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| 9e064e7 | and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no br.. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| cbd1975 | HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| ce51284 | Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?" "I'd be dead if it wasn't." "Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 8cbe568 | I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death. | reading death life characters | Will Schwalbe | |
| 044b5a9 | It's cruelty that gets to me. Still, it's important to read about cruelty. "Why is it important?" Because when you read about it, it's easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps--to hear the stories of the people who had been raped or mutilated or forced to watch a parent or a sister or a child be raped or killed. It's very hard to come face-to-face with such cruelty. But people can be cruel in lots of ways.. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 97664fe | Aunque dicen que solo los imbeciles son felices, confieso que me sentia feliz. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 97706c5 | El secreto de la felicidad, o, por lo menos, de la tranquilidad, es saber separar el sexo del amor. Y, si es posible, eliminar el amor romantico de tu vida, que es el que hace sufrir. Asi se vive mas tranquilo y se goza mas, te aseguro. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| a606a7a | At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who were poor and illiterate, so much injustice, and where culture was a privilege of the few. These doubts, however, never stifled my calling, and I always kept writing even during those periods when earning a living absorbed most of my time. I believe I did the right thing, since if, for literature to fl.. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 5a94073 | hkdh hy lsys@ ,nh shq lTryq byn ljthth | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| e0f7dde | Lo injusta que es a veces la suerte con los artistas que suenan con encontrar el Paraiso en este terrenal valle de lagrimas. | destino vida | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 4cdf560 | your humour, madam, Gives any and everyone too easy access Into your heart. You have too many lovers Besieging you--a thing I can't endure. | Molière | ||
| bf7b2f3 | Those who have greatest cause for guilt and shame Are quickest to besmirch a neighbour's name. When there's a chance for libel, they never miss it; When something can be made to seem illicit They're off at once to spread the joyous news, Adding to fact what fantasies they choose. By talking up their neighbour's indiscretions They seek to camouflage their own transgressions, Hoping that other's innocent affairs Will lend camouflage to their.. | Molière | ||
| 086f6e7 | She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles. | feelings | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| ab65ab1 | There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman's despair. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bdde0f9 | She liked that he wore their relationship so boldly, like a brightly colored shirt. Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. She would sink into moodiness, and snap at Obinze, or be distant. And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 57ef69a | Military men would always overthrow one another, because they could, because they were all power drunk. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fddd25c | Is Obama Anything but Black? So lots of folk--mostly non-black--say Obama's not black, he's biracial, multiracial, black-and-white, anything but just black. Because his mother was white. But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it's about how you look. Not about the blood you have. It's about the shade of your skin and the shape of your .. | black mixed-race multiracial obama race | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| af05817 | I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by.. | experiences woman human-being world blind silencing talking gender question systems oppression | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| d930ec9 | If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4a4c5cd | But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women: Is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4df50e8 | We use the word "respect" to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ef1681a | If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem "natural" that only men should be heads of corporations." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6e49e67 | The fact is that all the power in the world cannot transform someone who hates you into someone who likes you. It can turn a foe into a slave, but not into a friend. All the power in the world cannot transform a fanatic into an enlightened man. All the power in the world cannot transform someone thirsting for vengeance into a lover. | Amos Oz | ||
| 829b16b | Los libros que uno ama apasionadamente producen la sensacion, cuando los abres por primera vez, de que siempre estuvieron ahi: aparecen en ellos lugares en los que no has estado, cosas que uno antes nunca ha visto ni oido, pero el acople de la memoria personal con esos lugares o cosas es tan rotundo que de algun modo acabas pensando que has estado alli. | literatura | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| efb2530 | nunca me retracte de esta y de otras mentiras porque ella se mostraba encantada con mis invenciones, y a mi me ocurria otro tanto con las suyas, y es que aquel acuerdo tacito nos interesaba mucho a los dos porque nos permitia huir de nosotros mismos y nos proporcionaba esa serenidad que se desprende de una union entre dos seres de ficcion, una serenidad ficticia que hasta entonces no habiamos nunca conocido, y es que nada, pensaba yo, tranq.. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 5224366 | He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn't deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies... Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and.. | words literature reading intelligence talent | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| 85a5c95 | We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in the society who come out on the bottom. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| f6efd37 | The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once we think we see a pattern, we do not easily let go of our perception. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 78883cc | Eragon waited several minutes to be sure it was gone before he returned to clearing the rubble. "Maybe i should just call myself Snail Vanquisher," he muttered as he rolled a section of a pillar across the courtyard. "Eragon Shadeslayer, Vanquisher of Snails....I would strike fear into the hearts of men wherever I went." | Christopher Paolini | ||
| add4ea1 | I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good. | religion gods | Christopher Paolini | |
| 08d6d72 | Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor. This killing isn't honest. It is thievery... the thievery of men's lives, and no right-minded person should aspire to it. | war thievery | Christopher Paolini | |
| ca462bf | The way the Rider flourished his sword afterward- spinning it in a quick circle by his side- suddenly seemed familiar to Eragon, as did all his preceding swordsmanship. He stared with growing horror at his enemy's hand-and-a-half sword, then back up at the eye slits of his mirrored helm, and shouted, "I know you! He threw himself at the Rider, trapping both swords between their bodies, hooked his fingers underneath the helm, and ripped it .. | paolini murtagh | Christopher Paolini | |
| 882366a | If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall be to all enemies. It is only right, then, that I should wield the sword, misery. Misery and Thorn, a fit match. Besides, Zar'roc should have gone to Morzan's eldest son, not his youngest. It is mine by right of birth." A cold pit formed in Eragon's stomach. It can't be. A cruel smile appeared on Murtagh's face. "I never told you my m.. | morzan zar-roc eldest murtagh misery | Christopher Paolini | |
| 55ed98d | Sometimes you have to stand and fight. Sometimes running away isn't an option. | murtagh | Christopher Paolini | |
| ee67754 | Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. | intelligence wisdom inspirational garrow inheritance quotes-on-life eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| a90173b | Things that change and are lost, that is what's worth preserving. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 5236b33 | We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| cec057b | I want to practice gratitude. I know that sounds hokey, but instead of concentrating on the negative, I want to look at the positive side of life. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 74ff4af | There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --ANAIS NIN | Abbi Waxman | ||
| e27f7ac | We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there. | war | Anaïs Nin | |
| 0cb0579 | Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 8ecd98a | lHy@ l`tydy@ l trwq ly, nny 'twq l~ llHZt lkhrq@ km lswrylyyn fy nshdnhm lGrb@. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 4ddec23 | human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 16e6dc9 | We may seem to forget a person, a place, a state of being, a past life, but meanwhile what we are doing is selecting new actors, seeking the closest reproduction to the friend, the lover, the husband we are trying to forget, in order to re-enact the drama with understudies. And one day we open our eyes and there we are, repeating the same story. How could it be otherwise? The design comes from within us. It is internal. It is what the old m.. | Anaïs Nin |