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| f290b87 | I am here to posit that it's exactly in these moments of struggle and stress that we need books the most. There's something in the pause to read that's soothing in and of itself. A moment with a book is basic self-care, the kind of skill you pass along to your children as you would a security blanket or a churchgoing habit. | Erin Blakemore | ||
| da05b68 | Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 627881e | The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin. | Dick Francis | ||
| 74c10e2 | It hurts, though. It hurts like hell. Even in the knowledge that our punctuation has arrived at its present state by a series of accidents; even in the knowledge that there are at least seventeen rules for the comma, some of which are beyond explanation by top grammarians -- it is a matter for despair to see punctuation chucked out as worthless by people who don't know the difference between and and whose bloody automatic 'grammar check.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 176f75f | If we value the way we have been trained to think by centuries of absorbing the culture of the printed word, we must not allow the language to return to the chaotic swamp from which it so bravely crawled less than two thousand years ago. We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and allusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| af9481e | I cannot understand the principle at all,' said Stephen. 'I should very much like to show it to Captain Aubrey, who is so very well versed in the mathematics and dynamics of sailing. Landlord, pray ask him whether he is willing to part with the instrument.' Not on your fucking life,' said the Aboriginal, snatching the boomerang and clasping it to his bosom. He says he does not choose to dispose of it, your honour,' said the landlord. 'But n.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 044a0ff | What do you say to taking up our game where we left off? I was winning, you will recall.' Winning, for all love: how your ageing memory does betray you, my poor friend,' said Stephen, fetching his 'cello. They tuned, and at no great distance Killick said to his mate, 'There they are, at it again. Squeak, squeak; boom, boom. And when they do start a-playing, it's no better. You can't tell t'other from one. Never nothing a man could sing to, .. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 663b37c | Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 4bfc054 | Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?" [Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel." "Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol?" | horses wounds | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 9184fc3 | The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and said magnificent things when it came to Ireland, India and America. One of them was in some ways a revolutionary conservative and the other was a conservative revolutionary. It's important to try and contain multitudes. One of my influences was Dr.. | charles-lindbergh collectivism conservatism contradiction edmund-burke free-thought french-revolution gore-vidal humanism india individualism influence ireland israel israel-shahak partisanship politics radicalism revolution spinozism thomas-paine united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9fa01fa | Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will. | self-promotion | Gore Vidal | |
| 93dbece | Les contes de fees c'est comme ca. Un matin on se reveille. On dit: "Ce n'etait qu'un conte de fees..." On sourit de soi. Mais au fond on ne sourit guere. On sait bien que les contes de fees c'est la seule verite de la vie. Fairy tales are like that. One morning, we wake up and say, "It was only a fairy tale..." We put a smile on our face but deep inside, this isn't what we feel like doing. It's because we know full well that fairy ta.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| c5c8300 | A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife. | food history table-manners | Ruth Reichl | |
| fe98940 | We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats. | Henning Mankell | ||
| ea9aa55 | Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das wesentliche ist fur die Augen unsichtbar. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| b11242e | The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| e4164b4 | What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince. "You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ." The next day the little prince came back. "It would have been better to come back at the .. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| c1fd9d9 | As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares. | life travel | Alex Garland | |
| 40e188a | That was longer than a heartbeat. | alex-garland | Alex Garland | |
| 4dc7b80 | IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD HANDLE ANYTHING THAT CAME YOUR WAY, WHAT WOULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TO FEAR? The answer is: NOTHING! | Susan Jeffers | ||
| f6f0359 | Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 8253404 | Oglum, oglum. Oglum olunca, yeterince buyuyunce ona butun bunlari aciklayacaktim. Ama sonra anlamayacagini veya hic anlamak istemeyecegini ve yapmis oldugum seyleri yapacagini, evet hatta miyavlayan tekirlerle ve sarmanlarla cevrili zavalli bir moruk sazani oldurecegini ve ona cidden engel olamayacagimi anladim. O da kendi ogluna engel olamayacakti kardeslerim. Dunyanin sonuna kadar filan da boyle gidecekti, durmadan durmadan durmadan, koca.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| c447fbb | like candy thunder. Oh, | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 875a59e | Ama kotulugun sebebini bulmaya calisarak tirnaklarin kemirmeleri kahkahadan kirilmama yol aciyor kardeslerim. Iyiligin sebebini aradiklari yok, oyleyse niye tersini merak ediyorlar ki? (syf. 35) | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 8e1ca21 | If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 299ec54 | Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 02daa1d | The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| ba5467d | Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as th.. | Ben Elton | ||
| be7ecbe | You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. | Ben Elton | ||
| 9a94964 | Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it. | Ben Elton | ||
| bada67f | No sois en absoluto parecidas a mi rosa, no sois nada aun --les dijo--. Nadie os ha domesticado y no habeis domesticado a nadie. Sois como mi zorro. No era mas que un zorro semejante a cien mil otros. Pero yo lo hice mi amigo y ahora es unico en el mundo... Y las rosas se sintieron bien molestas. --Sois bellas, pero estais vacias --les dijo todavia--. No se puede morir por vosotras. Sin duda que un transeunte comun creera que mi rosa se os .. | "El principito" Antoine De Saint-Exupéry | ||
| cf18f18 | Will you draw me a sheep? | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| bafd939 | lkn l`ywn `my , yjb lbHth bwsT@ lqlb | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 44354a4 | To forget a friend is sad. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 3fcdabb | nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has -- yes or no? -- eaten a rose... Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes... And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance! | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 7e535aa | The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| a52855a | Adieu, dit-il... - Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple : on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. - L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, repeta le petit prince, afin de se souvenir. - C'est le temps que tu a perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante. - C'est le temps que j'ai perdu pour ma rose... fit le petit prince, afin de se souvenir. - Les hommes ont oublie cette veri.. | responsability | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| f776ac5 | It's hard luck always having to be a judge. | vocation | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 6f4b514 | Que l'on soit absent dans la piece voisine, ou sur l'autre versant de la planete, la difference n'est pas essentielle. La presence de l'ami qui en apparence s'est eloigne, peut se faire plus dense qu'une presence reelle. | heart loss | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 2b31f00 | I don't know anyone who can't learn something from The Little Prince. | books le-petit-prince the-little-prince | Veronica Henry | |
| 0fc6041 | I don't expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fa0165a | Me? Jealous of him? No. What I was going to say was, or the fact that he has a stupid name. Blake? It rhymes with flake. Come on. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8ca0d8d | I was moving at the speed of a three-legged turtle, so it took a while to blink my eyes open, and even then it was just a thin crack. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d1c046c | Will you make me the luckiest bastard on Earth and marry me, Katy Swartz? | Jennifer L. Armentrout |