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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce87ead | I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that | James Salter | ||
| ae3ab65 | I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all. | sherlock-holmes watson wrong | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
| 1100f0e | His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming allegorical. He possessed what I call an eschatological imagination, one that could envision putting ideas into action and then following them out to their ultimate consequences. At the same time, his characters respond to such consequences according to the ordinary moral and social .. | Joseph Frank | ||
| 3602afe | When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness. ~Amy | Beth Revis | ||
| 54c059e | Science can make a heart beat," Jack says softly, each word falling on me like a caress. "But it can't make it race." | Beth Revis | ||
| b1a49d1 | Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives. | belgarion fear magician-s-gambit | David Eddings | |
| 6f053a9 | When he reached out with both huge hands to grasp me, I ducked under them and stepped forward, smoothly pulling my knife out of my sleeve. Then, with one quick swipe, I sliced him across the belly. I wasn't certain enough of his anatomy to try stabbing him in the heart. As big as he was, his ribs were probably as thick as my wrist. He stared at me in utter amazement. Then he looked down at the entrails that came boiling out of the gaping w.. | David Eddings | ||
| 2ab8dca | I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully.. | pg-57 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 524e307 | What I want you to know is that this is not your fault, even if it is ultimately your responsibility. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3552aef | They were utterly fearless. I did not understand it until I looked out on the street. That was where I saw white parents pushing double-wide strollers down gentrifying Harlem boulevards in T-shirts and jogging shorts. Or I saw them lost in conversation with each other, mother and father, while their sons commanded entire sidewalks with their tricycles. The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw master.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9e4e161 | I kept thinking about how southern Manhattan had always been Ground Zero for us. They auctioned our bodies down there, in that same devastated, and rightly named, financial district. And there was once a burial ground for the auctioned there. They built a department store over part of it and then tried to erect a government building over another part. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9b628d2 | If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government," wrote Du Bois, "it was good Negro government." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 2a28aaa | Considering segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, Richard Nixon concluded, "Strom is no racist." There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened "at the hands of persons unknown." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 9a45016 | We could not get out. The ground we walked was trip-wired. The air we breathed was toxic. The water stunted our growth. We could not get out. A year after I watched the boy with the small eyes pull out a gun, my father beat me for letting another boy steal from me. Two years later, he beat me for threatening my ninth-grade teacher. Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 68c9ccf | One must be without error out here. Walk in single file. Work quietly. Pack an extra number 2 pencil. Make no mistakes. But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn't. Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson--not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e7a5cc2 | Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e8379de | No powdery residue. But definitely suspicious. Smell." He slides a makeup catalog from beneath a microscope made out of a plate, a toilet paper roll, and an intricate arrangement of pipe cleaners. "Any ideas?" I take a scientific whiff. "Gardenia. Looks like those Mary Kay terrorists are at it again." | Sarah Ockler | ||
| 06bff49 | Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Repeat the same mistakes over and over, and you don't get any closer to Carnegie Hall. | Sarah Kay | ||
| c0f2708 | This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance." the intro from the author" | bullying judgement | Jodee Blanco | |
| 60cc6b0 | l ymkn 'n ythrb lmr mn dhth . ymknh tjhlh wlkn l ymkn lthrbW bdan | Jodee Blanco | ||
| aa7f102 | Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing | David Simon | ||
| d03e968 | For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't. | David Simon | ||
| d25d655 | In experiments at Baylor University where people were given Coke and Pepsi in unmarked cups and then hooked up to a brain scanner, the device clearly showed a certain number of them preferred Pepsi while tasting it. When those people were told they were drinking Pepsi, a fraction of them, the ones who had enjoyed Coke all their lives, did something unexpected. The scanner showed their brains scrambling the pleasure signals, dampening them. .. | David McRaney | ||
| 6666c7a | Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn't matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides, or one vote in several million doesn't count? Yeah, that's learned helplessness. | David McRaney | ||
| f2c8630 | The real trouble begins when confirmation bias distorts your active pursuit of facts. | David McRaney | ||
| 02e1ded | Parolo pou e pseudaisthese sukhna anapteronei kai anakouphizei, sto telos panta adunatizei kai periorizei ten psukhe. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| cf760d1 | It's no great mystery. If no one will listen, it's only natural to shout! | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 41dbdc5 | The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness--domains soaked in anxiety. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 53f8bfd | Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere. | John le Carré | ||
| 1d40cbe | Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism. ...when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom? | philosophy wisdom | John le Carré | |
| 36536d0 | Look, we are getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems... Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine? | logical-thinking | John le Carré | |
| b253fca | What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? I'd have killed Mundt if I could, I hate his guts; but not now. It so happens that they need him. They need him so that the great moronic mass th.. | John le Carré | ||
| 226f623 | Why am I despising you when I'm about to change your life? | John le Carré | ||
| 70eca17 | Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassines.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| a2c0764 | Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time's clock with one blow. Come closer. | neville the-waves time virginia-woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| 458266b | They fought like champions. For a minute. Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 509dc86 | His hair is like feathers. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 44e3ff3 | You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn. | guy man stubborn | Markus Zusak | |
| b2cb1cc | He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted. | paradox sad snowman | Markus Zusak | |
| b163fca | Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will. | tell time | Markus Zusak | |
| a4024c5 | To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more." | Markus Zusak | ||
| 031935d | Within minutes, mounds of concrete and earth were stacked and piled. The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were stuck there, like driftwood after the flood. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 61f4763 | The pain of WATCHING them! What about their pain? | Markus Zusak | ||
| d1a0efb | And please," Ilsa Hermann advised her, "don't punish yourself, like you said you would. Don't be like me, Liesel." | Markus Zusak |