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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 It was such an outdated term, I just had to use it myself.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. | reason h-h rationality | 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. | poetry beauty peach-tree blossoms enjoyment trees growth metaphors innocence ideas | 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 | |
| f9f2157 | The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e9ce20d | Infinite are the arguments of mages, | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7d1de52 | Grain grows best in shit... | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 615ecd8 | An enemy, in Karhide, is not a stranger, an invader. The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cb56aa4 | The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrodinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future - indeed Schrodinger most famous thought experiment goes to show that the "future," on the quantum level, cannot be predicted - but to describe reality, the present world. Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fe.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 373363f | I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me. | restlessness wanderlust | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8380d09 | Her Second, her cousin, her friend, smiled, eyes bright as stars. "Live, Manon." Manon blinked. Asterin smiled wider, kissed Manon's brow, and whispered again, " | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5463a00 | We hit the sweeping marble stairs to the front doors of the manor. And so Tamlin unwittingly led the High Lady of the Night Court into the heart of his territory. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5abf9e7 | She glanced sideways at her companion, who had peeled off his outer layers of clothing to reveal the sweat-drenched shirt clinging to his body. They rounded a hedge, and Calaena rolled her eyes when she saw what waited on the path ahead. Every morning, more and more ladies found excuses to be walking through the gardens just after dawn. At first, it had just been a few young women who'd taken one look at Chaol and his sweaty, clingy clothe.. | Sarah J. Maas |