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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c61c28e | Allow me to take a moment to express my appreciation for Cletus Winston and his entrances. | Penny Reid | ||
| 01c247f | I tried to shrug, but I'm sure it looked like a minor seizure. | Penny Reid | ||
| 275a04d | You'll know one day, Cletus. You'll discover what it's like to find the other part of yourself. You'll know it's her, only her, always her. Maybe not right away, but eventually you'll know. She'll be your beginning, middle, and end. And your intentions won't matter. Love brings its own intentions, and all other plans, hopes, and dreams fade to insignificance in the face of love. | Penny Reid | ||
| 150fb05 | If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." -- Robert Frost" | Penny Reid | ||
| 2be09b0 | Duct tape is man's answer to electrons and protons. It's how we keep matter together. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0d43d40 | This was our beginning. I couldn't wait for the middle. And I never wanted it to end. | Penny Reid | ||
| 43239d2 | The dreams were the troubling kind where I thought the action and events were genuine while asleep; upon waking and in retrospect I realized they were obviously completely implausible.The one I remembered most intensely upon waking was about losing my teeth. The fragments of bone continually fell out of my mouth every time I opened it to speak; and they ran away- though they had no legs- which, in the dream, sent me into a panic. There is n.. | Penny Reid | ||
| 2112ae0 | Because I look at you, and I think, you and me, we're going to get married one day. And then, if you're a very good wife..." His eyes skated over my face as he paused, and it felt like a loving caress; but it also felt possessive and dangerous. His cadence dropped, deepened, as his stare settled on my lips. "If you're a very good wife, we'll have a mortgage." | Penny Reid | ||
| 0873b46 | You have your own room in my heart. It's yours. Stay as long as you want; it will always be there for you. | Penny Reid | ||
| 97c9801 | I'm not trying to hurt you. I just want us to be--" "Smart," he finished for me, his resentful gaze softening as it moved over my face. " I know. You always want to be smart and do the right thing. But the problem is, Parker... I just want you." | Penny Reid | ||
| 283beff | Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. | Erin McKean | ||
| 49a1b64 | As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. --NELSON MANDELA | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 9f62c5f | I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| e688134 | Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 57c1e03 | Today I am devoted to addressing all the little things about me and in my life that I have not mastered! | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| af3f960 | That was a mite tacky, ma'am ... even for you." Elizabeth let her mouth fall open. " What's that supposed to mean?" "It just means that people with" --He stared pointedly-- "your upbringing aren't usually the most polite folks around." ... "Listen Ranslett, if I've offended you I certainly didn't mean t--" "Sure you did. You just meant to do it in a way that would make yourself look bad." He turned to look at her more fully, and his eyes n.. | ranslett | Tamera Alexander | |
| 4c50bfc | Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand. | Elizabeth Alexander | ||
| 6187ba4 | I absolutely refuse to associate myself with anyone who cannot discern the essential night-and-day difference between theocratic fascism and liberal secular democracy, even less do I want to engage with those who are incapable of recognizing the basic moral distinction between premeditated mass murder and unintentional killing. | collateral-damage false-equivalence moral-equivalence war-on-terror | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 84d5bae | The North Korean state was born at about the same time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and one could almost believe that the holy father of the state, Kim Il Sung, was given a copy of the novel and asked if he could make it work in practice. Yet even Orwell did not dare to have it said that "Big Brother's" birth was attended by miraculous signs and portents - such as birds hailing the glorious event by singing in human words." .. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 64ac51c | There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 8a97632 | To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views with a believer even for a short time, and let us make the assumption that this is a mild and decent believer who does not open the bidding by telling you that your unbelief will endanger your soul and condemn you to hell. It will not be long until you are politely asked how you can possibly know right fr.. | morality religion | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 1317868 | Of the numerous regrettable elements that go to make up the unlawful carnal-knowledge industry, I should single out for distinction the look of undisguised contempt that is often worn on the faces of its female staff. Some of the working 'hostesses' may have to simulate delight or even interest--itself a pretty cock-shriveling thought--but when these same ladies do the negotiating, they can shrug off the fake charm as a snake discards an un.. | prostitution | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5d7732a | Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| fd0661d | Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child. | children death fear friends idleness impotence misery mothers proust proust-questionnaire sex | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 00256ef | To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. | materialism sympathy | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fa48200 | Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the i.. | atheism internationalism libertarianism politics religion secularism social-class | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 924bca0 | T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes. | cyprus-dispute greece guilt henry-kissinger makarios-iii moral-responsibility | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 71c07e9 | As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by the.. | amputation