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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 23da8a1 | She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. | hardboiled humour noir | Richard Brautigan | |
| 5cbaec2 | I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other | Eudora Welty | ||
| f25d104 | The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time. | writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 039266d | I hasten to mention that I have never actually solicited a catalogue. Although it is tempting to conclude that our mailbox hatches them by spontaneous generation, I know they are really the offspring of promiscuous mailing lists, which copulate in secret and for money. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 9288d8c | You mean we're going chronological order within each author?" he gasped. "But no one even knows for sure when Shakespeare wrote his plays!" "Well," I blustered, "we know he wrote Romeo and Juliet before The Tempest. I'd like to see that reflected on our shelves." George says that was one of the few times he has seriously contemplated divorce." -- | marriage organization | Anne Fadiman | |
| 853ad3b | George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine. | books | Anne Fadiman | |
| 543354e | Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ca9106c | Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 0ad0852 | Take democracy. According to the common-sense meaning, a society is democratic to the extent that people can participate in a meaningful way in managing their affairs. But the doctrinal meaning of democracy is different--it refers to a system in which decisions are made by sectors of the business community and related elites. The public are to be only "spectators of action," not "participants," as leading democratic theorists (in this case,.. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| dce9558 | Structural factors are those such as ownership and control, dependence on other major funding sources (notably, advertisers), and mutual interests and relationships between the media and those who make the news and have the power to define it and explain what it means. The propaganda model also incorporates other closely related factors such as the ability to complain about the media's treatment of news (that is, produce "flak"), to provide.. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 55a0011 | One night, Tim stumbled across a documentary called Manufacturing Consent. After viewing it, he found some writing online by its subject, Noam Chomsky, and as a result began to feel that there wasn't really a point to anything, that free will was an illusion, and that the things most people invested time and energy in were systems of control designed by those who sought to manipulate the general populace | Chad Kultgen | ||
| 609f6ab | I think maybe I'd still nod and smile and have lunch with him. I think maybe I'd still go to the Noam Chomsky documentary later that evening. And maybe I'd even marry him a couple of weeks later. Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have? | Rhoda Janzen | ||
| 5c3b1e6 | Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 2f9fe3a | For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 950a2b3 | It's easy to think of things that need to be done, but they all have a prerequisite, namely, a mass popular base that is committed to implementing it. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 8724030 | They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal. | corporatocracy voting | Noam Chomsky | |
| d6162b8 | It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice! | theology | John Steinbeck | |
| ea9d5fe | You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives. And more - you'll see - you're buying bitterness. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2dc7028 | A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. | John Grogan | ||
| abe72cf | Na solidao da noite, quase conseguia sentir a finitude da vida e como ela era preciosa. Nos damo-la como garantida, mas ela e fragil, precaria, incerta, susceptivel de acabar a qualquer momento sem aviso. Lembrei-me daquilo que devia ser evidencia mas nem sempre e: que vale a pena saborear cada dia, cada hora e cada minuto das nossas vidas. | John Grogan | ||
| dcb24f8 | But George sat stiffly on the bank and looked at his right hand that had thrown the gun away. The group burst into the clearing, and Curley was ahead. He saw Lennie lying on the sand. "Got him, by God." He went over and looked down at Lennie, and then he looked back at George. "Right in the back of the head," he said softly. Slim came directly to George and sat down beside him, sat very close to him. "Never you mind," said Slim. "A guy got.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 97452ec | He lived in a strange, silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the world, but he was not lonely. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1ab0995 | She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness. | unhappiness | John Steinbeck | |
| d8dd926 | It is a child speaking," said Merlin, "not a king and not a knight, but a hurt and angry child, or you would know, my lord, that there is more to a king than a crown, and far more to a knight than a sword. You were a knight when you grappled Pellinore unarmed." "And he defeated me." "You were a knight," said Merlin. "Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. G.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a49a435 | Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots. | conquistadors spaniards | John Steinbeck | |
| 6c9873b | Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that. | death life recurring-rhythm | John Steinbeck | |
| acceab1 | Looks kinda scrummy | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6ab0ca5 | S-l-o-w-ness--it gave meaning to everything. It made everything royal. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 62b3511 | Lanser said, "There are no peaceful people, when will you learn it? There are no friendly people, can't you understand that?" | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4001fbe | And the girl,' Lanser continued, 'the girl, Lieutenant, you may rape her, or protect her, or marry her--that is of no importance so long as you shoot her when it is ordered. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f3b05eb | You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. But watch it, mister. There's a premium goes with this pile of junk and the bay horses - so beautiful - a packet of bitterness to grow in your house and to flower, some day. We could have saved you, but you cut us down, and soon you will be cut down and there'll be none of us to save you. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 25e4b8d | We sat on a crate of oranges and thought what good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world--temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Once in a while one comes on the other kind--what used in the university to be called a 'dry-ball'--but such men are not really biologists. They are the embalmers of the field, the picklers who see only the preserved form of life without any of its principle. Out of thei.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| afe0829 | Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life. | John Steinbeck | ||
| da14d6f | There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e8c0040 | And, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule- a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting- only the deeply personal and familiar. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 62fdaa6 | Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8f9a957 | For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of events t give a memory past dimension. Eventlessness collapses time. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cfd5a63 | The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 119c034 | We will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9e386aa | He's got a can up there,' Richard said. | reflection wonderful | John Steinbeck | |
| b9711da | Yes, I'll be glad." And she said suddenly, "There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow." He looked quickly at her in astonishment at her statement of his own thought. "How did you think that, dear?" "I don't know. Why?" "Because I was thinking it at that moment -- and there are times when the people and the hills and the earth, all, everything except the stars, are one, and the love of them all i.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 275f6ce | Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you?" "I don't want blame." "Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism." "I was thinking about that time when Sam Hamilton and you and I had a long discussion about a word," said Adam. "What was that word?" "Now I see. The word was timshel." "Timshel-and you said-" "I said that word carried a man's greatness if he wanted to take advantage of it." "I remember Sam Hami.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1a993af | He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and halfgod" | John Steinbeck | ||
| d3b6869 | She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two y.. | credit economy money saving spending | John Steinbeck |