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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8efe54e | everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows. | Barry Hughart | ||
| a749854 | Show me a quest for personal immortality and I'll show you a path through a slaughterhouse, and the incense of personal divinity is the stench of other people's corpses. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 2019d26 | I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 282da5a | This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. | harry-potter myth truth | John Granger | |
| a1855bf | Einerseits geben Worter Sinn, andererseits sind sie tauglich, Unsinn zu stiften. Worter konnen heilsam oder verletzend sein. Das Wort als Waffe. Sich spreizende, auftrumpfende, mit Bedeutung gemastete Worter. Manche sind Zungenbrecher, andere lassen erkennen, verschleiern, leugnen ab, decken zu oder auf. Oft liegen winzige Wahrheiten unter Wortlawinen begraben. Aus Wortstreit entspringen Schimpfworter. Fluche, Beschworungen, Zauberspruche b.. | wörter | Günter Grass | |
| 7dcd105 | We struck up a conversation, taking pains at first to give it an easy flow and sticking to the most frivolous topics. Did he, I asked, believe in predestination? He did. Did he believe that all men were doomed to die? Yes, he felt certain that all men would absolutely have to die, but he was less sure that all men had to be born... | Günter Grass | ||
| 9a38192 | love is always a choice. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 7e0d0b0 | Help the ones you love, his grandmother had told him, help them when you can, and after that, mind your business. Your gift doesn't give you the right to go rearranging other people's lives for them. You might see their souls, but they won't always want you to be their mirror. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| bcc7547 | AS WE THINK, SO WE ARE; | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| e9fb487 | Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view. Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. | Sue Grafton | ||
| e6cadc9 | These are the days that require discipline, when exercise is pure duty and the good feeling only comes later, consisting solely of self-congratulations for having done the job at all. | Sue Grafton | ||
| ec78fc7 | I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 08a45d2 | I don't know what is love about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway. | Sue Grafton | ||
| c34ab5c | You can't believe everything you hear. Sometimes, you can't even believe your eyes. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 95075ad | I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again. | Sue Grafton | ||
| ded877f | If God had designed the orchestra, then the cello was His greatest accomplishment. | god orchestra | Rick Moody | |
| 2d8c115 | Las mujeres que se portan bien no suelen hacer historia. | Darynda Jones | ||
| e74ee8b | Do I feel empathy for Trump voters? That's a question I've asked myself a lot. It's complicated. It's relatively easy to empathize with hardworking, warmhearted people who decided they couldn't in good conscience vote for me after reading that letter from Jim Comey . . . or who don't think any party should control the White House for more than eight years at a time . . . or who have a deeply held belief in limited government, or an overridi.. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 1e78e3e | The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 9f02857 | And maybe if I showed that I wasn't giving up, other people would take heart and keep fighting, too. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 5b6c710 | It was another example of a phenomenon I call "the talking dog syndrome." Some people are still amazed that any woman (this includes Governors' wives, corporate CEOs, sports stars and rock singers) can hold her own under pressure and be articulate and knowledgeable. The dog can talk!" | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 01d7877 | If I should say that he is a victim of injustice, then I would be asking by implication for sympathy; and if one insists upon looking at this boy as a victim of injustice, he will be swamped by a feeling of guilt so strong as to be indistinguishable from hate. Of all things, men do not like to feel that they are guilty of wrong, and if you make them feel guilt, they will try desperately to justify it on any grounds; but, failing that, and s.. | Richard Wright | ||
| fa22159 | it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people. | pride | Richard Wright | |
| bac1995 | Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of the soil prepared by the collective but blind will of a hundred million people. I beg you to recognize human life draped in a form and guise alien to ours, but springing from a soil plowed and sown by our own hands. I ask you to recognize laws and processes flowing from.. | human-rights institutional-abuse institutional-oppression prejudice | Richard Wright | |
| 9c0bbde | If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as h.. | culture fear man philosophy | Richard Wright | |
| 15b390c | They sat smoking the dead mans dope until the chopper came | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 0fb70cd | CEASE FIRE,' Captain Johansen shouted. 'Cease fire, what's wrong with you guys? Stop wasting the goddamn ammo. CEASE FIRE!' Cease fire,' the lieutenants hollered. Cease fire,' the platoon sergeants hollered. Cease the goddamn fire,' shouted the squad leaders. That,' I told Barney, 'is the chain of command. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| e70ddce | I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or it would be fine to confirm the odd beliefs about war: it's horrible, but it's a crucible of men and events and, in the end, it makes more of a man out of you. But, still, none of these notions seems right. Men are killed, dead human beings are heavy and awkward to carry, things smell different in Vietnam, soldiers are afraid and ofte.. | vietnam war | Tim O'Brien | |
| d0c42e9 | But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear. | forest peace quiet silence | Tim O'Brien | |
| 0efefb6 | You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead. | the-things-they-carried tim-o-brien | Tim O'Brien | |
| a8240a1 | Back at the compound, they had dug in a systematic order, row upon row, allowing space for the water truck. But out here there was no system. It was as if every once in a while, in a fit of frustration, the Warden would just pick a spot at random, and say, "What the hell, dig here." It was like trying to guess the winning numbers in a lottery." | Louis Sachar | ||
| 1551151 | He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him. | friends hate kids | Louis Sachar | |
| 41300d9 | She was conscious of the moments passing like irrevocable time, irrevocable happiness, for in these last seconds she might turn and see the face she would never see again. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 8f00255 | Who am I, anyway? Does one exist, or to what extent does one exist as an individual without friends, family, anybody to whom one can relate, to whom one's existence is of the least importance? | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 1554763 | What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow? | love patricia-highsmith romantic the-price-of-salt | Patricia Highsmith | |
| cc83299 | I think there's a definite reason for every friendship just as there's a reason why certain atoms unite and others don't--certain missing factors in one, or certain present factors in the other | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| ffbe063 | Mr Greenleaf was such a decent fellow himself, he took it for granted that everybody else in the world was decent, too. Tom had almost forgotten such people existed. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 8aca6cb | I feel I am in love with you, and it should be spring. I want the sun throbbing on my head like chords of music. I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 4207d74 | Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor always completely understandable. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| b79116b | People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 5e4508c | It was easy, after all, simply to open the door and escape. It was easy, she thought, because she was not really escaping at all. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 1983d9f | Nothing was true but the fatigue of life and the eternal disappointment. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 3ce5b9a | You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil! | Rex Pickett | ||
| 098999e | March 6, 1961 I remembered a party in a house outside of Ann Arbor. There was a jazz band -- piano, bass, drums, and sax -- playing in one of the large rooms. A heavy odor of marijuana hung in the air. The host appeared now and then looking pleased, as if he liked seeing strangers in every room, the party out of his control. It wasn't wild, but with a constant flow of people, who knows what they're doing. It became late and I was a little d.. | Leonard Michaels |