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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd740b4 | To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 494f8ed | And suddenly, for the first time this day, we remembered that we are the damned. We remembered it, and we laughed. | Ayn Rand | ||
| dbe7e8e | When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities." | Nathaniel Branden | ||
| 0693065 | What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage. | self-sabotage | Nathaniel Branden | |
| 5b6e457 | Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could. | life nostalgia smell | Anne Tyler | |
| 7eac906 | You could really feel physically wounded if someone hurt your feelings badly enough. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 61f652e | She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and smells of tar and roses | Anne Tyler | ||
| 1abed20 | On a clear day the Oregon coast is the most beautiful place on earth--clear and crisp and clean, a rich green in the land and a bright blue in the sky, the air fat and salty and bracing, the ocean spreading like a grin. Brown pelicans rise and fall in their chorus lines in the wells of the waves, cormorants arrow, an eagle kingly queenly floats south high above the water line. | Brian Doyle | ||
| d60376c | The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 2760e34 | Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 92849cd | The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust. | destiny inspirational | Robert Harris | |
| cb4e862 | Tell me, Harry, what difference would it make if it wasn't real?" Harry thought a moment, his chinless face sour. "We wouldn't have to do what we think we have to do. But even if we don't have to do what we think we have to do, it won't make any difference if we do it Which means we should just go ahead." Mavis sighed. "Just go ahead." "Just go ahead," said Hagbard. "A powerful mantra." "And if we don't go ahead," said George, "it doesn't m.. | hagbard-celine harry-coin | Robert Anton Wilson | |
| c987dce | Our people are good people, our people are kind people. Pray God someday kind people won't all be poor. Pray God someday a kid can eat. And the associations of owners know that some day the praying would stop. And there's the end. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 951bb5a | And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely." | John Steinbeck | ||
| e02e441 | Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it. | haunting | John Steinbeck | |
| 73363dc | I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. | heaven land migrants | John Steinbeck | |
| 7b567db | The last clear definite function of men--muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need--this is man. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2469bc4 | A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin', he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to measure by. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9314972 | A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy--that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f467c81 | Man, he lives in the jerks-- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk-- gets a farm an' loses his farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on-- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5541d87 | But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be... | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9ff1ac1 | I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 77be965 | The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. | insperational observational | John Steinbeck | |
| feb7e30 | The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it. And the children came out of the houses, but they did not run or shout as they would have done after a rain. Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust. The men were silent and they did not move often. And the women came out of the houses to stand beside the.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b99ebfb | of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule - a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting - only the deeply personal and familiar. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 89bae89 | Lee's hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. "Don't you see?" he cried. "The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in 'Thou shalt,' meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel--'Thou mayest'--that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That s.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| bee1c03 | I wonder Pa went so easy. I wonder Grampa didn' kill nobody. Nobody never tol' Grampa where to put his feet. An' Ma ain't nobody you can push aroun' neither. I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give her a argument. She had the chicken in one han', an' the ax in the other, about to cut its head off. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which hand was which, an' she take.. | depression jokes | John Steinbeck | |
| 7c35c3d | Casy said, "Ol' Tom's house can't be more'n a mile from here. Ain't she over that third rise?" Sure," said Joad. "Less somebody stole it, like Pa stole it." Your pa stole it?" Sure, got it a mile an' a half east of here an' drug it. Was a family livin' there, an' they moved away. Grampa an' Pa an' my brother Noah like to took the whole house, but she wouldn't come. They only got part of her. That's why she looks so funny on one end. They cu.. | house jokes theft | John Steinbeck | |
| a334895 | Do you know that i paid two dollars for [Doxocology] thirty-three years ago? Everything was wrong with him, hoofs like flapjacks, a hock so thick and short and straight there seems no joint at all. he's hammerheaded and swaybacked. He has a pinched chest and a big behind. He has an iron mouth and he still fights the upper. with a saddle he feels as thought you were riding a sled over a gravel pit. He can't trot and he stumbles over his feet.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d19dbb5 | Then there were harebells, tiny lanterns, cream white and almost sinful looking, and these were so rare and magical that a child, finding one, felt singled out and special all day long. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d0bf624 | The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. Let them laugh too loudly, it sticks a long finger down their throats. They condemn themselves before they are charged, and this makes them defensive always. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1f59e02 | And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 20ed925 | I seem to know that there's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the color green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only a part of a human. I can't do anything about that. But I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see it or feel it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0fca059 | To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there | John Steinbeck | ||
| f3e352a | The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6f7806e | We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month, or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves, either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 0985b92 | I think the existential dilemma is: We're social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize that we're not as inadequate as we thought we were, and when we realize that everybody else also thinks they're inadequate, then that ache goes away and the idea that we're not a person of value disappears to some extent. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 7346f7d | God is on the side of the winner. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 722d94b | If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 7b8aa3f | The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange! | defiance fire fire-and-blood game-of-thrones jaehaerys-targaryen strength targaryen targaryens | Ellen Raskin | |
| 9020c51 | Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. | memoirs-of-geisha sayuri | Arthur Golden | |
| 9117258 | Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. | Arthur Golden | ||
| d8a8949 | It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 07da4bc | Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down." | Nora Roberts |