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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2dfb592 | Human kind Cannot bear very much reality. - | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 2fce480 | You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles' heel. You will go on, and when you have prevailed You can say: at this point many a one has failed. But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 6e628f8 | The vast accumulations of knowledge--or at least of information--deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or.. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 38ece2a | About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| b869f25 | Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe | reckless woman | Ursula Hegi | |
| eb87f70 | The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 8a3fa73 | I read about a famous mystery writer who worked for one week in a department store. One day she saw a woman come in and buy a doll. The mystery writer found out the woman's name, and took a bus to New Jersey to see where the woman lived. That was all. Years later, she referred to this woman as the love of her life. It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 0cb021d | What you forget, living here, is that just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. | Amy Hempel | ||
| c17c04f | Your site isn't static. It's dynamically generated. Do you know what that means ?" "No." "It means the site looks different to different people. Let's say you chose the poll option that said you're in favor of tax cuts. Well there's a cookie on your machine now, and when you look at the site again, the articles are about how the government is wasting your money. The site is dynamically selecting content based on what you want. I mean, not w.. | Max Barry | ||
| 181884f | She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't fit together, they revealed a little more about what kind of picture she was making. | lexicon reading | Max Barry | |
| 3d0d2b7 | But on the question of whether the robots will eventually take over, he { } says that this will probably not happen, for a variety of reasons. First, no one is going to accidentally build a robot that wants to rule the world. He says that creating a robot that can suddenly take over is like someone accidentally building a 747 jetliner. Plus, there will be plenty of time to stop this from happening. Before someone builds a "super-bad robot,".. | ai artificial-intelligence robots skynet | Michio Kaku | |
| 84c0b2a | P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| 100b721 | Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter. | silence | Lloyd Jones | |
| 1ba409b | Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that. | the-power-of-women | Jim Fergus | |
| e266a55 | The History of Ireland in two words: . The Invasion by the Vikings: . The Invasion by the Normans. The Flight of the Earls, Mr Oliver Cromwell. Daniel O'Connell, Robert Emmett, The Famine, Charles Stewart Parnell, Easter Rising, Michael Collins, Eamon De Valera, Eamon De Valera again (Dear Germany, so sorry to learn of the death of your Mr Hitler), Eamon De Valera again, the Troubles, the Tribunals, the Fianna Fail Party, The Church.. | ireland irish | Niall Williams | |
| c139396 | Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. | author authors e-b-white eb-white strunk-and-white strunk-white the-elements-of-style william-strunk-jr write writer writing writing-advice | William Strunk Jr. | |
| 75ace2f | He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies. | moriarty wasps | Kim Newman | |
| 25658c6 | He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits." "Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil." | Marta Acosta | ||
| d4873f6 | If you can't be a good example, settle for being a horrible warning | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| ad3c19e | Everything will be fine. Nothing but good times ahead. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 47a261d | I have to see him and Trevor Ogilvie on Monday. Both senior partners at once." "Good for you. I hope Jack's in trouble up to his neck." "They're being blackmailed." "Blackmail?" Riley said, his voice full of disbelief. "Jack? There's stuff out there that's even worse than the stuff everybody knows about him?" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| efe1c86 | She glared at him. "Who the fuck do you think you are?" "I think I'm the fuck you want," Nick said, and when she swung on him, he ducked under her arm and caught her to him, taking her mouth with his so completely that she stopped swinging to enjoy the heat and shudder he kissed into her, so relieved to finally have his arms around her." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 3fa957f | Infatuation is the fun part of falling in love. Infatuation triggers a chemical in the brain called PEA, your heart races, and you get breathless and dizzy, you tremble, and you can't think. It's what most people think of when they think of falling in love, and everybody goes through it. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| ab572d9 | You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up. | grow-up | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 1bffeb7 | Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire. | pain | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 98f3343 | King scratched at the door to be let out." Charlie snorted. "King obviously has a lot of stamina. I'd have been clawing at the door a lot sooner if I was trapped in a booth with Mark." "But Mark ignored him, so King... uh, pooped." Charlie grinned. "And then?" "Mark yelled at him and scared him." Harry fought back a grin. "So King pooped again." Charlie's grin widened. "Mark is an idiot." "So then Mark waved the script at him, and King--" ".. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 37ee2ab | No carbs" her mother called after her as she went into the dressing room "And no butter" "I know you stole me from my real parents" Min called back. "They'd let me eat butter" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| ad125e9 | I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
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| e685f53 | Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of a life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete. (73) | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 81ee74e | As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 08b3f02 | The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 1bb1787 | Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry feelings. Depression, instead, is flat,hollow and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid .. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 4edaa42 | Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 86e7c01 | If we communicate the vision behind our ideas, the purpose guiding our products, people will flock to us. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 53c4f78 | People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| a7db47a | So if givers are most likely to land at the bottom of the success ladder, who's at the top--takers or matchers? Neither. When I took another look at the data, I discovered a surprising pattern: It's the givers again. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 3e6aabc | The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily bewitched. The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds. This awareness can help to liberate us fro.. | history-of-thought politics | Quentin Skinner | |
| a530a7c | The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability she assumed upon entering the building. Often she felt that her smiles, and her feigned interest in people's anecdotes about commuting and complaints about colds, were an implicit and draining part of her job. A decade later she would know that spending time with people and being unable either to speak from her heart or t.. | Andre Dubus | ||
| a7911bb | Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you'll see in your arms is yourself. | Andre Dubus | ||
| a59922a | If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road. | Andre Dubus III | ||
| ee08874 | Ethan couldn't possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 36441e4 | If two or three of the most important people in your life are telling you something and you are resisting it with everything you have, there is a distinct possibly [sic] that what they are saying is true. | Sara Zarr And Tara Altebrando | ||
| d43d2f4 | It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy. | tragedy | Sara Zarr |