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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d0ea02a | Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there'.. | death ground-zero manhattan modernity sadism thanatos-instinct united-states | Herman Wouk | |
| 757acc1 | I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 00be866 | Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| d94aa96 | My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone" | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 06e5261 | love is the only thing we have to save us | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5099e00 | She felt their envy and this broke her. The story ended, she couldn't tell the rest, they'd hate her, she had to stop, she wasn't any good, shut up you bad, bad, bad ugly girl and you don't deserve any of this and so the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a2f654e | There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent. | religion science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 3a951f7 | As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers. The alternative, one so transparent that it should need no urging, is to abandon the principle of automatic respect for religious faith. This is one reason why I do everything in my power to warn people against faith itself, not just against .. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| bf7b4da | For more than three thousand million years, DNA has been the only replicator worth talking about in the world. But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time. Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| d31af47 | Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 75c552e | I wanted love, the big love, the kind people wrote songs and made movies about. I wanted to be the center of some guy's universe, the only thing he could think about. I wanted to matter that way. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 3d84479 | Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f07aeec | You like my kisses - and I like kissing you. Why deny ourselves such innocent pleasure? | love | Stephanie Laurens | |
| 2a760ee | Two people can care for each other but not want the same things. | David Baldacci | ||
| e6a7ba9 | She was surprised at how tiny the school seemed now. She supposed it was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things. | Betty Smith | ||
| b5ef63b | The tree man eulogized them by screaming, 'And now get the hell out of here with your tree, you lousy bastards.' Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, .. | Betty Smith | ||
| 3e91e8d | Well," Francie decided, "I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life-and nothing else but." | Betty Smith | ||
| ef8b7de | Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life." | Betty Smith | ||
| 7c89737 | Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5c2a293 | Was that a bad lady, Papa?" Francis asked eagerly. "No." "But she looked bad." "There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people who are unlucky." | Betty Smith | ||
| 7b007d6 | Francie went over to stand at the great window from which she could see the East River twenty stories below. It was the last time she'd see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn't held it tighter when.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 70e28c9 | There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all. | ida king rich-man | Gertrude Stein | |
| 5a65925 | Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 4a748c9 | I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most. | Bono | ||
| 21b1e55 | My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back. | alcohol | Michka Assayas | |
| 8113469 | Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. | happiness sadness | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 6e4caa9 | Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become. | fiction liberation reading value | Jeanette Winterson | |
| c43f710 | I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c24a240 | I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 907f369 | I have flown the distance of your body from side to side of your ivory coast. I know the forests where I can rest and feed. I have mapped you with my naked eye and stored you out of sight. The millions of cells that make up your tissues are plotted on my retina. Night flying I know exactly where I am. Your body is my landing strip. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5f0639b | Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fd504e8 | I've turned myself inside out to try and avoid what happened today. You affect me in ways I can't quantify or contain. All I can measure is the effect, and the effect is that I am out of control. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2c94a32 | There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| ff81063 | I think we are worlds compressed into human form. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5ad8231 | I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e36841d | It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a78889e | what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light a story. And the flashes themselves were the stories going out over the waves, as markers and guides and comfort and warning. | light stories waves | Jeanette Winterson | |
| fa4fce1 | Don't you ever think of going back?" Silly question. There are threads that help you find your way back, and there are threads that intend to bring you back. Mind turns to the pull, it's hard to pull away. I'm always thinking of going back. When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt.Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| bc01f0c | The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 89eeffb | Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| eea49f1 | Anything that can be dreamed is true. | truth | Joanne Harris | |
| 4ca4e0f | In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them. | Art Spiegelman | ||
| fff05c4 | Love That's it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one's mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet o.. | Günter Grass | ||
| 7148817 | What did the onion juice do? It did what the world and the sorrows of the world could not do: it brought forth a round, human tear. It made them cry. At last they could cry again. To cry properly, without restraint, to cry like mad. The tears flowed and washed everything away. The rain came. The dew. Oskar has a vision of floodgates opening. Of dams bursting in the spring floods. What is the name of that river that overflows every spring an.. | Günter Grass |