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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b3bfa49 | Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. | Ann Patchett | ||
| cd31c03 | But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do. | Ann Patchett | ||
| d50272d | The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and 'You're looking good, Mr. Keating. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 50ec30e | Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing. | Ann Patchett | ||
| ad0442f | Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job. | family-relationships | Ann Patchett | |
| 61adee7 | In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. | masochism palahniuk | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| eafd05a | Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d72275c | The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fdbc7ad | The martyrdom of me. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| caabbfe | Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your attention. How your past goes with you into every day of your future. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c6a0806 | I embrace my own festering diseased corruption, | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d190e71 | The things you own end up owning you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 97096ca | A house full of condiments and no real food. If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3c842e7 | In Hell, you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bcdddad | Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 256d6ca | From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1b9a544 | This is something I'll go to Hell for. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f15a287 | New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a0437ac | Me, while I'm heading west, asleep at Mach 0.83, or 455 miles an hour, or true airspeed, the FBI is bomb-squading my suitcase on a vacated runway back in Dulles. Nine out of ten times, the security task force guy says, the vibration is an electric razor. The other time, it's a vibrating dildo. Imagine, the task force guy says, telling a passenger on arrival that a dildo kept her baggage on the East Coast. Sometimes it's even a man. It's air.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8e79e2e | Sizler ozel degilsiniz, sizler guzel yada esi benzeri olmayan kar tanesi de degilsiniz, sizler isiniz degilsiniz, sizler paraniz kadar degilsiniz, bindiginiz araba degilsiniz, kredi kartlarinizin limiti degilsiniz, sizler ic camasiri degilsiniz, sizler her sey gibi curuyen birer organik maddesiniz... bizler bu dunyanin sarki soyleyip dans eden yeri geldiginde dalga gecen yeri geldiginde gulup gecen pislikleriyiz. " Tyler Durden" | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 19fc632 | According to Babette, 98.3 percent of lawyers end up in Hell. That's in contrast to the 23 percent of farmers who are eternally damned. Some 45 percent of retail business owners are Hellbound, and 85 percent of computer software writers. Perhaps a trace number of politicians ascend to Heaven, but statistically speaking, 100 percent of them are cast into the fiery pit. As are essentially 100 percent of journalists and redheads. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3329ffe | The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8d07112 | Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 761b374 | We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fc89a68 | Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after the sculptor Phidias. The architecture of you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8bdffbc | Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5d03f68 | Life is very strange. | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 023bcc0 | I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition. | life-philosophy | Ian Fleming | |
| aa76172 | I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 7a4bb78 | If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome? | P.D. James | ||
| 2531a13 | Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as "so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror." | Bill Bryson | ||
| 56158c4 | If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. | P.D. James | ||
| 0ec0fa8 | I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature. | P.D. James | ||
| 16d61a6 | It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us. | intelligent-life pessimism | P.D. James | |
| fb37c81 | An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 22bbe11 | Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 348cbc4 | I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 5e63b28 | Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder. | funny muder | Bill Bryson | |
| c1eb2c9 | Equally arresting are British pub names. Other people are content to dub their drinking establishment with pedestrian names like Harry's Bar and the Greenwood Lounge. But a Briton, when he wants to sup ale, must find his way to the Dog and Duck, the Goose and Firkin, the Flying Spoon, or the Spotted Dog. The names of Britain's 70,000 or so pubs cover a broad range, running from the inspired to the improbable, from the deft to the daft. Almo.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 5046657 | So, if people didn't settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea - or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don't know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, o.. | humor life sedentary | Bill Bryson | |
| c10c87d | So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may no.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 40e79fb | When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 86340b1 | and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. | life ordinary | Bill Bryson | |
| 2ce8d06 | This was 1990 the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one .. | communism greed | Bill Bryson |