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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 64fbd3d | If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 75a4937 | Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t." | philosophers | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| deb2086 | No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 7f65084 | Most of us are safe. If you're not a delirious dream the gods are having, if your beauty doesn't trouble the constellations, nobody's going to cast a spell on you. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 040152d | You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 7f31f20 | You have failed in the most base and human of ways--you have not imagined the lives of others. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| c0d29e4 | He says, 'I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.' 'You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all.' 'But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and then you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 8596b05 | Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer." | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 7560b69 | But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4bac428 | When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others? | Ted Dekker | ||
| b7f8996 | Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 713dc2a | In the end he became as fragmentary as the poems of Sappho he never succeeded in restoring, and finally one morning he looked up into the face of the woman who'd been the greatest love of his life and failed to recognize her. And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 11d0911 | He didn't understand how she had bewitched him, nor why having done so she promptly forgot his existence, and in desperate moods he asked his mirror why the only girl he was crazy about was the only girl not crazy about him. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 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 |