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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| deb76d5 | You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened | Mitch Albom | ||
| dc54353 | You were one person, and you changed the world. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 399aa36 | What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God." | child dialogue god prayer tree wish | Mitch Albom | |
| a0de9ae | The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2d0e625 | La vida seria mucho mas agradable si uno pudiera llevarse a donde quiera que fuera, los sabores y olores de la casa materna. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| de3f2fb | Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology. | mythology | Bryan Sykes | |
| 6a22516 | Glad to eat ya', I mean meet ya'" - Digger" | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| a30967d | a drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| a21c2d8 | There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 87555d5 | There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| b1f479f | No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 471e44e | Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not. Nothing penetrates. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e3c9b8d | Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3253eae | We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 37154d4 | No wonder Mr. Tagomi could not go on, he thought. The terrible dilemma of our lives. Whatever happens, it is evil beyond compare. Why struggle, then? Why choose? If all alternatives are the same . . . Evidently we go on, as we always have. From day to day. At this moment we work against Operation Dandelion. Later on, at another moment, we work to defeat the police. But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We .. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 49b55e9 | Look in it,' he said, smiling slightly, as you do when you have given someone a present which you know will please him and he is unwrapping it before your eyes. I opened it. In the folder I found four 8x10 glossy photos, obviously professionally done; they looked like the kind of stills that the publicity departments of movie studios put out. The photos showed a Greek vase, on it a painting of a male figure who we recognized as Hermes. T.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f4920a2 | Mankind needs more empathy. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0faddba | Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 3bc9ce2 | One time I listened to Farmer give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and in the midst of reciting data, he mentioned the Haitian phrase "looking for life, destroying life," Then he explained, "It's an expression Haitians use if a poor woman selling mangoes falls off a truck and dies." I felt as if for that moment I could see a little way into his mind, It seemed like a place of hyperconnectivity, At moments li.. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 5599d49 | I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid." | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 17977e7 | l twjd thm@ Hrk@ byn lrjl l wwrw'h mr'@ ! lmr'@ tl`b fy Hytn ldwr ldhy tl`bh qw@ ljdhby@ byn l'jrm wlnjwm | men movement women | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| f27d82f | lGd y`lmh llh w ySn`h lnsn | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f6ba2e8 | lkhwf wjb mn lbsm@ lHlw@ wlklm@ l`dhb@ wldw lshf~ w'qn`@ lkhlS lt~ l HSr lh | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 3ca2dd7 | Just think," I say, trying to calm her down. "The two of us naked in a car, but safe and sound all the same, kissing each other to the clap of thunder and the sound of the driving rain!" "This is impossible," she says. "But just think. Wouldn't you like, from this snug little shelter in the midst of cosmic rage, to stick your tongue out to the entire world?" | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 556b2f0 | l ystqr lrjl Ht~ ytzwj | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8fdb926 | Laugh till you're exhausted. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 02f5c8d | wl'shwq f~ mGn~ lTrb tthr. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| b729b6c | wll`qy'd TGyn Ht~ `l~ ldhyn nbdhwh. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 2387dca | 'sbl jfnyh lGlyZyn mtfkr, sh`r b'n lkhl ylthm l'shy, w'nh ywd 'n ytslq sh`` lshms, 'w ydhwb fy qTr@ lnd~, 'w ymtTy lryH lmzmjr@ fy lqbw, wlkn Swt S`d mn Smym qlbh ql lh 'nh `ndm yHl lkhl bl'rD fnh tmtly' bdfqt lrHmn dhy ljll | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| ce52f1c | m mn mr@ khlwt bnsn qT l wftrqn khSmyn, whm yqwlwn `d@ 'n~ mkhTy', w'n 'qwl nhm lmkhTy'wn, Gllh yfSl bynn ywm lqym@. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| c5aae57 | dh knt lHqyq@ qsy@ flkdhb dmym, lyst lHqyq@ qsy@ wlkn lnflt mn ljhl mw'lm klwld@, jr wr lHqyq@ Ht~ tnqT` mnk l'nfs, rD bl'lm Ht~ tkhlq mn jdyd, hdhh lm`ny tHtj l~ `mr lsty`bh, `mr mn lt`b ttkhllh swy`t mn lkhmr | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1aa2e8a | I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 22bad6f | lys 'shq~ mn 'n yqr`k lndm w 'nt dhw ymn | regret | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 4e89891 | Falseness in life is the secret that makes man's inner self a rare truth; it hides from him although it's obvious to all. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| ed86da5 | Do you know how rare such a thing is?" he asked quietly. "That peculiar sort of mutual passion?" The one-sided kind was common enough." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ddc45f0 | At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not.. | home italy sense-of-place | Frances Mayes | |
| f81f00e | To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind. | Frances Burney | ||
| b7f0922 | There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream. | inspiration nature | Frances Mayes | |
| 24d57b4 | But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty, soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce som.. | Edmund Burke | ||
| 977d492 | I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that cov.. | Matthew Scully | ||
| f51c0f0 | Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I think it is the more violent among us who are living out the fantasy, some delusion in which everything in nature is nothing and all is permitted. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 7d96d86 | The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| d57cc17 | A Scott, having got his bride pregnant, was apt to file her as completed business for eight months at a time. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| f02afb5 | The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife." | Jeremy McCarter |