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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c0de4bb | Didn't Frankenstein get married?" "Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect." | marriage public-school society | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| c652e4c | Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir." "By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice?" | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 16ed99a | Musical comedy is the Irish stew of drama. Anything may be put into it, with the certainty that it will improve the general effect. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4ddfce7 | There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| d4a582b | Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? | Amy Tan | ||
| 56cf729 | People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind. | Amy Tan | ||
| ce13c00 | Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too. | Amy Tan | ||
| a3ec411 | But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead. | Amy Tan | ||
| 5cc2a7e | Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit. | Amy Tan | ||
| 32ca3dc | We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| 376577b | I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| f6de597 | The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star. I don't know if things like that are fair or not. | stars | Richard Brautigan | |
| b8e669a | Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness. | strength | Richard Brautigan | |
| 2b994d5 | The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience Greer and Cameron had ever gone through, even more terrible than the time they shot a deputy sheriff in Idaho ten times and he wouldn't die and Greer finally had to say to the deputy sheriff, "Please die because we don't want to shoot you again". And the deputy sheriff had said, "Ok, I'll die, but don't shoot me again". "We won't shoot you again", Cameron had s.. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 0274f43 | Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel. | fiction novels writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 9c1e41e | Human life is fiction's only theme. | fiction writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 99e4ccf | At their very feet had been the river. The boat came breasting out of the mist, and in they stepped. All new things in life were meant to come like that. | Eudora Welty | ||
| 9b4b880 | It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart. | intelligence smarts | Eudora Welty | |
| f4a1123 | A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker. | philosophy | Anne Fadiman | |
| dee4d97 | I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters. | reading-books | Anne Fadiman | |
| e1822dd | As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, and diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 0e9ec46 | Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 5d64a0e | Over recent years, [there's been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to tests and the test determines what happens to the child, and what happens to the teacher...that's guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process: it means the teacher cannot be creative, imaginative, pay attention to individual students' needs, that a student can't pursue things [...] and the teach.. | capitalism creativity education-reform eye-opening greed human-nature imagination school-reform standardized-testing | Noam Chomsky | |
| 675b036 | Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 6525945 | power that isn't really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 0113c7f | the countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| be2fab1 | The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes. | James A. Michener | ||
| d20c63f | Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose to the moment, knowing it was their last. One was humility, for I was alive and untouched by the horrors of that day, free to continue my happy life as a husband and father and writer. In the lonely blackness, I could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus it's preciousness. We take it for granted, but it.. | john-grogan life marley-and-me | John Grogan | |
| 8929208 | The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after movement in time and space has ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, traveling to Honolulu. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5412982 | Hazel used his trick. "They got no starfish there?" "They got no ocean there" said Doc. "Oh!" said Hazel and he cast frantically about for a peg to hang a new question on. He hated to have a conversation die out like this. He wasn't quick enough. While he was looking for a question Doc asked one. Hazel hated that, it meant casting about in his mind for an answer and casting about in Hazel's mind was like wandering alone in a deserted museum.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5fbefdd | Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold. | humor | John Steinbeck | |
| 63d43ff | Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died...And this you can know - fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1185b79 | Maybe you'll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose his hunger to make a perfect cup--thin, strong, translucent?" He held his cup to the light. " All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that-- more fire. And then either the slag heap or, perhaps what no one in the world ever quite gives up, perfection." He drained his cup and he said loudly, "Cal, list.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1eac5f5 | They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China. | foreignness | John Steinbeck | |
| 02235e3 | The only good writer was a dead writer. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 46bb65c | She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 64ec398 | Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads.. | Scott O'Dell | ||
| 715d2d6 | Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing more for him, that he had overdrawn on her endurance: then she would stay silent for awhile, almost at peace, beyond his reach, not knowing whether she had been utterly vanquished or become completely invincible. However, it required merely some slight attention on his part to restore all her apprehe.. | Shirley Hazzard | ||
| f24adbb | Some things aren't measured by their size, but by their importance. | Simone Elkeles | ||
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| 81e6e29 | I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be a dickhead. Well, I did. | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| a9f4633 | If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat. | trish | Simone Elkeles | |
| 07d576c | I'll go along with pretending this thing between us is temporary and casual, but every time we're together it feels too right to be temporary or casual. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8499faf | Say something, Amy," Miranda insists. "Something positive. I'm sure it'll make you feel better." "Okay, Miranda. I've got it." I motion the girls to lean in close to hear my words. "At least I'm not dead." How's that for positivity? I have to admit it does make me feel better." | Simone Elkeles |