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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a1a9154 | Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it's my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 72b8bfb | We all received invitations, made by hand from construction paper, with balloons containing our names in Magic Marker. Our amazement at being formally invited to a house we had only visited in our bathroom fantasies was so great that we had to compare one another's invitations before we believed it. It was thrilling to know that the Lisbon girls knew our names, that their delicate vocal cords had pronounced their syllables, and that they me.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 1fd1bbe | I saw the movie," he said. "I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so"--he leaned toward us--"their tits bleed." | women | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| f0c274e | The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values--carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 2e1f351 | Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 7ce2e61 | The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 235bbf0 | Fear and sorrow inhibit action; anger generates it. When you learn to make proper use of your anger, you can change fear and sorrow to anger, then turn anger to action. That's the body's secret of internal alchemy. | Dan Millman | ||
| a2cc8ac | A warrior doesn't seek pain, but if pain comes, he uses it. | Dan Millman | ||
| 9ca8be4 | C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity? | Truman Capote | ||
| 82c49e6 | Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end. | Truman Capote | ||
| b6c5201 | One day she told the class, 'Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.' | Truman Capote | ||
| f33cac7 | Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only. | Truman Capote | ||
| 39ccb30 | You want not to give a damn, to exist without responsibility, without faith or friends or warmth. | Truman Capote | ||
| 69eb261 | What do you think? This ought to be the right kind of place for tough guy like you. Garbage cans. Rats galore. Plenty of cat-bums to gang around with. So scram,' she said, dropping him... '...I told you. We just met by the river one day: that's all. Independents, both of us. We never made each other any promises. We never -' she said, and her voice collapsed, a tic, an invalid whiteness seized her face. The car had paused for a traffic lig.. | Truman Capote | ||
| 7f0754f | It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them. | Truman Capote | ||
| 5a4a899 | For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening of the cheeks. | Truman Capote | ||
| e4a6beb | As Miss Golightly was saying, before she was so rudely interrupted... | Truman Capote | ||
| 3647745 | It may be normal, darling: but I'd rather be natural. | Truman Capote | ||
| ad701cd | Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them. | Steven Johnson | ||
| b28d6da | B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c96b8f8 | The change will do you good," she said simply, when he had finished; "and you must be sure to go and see Ellen," she added, looking him straight in the eyes with her cloudless smile, and speaking in the tone she might have employed in urging him not to neglect some irksome family duty. It was the only word that passed between them on the subject; but in the code in which they had both been trained it meant: "Of course you understand that I .. | 20th-century-literature awesome-things | Edith Wharton | |
| 4df29c6 | Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2c2c976 | Selden] had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at. How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard its door clang on her! In reality, as she knew, the door never clanged: it stood always open; but most of the captives were like flies in a bottle, and having once fl.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2b98bae | but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c7a443d | To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 313e692 | Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8eb3ec3 | Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs. | h2g2 hitchhiker-s-guide | Douglas Adams | |
| 8eab0f9 | Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor - at least no one worth speaking of. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 98a537c | No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection." "But if no private detective looks like a private detective, how does a private detective know what it is he's supposed not to look like? Seems to me there's a problem there." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 93b83db | Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made attempts to alert mankind to the danger; but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e450fd6 | They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specifically designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f378e64 | The mice were furious." [...] "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but..." "Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?" "Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" [...] "Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose fo.. | humour science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 38cd10e | ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. | Douglas Adams | ||
| efaee35 | In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true." | strange survival universe | Douglas Adams | |
| cdad9f8 | He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 695563c | I think he probably wants you to play Scrabble with him again,' said Ford, 'he's pointing to the letters.' 'Probably spelt crzjgrdwldiwdc again, I keep on telling him there's only one g in crzjgrdwldiwdc. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b7d2bd4 | The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 98c0496 | The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7157ae4 | No," he said, "look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen." And he sat. He told the Nutri-Matic about India, he told it about China, he told it about Ceylon. He told it about broad leaves drying in the sun. He told it about silver teapots. He told it about summer afternoons on the lawn. He told it about putting in the milk before the tea so it wouldn't get scalded.. | science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 8d48ce4 | Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9354e79 | The sound of her footsteps was like a stream falling gently downhill over cool stones in the quiet of night. | j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6276b15 | But the helm of her secrecy had fallen from her, and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold upon her shoulders. Her eyes grey as the sea were hard and fell, and yet tears were on her cheek. A sword was in her hand, and she raised her shield against the horror of her enemy's eyes. [...]Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. A swift stroke sh.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d7e0436 | Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fdc16d7 | All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women to the fortunes of war, because bearing and raising the next generation of warriors is not needed for equality-loving elves. Equality-loving elves. Who are monarchists. With a class system. Of ranks. Battles are more fun when attractive young women are dismembered and desecrated.. | peter-jackson tolkien | John C. Wright |