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| 37df446 | Also, on account of the odd relationship between time and space, the people who do manage to time-jump sometimes space-jump at the same time and end up in places where they simply don't belong. Over there, for example," he said as a raucous DeLorean sports car rared into view from nowhere, "is that crazy American professorwho can't seem to stay put in one time, and, I must say, there is an absolute plague of of killer robots from the future.. | luka rashid-khalifa rushdie | Salman Rushdie | |
| 47ade59 | Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 8a4947e | PLEASE BELIEVE that I am falling apart. I am not speaking metaphorically; nor is this the opening gambit of some melodramatic, riddling, grubby appeal for pity. I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I .. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1fd7b83 | let me belong again to that faraway place I left so long ago, from which I am alienated, and which has forgotten me, in which I am an alien now even though it was the place where I began, let me belong again, walk those streets knowing they are mine, knowing that my story is a part of those streets, even though it isn't, it hasn't been for most of a lifetime, let it be so, let it be so | homesickness | Salman Rushdie | |
| e8688b6 | Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 667ca81 | If you want pay, then just be gay. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 3bb3d99 | Two things form the bedrock of any open society -- freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country." [ | freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech open-society politics rule-of-law | Salman Rushdie | |
| 65884aa | How far did they fly? Five and a half thousand as the crow. Or: from Indianness to Englishness, an immeasurable distance. Or, not very far at all, because they rose from one great city, fell to another. The distance between cities is always small; a villager, travelling a hundred miles to town, traverses emptier, darker, more terrifying space. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 167d6ed | Faced with the blazing magnificence of the everyday, the artist is both humbled and provoked. There are photographs now of events on an unimaginable scale [...] When we look at these images, there is, yes, legitimate wonderment at our own lengthening reach and grasp. But it would be vain indeed to praise our puny handiwork--the mastery of the Hubble wielders, the computer enhancers, the colorizers, all the true-life-fantasist counterparts o.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 185f63d | mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home. | migrants migration | Salman Rushdie | |
| 0cc7b20 | Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible. Suppose yourself in a large cinema, sitting at first in the back row, and gradually moving up, row by row, until your nose is almost pressed against the screen. Gradually the stars' faces dissolve into dancing grain; tiny details assume grotesque pr.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 212ac20 | We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends. | offense pride rage stubbornness | Salman Rushdie | |
| f3141d4 | Most people define themselves by their work, or where they come from, or suchlike; we had lived too far inside our heads. It makes actuality damn hard to handle. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 8c1988a | Is history to be considered the property of the participants only? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 7f3b31c | A comfortable prison was still a prison. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 141cf71 | This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet. | homelessness immigrants rootedness satan | Salman Rushdie | |
| d9028fc | Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: "The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse." -- | Michael E. Gerber | ||
| 98a7cd2 | You take yourself too seriously, " he said slowly. "You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything. You're so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don't go your way. I suppose you think that shows you have character. That's nonsense! You're weak, and conceited!" - Dom Juan" | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 2f3a6dc | I love the smell of old books," Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs." -- | books dream mothballs nerd nostalgia old paper-mill reading smell smell-of-books surreal vintage wood | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 1334332 | It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| a6d9c8c | As Plato: We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us. | philosophy theology | Rebecca Goldstein | |
| a442c47 | Nothing we can do together is ever going to be embarrassing. | love relationships sex | Rebecca York | |
| cd15dac | Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took. | art camera cellulod compassion digital film future hd history human instant kodak magic nature nostalgia photo photography robot | Rebecca McNutt | |
| c6fbe44 | In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brother's old blue Camaro car and the smell of coal dust in the rainy sky of a summer lightning storm. ...And all the nice bright colors of the past that she thought were gone for good came flowing back into her life like a wave of nostalgia flooding over her, reds, yellow.. | beautiful bright colors earth found-footage kodak memory mystery nostalgia rurl world | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 6dbf94d | Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses. | clarity clear dream future imagination kodak-moment life moment nostalgia past pause photography regret snapshot time worry | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 181fc05 | We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not "we might have to eat the dog" poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and collecting nickels and dimes from the washing machine because she never got allowance, that kind of poor... poor enough to be nostalgic about poverty. So, when my mom and dad took me here.. | birthday camera canada cape-breton cardboard coins digital dog film future instamatic insurance kodak mall mcdonald-s nostalgia nostalgic nova-scotia past poor poverty shopping washing-machine wishes | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 9bcd586 | Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark. He didn't think he was a minor character in anything, I daresay. | John Barth | ||
| e30ece1 | a man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet. | John Barth | ||
| 6e9cbf3 | She leaves my side and heads deeper into | amnesia androids apocalypse carrack cityisle cityspire count damnation death desolate dreams emily-dickinson empty fedora ghosts gothic greek-mythology haunting haunts horace-walpole jazz life magic magick mannequins masquerade music phillip-k-dick piano poems puddles rain reflections romance sacrifice science-fiction sex shakespeare ships songs specters spectre storms tempest waking water | Nathan Reese Maher | |
| 32a7ef3 | Breathing, for example, was never taken for granted, since, half the time, thanks to the many chemical works and refineries, it was nearly impossible. | Mark Helprin | ||
| f6d457e | There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it... | Mark Helprin | ||
| 1508858 | What could be more lovely than writing a book about something you love? | Mark Helprin | ||
| 36193e8 | How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born? | Mark Helprin | ||
| ba7d20c | It soon got so cold that the men rushed to close the doors. When they had shut them and the room was again silent, they saw that several women had begun to cry. The women said it was because of the numbing air that had washed over their bare shoulders, but even strangers embraced sadly as they coasted into the new year and felt its strength commencing. They cried because of the magic and the contradictions; because time had passed and time .. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 846896e | All you need do is refrain from smoking, drinking and the use of drugs. Eat only wholesome,low-fat foods, with the emphasis on vegetables, grains and fish. Seek work. Work hard. Show up on time. Do more than is expected. Think of ways to make the job efficient. Don't complain. Shave, bathe and wear clean clothes. Be cheerful. Don't gamble. Live within your means. Save. And then, when you have all this in balance, study things of substance. .. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 928ff12 | What would happen if we took everything that exists in the universe, and divided it by one? I'll tell you. It would remain the same. So, therefore, how do we know that someone isn't doing that right now, at this very instant? It makes me shudder to think of it. We might be constantly divided by one, or multiplied by one for that matter, and we wouldn't even know it! | Mark Helprin | ||
| 8c12dc6 | In fact, one might make the case that New York would not have shone without its legions of contrary devils polishing the lights of goodness with their inexplicable opposition and resistance. | Mark Helprin | ||
| e791910 | We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are possessed but because they possess. Those ten years were the happiest of my life save the first ten, the years in which I had neither position nor success, and no one took notice of me. Those were the years of the parent holding the child in his arms, lifting him high in the air, and pulling him close. As I held my.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 894cdfd | Saba: "You want this one to guide you?" Leia: "If you would consider it." Saba: "This one?" Leia: "Yes. I want someone who will challenge me in unexpected ways. I want someone who will teach me what I don't know." | Troy Denning | ||
| 8eb866a | Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect so much from myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase. And the energy we expend emotionally belongs to the hidden side of the moon. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 4c94faa | It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 953c43a | But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 6c430ad | Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| d1b696f | either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, | Lewis Carroll |