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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 96a37a8 | A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. but it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don't try to hold him, that he cant escape from | William Faulkner | ||
| 9e9267a | Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone. | Katherine Neville | ||
| e6c3739 | El heroismo ajeno siempre conmueve una barbaridad. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| adf3dbc | Se vive asi, cobijado en un mundo delicado, y uno cree que vive. Entonces lee un libro (Lady Chatterley, por ejemplo), o va de viaje, o habla con Richard, y descubre que no vive, que esta simplemente hibernando. Los sintomas de la hibernacion se pueden detectar facilmente. El primero es la inquietud. El segundo sintoma (que llega cuando el estado de hibernacion empieza a ser peligroso y podria degenerar en muerte) es la ausencia de placer. .. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6b3e0cf | Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one... | life perfection | Anaïs Nin | |
| d2d01b5 | People, he had said, were always being looked at as points, and they ought to be looked at as lines. There weren't any points, it was false to assume that a person ever was anything. He was always becoming something, always changing, always continuous and moving, like the wiggly line on a machine used to measure earthquake shocks. He was always what he was in the beginning, but never quite exactly what he was; he moved along a line dictated.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 9d2923b | Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants | Roald Dahl | ||
| 66fc002 | What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong! | Roald Dahl | ||
| fbe48a8 | Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist." | human-beans | Roald Dahl | |
| 24eb37f | He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another...and another...and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,'.. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 249656d | She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. | Roald Dahl | ||
| f631edb | I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world! | Roald Dahl | ||
| f07c360 | Yesterday," he said, "we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumbers. Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing." | Roald Dahl | ||
| 9e58e75 | I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lies are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are prosecuted because of their race, religion, or political vi.. | oppression | Elie Wiesel | |
| df6a474 | I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position. The shadows on the walls, on the faces, are not the same. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 9991fce | Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit--for any season--sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us... | mysteries senses | Dan B. Allender | |
| 23a030b | I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was scared to look outside. Now I had to open them. I looked out the window and saw for the first time how the hospital was out in the country. The moon was low in the sky over the pastureland; the face of it was scarred and scuffed where it had just torn up out of the snarl of scrub oak and madrone trees on the horizon. The stars up close to the m.. | moon night | Ken Kesey | |
| 36cb613 | I can see the...seams where they're put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken. | Ken Kesey | ||
| a95b92a | I want to touch him because I'm one of these queers! | Ken Kesey | ||
| 1b4bdf3 | Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst? | Ken Kesey | ||
| 9241f11 | I could now (possibly) go back and restretch those shrunken hours, flake the images separate, arrange them in accurate chronological order, (possibly; with will-power, patience, and the proper chemicals) but being accurate is not necessarily being honest.... Nor is chronological reporting by any means always the most truthful (each camera has its own veracity) especially when, in all good faith, one cannot truthfully claim to remember what .. | Ken Kesey | ||
| eefac8c | One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was John's mama used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury everytime John's daddy--Henry's first cousin, I believe--would come home boozed, and John never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry booze come to be sort of holy to him and with faith like that John gre.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| a0fa73e | To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you. I once had a pet pine squirrel named Omar who lived in the cotton secret and springy dark of our old green davenport; Omar knew that davenport; he knew from the Inside what I only sat on from the Out, and trusted his knowledge to keep from being squashed by my ignorance. He survived until a red plaid b.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 77137f2 | They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate... | Ken Kesey | ||
| 6813106 | God looks out for fools and niggers. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 56001ed | What the Chronics are--or most of us--are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot. | Ken Kesey | ||
| d86cd4f | They think they know the book by its cover, but the knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see. . . .No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 443d33a | lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share. | Susan Howatch | ||
| 57e7928 | Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages. | marriage | Georgette Heyer | |
| 5085658 | Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| c89e96c | Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. | good | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 2d0542a | I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 7aa01c7 | I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it. | long-john-silver pirates treasure-island | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| df3b521 | It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound togetherthat in the agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How then were they dissociated | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| fb27fbc | I have lost confidence in myself. | confidence faith lost-faith lost-my-way | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 562d95f | In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| d214904 | That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. | devil dr-jekyll dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde hate hatred hell horor | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 3ca9eba | And I learned that are troubles Of more than one kind Some come from ahead And some come from behind. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| f11bc8b | As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that no one, no one at all in the airport, or on the entire planet for that matter, knew her thoughts, knew what she was carrying inside her head and heart. And at that very minute, what was inside her head and heart made her feel as though there was no one else in the whole world she would rather be. | Kevin Henkes | ||
| 1280b19 | Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow? | Kevin Henkes | ||
| 8fc7bdb | What bothers me today is the lack of, well, I guess you'd call it authentic experience. So much is a sham. So much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized. You know, less than half a century ago there were sixty-three varieties of lettuce in California alone. Today, there are four. And they are not the four best lettuces, either; not the most tasty or nutritious. They are the hybrid lettuces with built-in shelf life, the on.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a635abb | She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from the people who invented cutting the skin off the pee-pee. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 262c205 | 1) When a situation has become too frustrating, a quandary too persistently insolvable; when dealing with the issue is generating chronic discontent, infringing on freedom, and inhibiting growth, it may be time to quit beating one's head against the wall, reach for a big fat stick of metaphoric dynamite, light the fuse, and blast the whole unhappy business nine miles past oblivion. (2) After making an extreme effort, after pulling out all t.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a3c391a | almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. | Tom Robbins |