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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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." ( )" | critics detachment insight writing | 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.. | desires glbtq indecision romance | 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 | ||
| d4d3308 | There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real. | Truman Capote | ||
| 4265070 | What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quiteness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there | Truman Capote | ||
| eff6052 | No. Because I'm not a cold plate of m-m-macaroni. I'm a warm-hearted person. It's the basis of my character. | Truman Capote | ||
| 768aee2 | June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone. | Truman Capote | ||
| 3f7b3d8 | I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it. | Truman Capote | ||
| bdb44ec | The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. | Truman Capote | ||
| 0ce0ed2 | Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. | Truman Capote | ||
| 19a789a | Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. | dream life passion strange | Truman Capote | |
| 5ef829a | When it first emerged, Twitter was widely derided as a frivolous distraction that was mostly good for telling your friends what you had for breakfast. Now it is being used to organize and share news about the Iranian political protests, to provide customer support for large corporations, to share interesting news items, and a thousand other applications that did not occur to the founders when they dreamed up the service in 2006. This is not.. | Steven Johnson | ||
| b726e67 | It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. As he paced the platform, waiting for the Washington express, he remembered that there were people who thought there would one day be a tunnel under the Hudson through which the trains of the Pennsylvania railway would run straight into New York. They were of the brotherhood of visionaries who likewise predicted the building of ships that would cro.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| afa1ce4 | The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0af8f60 | She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3f52e1e | It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth upon the world. But how many generations of the women of had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them. What if, when.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f63e8b3 | it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 41938c8 | What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f811071 | Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6033913 | And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off. | Douglas Adams |