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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d580eaa | You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception. | Dan Millman | ||
| 7dd6e65 | The question that lingers is, how much was I a factor in my own survival, and how much was science, and how much miracle? I don't have the answer to that question. Other people look to me for the answer, I know. But if I could answer it, we would have the cure for cancer, and what's more, we would fathom the true meaning of our existences. I can deliver motivation, inspiration, hope, courage, and counsel, but I can't answer the unknowable. .. | Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | ||
| 6f0d0d7 | But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority on hers. I discovered, from observing the trash-basket outside her door, that her regular reading consisted of tabloids and travel folders and astrological charts; that she smoked an esoteric cigarette called Picayunes; survived on cottage cheese and Melba Toast; that her vari-colored hair was somew.. | love women | Truman Capote | |
| fc06661 | I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as coloured glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a spooky feeling. But I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are' - her h.. | Truman Capote | ||
| 9a48e2f | The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there.' . . .The land is flat, the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. | Truman Capote | ||
| 8c3ed83 | Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on. | Truman Capote | ||
| cca496c | Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child tender. | Truman Capote | ||
| 358b7e6 | What kind of things did you have in mind, kid?' Clyde said this with a smile that exposed a slight lewdness: the young man who laughed at seals and bought balloons had reversed his profile, and the new side, which showed a harsher angle, was the one Grady was never able to defend herself against: its brashness so attracted, so crippled her, she was left desiring only to appease. | Truman Capote | ||
| 78d32f2 | There is always something wrong with redheads. The hair is kinky, or it's the wrong color, too dark and tough, or too pale and sickly. And the skin - it rejects the elements: wind, sun, everything discolors it. A really beautiful redhead is rarer than a flawless forty-carat pigeon-blood ruby - or a flawed one, for that matter. But none of this was true of Kate. Her hair was like a winter sunset, lighted with the last of the pale afterglow. .. | Truman Capote | ||
| f53aecc | Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements. | Truman Capote | ||
| 0ed598f | I could leave the world with today in my eyes. | Truman Capote | ||
| 00a79de | Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud. | Truman Capote | ||
| 3044837 | If I do feel guilty, I guess it's because I let him go on dreaming when I wasn't dreaming a bit. | Truman Capote | ||
| 6ae09d9 | Her engagement ring has a Dwayne Johnson of a diamond on it... | engagement-ring funny the-rock | Laura Steven | |
| e0cd279 | Darwin was constantly rereading his notes, discovering new implications. | Steven Johnson | ||
| e9d1b49 | Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas. | Edith Wharton | ||
| caa26b0 | It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age. | new-york pretense transitions | Edith Wharton | |
| 8f461f6 | The stillness was so profound that he heard a little animal twittering somewhere near by under the snow. It made a small frightened cheep like a field mouse, and he wondered languidly if it were hurt. Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body. He tried in vain to roll over in the direction of the sound, and stretched his left arm out across the sno.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1d7200b | Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of a duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites. Looking about him, he honoured his own past, and mourned for it. After all, there was good in the old ways. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6f55979 | She would not have put herself out so much to say so little. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 75377e4 | Lily had no heart to lean on. Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass on the stairs. But even had the two been in closer contact, it was impossible to think of Mrs. Peniston's mind as offering shelter or comprehension to such misery as Lily's. As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfoldin.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 267af57 | The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 16aacb1 | Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9e81122 | When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness - as if the tearing asunder of the flesh must turn at last into a disembodied anguish. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0fbdcb9 | As she lay there she said to herself that there was something she must tell Selden, some word she had found that should make life clear between them. She tried to repeat the word, which lingered vague and luminous on the far edge of thought--she was afraid of not remembering it when she woke; and if she could only remember it and say it to him, she felt that everything would be well. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4e4e9ad | His own exclamation: "Women should be free--as free as we are," struck to the root of a problem that it was agreed in his world to regard as nonexistent. "Nice" women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore--in the heat of argument--the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them. Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable.. | freedom gender-inequality | Edith Wharton | |
| 4ee962b | And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3a582d4 | That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 477ce99 | Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. | folly wisdom | Edith Wharton | |
| 1ea9c89 | Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 314d28d | And the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6defccb | Little by little it became the scene of his real life, of his only rational activities; thither he brought the books he read, the ideas and feelings which nourished him, his judgments and his visions. Outside it, in the scene of his actual life, he moved with a growing sense of unreality and insufficiency, blundering against familiar prejudices and traditional points of view as an absent-minded man goes on bumping into the furniture of his .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| d42780e | Thus died Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor, most proud and valiant of the Elven-kings of old. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 08e64b2 | There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b1cfb34 | Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way that was strangely different from the other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b65f02d | On the wall was a Duran Duran poster on which someone had scrawled in fat red felt tip, "Take this down please." Beneath that another hand had scrawled, "No." Beneath that again the first hand had written, ""I insist that you take it down." Beneath that the second hand had written, "Won't!" Beneath that - "You're fired." Beneath that - "Good!" And there the matter appeared to have rested." | Douglas Adams | ||
| e95ca56 | Like, for instance, standing in the kitchen wondering what you went in there for. Everybody does it, but because there isn't--or wasn't--a word for it, everyone thinks it's something that only they do and that they are therefore more stupid than other people. It is reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 65c347b | I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it | last-chance-to-see | Douglas Adams | |
| 39c3ed2 | his horoscope had been pretty misleading as well. It had mentioned an unusual amount of planetary activity in his sign and had urged him to differentiate between what he thought he wanted and what he actually needed, and suggested that he should tackle emotional or work problems with determination and complete honesty, but had inexplicably failed to mention that he would be dead before the day was out. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3e7dddf | The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do. For instance, in one corner of the Eastern Galactic Arm lies the large forest planet Oglaroon, the entire "intelligent" population of which lives permanently in one fairly small and cr.. | the-universe | Douglas Adams | |
| 486c8b1 | Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?" said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. "Forty-two!" he said with a malicious grin. "No, doesn't work. Never mind." -- | humour life ultimate-question universe | Douglas Adams | |
| f8c12d1 | My capacity for happiness,' he added, 'you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first. | Douglas Adams | ||
| d7d1e1b | The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' " 'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' " 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. " 'Oh, that was easy,' says M.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| c39b54b | If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you are in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner, please, don't hesitate to get lost. | Douglas Adams |