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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b91676f | Greg...not everyone is capable of fighting the great fights. Not everyone is brave and strong and powerful. Let people have their causes. Allow them their victories, when victories can be had, without begrudging the wrongs that they right. Attending to injustice, no matter how small, is always a worthy cause. | Penny Reid | ||
| 94390b2 | Look at them. Where are they looking? They're not looking at each other, they're not looking at the art on the wall or the sun in the sky; they're looking at their phones. They hang on to every beep and alert and tweet and status update. I don't want to be that. I'm distracted enough as it is by the actual, tangible, physical world. I've embraced the efficiency of a desktop PC for work and research, and I even use a laptop on my own time, b.. | Penny Reid | ||
| 533c933 | My momma once told me, you don't need to be pushed in order to fall. I don't think you'll need to do much pushing, Jessica. | Penny Reid | ||
| 3d26cd7 | nerds rule the world. | Penny Reid | ||
| 1caa53d | I'm after a woman who likes sex but doesn't put the lust part above the intelligence part. She could have a hundred partners for all I care, just as long as they've been vetted for psychopathic tendencies. I have four rules. Number one: don't invite a person into your body if you wouldn't invite her into your kitchen. Number two: the act needs to take place in a clean environment. Number three: precautions need to be taken to protect from d.. | sex | Penny Reid | |
| aa1f5c9 | Is this place home?" "No, Duane .. You are." | Penny Reid | ||
| 4750daa | I came home to find three rocks on my desk and a card with a penguin on the front. Seeing it was from Greg, I did a little happy dance as I bounced into my room, reading his inscription. Dearest Fiona, I'm missing you dreadfully. It's been an age, I don't think you'll recognize me when next we meet. I've put on ten stone and lost all my hair. And an eye. I hope you fancy a fat bald man with an eye patch. Come out with me on Friday. Finals w.. | penny reid | ||
| cf4fb1c | Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my idea of a good time. | humor party | Penny Reid | |
| 47174d0 | Duane's mouth parted slightly and his eyebrows lifted high on his forehead. All hints of his earlier frown had vanished. Unless I was misreading his expression, he appeared to be a little lost, like maybe I'd stolen his breath and his wallet and his passport and his memories. Really, he looked stunned. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0533583 | I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women. | Penny Reid | ||
| a9614a7 | a woman who demands gifts on Valentine's Day is almost as intolerable as a man who only gives gifts because it's Valentine's Day. | Penny Reid | ||
| 827e12d | I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face. | inspirational self-awareness self-esteem self-respect sexuality | Iyanla Vanzant | |
| f9dd0c6 | Feelings come and they pass. Whatever we are feeling in any given moment is just a passing experience. Our work is to learn to accept what we feel and to learn to let it pass. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 7cd68ee | Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain. | James Hillman | ||
| 358ccc2 | Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you | african-americans barack-obama george-w-bush hillary-clinton hypocrisy iowa martin-luther-king-jr new-hampshire plantation politics racism united-states united-states-elections-2008 | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d372713 | I was near-delirious. Gazing up at the pillared skyline, I knew that I was surveying a tremendous work of man. Buying myself a drink in the smaller warrens below, in all their ethnic variety (and willingness to keep odd and late hours, and provide plentiful ice cubes, and in contrast to English parsimony in these matters), I felt the same thing in a different way. The balance between the macro and the micro, the heroic scale and the human.. | new-york | Christopher Hitchens | |
| c77ddc7 | There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. | guilt impotence iraq-war leftism pathology psychology self-hatred war-on-terror | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 7eff9ca | Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented life of the radical freelance scribbler. I have lived to see Ronald Reagan called "a useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda" by his former idolators; to see the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarded with fear and suspicion by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (which blacked out an interview .. | cold-war colonialism communism czechoslovakia despotism dictatorship freedom greece journalism liberation mao-zedong milos-forman moscow postcolonialism propaganda ronald-reagan russia soviet-union spain television united-states zimbabwe | Christopher Hitchens | |
| f931067 | Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope--and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing--that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that...' It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the r.. | authorship book-reviews books collaboration essays readers writers writing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5f77319 | Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner. | friends reading travel writing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4e9935f | Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. | uncertainty words writing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 2a70ae1 | I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary session of the Ba'ath Party central committee: perhaps a hundred men. Suddenly the doors are locked and Saddam, in the chair, announces a special session. Into the room is dragged an obviously broken man, who begins to emit a robotic confession of treason and subversion, that he sobs has been instig.. | ba-athism ba-athist-iraq beria conspiracy cull dictatorship execution film himmler saddam-hussein syria torture | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 1e54d80 | 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 | ||
| ad3311c | It's normally agreed that the question "How are you?" doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer. So when asked these days, I tend to say something cryptic like, "A bit early to say." (If it's the wonderful staff at my oncology clinic who inquire, I sometimes go so far as to respond, "I seem to have cancer today.") Nobody wants to be told about the countless minor horrors and humiliations that become facts of "life" when y.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 575771c | If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are god. (Cats may sometimes share the cold entrails of a kill with you, but this is just what a god might.. | dogs god | Christopher Hitchens | |
| a443da1 | For the party of order, disorder has always had its uses. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 79d7ae9 | Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand in my native Hampshire. Until some time after the war, the squirrels of England had been red. I can still vaguely remember these sweet Beatrix Potter-type creatures, smaller and prettier and more agile and lacking the rat-like features that disclose themselves when you get close to a gray squirrel. These latter riffraff, .. | squirrels united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 1aef9a5 | Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister--that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.) | censorship children insincerity moral-blackmail politicians sentimentality | Christopher Hitchens | |
| f82fd3a | At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached by a good-looking man who extended his hand. 'We once met many years ago,' he said. 'And you knew and befriended my father.' My mind emptied, as so often happens on such occasions. I had to inform him that he had the advantage of me. 'My name is Hector Timerman. I am the ambassador of Argentin.. | death-squads henry-kissinger human-rights jacobo-timerman jorge-rafael-videla | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 39340ab | You've heard it all right. People don't have cancer: They are reported to be battling cancer. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 1d9f431 | James Madison, the author of the First Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any law respecting an establishment of religion, was also an author of Article VI, which states unambiguously that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust." His later Detached Memoranda make it very plain that he opposed the government appointment of chaplains in the first place, either in the armed forces or .. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| bc8249b | Brave? Hah! Save it for a fight you can't run away from. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 6408119 | Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest--fractionally more brave, one might say--about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to atoms between the upper and nether millstones of Hitlerism and Stalinism. One of the most objective chroniclers is Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University. In his view, it is still 'Operation Reinhardt,' or the planned des.. | accuracy antisemitism belarus berlin-wall bravery historians history holocaust honesty jews massacre national-socialism nazism operation-reinhard poland polish-jews prejudice racism russia slavic-peoples stalinism timothy-d-snyder ukraine yale-university | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0296457 | I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it. | antiwar iraq iraq-war liberation liberty | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fd6fcb4 | As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, "Good artists borrow. Great artists steal." | Daniel Coyle | ||
| dca010a | Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear. | clancy courage danger fear man | Tom Clancy | |
| 85e5206 | Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not | Pablo Picasso | ||
| 2220dfe | Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth. | evil truth | Arthur Koestler | |
| 7ffb6cd | We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked... | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 24b815e | Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics... | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 7221fec | To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence." | Walter Kirn | ||
| b09fa1b | In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| 03c91e6 | The joke is that one Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis is an argument, three Bengalis is a political party, | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| d5cc333 | it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants. | Maxine Hong Kingston |