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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a32e6fc | What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? | macabre nature melt melting poetic wind naked sun sunlight die dying | Kahlil Gibran | |
| ea04dbf | What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? | words talking | Kahlil Gibran | |
| efe0a76 | The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and ete.. | Wole Soyinka | ||
| be6b1b3 | There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well. | patients wellness | Clayton M. Christensen | |
| 7494d45 | Beautiful people blossomed forth from out of the polyglot, people who really had a lot to them, only it had been smothered by all the eternal social games that had been set up. Suddenly they found each other. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 65be97a | A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that. Now Cassady is right up against that 1/30th of a second barrier. He is going as fast as a human can go, but even he can't ove.. | enlightenment spirituality spiritual 70-s acid tripping psychedelics lsd growth | Tom Wolfe | |
| 31071c3 | At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured by our parents, gulped by schools, chewed up by peers, swallowed by social institutions, wolfed by bad habits, and gnawed by age; and by that time we have been digested, cow style, in those six stomachs, we emerge a single disgusting shade of brown. The lesson of the beet, then, is this: hold on to yo.. | life | Tom Robbins | |
| 1c65f9c | They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of every rebellious, iridescent shade of Magenta, pink, and tropical green imaginable. But the architect returned, as he always does, like the conscience of a Calvinist, and he lectured them and hectored them and chucked the shimmering little sweet things out. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 59f389c | en route to the final destination, which was always to get trashed, wasted, hammered, crunked up, bombed, wrecked, sloshed, fried, flapjacked, fucked-up, or get plainlong fucked, laid, drained, get some ass, get some head, some skull, a lube job, get your oil changed, get some brown sugar, quiff, goo, pussy... | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 03c1ad1 | But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| ee20a56 | They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no.. | law punishment justice | Jonathan Swift | |
| 8134cfd | The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them. | Monique Truong | ||
| 0aad5ce | The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| d462f3b | So, you know, Fermi's paradox has its answer, which is this: by the time life gets smart enough to leave its planet, it's too smart to want to go. Because it knows it won't work. So it stays home. It enjoys its home. As why wouldn't you? It doesn't even bother to try to contact anyone else. Why would you? You'll never hear back. So that's my answer to the paradox. You can call it Euan's Answer. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 32c7be7 | It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 4201d00 | The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128 | truth missunderstanding | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 37ebb0c | That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 8608785 | How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet--on the other hand--what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt... | David Guterson | ||
| cbbc919 | He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time. | David Guterson | ||
| 6b8eab8 | Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. | state-of-being | Douglas Coupland | |
| 173f5c9 | He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 291d976 | This place is like some cosmic dream crusher. All you can get out of a place like this is a creepy little tingle that lets you know your kid is never going to be anything more than a customer-that the whole world is being turned into casino. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d4b743b | I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. | fun priests | Howard Zinn | |
| f70b9d1 | They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains. | money relationships greed society pride | Richard Kadrey | |
| d3370bf | Down here in the pain, I don't have to know. I just note the question and move on. Answers are rare and come in their own time but hangovers are reliable and never in short supply. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 4cbf37c | I guarantee you I'm not going to forget your voice. We're going to run into each other down the road sometime, and when we do I'm going to pop you apart one rivet at a time." "There's the monster. Hello, monster." | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 4d9465d | I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way. | erotic-romance | Lisa Renee Jones | |
| 3428947 | Out of sight, out of mind. It's how i cope. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 1aece47 | Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment. | John Berger | ||
| dbad46e | So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed. | John Berger | ||
| 721d87f | At some point when tending someone you love who is in pain, you reach the edge of a lake, and you look at each other with such joy at the stillness. [Letter unsent] | John Berger | ||
| 94cb975 | I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars. | individuality hierarchies subversion institution orphan solidarity | John Berger | |
| dff8c51 | Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8e82aa6 | It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 77f2173 | It was not an end, it was a beginning. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| eda39f9 | You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1273f40 | Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 43a09ae | Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 796e9ed | She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg understood words. "My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there was no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it. Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be ab.. | fear family love | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| f3f9e00 | But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d5f8d17 | We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. | zealous zeal revelation | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 9e8959c | Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| aa5d1d5 | Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth. | truth | Tanya Huff | |
| 5c08edd | What do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?' 'I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but different periods of creation, so that it took many thousands --- or hundreds of thousands of years --- to create. It does not demean God; it simply gives Him more time to build this extraordinary world.' 'And the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaur.. | Tracy Chevalier |