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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4bf23c3 | In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")" | yearning | Peter Straub | |
| 8bb43e1 | nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side. | determination life vileness | Peter Straub | |
| df9a275 | I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all! | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 2a3ea0e | This danish is too sweetish to finish. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| de171bc | Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8b1f34f | No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots. | surprise | Lorrie Moore | |
| fca860d | She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off. | complicated joy joys life like-life living lorrie-moore pressure quote quotes realization short-story small-joys | Lorrie Moore | |
| 8d62f04 | My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then, "Why not, don't you like kids?" "I like kids," I will explain. "I like kids very much." And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things." | kids | Lorrie Moore | |
| a61a029 | This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| e708b58 | An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 62f4b3c | The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.".. | Eric Weiner | ||
| 99f5371 | And here's an example of deliberate violation of a Fake Rule: Fake Rule: The generic pronoun in English is he. Violation: "Each one in turn reads their piece aloud." This is wrong, say the grammar bullies, because each one, each person is a singular noun and their is a plural pronoun. But Shakespeare used their with words such as everybody, anybody, a person, and so we all do when we're talking. ("It's enough to drive anyone out of thei.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| acd496c | The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip! | knife-fights rock-music | Keith Richards | |
| 627cc32 | If we let go of guilt, we will see innocence; however, a guilt-ridden person will see only evil. The basic rule is that we focus on what we have repressed. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| c5a69d1 | It is said that most people spend their lives regretting the past and fearing the future; therefore, they are unable to experience joy in the present. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 816af0c | Amy sighed. Just when she started to almost like Ian again--after all, he'd flown across the ocean and had been working around the clock to help--his snob quotient went through the roof. | Jude Watson | ||
| bf4a727 | I have a cunning plan. | folly overconfidence | Richard Curtis | |
| 18eec1d | one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 4818f84 | There is a story concerning the Buddha, who is in the company of a fellow traveler who tests this great teacher with derogatory, insulting, disparaging, and bitter responses to anything the Buddha says. Every day, for three days when the Buddha spoke, the traveler responded by calling him a fool, and ridiculing the Buddha in some arrogant fashion. Finally, at the end of the third day, the traveler could stand it no more. He asked, "How is i.. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 2de95a4 | If ye canna see the bright side o' life, polish the dull side | funny scottish | Christina Dodd | |
| 20542f4 | When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird. | mgg michele-cook outrage the-singular-menace weird | John Sandford | |
| 41997ca | Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 8a6b939 | It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed, my escape had been a victory, merely by having enriched my heart with the friendship of these wonderful people. No, I was not sorry. I had done it. | Henri Charrière | ||
| aa842c3 | Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 72c5b33 | So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f69f6e3 | You're never in love with anyone the way you are when you're eighteen, | Mitch Albom | ||
| f1309ed | Timing is everything. That's right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it's the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly" | Mitch Albom | ||
| aeec358 | When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2bfc3a1 | So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring! | Mitch Albom | ||
| b09fede | Never tell a child that something it's too hard | advice-for-women child children hard influence never tell too-hard | Mitch Albom | |
| e14d932 | Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 69efab4 | The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f017f8d | She would tell her that endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c21d62e | Perdoneme, Pedro. ?Lo lastime? -No tanto como yo la he lastimado, dejeme decirle que mi proposito... -No le he pedido ninguna explicacion. -Es necesario que me permita dirigirle unas palabras... -Una vez lo hice y resultaron una mentira, no quiero escucharlo mas... | tita | Laura Esquivel | |
| 2c5e24c | Lo que me dijiste no cambio mi manera de pensar y te repito que me encantaria ser el companero de toda tu vida, pero quiero que pienses muy bien si ese hombre soy yo o no. Si tu respuesta es afirmativa, celebraremos la boda dentro de unos dias. Si no, yo sere el primero en felicitar a Pedro y pedirle que te de el lugar que te mereces | pedro tita | Laura Esquivel | |
| 4e0de7b | Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them. | communication love speech | Laura Esquivel | |
| 82db4f8 | He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 65cc47b | She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that. | sociopaths | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 7681be5 | People stuck by others for years and years, in the face of all odds, and it should be relief, not disbelief, that one felt on witnessing it. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| dfbc4cb | She knew that she had a tendency to allow her mind to wander, but surely that's what made the world interesting. One thought led to another, one memory triggered another. How dull it would be, she thought, not to be reminded of the interconnectedness of everything, how dull for the present not to evoke the past, for here not to imply there. | daydreaming interconnectedness memory | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 570d606 | We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?" | anti-war atom-bomb sci-fi | Philip K. Dick | |
| f7fb69c | Love is another name for sex. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 977b548 | In his article, Bogen concluded: "I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man. . . ." | mind oneness subjective | Philip K. Dick | |
| 5aaa455 | m 'rn~ l mqDyan `l~ blhym lSmt lmnfrd wHbybt~ `l~ qyd khTwt mn~ ! | Naguib Mahfouz |