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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b2dcb04 | To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. This isn't necessarily our fault as individuals. Society as a whole appears determined to render the single state as nettlesome and depressing as possible: once the freewheeling days of school and university are over, company and warmth become dispiritingly hard to find; social life starts to revolve oppressively around couples; there's no one left t.. | love marriage social-life | Alain de Botton | |
| 3058832 | Seeing through people is so easy, and it gets you nowhere,' remarked Elias Canetti, suggesting how effortlessly and yet how uselessly we can find fault with others. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 7362821 | According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 337eeae | You know, those men: bike riding, knitted sweater? Pretends Facebook isn't important to him, but it really is?" I was met with a blank stare, so carried on. "Craft beer, start-ups, sense of entitlement? Reads books by Alain de Botton, needs a girlfriend who doesn't threaten his mediocrity?" -- | Candice Carty-Williams | ||
| bb81810 | Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 205a7c1 | Living on the surface of a planet, mass sucking at every bone and muscle, and nothing but gravity to keep your air close, seemed like a fast path to crazy. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 55e01e5 | God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you. | James McBride | ||
| 7a3f5ec | No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| c54b081 | Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That's what war is. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| ca0d258 | He'd seen unequivocally that the chaos he'd dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than he would ever be. No compromise he could make would be enough. His death-self was unfolding in him, and the dark blooming took no effort. It was a relief, a relaxation, a long, slow exhale after decades of holding it in. He was in ruins, but it was okay, because he was dying. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 087b8e3 | Through millions of klicks of vacuum to hit a bull's-eye smaller than a mosquito's asshole. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 5ea3f4d | She noticed Amos watching her. He had a dopey grin on his face. "Seriously. Now?" she said. "We're talking about your captain going off to his death, and all that's going through your head right now is 'Ooh, boobies!" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 68afb89 | Amazing how much we've managed to do, considering how we're doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| e382eff | She sat at the dining table, a steaming mug of tea in front of her, a distant look in her eyes. Holden couldn't tell if she was melancholy or solving a complex engineering problem in her head. Those looks were confusingly similar. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 7bdcbca | Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 095784f | People used to think gold was worth fightin' over, and that shit gets made by every supernova, which means pretty much every planet around a G2 star will have some. Stars burn through lithium as fast as they make it. All the available ore got made at the big bang, and we're not doin' another one of those. Now that's scarcity, friend. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 8ce94a7 | You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist. | Anna Deavere Smith | ||
| 6686be9 | Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' --Fletch | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 20ef16a | My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| e867170 | Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find? | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 0d16ffb | Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 47a7a84 | I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that? | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| c106cc0 | Danger doesn't always come from the enemy. | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| 5ef0a66 | Keep your whiskers crisp and clean. Do not let the mice grow lean. Do not let yourself grow fat Like a common kitchen cat. Have you set the kittens free? Do they sometimes ask for me? Is our catnip growing tall? Did you patch the garden wall? Clouds are gentle walls that hide Gardens on the other side. Tell the tabby cats I take All my meals with William Blake, Lunch at noon tea at four, Served in splendor on the shore At the tinkling of a .. | Nancy Willard | ||
| c24e025 | It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it. | eden mind senses william-blake | Peter Redgrove | |
| 6125ebc | La Eternidad esta enamorada de las obras del tiempo. | William Blake | ||
| 5faa6ed | It was a mistake. You didn't try to hurt anyone. | Emily Giffin | ||
| ec04ece | What's not to love' is hardly a reason TO love. And the CATCH of your life is not the same thing as the LOVE of your life. Be careful on that subtle but rather crucial distinction. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 9dc2d33 | Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. | Emily Giffin | ||
| be909fb | Because sometimes you just can't see the things that are the closest to you. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 9bc04e3 | My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me. | adoption | Emily Giffin | |
| d0d62cf | You can never be too sure when it comes to things that matter most | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1d888e1 | No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion." | Emily Giffin | ||
| 604a23f | And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She. | women | H. Rider Haggard | |
| f63b423 | Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 09435ba | Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds. | passion | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 81e1053 | And now, from beneath the audible, came a low reverberation. It came up through the soles of my feet. I stood still while it hummed upward bone by bone. There is no adequate simile. The pulse of the country worked through my body until I recognized it as music. As language. And the language ran everywhere inside me, like blood; and for feeling, it was as if through time I had been made of earth or mud or other insensate matter. Like a rhyme.. | Leif Enger | ||
| ad9d505 | Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it's getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene. | Leif Enger | ||
| 9ac0919 | When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure, no matter your wide shoulders, no matter your toughened heart? | Leif Enger | ||
| c9f055a | advilia p`ilosop`osoba, roc`a sisxlis nac`vlad k`ak`i shen ar dagidis venebshi da sxvaze ro bazrob. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2bab2d9 | Hasta que punto puede alguien conocer de verdad a cualquier otra persona? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 325db7b | It's mibbe nae mair vermin thin you or me, likesay... whae's tae say what's vermin...they posh wifire think people us ur vermin, likesay, does that make it right thit they should kill us, ah goes. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2047fb9 | axla, uknidan unda damarcho, magram manmade mag peniss kargad gagipoxav vazelinit`, ro shedebisas ar metkinos. kunt`ebi shemekumsheba, imito ro amas pirvelad vaket`eb, mara vec`debi, movdunde, - t`k`va da g'rma nap`azi daartqa. lora didad t`avshenaxuli k`ali ar brz'andeboda, hoda, vazelini ar ag'moach`nda. amitom rag'ac` sxva nivt`iereba ipova, romelic`, misi azrit`, sapoxad gamodgeboda. z'alian blanti da cebovani rame iqo. mokled, blomad c.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 89df44e | Hay un punto en este tunel, el punto al que acabamos de llegar, donde dobla y no se ve la luz del final ni tampoco la ves si miras atras. Un par de pasos hacia el frente y brilla la luz y un par de pasos atras y un vistazo por encima del hombro y es la misma historia. Pero aqui, justo en este punto: es el limbo. Da la sensacion de que si te quedas demasiado tiempo en este punto, si te detienes en este punto del olvido durante cierto tiempo,.. | Irvine Welsh |