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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5b480ad | A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. | politics | Henry David Thoreau | |
| df10c94 | If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 670c87f | We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches. | thoreau | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ef91a53 | The imagination is also sometimes commended for offering us in vicarious form experiences which we are unable to enjoy at first hand. If you can't afford an air ticket to Kuala Lumpur, you can always read Conrad and imagine yourself in South-East Asia. If you have been monotonously married for forty years, you can always lay furtive hands on a copy of James Joyce's letters. Literature on this view is a kind of supplement to our unavoidably .. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| e0b40ef | Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They are sometimes spoken of by him as the 'Other' -- as that which like language is always anterior to us and will always escape us, that which brought us into being as subjects in the first place but which always outruns our grasp. We have seen that for Lacan our unconscious desire is directed toward.. | lacan language otherness psychonanlysis the-other the-symbolic unconscious | Terry Eagleton | |
| a1d41dd | Responding to the claim that not just reading but "high culture" in general is morally improving, Terry Eagleton points out that, during World War II, "many people were indeed deep in high culture, but . . . this had not prevented some of them from engaging in such activities as superintending the murder of Jews in central Europe." If reading really was supposed to "make you a better person," then "when the Allied troops moved into the conc.. | Alan Jacobs | ||
| dc55670 | How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a - " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying." And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move quickly through the streets, and in a very short time they arrived at the royal palace." -- | speech wordplay | Norton Juster | |
| 0854ec2 | Now, remember: they're not for eating, but for listening, because you'll often be hungry for sounds as well as food. Here are street noises at night, train whistles from a long way off, dry leaves burning, busy department stores, crunching toast, creaking bed springs, and of course, all kinds of laughter. There's a little of each, and in far off, lonely places, I think you will be glad to have them. | joy sounds | Norton Juster | |
| 9640ad8 | And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves. | Norton Juster | ||
| 5c7c05f | Vengeance is mine, I will repay | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b568c33 | Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 4a638c1 | People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 3e45afb | The real magic rocks are the friends we make along the way. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 758f3a1 | I don't think I've ever seen you without braids. I thought your hair just grew that way. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| fdf351e | What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals. "Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish." "Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see." I saw." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| a47a667 | I am getting so sick of looking at this kidney," I said. "It's a farce," Jazza replied. "They act like they're shocked and horrified, and then they show it off twenty times a day." "Have you seen the singing kidney video?" I asked. "Ugh. No." "It's really funny. You should watch it." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| a34ebfa | She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 6068b03 | Charlotte, dressed in a very short-skirted policewoman's outfit, was leading a dancing brigade, jumping around at the front of the room, her long red hair flapping up and down like a matador's cape. She was head girl, and she would shows us how to party if she had to. I wasn't really sure why Charlotte had decided to come to the party as a stripper. I found myself at a loss for words as she complimented us on our costumes. "You're a..." I t.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| c53a2dc | Don-Keun was a new man. The moment they arrived, he vanished for a second. We heard muffled ecstatic screaming coming from somewhere in the back of the Waffle House kitchen, then he reappeared, his face shining with the kind of radiance usually associated with religious epiphany. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| b77d09a | Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and .. | arthur-conan-doyle authors | Maureen Johnson | |
| f065d55 | Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 65164de | I annoy people," he said. "Believe me. I'm aware. It's an effective way to communicate if you don't have any other options. If you can't get in through the door, throw a rock through the window. And I think maybe you're the same way. - David, to Stevie" | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 31e4240 | Sherlock said, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 83fdf45 | QUESTION EVERYTHING; STAND BACK, I'M GOING TO TRY SCIENCE!; I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| c02d0c7 | Do you ever think about the ocean?" Nick asked me. "What about it?" I said. "Like what could live down there? Like how there's as much life down there as up here? Maybe more?" "God Lives Underwater," said someone. "That's the name of a band. They're awesome." "But seriously," Nick said, "it's like an alternate universe. Right here on our own planet." "Right here, a hundred feet from us," said Sheila. "Right here in my hair," said one of the.. | ocean | Blake Nelson | |
| 13f8337 | I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way | Blake Nelson | ||
| e214fe3 | Wherever you go..., you'll see Heaven and Hell on every side... in . Look for them and you'll soon know them. There on your left, Hell shuffles by, carrying a reluctant, gloomy chicken, his only comrade. There on your right, Heaven spring past, singing - a lunatic, a little too much for civilized contact. Just the way it always was. | hell purgatory | Daniel Quinn | |
| 8195ee8 | Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 354dbd4 | If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it. | exploitation philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| a878d29 | Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time. | food-problems | Lynn Kurland | |
| bf93b45 | The trees sang their approval. Ruith cocked an ear and listened to them for a moment or two, smiled faintly, then continued on his way toward her. Sarah felt her breath catch, again. She wondered if there would ever come a day when she could look at him and yawn. | Lynn Kurland | ||
| ba330ec | She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it." | Lynn Kurland | ||
| 66675cb | You great bloody bully." "Which is exactly what you need, you vexatious headstrong wench." | Lynn Kurland | ||
| 069009b | He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could you learn to be fond of me?" he asked. "With enough time?" She looked at him in surprise. It was the first time in all their acquaintance that she'd heard him sound the least bit hesitant. "I don't need to learn anything," she said, before she thought better of it." | Lynn Kurland | ||
| 704348e | Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment .... The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a replicator and propagator -- an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus. | James Gleick | ||
| ec59929 | With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails. | James Gleick | ||
| 9c6fc0e | Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space. Some patterns are fractal, exhibiting structures self-similar in scale. Others give rise to steady states or oscillating ones. Pattern formation has become a branch of physics and of materials science, allowing scientists to model the aggregation of particles into clusters, the fractured spread of electrical discharges, a.. | James Gleick | ||
| 7bc9128 | Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too. | information | James Gleick | |
| 535a5a8 | We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation. | James Gleick | ||
| 0156e6d | I kissed her salty tears and murmured, murmured I don't know what. I felt her body straining, straining to meet mine and I felt my own contracting and drawing away and I knew that I had begun the long fall down. | James Baldwin | ||
| fbc555c | And yet - when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds one-self pressing, in great pain, through a maze of false signals and abruptly locking doors. | James Baldwin | ||
| 55c10eb | All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrecoverable, and love was simple and even pain had the dignity of enduring forever: it was unimaginable that time could do anything to diminish it. | James Baldwin | ||
| 4a2bc9f | You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to climb up out of some deep, really deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside. I got to get outside. | hope | James Baldwin | |
| e044bca | My birth certificate says: Female Negro Mother: Mary Anne Irby, 22, Negro Father: Jack Austin Woodson, 25, Negro In Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. is planning a march on Washington, where John F. Kennedy is president. In Harlem, Malcolm X is standing on a soapbox talking about a revolution. Outside the window of University Hospital, snow is slowly falling. So much already covers this vast Ohio ground. In Montgomery, only seven .. | Jacqueline Woodson |