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| aa803b4 | You're manic-depressive and you're manic-depressive too and you, you're definitely manic-depressive, girl. And you over there in the corner, you're just plain fucking depressive. | Colum McCann | ||
| cdc38e9 | In the summer quiet. Just be. Joshua liked the Beatles, used to listen to them in his room, you could hear the noise even through the big headphones he loved. Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls. | Colum McCann | ||
| 631d88c | I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened. | Colum McCann | ||
| 4f69a84 | The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction. | Colum McCann | ||
| 210e1f4 | There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should not be allowed to hear too much about these matters. If they learn how much less they are getting than rich children, we are told, this knowledge may induce them to regard themselves as "victims," and such "victim-thinking," it is argued, may then undermine their capacity to profit from whatever opport.. | race | Jonathan Kozol | |
| 1e92bac | Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 9b9adf1 | We should invest in kids like these," we're told, "because it will be more expensive not to." Why do our natural compassion and religious inclinations need to find a surrogate in dollar savings to be voiced or acted on? Why not give these kids the best we have because we are a wealthy nation and they are children and deserve to have some fun while they are still less than four feet high?" | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| c32e665 | Either way... you've got to tell him--in no uncertain terms--to knock it the fuck off already. Don't be measured, don't wrap it up in "I" statements, no mewling about your feelings. Give him both barrels: "If you don't knock it the fuck off... I'm going to kick your ass out, got it?" A strategic blowup or two should occur--scream, yell, smash a few things you're not all that attached to--when he slips up. Repeat until his attitude changes o.. | Dan Savage | ||
| d531df8 | Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity | humor pathos standards young-people | Arthur Nersesian | |
| 15a9cd8 | I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity... its Bible, its churches, its dogma-- only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual. | Craig Thompson | ||
| dd995b3 | Right now you're about the least attractive Bird I've ever seen...But I'll sleep with you just the same. I haven't been fastidious about morality since my husband committed suicide; besides, even if you intend to have the most disgusting kind of sex with me, I'm sure I'll discover something genuine in no matter what we do. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 5b107be | But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised -- the question involuntarily arises -- to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 36fbc4a | However, Saudi Arabia quickly discovered what the rest of the world would soon learn. Fundamentalism, in all religious traditions, is impervious to suppression. The more one tries to squelch it, the stronger it becomes. Counter it with cruelty, and it gains adherents. Kill its leaders, and they become martyrs. Respond with despotism, and it becomes the sole voice of opposition. Try to control it, and it will turn against you. Try to appease.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| ee73e95 | It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow. The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and us.. | second-world-war stiff-upper-lip war | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 134e177 | For a nymphomaniac like myself, I suppose there could be no job more suitable than prostitution; it is my God-given destiny. No matter how violent a man might be, or how ugly, at the moment we're in the act I cannot help but love him. And what's more I'll grant his every wish, no matter how shameful. In fact, the more twisted my partner is, the more attracted I will be to him, because my ability to meet my lover's demands is the one way I c.. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| cb1f32c | Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and sterility of the other outlets which drove me to desperation. I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: the world of art is the only such realm. I entered it without any apparent talent, a thorough novice, incapable, awkward, tongue-tied, almost paralyzed by fear and appreh.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 383acc2 | It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how, in what way, because of what concatenation of events or circumstances, and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss, and if you have any sense you ought to kill yourself on tire spot and be done with it. And that's how I was-except that I did.. | Henry Miller | ||
| cfa5d47 | There's something depraved about screwing a woman who doesn't give a fuck about it. It heats your blood..." And then, after a moment's meditation-- "Can you imagine what she'd be like if she had any feelings?" | Henry Miller | ||
| db75399 | The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world in which there is not only the life rhythm but the death rhythm. The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm. There is not only no need to keep alive at any price, but, if life is undesirable, it is absolutely wrong. This keeping oneself alive, out of a blind urge to .. | Henry Miller | ||
| d7976cf | The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. | Henry Miller | ||
| d949f5c | I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to exaggerate the importance of earthly life. Avaricious of self. Constant in their affections and their hatreds. . . Yes, the Capricorn is a beast of solitude. Slow, steady, and persevering. Lives on several levels at once. Thinks in circles. Fascinated by death. Ever climbing, climbing. In search of the edelweiss, presumably. Or could it be .. | Henry Miller | ||
| d801693 | I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. Yo.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 2e6a0ab | I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.... To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. It is to you, Tania, that I am singing. I wish that I could sing bett.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 6b6cfb6 | At that moment I rejoiced that I was free of possessions, free of all*ties, free of fear and envy and malice. I could have passed quietly from one dream to another, owning nothing, regretting nothing, wishing nothing. I was never more certain that life and death are one and that neither can be enjoyed or embraced if the other be absent. | Henry Miller | ||
| c7824be | I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. | Henry Miller | ||
| 05b9b79 | Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says. There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not Time, but Timelessness. We must get in step, a lock step, toward the prison of death. There is no es.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 42e7889 | To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and re-creating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable. One must act as if the next step were the last, which it is. Each step forward is the last, and with it a world dies, one's self included. We are here o.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 2babe36 | I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as from remorse or regret. I had no past and would probably have no future; I was buried alive in a void which was the wound that had been dealt me. I was like the wound itself. | Henry Miller | ||
| e1559e2 | Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. | labor | Erich Fromm | |
| 049a206 | When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers. | Jimmy Carter | ||
| dd23fd6 | I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | ||
| dae1f25 | lqd 'SbH lklm dmn: n tklm dh 'n mwjwd, 'n tklm dh 'n lst nkr@, 'n 'tklm dh ldy mD, w`ml, w'sr@, wbHdythy `n kl msbq fny 'w'kd `l~ dhty. | Erich Fromm | ||
| acc4a73 | Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown. | Erich Fromm | ||
| f9854c9 | klm D`ft dht lmr tt`Zm khshyth mn fqdnh 'thn ltrkyz `l~ mhw lys dhth. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 2021a72 | Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9b37ec6 | On whom am I dependent? What are my main fears? Who was I meant to be at birth? What were my goals and how did they change? What were the forks of the road where I took the wrong direction and went the wrong way? What efforts did I make to correct the error and return to the right way? Who am I now, and who would I be if I had always made the right decisions and avoided crucial errors? Whom did I want to be long ago, now, and in the future?.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 8afe043 | Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severance of the umbilical cord, he would experience the fear of dying. A loving fate protects us from this first panic. But at any new step, at any new stage of our birth, we are afraid again. We are.. | freedom growth security | Erich Fromm | |
| a7abcdd | Within our core self is an indelible blueprint of unrivaled individuality--the singular being that each of us exists to express. In this three-dimensional movie called "Life" there are no stand-ins, body doubles, or understudies--no one can fill in for us by proxy! Realization of this truth alone eliminates the need to imitate, conform, limit, or betray our loyalty to the originality of Self. Imagine the relief of removing your carefully cr.. | Michael Bernard Beckwith | ||
| 8d4739b | For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting. | romance-novels writing | Leigh Michaels | |
| ea98fb7 | And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us." | Michael Scott | ||
| 6344bb0 | NEVERLAND:The imaginary island home of Peter Pan and the lost boys. A place where you never grow up. Michael Jackson's former retreat. An accurate description of the 21st century. | leaving-neverland never-growing-up neverland peter-pan | Daniel Prokop | |
| 193fabf | the painter, Cezanne, would leave blank spaces on his canvas when he couldn't account for the brush strokes, or the color"--- "How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random"." | John Guare | ||
| 6aee724 | Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it. | health junk-food | Mark Bittman | |
| 621f3ad | Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions. | Timothy Ferriss |