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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 472ad4d | In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 37a82eb | Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police. | Michael Crichton | ||
| df2440a | Absence of proof is not proof of absence | proof | Michael Crichton | |
| 9ac3792 | Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves. | stress | Michael Crichton | |
| 386a91f | No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 1b9c26a | I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire. | gender-studies phallus | Judith Butler | |
| b485c9d | Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself. | Judith Butler | ||
| fa40958 | There is no reason to assume that gender also ought to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it. | Judith Butler | ||
| 3eedba9 | In a nervous society where a man's image is frequently more important than his reality, the only people who can afford to advertise their drug menus are those with nothing to lose. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 4abd358 | They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts. | luck | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 9adf044 | The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud. | drug-use gonzo journalism psychedelics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| d3699c9 | It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| b53235e | It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!" -- | exterminate horror | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 0f24a70 | Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident. | business business-advice executive facebook management marketing social-media success twitter | Brian E Boyd | |
| ab05eab | Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt. | Scott Adams | ||
| cdb099c | It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process. | Scott Adams | ||
| ac7c2fb | Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions. | Scott Adams | ||
| 5a288e3 | Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. Sometimes understanding comes and the temporary words can be replaced with words that have more meaning. More often, however, the patch words will take on a life of their own and no one will remember that they were only intended to be placeholders. | Scott Adams | ||
| 538723a | Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 2656a60 | She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anonymous. It is not, after all, where you live. When you no longe.. | bluest-eye leaving morrison toni | Toni Morrison | |
| 94ca796 | It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman* | Toni Morrison | ||
| 2cc4e34 | Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world. | Toni Morrison | ||
| c6f55ae | Pain was greedy; it demanded all of her attention. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 7b6ec3a | This here Sethe talked about love like any other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other woman, but what she meant could cleave the bone. This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. This here new Sethe didn't know where the world stopped and she began. Suddenly he saw what Stamp Paid wanted him to see: more important than what Sethe had done was what she claimed. It scared him. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 60812a9 | And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He his in its breast, fingered its earth for food, clung to its banks to lap water and tried not to love it. On nights when the sky was personal, weak with the weight of its own stars, he made himself not love it. Its graveyards and its low-lying rivers. Or just a house - solitary under a chinaberry tree; maybe a mule tethered and the li.. | earth love paul-d slavery world | Toni Morrison | |
| e2a7f20 | If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him -- the love would move him to fury. How dare she love him? Hadn't she any sense at all? What was he supposed to do about that? Return it? How? What could his calloused hands produce to make her smile? What of his knowledge of the world and of life could be useful to her? What could his heavy arms and befuddled brain accomplish that would .. | Toni Morrison | ||
| af76349 | Sula was distinctly different. Eva's arrogance and Hannah's self-indulgence merged in her and, with a twist that was all her own imagination, she lived out her days exploring her own thoughts and emotions, giving them full reign, feeling no obligation to please anybody unless their pleasure pleased her. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, to feel pleasure as to give pleasure, hers was an experimental life - ever since her mother's rema.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 7d8781a | Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. | Toni Morrison | ||
| ef24e83 | What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You've been laughing at us all your life. Corinthians. Mama. Me. Using us, ordering us, and judging us: how we cook your food; how we keep your house. But now, all of a sudden, you have Corinthians' welfare at heart and break her up from a man you don't approve of. Who are you to approve or disappro.. | brother father feminism feminist male-privilege mother son song-of-solomon women | Toni Morrison | |
| a778159 | I am nothing to you. You say I am wilderness. I am. Is that a tremble on your mouth, in your eye? Are you afraid? You should be. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 9da8e95 | maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous. | toni-morrison | Toni Morrison | |
| c250cbd | Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have? | family rituals | Toni Morrison | |
| 96c1e33 | She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it. "Here," she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder th.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| aaf8fed | this is the it you've been looking for | Toni Morrison | ||
| ff9a09a | Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose. | jazz toni-morrison women | Toni Morrison | |
| a991a98 | the seven "liberal arts": Grammar, the foundation of science; Logic, which differentiates the true from the false; Rhetoric, the source of law; Arithmetic, the foundation of order because "without numbers there is nothing"; Geometry, the science of measurement; Astronomy, the most noble of the sciences because it is connected with Divinity and Theology; and lastly Music." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| e402fa5 | Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of the disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power .. | history | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 5a0eea2 | Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions." | politics power | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| fe02578 | The conspicuous fault of the Jeffersonian Party, like the personal fault of Senator Trowbridge, was that it represented integrity and reason, in a year when the electorate hungered for frisky emotions, for the peppery sensations associated, usually, not with monetary systems and taxation rates but with baptism by immersion in the creek, young love under the elms, straight whisky, angelic orchestras heard soaring down from the full moon, fea.. | drama dramatic-politics politicians politics | Sinclair Lewis | |
| fb8212e | Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its brother death, seem so contented. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 8f38842 | The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 4bac742 | The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires--to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. --chapter 8 | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 6fe1b97 | Wherever you go, let Christ be your refuge. Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers. | Francine Rivers | ||
| c6be9d7 | If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad. | Francine Rivers |