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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c75a4f9 | Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 70da5bb | Dear Jeff, I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray for Hollywood" tonight with the segment on . (Well, to be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that was going to be a part of the show, and to be sure to watch.) Jeff, after looking--and especially after listening to Harrison Ford discuss the film--I came to the conclusion that this indeed is not science fiction; it is not fantasy; it is exactly what Harris.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 1300f50 | Watching him, Juliana thought, It's idealism that makes him that bitter. Asking too much out of life. Always moving on, restless and griped. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b9629fa | The first thing they do to you when you go into New-Path," Charles Freck said, "is they cut off your pecker. As an object lesson. And then they fan out in all directions from there." "Your spleen next," Barris said. "They what, they cut -- What does that do, a spleen?" "Helps you digest your food." "How?" "By removing the cellulose from it." "Then I guess after that --" "Just noncellulose foods. No leaves or alfalfa." "How long can you live.. | barris celulose spleen | Philip K. Dick | |
| e145feb | Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in the far future. So if you superimposed the past (ancient Rome) over the present (California in the twentieth century) and superimposed the far future world of The Android Cried Me a River over that, you got the Empire, as the supra- or trans-temporal constant. Everyone who had ever lived was literally surrounded by the iron.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e22897b | nh Swt l`ql hw m y`trDn~ dwm bjdr Skhry. lm ybq l 'n tjrb ljnwn. dh Sdk `n ls`d@ fjrb ljnwn 'ys dhlk mn l`ql 'yD !? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1839c48 | n ldhy tqbl `lyh ldny l yzwr Hd 'dbrt `nh, flmdh j? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1b718df | m 'bsh` shrs@ lGDb fy wjh Zl 'lyf Tyl@ `shryn `m. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 2d3b52b | n mfhwm lfn qd tGyr wnHn l ndry,`hd lfn qd mDy wnqDy,wfn `Srn hw ltsly@wlthryj,hdh hw lfn lmmkn fy zmn l`lm,wyjb 'n ntkhly `n jmy` lmydyn `d lsyrk. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| a0f1775 | When disasters come at the same time, they compete with each other. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8901af7 | Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises.. | vanity-fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| ae5bb39 | I mean...if I told people what to believe, they'd stop thinking. And then they'd be easier to lie to. And...what if I was wrong?' 'So...if you may not decide what is true, and the men of letters may not, who may?' 'Nobody. Everybody.' Mosca looked up at the windows where the jubilant people of Mandelion swung their bells. 'Clamouring Hour - that's the only way. Everybody able to stand up and shout what they think, all at once. An' not jus.. | Frances Hardinge | ||
| ed02ae4 | Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places. | Frances Mayes | ||
| d81bab1 | My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 3e31c9b | Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 079274d | We were given one country and we've set up in another. | Frances Mayes | ||
| fd44a75 | What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 74952cf | Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 739196e | Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs? | compassion current future hoarding justice labor love need neighbor present saving selfish sharing stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| 9400eb3 | In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. | meaning-of-life nihilism | Annie Proulx | |
| 274bd13 | If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 2c221a7 | Good-bye, Mrs Bartholemew," said tom, shaking hands with stiff politeness; "and thank you very much for having me." "I shall look forward to our meeting again," said Mrs Bartholemew, equally primly. Tom went slowly down the attic stairs. Then, at the bottom, he hesitated: he turned impulsively and ran up again - two at a time - to where Hatty Bartholemew still stood... Afterwards, Aunt Gwen tried to describe to her husband that second part.. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 9538d19 | What is the age of the soul of man? As she hath the virtue of the chameleon to change her hue at every new approach, to be gay with the merry and mournful with the downcast, so too is her age changeable as her mood. No longer is Leopold, as he sits there, ruminating, chewing the cud of reminiscence, that staid agent of publicity and holder of a modest substance in the funds. He is young Leopold, as in a retrospective arrangement, a mirror w.. | James Joyce | ||
| 105322d | Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]" | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 1255e03 | After Bill got his shot, a little color crept into his face and he would become almost coy. It was a gruesome sight. I remember once he told me how he'd been propositioned by a queer who offered him twenty dollars. Bill declined, saying "I don't think you would be very well satisfied." Bill twitched his fleshless hips. "You should see me in the nude," he said. "I'm really cute." | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 5ca5f61 | home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 3070196 | Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself. | Epictetus | ||
| 2cb1c2b | Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace. | Epictetus | ||
| f5a6a68 | Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not | Epictetus | ||
| 0f1f411 | this is your business--to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another. | Epictetus | ||
| 6fe7227 | Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes. | Epictetus | ||
| 8b2b4fc | Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 24ee7b5 | People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul... | kids-funny parenting suffering | Jeannette Walls | |
| 7f86e1c | Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop. | humor | Jeannette Walls | |
| a64f5c8 | He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 31b712a | Look up. | hope love | Luanne Rice | |
| 2dcf794 | METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact. | Chris Ware | ||
| e13d8d7 | pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| cf76f74 | We all have certain desires and undesired outcomes related to whatever possible course and attitude we take in life, whether it be at the larger macro scale (what shall I do with the rest of my life?) or at the micro level (as in, what route shall I take to work this morning). These include all the myriad choices we make each hour and each day. These choices determine our karma and our destiny. It's no accident, nor any great mystery, how t.. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| e91b30d | As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory. | Joseph Finder | ||
| 351392c | Poshlust, Nabokov explains, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive." | azar nafisi | ||
| bfea0ab | The more we die, the stronger we will become | Azar Nafisi | ||
| d508a59 | Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams. | dreams pragmatism | Azar Nafisi | |
| ff2b00c | It is also about loss, about the perishability of dreams once they are transformed into hard reality. It is the longing, its immateriality, that makes the dream pure. What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven. This was what we had in common, .. | Azar Nafisi |