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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0a7500f | He was not immoral, but merely unmoral. | Jack London | ||
| d618332 | We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| da59aa8 | You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which [they] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 8bf5de2 | You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it. Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| a6c1571 | He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth with no clarion call to memory, those they love are left without a way to make such devastating loss hold meaning. | Patricia O'Brien | ||
| c370ba3 | I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 2920027 | I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 725a27d | You've written plenty of romantic tales," he said, taking the book from her hands and gently closing it. "Didn't you know I would come?" | Kelly O. McNees | ||
| 9418f47 | We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 65b08bf | When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d633e9c | Is that my boy?' As sure as this is my girl! | laurie little-women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 037bdd0 | Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. | youth louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 8787b54 | Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 2437230 | Hoderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles. Hugo: Men? Why should I love them? Do they love me? Hoderer: Then why did you come to us? If you don't love men, you can't fight for them. Hugo: I joined the party because its cause is just, and I shall leave it when that cause ceases to be just. As for men, it's not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. Hoderer: And I, I love them for what they are. With all.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 09cf191 | gwtz: toe jwny w jwny dyry shaeytnae. hyld: dLnyy? gwtz: mn y'ytr lae hych shtYkh dLny nym. y'aegaer Haez w haewaesaekhnm Rzy bkhaem, twwshy gwnH daebm baeLm khoem lae chngyn daerbz daekhaem; y'aegaer naemhaewYt Rzyyn bkhaem, daemYnnaewae w RoeHm gaenyw daekhaen. shaew nzykh daebYtaewae; lae khaesh w haewy bwwlYLd daebY chwgaelYkhy zytaeLae w wrdbynt bYt t btwny khwd lae shaeytn jy bkhaeytaewae. - laejYr chwy khwdd laegaeLt bnwwm? | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 96e6e77 | Temporality is obviously an organised structure, and these three so-called elements of time: past, present, future, must not be envisaged as a collection of 'data' to be added together...but as the structured moments of an original synthesis. Otherwise we shall immediately meet with this paradox: the past is no longer, the future is not yet, as for the instantaneous present, everyone knows that it is not at all: it is the limit of infinite .. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| bdcd24d | I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore. | life regret | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 79e4f3e | Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral. | sadness existential melancholy funeral sartre existentialism | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 99bc8f3 | Nothingness carries being in its heart. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 00ca4c3 | She could not have created this moment, these lovely faces, these candles flickering, the flash of the silverware, the fragrances of the food hanging over the table, the heads turning this way and that, the voices murmuring and laughing. She looked at Walter, who was so far away from her, all the way at the other end of the table, having a laugh with Andrea, who had a beautiful suit on, navy blue with a tiny waist and white collar and cuffs.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| ce8b46e | Are you already training my replacement? Piter demanded. "Replace you? Why, Piter, where could I find another Mentat with your cunning and venom?" "The same place you found me, Baron." "Perhaps I should at that," the Baron mused. "You do seem a bit unstable lately. And the spice you eat!" "Are my pleasures too expensive, Baron? Do you object to them?" "My dear Piter, your pleasures are what tie you to me. How could I object to that?" | harkonnen piter-de-vries dune | Frank Herbert | |
| 1d2fb9c | In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term. | Frank Herbert | ||
| af96e55 | In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. | religion pope | Frank Herbert | |
| 46c7745 | Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5ed975c | I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines. | technology | Frank Herbert | |
| 632170c | I am not the river I am the net. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6fd16bc | There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 03f2081 | What is the son but an extension of the father? | Frank Herbert | ||
| e6a273b | I observed you in pain, lad. Pain's merely the axis of the test. Your mother's told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation. | Frank Herbert | ||
| bc1b859 | Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ee1e7fd | Be prepared to appreciate what you meet. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b059539 | What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness -- they cannot .. | chapter-heading intelligent | Frank Herbert | |
| 3b5906c | Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of alertness to ward off attacks. You see the absolute rule of the autocrat. All new things become dangerous frontier districts--new planets, new economic areas to exploit, new ideas or new devices, visitors--everything suspect. Feudalism takes firm hold, sometimes disguised as a politbureau or similar structure, b.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ebb4ced | Follow the loglo outward, to where the growth is enfolded into the valleys and the canyons, and you find the land of the refugees. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles; Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping. They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxe.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 1839045 | every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library, written in cyphers that are more or less obscure, arranged by a scheme--of which we can at first know nothing, other than that there does appear to be some scheme. | library scheme | Neal Stephenson | |
| 70695ae | That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove. It's a cold clammy reality that she can't do a damn thing about. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 93fa1f9 | The leaders of Nippon were stupid. They took all of the gold out of Tokyo and buried it in holes in the ground in the Philippines! Because they thought that The General would march into Tokyo and steal it. But The General didn't care about the gold. He understood that the real gold is here--" he points to his head "--in the intelligence of the people, and here--" he holds out his hands "--in the work that they do. Getting rid of our gold wa.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 87da745 | Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| dc6dd99 | That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 71b3d42 | It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| e909b11 | Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 4215ecd | How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell? | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 71713ed | Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 7d0916f | All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan." | Neal Stephenson |