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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d020ad1 | She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7a0a8a2 | Bir fare cati katinda kocaman bir erkek kedi ile karsilasir. Farenin kacabilecegi hic bir yer kalmamistir, koseye sikismistir. Fare titreyerek kediye soyle der: Kedi Bey, lutfen beni yeme. Ailemin yanina donmem lazim. Cocuklarim karni ac beni bekler, lutfen beni gormemis ol. Kedi yanit verir: Endiselenme, seni yiyecek degilim. Isin dogrusu, yuksek sesle soyleyemem ama ben vejetaryenim. Asla et yemem. Bu yuzden benimle karsilasmis olman, sen.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a79b85c | People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7156c1f | It is as evil as we are positive...the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f5c86b5 | When I'm criticized unjustly (from my own viewpoint, at least), or when someone I'm sure will understand me doesn't, I go running for a little longer than usual. By running longer it's like I can physically exhaust that portion of my discontent. It also makes me realize again how weak I am, how limited my abilities are. I become aware, physically, of these low points. And one of the results of running a little farther than usual is that I b.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 17ca5c2 | There are a lot of things that aren't your fault. Or mine, either. Not the fault of prophecies, or curses, or DNA, or absurdity. Not the fault of Structuralism or the Third Industrial Revolution. We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives are just shadows of that guiding principle. Say the wind blows. It can be a strong, violent wind or a gentle breeze. But even.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 624bdcd | In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| e3aa3f4 | If reading really does increase empathy, as we are constantly being told that it does, it appears that writing takes some away. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| f859775 | Sure I worried that writing about it might be a mistake. You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it. You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it. Like people whose memories of places they've traveled to are in fact only m.. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 8377c56 | Care flows naturally if the "self" is widened and deepened so that protection of free Nature is felt and conceived as protection of ourselves...Just as we need no morals to make us breathe...[so] if your "self" in the wide sense embraces another being, you need no moral exhortation to show care...You care for yourself without feeling any moral pressure to do it." | Fritjof Capra | ||
| fe7d60c | Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 0a4dace | The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life. | Laurie R. King | ||
| b184c8b | I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 69d4380 | If you were advising your great-granddaughter about the man you have a crush on at this moment-what would you tell her? Would you be protective, and tell her to kick this man to the curb because he's treating her so badly, or would you tell her to hold on to this man for dear life? Now, why aren't you taking your own advice? | Kim Gruenenfelder | ||
| 9f8bf63 | His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache! | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 575e91a | Life is very tenacious in these lawyers. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ca1cf9e | I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2b0b2d8 | I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange -- | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 7bd35be | I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be acquainted with. - Abbe Faria | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 5187a31 | Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitot qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: 'Cherchez la femme'. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| f81a5f4 | Punctuality is the politness of kings" p.154" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 585c757 | We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| e70e188 | There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 80e189f | Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 7b2df03 | So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps! | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| fb2eefa | Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them. | Frank Portman | ||
| 054ac4e | On the other hand, the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| d9b8a86 | we have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 3d9899d | Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a party, for youth, for the good times, for dear good drinking and fighting comrades, for football-game girls in the fall with faces like flowers? Comes the longing and it has to do with being fifteen and fifty and with the winter sun striking down into a brick-yard and on clapboard walls rounded off with old hard blistered paint and acro.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 509d549 | What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a cast away do? Why he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn't miss a trick. To become aware of the.. | walker-percy | Walker Percy | |
| dd22318 | For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos. | Walker Percy | ||
| 6f8a018 | I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. | talk | Walker Percy | |
| a40ba8d | Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? | disaster real | Walker Percy | |
| 7ecb424 | Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 95cba31 | The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whis.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8a5e383 | There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. | fear phantom forest jungle terror | Tahir Shah | |
| bd990e3 | Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it. | exploration arrogance | Tahir Shah | |
| 572ca3c | During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide. | jail prison | Tahir Shah | |
| 7f7fd19 | teaching is, after all, a form of show business. | comedy teachers teacher teaching | Steve Martin | |
| c69209e | When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some[...] But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 95bfaae | What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 25c27ee | May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of your soul. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1ce5daa | Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3e84f90 | All thoughts about myself now begin with perhaps .. because I'm having to think about myself in ways I never did before and I'm not sure if I'm right in my thinking about these things. | Cecelia Ahern |