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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6e2664f | You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| b4e7dcf | It was like she had been punched in the gut. Stevie said stuff like that all the time and was told she was wrong. David said it once and got a nod and a compliment. Oh, the magic of dudes. If only they bottled it. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| cb1a336 | But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius. | Blake Nelson | ||
| 9875758 | Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. | humanity humans life ownership | Daniel Quinn | |
| c065cab | Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing so by means of a dozen ways you won't care for in the least." Adhemar's fiancee fell, blessedly, silent." | kickass-heroine shut-the-hell-up | Lynn Kurland | |
| bcfe526 | It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky. | James Baldwin | ||
| 84289bd | You think...that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are. Why are they--shameful? Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It's like putting an electric plug in a dead socket. Touch, but no contact. All touch, but no contact and no light. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2200270 | The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it 'ominous' when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don't we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we're going to have to defend ourselves against you? | gun-control malcolmx racism | James Baldwin | |
| ece1b9a | You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything. | fiction-writing james-baldwin quotes | James Baldwin | |
| a6c0ebd | The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another--or others--always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it .. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5bb9e7b | All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart." | love misery | James Baldwin | |
| a90d2fb | Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And today, as we sit here, no one is learning anything in this country. You see a nation which is the leader of the rest of the world, that had to pay the price of that ticket, and the price of that ticket is we're sitting in the most illiterate nation in the world. THE MOST ILLITERATE NATI.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2a79b04 | The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything." | James Baldwin | ||
| 09e5f7c | Time: the word tolled like the bells of a church. Fonny was doing: time. In six months time, our baby would be here. Somewhere, in time, Fonny and I had met: somewhere, in time, we had loved; somewhere, no longer in time, but, now, totally, at time's mercy, we loved. | James Baldwin | ||
| 2096865 | You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards. | greed violence | Robert Cormier | |
| 5338579 | It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 63a3d28 | It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 7217bac | Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| b71cbd8 | It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| fc9ce6f | Everyone too busy trying to survive to spend any time creating something new. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 47b53bf | You're cranky because you're tired," Amos said. "You got that I-have-to-save-everyone hangup, so I make it that you haven't slept in about two days. But listening to people bitch? Yeah, that's sorta your job. It's why you make the big money." "We make the same money." "Then I guess you're doing it for the fame and glory." "I hate you," Holden said." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 3247427 | Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 8b6f46f | I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 5beb117 | How I'm rushing through this! How much each sentence in this brief story contains. "The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars--mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more ? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagina-tion--s.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| a002618 | I believe that we must attack these things in which we do not believe. Not attack by the method of cutting off the heads of the people, but attack in the sense of discuss. I believe that we should demand that people try in their own minds to obtain for themselves a more consistent picture of their own world; that they not permit themselves the luxury of having their brain cut in four pieces or two pieces even, and on one side they believe t.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| de5d101 | Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both alive. She'd never guessed what she was creating, never imagined the monster she'd spawned. She'd seen the power of Alicia DeVries's mind without recognizing the controls which kept that power in check, and only now had she begun to understand .. | fury out-of-control rage | David Weber | |
| f1f82e4 | Love came in so many forms. We love for weakness or strength, she thought, for security or wildness, for money, or beauty, or sometimes for sadness. Whatever reason, the brain turned giddy with self-worth, and self-worth became indelibly linked to the one who was loved. | Elizabeth Cox | ||
| 7751aff | Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 430d486 | He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0c67bee | We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day. | friends live together | L.M. Montgomery | |
| fd39642 | Afterall," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." ~ Anne, Anne of Avonlea, Chap. 19" | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a6c88d6 | Let's sum up... a little house, white and green or to be made so... with trees, preferably birch and spruce... a window looking seaward... on a hill. That sounds very possible... but there is one other requirement. There must be magic about it, Jane... lashings of magic... and magic houses are scarce, even on the Island. Have you any idea at all what I mean, Jane?" Jane reflected. "You want to feel that the house is yours before you buy it,.. | magic | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e4ef6f3 | In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 08f4d14 | I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue...very blue...almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this...seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. | l-m-montgomery seventeen | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 5ee6d31 | And when we love, we know love will last. Significantly, we know, having learned through much trial and error, that true love begins with self-love. And that time and time again our search for love brings us back to the place where we started, back to our own heart's mirror, where we can look upon our female selves with love and be renewed. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 456e320 | The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb." | Bell Hooks | ||
| fff95df | All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experienc.. | disputes fighting growth growth-process love love-quotes relationships true-love | bell hooks | |
| 293d937 | Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both in the way they talk about underprivileged blacks and the way they represent them. The existence of that class cruelty and its fascist dimensions have been somewhat highlighted by the efforts of privileged-class blacks to censor the voices of black youth, particularly gangst.. | sociology | bell hooks | |
| 456354f | Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 03de986 | I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you. | away life-and-death realm sleep struggling | Rachel Klein | |
| 269d0eb | The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also--more so--for beauty. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| 37a4c56 | Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever. | paranoia | M. John Harrison | |
| a54d4cd | If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron... my answer is "How should I know?"... I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries... I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph." | philosophy realism solipsism | Martin Gardner | |
| 20e1f86 | dh m l`dhb wl'lm ... sw~ lmHrk lwHyd llw`y | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |