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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 42c369b | Horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. | horror | Alice Sebold | |
| 5ab1248 | We are not where we are, he finds, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out | paul auster | ||
| c727198 | The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged. | Paul Auster | ||
| c9d5b8b | No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real. | Paul Auster | ||
| b334616 | In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts, and even the clouds had names. Scissors could walk, telephones and teapots were first cousins, eyes and eyeglasses were brothers. The face of the clock was a human face, each pea in your bowl had a different personality, and the grille on the front of your parents' car was a grinning mouth with many teeth. Pens were airships. Coins were flying sau.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 781a30d | For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a b.. | hopelessness sports | Paul Auster | |
| eb5376e | as long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live. | Paul Auster | ||
| 9921b59 | He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can be done about it. Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise. | Paul Auster | ||
| 2d27b37 | But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn't a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of breathless anticipation, agitated and alert, counting the hours until you can see her and hold her again. Intense. That is the word you use to describe yourself now. You are intense. Your feelings are intense. Your life has become increasingly inte.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 0868b0b | I couldn't imagine myself doing it anymore. It was part of my life that had ended for me, and here was my chance to set out on a fresh course | Paul Auster | ||
| 21093a1 | Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their communities to develop their God-given talents as fully as rich kids. For economic productivity and growth, our country needs as much talent as we can find, and we certainly can't afford to waste it. The opportunity gap imposes on all of us both real costs and what economists term "opportunity costs." | social-mobility society | Robert D. Putnam | |
| cfe4bf8 | I crossed over to Broadway and walked north to Twenty-fifth Street to the Serbian Orthadox Cathedral dedicated to Saint Seva, the patron saint of the Serbs, I stopped, as I had many times before, to visit the bust of Nikola Tesla, the patron saint of alternating current, placed outside the church like a lone sentinel. I stood as a Con Edison truck parked within eyeshot. No respect, I thought. -And you think you have problems, he said to me... | Patti Smith | ||
| e4a25c3 | Let one concentrate all his energies in one single great effort, let him perceive a single truth, even though he be consumed by the sacred fire, then millions of less gifted men can easily follow. Therefore it is not as much quantity as quality of work which determines the magnitude of the progress. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 34ab1c5 | Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 678c483 | Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| b98ec90 | A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 55acf04 | We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 30e02ea | The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for th.. | economics income-disparity inequality military-history progressivism society utopia wealth western-culture | Victor Davis Hanson | |
| 39d3225 | Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Susie misses... | Alice Sebold | ||
| 5031a38 | My name was Salmon like the fish, first name Susie. | Alice Sebold | ||
| ee4f5dd | My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| e8ff0c7 | Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went to a part of heaven we didn't share. I missed her then, but it was and odd sort of missing because by then I knew the meaning of forever. I could not have what I wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 6d7b3fa | I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 756aa34 | But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead -- in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death -- the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human -- feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown. | Alice Sebold | ||
| db34294 | As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life | Alice Sebold | ||
| ef497b1 | I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 9a78b01 | Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 1771afe | It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn's countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the midd.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 76aa9ab | Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains. | Sharyn McCrumb | ||
| 34ec94c | It's like doing one of those dumb math problems: three people are driving at 20mph in a car carrying two gallons of gas and a horse doing yoga, when a car traveling at 30mph with two clowns drinking cola collides, what time is it in Tokyo? It doesn't make any sense and the only answer I ever come up with is who | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| cb46c4b | Jesus, if it comes down to it, I'll even write you a f*cking letter!" "I'll write you on both sides of the f*cking paper, Caro." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| f972a32 | I love you, Torrey Delaney. You don't have to say it back to me, but I love you. I didn't believe life was worth living until I met you. I'm so, so happy I was wrong. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| f07a210 | I love you," I said. "What we have, you and me, it's what I thought love should be, but I'd stopped believing it existed." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 3f2ffb1 | I felt like my lungs weren't big enough to breathe her in, and my heart couldn't beat fast enough to love her the way I wanted to. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| ad0fc0f | This forest silence improves anyone. | quiet reflection silence | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 6c97db3 | We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| a8da8fd | Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree. | Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson | ||
| a7a9c6f | Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. | Ayn Rand | ||
| dd912cd | There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth... To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... No, not Francisco d'Anconia, not Hank Rearden, not any man she had ever met or admired... A man who existed only in her knowledge of he.. | love | Ayn Rand | |
| 52a185b | They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They're concerned only with people. They don't ask: 'Is this true?' They ask: 'Is this what others think is true?' Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show. Not ability, but friendship. Not merit, but pull. | people the-fountainhead | Ayn Rand | |
| 3f2f7c8 | A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. | howard-roark self the-fountainhead | Ayn Rand | |
| f92ba58 | Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted. | Ayn Rand. | ||
| 0efc443 | I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society. | howard-roark the-fountainhead | Ayn Rand | |
| 59d0533 | Lillian moved forward to meet her, studying her with curiosity. They had met before, on infrequent occasions, and she found it strange to see Dagny Taggart wearing an evening gown. It was a black dress with a bodice that fell as a cape over one arm and shoulder, leaving the other bare: the naked shoulder was the gown's only ornament. Seeing her in the suits she wore, one never thought of dagny taggart's body. The black dress seemed excessiv.. | Ayn Rand |