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| 95fbda5 | TINA: Oh, Rick, Rick, I'm scared. What's happened to us? I can't seem to find us any more. I reach out and reach out and we're just not there. I'm frightened. I'm a frightened child (Looks out the window) I hate this rain. Sometimes I see me dead in it. RICK (quietly): My darling, isn't that a line from 'A Farewell To Arms'? TINA (turns, furious): Get out of here. Get out! Get out of here before I jump out of this window. Zooey took a parti.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 4ac7753 | Undoubtedly, though, what I'm really getting at is this: Since the bridegroom's permanent retirement from the scene, I haven't been able to think of anybody whom I'd care to send out to look for horses in his stead. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 347bcea | Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again. Boy, did it scare me. You can't imagine. I started sweating like a bastard - my whole shirt and underwear and everything. Then I started doing something else. Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talki.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| bb7e624 | Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 7f98e46 | People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair. | lies red-hair | J.D. Salinger | |
| 0532e8e | God, I wish you could've been there. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e3c5563 | People always clap for the wrong things. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 9eb88d7 | This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 55f832a | and the sun, a planet on fire, gradually rises over Manhattan, another sunrise, and soon the night turns into day so fast its like some kind of optical illusion ... | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 1a2d6e6 | Something is turning into nothing very quickly | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 1227536 | El pasado no es real. Solo es un sueno. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| a5bd20e | I can't disagree." I laugh weakly, walking him to the door. As he leaves I'm wondering and not wondering what happens in the world of Tim Price, which is really the world of most of us: big ideas, guy stuff, boy meets the world, boy gets it." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 78cfc1e | As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help. | Scott Turow | ||
| ae17524 | The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool. | Scott Turow | ||
| ab1d851 | he could feel the outside world closing in on him, demanding his consideration, but as long as he stayed by himself in the woods he was able to remain true to his refusal. He came from a long line of refusers, he had the constitution for it. There seemed to be almost nothing left of Lalitha; she was breaking up on him the way dead songbirds did in the wild--they were impossibly light to begin with, and as soon as their little hearts stopped.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 284ecf0 | The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to "liberate" humanity from the tasks--making things, learning things, remembering things--that had previously given meaning to life and thus had constituted life. Now it seemed as if the only task that meant anything was search-engine optimization." | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| a762a40 | Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. | page-81 parenting parents reality religion | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 3f472fa | Fog spilled from the heights of San Francisco like the liquid it almost was. On better days it spread across the bay and took over Oakland street by street, a thing you saw coming, a change you watched happening to you, a season on the move. Where it encountered redwoods, the most local of rains fell. Where it found open space, its weightless pale passage seemed both endless and like the end of all things. It was a temporary sadness, the mo.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| baca7cf | And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it. He bowed his head at the thought of how much strength a man would need to survive an entire life so lonely. | lonely | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 6bbdf01 | Our joint plan was to be poor and obscure and pure and take the world by surprise at a later date. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 1982f71 | Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself. | cities new-york-city | Jonathan Franzen | |
| c55edc1 | Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it." | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| c69089d | I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 26dd439 | Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| bab9ad6 | In the earliest years, when you could still drive a Volvo 240 without feeling self-conscious, the collective task in Ramsey Hill was to relearn certain life skills that your own parents had fled to the suburbs specifically to unlearn, like how to interest the local cops in actually doing their job, and how to protect a bike from a highly motivated thief, and when to bother rousting a drunk from your lawn furniture, and how to encourage fera.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 14ce6fa | She had to tell him, while she still had time, how wrong he'd been and how right she'd been. How wrong not to love her more, how wrong not to cherish her and have sex at every opportunity, how wrong not to trust her financial instincts, how wrong to have spent so much time at work and so little with the children, how wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said n.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| a4f1f64 | Whatever else happened, she wanted a dog in her life. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 807e241 | The first step to success it's to imagine it | Pete Hautman | ||
| 56c9792 | Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu... | soul | Thomas Moore | |
| a680661 | magine a trust in yourself, or another person, or in life itself, that doesn't need to be proved or demonstrated, that is able to contain uncertainty. People sometimes put their trust in a spiritual leader and are terribly betrayed if that person then fails to live up to ideals. But a real trust of faith would be to decide whether to trust someone, knowing that betrayal is inevitable because life and personality are never without shadow. Th.. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 21a3f46 | Learn to live small and you will discover great pleasures. You will accomplish more in your life than you could ever predict if you were overly ambitious. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 4f537a2 | Often care of the soul means not taking sides when there is a conflict at a deep level. It may be necessary to stretch the heart wide enough to embrace contradiction and paradox. | Thomas Moore | ||
| f1ecebc | It's always so satisfying when you can twist someone's hatred into guilt--make her realize that she was wrong, too quick to judge, too unwilling to look beyond her own petty concerns. | David Sedaris | ||
| 6ef135e | Six months earlier, my ice breaker concerned a stripper who became a quadriplegic and eventually had her vagina eaten away by bedsores, not the easiest thing to wrangle into a conversation. But if I could pull that off, I figured that a burning mouse should pose no problem. | David Sedaris | ||
| 34c27e7 | I think about death all the time, but only in a romantic, self-serving way, beginning, most often, with my tragic illness and ending with my funeral. I see my brother squatting beside my grave, so racked by guilt that he's unable to stand. "If only I'd paid him back that twenty-five thousand dollars I borrowed," he says. I see Hugh, drying his eyes on the sleeve of his suit jacket, then crying even harder when he remembers I bought it for h.. | David Sedaris | ||
| dc4e60b | The six to eight black men were characterized as personal slaves until the mid-1950s, when the political climate changed and it was decided that instead of being slaves they were just good friends. | David Sedaris | ||
| f50ed9f | Drawing attention to Gretchen's weight was the sort of behavior my mother referred to as 'stirring the turd,' and I did it a lot that summer. | David Sedaris | ||
| a156caf | The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers. | satire teaching writing | David Sedaris | |
| a34c589 | Why do you think she did it?" I asked as we stepped back into the sunlight. For that's all any of us were thinking, had been thinking, since we got the news. Mustn't Tiffany have hoped that whatever pills she'd taken wouldn't be strong enough and that her failed attempt would lead her back into our fold? How could anyone purposefully leave us--us, of all people? This is how I thought of it, for though I've often lost faith in myself, I've n.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 57779df | The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than good old-fashioned loathing. | David Sedaris | ||
| 01389dc | If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting on whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas. | David Sedaris | ||
| 3461d70 | Don't make a career out of underestimating me." -- Claire de Haven" | crime fearless femme-fatale jazz l-a-confidential noir red-scare the-big-nowhere underestimate | James Ellroy | |
| c0757a3 | My life, I resolved, ought to be a perpetual transcending, a progression from stage to stage; I wanted it to pass through one area after the next, leaving each behind, as music moves on from theme to theme, from tempo to tempo, playing each out to the end, completing each and leaving it behind, never tiring, never sleeping, forever wakeful, forever in the present. In connection with the experiences of awakening, I had noticed that such stag.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c63606f | With her, too, I danced more easily now, in a freer and more sprightly fashion, even though not so buoyantly and more self-consciously than with the other. Hermine had me lead, adapting herself as softly and lightly as the leaf of a flower, and with her, too, I now experienced all these delights that now advanced and now took wing. She, too, now exhaled the perfume of woman and love, and her dancing, too, sang with intimate tenderness the l.. | Hermann Hesse |