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| 38f19dc | And here's a story you can hardly believe, but it's true, and it's funny and it's beautiful. There was a family of twelve and they were forced off the land. They had no car. They built a trailer out of junk and loaded it with their possessions. They pulled it to the side of 66 and waited. And pretty soon a sedan picked them up. Five of them rode in the sedan and seven on the trailer, and a dog on the trailer. They got to California in two j.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| fdd005a | When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are. | paganism religion wicca witchcraft | Margot Adler | |
| 828d8ff | If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You | Margot Adler | ||
| d27c9d0 | The morning was fresh from the rain. The smell of the tide pools was strong. Sweet odors came from the wild grasses in the ravines and from the sand plants on the dunes. I sang as I went down the trail to the beach and along the beach to the sandspit. I felt that the day was an omen of good fortune. It was a good day to begin my new home. | Scott O'Dell | ||
| d6665b1 | You look like a hot tamale." "That's not really a compliment." | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 8636c36 | I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will last my lifetime. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 6286f53 | Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield. | young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| 863b3c5 | You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 65e1468 | You, my friend, are so good at lying to yourself you're actually starting to believe the bullshit coming out of your mouth | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9009867 | What's a ,,culture"? Look it up. ,,A group of micro-organisms grown in a nutrient substance under controlled conditions". A squirm of germs on a glass slide is all, a laboratory experiment calling itself a society. Most of us wrigglers make do with life on the slide; we even agree to feel proud of that ,,culture". Like slaves voting for slavery or brains for lobotomy, we kneel down before the god of all moronic micro-organisms and pray to b.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| d998e92 | The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| db92bbc | The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 0da52d2 | Because if the whole universe could just explode out of Nothing and then just Be, don't you see that the opposite could also be true? That it is possible to implode and Un-Be as well as to explode and Be? That it's possible to implode and Un-Be as well as to explode and Be? That all human beings, Napoleon Bonaparte, for example, or the emperor Akbar, or Angelina Jolie or your father, could simply return to Nothing once they're...done? In a .. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 222f2a5 | If I seem a little bizarre, remember the wild profusion of my inheritance...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 2e771de | When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| cf9a4aa | We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Macon they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is 'What would you like to drink? | John Berendt | ||
| 7034dde | Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast. | John Berendt | ||
| 9d12a93 | Our story gives a teaching diametrically opposite. It says that where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. Wherever the wound appears in our psyches, whether from alcoholic father, shaming mother, shaming father, abusing mother, whether it stems from isolation, disability, or disease, that is precisely the place for which we will give our major gift to the community. | Robert Bly | ||
| fb019ab | If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality. | Robert Bly | ||
| 6160ab1 | R'bin," he said, giving up and gazing down at her. "R'bin, d'you know wadda kairos mo..." He hiccoughed. "Mo...moment is?" "A kairos moment?" she repeated, hoping against hope it was not something sexual, something that she would not be able to forget afterwards, especially as the kebab shop owner was listening in and smirking behind them. "No, I don't. Shall we go back to the office?" "You don't know whadditis?" he asked, peering at her. ".. | Robert Galbraith | ||
| fe35ed8 | Anadio que nada en este mundo era un regalo: todo cuanto hubiera que aprender debia aprenderse por el camino dificil. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 3eef32a | We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| f731e42 | You have more issues than Reader's Digest. | funny humor mental-health psychology reader-s-digest | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 78b5c6b | At last evil and corruption take over," Mearth laughed icily, her eyes filled with a wild glow. "Someday you'll become so unstable that you'll kill anyone you've ever cared about in your life, and when that happens I only hope that you leave any outsider witnesses alone as you fade out of the world." Alecto froze for a moment, completely silent, setting the camera down on the fence and thinking things over. Mandy could see him clearly now t.. | mother-earth movie sadistic screen silent super-8 sydney-tar-ponds television watching | Rebecca McNutt | |
| c121d43 | Articulation! There, by Joe, was MY absolute, if I could be said to have one. At any rate, it is the only thing I can think of about which I ever had, with any frequency at all, the feelings one usually has for one's absolutes. To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be deal.. | John Barth | ||
| 2a455cf | When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom. | John Barth | ||
| 3da42b7 | One of my first reservations about Zionism was and is that, semiconsciously at least, it grants the anti-Semite's first premise about the abnormality of the Jew. | jews zionism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9e8a071 | Created sick, and then commanded to be well." This is one of the first, easiest, and most obvious of the satirical maxims that eventually lay waste to the illusion of faith." | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| fe2013c | Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater. | Henry James | ||
| ea8d330 | there was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other... | Henry James | ||
| af9815a | since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate. | Henry James | ||
| bb6b1f8 | Oh," said Catherine, with some eagerness, "it doesn't take long to like a person--when once you begin." | Henry James | ||
| c0e32b6 | If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516 | Felix J. Palma | ||
| 7be5528 | How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 6cb8895 | And then I went out to the ocean. Do you know what it was like? The waves broke, and each time they did, as they slapped against the sand, I could feel it all through my body. And each time they broke, and each time they thudded down, they said, you have only one life, you have only one life. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 61ed60e | The rich died, too, disappointing all those who thought that somehow they didn't. Peter Lakes had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary they were for the taking. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 6d6b350 | Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 9945d32 | The intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul. That's all. The intellect thinks. The body dances. And the spirit sings. A song, a simple song. When love and memory are overwhelming, and the soul, though crushed, takes flight, it does so in a simple song. | Mark Helprin | ||
| e4a41eb | I will never be able to say what is in my heart, because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer...Each day I begin with the empty page. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| d6df5bc | Suffering shows us what we are attached to--perhaps the umbilical cord between Mother and me has never been cut. Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 59745aa | We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. | trust | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 9fa87fc | Roland Barthes says, "That which cannot be named is a disturbance." | nameless | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 699c1a9 | What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen. I have talked to myself for years in the privacy of my journals. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| d95c456 | When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own." | self | Terry Tempest Williams |