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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6a3b58 | The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to reach that stratum, mind you, you needed dynamite. | humor | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 38bd7e6 | To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 50e3bbb | Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?' 'Oh, rather!' 'What do you do about it?' 'I generally take a couple of cocktails. | alcoholic depression desolation emptiness humor sorrow soul | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 4bc7fb0 | Jeeves, Mr Little is in love with that female." "So I gathered, sir. She was slapping him in the passage." I clutched my brow. "Slapping him?" "Yes, sir. Roguishly." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| a1d88ad | She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequently commented on this. You are probably familiar with the one who said, "Oh, woman in our hours of ease tum tumty tiddly something please, when something something something brow, a something something something thou." | women | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 4b55261 | Lord Marshmoreton: I wish I could get you see my point of view. George Bevan: I do see your point of view. But dimly. You see, my own takes up such a lot of the foreground | P G Wodehouse | ||
| d1c215d | All objects exist in a moment of time. | object time | Amy Tan | |
| 34eb1c0 | And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind. | Amy Tan | ||
| faff069 | Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring. | Amy Tan | ||
| 1359797 | I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason. But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well. Hwai dungsyi, was this kind of thinking wrong? If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too? If I see someone has a suspicious nose, h.. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2fa8e21 | With the rain falling surgically against the roof, I ate a dish of ice cream that looked like Kafka's hat. It was a dish of ice cream tasting like an operating table with the patient staring up at the ceiling. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 18a1d70 | Je reste des heures entieres debout au meme endroit, presque sans bouger (j'ai meme vu le vent s'arreter dans ma main) | Richard Brautigan | ||
| e5189bb | He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle. | description wine wine-bottle | Richard Brautigan | |
| 3a092a6 | I'm a great reader that never has time to read. | free-time readers reading time | Eudora Welty | |
| b3eb0d1 | When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 307e894 | Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 3c08132 | Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world's people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| a0981df | It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is taking place here and elsewhere in the country and around the world, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| da50ae5 | Guys are control freaks and hate when other people know what's best for them | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2e57637 | Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 517e77a | Sylvia grabs my sleeve. "He's a looker." "I know. The problem is, he knows it, too." | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| d082e2e | I have to protect you," he says softly." | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 09bdf55 | Sometimes I think Ben is right, that the fantasy world is better because reality sucks...but then I look at Nikki and I believe that we can beat the odds. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| dcd6476 | Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them. That's love | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ff21a98 | Listen, I don't know what the hell happened between you and Marco. To be honest I don't really want to know, 'cause if I did I'd probably want to kick the shit outta him." "I don't need you to protect me." "What if I want to?" -- | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| f332414 | I'll always love you, no matter what happens, okay? | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 7211d13 | Whoa, who was that?" "Madison Stone," Kiara mutters. "Introduce me to her." "Why?" Because I know it'll annoy the shit out of you." | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| ea2a248 | I look ridiculous and stupid. As I check myself in the bathroom mirror, I want to back out. I'm wearing a skintight leotard/body suit obviously designed by women who have no clue about men's plumbing, because the outline of my dick is obscene. Don't dudes who do this ridiculous sport wear a cup or something? I've been on a trampoline, but I've never done synchronized trampolining. Looking at myself in the mirror, I can see why. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4baeee0 | human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions | memory writers | Salman Rushdie | |
| e8eb76c | A son who will never be older than his motherland - neither older nor younger. There shall be two heads - but you will only see one - there will be knees and a nose, a nose and knees. Newspaper praises him, two mothers raise him! Bicycles love him - but crowds will shove him! Sisters will weep, cobras will creep... Washing will hide him - voices will guide him! Friends will mutilate him - blood will betray him! Spittoons will brain him - do.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| a4ff9b4 | Khattam-Shud,' he Said slowly 'is the arch-enemy of all stories, even of language itself. He is the prince of silence and the foe of speech. And because everything ends, because dreams ens, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. 'It is finished,' we tell one another, 'it's over, Khattam-Shud; the end. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| b2b9303 | He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 4bd5a40 | And your students," Sato demanded, "don't find it unnerving that Masons meditate with skulls and scythes?" "No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice" | Dan Brown | ||
| 80995d0 | I have daughters and I have sons. When one of them lays a hand | Robert Bly | ||
| 663f184 | THE FACE IN THE TOYOTA Suppose you see a face in a Toyota One day, and you fall in love with that face, And it is Her, and the world rushes by Like dust blown down a Montana street. And you fall upward into some deep hole, And you can't tell God from a grain of sand. And your life is changed, except that now you Overlook even more than you did before; And these ignored things come to bury you, And you are crushed, and your parents Can't hel.. | Robert Bly | ||
| f8c5989 | His large ears Hear everything A hermit wakes And sleeps in a hut Underneath His gaunt cheeks. His eyes blue, alert, Disappointed, And suspicious, Complain I Do not bring him The same sort of Jokes the nurses Do. He is a bird Waiting to be fed,-- Mostly beak-- an eagle Or a vulture, or The Pharoah's servant Just before death. My arm on the bedrail Rests there, relaxed, With new love. All I know of the Troubadours I bring to this bed. I do n.. | troubadors | Robert Bly | |
| 637be2b | Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think... and think... while you are alive. What you call "salvation" belongs to the time before death. If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? The idea that the soul will rejoin with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten-- that is all fantasy. What is found now is found then. If you find nothing n.. | Robert Bly | ||
| 3e35e0e | A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 4440d30 | Yeah, you're right about having entire rooms full of film and photos... in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage... I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides... I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that's happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs," Alecto .. | cape-breton capture coal coal-mine darkroom digital film industrial kodachrome kodak memories nostalgia nova-scotia photo photograph polaroid pollution smog steel-mill super-8 train | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 10428d0 | The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education. | Henry James | ||
| 8ecf15a | I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin. | Henry James | ||
| 05ad6e3 | She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone. | Henry James | ||
| b51b228 | You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left. | Henry James | ||
| 663349a | their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. | inspiring teaching | Mark Helprin |