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| 1664eb3 | You'll find that historical research is extremely soothing. When you spend all day among old papers, the people come alive for you, and you begin to see the present through different eyes. You'll see. You view young people knowing that this is only one moment in time and it's passing very quickly. It's comforting. You begin to understand that time is no more than a trick of the mind; some days I'm convinced that my young self is still here,.. | research | Ruth Reichl | |
| 71e5329 | Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 603ee88 | The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God. | Val McDermid | ||
| 4540172 | The truth changes all the time. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 23bbae4 | I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something beyond the limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element of built-in faith, although it claims to be a science and not merely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: until now I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union or Poland or the Baltic states. In your country I see an abundance of material things. It see.. | poverty religion | Henning Mankell | |
| b7544bd | Some people give theirselves a certain number of weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them or , when I am not interested in the world around. When I from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks.. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 15424b6 | Those who contemplate never escape the doubt. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 26e3a64 | Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 03bd1b1 | Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 832d052 | Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away. The memories will disappear and there will be nothing left. | Henning Mankell | ||
| cf2a29c | Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness. | gun israeli laugh madman moshe the-beach | Alex Garland | |
| 7a4d2f5 | It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 695c156 | S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn't cross your mind until it's too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just about everything but milkshakes before I came to terms with the fact that nobody really likes capers no matter what you do.. | humor | Nora Ephron | |
| 1b15758 | WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE, RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 4ac3810 | It is a paradox. The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| fbfb599 | Algunas veces no es grato ser bueno, pequeno 6655321. Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible. Y te lo digo sabiendo que quiza te parezca una afirmacion muy contradictoria. Se que esto me costara muchas noches de insomnio. ?Que quiere Dios? ?El bien o que uno elija el camino del bien? Quizas el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien. Son problemas profundos y dificiles,pequeno 6655321. | la-naranja-mecánica | Anthony Burgess | |
| 22c6b30 | The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. | good-and-evil right-and-wrong | Anthony Burgess | |
| 613ab2a | is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 9a6d897 | Non si chiedono mica qual e la causa della bonta, e allora perche il contrario? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 699da28 | There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 1284d87 | Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 8096f82 | In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| b5b861a | But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| aeaf910 | I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother. | clean like world | Anthony Burgess | |
| 30ae10c | Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 10acbfa | Being young's a sort of sickness, Measles, mumps or chicken pox. Gather all your toys together, Lock them in a wooden box. That means tolchocks, crasting and dratsing, All of the things that suit a boy. When you build instead of busting, You can start your Ode to Joy. Do not be a clockwork orange, Freedom has a lovely voice. Here is good and there is badness, Look on both, then take your choice. Sweet in juice and hue and aroma,.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| e0bd0d2 | but,brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick... more badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies,and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self... But wha.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| aa89cf4 | But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they .. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| cec179c | Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body; it had nothing whatsoever to do with a man's emotions. But if that was the case, why did it ache so? | Ben Elton | ||
| be3647c | People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves | poverty | ben elton | |
| a661347 | It wasn't necessary to tell you," Abbot responded in a clipped voice." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d9c0ea7 | Things are different now." " things are better now," I replied. " Aren't they?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 9ab5b2a | Oh no, me wanting this is never going to happen. Like, the never-ever part is Taylor Swift level of never-ever. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a70db3a | I couldn't help but notice no one was grabbing toilet paper. That would be the first thing I grabbed if I thought it was the end of the world | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e9d001b | Either he was a perv or an alien. Or both, which would be a winning combination. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0a4dcdd | The water shut off, and a second later Daemon came out with the sweats hanging low on his hips, and his skin was dewy, glistening. My eyes were fixated on his stomach and the drops of water running over the dips, disappearing under the band of the sweats. I was still only in a towel. And I was holding a box of condoms in my hand. My face was red as a ladybug. One dark eyebrow went up. My gaze fell to the box and then went back to him. "Con.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 979b427 | For thousands of years, my kind had been thought of as nothing more than the stone sculptures perched upon the rooftops of homes and churches. Aka gargoyles. And technically, that's what we were - but the depiction of a gargoyle was vastly exaggerated. Even the ugliest of all Wardens didn't have a bulbous nose or fangs jutting from his mouth. It was rather insulting when you thought about it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7d857b4 | I wasn't naive enough to believe in soul mates or any of that childish nonsense that I had once clung to, but there had always been something tangible between Dez and me, even after his absence, it was still there, stronger than before. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2fab4f1 | She's nothing more than a pathetic, little half-blood," the ancient woman had continued. "I say send her to the Masters. I'm in need of a little girl to clean my toilets." Then she had twisted her fingers cruelly. And I had kicked her shin." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0c858a4 | I'm okay." Zayne staggered to his feet. "I can fight." "I sure hope so." Roth lifted his arm and Bambi came off his skin, coiling on the floor between us. "Because if you're just going to lay there and bleed, you suck." Armentrout, Jennifer L. (2014-03-01). White Hot Kiss (The Dark Elements Book 1) (p. 368). Harlequin. Kindle Edition." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2f053a1 | El coloco un dedo sobre mis labios. -Tome decisiones terribles. Puedo ser un imbecil y hacerlo a proposito. Tiendo a intimidar a la gente para que haga lo que quiero. Y deje que todo lo que ha pasado con Dawson amplifique aquellos...uh, rasgos de mi personalidad. Pero --quito su dedo, y su mueca se extendio en una sonrisa. --Pero tu...me haces querer ser diferente. Eso es por lo que no mate a Blake. Es por eso, por lo que no te quiero toman.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7315c02 | By the way, I've heard what Simon has been saying." Heat swept over my face. Another problem, but less important in the grand scheme of things. "Yeah, he's being a douche. I think it's his friends. He actually apologized to me, and then when his friends showed up, he told them I was trying to get with him." Daemon's eyes narrowed. "That's not okey." I sighed. "It's no big deal." "Maybe not to you, but it is to me." He paused, his shoulders .. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d76eb69 | Loving him meant that I knew from the first moment that I fell for Seth that he was complicated - that loving him wouldn't be easy. Loving him...Well, it meant that I was willing to fight for him. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 780ae5f | Are you in pain?" I rolled my eyes. Good news was that Apollo must've had a little talk with Hermes. "No, but you're a pain in my ass. Does that count?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout |