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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4e94440 | when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| aed130d | You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| a1d9f5a | All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and livid like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 8017db6 | She said that her grandmother was skeptical of many things in this world and of none more than men. She said that in every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die. Her grandmother spoke to her often of men and she spoke with great earnestness and she said that rash men were a great temptation to women and this was simply a misfortune like others and there was little that could be done to remedy it. She said that to b.. | why-girls-like-bad-boys women-s-desire-for-protection | Cormac McCarthy | |
| a53105c | Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 45ea646 | Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see tha.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 9d539c0 | he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 17a4354 | All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| c2fdd86 | What is Big Government but the Executive's cocaine dream, an activity devoted to jockeying for position, in which he may find license for malversation, and may take the company treasury and direct it toward those people who will support his continued incumbency--it is within the law. Its street name is 'earmarks,' but it is theft. | David Mamet | ||
| d567b33 | The creatures I seek do not want to be seen. | find look natural-world nature scientist searching see sight | Annie Dillard | |
| 38be4ad | If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't? | Annie Dillard | ||
| 517af2e | I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feeling save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 08ba703 | The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 80abc23 | There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 6b767ad | There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the house, writes the author in all seriousness describing a memorial service for a medical school's cadavers. | Mary Roach | ||
| 3f9caad | Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to. | Mary Roach | ||
| 1d61efc | People are messy, unpredictable things. | Mary Roach | ||
| 10cb0fa | She was at the valiant age when we burn to right wrongs and succour the oppressed, | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1039585 | as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 8689df4 | She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room. | wodehouse | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| daadc00 | Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| caf072b | No, I am quite content with you, Bertie. By the way, I do dislike that name Bertie. I think I shall call you Harold. Yes, I am perfectly satisfied with you. You have many faults, of course. I shall be pointing some of them out when I am at leisure. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 0db6a54 | Don't leave me, Bertie. I'm lost." "What do you mean, lost?" "I came out for a walk and suddenly discovered after a mile or two that I didn't know where on earth I was. I've been wandering round in circles for hours." "Why didn't you ask the way?" "I can't speak a word of French." "Well, why didn't you call a taxi?" "I suddenly discovered I'd left all my money at my hotel." "You could have taken a cab and paid it when you got to the hotel.".. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| c945de8 | In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I've known him to do it' 'Do what?' 'Not strike lambs | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 0c3f8b6 | Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| a528adf | The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| d423ba1 | I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. | Amy Tan | ||
| 8127ea6 | Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| 4a73f68 | Watcha doin? If you're like me, you're doin nothin, but you're doin it so well that everybody thinks you're doin somethin. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 2162df0 | There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 01ad326 | Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience. | fiction | Eudora Welty | |
| cdde20c | Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion. | writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 1c5819e | I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting. | James A. Michener | ||
| c5352f5 | We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be if left to their own devices, with no social conventions to rein in their baser instincts, and I couldn't disagree. I had to admit, I kind of admired the lucky bastard. | marley rooster sex | John Grogan | |
| b68dc1a | She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood. | sports | Simone Elkeles | |
| e9a327b | The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects ... Snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking their snouts into it, straight down the country, across the country, through fences, through dooryards, in and out of gullies in straight lines. They did not run on the ground, but on their own roadbeds. They ignored hills and gulches, water courses, fences.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1ff54fa | They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy. | interesting | Scott O'Dell | |
| a99e313 | Ben walks in the room and asks, "What were you guys doing?" Nikki says "Nothing" at the same time I say, "Your sister and I were just makin' out." | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| f6416c2 | Great minds think alike. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ae8a671 | You're right, I haven't walked in your shoes. But you haven't walked in mine, either. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9d0b84d | Luis is right there." I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard animals. I have yet to inform him that talent isn't as much of a chick magnet when you get into junior high." | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 980b182 | So what if we have chemistry. Chemistry doesn't miraculously turn bad boys into good ones. | fuentes-brothers love nikki-cruz | Simone Elkeles | |
| f9c1b52 | Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works." | funny-quotes | Tammy Blackwell | |
| 5036b15 | I like that girl more than I can remember likin' anything in my life. I'm not about to give her up. I'll start carin' about what other people think when I'm six feet under. | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles |