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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b65e8d | People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design... there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own. | self social-commentary society sociology | E.M. Forster | |
| 24da240 | It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee. India--a hundred Indias--whispered outside beneath the indifferent moon, but for the time India seemed one and their own, and they regained their departed greatness by hearing its departure lamented, they felt young again because reminded that youth must fly. | poetry | E.M. Forster | |
| 38c2f62 | Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8b37659 | The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her. | issues memory public-opinion relevance | E.M. Forster | |
| c381689 | It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice. | web-design | Steve Krug | |
| e61d1a2 | The scene of Washington cussing out Charles Lee was for some reason not included in the series of bronze illustrations of the Battle of Monmouth on the monument at the county courthouse. Even though it was the most New Jersey-like behavior in the battle, if not the entire war. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 509096e | With a century and change between the 1880 convention and now, I'll admit I rolled my eyes at the ideological hairsplitting, wondering how a group of people who more or less agreed with one another about most issues could summon forth such stark animosity. Thankfully, we Americans have evolved, our hearts made larger, our minds more open, welcoming the negligible differences among our fellows with compassion and respect. As a Democrat who v.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 1b8e86c | That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| f44d0bd | I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 15cf30e | If you want a great site, you've got to test. After you've worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can't see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it. | user-experience user-testing web-design | Steve Krug | |
| c1371f9 | This is an awful thing that's happened to you, but it's also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 06e750c | Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite. | peace | Ivo Andrić | |
| b3211cb | Iz iskustva je znao kako stetni, i po drustvo i pojedinca opasni mogu biti ljudi koji zbog svoje ogranicenosti neograniceno veruju u svoju pamet i pronicjivost i u tacnost svakog svog suda i zakljucka. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| d849e7a | Ja kazem sebi: Jos veceras budi hrabar, ne drhti i ne boj se vise nego sto treba, a vec sutra mozda nece nam trebati ni hrabrosti ni utehe. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 746b5be | No land is more beautiful, and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I believe in Hawai'i. I believe in the land." -Haleola" | Alan Brennert | ||
| 07aa72c | A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end. | finding-peace finding-yourself laying-up-your-treasures streets-of-gold | Alan Brennert | |
| dfd1d62 | An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have | emptiness sea suffocate | Alan Brennert | |
| 8a4802f | kl wHd ykhtr drj@ llwn ky yHky qSWth lkhS@; w bwdWy 'n khtr lwDwH ldy'm lSwr@ mTbw`@ blbltyn .. lkn m mn shy fy qdry ymlk hdhh lkhSWy@ lmDyy'@ ;'`ysh byn SbGt bht@ w'lGz mkhfyW@ w `dm yqyn .. wllwn lmnsb lrwy@ Hyty ynTbq 'kthr m` lwn Swr@ Hy'l@ Swr@ "blsby" ." | Isabel Allende | ||
| 79fae22 | Es cosa de tiempo, ojo y corazon | Isabel Allende | ||
| eadeb8b | Lanzarme con otro libro es tan grave como enamorarme, un impulso alocado que exige dedicacion fanatica. Con cada uno, como ante un nuevo amor, me pregunto si me alcanzaran las fuerzas para escribirlo y si acaso semejante proyecto vale la pena: hay demasiadas paginas inutiles y demasiados amorios frustrados. | love | Isabel Allende | |
| ffbb6c4 | Barrabas came to us by the sea. | Isabel Allende | ||
| e92fb56 | No existe luz sin sombra, tal como no existe dicha sin dolor. | Isabel Allende | ||
| df47d90 | La orice varsta trebuie sa ai un scop in viata, asa se vindeca multe rele. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 2ffd9c5 | Me resulta complicado escribir sobre mi vida, porque no se cuanto recuerdo y cuanto es producto de mi imaginacion;la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y por eso, sin darme ni cuenta, la cambio o la exagero, pero me he propuesto corregir ese defecto y mentir lo menos posible en el futuro. | mentira sincerity verdad | Isabel Allende | |
| ad5aae5 | She treated him with the casual kindness usually reserved for other people's pets. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 46c71f2 | Enfrenta los obstaculos a medida que se presenten, no pierdas energia temiendo lo que pueda haber en el futuro | Isabel Allende | ||
| b37d8c8 | Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 78f19c3 | But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion. | Isabel Allende | ||
| fbd9eb7 | She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness. | waking | Isabel Allende | |
| 7c5b4a7 | lys hnk mn yrwqh qr@ my't lSfHt lyjd 'n lqS@ l tnthy nhy@ wDH@ | nobody novel reading | Isabel Allende | |
| 44d374d | Lo puedo leer en tus ojos, vienes de una noche de amor. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4fed309 | She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old beneath other people's roofs, die one day in her miserable little room in the far courtyard in a bed that did not belong to her, and be buried in a common grave in the public cemetery. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9fd9d6e | She gave me a pain in the ass, but she was very good looking. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| fa2f361 | I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly? | Yann Martel | ||
| fece876 | I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer | Yann Martel | ||
| 820245f | Time is an illusion that makes us all pant. | Yann Martel | ||
| 6611794 | Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. | Yann Martel | ||
| fc4eb40 | For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. | Yann Martel | ||
| b99f99c | There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. | fight | Yann Martel | |
| d15a590 | I felt like I was beating a rainbow to death. | Yann Martel | ||
| ffdaab9 | I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. | life-and-living | Yann Martel | |
| 1a56a35 | My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9609861 | Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious. | life-of-pi survival | Yann Martel | |
| 526928c | I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut, because of the clanging of bells to announce one's arrival to God, because of the whine of the reedy nadaswaram and the beating of drums, because of the patter of bare feet against stone floors down dark corridors pierced by shafts of sunlight, because of the fragrance of incense,.. | Yann Martel |