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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 94a5f06 | First you do everything possible to make sure your world is antibourgeois, that it defies bourgeois tastes, that it mystifies the mob, the public, that it outdistances the insensible middle-class multitudes by light-years of subtlety and intellect--and then, having succeeded admirably, you ask with a sense of See-what-I-mean? outrage: look, they don't even buy our products! (Usually referred to as "quality art.")" | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 47837ee | Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman. | designer fashion louis-vuitton | Tom Wolfe | |
| 9749c8d | I make out a schoolbus...glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and small, like a cross between Fernand Liger and Dr. Strange, roaring together and vibrating off each other as if somebody had given Hieronymous Bosch fifty buckets of day-glo paint and a 1939 International Harvester schoolbus and told him to go to it. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 4a19e09 | Everything in everybody's life is ... significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings. And the vibrations. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 25118ee | Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye. Swich talkyng is nat worth a boterflye, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 97d4346 | But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 5f3cfa8 | Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| d4d2a4d | Florence had noticed one or two eccentricities in herself lately, which might be the result of hard work, or of age, or of living alone. When the letters came, for example, she often found herself wasting time in looking at the postmarks and wondering whoever they could be from, instead of opening them in a sensible manner and finding out at once. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 3c4981a | There's two ways to be selfish. You can think too much about yourself, or you can think too little about others. You're selfish both ways. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 11eea94 | You understand it's not a matter of strategy. I'm not talking about secrets or deceptions. I'm talking about being yourself. If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. | Don DeLillo | ||
| aa53c44 | God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 83fbbb1 | No body knows how to feel and they're checking around for hints. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 921f569 | Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten. No, garbage rose first, inciting people to build a civilization in response, in self-defense. We had to find ways to discard our waste, to use what we couldn't discard, to reprocess what we couldn't use. Garbage pushed back. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 410a140 | There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands--with both hands. | John Irving | ||
| 9f80aad | We are beasts and this is our consolation. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| e45ac9e | None of the rest of my life figures here. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 322a9e5 | The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 255c9e5 | At least," Mother said, "that's the story Aunt Esther tells." "What do you mean?" I asked. "Isn't it true?" "Stories are never 'true'," Mother said. "But they may, almost by accident, contain 'truth'. Sometimes." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 57a07a0 | while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8665084 | Maggots in corpses. He'd seen. Whitely churning, in the mouths of dead soldiers, where their noses had been, their ears and blasted-away jaws. Most of the soldiers had been men as young as he himself had been. Italians fallen after the Austrian offensive of 1918. You do not forget such sights. You do not un-see such sights. He himself had been wounded, but he had not died. The distinction was profound. Between what lived and what died the d.. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 32ee4f8 | Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| cb98b94 | the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8701254 | l ymknny ltwrT m` rjl l yhmh 'mry w'mr Tflty wHytn m`an, 'kthr mn htmmh bGryb ... l ymknny ltwrT m` rjl l yhmh n `sh 'w mt! yrmy bHyth mthl lzhr wk'n l qym@ lh | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| dc79703 | Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0278b5e | I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of intellectual/literary precocity, I had not experienced much;nor would I experience much until I was well into middle age-the illnesses and deaths of my parents, this unexpected death of my husband. .. | shock | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 8bef7d2 | Why doesn't momma come back? | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| dd112e6 | Writing for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying. ... I am no prodigy but, Fate willing, I think I can produce art. | William Styron | ||
| f19d400 | Is it really sick for me to be happy right now?" I asked. My voice broke twice. He didn't push me away. He pulled me tight against his ice-hard chest, so tight it was hard to breathe, even with my lungs securely intact. "I know exactly what you mean," he whispered. "But we have lot of reasons to be happy. For one, we're alive." "Yes," I agreed. "That's a good one." "And together," he breathed. His breath was so sweet it made my head swim." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e63f6e5 | Jacob's little smirk became a full-blown grin, and I knew he was picturing Charlie showing up to arrest him. This grin was too bitter, too full of mocking to satisfy me. This wasn't the smile I'd been waiting to see. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 80dba52 | I could have argued that her wanting to do something for me meant she was ultimately acting in her own interests, but it might provoke more of the 'don't fuck with me' behaviour. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| c69c732 | Sex was absolutely not allowed to be scheduled, at least not by explicit discussion, but I had become familiar with the sequence of events likely to precipitate it: a blueberry muffin from Blue Sky Bakery, a triple shot of espresso from Otha's, removal of my shirt, and my impersonation of Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| db411c0 | Research has shown that creativity is enhanced when performing straightforward mechanical tasks such as jogging, cooking and driving. Unobstructed thinking time is always useful. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 3b7e1d7 | Amazing. She retains a professor of genetics, an alien of extraordinary abilities, to help find her father, she travels for a week, spending almost every minute of the waking day with him, yet when she wants the answer to a question on genetics, she goes to the Internet. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 6b9b088 | The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His Majesty." "It's a very ugly rug," Mendanbar said. "That's why we put it in the entry hall." -- | humor king mendanbar rug | Patricia C. Wrede | |
| feb9adf | Sex, a switchblade, and motorcycle lessons. You really are making sure my night ends on a high note. | humor | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 5c37116 | Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I've learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 240231d | I'd say I needed to find myself, if that didn't sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear. | backpacking funny lost-identity olivia | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 13ba871 | That's trouble. The pixies will sour your milk." "I thought it was hobgoblins who soured milk." "A dirty lie. Spread by the pixies, no doubt." | humor olivia patrick pixies | Kelley Armstrong | |
| fc2f3bc | In the end, like any stray, I was conquered by the promise of continued food and shelter. Trust would take longer. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 2dce991 | Even when I encountered racism outside Salmon Creek, it usually rolled off me. The worst of it often came from rednecks whipping past in rusted pickups. I looked at them and I looked at me-class leader, track star, straight-A student- and their slurs about dirty Indians and drunk Indians and dumb Indians were laughable. Mom says crap like that comes from people who've accomplished so little in lifethat they feel the need to lift themselves .. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| bad8d99 | It's so easy to screw up. To make a choice that seems right. Then time passes and you look back and you say, 'How the hell did I do that?' Attitudes change. Insights change. Eventually things you were so damned sure were right become...incomprehensible. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 4c07db1 | The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper, "I think it's very sweet, you sticking up for your brother like that." "I'm not trying to be sweet," Simon said, raising his voice so Thierry could hear. "I'm trying to be fair. But apparently no one's interested in that." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| d6d9609 | When the plague struck Chicago, the townspeople here erected the gargoyles, and nary a soul was lost to the Black Death." "The bubonic plague predates Chicago by about five hundred years." He lowered himself to the bench. "I know. I was very disappointed when I found out. Almost as bad as when I learned there were no fairies. The world is much more interesting with goblins and plagues." "Unless you catch the plague." | gabriel gargoyles magic-and-mystery olivia plague | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 57d1bb6 | Archangel or hound from hell . . . with Gabriel, it depends on the day. | Kelley Armstrong |