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| 5e614f2 | Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech. | language sterilization uniformity | John Steinbeck | |
| 6e2b2d7 | But Charley doesn't have our problems. He doesn't belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself. He doesn't even know about race, nor is he concerned with his sisters' marriage. It's quite the opposite. Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply a.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 431005f | In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what .. | fight god unhappy | John Steinbeck | |
| 6d4a6aa | This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain. | dissonance harmony inductive-leap meaning pain | John Steinbeck | |
| b029fbb | Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles -- only the winners are remembered. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. 'Thou mayest, Thou mayest!' What glory! | John Steinbeck | ||
| 43d4e2c | It set him free," said Lee. "It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man." "That's lonely." "All great and precious things are lonely." "What is the word again?" "Timshel--thou mayest." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 21b1e74 | He is one of those whom God has not quite finished. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3f55d6d | It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don't want to do. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e84e36f | I can't tell you how to live your life," Samuel said, "although I do be telling you how to live it. I know that it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world. And while I tell you, I am myself sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining--small mining. You're too young a man to be panning me.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 68761a2 | The women watched the men, watched to see whether the break had come at last. The women stood silently and watched. And where a number of men gathered together, the fear went from their faces, and anger took its place. And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right - the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath. | profound | John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath | |
| 4e2f1f7 | I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3440b09 | I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it. | intelligence labor labor-activism manual-labor | John Steinbeck | |
| bc89e86 | I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b7c278b | The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot. | Neil Strauss | ||
| bcded55 | We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming. | making-fun-of scared | Neil Strauss | |
| ef5ee0b | We were all searching outside ourselves for our missing pieces, and we were all looking in the wrong direction. Instead of finding ourselves, we'd lost our sense of self. Mystery didn't have the answers. A blonde 10 in a twoset at the Standard didn't have the answers. The answers were to be found within. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 70cba04 | STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? | climbing experiences finally life top writing | Neil Strauss | |
| 7957e61 | Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 6732525 | You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 4042069 | I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees. | leaves life tree | Arthur Golden | |
| 7036c4f | Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 4460e5d | You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?" | school tests | Nora Roberts | |
| 9942b12 | Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you. | love nora-roberts tom | Nora Roberts | |
| ba387a3 | You did that on purpose." "Did what on purpose?" "Wore the don't-touch suit and the sex goddess perfume at the same time just to drive me crazy." "Listen to the suit, Quinn. Dream about the perfume." | cameron-quinn | Nora Roberts | |
| 065c2b8 | Cut it out!" Phillip exploded. "Cut it out right now or I swear I'm going to pull over and knock your heads together. Oh, my God." He took one hand off the wheel to drag it down his face. "I sound like Mom. Forget it. Just forget it. Kill each other. I'll dump the bodies in the mall parking lot and drive to Mexico. I'll learn how to weave mats and sell them on the beach at Cozumel. I'll be quiet, it'll be peaceful. I'll change my name to Ra.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 751727b | Why do I find it irresistible when you tell me to go to hell so politely? | Nora Roberts | ||
| ee6a4e9 | I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy." Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier." "I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on." "I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. "I kno.. | seth-quinn | Nora Roberts | |
| 3dbfbc0 | Sometimes it's all you can do," he murmured. "Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out." "Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3424d9e | What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance" | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3b94b31 | Being dead didn't make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch | Nora Roberts | ||
| c16e021 | You're the woman in my life," he said. "Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 651b364 | Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 0d17186 | That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me." "Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking." "They're wise to fear me." | Nora Roberts | ||
| b96c9bc | Give them your brains, girl, never your guts. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 02bdd4d | He'd find out, he thought and nodded as he rose. " Are you worried about you? " It surprised her, the gentleness in his voice, the light brush of his knuckles over her jaw. She could lean against him, she realized with a jolt. She could lay her head on that shoulder, close her eyes, and for a moment at least, everything would be all right. She nearly stepped forward before she decided it would be foolish. " You're not going to be nice to .. | Nora Roberts | ||
| ad169e0 | Being a good listener is the perfect way to avoid answering questions you'd rather ignore. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 925925e | Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 43af70f | All you need do is say good-bye to yesterday's loves, and hello to the new. Look around and see who needs you most and you won't go wrong. Forget who needed you yesterday. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 117afa8 | Where the determination is, the way can be found. | George S. Clason | ||
| f0a0a40 | You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| aa20ca1 | Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 51803a7 | However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness. | woman women | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 22d90df | He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people. | eternal jews | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 865e3a8 | Did somebody say McUnion? [...] Not if they want to keep their McJob. | Eric Schlosser |