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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | solitude drinking courage taverns withdrawal beer confession reflection quietness thought | 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. | relationships work families workplace emotions | 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 | ||
| 39660e2 | They tell you in this country that you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And we all believe that. But first you've got to have the boots. And the federal government gave Franni's family the boots. | Al Franken | ||
| 3591133 | I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz. | Al Franken | ||
| 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 | ||
| 546ca8a | It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more around the house, who makes more money, who is having more sex. We compare our children, taking note of who is sleeping through the night, eating their vegetables, minding their manners, getting into the right schools. We know who keeps the best house, throws the best parties, cooks the best meals, has the best tenn.. | women | Emily Giffin | |
| 7ae1d20 | You can run but you can't hide | Emily Giffin | ||
| 8ee5af5 | And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. | mankind want greed humanity learning life endeavors things-that-matter ladder materialism | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 75fa54a | being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences... | Albert Speer | ||
| 1b645cd | I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, | William Blake | ||
| 75b3f1a | WHEN the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down, And the dews of night arise; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies. No, no, let us play, for it is yet day, And we cannot go to sleep; Besides, in the sky the little birds fly, .. | William Blake | ||
| 8cb1719 | Es una mierda que las tias te cojan carino pero solo en plan amigo. Me pasa constantemente: me veo metido en el papel del tio majo con el que no quieren follar. Me encantaria hacer de hijo de puta al que matan a polvos | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 750c148 | Los colegas son una puta perdida de tiempo. Siempre estan dispuestos a arrastrarte hasta su nivel de mediocridad social, sexual e intelectual. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 89b81c5 | Nae cunt kens | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2dc9f0f | USA. The land of the free; where you accent didn't matter. But he supposed everybody related to it; movies, TV, fat-food, outlets, you grew up with it. Cultural imperialism. Yet no wonder everybody increasingly hated it: it was stupid, self-serving and so in-your-face that it was setting itself up to be despised | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 7cc4c68 | During times of physical separation, when touching and caressing is impossible, a deep, longing, almost a hunger, for the beloved can set in. We are used to thinking of this longing as only psychological, but it's actually physical. The brain is virtually in a drug-withdrawal state. During a separation, motivation for reunion can reach a fever pitch in the brain. Activities such as caressing, kissing, gazing, hugging, and orgasm can repleni.. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 0649449 | In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves. | women | Doris Lessing | |
| bca8462 | It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 24155a1 | Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. | Leif Enger | ||
| 9bdf4a6 | If Jesus ever comes back to earth again, I'm thinking, he'll come as a dog, because there isn't anything as humble or patient or loving or loyal as the dog I have in my arms right now. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| aa85e24 | You can find yourself a decent, honorable man, one to love you, respect you, cherish you. Someone with morals, with a decent job and a good future. That's what you think you want, isn't it? Not some white trash from Alabama. Not some ex-con who's running the scam of a lifetime. You're so good and decent, the very thought of me disgusts you, doesn't it?" His voice was low and seductive as he pushed the words at her. She met his gaze with wha.. | Anne Stuart | ||
| 484ca61 | This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light. | David Almond | ||
| d185b1d | I said, 'Do you know what shoulder blades are for?' She giggled. 'Do you not even know that?' she said. | David Almond | ||
| 15dfa78 | I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| afda2de | There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| bbee9f0 | And he discovered, finally, the source of the honey-sweet sound. The sound was music. The sound was King Phillip playing his guitar and singing for his daughter, the Princess Pea, every night before she fell asleep. Hidden in a hole in the wall of the princess's bedroom, the mouse listened with all his heart. The sound of the King's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him. Oh," he said, "it sounds like heaven. It sme.. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 3d42a4b | Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 3bdd2a6 | All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 8d4bb6b | I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry. | Kate DiCamillo |