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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5b557fb | Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 304bbd7 | There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of... | Frank Herbert | ||
| 820e57b | What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it? | faith insomnia maturation worry | Frank Herbert | |
| 0294d1d | I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3cad44d | Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c822b66 | A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement. | philosophy | Neal Stephenson | |
| cf3d787 | The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he had gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices. | humor political-observation | Neal Stephenson | |
| aba0e7b | class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 51e996f | It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| bc58eeb | Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 455a993 | The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| b108eb5 | She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| accef25 | Fighting isn't about knowing how. It's about deciding to. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 31446ec | As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 266a8b6 | Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man's work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 12a45e9 | You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same. | inspirational | Raymond Chandler | |
| 70e111f | That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2545e67 | A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 4a01d92 | Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. | marlowe raymond-chandler | Raymond Chandler | |
| 8bd2a2a | The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment." ( )" | writing detachment critics insight | Raymond Chandler | |
| 25e3816 | And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9142389 | What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. But the old.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3548f26 | You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to things and learn ! They do it because they to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things that make them feel less bad about having jobs! Can't you see, it's just a terrible vicious circle! | Paul Murray | ||
| 96801ce | His name was Paul Eluard, and he said this thing once: There is another world, but it is in this one...It's like, you know, inside every stove there's a fire. Well, inside every grass blade there's a grass blade, that's just like burning up with being a grass blade. And inside every tree, there's a tree, and inside every person there's a person, and inside this world that seems so boring and ordinary, if you look hard enough, there's a tota.. | Paul Murray | ||
| 480fd56 | There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid. | Herman Melville | ||
| a2413ba | She, Laura, likes to imagine (it's one of her most closely held secrets) that she has a touch of brilliance herself, just a hint of it, though she knows most people probably walk around with similar hopeful suspicions curled up like tiny fists inside them, never divulged. She wonders, while she pushes a cart through the supermarket or has her hair done, it the other women aren't all thinking, to some degree or other, the same thing: Here is.. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| c1b9af0 | I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if w.. | romance glbtq desires indecision | Michael Cunningham | |
| edf0869 | The power of belief alone could change the course of history. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 58526aa | It was probably true that he objectified women. He thought about them all the time, didn't he? He looked at them a lot. And didn't all this thinking and looking involve their breasts and lips and legs? Female human beings were objects of the most intense interest and scrutiny on Mitchell's part. And yet he didn't think that a word like objectification covered the way these alluring - but intelligent! - creatures made him feel. What Mitchell.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 4561ed8 | Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason. | time | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 618f1e8 | It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| dc35684 | between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get OFF of. You can't get CLEAN from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your MIND. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a3f12de | All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now! | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| c16a386 | He left in a state of distraction and a winter coat. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 0190dc7 | When asked why she had tried to kill herself, she said only, "It was a mistake." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 0463845 | To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 3b60a27 | Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 3c4761d | our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| c639c27 | A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them. | inspirational | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 98086bc | When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 9ecfca7 | You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same.-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Emma Scott | ||
| 4c823d6 | The earth isn't solid. It is made of molecules and atoms, tiny universes filled with space. It is a place of mystery, light, and magic, if you only open your eyes. | Dan Millman | ||
| bf57de1 | Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't really live at all. | Dan Millman | ||
| d3ca869 | It may be that there is no place for any of us. Except we know there is somewhere; and if we found it, but lived there only a moment, we could count ourselves blessed. | Truman Capote |