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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5dbfae1 | What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo? | David Mitchell | ||
| 924a120 | Hamilton was not the master builder of the Constitution: the laurels surely go to James Madison. He was, however, its foremost interpreter, starting with The Federalist and continuing with his Treasury tenure, when he had to expound constitutional doctrines to accomplish his goals. He lived, in theory and practice, every syllable of the Constitution. For that reason, historian Clinton Rossiter insisted that Hamilton's "works and words have .. | Ron Chernow | ||
| d2530f1 | Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully. | Ron Chernow | ||
| acac047 | Prejudice and private interest will be antagonists too powerful for public spirit and public good. | Ron Chernow | ||
| be70123 | Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that? | luck patience solitaire | David Mitchell | |
| 1eaba10 | Will I be some kid's dad one day? Are any future people lurking deep inside mine?...Which girl's carrying the other half of my kid, deep in those intricate loops? What's she doing right now? What's her name? | love pregnancy teenage-love young-love | David Mitchell | |
| 11b031f | Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences. | good-movies narratives | David Mitchell | |
| ebab4ed | At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind. | David Mitchell | ||
| 40ecb02 | What do you do when you're visiting someone's house and their garden starts vanishing? | David Mitchell | ||
| e657d75 | Funny, thinks Milton. Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible. | David Mitchell | ||
| 694b811 | Es un ciclo tan antiguo como el tribalismo. Todo comienza con la ignorancia. La ignorancia genera miedo. El miedo genera odio y el odio genera violencia. La violencia provoca mas violencia hasta que la unica ley viene dictada por la voluntad del mas fuerte. | fear hate ignorance ignorancia law ley miedo odio spanish | David Mitchell | |
| 24026fc | Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched. | restaurant war warning | David Mitchell | |
| af5203e | There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it's not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to mak.. | television truth world | David Mitchell | |
| ea3181a | I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2ba7f5b | Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized. | David Mitchell | ||
| f2a4c1d | Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair. I wanted to say that it's not America they're aping, it's the Japan of their parents that they're rejecting. And since there's no home-grown counter culture, they just take hold of the nearest one to hand, which happens to be American. But it's not American culture exploiting us. It's us exploiting it. | David Mitchell | ||
| f44b39a | A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart." | David Mitchell | ||
| 6f1e924 | Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever. | David Mitchell | ||
| fe9f624 | A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste. | David Mitchell | ||
| 90a5ad0 | Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were home there would be some Liam. The summer fair. The Fastnet Race. I would unfold my map of Clear Island. Those tapes prised the lid off homesickness and rattled out the contents, but always at the bottom was solace. | homesickness solace | David Mitchell | |
| 9827b14 | Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai's skies. Since Agincourt, the White man has refined & evolved the gunpowder sciences until our modern armies may field muskets by the tens of thousands! Aha!' you will ask, yes, 'But why us Aryans? Why not the Unipeds of Ur or the Mandrakes of Mauritius?' Because, Preacher, of all the world's races, our love--or rather our rapacity--for treasure, gold, spices.. | ladder-of-cvilization musket | David Mitchell | |
| 1356efb | Books tended not to switch their stories whenever it suited them. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4dda3aa | Like the best songs, you can't see the next line coming, but once it's sung, how else could it have gone? | David Mitchell | ||
| d26033d | What a uniquely capitalist response to that gender inequality: women have been forced by convention for generations - millennia - to spend money on expensive clothes and agonising shoes, to daub themselves with reality-concealing slap, to smell expensively inhuman, to self-mutilate in pursuit of eternal youth; and this, quite rightly, has come to be deemed unfair. But how do we end this hell? We make men do it too. Well done everyone. | David Mitchell | ||
| c9539ba | As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor. | David Mitchell | ||
| be43b84 | Bitch" is a stingless insult these days - it hurts like, I don't know, a celery-stabbing." | David Mitchell | ||
| acaaced | La segunda ley de la supervivencia afirma que no existe una segunda ley. O comes o te comen. Punto. | law ley spanish | David Mitchell | |
| a5ca119 | I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was a kid. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1bb7cf3 | Nonmonogamous folks are constantly engaged in their relationships: they negotiate and establish boundaries, respect them, test them, and, yes, even violate them. But the limits are not assumed or set by society; they are consciously chosen. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 82b7cdd | Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny butterfly. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d9dccc2 | This beauty would remain whether he was here to see it or not. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| cbd9d77 | I took a rant-sized breath. | westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| b2a5cdb | She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." | humor scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 1a9b860 | Lace: "Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?" Cal: "Um, maybe?" | lace peeps scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 900ae89 | The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves--survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about... | funny guilt humor ombies parasites vampires | Scott Westerfeld | |
| fadbac5 | It would be a shame if you were killed. I should be very sorry. I know I wouldn't like it to happen to me. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| b30f565 | Don't frown so, you'll look old before your time. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 4930474 | As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do so. Now, amid the grizzled, battle-wise warriors, his strength seemed feeble, his knowledge clouded. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 02bf41d | At the end of their grim race, death might be the only prize. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 39f0707 | A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 4f2932d | I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter." "It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest." "It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. "We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished." | quest rightness tasks | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 4c28d60 | Well," said Eilonwy, "you can't blame Rhun for being born. I mean, you could, but that wouldn't help matters. It's like kicking a rock with your bare foot." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 1f3c377 | How much [vastly {immensely tremendously}...] Anwar loves [t]his child. It continues to take him by surprise [even when she confounds him with the havoc of her room {for example} which she will proudly describe {defend!} as clean {those beautiful messes } even as {in the next moment} she will astonish Anwar with her fearless interest in life {despite the harrowing blows life continues to deliver her }]. | love parenting | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 6b0fffb | I liked how your teacher said we were 'kindred spirits'. I looked that up on m-w .com and it says that means we are related spirits, like family who is not blood family. I told Mamaw this and she said, 'Sometimes that's the best family of all. | friends kindred-spirits | Silas House & Neela Vaswani |