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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2b8fc1a | Hell, your kid is fucking my wife, and your wife is fucking me. [...] Not that she's any good, Zane said, looking at Georgia, and when she made a little cry of protest, he added, Hell Georgia, even Jell-O moves when you eat it. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| db8c7fb | Rum and Coke, please," she told the bartender. Maybe that was why Liza and Bonnie never had guy trouble: great hair. She looked at Liza, racehorse-thin in purple zippered leather...Okay it wasn't just the hair. If she jammed herself into liza's dress, she'd look like Barney's slut cousin. "Diet Coke," she told the bartender." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 46fc96c | You got shot at and you still got me an air conditioner. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| aaa9390 | Often, people want both to live and to die; ambivalence saturates the suicidal act. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| b4b198c | What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves." | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 0607fb2 | I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there's stuff you don't know, can't know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I'm convinced there are parts of myself inside them. | Sara Zarr | ||
| bd9873a | I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 69e0726 | I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being lik.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 14775e1 | Nay, lad... | Joseph Delaney | ||
| d0053dc | Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. | truth | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 64d2304 | To each his own fear'; | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 392d552 | It does not matter what people think of a man after his death. | Joseph Rudyard Kipling | ||
| ce51ec3 | The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence... | night | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 347540c | What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing t.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| eeac5e2 | The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation. | despondency drugs social-problems youth | Spider Robinson | |
| 56c1d5d | There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| b32258f | Leverage can come in many forms. Leverage can be your thoughts.people who win are careful with their thoughts, not saying "I can't do that." Or "it's too rosky." Or "I can't afford it." Instead they say "How can i do that?" Or how can I reduce my risk?" Or "How can I afford it?" | Robert Kiyosaki | ||
| f4d1537 | Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God. | religious | Robert Fulghum | |
| 6c35115 | Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way? | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 8bad525 | There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains -- southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species -- maybe twenty feet tall and two feet in diameter. For perhaps three hundred years this tree has stood its ground. Flourishing in good seasons, and holding on in bad times. "Beautiful" is not a word that comes to mind when one first sees it. No naturalist wo.. | strength | Robert Fulghum | |
| dd81854 | Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore. | inspirational lonely writing | Leon Uris | |
| 6571b50 | Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span. | Leon Uris | ||
| 69c2edf | I believe that every one of us has something that's very unique to us specifically. Something unique enough that no one else might really ever understand it -- not our parents, or teachers, or best friends, or siblings. It's our Our point of view is what makes us unique, because no one else -- -- has your particular combination of thoughts, and dreams, and hopes, and desires, and ambitions and memories, and experiences. No one. And I bel.. | James A. Owen | ||
| 203668e | We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 445a838 | Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple." | humor science-fiction time-travel | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 721ade1 | Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a80d106 | I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 95bfd63 | The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that some abstract somethings "just happened" to be some atoms that "just happened" to get together in configurations which "just happened" to look like consistent laws and then some of these configurations "just happened" to possess self-awareness and that two such "just happened" to be.. | creation evolution | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 09ca067 | War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to de.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 623d58f | I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because its the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. But find me something that makes you laugh, a joke, anything--but something that gave you a belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't wrongness somewhere and whether you would laugh if the wrongness wasn't there. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e957d4d | Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them. | fear planning strategy | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| b5d1cbd | Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e7a3339 | When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| db28e06 | In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein" | humorous | John W. Campbell Jr. | |
| e2bd209 | Thou art God. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| ad3fb17 | My point is that one person is responsible, Always. If H-bombs exist--and they do--some man controls them. In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state'. Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| a7bcbf7 | Prof is right; more than three people can't decide anything. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c927335 | Arrogant , beautiful, domineering Lord Crane, with the caring that made Stephen's heart break, and the vicious streak that made his knees bend, had chosen him among all the men's men of London, and treated him with a loyalty, generosity and almost painful honesty that made Stephen's heart hurt. And his reward was a few doled-out crumbs of Stephen's time in a country he hated. | K.J. Charles | ||
| 403b506 | His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7f73e5a | I don't have a gun and I don't have even one wife and my sentences tend to go on and on and on, with all this syntax in them. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after "semicolons," and another one after "now." And another thing. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than get old. And he did. He shot himsel.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 01f771a | He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war. | ernest-hemingway war | Ernest Hemingway | |
| c111464 | Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 69e2f7c | Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c2068e7 | Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? It's an option taken by a lot of successful people: Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Jesus. Even before high school, I thought that it would be a cool thing to do if I ever got really famous. If I kept making my maps, for instance, and some art collector came across them and decided to make them worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,.. | Ned Vizzini |