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| e33f122 | Lux's frequent forged excuses from phys. ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid 's and 's of her mother's signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching 's reaching out for each other over the ditch of the and barbed-wire . | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| fcc0f68 | Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 3addba9 | The worst part was that, as the years passed, these memories became, in the way you kept them in a secret box in your head, taking them out every so often to turn them over and over, something like dear possessions. They were the key to your unhappiness. They were the evidence that life wasn't fair. If you weren't a lucky child, you didn't know you weren't lucky until you got older. And then it was all you ever thought about. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 909da79 | Simple people with less education, sophistication, social ties, and professional obligations seem in general to have somewhat less difficulty in facing this final crisis than people of affluence who lose a great deal more in terms of material luxuries, comfort, and number of interpersonal relationships. It appears that people who have gone through a life of suffering, hard work, and labor, who have raised their children and been gratified i.. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| d3dff6b | When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| de3440e | You have to water the flowers you want to grow. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| c142463 | We cannot always do great things in life, but we can do small things with great love. | Dan Millman | ||
| 5897eaf | focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new. | Dan Millman | ||
| f8a718d | embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied. | Dan Millman | ||
| a4fe435 | And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. | Truman Capote | ||
| 39dc468 | We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed - begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand; it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I've never mastered it - I only know how true it is; that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life. | Truman Capote | ||
| c6b41a6 | Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost. | Truman Capote | ||
| f5d4393 | the more disorganized your brain is, the smarter you are. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 445996d | It was before him again in its completeness--the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1a30f6a | The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches | mind inspirational ethan-frome | Edith Wharton | |
| 49426dc | She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. | laugh fat | Edith Wharton | |
| 85faefb | Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?" | Edith Wharton | ||
| 293c37b | What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?" -- | Edith Wharton | ||
| 15626ee | Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 53511f5 | Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 49efa86 | She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0dde2ba | One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1815dfc | The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying. | Douglas Adams | ||
| d1350fe | If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. | humour quantum robert-rankin douglas-adams parallel-universe multiverse sci-fi | Zane Stumpo | |
| 04e8f87 | In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 2e1eb5c | There is no "tropical island paradise" I know of which remotely matches up to the fantasy ideal that such a phrase is meant to conjure up, or even to what we find described in holiday brochures. It's natural to put this down to the discrepancy we are all used to finding between what advertisers promise and what the real world delivers. It doesn't surprise us much any more. So it can come as a shock to realise that the world we hear describe.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 302fed5 | Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e364577 | There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8c9658b | There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5f7883b | He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask. ... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live. | humor | Douglas Adams | |
| 54d039e | Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I would wish to disassociate myself." "Absolutely, I know how you feel. Most of the fourteenth century, for instance, was pretty grim," agreed Reg earnestly." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 233483d | The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 0e84963 | Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight." "I can do that for you, sure," enthused the computer, punching out more ticker tape. "I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help." | Douglas Adams | ||
| d137750 | Zaphod left the controls for Ford to figure out, and lurched over to Arthur. "Look, Earthman," he said angrily, "you've got a job to do, right? The Question to the Ultimate Answer, right?" "What, that thing?" said Arthur, "I thought we'd forgotten about that." "Not me, baby. Like the mice said, it's worth a lot of money in the right quarters. And it's all locked up in that head thing of yours." "Yes but ..." "But nothing! Think about it. Th.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ce1f2f8 | Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ecf6b17 | The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6b505f1 | One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living. | living wisdom | Douglas Adams | |
| d3b3a2d | There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5d9d1ed | Time," said Arthur weakly, "is not currently one of my problems." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8242917 | After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of us and asked us if we were transit passengers. We said we were. He shook his head with infinite weariness and told us that if we were transit passengers then we were supposed to be in the other of the two rooms. We were obviously very crazy and stupid not to have realized this. He stayed there slumped against the door jamb, raising his eyebrows p.. | humour zaire douglas-adams | Douglas Adams | |
| 6fb2169 | Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body? It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters into a more comfortable position and gazed peacefully at them. Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from Arthur and Trillian, a resigned shrug from Ford Prefect and naked hunger from Zaphod Beeblebrox. "Something off the shoulder perhap.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e521f95 | All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?" Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way. "I don't know," he said, taking a pull of beer. "Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?" Ford gave up. It really wasn't worth bothering at the moment, what with the world being about to end." -- | alien aliens-abduct arthur-dent betelgeuse dent douglas douglas-adams ford ford-prefect world-ending planet arthur pub prefect | Douglas Adams | |
| 902d8c5 | The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower, And bright are the windows of Night in her tower. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| eb314c3 | The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the s.. | Douglas Adams |