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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57301b1 | He was not afraid to die with her, by fire or any other way - only to live without her. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 12cdb87 | In war, government and their armies were a threat, but it was so often the neighbors who damned or saved you | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 208b9fe | All I want," she said softly to the dark, "is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you--just because I am." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| eb8c584 | Thee is my wolf," she'd said to him. "And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home." "And sleep at thy feet," he'd replied." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 87e22f5 | I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant--and his son may be a poet. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7260b6a | There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think - but not for lies. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a051a28 | Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows. | unicorns | William Faulkner | |
| 272027c | Sometimes I could put myself to sleep saying that over and over until after the honeysuckle got all mixed up in it the whole thing came to symbolize night and unrest I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of grey halflight where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselve.. | William Faulkner | ||
| 1e9df42 | The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times. | William Faulkner | ||
| 311242c | Read it if you like or don't read it if you like. Because you make so little impression, you see. You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with string only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why ei.. | William Faulkner | ||
| 227a5b3 | Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else--pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books... | passion | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| cece9b2 | Los libros son puertas que te llevan a la calle, decia Patricia. Con ellos aprendes, te educas, viajas, suenas, imaginas, vives otras vidas y multiplicas la tuya por mil. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 18c5af1 | Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 33c58bc | Desconfien siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 11bdec8 | Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards--the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees--have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with. | adulthood life | Wallace Stegner | |
| 4852109 | It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 4fe71d8 | There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. | happiness harmony keystones love marriage married-life matrimony support togetherness | Wallace Stegner | |
| 8fbfe58 | It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money. | Roald Dahl | ||
| f7257a7 | Never grow up...always down. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 63a5acf | So shines a good deed in a weary world. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 991791b | The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 750b13f | Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 4ab9f1e | A bluetick hound bays out there in the fog, running scared and lost because he can't see. No tracks on the ground but the one's he's making, and he sniffs in every direction with his cold red-rubber nose and picks up no scent but his own fear, fear burning down into him like steam. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 19e3b7e | That's why hiring consultants doesn't work. Part-time employees don't work. Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren't together full-time, in the same place, every day. If you're deciding whether to bring someone on board, the decision is binary. Ken Kesey was right: you're either on the bus or off the bus. | Peter Thiel | ||
| 5a26318 | The way I remember it the tribe got paid some huge amount." "That's what they said to him. He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for the way a man is? They didn't understand." | one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest | Ken Kesey | |
| ac9173a | I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind.... | mind one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest | Ken Kesey | |
| 5ed4d0d | there was nothing, not a thing! about the country that made a man feel Big And Important. If anything it made a man feel dwarfed, and about as important as one of the fish-Indians living down on the clamflats. Important? Why, there was something about the whole blessed country that made a soul feel whipped before he got started. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 55f908e | If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons. | Ken Kesey | ||
| c3ba936 | One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?" [ | craft creative-process dullness familiarity inventiveness knowledge limitations writing | Ken Kesey | |
| 8bcd564 | I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack. | mcmurphy | Ken Kesey | |
| 463615f | She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 7ae4e94 | They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | ||
| e6e1f13 | Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back. . . . | Ken Kesey | ||
| 5821f89 | When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourse.. | decision-making inspirational life reality truth | Ken Kesey | |
| 60e1a2a | The Big Nurse is able to set the wall clock at whatever speed she wants by just turning one of those dials in the steel door; she takes a notion to hurry things up, she turns the speed up, and those hands whip around that disk like spokes in a wheel. The scene in the picture-screen windows goes through rapid changes of light to show morning, noon, and night - throb off and on furiously with day and dark, and everybody is driven like mad to .. | Ken Kesey | ||
| ec24e93 | Ia ikh videl ogromnoe kolichestvo, starykh i molodykh, muzhchin i zhenshchin. Videl ikh i na ulitse, i u nikh doma -- liudei, kotorye pytaiutsia sdelat' tebia slabym, zastavit' sledovat' ikh pravilam, zastavit' zhit' tak, kak oni etogo ot tebia khotiat. I luchshii sposob zastavit' tebia podchinit'sia -- udarit', gde vsego bol'nei. U tebia kogda-nibud' triaslis' podzhilki pri skandale, priiatel'? Lishaesh'sia khladnokroviia, razve net? Net n.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| ef0ac8b | He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 821ad86 | It's the truth, even if it didn't happen. | Ken Kesey | ||
| fc2971f | No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 9c059c2 | You must go through a winter to understand. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 9726500 | When I die pin me up against the sky. | Ken Kesey | ||
| b30643e | In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many! | funny intelligence mindfulness sincere truthfulness wisdom | Ken Kesey | |
| 2a8621b | A person has all sorts of lags built into him Kesey is saying. Once the most basic is the sensory lag the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes if you are the most alert person alive and most people are a lot slower than that.... You can't go any faster than that... We are all doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movies of our lives - we are a.. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 46d0c91 | A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose. I know now. That a human has to make it with other humans . . . before he can make it with himself. | Ken Kesey |