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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 28ed906 | knt tsh`r b'nh khwy@ tmman , mthl Syny@ lm ybq fyh sw~ ftt mm kn qlb Hlw~ bdy`an | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 2b52c85 | When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same? | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 2e8fe05 | One show, I did a benefit for a feminist organziation....So it's all feminsts. Gloria Steinem is sitting right up front. I walked out and said, "Look here, I can't stay around here too long with you broads because I gotta get home and cook my man a nice hot dinner. Plus, he likes his blow job by nine forty-five." I though it was funny. They didn't. They didn't find anything funny. I thought, Oh Lord, I made these women mad. I stepped over t.. | Wanda Sykes | ||
| 70e73c5 | Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, 'Listen, you're not pregnant.' I said, 'Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit. | feminism humor | Wanda Sykes | |
| 29b8f1c | What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 122bfc2 | Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird one against the disappointments of life, rather than make one aware that our attempts to subdue the pain of unrequited love - of impossible love, of love that we are best to put away and not to think about - tended not to work, and only made the wounds of love more painful. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 3eb40db | Send that," he told her. "Sign it, et cetera. Work the sentences, if you wish, so that they will mean something." As she started from the office he added, "Or so that they mean nothing. Whichever you prefer." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e3885b7 | Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought. | creation | Philip K. Dick | |
| c75a4f9 | Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 70da5bb | Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray for Hollywood" tonight with the segment on . (Well, to be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that was going to be a part of the show, and to be sure to watch.) Jeff, after looking--and especially after listening to Harrison Ford discuss the film--I came to the conclusion that this indeed is not science fiction; it is not fantasy; it is exactly what Harris.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 1300f50 | Watching him, Juliana thought, It's idealism that makes him that bitter. Asking too much out of life. Always moving on, restless and griped. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b9629fa | The first thing they do to you when you go into New-Path," Charles Freck said, "is they cut off your pecker. As an object lesson. And then they fan out in all directions from there." "Your spleen next," Barris said. "They what, they cut -- What does that do, a spleen?" "Helps you digest your food." "How?" "By removing the cellulose from it." "Then I guess after that --" "Just noncellulose foods. No leaves or alfalfa." "How long can you live.. | barris celulose spleen | Philip K. Dick | |
| e145feb | Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in the far future. So if you superimposed the past (ancient Rome) over the present (California in the twentieth century) and superimposed the far future world of The Android Cried Me a River over that, you got the Empire, as the supra- or trans-temporal constant. Everyone who had ever lived was literally surrounded by the iron.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e22897b | nh Swt l`ql hw m y`trDn~ dwm bjdr Skhry. lm ybq l 'n tjrb ljnwn. dh Sdk `n ls`d@ fjrb ljnwn 'ys dhlk mn l`ql 'yD !? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1839c48 | n ldhy tqbl `lyh ldny l yzwr Hd 'dbrt `nh, flmdh j? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1b718df | m 'bsh` shrs@ lGDb fy wjh Zl 'lyf Tyl@ `shryn `m. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 2d3b52b | n mfhwm lfn qd tGyr wnHn l ndry,`hd lfn qd mDy wnqDy,wfn `Srn hw ltsly@wlthryj,hdh hw lfn lmmkn fy zmn l`lm,wyjb 'n ntkhly `n jmy` lmydyn `d lsyrk. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| a0f1775 | When disasters come at the same time, they compete with each other. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8901af7 | Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises.. | vanity-fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| ae5bb39 | I mean...if I told people what to believe, they'd stop thinking. And then they'd be easier to lie to. And...what if I was wrong?' 'So...if you may not decide what is true, and the men of letters may not, who may?' 'Nobody. Everybody.' Mosca looked up at the windows where the jubilant people of Mandelion swung their bells. 'Clamouring Hour - that's the only way. Everybody able to stand up and shout what they think, all at once. An' not jus.. | Frances Hardinge | ||
| ed02ae4 | Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places. | Frances Mayes | ||
| d81bab1 | My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 3e31c9b | Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 079274d | We were given one country and we've set up in another. | Frances Mayes | ||
| fd44a75 | What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 74952cf | Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 739196e | Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs? | current present future compassion love hoarding stewardship labor sharing selfish neighbor saving need justice | Randy Alcorn | |
| 9400eb3 | In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. | meaning-of-life nihilism | Annie Proulx | |
| 274bd13 | If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 2c221a7 | Good-bye, Mrs Bartholemew," said tom, shaking hands with stiff politeness; "and thank you very much for having me." "I shall look forward to our meeting again," said Mrs Bartholemew, equally primly. Tom went slowly down the attic stairs. Then, at the bottom, he hesitated: he turned impulsively and ran up again - two at a time - to where Hatty Bartholemew still stood... Afterwards, Aunt Gwen tried to describe to her husband that second part.. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 9538d19 | What is the age of the soul of man? As she hath the virtue of the chameleon to change her hue at every new approach, to be gay with the merry and mournful with the downcast, so too is her age changeable as her mood. No longer is Leopold, as he sits there, ruminating, chewing the cud of reminiscence, that staid agent of publicity and holder of a modest substance in the funds. He is young Leopold, as in a retrospective arrangement, a mirror w.. | James Joyce | ||
| 105322d | Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]" | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 1255e03 | After Bill got his shot, a little color crept into his face and he would become almost coy. It was a gruesome sight. I remember once he told me how he'd been propositioned by a queer who offered him twenty dollars. Bill declined, saying "I don't think you would be very well satisfied." Bill twitched his fleshless hips. "You should see me in the nude," he said. "I'm really cute." | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 5ca5f61 | home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 3070196 | Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself. | Epictetus | ||
| 2cb1c2b | Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace. | Epictetus | ||
| f5a6a68 | Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not | Epictetus | ||
| 0f1f411 | this is your business--to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another. | Epictetus | ||
| 6fe7227 | Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes. | Epictetus | ||
| 8b2b4fc | Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 24ee7b5 | People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul... | kids-funny suffering parenting | Jeannette Walls | |
| 7f86e1c | Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop. | humor | Jeannette Walls | |
| a64f5c8 | He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 31b712a | Look up. | hope love | Luanne Rice |