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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d70dc18 | Nobody can judge an internal injury," he had said, "by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole." | Salman Rushdie | ||
| bbe8994 | America had left reality behind and entered the comic-book universe. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 76748bf | We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him | Salman Rushdie | ||
| d8d2130 | Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| b9526c2 | Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| c7b6298 | Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 8e783da | If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it. | John Berendt | ||
| 4a10b2d | The South is one big drag show, honey [...]. | John Berendt | ||
| f866b1a | Indifference is the strongest contempt. | Ha Jin | ||
| 9e20340 | like a note of music, you are about to become nothing | Robert Bly | ||
| bb5c5f7 | When she thought of New York City now, the place where she'd lived for most of her life, the only home she'd ever really known, she realized the city was like a person who now oftentimes struggled to stand proud because both its legs had collapsed in a sea of dust, fire and scattered office papers. | new-york new-york-city september-11th september-11th-attacks terrorism twin-towers world-trade-center | Rebecca McNutt | |
| ab13f3e | Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are stripped away, leaving a stark white landscape, a sky which stays black at night and gray in the day, a world of only three shades. Stay outside too long, and your hands will get so cold that they'll go numb and turn red, like the claws of a lobst.. | canada cold color frigid frost frozen landscape lobster nature shades sky winter | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 05e8540 | Small talk... Bernie resented it more than life itself. The weather, sports scores, frivolous gossip... nothing real, nothing serious, nothing meaningful about it. People were experts at wasting their brief, precious years on earth with small talk. | life meaningful philosophy serious small small-talk talk waste | Rebecca McNutt | |
| efd305b | Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this plac.. | cell-phone cook-stove country digital earth farm film future glow grim kodachrome kodak laundry love massachusetts missing nikon nostalgic past peace photography pie small-town television texting traditional | Rebecca McNutt | |
| eb197fe | I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist. | John Barth | ||
| b132336 | Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes. | John Barth | ||
| 62b1b3d | Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? | John Barth | ||
| 69db344 | The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly. | John Barth | ||
| 54773ad | But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. | orwell politics principles truth | Christopher Hitchens | |
| b0248aa | Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member states 'to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attacks. It added that 'those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the perpetrators, organizers and spon.. | al-qaeda assassination barack-obama death-of-osama-bin-laden international-law islamism justice kofi-annan law osama-bin-laden pakistan quran right-to-self-defense self-defense september-11-attacks united-nations united-nations-security-council united-states united-states-navy-seals war | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 33b04e2 | There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe. | writing-style | Horace Walpole | |
| 0f8125c | She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy! | Henry James | ||
| 1da7b6f | Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test. | Henry James | ||
| 13b7cb6 | I'll watch with you. | Henry James | ||
| 0b0e9e9 | I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself. | gender inspirational love romance sex sexuality | Henry James | |
| 3baf6c6 | It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion. | Henry James | ||
| 715dcb7 | It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything. | Henry James | ||
| 9141329 | Keep making the movements of life. | Henry James | ||
| 238d5cf | There was nothing in the room the next minute but the sunshine and a sense that I must stay. | Henry James | ||
| 532d872 | Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence. | Mark Helprin | ||
| b8391c0 | You'll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky. | Mark Helprin | ||
| b3c01dd | There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery. | mystery philosophical | Mark Helprin | |
| a8dc983 | The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 6192933 | Souls, like rays of light, exist in perfect, parallel equality, always. But for when infinitely short a time they pass through the rough and delaying mechanism of life, they separate and disentangle, encountering different obstacles, traveling at different rates, like light refracted by the friction of things in its path. Emerging on the other side, they run together once more, in perfection. For the short and difficult span when confounded.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 16801fe | what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart? | love | Mark Helprin | |
| 2cf2d32 | We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 67be496 | When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them." "Why?" Luciana asked. "Because you come to love your children more. I lost my mother and father to images in photographs and handwriting on letters, and as I abandoned them for you, the saddest thing was that they made no protest. "Even now that I'm going back to them, I regret above all that I must leave you." "You're not going back to anybody," Alessandro told him... | Mark Helprin | ||
| ac875fa | Nobody said he was Alvin Einstein. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| aebe215 | I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. | faith inspiration | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 7547213 | CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change. | conversation | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| d57fc62 | Finding one's voice is a process of finding one's passion. | voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 9668307 | Perhaps we project on to starlings that which we deplore in ourselves: our numbers, our aggression, our greed, and our cruelty. Like starlings, we are taking over the world. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 0652a28 | The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit. | value | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 67462cf | I have found what I need most to heal a broken bond is time together--the very thing I avoid is the thing most desired. | healing | Terry Tempest Williams |