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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c145873 | It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. | Roald Dahl | ||
| e5f5d62 | Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! | Roald Dahl | ||
| 6232bc1 | It's over. God is no longer with us." And as though he regretted having uttered such words so coldly, so dryly, he added in his broken voice, "I know. No one has the right to say things like that. I know that very well. Man is too insignificant, too limited, to even try to comprehend God's mysterious ways. But what can someone like myself do? I'm neither a sage nor a just man. I am not a saint. I'm a simple creature of flesh and bone. I suf.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 24a777d | Luz Castro "And then i explain that the world did know and remained silent. and that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. NEUTRALITY HELPS THE OPPRESSOR, NEVER THE VICTIM. SILENCE ENCOURAGES THE TORMENTOR, NEVER THE TORMENTED. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| ad2b5fe | Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 6cc65f2 | Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free. How can one not be sensitive to their plight? Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| c47afac | But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won? | Elie Wiesel | ||
| f161711 | I forget sometimes what laughter can do. | Ken Kesey | ||
| c52e391 | you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy | Ken Kesey | ||
| c8ff427 | I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 48b4fb5 | It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's sure a curious idea. | thoughtful | Ken Kesey | |
| d4e76d2 | You might hide in some Freudian jungle most of your miserable life, baying at the moon and shouting curses at God, but at the end, right down there at the damned end when it counts... you would sure as anything clear up just enough to realize the moon you have spent so many years baying at is nothing but the light globe up there on the ceiling, and God is just something placed in your bureau drawer by the Gideon Society. Yes, I sighed again.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 7c65ea1 | He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy | laughter mental-illness mental-health | Ken Kesey | |
| 6ab5f42 | I'd give something to see that. Mostly, I'd just to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 47ce40e | I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general word than the other one... I got sick... It was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me - and the great voice of millions chanting, "Shame. Shame. Shame." It's society's way of dealing with someone different." | reality society | Ken Kesey | |
| 8dc0fa4 | Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic? | humor nest | Ken Kesey | |
| 5a0fd5b | We] were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing--half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 6471180 | He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 20ef924 | sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 8da8c44 | Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, She's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens Wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock One flew east, one flew west | Ken Kesey | ||
| 464cc46 | Alarm, when used for anything less than a fire or an air attack, is certain to muddle the mind, unsettle the senses, and, in most cases, more than double the danger. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 6762355 | But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get out of hand. A relationship based on jokes invites jokes; jokes about anything -- and jokes about anything are now and then to cut too close to the truth. | Ken Kesey | ||
| b51e705 | Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innov.. | Susan Sontag | ||
| 3199ffb | It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law." - Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising)" | Susan Cooper | ||
| b9c6289 | He said, 'Always. Always. | Toni Morrison | ||
| c2f25c5 | There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go. The distinction was subtle but final. Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition... Dead doesn't change, and outdoors is here to stay. | Toni Morrison | ||
| a8f76cb | I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?' 'I'm looking now. | seeing love see eyes | Toni Morrison | |
| 855a5be | Sad as it was that she did not know where her children were buried or what they looked like if alive, fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 5fdb81c | Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 0460e17 | Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. | mankind sex motivation vainglory vice sin | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c42f8da | He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| db703b3 | Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'? | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| f156dab | Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands. | god seeking god-s-will | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| 9ed92bf | I want someone wonderful. I want a man to love me the way Michael loves you. I want a man willing to fight for me. I want a man who won't let me walk away from him. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 5b480e6 | She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him. | Francine Rivers | ||
| fe16acb | I've never loved like this. Never known what love was until I met you. But the fear of losing you doesn't make me run the other way. It makes me run toward you ... and I'll keep running. I'll fight for you until you tell me to stop. Love always involves fear. There are no guarantees about tomorrow for any of us. But in the meantime, while we're waiting for answers ... while we're wondering what's at the end of the road ... I want to walk it.. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 4874522 | V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part of this. First the glimpse. Then the glimpse gives life, turned into something that illuminates the moment and may, if we're lucky -- that word again -- have even further ranging consequences and meaning. The short story writer's task is to invest the glimpse with all that is in his power. He'll bring his in.. | words writing design on-writing | Raymond Carver | |
| 0de4663 | There is no God, and conversation is a dying art. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 3e082c1 | Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. | war rwanda | Philip Gourevitch | |
| 9b2daf6 | The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young) | Saul Bellow | ||
| 55873a5 | The hour that burst the spirit's sleep... | Saul Bellow | ||
| 67c3566 | I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 061900c | I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul. | Saul Bellow | ||
| a530519 | I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me, no. I've had all the monstrosity I want. | Saul Bellow |