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| 5b85720 | I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way all Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| ce292fa | I privately say to you old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parenthesis: (((( )))). I suppose, most unflorally, I truly mean them to be taken, first off as bow-legged--buckle-legged--omens of my state of mind and body at this writing. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3393b6d | I'm into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends." I shrug. "Do you like it?" she asks, unfazed. "Um ... It depends. Why?" I take a bite of sorbet. "Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don't really like it," she says." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 19fa661 | This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Indi.. | inhuman disbelief satire surface | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| ff6971c | But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that had gone numb on the armrest separating our seats. He did this because in the book Julian Wells lived but in the movie's new scenario he had to die. He had to be punished for all of his sins. That's what the movie demanded. (Later, as a screenwriter, I learned it's what all movies demanded.) When this scene occurred, in t.. | writing screenplays | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| faadc1b | Did you know I was born in a Holiday Inn. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 3fb2293 | On the TV screen in Harry's is The Patty Winters Show, which is now on in the afternoon and is up against Geraldo Rivera, Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey. Today's topic is Does Economic Success Equal Happiness? The answer, in Harry's this afternoon, is a roar of resounding "Definitely," followed by much hooting, the guys all cheering together in a friendly way. On the screen now are scenes from President Bush's inauguration early this year, .. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 25ff422 | it seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 5729e96 | there are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself. | jonathan franzen | ||
| b4d0134 | And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 4154239 | I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I could manufacture excruciating embarrassment in the privacy of my bedroom, simply by reading what I'd written in the journal the day before. Its pages faithfully mirrored my fraudulence and pomposity and immaturity. Reading it made me desperate to change myself, to sound less idiotic. As George Benson had stre.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 4e05b0e | He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 72963cb | Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement--Demeter's grain and fruit--it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate. | Thomas Moore | ||
| c07bec7 | Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madnes.. | lover madness enlightenment illusion imagination love craving platohtenment divinity divine | Thomas Moore | |
| b8d9f48 | Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge. | David Sedaris | ||
| 60c3b76 | There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could. | David Sedaris | ||
| 4164424 | Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table." | humor | David Sedaris | |
| dd5715f | Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me." | television tv | David Sedaris | |
| 8383eca | Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. | David Sedaris | ||
| 0d9b1bd | Yes,' he said. 'That's it. They'd kick him and beat him with a switch. Then if the youngster was really bad, they'd put him in a sack and take him back to Spain.' 'Saint Nicholas would kick you?' 'Well, not anymore,' Oscar said. 'Now he just pretends to kick you.' | David Sedaris | ||
| 8b270f6 | Don't tell me I don't know how to hate,' I wanted to say. Then I stopped and asked myself, 'Do you really want that to be your message? Think you can out-hate me, asshole? I was fucking hating people before you were even born! | David Sedaris | ||
| 83c96e7 | In France the most often used word is "connerie," which means "bullshit," and in America it's hands-down "awesome," which has replaced "incredible," "good," and even "just OK." Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now." -- | language | David Sedaris | |
| 00e726c | After I die, and you read something bad about yourself in my diary, do yourself a favor and keep reading," I often say to Hugh. "I promise that on the next page you'll find something flattering. Or maybe the page after that." | David Sedaris | ||
| 4282968 | Increasingly at Southern airports, instead of a "good-bye" or "thank-you," cashiers are apt to say, "Have a blessed day." This can make you feel like you've been sprayed against your will with God cologne. "Get it off me!" I always want to scream. "Quick, before I start wearing ties with short-sleeved shirts!" | David Sedaris | ||
| 59469be | Frustrated with drawing, I switched to the printmaking department, where I overturned great buckets of ink. After trying my hand at sculpture, I attempted pottery. During class critiques the teacher would lift my latest project from the table and I'd watch her arm muscles strain and tighten against the weight. With their thick, clumsy bases, my mugs weighed in at close to five pounds each. The color was muddy and the lips rough and uninviti.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 18bf676 | But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. That's when you know you're a failure. | David Sedaris | ||
| 73a061e | Where's your sketch pad?" I asked. ... "I gave that up," Kay said. "I wasn't very good, so I changed my major." "To what?" "To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history." "I like a woman who knows what she wants." Kay smiled. "So do I, but I don't know any." | James Ellroy | ||
| caa0787 | Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2c6ed56 | kl wHd mn nsn , bshr, 'y 'nh mjrd mHwl@, mjrd shy' fy mntSf lTryq. w `ly lnsn 'n ykwn fy mntSf lTryq lmw'dy ly lkml w 'n ys`y lblwG lmrkz l lHf@. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0a4c94d | People like best what is hard for them to obtain. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 36c3d2b | Ich werde stehen und warten. Ich werde mude werden. Ich werde nicht einschlafen. Ich werde sterben. | sleep existence waiting | Hermann Hesse | |
| ad8ad29 | nhm y`rfwn km Grman mn lbrwd tHtj lqtl nsn lknhm l yGrfwn kyf tSly l~ llh, l y`rfwn Ht~ kyf tkwn s`ydan w lw lmd@ s`h mn lrD | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4a5f5f1 | I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 43ebef2 | Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with the shabby, pathetic, sentimental feeling you have when you celebrate your holidays! Demand more of yourselves! Love and joy and the mysterious thing we call "happiness" are not over here or over there, they are only "within yourselves." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ae41af6 | He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of symbols, the foreshadowing of numbers and writing, the reduction of infinitudes and multiplicities to simplicity, to system, to concept. For all these ways of comprehending the world through the mind no doubt lay within him, nameless, unnamed, but not inconceivable, not beyond the bounds of presentiment, stil.. | unity | Hermann Hesse | |
| 5617775 | You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8b896bc | I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| badc296 | When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can be perfected. When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful paths, music can be perfected. Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceiv.. | oneness | Hermann Hesse | |
| 985d7fe | I thought of nothing but her. I expected everything from her. I was ready to lay everything at her feet. I was not in the least in love with her. Yet I had only to imagine that she might fail to keep the appointment, or forget it, to see where I stood. Then the world would be a desert once more, one day as dreary and worthless as the last, and the deathly stillness and wretchedness would surround me once more on all sides with no way out fr.. | love fixation infatuation | Hermann Hesse | |
| 5bada04 | The world was beautiful when looked at in this way--without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. | world observation simplicity children | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7e07208 | lm ywjd lHb lyj`ln s`d, bl 'n '`tqd 'n lHb wjd lybyn ln md~ qwtn `l~ lm`n@ wlHtml | pain strength | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1ebc5e4 | But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become fle.. | self-awareness journey-of-life | Hermann Hesse | |
| b24ed41 | He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0c134b8 | All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker -- no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential. | yin-and-yang intellect | Hermann Hesse |