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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| defd54c | Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever? | lunar-park | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| f4d51f4 | You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood," but I'm smiling." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 73f046d | The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 9b857fe | What made drugs perpetually so sexy was the opportunity to be other. Years after he'd figured out that pot only made him paranoid and sleepless, he still got hard-ons at the thought of smoking it. Still lusted for that jailbreak. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 69ebdfe | THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor. | society | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 767a505 | Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart's getting crushed or exalted, even when you're absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you're aware that what's happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 504a3f6 | She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free. | franzen freedom miserable self-pity | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 5e1e240 | Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses. | Ann Coulter | ||
| e28d27a | Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone, | reflection-on-happier-times remembering-loved-ones | Thomas Moore | |
| 65a9118 | Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad fact that this person actually thinks he bringing some joy into your life. Somewhere he had a mother who sifted through a shoe box of mimeographed playbills, pouring herself another drink and wondering when her son would come to his senses and swallow some drain cleaner. | David Sedaris | ||
| 1e68610 | Motherfucker, you haven't got the fucking balls God gave a goddamned church mouse. You crawled out of your mama's tattered old pussy, grabbed hold of her milk stained titties, and you ain't never looked back, motherfucker. | David Sedaris | ||
| 1668182 | They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy. | David Sedaris | ||
| ebfd560 | My first boyfriend was black as well, but that doesn't prove I'm color-blind, just that I like big butts. | David Sedaris | ||
| 60def35 | I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings. | David Sedaris | ||
| 2a56402 | Three days after that, the funeral was held, and while riding from the church to the cemetery Ava looked out the widow and noticed that everyone she passed was crying. "Old people, college students, even the colored men at the gas station-- the soul brothers, or whatever we're supposed to call them now." It was such an outdated term, I just had to use it myself. "How did the soul brothers know your father?" "That's just it," she said. "No.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 4c82a86 | I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I was told that if something is unpleasant it's probably feminine. This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and rollerblade. I have no problem learning the words themselves, it's the sexes that trip me up and refuse to stick. | David Sedaris | ||
| 90ed495 | I felt betrayed, the way you do when you discover that your cat has a secret secondary life and is being fed by neighbors who call him something stupid like Calypso. Worse is that he loves them as much as he loves you, which is to say not at all, really. The entire relationship has been your own invention. | David Sedaris | ||
| 12fcd0d | Hyn tHtj l~ shyy' m Hjh msh thm tjdh, fhdhh lsyt mSdfh, nh rGbtk lmlHh w ndf`k lHr hm lldhn yqwdnk lyh | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d0c2d64 | Faith is stronger than so-called reason. | h-h rationality reason | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0b7a44b | Fate and character are different names for the same idea. | fate | Hermann Hesse | |
| 68218fa | All over, people were seeking "freedom" and "happiness" somewhere behind themselves, out of the sheer fear of being reminded of their own responsibilities and being admonished to travel their own path." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f3b2471 | For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1aaaedd | And so the German spirit, carousing in music, in wonderful creations of sound, and wonderful beauties of feeling and mood that were never pressed home to reality, has left the greater part of its gifts to decay. None of us intellectuals is at home in reality. We are strange to it and hostile. Assiduous and busy, care-ridden and light-hearted, intelligent and yet thoughtless, these butterflies lived a life at once childlike and raffine; inde.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f4266db | I don't know. I really don't know. Perhaps that would be best, I thought I wanted it myself. But today I'm no longer sure what I really want and desire. Before, everything was simple, as simple as letters in my textbook. Now nothing is simple any more, not even the letters. Everything has taken on many meanings and faces. I don't know what will become of me, I can't think about that now. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9a1df6c | A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 88bce5d | knt tstTy` 'n tHwl nfsh l~ kl fkr@ mn 'fkry, w kl fkr@ mn 'fkry knt ttjsd fy hyy'th. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c6192f6 | Generalmente, los animales son tristes. Y cuando un hombre esta muy triste, no se debe a que tenga dolor de muelas o haya perdido dinero, sino porque alguna vez por un momento se da cuenta de como es todo, como es la vida y esta justamente triste; entonces se parece siempre un poco a un animal: tiene un aspecto de tristeza, pero es mas justo y mas bello que nunca. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4cb0b7e | lHdyq@ ynqSh lshdh w lGb@ tfqd jdhbyth. w bd l`lm mn Hwly kby` ltSfyh lbDy'` mst`mlh mn l`m lmDy. bhtan khlyan mn 'y ftnh, lktb rkm mn lwrq, w lmwsyq~ Skhb mn lSryr. hkdh ttsqT l'wrq `n lshjrh fy lkhryf, lshjrh l tsh`r blmTr lmtsqT `l~ jwnbh w l blshms 'w lSqy` w l blHyh lmtsrbh tdryjyan l~ dkhlh, lshjrh l tmwt, nh tntZr | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3384df1 | but what is it you wanted to learn from the teachings and teachers, and those who taught you so much, what could they not teach you?" and he concluded: "it was the i, whose meaning and essence i wanted to learn. it was the i, from which i wanted release, which i wanted to conquer. but i could not conquer it, i could only deceive it, only flee from it, only hide myself from it. truly, nothing in the world has taken up so much of my thinking .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 617a755 | The war against death, dear Harry, is always a beautiful, noble, and wonderful, and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the war against war. But it is always hopeless and quixotic too. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0510278 | But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8bbb556 | l'fkr lty n`yshh hy wHdh lty lh qym@. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 292c604 | All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7925348 | It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha) | enlightenment experience | Hermann Hesse | |
| c212f54 | Voll Bluten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wachst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Bluten geh'n Gedanken auf hundert an jedem Tag -- lass' bluhen, lass' dem Ding den Lauf frag' nicht nach dem Ertrag! Es muss auch Spiel und Unschuld sein und Blutenuberfluss sonst war' die Welt uns viel zu klein und Leben kein Genuss. | beauty blossoms enjoyment growth ideas innocence metaphors peach-tree poetry trees | Hermann Hesse | |
| a921ff9 | to you, differences are quite unimportant; to me, they are what matters most. I am a scholar by nature; science is my vocation. And science is, to quote your words, nothing but the 'determination to establish differences.' Its essence couldn't be defined more accurately. For us, the men of science, nothing is as important as the establishment of differences; science is the art of differentiation. Discovering in every man that which distingu.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c3ca25e | The prisoner is the jailer's jailer. | prisoner | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| ca93450 | There is solid evidence for the fact that when women speak more than 30 percent of the time, men perceive them as dominating the conversation; well, similarly, if, say, two women in a row get one of the big annual literary awards, masculine voices start talking about feminist cabals, political correctness, and the decline of fairness in judging. The 30 percent rule is really powerful. If more than one woman out of four or five won the Pulit.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1b18960 | There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot say good morning without knowing which of you is 'superior' to the other, or trying to prove it. You cannot act like a brother to other people, you must manipulate them, or command them, or obey them, or trick them. You cannot touch another person, yet they will not leave you alone. There is no freedom. | freedom | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| b9f3572 | Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number - Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysis, every now and then. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e2bfcbe | To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6fe9554 | What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 503ee60 | In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ba83388 | Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing | jealousy love ownership | Ursula K. Le Guin |