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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d73e9e0 | Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. | Pat Conroy | ||
| fc042b5 | I thought that I must always search for the remarkable combinations, add unknowns, mix things that were clearly marked with things beyond marking. I would leave the simulated test and enter into forbidden territory. I would look for that moment when I would begin to pour alone and in wonder. I would always try to seize that moment and to accept its challenge. I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was bet.. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 78cc43b | I always say that I only wish to have three sorts of people as my friends, those who are very rich, those who are very witty, and those who are very beautiful. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 89d1383 | I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 55ffc5c | She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| f3cb203 | The Nazis were right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was without a cause. No one hates without a cause. | minority | Christopher Isherwood | |
| e499086 | George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 17e3f95 | For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery--that most unstable existential moment--the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real. | discovery inspiration science | Richard Rhodes | |
| 7bcdf83 | It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory. | personal-essay story | Barry Lopez | |
| 5306390 | Thoreau the "Patron Saint of Swamps" because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, "my temple is the swamp... When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum... I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place...far away from human society. What's the need of visiting far-off mountains.. | ecology green marsh swamp wetlands | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 00e7b31 | A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ac6058c | Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 642373f | I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 61ea032 | The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3cfbe6f | If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. | injustice voting | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 325316e | Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9e691d8 | I love a broad margin to my life. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| aa2945d | So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1593b36 | Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, -- The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows Is all that any body knows | ecology science | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ee51793 | Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ddc77e0 | Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. | shelter | Henry David Thoreau | |
| e92811c | The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. | maine maine-woods mountains nature thoreau woods | Henry David Thoreau | |
| b4a5070 | It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal ne.. | literature reading words | Henry David Thoreau | |
| a8defcb | Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, which is our atonement, measures inversely the degree by which this is separated from an actual unworthiness. For in dreams we but act a part which must have been learned and rehearsed in our waking hours, and no doubt could discover some waking.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c89e931 | Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| aee7a56 | We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same quality, namely our uniqueness. What we have in common is the fact that we are all uncommon. Everybody is special, which means that nobody is. The truth, however, is that human beings are uncommon only up to a point. There are no qualities that are peculiar to one person alone. Regrettably, there could not be a world in which only one indi.. | individuality | Terry Eagleton | |
| 0d438db | You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| ca9254b | All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. | faith linguistics | Terry Eagleton | |
| 2c7fe51 | It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 2ecccd0 | no on of intelligence resents the inevitable. | rationality | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| da0d61e | My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best. | Norton Juster | ||
| 0f6b6c1 | Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right? | Norton Juster | ||
| 8545d47 | But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely, "but you had the courage to try; and what you do is often simply a matter of what you do." | Norton Juster | ||
| 45498e5 | Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things." "How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots.. | mathematics names | Norton Juster | |
| cc36c87 | Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends. | friendship | Maureen Johnson | |
| fdeddeb | Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga? | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 8ba841b | One of them hung a pink bra from our lighting fixture. I left it there. It was a nice bra | drunken-behaviour | Maureen Johnson | |
| bc60054 | The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| e2a37dc | Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 30ab549 | It wasn't ass-screaming Beaker, though. It was fourteen girls in matching, form fitting sweats, all of which read RIDGE CHEERLEADING on the butt. (A form of ass-screaming, I suppose.) Each had her name on the back of her sleek warm-up fleece. They clustered around the snack bar, yelling at the top of their lungs. I really hoped and prayed that they wouldn't all say "Oh my God!" at once, but my prayers were not heard, maybe because God was b.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 1579e56 | Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| a52fc81 | Men - not just babies like you, but old men, too - they always need to have a woman tell them the truth. | women-and-men women-s-strength | James Baldwin | |
| a0346c6 | But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything--that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its choice to be there--are gone. | Barbara Hambly | ||
| beaca5f | Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time. | Edwin A. Abbott |