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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6cb05b7 | You want the girl next door? Go next door! | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 8adf1da | They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we sha.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d6463c5 | But why, why all the hurt? Because, said Mr. Halloway. You need fuel, gas, someting to run a carnival on, don't you? Women live off gossip, and what's gossip but a swap of headaches, sour spit, arthritic bones, ruptured and mended flesh, indiscretions, storms of madness, calms after the storms? If some people didn't have something juicy to chew on, their choppers would prolapse, their souls with them. Multiply their pleasure at funerals, th.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1b119e8 | How many times can a man go down and still be alive? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d54daac | I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books. | melancholy | Ray Bradbury | |
| 2e1b39a | Let me alone," said Mildred "Let alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave alone? That's what's wrong. We need to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!" | books bothered savage talking thinking | Ray Bradbury | |
| d40e12e | The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| bfcd122 | What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2cf3f6e | So," said Moundshroud. "If we fly fast, maybe we can catch Pipkin. Grab his sweet Halloween corn-candy soul. Bring him back, pop him in bed, toast him warm, save his breath. What say, lads? Search and seek for lost Pipkin, and solve Halloween, all in one fell dark blow?" They thought of All Hallows' Night and the billion ghosts awandering the lonely lanes in cold winds and strange smokes. They thought of Pipkin, no more than a thimbleful of.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8626a7f | They'll fry you, bleach you, change you! Crack you, flake you away until you're nothing but a husband, a working man, the one with the money who pays so they can come sit in there devouring their evil chocalates! Do you think you could control them? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2043e88 | My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that someday our cities would open up more and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 99daf2d | I don't know anything anymore | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8a9d20a | I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was fort my blunt instrument has been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. | ray-bradbury science-fiction | Ray Bradbury | |
| ba08702 | I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. I suppose I'll have to do even more violent things, exposing myself so I won't fall down on the job and turn scared again | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cf7dc04 | Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me. | learning librarians libraries | Ray Bradbury | |
| d8d8684 | His flesh took paleness from his bones. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 248ab32 | That's life for you," said McDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more." | lonliness lost-love | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7f8feee | passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 58742f9 | All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. We'll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time..." -Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles" | Ray Bradbury | ||
| dd4902e | I absolutely demand of you and everyone I know that they be widely read in every damn field there is; in every religion and every art form and don't tell me you haven't got time! There's plenty of time. You need all of these cross-references. You never know when your head is going to use this fuel, this food for its purposes. --Ray Bradbury | Annie Spence | ||
| 88cb9f0 | experience tells us that we can only love because we are born out of love, that we can only give because our life is a gift, and that we can only make others free because we are set free by Him whose heart is greater than ours. When we have found the anchor places for our lives in our own center, we can be free to let others enter into the space created for them and allow them to dance their own dance, sing their own song and speak their ow.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 9b01493 | Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart. | jesus | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 2b8c831 | By prayer, community is created as well as expressed. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 8e3bfdb | When a man kills another man, the people say he is a murderer, but when the Emir kills him, the Emir is just. When a man robs a monastery, they say he is a thief, but when the Emir robs him of his life, the Emir is honourable. When a woman betrays her husband, they say she is an adulteress, but when the Emir makes her walk naked in the streets and stones her later, the Emir is noble. Shedding of blood is forbidden, but who made it lawful fo.. | crimes justice murderer stealing | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 7ce30fa | Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret. | past | Kahlil Gibran | |
| c67e87e | Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, | poetry-quotes | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 1f58dda | I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was. I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven. I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the.. | illusion perception perspectives prejudice reality | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 70f9f41 | You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. --Alvin Toffler | David Allen | ||
| 535b65c | The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. --J. Bronowski | David Allen | ||
| 614f77f | Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 4f01b00 | somebody has to be the pioneer and leave the marks for others to follow ... you've got to have some faith in what you're trying to do. It's easy to have faith as long as it goes along with what you already know. But you've got to have faith in us all the way... | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 5222a0e | For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 8585863 | If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 0a1ff6b | Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 18a6f3a | The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not. But of course interns are paid, in experience." | money work | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 1840170 | Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition! | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8cdd652 | That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 092c32f | Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8299376 | What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| efb3f15 | Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 38ce46d | Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe. | Carol Shields | ||
| 26381e2 | We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. | Carol Shields | ||
| 469471e | There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. | William Styron | ||
| eef53ac | Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I'm going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |