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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f8d5c0 | He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 334b76e | Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4c17fcd | I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 96caba4 | I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c09904b | Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 48f8e42 | You look like shit." Jason smiled, without opening his eyes. "You sweet-talker." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 02f08d5 | He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it. | laurell-k-hamilton vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 135d748 | There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 06706d5 | If I could find someone to blame, perhaps I could get angry. Anything would be better than this sadness, this sense of regret for events that were never mine. | Luke Davies | ||
| e8bc1ad | Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad. | Luke Davies | ||
| 5fc7027 | In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth. | Luke Davies | ||
| ad9d8f0 | The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time." | Sam Harris | ||
| 5b9c7d3 | Whatever their conscious motives, these men cannot know why they are as they are. As sickening as I find their behavior, I have to admit that if I were to trade places with one of these men, atom for atom, I would be him: There is no extra part of me that could decide to see the world differently or to resist the impulse to victimize other people. Even if you believe that every human being harbors an immortal soul, the problem of responsibi.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 56a5fbe | It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia. | Sam Harris | ||
| 0782a9c | It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-minded way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3a0224b | One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless. | Sam Harris | ||
| b6be4fe | This is not to say that the deepest concerns of the faithful, whether moderate or extreme, are trivial or misguided. There is no denying that most of us have emotional and spiritual needs that are now addressed--however obliquely and at a terrible price--by mainstream religion. And these are needs that a mere understanding of our world, scientific or otherwise, will never fulfill. There is clearly a sacred dimension to our existence, and co.. | Sam Harris | ||
| b6f54a9 | Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern world. No doubt an obscure truth of economics is at work here: societies appear to become considerably less productive whenever large numbers of people stop making widgets and begin killing their customers and creditors for heresy. The first thing to observe about the moderate's retreat from scriptural l.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 793ff1a | The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained--as the beliefs, rituals, and iconography of each of our religions attest to centuries of crosspollination among them. | Sam Harris | ||
| c06dd0b | Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. [...] By failing to live by the letter of the texts [scripture], while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally. | Sam Harris | ||
| bee95af | My choices matter--and there are paths towards making wiser ones--but I cannot choose what I choose. And if it ever appears that I do--for instance, after going back between two options--I do not to choose what I choose. There is a regress here that always ends in darkness. | Sam Harris | ||
| f944422 | A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoided by following a single precept in life: Do not lie. | Sam Harris | ||
| 0cb1173 | It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-" | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 8619af8 | n 'SHb lqlwb lqsy@ lhm 'Hznhm 'yDan | José Saramago | ||
| 2865098 | khbz lakhryn hw ldhy ythql khl lmr dy'man . | José Saramago | ||
| 4c21738 | lshy kl'ml lHqyqy ystTy` tGyyr ar lmr | José Saramago | ||
| f36a653 | l wjwd llTrq lqSyr@ wlmbshr@ | shorter | José Saramago | |
| bfa1f8d | we know that it is the search that gives meaning to any find and that one often has to travel a long way in order to arrive at what is near. | José Saramago | ||
| cf80610 | Ora, a solidao, ainda vai ter de aprender muito para saber o que isso e, Sempre vivi so, Tambem eu, mas a solidao nao e viver so, a solidao e nao sermos capazes de fazer companhia a alguem ou a alguma coisa que esta dentro de nos, a solidao nao e uma arvore no meio duma planicie onde so ela esteja, e a distancia entre a seiva profunda e a casca, entre a folha e a raiz, Voce esta a tresvariar, tudo quanto menciona esta ligado entre si, ai na.. | José Saramago | ||
| 2acec31 | Have you ever wondered if death is the same for all living beings, be they animals, human beings included, or plants, from the grass you walk on to the hundred-meter-tall sequoiadendron giganteum, will the death that kills a man who knows he's going to die be the same as that of a horse who never will. | José Saramago | ||
| 2661596 | nn nhb jdan fkr@ mwtn, wlhdh nHwl dy'man yjd l'`dhr llmwt~, wk'nn nTlb msbqan 'n nu`dhr `ndm yHyn dwrn. | José Saramago | ||
| f85ef48 | a vida e uma orquestra que sempre esta tocando, afinada, desafinada, um paquete titanic que sempre se afunda e sempre volta a superficie | José Saramago | ||
| 8e752c8 | In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery. | science-fiction society | Isaac Asimov | |
| fdaeb8e | You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 800c321 | The fact of the matter is that young men lack skill and experience and are very likely to approach a girl as though she were a sack of wheat. It is the old man--suave, debonair, maturely charming--who knows exactly what to do and how to do it, and is therefore better at it. | isaac-asimov the-sensuous-dirty-old-man | Isaac Asimov | |
| e6d5d72 | To Mankind | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 7c4f48e | You are a practical man, Elijah. You do not moon romantically over Earth's past, despite your healthy interest in it. Nor do you stubbornly embrace the City culture of Earth's present day. We felt that people such as yourself were the ones that could lead Earthmen to the stars once more. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| c5072a2 | The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals. | society teamwork tribe | Isaac Asimov | |
| 6c03fcd | In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 7a4100e | The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts. | reading studying | Cory Doctorow | |
| 83a028e | The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| f21730c | Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 825fd6a | This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we? | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 6119920 | It is only when you suffer that you really understand. | Jules Verne |