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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ff8cc3 | I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I'd rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 4c1b100 | I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 3ece78c | He parks in the far corner of the lot, explaining that it is more logical to do this and then walk for fifteen seconds than it is to spend fifteen minutes looking for a closer space. | parking | Neal Stephenson | |
| 7e52d25 | Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 242759c | Computers rely on the one and the zero to represent all things. This distinction between something and nothing--this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing--is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| e2519ee | Being right does not always bring satisfaction, | Neal Stephenson | ||
| b2587ce | It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after first burying the money under a bush." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 93f97fd | I looked at my watch. Nine fifty-four. Time to go home and get your slippers on and play over a game of chess. Time for a tall cool drink and a long quiet pipe. Time to sit with your feet up and think of nothing. Time to start yawning over your magazine. Time to be a human being, a householder, a man with nothing to do but rest and suck in the night air and rebuild the brain for tomorrow. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3b74210 | I think you are a very stupid person. You look stupid. You are in a stupid business. And you came here on a stupid mission." "I get it," I said. "I'm stupid. It sank in after a while." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 0d7cce7 | I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish." | olympia marlowe raymond-chandler | Raymond Chandler | |
| e7ec1ef | That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 877e056 | On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 15c5eb2 | Nobody yelled or ran out of the door. Nobody blew a police whistle. Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it rather well by now. Murder-a-day Marlowe, they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up on the business he finds. A nice enough fellow, in an ingenuous sort of way. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 224e168 | It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 5845352 | sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and foremost, of one's own convictions. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| ee817be | It's hardly ever the destination we've been anticipating, is it? Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Where did we - the species, that is - pick up that strange and perverse habit? | Michael Cunningham | ||
| f0e1c63 | I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle o.. | death life love glbtq | Michael Cunningham | |
| f142aa9 | Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 5cd3bef | She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that," Simon said. "It shouldn't. If you don't like 'Lord,' pick another word. She's going home. She's going back to the party. Whatever you like." "I suppose you have some definite ideas about an afterlife." "Sure. We get reabsorbed into the earthly and celestial mechanism." "No heaven?" "That's heaven." "What about realm.. | death orgasm | Michael Cunningham | |
| ca0a96d | You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 02b6659 | Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water. | Ted Dekker | ||
| d3f16e4 | So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater L.. | Ted Dekker | ||
| e2d3109 | That was the advantage of a young mind--believing was easier. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 10ac53e | We've stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness. | Ted Dekker | ||
| c01b0ab | What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly? | Ted Dekker | ||
| 68810b7 | He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story | Ted Dekker | ||
| 2659528 | Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 0bb3871 | They were moving along like that, each cupping a hold of the other. In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the beautiful and fortunate, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| c34faf1 | Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| af02a7d | The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ff9a594 | It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| a9ef681 | What my could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time. | americans | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| f0421ae | Anyone have some mints or some gum?" Bonnie asked. No one did, and she turned to Joe Hill Conley. She scrutinized him a moment, then, using her fingers, combed his part over to the left side. "That looks better," she said. Nearly two decades later, the little hair he has left remains parted by Bonnie's invisible hand." -- | love | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| b4e99d4 | I'm quickly approaching the moment of discovery: of myself by myself, which was something I knew all along and yet didn't know; and the discovery by poor half-blind Dr. Philobosian of what he'd failed to notice at my birth and continued to miss during every annual physical thereafter; and the discovery by my parents of what kind of child they'd given birth to (answer: the same child, only different); and finally, the discovery of the mutate.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 5ba0daf | Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| d96bc76 | My goal in life is to become an adjective," Leonard said. "People would go around saying, 'That was so Bankheadian.' Or, 'A little too Bankheadian for my taste." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 57d54cf | He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear. | love phone-calls teenager phone | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 93c1f42 | Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with. | the-virgin-suicides strangers parents | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 81308e6 | O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies. | suicide earth poem poetry christianity death the-virgin-suicides rebirth funeral | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 6653130 | Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f4b38ba | from John Hay's diary) "The President never appeared to better advantage in the world," Hay proudly noted in his diary. "Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic." | crush-them-with-logic | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 468c147 | The price you pay for your addiction to praise will be an extreme vulnerability to the opinions of others. Like any addict, you will find you must continue to feed your habit with approval in order to avoid withdrawal pangs. The moment someone who is important to you expresses disapproval, you will crash painfully, just like the junkie who can no longer get his "stuff." Others will be able to use this vulnerability to manipulate you. You wi.. | David D. Burns | ||
| 22aad80 | The secret of successful treatment is not to become a perfect, shining star or to learn to be in complete control of your feelings. These strategies are doomed to failure. In contrast, when you accept yourself as an imperfect but eminently lovable human being, and you stop fighting your emotions so strenuously, your fear will often lose its grip over you. | David D. Burns | ||
| 13dcf1d | Inside-Out" means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives" | Stephen R. Covey |