--' 'Your inner whore would not be denied.' she finished. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 2b56477 | There's more than one way for a girl to Google a cat. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 3ebcd20 | Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms." | funny humour | MaryJanice Davidson | |
| 334648c | You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods." | sanabalis | Michelle Sagara West | |
| cf661bb | You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer! | Daniel Clowes | ||
| 4d9ca70 | This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners. | Daniel Clowes |