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| 356923a | white magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 25d09bb | he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 20d5532 | As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more and more stars had gathered, obliterating the separateness of the Milky Way and filling up the whole sky. And far far away in that ocean of gold, stars were silently shooting and falling and finding their fates, among these billions and billions of merging golden lights. And curtain after curtain of gauze was quietly removed, an.. | description descriptive galaxy iris-murdoch magical milky-way stars the-sea-the-sea universe | Iris Murdoch | |
| d5f0b4c | However, on one occasion, several years ago, I was idiot enough to take a dose of LSD. (I did it to please a woman.) I had what is known as a 'bad trip'. It was a very bad trip. I shall not attempt to describe what I experienced on that dreadful and rather shameful occasion. (I will only add: it concerned entrails.) In fact it would be extremely hard, even impossible, to put it properly into words. It was something morally, spiritually horr.. | hallucinations lsd | Iris Murdoch | |
| d2c0bf5 | That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish! | ireland scotland | Iris Murdoch | |
| 30daa8d | let us not waste love, it is rare enough | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 187be3b | Time, like the sea, unties all knots. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 23ced35 | And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love. | Andy Warhol | ||
| aa9570b | When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes--they're not part of the good picture you want. | Andy Warhol | ||
| 316e90c | O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy | plato | Frederick Charles Copleston | |
| 8aa0427 | Why should there be conscious experience at all? It is central to a subjective viewpoint, but from an objective viewpoint it is utterly unexpected. Taking the objective view, we can tell a story about how fields, waves, and particles in the spatiotemporal manifold interact in subtle ways, leading to the development of complex systems such as brains. In principle, there is no deep philosophical mystery in the fact that these systems can proc.. | David J. Chalmers | ||
| 7158608 | Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who call themselves liberals are far more interested in equalizing than in liberating their fellows. | Roger Scruton | ||
| b04a7be | Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right. | sex | Anthony Bourdain | |
| e14234f | I had field experience, a vocabulary and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| dc506c1 | Only one in four has a chance at making it.... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be . was going to live. I was the guy. | drugs | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 6f256ed | The food that comes in Tuesday is fresh, the station prep is new, and the chef is well rested after a Sunday or a Monday off. It's the real start of the new week, when you've got the goodwill of the kitchen on your side. Fridays and Saturdays, the food is fresh, but it's busy, so the chef and cooks can't pay as much attention to your food as they -- and you -- might like. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 31e3cd1 | Bigfoot understood -- as I came to understand -- that character is far more important than skills or employment history. And he recognized character -- good and bad -- brilliantly. He understood, and taught me, that a guy who shows up every day on time, never calls in sick, and does what he said he was going to do, is less likely to fuck you in the end than a guy who has an incredible resume but is less than reliable about arrival time. Ski.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 89479b8 | And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don't know what they want to eat. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| de48afe | I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (thought oral sex has to be a close second). | humor subculture | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 45c0f9e | Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 7e6b78e | So you want to be a chef? You really, really, really want to be a chef? If you've been working in another line of business, have been accustomed to working eight-to-nine-hour days, weekends and evenings off, holidays with the family, regular sex with your significant other; if you are used to being treated with some modicum of dignity, spoken to and interacted with as a human being, seen as an equal -- a sensitive, multidimensional entity w.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 1761542 | Leon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint | prayer saints | Peter Kreeft | |
| ee3bfbe | Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 343d9da | Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c1291bc | Man's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his mind, and pagan mythmakers for his heart and imagination and feelings. Of course, the latter two are not infallible. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3cd83de | At Abraham's burial, his two most prominent sons, rivals since before they were born, estranged since childhood, scions of rival nations, come together for the first time since they were rent apart nearly three-quarters of a century earlier. The text reports their union nearly without comment. "His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre, in the field that Abr.. | faith grief interfaith religion | Bruce Feiler | |
| 9664125 | Anyone lucky enough to have options should keep them open. Don't enter the workforce already looking for the exit. Don't put on the breaks. Accelerate. Keep a foot on the gas pedal until a decision must be made. That's the only way to ensure that when that day comes, there will be a real decision to make. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| aa18d1a | All over the world, there is cultural pressure to conceal negative emotions. In China and Japan, the ideal emotional state is calm and composed.10 In the United States, we like excitement (OMG!) and enthusiasm (LOL!). As psychologist David Caruso observes, "American culture demands that the answer to the question 'How are you?' is not just 'Good.'11 ... We need to be 'Awesome.' " Caruso adds, "There's this relentless drive to mask the expre.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 05d9a3f | It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 669ab82 | We find our humanity--our will to live and our ability to love--in our connections to one another. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 14bb2c4 | Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 5a1b1ab | intelligence and success are not clear paths to popularity at any age. This complicates everything, because at the same time women need to...own their success, doing so causes them to be liked less. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7fd26d6 | Larry said he could understand the complaint, but what he did not understand was that all the people who quit - every single one - had unused vacation time. Up until the day they left, they did everything McKinsey asked of them before deciding that it was too much. Larry implored us to exert more control over our careers. He said McKinsey would never stop making demands on our time, so it was up to us to decide what we were willing to do. I.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 5cdd726 | Anyone who brings up gender in the workplace is wading into deep and muddy waters. The subject itself presents a paradox, forcing us to acknowledge differences while trying to achieve the goal of being treated the same. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b7b7a08 | The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| 50d033c | I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily so that I can then do nothing - which I do anxiously, distractedly, wondering all the time if there isn't something else I should be getting on with. | motivation purpose work | Geoff Dyer | |
| 3ceefec | and just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort. | James Herriot | ||
| 56328da | Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously. "Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten years. Poor old Devereux, y'know! Must try and raise his spirits." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 874d1d8 | Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| f0ceaec | I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular? | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9d9edae | She walked home', explained Sir Roland. 'We were walking home, weren't we? Very well, then. She walked home. Passed Lethbridge's house. Went in. Hit him on the head with the poker. Came out. Met us in the street. There you are. Plain as a pikestaff.' 'Well, I don't know,' said the Viscount. 'Seems queer to me. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 1bae1d3 | Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 242d771 | If a man gives a party, he ought to know what kind of party it is,' argued the Viscount. 'If you don't know, how are we to know? It might be a damned soiree, in which case we wouldn't have come. Let's go home, Pom. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3db36c7 | It is now obvious to us all that he has every objection," said Randall. "You know, you had very much better withdraw, my dear aunt. I feel sure that Uncle Henry's double life is going to be exposed. My own conviction is that he has been keeping a mistress for years." [...] Mrs. Lupton flushed. "You forget yourself, Randall. I am not going to stand here and see my husband insulted by your ill-bred notions of what is funny." "Oh, I wasn't ins.. | Georgette Heyer |