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| a33b43f | Alice's robes were seasonal. She hadn't exactly planned it that way, but that's how it evolved. In winter there was a long, warm, deep purple terry-cloth robe. In spring she changed to a new blue-and-white cotton kimono. In summer there was a white chenille bathrobe with a pattern on it, and in the fall she wore a cotton robe her husband had bought her as a surprise gift. They were useful, practical garments, but when she thought about it, .. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| c00aa4e | It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 40d52c0 | Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 43a3002 | He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter. | Ken Grimwood | ||
| 1846e54 | He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well. | Ken Grimwood | ||
| fe0c6ad | Ugly, degrading, rather terrible half-truths... It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence... Their hearts ached while their lips formed recriminations. Their hearts burst into tears while their eyes remained dry and accusing, staring in hostility and anger... They could not forgive and they could not sleep, for neither could sleep without the other's forgiveness, and the hatred that leap.. | Radclyffe Hall | ||
| 12b636c | All you have to do is circulate and listen. If you know what they're talking about, join in. If you don't know what they're talking about, then ask questions,' he relayed as if it was really that simple. 'People don't mind being asked questions. In fact, they like to show off their knowledge. What they don't like is someone pretending to know what they're talking about when they don't. | Penny Jordan | ||
| 445a3c3 | Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past. | Greg Iles | ||
| 4d8004c | Vengeane, Justice. Fire and Blood | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 65a3dac | It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually. | Leon Uris | ||
| 3bef456 | I smile at my friends, but Mer and Rashmi and Josh are distracted, arguing about something that happened over dinner. St. Clair sees me and smiles back. "Good?" I nod.He looks pleased and ducks into the row after me. I always sit four rows up from the center, and we have perfectseats tonight.The chairs are classic red. The movie begins,and the title screen flashes up. "Ugh,we have to sit through the credits?" Rashmi asks. They roll first,li.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e916fe2 | A perfect, enduring friendship between a couple of freaks | friendship | Stephanie Rowe | |
| 4dc3e81 | What the good Lord giveth, he also taketh away. Then he puts it back again. | James A. Owen | ||
| 2d1d3d0 | The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go. | James A. Owen | ||
| e1bb9cc | Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine. | Og Mandino | ||
| 5abdf32 | Pilihlah untuk mencintai...bukan membenci Pilihlah untuk tertawa...bukan menangis Pilihlah untuk mencipta...bukan merusak Pilihlah untuk gigih bertahan...bukan menyerah Pilihlah untuk memuji...bukan bergosip Pilihlah untuk menyembuhkan...bukan melukai Pilihlah untuk memberi...bukan mencuri Pilihlah untuk bertindak...bukan menunda-nunda Pilihlah untuk tumbuh...bukan membusuk | Og Mandino | ||
| 65f4738 | most of us build prisons for ourselves and after we occupy them for a period of time we become accustomed to their walls and accept the false premise that we are incarcerated for life. As soon as that belief takes hold of us we abandon hope of ever doing more with our lives and of ever giving our dreams a chance to be fulfilled. We become puppets and begin to suffer living deaths. It may be praiseworthy and noble to sacrifice your life to a.. | Og Mandino | ||
| e84a40d | Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage -- | Terri Blackstock | ||
| 59ff758 | I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop. | life uncertainty | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| bca0507 | Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law." "They are? Only from on top." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 84c4a2a | To the everlasting glory of the Infantry-- | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 29c05e3 | If tempted by something that feels "altruistic," examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!" | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| da4ce02 | If it has to be done, a man--a real man--shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c3bd638 | There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. | preparation | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 67c713a | The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert A. Heinlein | Larry Niven | ||
| 28b3db2 | To die trying is the proudest humans thing. | mortality self-sacrifice | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 5658ae9 | To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor - Harshaw merely wished to live exactly as he liked, doing whatever he thought was best for him. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 50392dd | I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c00fa83 | I am all that I grok. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 03ee19d | He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f175b33 | Don't flash an immediate smile when you greet someone, as though anyone who walked into your line of sight would be the beneficiary. Instead, look at the other person's face for a second. Pause. Soak in their persona. Then let a big, warm, responsive smile flood over your face and overflow into your eyes. It will engulf the recipient like a warm wave. The split-second delay convinces people your flooding smile is genuine and only for them. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 7da6b44 | A wise politician, when asked if he were for or against Prohibition, answered: If by alcohol, you mean the dangerous drink which destroys families, than I am fully for Prohibition. But if, by alcohol, you mean noble drink which promotes good fellowship and makes every meal a pleasure, then I am against it. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| dce8320 | You wanted me to fuck you, didn't you?" Stephen shut his eyes. "Briefly." Crane lowered his head so his mouth was right on Stephen's ear, voice vibrating, teeth and tongue touching the sensitive flesh. "When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you." -- | K.J. Charles | ||
| 7a83f2a | A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair was black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek. I looked at her and she disturbed me and made me very excited. I wished I could put her in the story, or anywhere, but she had placed herself so she could watch.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| af3eaab | Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 022320b | Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 3068c72 | The hell with my arm. You lose an arm you lose an arm. There's worse things than lose an arm. You've got two arms and you've got two of something else. And a man's still a man with one arm or with one of those. The hell with it,' he says. . . .after a minute he says, 'I got those other two still. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f53d4bc | my family's going to eat as long as anybody eats. What they're trying to do is starve you Conchs out of here so they can burn down the shacks and put up apartments and make this a tourist town. That's what I hear. I hear they're buying up lots, and then after the poor people are starved out and gone somewhere else to starve some more they're going to come in and make it into a beauty spot for tourists. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c554c36 | It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you cared about nothing else and other things seemed inexistent. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 78de959 | I shouldn't have gone out so far, fish," he said. "Neither for you nor for me. I'm sorry, fish." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d2d75c3 | You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true. | hemingway winner-take-nothing | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 8185d4b | He was completely detached from every thing except the story he was writing and he was living in it as he built it. The difficult parts he had dreaded he now faced one after another and as he did the people, the country, the days and the nights, and the weather were all there as he wrote. He went on working and he felt as tired as if he had spent the night crossing the broken volcanic desert and the sun had caught him and the others with th.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| dfc92b8 | Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed. That was the saddest thing I ever saw with them, the old man thought. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 88e936d | He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. ... This is the smell I love. This and fresh-cut clover, the crushed sage as you ride after cattle, wood-smoke and the burning leaves of autumn. That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. Which would.. | for-whom-the-bell-tolls nostalgia odor-of-nostalgia robert-jordan | Ernest Hemingway |