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| ef6bd90 | He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange. | economic money theory | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 03d1671 | There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary...because it hurts less to write than it does not to write. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6771163 | But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. | sociology | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| a3aa8c9 | The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 4cc801b | contrary to some opinions, it is better to be a dead hero than a live louse. Dying is messy and inconvenient but even a louse dies someday no matter what he will do to stay alive and he is forever having to explain his choice. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 00e50f7 | To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6c0ac39 | Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days--since each hypothesis, while equally paradoxical, neatly avoided the paradoxes of the other--with, of course, a day off each year for sheer solipsist debauchery. | hypotheses indecision paradoxes solipsism the-universe | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| ba50901 | If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I've never heard of it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9210069 | Ben, why should anybody want that much power?" "Why does a moth fly toward light?" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 45109f6 | The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren't even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman's conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| e50c7ae | Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence--unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 646e429 | I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his bloo.. | don-delillo favorite-books humor jack-kerouac pretension pretentiousness stephen-crane thomas-pynchon | Caroline Kepnes | |
| 3282968 | A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles. | society universe | Stephen Crane | |
| ee58ec0 | Charm's a very dangerous thing. Lucien, tell me," Stephen said thoughtfully. "This respect for shamans, this inviolability..." "Mmm?" "Well, I don't know if you remember, but some three weeks ago, you tied me to your bedposts and spent two hours subjecting me to acts of unimaginable depravity. And considering you call me a shaman--" "I take issue with 'unimaginable'," Crane interrupted, sudden heat and light rushing through him. "I imagine .. | m-m-romance yes | K.J. Charles | |
| a20ad81 | Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, | stephen crane | ||
| 31fbf37 | So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed. | Stephen Crane | ||
| b9a729b | The best sky was in Italy or Spain and in Northern Michigan in the fall | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 14b08c2 | Thank you," the old man said. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| cace298 | I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were. It was all right with me. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| caa4352 | There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7bac773 | The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7b9533c | Love is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets on it to crow. | love | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 0bb128c | But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f49fa20 | Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' Then he added, 'Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish wonderful though he is. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 251704e | Do you feel better?' he asked. 'I feel fine,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 379a42d | But I could tell thee of other things, , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man. | gypsy human-experience spirituality | Ernest Hemingway | |
| b5cab6d | It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius? | James N. Frey | ||
| c85471c | For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her. | tourist | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 76d5308 | Even if he was ever afraid he knew that he could do it anyway. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 2843de7 | In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone. | lost-generation trust war | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 3b8b807 | Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 69a0e55 | Now that the bad weather had come, we could leave Paris for a while for a place where this rain would be snow coming down through the pines and covering the road and the high hillsides and at an altitude where we would hear it creak as we walked home at night. Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and th.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| a1181f4 | He knew everything when he started. The others can't ever learn what he was born with. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 00d4399 | First you borrow, then you beg. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0566c2e | You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 28ac147 | she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson..." "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary author, or would-be author, to confess admiration for another. At last I said, "Not Hemingway--a really dishonest man, the closet-everything. Not Thomas Wolfe--all that purple upchuck; of course, he isn't living. Faulkner, sometimes: Light .. | emily-dickinson ernest-hemingway f-scott-fitzgerald henry-james light-in-august nathaniel-hawthorne tender-is-the-night thomas-wolfe willa-cather william-faulkner | Truman Capote | |
| 30ca43e | What happens to people that love each other? - I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever. | death-of-a-loved-one love | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 7556955 | He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it. He also knew that hurricanes could be so bad that nothing could live through them. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f41c848 | It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining. | rain symbolism war | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 7a65009 | You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 938e401 | No. Have it here where it is quiet." "You and your quiet", said Brett. "What is it men feel about quiet?" "We like it," said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear." | noise quiet | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 8deb6e8 | Three Denises wobbled in front of her, all of them watching her with fond concern. "You're a sweetie. I appreciate you cheering me on from the sidelines. But I think I need to go to the bathroom now and throw up." | funny humour romance | Sarah Mayberry | |
| 9f9057f | A tip for you-Little Miss Innocent routine only works when there's a credible belief that innocence is possible. | Sarah Mayberry | ||
| a30817d | Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise." | humour romance romantic-comedy | Sarah Mayberry |