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| 8ea39a1 | Nothing. Heart pounding. Respiration and all somatic processes including all manner of diencephalic-controlled autonomic responses to crises: adrenalin greater heartbeat pulse rate glands pouring throat paralysed eyes staring bowels loose et al. Stomach queasy and sex instinct suppressed. And yet nothing to see nothing for body to do. Run All in preparation for panic flight. But where to and why Mr Tagomi asked himself. No clue. Therefor.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e9a32a9 | I am life,' the girl said. 'What?' he said, startled. 'To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I'm life and when you're done with me, some of it rubs off on you. You don't feel so old now, do you? With me here in the squib beside you.' Nick said, 'I'm thirty-four and I don't feel old. As a matter of fact, sitting here with you makes me feel older, not younger. No.. | youth | Philip K. Dick | |
| 835d9e3 | It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7248dde | self respect. self reliance. self control. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 881db7d | l'khT trtkb b`dd trdd l'nfs | mistakes | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| c4bc2e4 | In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 7e57859 | Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8aff77f | wr rdtn dny wshyTn, thz' mn tSmymn wtufsd `lyn nwyn lTyb@. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| e94a282 | lHy@ l`jyb@ tmsH f~ lHZ@ mn l'Hzn m y`jz lmHyT `n Gslh, fh~ l'm lHnwn rGm m`mlth 'Hyn lqsy@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0decfbc | 'rwm b`th jdyd Hq, wywmdhk tSbH alm~ l shy' yTwyh lfn l~ l'bd, fymknn~ lq 'Hby'~ bqlb Sf wnfs nqy@ Thr@. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8743e3e | nth~ `hd lt`s@ wlHrmn, wnqsh`t Zlm@ lnfs, wlHt Tl`w Hbybt~ b`d khtf Twyl m`dhb, wSrn 'Sdq ntbdl lbtsm ! y lh mn Hqyq@ l tSdq ! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 7c13a95 | lnqwd tkthr blSbr | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| e156aaa | Melanin is the black pigment which permits skins to appear other than white (black, brown, red and yellow). Melanin pigment coloration is the norm for the hue-man family. If there are non-white readers who disagree with this presentation of white rejection of the white-skinned self, may I refer you to the literature on the currently developing sun-tanning parlors. | white-supremacy | Frances Cress Welsing | |
| 1c78813 | He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." "Yes. He does." | Charlie Huston | ||
| 28f6785 | When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself. | compassion future hoarding needs present protection saving sharing stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| deb76d3 | Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| e85ec0e | For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand. | death heaven inspirational | Randy Alcorn | |
| bb32725 | How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8865a70 | At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6d017f1 | Are we riding far tonight, Gandalf?" asked Merry after a while. "I don't know how you feel with small rag-tag dangling behind you; but the rag-tag is tired and will be glad to stop dangling and lie down." "So you heard that?" said Gandalf. "Don't let it rankle! Be thankful no longer words were aimed at you. He had his eyes on you. If it is any comfort to your pride, I should say that, at the moment, you and Pippin are more in his thoughts .. | hobbit hobbits j-r-r-tolkien lord-of-the-rings meriadoc meriadoc-brandybuck merry merry-brandybuck peregrin peregrin-took pippin-took rag-tag saruman the-lord-of-the-rings tokien wizard wizards | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c62ff10 | all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them | Annie Proulx | ||
| 79dea2e | But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines. | nonsense | James Joyce | |
| 4718676 | To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know. | poet | William S. Burroughs | |
| 9a4628a | What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| faaed01 | The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 3323390 | Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. | Epictetus | ||
| e558f9d | When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you? | responsibility | Epictetus | |
| 0cb3891 | The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have. | Epictetus | ||
| 200d4f8 | Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind -- unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you. | Epictetus | ||
| 711da51 | In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 92def09 | What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| c81d4f7 | What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming, and there was only one way to deal with it: by climbing aboard. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 0f3b554 | Brian told Mom we needed to keep Maureen away from those nutty Pentecostals, but Mom said we all came to religion in our own individual ways and we each need to respect the religious practices of others, seeing as it was up to every human being to find his or her own way to heaven. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 8f7d3a4 | Gray stood up and came round the desk. "Think of the words on that memorial, Wraysford. Think of those stinking towns and foul bloody villages whose names will be turned into some bogus glory by fat-arsed historians who have sat in London. We were there. As our punishment for God knows what, we were there, and our men died in each of those disgusting places. I hate their names. I hate the sound of them and the thought of them, which is why .. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 1dce4af | never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer" | Luanne Rice | ||
| 7d7f16d | Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness. | Luanne Rice | ||
| eb74e27 | Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time. | best-friends love sisters | Luanne Rice | |
| 731c415 | You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial." "I can if you're on the list, traitor." "LIST? What list? What the hell are you talking about?" BLACK LIST, July 24" | black-list brad-thor fiction | Brad Thor | |
| def2b73 | I just might kill someone in my next job, and I'll be honest here, I couldn't do the time. Really. No way. I couldn't share a room with four other people, let alone poop in front of them. I hate sharing a room and a bathroom with my husband, and I even have eminent domain over him. Prison would never work out: I'd get picked last for all of the gangs, I'd never get included in the escape plans, it would be just like high school | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 90e7ceb | Every crack is also an opening. When in the midst of great change, it is helpful to remember how a chick is born. From the view of the chick, it is a terrifying struggle. Confined and curled in a dark shell, half-formed, the chick eats all its food and stretches to the contours of its shell. It begins to feel hungry and cramped. Eventually, the chick begins to starve and feels suffocated by the ever-shrinking space of its world. Finally, it.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 4fb51ea | When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than | Mark Nepo | ||
| 2889891 | She acts like she don't like you" "She doesn't like anyone" "She likes Capitan Black", Orr reminded. "That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 6982c30 | You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished business. Imagine going back: the structure is familiar ,but the door is now metal instead of wood,the walls have been painted a garish pink ,the easy chair you loved so much is gone .Your office is now the family room and your beloved bookcases have been replaced by a brand-new television set . This is your house,a.. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 6f7d11d | Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish? | empathy joy life pain sorrow | Azar Nafisi |