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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 579aed8 | And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there? | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| dd778d4 | Anything that can be accomplished chemically can be accomplished in other ways. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 4940f93 | The Ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls." Top soul (Vicarious), and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in. Second soul (Jambi), and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power. LIGHT. The Director gives the orders, Sekem pr.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 21e131a | Wouldn't you? | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 94f2760 | A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands--the lymph glands that is, of course--when the baneful word seared my reeling brain: . I thought of the painted, simpering female impersonators I'd seen in a Baltimore nightclub. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? I walked the streets in a daze like a man with a.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 235d4ba | I tried more than once to tell you, to communicate what I know. You did not or could not listen. You can not show to anyone what he has not seen. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 27326da | After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail - and now pieces tore loose in the eggs and then a red, glistening head emerges in reeking yellow slime - and then the whole centipede crawling out quick. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| f728e75 | If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 235ee7c | I spit on the Christian God. When the White God arrived with the Spaniards, the Indians brought down fruit and corncakes and chocolate. The White Christian God proceeded to cut their hands off. He was not responsible for the Christian conquistadors? Yes, he was. Any God is responsible for his worshippers. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| aaedeeb | Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. | Epictetus | ||
| fb6ce6a | Remember from now on whenever something tends to make you unhappy, draw on this principle: 'This is no misfortune; but bearing with it bravely is a blessing. | Epictetus | ||
| 01440e2 | Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided. | Epictetus | ||
| c34eafd | Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, 'I want a fig,' I'll reply, 'That takes time. | Epictetus | ||
| 6d3e30e | Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress. | Epictetus | ||
| 3ea3c12 | What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard?-- It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of. | Epictetus | ||
| a78afe7 | He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God. | widsom | Epictetus | |
| a3f26ba | Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get. | Epictetus | ||
| e88ec4a | When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the | Epictetus | ||
| 2d7a196 | Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, "By setting himself to live the noblest life himself." | Epictetus | ||
| 96f885e | When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly? | Epictetus | ||
| a11ddea | There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes. | Epictetus | ||
| 60a007f | He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus" | Gary John Bishop | ||
| f8b6f08 | Above all, remember that the door stands open. Be not more fearful than children; but as they, when they weary of the game, cry, "I will play no more," even so, when thou art in the like case, cry, "I will play no more" and depart. But if thou stayest, make no lamentation." | Epictetus | ||
| dedcc99 | If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them. | Epictetus | ||
| ae1a630 | Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none. | golden-sayings tyrants | Epictetus | |
| e9c8962 | Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice. | invincible life stoic stubborn | Epictetus | |
| c43e243 | A lady's hair is her crowning glory | lady | Jeannette Walls | |
| abe145a | Mom, you have to leave Dad," I said. She stopped doing her toe touches. "I can't believe you would say that," she said. "I can't believe that you, of all people, would turn on your father." I was Dad's last defender, she continued, the only one who pretended to believe all his excuses and tales, and to have faith in his plans for the future. "He loves you so much," Mom said. "How can you do this to him?" "I don't blame Dad," I said. And I d.. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| fed3caf | Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| b58794d | From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It existed now in a permanent state of windblowness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place. pg. 35 | Jeannette Walls | ||
| b684817 | Then he pointed to the top of the fire, where the snapping yellow flames dissolved into an invisible shimmery heat that made the desert beyond seem to waver, like a mirage. Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order. "It's a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven't figured 'em out yet," he said. "You-all got a little too close to it today." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 9a2cef6 | There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 56f812a | You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever. | parents respect | Jeannette Walls | |
| 4b90fc0 | As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had al.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| a8f98e6 | Names came patterning into the dusk, bodying out the places of their forebears, the villages and towns where the telegrams would be delivered, the houses where the blinds would be drawn, where low moans would come in the afternoon behind closed doors; and the places that had borne them, which would be like nunneries, like dead towns without their life or purpose, without young men at the factories or in the fields, with no husbands for the .. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 301c041 | The physical shock took away the pain of being. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| bfda900 | Time makes us pointless. | time | Sebastian Faulks | |
| ab2c43e | I don't know your life history, but I think children need to believe in powers outside themselves. That's why they read books about witches and wizards and God knows what. There is a human need for that which childhood normally exhausts. But if a child's world is broken up by too much reality, that need goes underground. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 2b1589d | at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last free from the illusion that time is linear. In panic, time stops: past, present and future exist as a single overwhelming force. You then, perversely, time to appear to run forwards because the 'future' is the only place you can see an escape from this intolerable overload of feeling. But at such moments time doesn't move. And if time isn't ru.. | panic-attacks time | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 6551c66 | It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace. | silence | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 3bcddb4 | Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war. | maturation military | Joseph J. Ellis | |
| 7ec14d5 | We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart. | reflection spirituality | Luanne Rice | |
| 8e05774 | Power perceived is power achieved. | Brad Thor | ||
| 4d77e53 | Happiness in life is all about three things--something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to. | Brad Thor |