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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6221198 | a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| ca91add | I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night. 530: Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 29b7470 | I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 412440d | The novel integrates several forms of human intelligence - verbal intelligence (for the style), psychological intelligence (for the characters), logical intelligence (for the plot), spatial intelligence (for the symbolic and metaphorical content as well as the setting), and even musical intelligence (for pacing and rhythm. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 3c3126e | Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he's having right now. That's how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 06c7cd9 | Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled." | fire fremen love open pillar smoke | Frank Herbert | |
| cfa392e | What the eyes had seen could not be erased. | eyes seen | Frank Herbert | |
| 7a70906 | Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it! | Frank Herbert | ||
| f7744b6 | Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3c83328 | All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine! | Frank Herbert | ||
| b1b1db7 | Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. | Frank Herbert | ||
| f003f76 | Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b41fe2c | you can't buy security | Frank Herbert | ||
| fcafef9 | How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning! | Frank Herbert | ||
| 64fc296 | Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded. | dune | frank herbert | |
| f25e95c | If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most. | emotion feeling mind thought | Frank Herbert | |
| 443dcad | The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea from some old science fiction novel | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 5fa720d | The kind of woman who could pleasantly instruct you to fuck off, dear, and you immediately would because you'd just hate to disappoint her. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 49609ba | As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 7ad20ef | If you did enough traveling, you'd never feel at home anywhere. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f99d460 | If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different--it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society, | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 19bf89f | In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 8922650 | And Turing answered another," Rudy said. "Who's that?" "It's me," Alan said. "But Rudy's joking. 'Turing' doesn't really have an umlaut in it." "He's going to have an umlaut in him later tonight," Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering." | Neal Stephenson | ||
| be4a548 | Shut up about Leibniz for a moment, Rudy, because look here: You--Rudy--and I are on a train, as it were, sitting in the dining car, having a nice conversation, and that train is being pulled along at a terrific clip by certain locomotives named The Bertrand Russell and Riemann and Euler and others. And our friend Lawrence is running alongside the train, trying to keep up with us--it's not that we're smarter than he is, necessarily, but tha.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 905d55a | They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power. | generations humor | Neal Stephenson | |
| ef66584 | This was probably rooted in a belief that had been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and that there was no point in arguing about anything that could be so observed and so understood. As long as you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 73a51f3 | BMW drivers take evasive action at the drop of a hat, emulating the drivers in the BMW advertisements - this is how they convince themselves they didn't get ripped off. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| fe7b5ef | The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 19f6eae | The basic problem for Lawrence was that he was lazy. He had figured out that everything was much simpler if, like Superman with his X-ray vision, you just stared through the cosmetic distractions and saw the underlying mathematical skeleton. Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin. He saw it in the curve of the silver b.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 46858dd | Her skirts, sleeves, collar, and hat saw to it that none of the young ruffians of the Leased Territories would have the opportunity to invade her body space with their eyes, and lest her distinctive face prove too much of a temptation, she wore a veil too... The veil offered Nell protection from unwanted scrutiny. Many New Atlantis career women also used the veil as a way of meeting the world on their own terms, ensuring that they were judg.. | burqa headscarf hijab niqab veil | Neal Stephenson | |
| 73017f8 | I mean, who wants to be the fucking goddess of macrame? | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 1782bed | There's a bed, a little fold-out table, and cabinets made of actual wood. These in combination with the photographs of family and friends give it a cozy, domestic flavor which is, however, completely ruined by the framed picture of Adolf Hitler on the wall. Waterhouse finds this to be shockingly poor taste until he remembers it's a German boat. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| e63f558 | Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f4066ab | Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten--when Larry Cobb was sober. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 76f81bb | I got down off the stool and stood waiting. She might or might not blow me down. I didn't particularly care. Once in a while in this much too sex-conscious country a man and a woman can meet and talk without dragging bedrooms into it. This could be it, or she could just think I was on the make. If so, the hell with her. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 41413dd | Her eyes were wide-set and there was thinking room between them. Their color was lapis-lazuli blue and the color of her hair was dusky red, like a fire under control but still dangerous. She was too tall to be cute. She wore plenty of make-up in the right places and the cigarette she was poking at me had a built-on mouthpiece about three inches long. She didn't look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 98f3721 | I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed on, but as if the Pacific Ocean was pure gin and I had nosedived off the boat deck. The gin was in my hair and eyebrows, on my chin and under my chin. It was on my shirt. I smelled like dead toads. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3eea57d | She'd make for a jazzy week-end, but she'd be wearing for a steady diet. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| ac11130 | They just sat there looking back at me. The orange queen was clacking her typewriter. Cop talk was no more treat for her than legs to a dance director. They had the calm weathered faces of healthy men in hard condition. They had the eyes they always have, cloudy and grey like freezing water. The firm set mouth, the hard little wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, the hard hollow meaningless stare, not quite cruel and a thousand miles from k.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f240436 | Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| c6e40c1 | I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk and I knew that sooner or later that was where he was going to light. But when he did, I didn't even see him at first. The buzzing stopped an.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 7505726 | There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn't be a cop. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2662a37 | I decided I could lose nothing by the soft approach. If that didn't produce for me--and I didn't think it would--nature could take its course and we could bust up the furniture. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| e1d5d85 | She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones. | Raymond Chandler |