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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a2f8a8c | The vision seemed to enter the house with me--the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart--the heart of a conquering darkness. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| abf6454 | Mistah Kurtz--he dead. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 85d4cd0 | dreams are madness, my dear. It's things that happen in the waking world, while one is asleep, that one would be glad to know the meaning of. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| ad4f7c8 | Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. | blame desperate enemies friends guilt hate immortality lifeboat loneliness love mental-illness mortality society stranded | Joseph Conrad | |
| ba758f3 | I'm a role model now. ... I want to be a better person because I don't want to disappoint those girls. I stop and think about my actions more. I tip great, I try not to swear too much, and I remember to thank people and be grateful. And all that stuff I do to "appear' better has actually made me a better person. I wish I had always acted like I was a little bit famous." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ea10817 | I'm getting made fun of because I used to be fat? The laws of bullying allow you to be cruel even when the victim had made strides for improvement? This is when I realized that bullies have no code of conduct. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ab96942 | So things were coming together nicely for me to embark on a full-fledged depression. One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| d48a763 | The result of my not caring so much about what I say allows me to care more about how I say it. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 8e9bc8b | But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c1726b6 | Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 3efb980 | I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart." | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| ac2bc71 | The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,--stern and wild ones,--and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 580d2a0 | It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual fife upon another: each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his subject. Philosophically consid.. | love | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| 0996b42 | Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense.. | possessions technology travel | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| c58b4f9 | The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 4b874f2 | A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos! | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 3e7ac8f | Neither was in love with a young man unless he was she were verbally very near: that is unless they were profoundly interested, to one another. The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months... | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 1107207 | And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore, the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is in the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 9f4c409 | Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 7deb57e | Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings, it becomes a mine of practical truth. We have had the feelings ad nauseam. But we've never dared dig the actual truth out of them, the truth that concerns us, whether it concerns our grandchildren or not. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 7932df3 | Some of us are born rebellious. Reading the story of Zelda Fitzgerald by Nancy Milford, I identified with her mutinous spirit. I remember passing shopwindows with my mother and asking why people didn't just kick them in. She explained that there were unspoken rules of social behavior, and that's the way we coexist as people. I felt instantly confined by the notion that we are born into a world where everything was mapped out by those before.. | Patti Smith | ||
| 97895b2 | O senhor escute meu coracao, pegue no meu pulso. O senhor avista meus cabelos brancos... Viver - nao e? - e muito perigoso. Porque ainda nao se sabe. Porque aprender-a-viver e que e o viver, mesmo. O sertao me produz, depois me enguliu, depois me cuspiu do quente da boca... O senhor cre minha narracao? | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| c7aceb8 | O amor so mente para dizer maior verdade. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| fb5b8cb | You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed. | interesting reflection | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 838c0ce | Jiko looked out accross the ocean to where the water met the sky. "A wave is born from the deep conditions of the ocean," she said. "A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave." | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 32be7d7 | No hits is the mark of how deeply unfamous you are, because true freedom comes from being unknown. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| d14fd25 | I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we.. | Richard Russo | ||
| dbf7a2e | Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly adjusted to the idea of profound human tragedy. They were reluctant to give it up, Sully could tell. He smiled apologetically at the crowd. | humor | Richard Russo | |
| 9cdfe65 | It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fa.. | Richard Ford | ||
| 5efb008 | Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is quick to begin again. It is better not even to look so hard, to leave off explaining. Nothing makes me more queasy than to spend time with people who don't know that and who can't forget, and for whom such knowledge isn't a cornerstone of life. | Richard Ford | ||
| e5a5c07 | What's friendship's realest measure? I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups. | Richard Ford | ||
| 45ddf15 | In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves. | possibility | Richard Ford | |
| 736262e | Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| d882578 | By the tits of Holy Agnes | saint wolf-hall | Hilary Mantel | |
| b2c14b7 | And beneath Cornwall, beyond and beneath this whole realm of England, beneath the sodden marshes of Wales and the rough territory of the Scots border, there is another landscape; there is a buried empire, where he fears his commissioners cannot reach. Who will swear the hobs and boggarts who live in the hedges and hollow trees, and the wild men who hide in the woods? Who will swear the saints in their niches, and the spirits that cluster at.. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| f7fc821 | Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus! | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 6cb623b | But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?" 398" | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 019b17a | Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the qualities he presently lacks, he might go to work on them. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| a42df1e | I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before? | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 9a012a8 | This revolution - will it be a living?' 'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's going to be hanged tomorrow.' 'Is that usual?' 'Oh, they always hang my clients. Even in property and matrimonial cases. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| bab39dc | No rational man could worship a God so simply vengeful | rational | Hilary Mantel | |
| d886275 | That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow. | Norman Mailer | ||
| 0f9d2dc | I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like curling up with the good book. You mean a good book Oh, dear, did I say the good book sighed the witch. | affairs bible cheating good-book reading sex the-good-book witch witches | Norman Mailer | |
| 2349660 | Indeed, mother, you are always our helper." "For what else are we born?" | cry-the-beloved-country | Alan Paton |