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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f50ed5 | You're writing like a freshman.' And he replied- I remember this very distinctly: 'We always look for doctors but sometimes we're lucky to find a frosh. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 705c562 | Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 753a950 | Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you've never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you've got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you.. | genre-crossing horror-novels house-of-leaves love mark-z-danielewski metaphyscial postmodernism romance | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 109e419 | Aside from recurrance, revision, and commensurate symbolic reference, echoes also reveal emptiness. Since objects always impede acoustic reflection, only empty places can create echoes of lasting clarity. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| cdbe58f | and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 1a38fc8 | However, The haven-Slocum Theory also points out that this course is not without risk. An even greater number of people dwelling on The Navidson Record have shown an increase in obsessiveness, insomnia, and incoherence: "Most of those who chose to abandon their interest soon recovered. A few, however, required counseling and in some instances medication and hospitalization. Three cases resulted in suicide." | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| f8a24b4 | We both thrive in the late hours, appreciate its sad taste and never get in the way of each other's dreams, even though Lude just wants more money, better parties and prettier girls and I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 5f5be93 | How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| e10ec5e | I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I .. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| e4aa60f | Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit." | Connie Willis | ||
| 8d65d58 | Cyril had staked out his claim and refused to move. "Move over!" I said, freeing one hand from holding the cat to push. "Dogs are supposed to sleep at the foot of the bed." Cyril had never heard of this rule. He jammed his body up against my back and began to snore. I tugged at the rugs, trying to get enough to cover me, and turned on my side, the cat cradled in my arms. Princess Arjumand paid no attention to the regulations of animals on t.. | Connie Willis | ||
| 7eb11d9 | Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct. | Simon Winchester | ||
| bd0ec87 | It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. | Colum McCann | ||
| 5162cc7 | Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. | Colum McCann | ||
| 4b3c7f1 | but she'd already been living a life she didn't choose, so I wouldn't choose for her either; I would wait for her to leave him and come to me. | Molly McAdams | ||
| 96b43ae | I love the sea because it is boundless. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 5473bdb | There are neither the strong nor the weak. Can anyone say that the weak do not suffer more than the strong? | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| ea710d2 | It goes on," Tuck repeated, "to the ocean. But this rowboat now, it's stuck. If we didn't move it out ourself, it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so's we can't move on. We ain't part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing. You, for instance. A child now, but someday a woman. And after that, mo.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| fdf2dc6 | Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summer's day, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 9167960 | It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 76766a5 | When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make him a citizen of a state with good laws" | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 27081fc | What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. | reason | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| d48567f | The anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level". (1807, SS 69)." | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 6dbb712 | Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined. | Reza Aslan | ||
| a47046d | People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp. | Danielle Steel | ||
| a920804 | Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| d415c95 | The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long. | forgetting mourning | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 33da326 | But you can't put fight into a man's guts if he hasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind. | fight soldier | Henry Miller | |
| 05d47cd | My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady." | Henry James | ||
| 8f608cd | A journey is an adventure. Henry Miller said that it is far more important to discover a church no one has heard of, than go to Rome and feel obliged to visit the Sistine Chapel, with two hundred thousand tourists shouting all around you. Go to the Sistine Chapel, but also get lost in the streets, wander down alleyways, feel free to look for something, without knowing what it is. I swear you will find it and that it will change your life. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e109b6b | I reached out for something to attach myself to--and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for--myself. | Henry Miller | ||
| b449f92 | The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which th.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 5b14d47 | The most difficult adjustment an expatriate has to make, on returning to his native land, is in this realm of conversation. The impression one has, at first, is that there is no conversation. We do not talk--we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests. | Henry Miller | ||
| 880ce6e | Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space--space even more than time. | Henry Miller | ||
| cb638fc | What is a fanatic? One who believes passionately and acts desperately upon what he believes. I was always believing in something and so getting into trouble. The more my hands were slapped the more firmly I believed. I believed- and the rest of the world did not! If it were only a question of enduring punishment one could go on believing till the end; but the way of the world is more insidious than that. Instead of being punished you are un.. | Henry Miller | ||
| c600628 | Au fond, les gens ne lisent pas ; ou, s'ils lisent, ils ne comprennent pas ; ou, s'ils comprennent, ils oublient. | Henry Miller | ||
| 60c5d75 | You can never lose a fight in your own bar, because if you do, it's not your bar anymore. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c9982b8 | This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization. | civilization future milky-way president space voyager | Jimmy Carter | |
| 8c8fcb0 | The failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same as the pursuit of self-interest, but in the deterioration of the meaning of self-interest; not in the fact that people are too much concerned with their self-interest, but that they are not concerned enough with the interest of their real self; not in the fact that they are too selfish, but that they do not love themselves.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| db7a666 | Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth. | freedom | Erich Fromm | |
| 12590a7 | Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 13658dd | The person who is normal in terms of being well adapted is often less healthy than the neurotic person in terms of human values. Often he is well adapted only at the expense of having given up his self in order to become more or less the person he believes he is expected to be. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 47b5893 | Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their decisions are theirs, and that if they want something, it is they who want it. But this is one of the great illusions we have about ourselves. A great number of our decisions are not really our own but are suggested to us from the outside; we have succeeded in persuading ourselves that it is we who have made the decision, whereas.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| f7c6e0d | It 's strange that God doesn't mind expressing Himself/Herself in all the religions of the world, while people still cling to the notion that their way is the only right way. Whatever you try to say about God, someone will take offense, even if you say everyone's love of God is right for them. For me the form God takes is not the most important thing. What's most important is the essence. My songs and dances are outlines for Him to come in .. | Michael Jackson |