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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 124b5ef | It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| f960e78 | khwrshyd mthl ykh skhh pnjh snty khyly bzrg bwd khh ykh nfr nft rwsh rykhth w khbryt khshydh w rwshnsh khrdh w gfth "by ynw ngh dr t mn brm yh rwznmh bgyrm bym"w skhh r khf dstm gdhshth w dygr | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 0052850 | Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination. | reading writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 1d8ff60 | I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to. | creativity reading writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 782b4ce | It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life. | Eudora Welty | ||
| 2cc1ece | You know, sir, this operation is not, in any hands, a hundred percent predictable?" "Well, I'm an optimist." "I didn't know there were any more such animals," said Dr. Courtland. "Never think you've seen the last of anything," | Eudora Welty | ||
| ea73740 | So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn: Most emotions have physical counterparts. Anxiety may be associated with a tightness of the abdomen or excessive diaphoresis; anger may be manifested by a generalized muscle tightness or a clenching of the jaw; sexual arousal may be noted by a tingling of the loins or piloerection; and sadness may be felt by conjunctival injection or heavine.. | medicine | Anne Fadiman | |
| 6bf9914 | I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say , never "the ," because meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant -- indeed something only would say." | usage | Anne Fadiman | |
| 1762d7e | The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 0f5f5e4 | Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror" and "terrorism." These terms have generally been confined to the use of violence by individuals and marginal groups. Official violence, which is far more extensive in both scale and destructiveness, is placed in a different category altogether. This usage has nothing to do with justice, causal sequence, or.. | terror terrorism united-states violence | Noam Chomsky | |
| 80cd07f | This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!! | James A. Michener | ||
| 51ae585 | No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. | failure | James A. Michener | |
| f15c3e1 | Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b802b41 | At night frantic men walked boldly to hen roosts and carried off the squawking chickens. If they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sank tiredly in the mud. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 576b474 | Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone." | expectation failed-ambition fatherhood parenthood | John Steinbeck | |
| 57545a0 | Behind the harrows, the long seeders--twelve curved iron penes erected in the foundry, orgasms set by gears, raping methodically, raping without passion. The driver sat in his iron seat and he was proud of the straight lines he did not will, proud of the tractor he did not own or love, proud of the power he could not control. And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift pas.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 635566f | He held the apple box against his chest. And then he leaned over and set the box in the stream and steadied it with his hand. He said fiercely, "Go down an' tell 'em. Go down in the street an' rot an' tell 'em that way. That's the way you can talk. Don' even know if you was a boy or a girl. Ain't gonna find out. Go on down now, an' lay in the street. Maybe they'll know then." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5e9bfaa | The Carmel is a lovely little river. It isn't very long but in its course it has everything a river should have. It ... tumbles down a while, runs through shallows, ... crackles among round boulders, wanders lazily under sycamores, spills into pools where trout live ... In the winter, it becomes a torrent, ... and in the summer it is a place for children to wade in and for fishermen to wander in. | river | John Steinbeck | |
| 4ec743c | But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Somehow the hunting process has to do with masculinity, but I don't quite know how. | humor hunting | John Steinbeck | |
| 6b1c873 | We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. We have overcome all enemies but ourselves. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6cfcfb8 | The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 76e0a75 | Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5f95f2d | The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement. | exposure failures faults improvement writers writing | John Steinbeck | |
| 98375b7 | Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4781cb8 | The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge. | humor medical | John Steinbeck | |
| c59c5d6 | He wanted to say something beautiful, I think. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b49d153 | Rama continued: "I do not know whether there are men born outside humanity, or whether some men are so human as to make others seem unreal. Perhaps a godling lives on earth now and then. Joseph has strength beyond vision of shattering, he has the calm of mountains, and his emotion is as wild and fierce and sharp as the lightning and just as reasonless as far as I can see or know. When you are away from him, try thinking of him and you'll se.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3be1e84 | Only once or twice in her life had she ever understood all of him, but the part of him which she knew, she knew intricately and well. No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars. | the-moon-is-down | John Steinbeck | |
| 9a53658 | But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2be05e3 | The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. | John Steinbeck | ||
| da9bb90 | They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyay. Kino sighed with satisfaction -- and that was conversation. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c15a04b | I know it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world. | John Steinbeck | ||
| da23343 | With all the polls and opinions posts, with newspapers more opinion than news so that we no longer know one from the other.... | John Steinbeck | ||
| f1a1073 | It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has its genuine therapeutic value; we would be better for it, would be able to work more effectively. We have little doubt that all this was true, but we wish we could build as good a rationalization every time we are lazy. For in some beastly way this fine laziness has got itself a bad name. It is easy to see how it might have co.. | contemplation laziness war | John Steinbeck | |
| 5639f6b | It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9acafc7 | Porque se dice que los humanos no se satisfacen jamas, que se les da una cosa y siempre quieren algo mas. Y se dice esto con erroneo desprecio, ya que es una de las mayores virtudes que tiene la especie y que la hace superior a los animales que se dan por satisfechos con lo que tienen. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a99e2dc | Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but simply as an unfortunate fact. "It was a very difficult time," he said, "and very painful. I did not like myself for a number of reasons, some of them valid and some of them pure fancy. I would hate to have to go back to that. Then gradually," he said, "I discovered with surprise and pleasure that a number of people did like me. And I thought, .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1185b2d | They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 887adc2 | Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself. | John Steinbeck | ||
| bed2d48 | Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process. | John Steinbeck | ||
| db67227 | Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. I thought how terrible the nights must have been in a time when men knew the things were there and were deadly. But no, that's wrong. If I knew they were there, I would ha.. | darkness fear fear-of-the-dark not-knowing unknown | John Steinbeck | |
| 37138c6 | Courage and fear were one thing too. | fear | John Steinbeck | |
| c3907bf | Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 786e8fe | There is no such thing as just enough money. Only two measures: No Money and Not Enough Money. | John Steinbeck |