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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 498772d | O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go. | foot-in-mouth pause speaking thoughtlessness | Russell Hoban | |
| 7dc6f2e | If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. That's why everybody was so much alike. The way they talked, what they did, what they liked, what they hated. If somebody got to hate something and he was the right person, everybody had to hate it too, or people began to hate the ones who didn't hate it. They used to tell us in school to think for yourself, but you couldn't do that in the town. You had to think what your fathe.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 7431ed7 | Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 52b186d | And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before. | kissing love | Victoria Alexander | |
| bc9e61e | It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind. | effingtons romance | Victoria Alexander | |
| fc2b0a3 | I was flying out to Connecticut for the express purpose of breaking up with my boyfriend and I bought this set of three paperbacks to read on the plane and by the time I got to New Haven I was so worried about Frodo and Sam that I said to my boyfriend, "It's awful. They're trying to sneak into Mordor and the Ringwraiths are after them and I don't trust Gollum and ..." and I completely forgot to break up with him. And, as of yesterday, we've.. | Connie Willis | ||
| b7655a7 | Books are an amazing thing. Anyone who thinks of them as an escape from reality or as something you should get your nose out of and go outside and play, or as merely a distraction or an amusement or a waste of time is - dead wrong. Books are the most important the most powerful | reading | Connie Willis | |
| c18a70e | When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us. | Colum McCann | ||
| e34bd97 | Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity. | Dan Savage | ||
| c6e58ed | And that's my comfort -- that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was REAL and not merely a dream? | Craig Thompson | ||
| 192682f | Bird's mother-in-law sat quite still, the world's most forlorn ventriloquist. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| c6581f2 | To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it? | pragmatism | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 5ee4574 | The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| e40453a | By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| c811ffa | The plucked and dressed bodies of the chickens will then be sold to millions of families who will gnaw on their bones without pausing for an instant to think that they are eating the dead body of a once living creature, or to ask what was done to that creature in order to enable them to buy and eat its body. | Peter Singer | ||
| 50fe5d1 | Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 62a03ba | You never know what to expect on encountering royalty. I've seen 'em stark naked except for wings of peacock feathers (Empress of China), giggling drunk in the embrace of a wrestler (Maharani of the Punjab), voluptuously wrapped in wet silk (Queen of Madagascar), wafting to and fro on a swing (Rani of Jhansi), and tramping along looking like an out-of-work charwoman (our own gracious monarch). | royalty | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 3eafebf | I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| b559581 | One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons." This means having dozens of copies of and Danielle Steele, and a consequent shortage of shelf space, to cope with which librarians have taken to purging books that haven't been checked out lately." | Connie Willis | ||
| d9a392f | Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day | Danielle Steel | ||
| dc02ea0 | I'm not the enemy, they are. I hear them. You're not good enough so no one could ever love you. Come here," he said, pulling her into his arms and looking into her huge blue eyes that were the same color as his own. "I love you. You are lovable. They're idiots. And I love everything about you, just the way you are. Now that's my message to you. It's not theirs. It's mine. You are the most lovable woman I've ever known." As he said it, he ki.. | danielle-steel | Danielle Steel | |
| e40aa34 | I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together... | love love-story lovequote lovequotes | Danielle Steel | |
| 7671370 | But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 472ffff | I want to go home.' The moment the smell hit her, the words came into her head. She didn't know exactly what home it was she wanted to go to, certainly not the one she'd just left. But why didn't she want to go back there? And where did she want to go? She felt lost. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 315491c | If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at lines and go down in flames. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 0f90f28 | Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| ddddbdb | Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 7955c4a | John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ||
| ae78c16 | The world of men and women are making merry in the cemetery grounds. They are having sexual intercourse, God bless them, and I am alone in the Land of Fuck. | Henry Miller | ||
| 6b08ea6 | At night when I look at Boris' goatee lying on the pillow I get hysterical. O Tania, where now is that warm cunt of yours, those fat, heavy garters, those soft, bulging thighs? There is a bone in my prick six inches long. I will ream out every wrinkle in your cunt, Tania, big with seed. I will send you home to your Sylvester with an ache in your belly and your womb turned inside out. Your Sylvester! Yes, he knows how to build a fire, but I .. | Henry Miller | ||
| bb45c76 | The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a new ambiance. | Henry Miller | ||
| a115bb2 | Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief. | freedom nazism | Erich Fromm | |
| 0f83d65 | Frequently, and not only in the popular usage, sadomasochism is confounded with love. Masochistic phenomena, especially, are looked upon as expressions of love. An attitude of complete self-denial for the sake of another person and the surrender of one's own rights and claims to another person have been praised as examples of "great love". It seems that there is no better proof for "love" than sacrifice and the readiness to give oneself up .. | no-greater-love sacrifice sadomasochism | Erich Fromm | |
| ba1127e | Well-being is the state of having arrived at the full development of reason: reason not in the sense of a merely intellectual judgment, but in that of grasping truth by "letting things be" (to use Heidegger's term) as they are. Well-being is possible only to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty (in the Zen sense). Well-being means to be fully related t.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 29a9827 | To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 6436a07 | Equality today means "sameness," rather than "oneness." It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 321ae3f | People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation--but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 2d2c2e9 | Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu konnen. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b2a2622 | Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3b6be9b | I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 26fa34e | The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but "information" alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thi.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| fa917d5 | While everybody tries to be as close as possible to the rest, everybody remains utterly alone, pervaded by the deep sense of insecurity, anxiety and guilt which always results when human separateness cannot be overcome. Our civilization offers many palliatives which help people to be consciously unaware of this aloneness: first of all the strict routine of bureaucratized, mechanical work, which helps people to remain unaware of their most f.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| e626c33 | lys fy lHb wHdh ykwn l`T m`nh ltlqy, flmdrs yt`lm mn tlmdhth wlmmthl ystthyrh jmhwrh wlmHll lnfsy yushf~ `l~ yd mryDh - bshrT 'l y`ml lwHd mnhm lakhryn `l~ 'nh 'shy, bl `l~ 'n kl wHdin mnhm mrtbT blakhr `l~ nHw 'Syl wmthmr. | Erich Fromm | ||
| c5b8d19 | I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place. | Michael Ondaatje |