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| 51c8039 | so much more opportunity now." Her voice trails off. "Hurrah for women's lib, eh?" "The lib?" Impatiently she leans forward and tugs the serape straight. "Oh, that's doomed." The apocalyptic word jars my attention. "What do you mean, doomed?" She glances at me as if I weren't hanging straight either and says vaguely, "Oh ..." "Come on, why doomed? Didn't they get that equal rights bill?" Long hesitation. When she speaks again her voice is d.. | James Tiptree Jr. | ||
| 84c861f | I think they're gentle," she mutters. "For Christ's sake, Ruth, they're | James Tiptree Jr. | ||
| 6e2196c | Not me." He bent his head, voice dropping to a husky whisper. "Never me." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 4742ee7 | Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is. | god knowledge latin reason st-augustine | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| 74196bd | To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life. | Donna Woolfolk Cross | ||
| ed943c9 | He was the only person making his way into the city; he met hundreds and hundreds who were fleeing, and every one of them seemed to be hurt in some way. The eyebrows of some were burned off and skin hung from their faces and hands. Others, because of pain, held their arms up as if carrying something in both hands. Some were vomiting as they walked. Many were naked or in shreds of clothing. On some undressed bodies, the burns had made patter.. | hiroshima-and-nagasaki | John Hersey | |
| f3c9a81 | Few things in this world are as important as raising children. In every age, every era, every time and place, children are our treasures, our future, our immortality--the vital link in the chain of humanity. | William Martin | ||
| fb7163d | Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water. | sacred-space water | Hesiod | |
| 5a3d578 | there is more than a hint of arrogance in the assumption that we can make our relationships permanent, | Esther Perel | ||
| ed073a1 | You may think that tax policy sounds like the most boring topic in the world. That is precisely what most governments, corporations, and special interests would like you to think, because tax policy is where much of society and the economy gets shaped. It is also where well-informed citizens can achieve socioeconomic revolutions with astonishing speed and effectiveness--but only if they realize how much power they might wield in this domain.. | Geoffrey Miller | ||
| e459747 | Next, Cohn repeated what everyone was saying: Interest rates were going to go up over the foreseeable future. I agree, Trump said. "We should just go borrow a lot of money right now, hold it, and then sell it and make money." Cohn was astounded at Trump's lack of basic understanding. He tried to explain. If you as the federal government borrow money through issuing bonds, you are increasing the U.S. deficit. What do you mean? Trump asked. J.. | Bob Woodward | ||
| 2493813 | To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 30aebc2 | she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. | reading | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 8896144 | Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time to conceal or display, barely exchanging looks as they resolved. The old men took no interest in this activity, knowing perhaps from long experience that it rarely meant anything or led anywhere, was a brief and helpless surrender to the forcin.. | hard-on maleness penis reflexes shower-room | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 8de5754 | There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| a6138ee | I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 3c09521 | Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time. | crystal-cave fantasy king-arthur legend mary-stewart merlin planning strategy tactics | Mary Stewart | |
| f34c139 | Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. | writing | Mary Stewart | |
| 80c8c66 | What you feel is what you feel - that's what we woodtrolls say.' She patted Maris on the shoulder. 'And knowing how you feel is the first step to changing how you feel,' she said. 'If you really want to.' Maris | Paul Stewart | ||
| 87e2b54 | A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 9fdfbae | It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of help which you can supply you have a human duty to supply it, even if it could inconvenience or even hurt you to do so. This, after all, is how the greatest and best deeds in the world have been done, and though the children did not say this aloud, they knew it inside themselves without even thinking about it. | Mary Stewart | ||
| cbb20e6 | How can well-educated, high-income people be so naive about money? Because being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| ad8b806 | Most people will never become wealthy in one generation if they are married to people who are wasteful. A couple cannot accumulate wealth if one of its members is a hyperconsumer. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| b2280cf | His view of millionaires is shared by most people who are not wealthy. They think millionaires own expensive clothes, watches, and other status artifacts. We have found this is not the case. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 5075525 | it is very difficult for a married couple to accumulate wealth if one is a spendthrift. A household divided in its financial orientation is unlikely to accumulate significant wealth. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 0856e07 | Overslept and had to race to get a life to Jas's with my dad. No time for yoga or makeup. Oh well, I'll start tomorrow. God alone knows how the Dalai Lama copes on a daily basis. He must get up at dawn. Actually, I read somewhere that he does get up at dawn. | Louise Rennison | ||
| edeea9d | Paul Goodman famously wrote, "Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!" | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 4bf47ec | This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-t.. | disaster hell paradise | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 87f9959 | Those who are threatened by marriage equality are, many things suggest, as threatened by the idea of equality between heterosexual couples as same-sex couples. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| e376956 | This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet. | books readers reading writers writing | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c30e674 | Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we're taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, though if your goal is a search for meaning, honor, experience, the same events may be victories or necessary steps. Then the personal matters; it's home; but you can travel in and out of it, rather than being marooned there. The leprosy specialist Paul Brand wrote, "Pain, along with its cousin touch, is distributed universally on the bo.. | meaning pain | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 77b9ae5 | I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. | convalescence healing recovery slowness stillness | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 5802e95 | Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs. | body history home self | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 5d5685a | Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast amounts of your life as someone else, as people who died long ago, as people who never lived, as strangers you never met. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| e364f6e | The promenade is a special subset of walking. | walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 71757ee | Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches beyond the horizon, beyond our capacity to perceive or measure, and that in many cases those who trespass against you do so out of a misery that means the punishment preceded and even precipitated the crime. Maybe that's accepta.. | acceptance forgiveness relationships vengeance | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 1197431 | The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic. | page-70 walking | Rebecca Solnit | |
| ec16aae | T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism." | longing resistance | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 03fdcb9 | Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| c6630a4 | One disturbing aspect of abuse and harassment is the idea that it's not the crime that's the betrayal but the testimony about the crime. You're not supposed to tell. Abusers often assume this privilege that demands the silence of the abused, that a nonreciprocal protection be in place. Others often impose it as well, portraying the victims as choosing to ruin a career or a family, as though the assailant did not make that choice himself. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| abe92e9 | It is in the nature of things to be lost and not otherwise. Think of how little has been salvaged from the compost of time of the hundreds of billions of dreams dreamt since the language to describe them emerged, how few names, how few wishes, how few languages even, how we don't know what tongues the people who erected the standing stones of Britain and Ireland spoke or what the stones meant, don't know much of the language of the Gabriela.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 49edbf7 | Liberation is always in part a storytelling process: breaking stories, breaking silences, making new stories. A free person tells her own story. A valued person lives in a society in which her story has a place. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 3f560ae | One of the functions of landscape it to correspond to, nurture, and provoke exploration of the landscape of the imagination. Space to walk is also space to think, and I think that's one thing landscapes give us: places to think longer, more uninterrupted thoughts or thoughts to a rhythm other than the staccato of navigating the city. | landscape | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 4415019 | I wanted to deny him, but that's the terrible power of a diary: it not only calls forth the person you used to be but rubs your nose in him, reminding you that not all change is evolutionary. More often than not, you didn't learn from your mistakes. You didn't get wiser, but simply older, growing from the twenty-five-year-old who got stoned and accidentally peed on his friend Katherine's kitten to the thirty-five-year-old who got drunk and .. | David Sedaris |