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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9c59e4f | The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird. | suicide | Truman Capote | |
| a552b54 | The mill owner's wife persist. 'A dollar, my foot! Fifty cents. That's my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one.' In answer, my friend gently reflects: 'I doubt it. There's never two of anything. | Truman Capote | ||
| 4b7dd8f | Time rarely weighed upon him, for he had many methods of passing it. | Capote Truman | ||
| 50b7476 | I felt infuriatingly left out -- a tugboat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air. | Truman Capote | ||
| eeafaef | But, Doc, I'm not fourteen any more, and I'm not Lulamae. But the terrible part is (and I realized it while we were standing there) I am. I'm still stealing turkey eggs and running through a brier patch. Only now I call it having the mean reds. | Truman Capote | ||
| b8ebeb9 | I don't want to own anything until I know I have found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like. | Truman Capote | ||
| dbb11b3 | the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. | Truman Capote | ||
| e8cfbb6 | Always, the path unwinds through lemony sun pools and pitch vine tunnels. | Truman Capote | ||
| 6da0d7a | The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen only you don't know what it is. | Truman Capote | ||
| 5f9877e | How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 123486c | Only, I wonder--the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 65cc2be | She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 572a49e | She was blind and insensible to many things, and dimly knew it; but to all that was light and air, perfume and colour, every drop of blood in her responded. She loved the roughness of the dry mountain grass under her palms, the smell of the thyme into which she crushed her face, the fingering of the wind in her hair and through her cotton blouse, and the creak of the larches as they swayed to it. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 397fa28 | That's right ... we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6c7d727 | Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a5871a6 | Ford said] ".. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur. "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much ass.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a9567f1 | The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition, that of a damp and rancid dish cloth. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8bb3acd | A Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the color blue. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3dc92f1 | You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself. | knowledge provocative wisdom | Douglas Adams | |
| a68f387 | What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9cd5eeb | Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7d585d6 | Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was when we were told that something would happen immediately, in which case it turned out not to be true over an extended period of time. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 54b686c | Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 809622e | It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6949b3b | Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. | Douglas Adams | ||
| bd44a4c | Need brooks no delay, yet late is better than never. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0ad5f9f | In my despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways... | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 972c7a2 | But Olwe answered: 'We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 95368b0 | If this nice friendliness would spread out in Mordor, half our trouble would be over. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e800e9d | Wraiths! Wraiths on wings! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d6124b2 | Well I've made up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf - mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days. | reading-quotes | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8dd6096 | Not long ago-incredible though it may seem-I heard a clerk of Oxford declare that he 'welcomed' the proximity of mass-production robot factories, and the roar of self-obstructive traffic, because it brought his university into 'contact with real life.' He may have meant that the way men were living and working in the twentieth century was increasing in barbarity at an alarming rate, and that the loud demonstration of this in the streets of .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2954199 | I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well. | gimli humor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 76d7bab | We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn't just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves--has allowed us to be "s.. | Alan Jacobs | ||
| 865a733 | The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 308cced | Slowly the lights of the torches in front of Merry flicked and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: 'This is a tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall stay forever.' But suddenly into his dream there fell a living voice. 'Well, Merry! Thank goodness I have found you!' He looked up and the mist before his eyes cleared a little. There was Pippin! They were face to face in a narrow lane, but for themselves it was empt.. | Éowyn hobbits j-r-r-tolkien meriadoc meriadoc-brandybuck merry merry-brandybuck peregrin peregrin-took pippin pippin-took the-lord-of-the-rings the-returm-of-the-king theoden tolkien witch-king-of-angmar | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6b7d04e | They also keep a horned cow as proud as any queen; But music turns her head like ale, And makes her wave her tufted tail and dance upon the green. ... So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle, a jig that would wake the dead: He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune, While the landlord shook the Man of the Moon: 'It's after three' he said. They rolled the Man slowly up the hill and bundled him into the Moon, While his horse.. | frodo man-in-the-moon over-the-moon the-dish the-spoon | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3711f60 | O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| 2e0ef53 | Sam's hand wavered. His mind was hot with wrath and the memory of evil. I would be just to slay this treacherous, murderous creature, just and many times deserved; and also it seemed the only safe thing to do. But deep in his heart there was something that restrained him: he could not strike this thing lying in the dust, forlorn, ruinous, utterly wretched. He himself, though only for a little while, had borne the Ring, and now dimly he gues.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3e36465 | A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law. | law mandos tyranny | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e485d21 | The counsel of Gandalf was not founded on foreknowledge of safety, for himself or for others,' said Aragorn. 'There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6451469 | As a lord was held for the strength of his body and stoutness of heart. Much lore he learned, and loved wisdom but fortune followed him in few desires; oft wrong and awry what he wrought turned; what he loved he lost, what he longed for he won not; and full friendship he found not easily, nor was lightly loved for his looks were sad. He was gloom-hearted, and glad seldom for the sundering sorrow that filled his youth... (On Turin Turambar -.. | tolkien tragedy | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| dc4563e | But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. | friendship olwë | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b788159 | Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre, mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao. | J.R.R. Tolkien |