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| de46484 | Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don't know, comfort. The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with." | feeling miss sense someone supposed wife with | John Scalzi | |
| 77f6759 | Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast). | comfortable complete good nutritious race relations | John Scalzi | |
| de9f364 | Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long. | John Scalzi | ||
| e448b71 | I've been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind. | John Scalzi | ||
| 322bfed | Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether to kiss or to wound, we still must come together. Like in Annie Hall, we endure twists and torsions For food we don't like, and in such tiny portions! But, like hating a food but still asking for more It beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we mak.. | David Rakoff | ||
| 917e6a8 | Almost any age is better than twenty-two. | ageing | David Rakoff | |
| 54f3918 | When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you. | David Rakoff | ||
| 0bd159f | Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5429aad | You'll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is--at best--indifferent to your existence. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c9b210e | As a young basketball player, Bill Bradley would remind himself, "When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7f17d3c | On the path to successful action, we will fail--possibly many times. And that's okay. It can be a good thing, even. Action and failure are two sides of the same coin. One doesn't come without the other. What breaks this critical connection down is when people stop acting--because they've taken failure the wrong way. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 08c7641 | Perspective has two definitions. Context: a sense of the larger picture of the world, not just what is immediately in front of us Framing: an individual's unique way of looking at the world, a way that interprets its events | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ef3ffe0 | Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation--without the pestilence of panic or fear. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 83d6c23 | We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free." --" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 279f566 | But thinking about and being aware of our mortality creates real perspective and urgency. It doesn't need to be depressing. Because it's invigorating. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| aa44152 | Our perceptions are the thing that we're in complete control of. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e022012 | Imagine if for every person you met, you thought of some way to help them, something you could do for them? And you looked at it in a way that entirely benefited them and not you. The cumulative effect this would have over time would be profound: You'd learn a great deal by solving diverse problems. You'd develop a reputation for being indispensable. You'd have countless new relationships. You'd have an enormous bank of favors to call upon .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| efcb602 | The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8344050 | I have always wondered what it would have been like for an outsider to have witnessed firsthand the gathering dark of Hitler's rule. How did the city look, what did one hear, see, and smell, and how did diplomats and other visitors interpret the events occurring around them? Hindsight tells us that during that fragile time the course of history could so easily have been changed. Why, then, did no one change it? Why did it take so long to re.. | Erik Larson | ||
| 6f76833 | Let me explain how such a thing might occasionally happen,' Goebbels said. 'All during the twelve years of the Weimar Republic our people were virtually in jail. Now our party is in charge and they are free again. When a man has been in jail for twelve years and he is suddenly freed, in his joy he may do something irrational, perhaps even brutal. Is that not a possibility in your country also?' Ebbutt, his voice even, noted a fundamental di.. | nazi-germany wwii | Erik Larson | |
| 2b9892e | For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel. | Erik Larson | ||
| ebeede6 | American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was reeling from the Depression. | history jews-and-judaism-in-europe nazi-germany | Erik Larson | |
| fab8da5 | Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives. | Erik Larson | ||
| c56d6db | All this is the more maddening, as Edward Shils has pointed out, in a populistic culture which has always set a premium on government by the common man and through the common judgement and which believes deeply in the sacred character of publicity. Here the politician expresses what a large part of the public feels. The citizen cannot cease to need or to be at the mercy of experts, but he can achieve a kind of revenge by ridiculing the wild.. | intellectual intellectualism politics politics-of-the-united-states | Richard Hofstadter | |
| f27775a | If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force. | character democracy intellectual intellectualism intellectuals sentimentality | Richard Hofstadter | |
| 122d74c | In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned--the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example. These works were of no use to me, in the end. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 58e2a16 | He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin monks have outwitted death by secret means. He offered to sell me their secrets, which he has inscribed in a book. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 7875cff | If sex is dignified it's not being done right. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 767c7d6 | You know what happens to people who longingly imagine having things they can't afford?" "Happy dreams?" "A life of crime." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6b8762a | It's too easy to become discouraged when no one values your skills and your efforts. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 097d221 | Why is that? Why do we love each other?" "Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0e1d66e | Peabody waved her PPC triumphantly. "It's the Kirk thing, The Enterprise thing. It reminded me I'd hit this name that made me snicker when I was running the van--the Cargo. Here it is. Tony Stark." "Oh, baby." McNab blew her a double-handed kiss. "Good call." "It's gotta be, right?" Peabody said to McNab. "It's his style." "Who the hell is Tony Stark?" Eve demanded. "Iron Man," Roarke told her. "Superhero, genius, innovative engineer, and b.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5c61ede | I get double credits. First I get the satisfaction credit of being hit on by the sexy DOT inspector, and second I get loyal and true credit for turning him down because I have my personal sexy nerd. | peabody | J.D. Robb | |
| d3eba50 | I'm not afraid of you, Roarke." "Aren't you?" He moved closer, curling his hands on the lapels of her shirt. "What do you think will happen if you step over the line?" "Too much," she murmured." | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| c9bdc7a | Gold winked at his wrist as he pressed his choice for two coffees on the AutoChef built into the side panel. "Cream?" "Black." "A woman after my own heart." Moments later, he opened the protective door and offered her a china cup in a delicate saucer. "We have more of a selection on the plane," he said, then settled back with his coffee. "I bet." The steam rising from her cup smelled like heaven. Eve took a tentative sip -- and nearly moane.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| fef0577 | As she read over Eve's shoulder, Mavis let out a low whistle. "Not the Roarke! The incredibly wealthy, fabulous to look at, sexily mysterious Roarke who owns approximately twenty-eight percent of the world, and its satellites?" All Eve felt was irritation. "He's the only one I know." "You know him." Mavis rolled her green shadowed eyes. "Dallas, I've underestimated you unforgivably. Tell me everything. How, when, why? Did you sleep with him.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2894c7a | She shifted her grip on him so her arms linked around his neck. "I love you." And kissed him, soft, slow, deep. "I love you. I love you. I'm just going to keep saying it," she told him as she pressed her body to his. "Racking them up, so I have a supply built up for when I forget to say it. I love who you are, what you are, how you talk, how you look at me." Her lips roamed over his face, down his throat, along his jaw, coming back to his.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2e4a955 | You know how I love being referred to as your fancy piece." "Sometimes you're my love muffin." He managed a strangled laugh. She could, at the oddest times, surprise him." | J.D. Robb | ||
| b829336 | When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 55ee755 | A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 341c1d1 | Your view on this is narrow. That's how you're built." It didn't feel narrow to her. It felt right. "Marriage is a promise. That's one of the ways you talked me into it. If you break one part of the promise, it's going to crack other parts." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5c53ba5 | All these women. And Trina. Trina," she repeated, with considerable passion as she gripped his shirt. "And gooey dessert and body things and chick-vids. All night. Slumber party. Do you know what that means?" "I've had many dreams of them. Will there be pillow fights?" She spun him around so his back hit the door. "Don't. Leave. Me." "Darling." He kissed her brow. "I must. I must." "No. You can bring Vegas here. Because . . . you're.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| ccf838a | I'm driving." Roarke's hand paused as it reached for the car door, and his brow winged up. "It's my car." "It's my deal." They studied each other a minute, crowded together at the driver's side door. "Why are you driving?" "Because." Vaguely embarrassed, she dug her hands in her pockets. "Don't smirk." "I'll try to resist. Why?" "Because," she said again, "I drive when I'm on a case, so if I drive, it'll feel like -- it'll feel official ins.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9068142 | She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar. | humour | J.D. Robb |