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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3edfe0d | Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek. | Esther Perel | ||
| c1fbcf7 | Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conservatism pretends that there is only one possible equilibrium--a nostalgic version of the status quo--that society could play. Libertarianism ignores the possibility of equilibrium selection at th.. | politics | Geoffrey Miller | |
| aaf9493 | It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering. | Norman Rush | ||
| 6deb5bd | Press on, regardless. | Mary Stewart | ||
| e548254 | I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there are times when one even enjoys it - but there are also times when a desperate self-sufficiency doesn't quite suffice, and then the search for the anodyne begins... the radio, the dog, the shampoo, the stockings-to-wash, the tin soldier... | Mary Stewart | ||
| 4c501b1 | Je prefere la vie a la mort, exister a ne pas exister, car je ne suis pas sur d'etre une fois que je n'existerai plus | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 3e7323b | Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth. | truth words | Eugène Ionesco | |
| 5d9ba59 | Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| bef627c | Be tough ... life is. In other words, there is no promise of a rose garden. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| ba92bfe | Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a863d08 | For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric.. | color desire distance long travel wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 09ae48e | My friend Chip Ward speaks of "the tyranny of the quantifiable," of the way what can be measured almost always takes precedence over what cannot: private profit over public good; speed and efficiency over enjoyment and quality; the utilitarian over the mysteries and meanings that are of greater use to our survival and to more than our survival, to lives that have some purpose and value that survive beyond us to make a civilization worth hav.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 7d40395 | Movies are made out of darkness as well as light; it is the surpassingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that make it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without that darkness, there would only be a blur. Which is to say that a full-length movie consists of half an hour or an hour of pure darkness that goes unseen. If you could add up all the darkness, you would find the audience in th.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 6457d26 | Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| f287f6d | That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet." | Michael Finkel | ||
| 7d9add8 | Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time. | Michael Robotham | ||
| 010cda5 | Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things make each of us who we are." Using the blanket, he rubbed his hair. "You lose that in captivity, lose yourself, and that loss saps your capacity for joy. I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope. You know what I mean?" He looked at each of them, but no one answered. "Live with it long enough and th.. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 08f1bd3 | Oh, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Slaying a villain in the service of your king is the stuff of legends and what heroes are made of." [Fanen told Myron] "It didn't feel very heroic. It made me sick. I don't even know why I... no, that's a lie. I really have to stop doing that." [Myron said] "Doing what?" "Lying. (...) It's evidence of self loathing. You see, when you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie to hide .. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| ca1c1a6 | Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| ccb1266 | I'm Tekchin," he said, exchanging an empty gourd for a full one. "The handsomest and most skilled of the Galantians." This brought an immediate and loud moan from the other Fhrey. "That scar suggests otherwise," Moya replied. "On both counts." More laughter, louder this time. "Pretty and smart," Tekchin said to the others in Fhrey. Persephone was thankful Moya couldn't understand their language. A comment like that would have been tanta.. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 5067b51 | Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up. "Don't bother," Esrahaddon told them. "She's dead, and there's nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It--" The two were out the door." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 291eaf5 | I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person. | loneliness love | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 069f8c5 | Life is only precious if you wish it to be.' I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal--do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience? | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 3491e3f | Remember, it's easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it, | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| b1ea8c0 | Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| da84810 | Behavior shapes emotions. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| e4972ed | Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 68ef99a | Once upon a time...There's a reason all fairy tales begin like this. But the 'and they lived happily ever after' at the end? That has to be earned. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| c6bc45b | Her skin smelled of autumn and the wind. Don't Jacob... But it was too late. Clara didn't flinch as he pulled her close. He grabbed her hair, kissed her mouth, and he felt her heart beating as fast as his own. ...Let her go, Jacob. But he kissed her again, and it was his name she whispered, not Will's. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 391915f | Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theater. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 9aebd4a | If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary. | Louis Menand | ||
| b686fc8 | The trains [in a country] contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its side, Ceylonese ones the car reserved for Buddhist monks, Indian ones a vegetarian kitchen and six classes, Iranian ones prayer mats, Malaysian ones a noodle stall, Vietnamese ones bulletproof glass on the locomotive, and on every carriage of a Russian train there is a samovar. The railway bazaar with i.. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 1053f08 | You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. | travel traveller | Paul Theroux | |
| 327da33 | There's always a way if you're not in a hurry. | travel | Paul Theroux | |
| d373f26 | Your supposed to drink wine, my friend, not breathe it. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| f7e5869 | The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I'm cursed when it comes to women. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 1d0df8b | Ruby?" His hair was pale silver in this light, curled and tangled in its usual way. I couldn't hide from him. I had never been able to. "Mike came and got me," he said, taking a careful step toward me. His hands were out in front of him, as if trying to coax a wild animal into letting him approach. "What are you doing out here? What's going on?" "Please just go," I begged. "I need to be alone." He kept coming straight at me. "Please," I sho.. | Alexandra Bracken | ||
| bd1e986 | It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 0ec1887 | Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him. | William Saroyan | ||
| 0e00202 | All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for" | William Saroyan | ||
| 7403cd7 | I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too! | William Saroyan | ||
| 665baf9 | All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. | madness | William Saroyan | |
| c9fe510 | In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today. | William Saroyan | ||
| 83dd1c4 | I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square; and right in the middle of a rush hour, too, seeing with my innocent road-eyes the absolute madness and fantastic hoorair of New York with its millions and millions hustling forever for a buck among themselves, the mad dream-grabbing, taking, giving, sighing, dying, just so they could be buried in those awful cemetery cities beyond Long Island .. | Jack Kerouac |