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| 2fdcdd3 | There is an important difference between the words 'losers' and 'outlaw.' One is passive and the other is active, and the main reason the Angels are such good copy is that they are acting out the day-dreams of millions of losers who don't wear any defiant insignia and who don't know how to be outlaws. The streets of every city are thronged with men who would pay all the money they could get their hands on to be transformed-even for a day-in.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 3cd565f | Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value. | Scott Adams | ||
| f7f167f | A woman needs to be told that you would sacrifice anything for her. A man needs to be told he is being useful. When the man or woman strays from that formula, the other loses trust. When trust is lost, communication falls apart. | Scott Adams | ||
| 62fe2b4 | Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive. | Scott Adams | ||
| 8b3c65f | How can one part be more important if each part is completely necessary? | Scott Adams | ||
| b51e705 | Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innov.. | Susan Sontag | ||
| 3199ffb | It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law." - Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising)" | Susan Cooper | ||
| b9c6289 | He said, 'Always. Always. | Toni Morrison | ||
| c2f25c5 | There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go. The distinction was subtle but final. Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition... Dead doesn't change, and outdoors is here to stay. | Toni Morrison | ||
| a8f76cb | I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?' 'I'm looking now. | eyes love see seeing | Toni Morrison | |
| 855a5be | Sad as it was that she did not know where her children were buried or what they looked like if alive, fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 5fdb81c | Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 0460e17 | Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. | mankind motivation sex sin vainglory vice | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c42f8da | He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| db703b3 | Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'? | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| f156dab | Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands. | god god-s-will seeking | Charles R. Swindoll | |
| 9ed92bf | I want someone wonderful. I want a man to love me the way Michael loves you. I want a man willing to fight for me. I want a man who won't let me walk away from him. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 5b480e6 | She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him. | Francine Rivers | ||
| fe16acb | I've never loved like this. Never known what love was until I met you. But the fear of losing you doesn't make me run the other way. It makes me run toward you ... and I'll keep running. I'll fight for you until you tell me to stop. Love always involves fear. There are no guarantees about tomorrow for any of us. But in the meantime, while we're waiting for answers ... while we're wondering what's at the end of the road ... I want to walk it.. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 4874522 | V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part of this. First the glimpse. Then the glimpse gives life, turned into something that illuminates the moment and may, if we're lucky -- that word again -- have even further ranging consequences and meaning. The short story writer's task is to invest the glimpse with all that is in his power. He'll bring his in.. | design on-writing words writing | Raymond Carver | |
| 0de4663 | There is no God, and conversation is a dying art. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 3e082c1 | Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. | rwanda war | Philip Gourevitch | |
| 9b2daf6 | The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young) | Saul Bellow | ||
| 55873a5 | The hour that burst the spirit's sleep... | Saul Bellow | ||
| 67c3566 | I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 061900c | I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul. | Saul Bellow | ||
| a530519 | I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me, no. I've had all the monstrosity I want. | Saul Bellow | ||
| d7110f5 | Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 4dcbd73 | Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 06ccd1e | The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. | Chaim Potok | ||
| c3ed19a | the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth. | Chaim Potok | ||
| d339f1e | Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. "Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?" | Chaim Potok | ||
| 9e299ef | One Step...and then the next gets you where you're going." - Sister Creep" | Robert R. McCammon | ||
| 5e9e4c6 | Sirca fanusun icinde olu bir bebek gibi tikanip kalmis biri icin dunyanin kendisi kotu bir dustur. Bir gun bir yerde -okulda, Avrupa'da, herhangi bir yerde- o bogucu carpitmalariyla sirca fanusun yeniden uzerime inmeyecegini nasil bilebilirdim? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 738f696 | I need someone to pour myself into. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 476ab2b | WIDOW. The word consumes itself, said Sylvia Plath, who consumed herself. | Lauren Groff | ||
| 72ffb27 | As I paddled on, mt heartbeat boomed like a motor in my ears. I am I am I am. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f906d42 | All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen. A far sea moves in my ear. | sylvia-plath | Sylvia Plath | |
| a707702 | Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 1e905c5 | I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| a64fadb | I don't want to use higher education as an escape from responsibility, but I feel there is so much more awareness I should have before plunging onto the field of battle. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 0de1a6d | I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 0fc74c9 | I am climbing to my freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex, freedom from the Florence Crittenden Homes where all the poor girls go who should have been fitted out like me, because what they did, they would do anyway.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| bcb3770 | And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing. | Sylvia Plath |