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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7aa0faf | I could have spent my time hugging you or I could have spent my time telling you not to touch hot stoves or take candy from men. Which did you want? | Laurie Notaro | ||
| da5b088 | It was 1976. It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured the width and depth of a mattress and showed us how to use it. It had a belt with it that looked like a slingshot that possessed the jaw-dropping potential to pop a man's head like a gourd. As she stretched the belt between the fingers of her two hands, Mrs. Shimmer told us becoming a woman was a magical and beautiful ex.. | health humor junior-high menstruation nurse school | Laurie Notaro | |
| 03405d4 | Oh boy. Too drunk to hold on to a whiskey and Coke and the word "pretty." That's not a combination with a positive outcome. Not good at all. That's the secret password that usually leaves me trying to find a ride home in the morning." | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 65c68a3 | The thing is that this life is so precious and mysterious, I don't know what to say about it most of the time. Words are like birds, passing through the trackless sky. The dog barking, the sound of the purling stream, the wind among the weeping willow trees: how are these not right off the tongue of the Buddha?" --Lama Surya Das" | lama-surya-das-scandal surya-das surya-das-affair surya-das-controversy surya-das-scandal | Lama Surya Das | |
| 9a09abf | My friends are the beings through whom God loves me. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 8108127 | She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of scared relationship to god, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 1f17f1d | The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy.. | literature morality | azar Nafisi | |
| e4db5e1 | In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our cultures are built upon the foundation of shared memories that we call history and science. | Michael Crichton | ||
| d7a6d2c | I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 7592784 | The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. | Michael Crichton | ||
| bcaaec2 | Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women. | Michael Crichton | ||
| d1ec138 | My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human beings live in vast urban environments, surrounded by other human beings and the creations of human beings. The natural world, the traditional source of self-awareness, is increasingly absent. | nature self-awareness | Michael Crichton | |
| cf0a803 | Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion. | fear | Michael Crichton | |
| 3db2804 | A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. | Jean Anouilh | ||
| a4c63e9 | Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| bec886c | This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it--that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. | gun-culture used-car-salesmen | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 4d90ee5 | when you see someone in a tree trying to protect it , you know that every level of our society have failed , the consumers have failed , the companies have failed , the government has failed . | Julia Butterfly Hill | ||
| 6905354 | Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What's real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won't necessarily understand why it worked. | Scott Adams | ||
| 7766b03 | Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don't know as much as you thought you knew. | Scott Adams | ||
| 03bfcc5 | IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| ec8282d | Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. | Herman Melville | ||
| 87c2cb1 | Look to yourself. You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. Seek your own land. You young and a woman and there's serious limitation in both, but you are a person too. Don't let Lenore or some trifling boyfriend and certainly no devil doctor decide who you are. That's slavery. Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 72c327f | Down by the stream in back of 124 her footprints come and go, come and go. They are so familiar. Should a child, an adult place his feet in them, they will fit. Take them out and they disappear again as though nobody ever walked there. By and by all trace is gone, and what is forgotten is not only the footprints but the water too and what it is down there. The rest is weather. Not the breath of the disremembered and unaccounted for, but wi.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 796580a | And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on. Making them thin.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 8a5d8e6 | The best thing she was, was her children. | motherhood mothers | Toni Morrison | |
| beee258 | It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "Anything dead coming back to life hurts." -- | Toni Morrison | ||
| bb39968 | You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. | self-esteem | Toni Morrison | |
| 86cd50a | When they fall in love with a city it is for forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves, their stronger, riskier selves. And in the beginning when they first arrive, and twenty years later when they.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| ef54efc | Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here! | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 250afd1 | God does not abandon men, my son. Men abandon God. | Francine Rivers | ||
| ba61cf6 | If you love me as you claim to, then you love her as well. She's part of me. Do you understand? She's part of my flesh and my life. When you say things against her, you say them against me. When you cut her, you cut me. Do you understand? | Francine Rivers | ||
| b094629 | Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way | Francine Rivers | ||
| db8a79a | And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers | Francine Rivers | ||
| 66c28de | We opened our eyes and turned in bed to take a good look at each other. We both knew it then. We'd reached the end of something, and the thing was to find out where new to start. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 0a8ed48 | She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look. | Alice Walker | ||
| 6c1ab76 | I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. | Alice Walker | ||
| 57e978c | What if?.. What if I am all to see? What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss? What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday And there is no better way? What then? | questioning-mind | Melody Carlson | |
| be54c19 | A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. | Saul Bellow | ||
| ddb96c3 | Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important thing that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them- "ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 46bfe51 | A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a choice to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 6b2a28b | I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering Blue and mystical over the face of the stars Inside the church, the saints will all be blue, Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews, Their hands and faces stiff with holiness. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ff6a13f | My hours are married to shadow. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| efdbac7 | Blameless as daylight I stood looking At a field of horses, necks bent, manes blown, Tails streaming against the green Backdrop of sycamores. Sun was striking White chapel pinnacles over the roofs, Holding the horses, the clouds, the leaves Steadily rooted though they were all flowing Away to the left like reeds in a sea When the splinter flew in and stuck my eye, Needling it dark. Then I was seeing A melding of shapes in a hot rain: Horses.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f260248 | My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration. | Sylvia Plath |