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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3491e3f | Remember, it's easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvious truth that denies it, | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| b1ea8c0 | Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| da84810 | Behavior shapes emotions. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| e4972ed | Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 68ef99a | Once upon a time...There's a reason all fairy tales begin like this. But the 'and they lived happily ever after' at the end? That has to be earned. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| c6bc45b | Her skin smelled of autumn and the wind. Don't Jacob... But it was too late. Clara didn't flinch as he pulled her close. He grabbed her hair, kissed her mouth, and he felt her heart beating as fast as his own. ...Let her go, Jacob. But he kissed her again, and it was his name she whispered, not Will's. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 391915f | Every book should begin with attractive endpapers,' he had once told Meggie. 'Preferably in a dark color: dark red or dark blue depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theater. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 9aebd4a | If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary. | Louis Menand | ||
| b686fc8 | The trains [in a country] contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its side, Ceylonese ones the car reserved for Buddhist monks, Indian ones a vegetarian kitchen and six classes, Iranian ones prayer mats, Malaysian ones a noodle stall, Vietnamese ones bulletproof glass on the locomotive, and on every carriage of a Russian train there is a samovar. The railway bazaar with i.. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 1053f08 | You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. | travel traveller | Paul Theroux | |
| 327da33 | There's always a way if you're not in a hurry. | travel | Paul Theroux | |
| d373f26 | Your supposed to drink wine, my friend, not breathe it. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| f7e5869 | The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I'm cursed when it comes to women. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 1d0df8b | Ruby?" His hair was pale silver in this light, curled and tangled in its usual way. I couldn't hide from him. I had never been able to. "Mike came and got me," he said, taking a careful step toward me. His hands were out in front of him, as if trying to coax a wild animal into letting him approach. "What are you doing out here? What's going on?" "Please just go," I begged. "I need to be alone." He kept coming straight at me. "Please," I sho.. | Alexandra Bracken | ||
| bd1e986 | It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 0ec1887 | Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him. | William Saroyan | ||
| 0e00202 | All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for" | William Saroyan | ||
| 7403cd7 | I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too! | William Saroyan | ||
| 665baf9 | All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. | madness | William Saroyan | |
| c9fe510 | In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today. | William Saroyan | ||
| 83dd1c4 | I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square; and right in the middle of a rush hour, too, seeing with my innocent road-eyes the absolute madness and fantastic hoorair of New York with its millions and millions hustling forever for a buck among themselves, the mad dream-grabbing, taking, giving, sighing, dying, just so they could be buried in those awful cemetery cities beyond Long Island .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 234985b | The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same, there will always be men on the earth in the morning, there will always be the things made by God's hands - and all this history of cities and congress now will go, all modern history is only a litteri.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| d37d9be | Does this mean that frontiers from now on are to be in the imagination? | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 876664b | If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing? | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 7c5448f | Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. | travel learning change | Jack Kerouac | |
| ba6eeb9 | Smith, I distrust any kind of Buddhism or any kinda philosophy or social system that puts down sex said Japhy (Gary Snyder) | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 9be9519 | I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless you in the endless future, amen. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 12d688e | Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already. | pain love | Jack Kerouac | |
| 56086b5 | I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 8551237 | and rain will fall on our eaves. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| d148bed | He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ff3609e | I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me | Jack Kerouac | ||
| de68af2 | I didn't bring my peremptory tone to bear in regard to what you'd just said about the unnecessariness of sleep but only, , mind you, because of the fact that I absolutely, simply, purely and without any whatevers have to sleep now, I mean, man, my eyes are closing, they're redhot, sore, tired, beat... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| bccf8d5 | Powerful winds that crack the boughs of November! - and the bright calm sun, untouched by the furies of the earth, abandoning the earth to darkness, and wild forlornness, and night, as men shiver in their coats and hurry home. And then the lights of home glowing in those desolate deeps. There are the stars, though! - high and sparkling in a spiritual firmament. We will walk in the windsweeps, gloating in the envelopment of ourselves, seekin.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 318e75a | Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 535b372 | this girl I was SEEKING to get involved with as if not enough trouble already or other old romances hadn't taught me that message of pain, keep asking for it, for life | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ddfeb3b | 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house 4. Be in love with yr life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 10aa16b | and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. | madness waste-of-time on-the-road | Jack Kerouac | |
| 89623ad | 'nt wHyd. tt`lm 'n tmshy krjl wHyd, 'n ttsk`, 'n tjr qdmyk, 'n tr~ dwn 'n tnZr, 'n tnZr dwn 'n tr~. tt`lm lshffyh, lhmwd, `dm lwjwd. tt`lm 'n tkwn Tyfan, w 'n tnZr llns km lw knw Hjrh | Georges Perec | ||
| d07ff26 | People who choose to earn money first, people who put off their real plans until later, until they are rich, are not necessarily wrong. People who want only to live, and who reckon living is absolute freedom, the exclusive pursuit of happiness, the sole satisfaction of their desires and instincts, the immediate enjoyment of the boundless riches of the world [...] such people will always be unhappy. It is true [...] that there are people for.. | Georges Perec | ||
| 603ef32 | Historical consciousness therefore leaves you, as does maturity itself, with a simultaneous sense of your own significance and insignificance. Like Friedrich's wanderer, you dominate a landscape even as you're diminished by it. You're suspended between sensibilities that are at odds with one another, but it's precisely within that suspension that your own identity--whether as a person or a historian--tends to reside. Self-doubt must always .. | John Lewis Gaddis | ||
| e798c76 | The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf... | William Gaddis | ||
| 62e22e8 | We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us. --William H. Gass, "Mr. Gaddis and His Goddamn Books" (2006)" | William H. Gass | ||
| 934a1e4 | Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness. | Ford Madox Ford |