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| 6652761 | And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and, so far as literature can, to reality, needs to have seen many churches in order to paint one church and for the portrayal of a single sentiment requires many individuals. For if art is long and life is short, we may on the other hand say that, if inspiration is short, the sentiments which it has to portray are not of m.. | Marcel Proust | ||
| baaa41a | She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries. | class elitism humor servants society | Marcel Proust | |
| 9e95de0 | For regret, like desire, seeks not to analyse but to gratify itself. When one begins to love, one spends one's time, not in getting to know what one's love really is, but in arranging for tomorrow's rendezvous. | Marcel Proust | ||
| a9a7033 | Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 8983368 | Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death which severs it will cure us of the desire for immortality. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 559223a | Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist. | charles-dickens gustave-flaubert katherine-anne-porter marcel-proust sidonie-gabrielle-colette willa-cather william-makepeace-thackeray | Truman Capote | |
| 13ce48f | But not in "normal" people like me. They don't realize that evil lives on their street. Works in the cubicle next to them. Chats with them in the checkout line at CVS. Reads a paperback on the train next to them. Runs on a treadmill at their gym. Or marries their daughter. We're here, and we prey on you. We target you. We groom you." | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 5d361a2 | Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. | Charles MacKay | ||
| 03bb7b7 | Presently comfort came to him, and he thought the she had always given him of her strength though he had never quite realised it until now. Glory had passed him by; fame too perhaps would not endure; it might well be that the incalculable goddess would decree ill fame as his due. Perhaps there might not be included in his epitah the one tribute to his knighthood the he knew he deserved "Ii fut toujours bon et loyal chevalier" (He was always.. | Anya Seton | ||
| aab9360 | And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot to be white, it was a searing ghost at the frontiers of the ultraviolet, burning its planets with radiations which would be instantly lethal to all earthly forms of life. For millions of kilometers around extended great veils of gas and dust, fluorescing in countless colors as the blasts of ultraviolet tore through them. It was a star aga.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 42b4674 | any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 6948622 | A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 0f9cdda | The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice. | meteors population-density space | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 9cc4be8 | For Jan was still suffering from the romantic illusion-the cause of so much misery and so much poetry-that every man has only one real love in his life. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 5261b29 | Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 5fb7516 | As Solomon himself had remarked, 'We can be sure of talent, we can only pray for genius.' But it was a reasonable hope that in such concentrated society some interesting reactions would take place. Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. So far, the conflict had produced worthwhile results in sculpture, music, literary criticism and film making. It was still too earl.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| dab0c51 | And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 6456fed | A person has integrity when there is no gap between intent and behavior...when he or she is whole, seamless, the same--inside and out. I call this "congruence." And it is congruence--not compliance--that will ultimately create credibility and trust." | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| a087631 | Practical intelligence is] practical in nature: that is, it's now knowledge for its own sake. It's knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b062276 | We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that-sometimes-we're better off that way. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3529969 | To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 059901d | the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| ac219b8 | Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d125e2f | It is a strange thing, isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning? | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b9f4dcc | There is a concept in cognitive psychology called the channel capacity, which refers to the amount of space in our brain for certain kinds of information. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 0257d0a | How you feel about your abilities--your academic "self-concept"--in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It's a crucial element in your motivation and confidence." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c4feae0 | So why don't Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, and when there are rules in place that assure you that tomorrow you won't be treated radically different from how you are treated today. Legitimacy is based on fairness, voice and predictability, and the U.S. government, as much as Americans lik.. | equality fairness government legitimacy taxation | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 0205717 | knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 48baf20 | The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in power | Chris Hedges | ||
| 8e2c793 | Frederick Douglass, a former slave, witnessed and described that exact phenomenon among his fellow slaves, many of whom were proud of how hard they worked for their masters and how faithfully they did as they were told. From their perspective, a runaway slave was a shameful thief, having "stolen" himself from the master." | Larken Rose | ||
| e216d27 | In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench... | Bernice L. McFadden | ||
| ff07fe2 | The very decided manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the truths he was uttering. It gave me the best assurance that I might rely with the utmost confidence on the results which, he said, would flow from teaching me to read. What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That whic.. | Frederick Douglass | ||
| 7a791c1 | He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. --FREDERICK DOUGLASS | James W. Loewen | ||
| 81223ea | When the Whispering Mountain shall scream aloud And the castle of Malyn ride on a cloud, Then Malyn's lord shall have and hold The lost that is found, the harp of gold. Then Fig-hat Ben shall wear a shroud, Then shall the despoiler, that was so proud, Plunge headlong down from Devil's Leap; Then shall the Children from darkness creep, And the men of the glen avoid disaster, And the Harp of Teirtu find her master. | Joan Aiken | ||
| 33c984f | He paused a moment, gazing in awe at the huge mass of buildings composing the castle. It stood close to the river, on either side and to the rear stretched the extensive park and gardens, filled with splendid trees, fountains and beds of brilliant flowers in shades of pink, crimson, and scarlet. The castle itself was built of pink granite, and enclosed completely a smaller, older building which the present Duke's father had considered too i.. | Joan Aiken | ||
| fef04f0 | I'm not writing a book of Western history,' I tell him. 'I've written enough history books to know this isn't one. I'm writing about something else. A marriage, I guess. Deadwood was just a blank space in the marriage. Why waste time on it?' Rodman is surprised. So am I, actually -- I have never formulated precisely what it is I have been doing, but the minute I say it I know I have said it right. What interests me in all these papers is no.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 22ac727 | No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| d4467e0 | It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e08f5ed | Family is family," sighed the gondolier. "Family is everything," declared Marta Gasperin" | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 4554ffb | Matter signals to its lost voyagers, telling them that their quest is vain, and that their homeland already lies in ashes behind them. | Nick Land | ||
| e6b0e37 | If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we fin.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 39db8b8 | Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 801e5f0 | Faith is a gift- and apparently there are a lot of Americans in the return line. There is a hostility toward religious faith today that didn't exist thirty or forty years ago - a creeping secularism that is attempting to push religion to the margins of the culture. The religiphobes have done a bang up job. From portraying people of faith as idiots and Koran burners to casting all clergy as pedophiles and money grubbers, the seculars have do.. | Laura Ingraham | ||
| eca6f2f | Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies. | Richard Dawkins |