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| 803ac94 | I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset. "Let's cook," Frannie said energetically. "We will smell so good that they'll all come running." She picked up a bowl, filled it with apples from the barrel, and immediately began to cut them up. I put water to boil, got out cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, lard, flour, sugar, salt, salera.. | motivation | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| b6d6731 | That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again.... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then the dim ones must be far and farther away, and toward those reaches I hurled my soul. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 57bc254 | For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 8053f3f | I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be "fascinating," but here in his own world he was just a cheap functionary, and a dull one at that." | irritating poseurs | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| a09769a | Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era--the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner .. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 0edc96e | The Hell's Angels are very definitely a lower-class phenomenon, but their backgrounds are not necessarily poverty-stricken. Despite some grim moments, their parents seem to have had credit. Most of the outlaws are the sons of people who came to California either just before or during World War II. Many have lost contact with their families, and I have never met an Angel who claimed to have a hometown in any sense that people who use that te.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| f7d3ac1 | The New York power failure was not the first time the Hell's Angels have confounded the forces of decency and got off scot-free. They are incredibly devious. Law enforcement officials have compared their guile to that of the snipe, a wily beast that many have seen but few have ever trapped. This is because the snipe has the ability to transform himself, when facing capture, into something entirely different. The only other animals capable o.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 2e98040 | The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph. Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer .. | sports wit writing | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 9833f51 | These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| e6ac1e4 | I am still vaguely haunted by our hitchhiker's remark about how he'd "never rode in a convertible before." Here's this poor geek living in a world of convertibles zipping past him on the highways all the time, and he's never even ridden in one. It made me feel like King Farouk. I was tempted to have my attorney pull into the next airport and arrange some kind of simple, common-law contract whereby we could just give the car to this unfortun.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a5cef87 | Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it means safety and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all men strive for; but is security a utopian goal or is it another word for rut? Let us visualize the secure man; and by this term, I mean a man who has settled for financial and personal security for his goal in life. In general, he is a man who has pushed ambition and init.. | hunter-s-thompson security | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| c4cda63 | How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this doom-struck craziness? This grinding of teeth, this pouring of sweat, this pounding of blood in the temples... small blue veins gone amok in front of the ears, sixty and seventy hours with no sleep. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 114cd42 | It had seemed a funny story as she told it, both that morning by the waterfall and later at dinner, when she repeated it to the photographer and the agency man and the fashion coordinator for the client. Maria tried now to put what happened in Encino into the same spirited perspective, but Ceci Delano's situation seemed not to apply. In the end it was just a New York story. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7279321 | Women define themselves by their relationships and men define themselves by whom they are helping. Women believe value is created by sacrifice. If you are willing to give up your favorite activities to be with her, she will trust you. If being with her is too easy for you, she will not trust you. | Scott Adams | ||
| 66f0762 | the past exists only in your mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your mind because it has not happened." | Scott Adams | ||
| 6b5210d | Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense. | Scott Adams | ||
| 8378797 | Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It is also a way of signaling the importance of another person by showing your willingness to give that person your rarest resource: time. It is a way of conveying respect. Conversation reminds us that we are part of a greater whole, connected in some way that transcends duty or bloodline or commerce. Conversation can be many things, but it can never be useless. | Scott Adams | ||
| a0fc027 | The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth. | violence war white-people | Herman Melville | |
| 4ef8ca9 | Even Solomon, he says, "the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead." Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunn.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 2235f44 | Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. | Herman Melville | ||
| 35a8961 | for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 240bb38 | Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is - which was the only way he could get there - thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself. Surely his was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing.. | Herman Melville | ||
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| 9317c17 | Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. | Herman Melville | ||
| e9b1705 | Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye Gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do. | Herman Melville | ||
| f1f46d1 | The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up--flaked up, with rose-water snow. | sailing sea sherbet summer tropics | Herman Melville | |
| 3788982 | Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. | god savagery | Herman Melville | |
| 36f1258 | For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be. | Herman Melville | ||
| 8cbd8a2 | And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor- as you will sometimes see it- glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts. For d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, throug.. | Herman Melville | ||
| b2ced5a | The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it. At times there are gestures in it, which, though they would well grace the hand of man, remain wholly inexplicable. In an extensive herd, so remarkable, occasionally, are these mystic gestures, that I have heard hunters who have declared them akin to Free-Mason signs and symbols; that the whale, indeed, by these methods intelligently conversed with the w.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 1036cba | He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor. | Herman Melville | ||
| e416255 | If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a reader unerringly to discriminate in a novel between the inconsistencies of conception and those of life. As elsewhere, experience is the only guide here; but as no one man's experience can be coextensive with what is, it may be unwise in every case to rest upon it. | Herman Melville | ||
| eab84e5 | Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy. | Herman Melville | ||
| 18b6005 | Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. | Herman Melville | ||
| 26ec991 | Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby, in a singular mild, firm voice, replied, "I would prefer not to." -- | Herman Melville | ||
| e9ac0dd | But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it. | Herman Melville | ||
| 5975864 | So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that. | Herman Melville | ||
| 2c0f3d3 | And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come. | faithfulness trust | Susan Cooper | |
| ffc764a | He leaned forward suddenly, so that for an instant the strong, bearded face was clear; the voice softened, and there was an aching sadness in it. "Only the creatures of the earth take from one another, boy. All creatures, but men more than any. Life they take, and liberty and all that another man may have - sometimes through greed, sometimes through stupidity, but never by any volition but their own. Beware your own race, Bran Davies - they.. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 4420a12 | They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication. | Susan Cooper | ||
| de960d1 | While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation. | anarchy | L. Susan Brown | |
| d11c7d9 | Though sometimes, first love cauterises the heart, and all any searcher will find thereafter is scar tissue. | first-love heart heartbreak julian-barnes metaphor the-only-story trauma | Julian Barnes | |
| 213627c | You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 08acc60 | Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem. | Toni Morrison |