carnegie-endowment covering-islam edward-said human-rights iran iranian-kurdistan iranian-revolution khomeini media middle-east mohammed-reza-pahlavi new-york september-11-attacks shiism stoning theocracy women women-and-religion women-in-iran women-in-islam womens-rights | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 12e277f | Edward genially enough did not agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the to point out that his life--the life of the mind, the life of the book collector and music lover and indeed of the gallery-goer, appreciator of the feminine and occasional --would become simply unlivable and unthinkable in an Islamic republic. Again, he could accede politely to.. | 1986 ad-hominem arafat art bernard-lewis books cambridge debate edward-said feminism first-intifada intellectualism interview-magazine intifada islamic-republic israeli-palestinian-conflict leon-wieseltier middle-east middle-eastern-studies music palestine palestinians theocracy | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 7ac2ce6 | I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this only because I was once later accused of attacking him 'on his deathbed.' He was entirely lucid to the end, and the positions he took were easily recognizable by me as extensions or outgrowths of views he had expressed (and also declined to express) in the past. Alas, it is true that he was closer to the end than anybody knew .. | cowardice edward-said fitzwilliam-darcy george-w-bush house-of-saud imperialism iraq iraq-war iraqis jane-austen london mendacity national-museum-of-iraq orientalism-book prejudice pride-and-prejudice race-card the-atlantic united-states vandalism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9b3cc78 | On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a sponsor and donor of this soon-to-be-opened institution, while an accompanying leaflet has enticing photographs of Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Sandy Koufax, Irving Berlin, Estee Lauder, Barbra Streisand, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. There is something faintly about this, as there is in the habit of those Jewish .. | american-jews antisemitism armenian-genocide armenians barbra-streisand betty-friedan bigotry bob-dylan british-isles britons estee-lauder gypsies irving-berlin isaac-bashevis-singer jews philadelphia race romans sandy-koufax united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5b5515e | Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been a visiting writer in several authoritarian and totalitarian states, and usually the question answers itself. Someone in a cafe makes an offhand remark. A piece of ironic graffiti is scrawled in the men's room. Some group at the university issu.. | authoritarianism death dissent doublethink drinking-the-kool-aid graffiti grief indoctrination irony jokes jonestown kim-il-sung kim-jong-il koreans mind-control moonies north-korea propaganda pyongyang ryugyong-hotel south-korea surveillance totalitarianism tourism-in-north-korea university | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 732aa00 | the religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in fear and doubt who is openly exploited to believe in the impossible | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 72bc4c7 | Periclean Greeks employed the term , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public affairs.' Obviously, there is something wanting in the apolitical personality. But we have also come to suspect the idiocy of politicization--of the professional pol and power broker. The two idiocies make a perfect match, with the apathy of the first permitting the depredations of the second. | apolitical athens pericles politics politics-of-the-united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 2d02831 | If I were to announce that I had suddenly converted to Catholicism, I know that Larry Taunton and Douglas Wilson would feel I had fallen into grievous error. On the other hand, if I were to join either of their Protestant evangelical groups, the followers of Rome would not think my soul was much safer than it is now, while a late-in-life decision to adhere to Judaism or Islam would inevitably lose me many prayers from both factions. I sympa.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 191d11e | O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-per.. | battles hegel history life reminiscence self-delusion self-persuasion william-morris | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 8c86c38 | One notorious named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses--'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'--along with detailed refutations and denunciations by Abraham ibn Ezra and others. These exciting anathemas, of course, ensured that his worrying 'questions' would remain current for as long as the Orthodox.. | atheism curses heretics hiwi-al-balkhi irony jewishness jews judaism maimonides messiah orthodox-judaism religion self-deprecation | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 692a007 | The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere. | mahabharata | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 1a132ee | I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing] | Kohta Hirano | ||
| db64ecd | I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. Rather I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself. The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge. One | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| b2d8c0d | They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time. | humor indian mahabharata | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 490f0be | She was one of the stars, a bright dot in blackness, without home, without a companion, in eternal cold and silence. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 1a0653e | The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 03df3d1 | I suppose that means you don't want any band-aids, either," I said, a touch more bitterly than I'd meant to." | anna arguments awesome-quotes bandaids best-friends bitterness first-aid friend friend-quotes friends friendship-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship hurt j-m-richards life-quotes quotes-about-life real-friends real-friendship silly-fights so-true stupid-arguments tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol | J.M. Richards |