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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f9627b | Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it." ( )" | paris | Marguerite Duras | |
| 687413e | By day it is filled with boat traffic - water buses, delivery boats, gondolas - if something floats and it's in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal. And by daylight it is one of the glories of the Earth. But at night, especially when the moon is full and the soft illumination reflects off the water and onto the palaces - I don't know how to describe it so I won't, but if you died and in your will you asked for your ashes to be spread ge.. | grand-canal venice | William Goldman | |
| 9180084 | Nobody knows anything. | William Goldman | ||
| c766305 | May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself," said the man in black. "I would as soon destroy da Vinci. However"--and here he clubbed Inigo's head with the butt of his sword--"since I can't have you following me either, please understand that I hold you in the highest respect." | fencing humorous inigo-montoya wesley | William Goldman | |
| 9a8b926 | She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature | Mario Puzo | ||
| 8a55733 | Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time. | Mario Puzo | ||
| c93059d | what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 39a7e23 | great men are not born great, they grow great, | Mario Puzo | ||
| 8e4d5e5 | Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you're right on the edge, but you don't go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. | on-the-edge risk | Yvon Chouinard | |
| 1466d23 | At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| dfc151b | I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books! | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 85d58db | Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you. Sure, the world seems crazy now. But wouldn't it seem just as crazy if you were alive when they sacrificed peasants, when people were born into slavery, when they killed first-born sons, crucified p.. | dystopia end-of-the-world | Jess Walter | |
| e685dfc | There was no question in my mind. This state of complete and utter love is our collective birthright, the state we are born to inhabit, the way of being that is eagerly awaiting humanity at the end of a long, perilous journey. We either walk toward love as a way of being, or we walk away from it. There are only two directions. This decision shapes our life and our world. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 5af4768 | Vau: "We were having a philosophical discussion, as Mandalorians often do, and I asserted that the only demonstrable reality was individual consciousness, but he insisted on the existence of a priori moral values that transcended free will. So I hit him." Zey: "You think you're so witty." Vau: "No, I think you should stay out of Mando clan business." -- | Karen Traviss | ||
| 650ca48 | Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees. | Andy McNab | ||
| 22508b7 | The night was a typewriter key that got stuck and kept punching all the letters on top of the others until all that was left was a black blob. No word, no letter, no message in the night for me. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| dc0fb21 | If there was one thing responsible for ruining lives, it was love. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| ee4f415 | Women were still strange and inscrutable creatures. Men didn't understand them. And women didn't understand themselves either. It was always a performance of some sort. Everywhere you went, it was like there was a spotlight shining down on your head. You were on a stage when you were on the trolley. You were being judged and judged and judged. Every minute of your performance was supposed to be incredible and outstanding and sexy. You were .. | women | Heather O'Neill | |
| 9f030c6 | Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| d0b2b3e | No revolution succeeds without sacrifice. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 6f615ac | It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time. | life nicholas-christopher | Nicholas Christopher | |
| 4904222 | To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."--Bacon: "Advancement of Learning"." | Charles Darwin | ||
| 9a65bd8 | Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| fbe0ab4 | Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3)" | philosophy-of-people social-commentary | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 0286a21 | My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 352ed03 | When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| e47043e | To comprehend Crowley, one must comprehend what he meant by "Magick"--the "discredited" tradition he swore to "rehabilitate." Magick, for Crowley, is a way of life that takes in every facet of life. The keys to attainment within the magical tradition lie in the proper training of the human psyche itself--more specifically, in the development of the powers of will and imagination. The training of the will--which Crowley so stressed, thus pla.. | magick | Lawrence Sutin | |
| b200d71 | Nothing evokes the end of the world more than a man running straight ahead on a beach, swathed in the sounds of his walkman . . . Primitives, when in despair, would commit suicide by swimming out to sea until they could swim no longer. The jogger commits suicide by running up and down the beach. His eyes are wild, saliva drips from his mouth. Do not stop him. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| f13e3ec | They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. | beer confession courage drinking quietness reflection solitude taverns thought withdrawal | Ellis Peters | |
| 68dee45 | Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking. | gentleness purpose | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| 49d2a07 | Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of stoneware pots. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| ade5f89 | I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. | past-and-present | Glen Cook | |
| 8e8834e | Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe. | Glen Cook | ||
| 0a189ff | qd `lmtny lHy@ 'nh Hyn yrk lakhrwn mtHmsan, tftr Hmsthm hm, wl`ks SHyH . ldh klm zddt rGbty b'mr m, tSnW`t brwdan '`Zm Hylh . | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 483d4a4 | One of the more tiring aspects of hitchhiking is a need to be sociable and make conversation with whoever is driving you. It would be considered poor form to accept a ride, hop into the passenger seat and then simply to crash out until you reached your destination. How I longed to do just that, but instead I chatted merrily away, energy ebbing from me with each sentence, until Chris dropped me at the address of the lady who had offered me f.. | hospitality politeness | Tony Hawks | |
| d5d23b5 | In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. | religion secularism | Alain de Botton | |
| bfb979f | workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues. | emotions families relationships work workplace | Alain de Botton | |
| 696fbc5 | If we find poetry in the service station and motel, if we are drawn to the airport or train carriage, it is perhaps because, in spite of their architectural compromises and discomforts, in spite of their garish colours and harsh lighting, we implicitly feel that these isolated places offer us a material setting for an alternative to the selfish ease, the habits and confinement of the ordinary, rooted world. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0d5387a | People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with a regular life, and that's the Lord's truth...But it wasn't for me, because I wanted to be something special...I knew how easy it was for a dream to die. I seen that all around me. You could let it die by just looking the other way--you know, some of those Asian people say they don't kill nothing, but they'll take a fish out of w.. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| c26d420 | I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. Though unlike most Germans I had daily access to foreign newspapers, especially those of London, Paris and Zurich, which arrived the day after publication, and though I listened regularly to the BBC and other foreign broadcasts, my job necessitated the spending of many hours a day in combing the German press, checking the G.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| e86e26b | I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 84d39e1 | In short, I have no real faith in my own happiness. And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because ehse expects to win. I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try. | Emily Giffin | ||
| d56ba0b | We are one of those couples I used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer that it actually was. I am happy to be wrong about that. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3dce99d | Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life... | Emily Giffin |