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| aefd29f | Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my wo.. | cynical cynicism home loyalty noir perfidy ptsd soldier strength war weakness world-war-ii ww-ii | Cornell Woolrich | |
| e1d3afa | Now the evening's at its noon, its meridian. The outgoing tide has simmered down, and there's a lull-like the calm in the eye of a hurricane - before the reverse tide starts to set in. The last acts of the three-act plays are now on, and the after-theater eating places are beginning to fill up with early comers; Danny's and Lindy's - yes, and Horn & Hardart too. Everybody has got where they wanted to go - and that was out somewhere. Now eve.. | evening midnight new-york-city night the-blue-hour twilight | Cornell Woolrich | |
| a2d318b | It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too. ("New York Blues")" | hide hiding | Cornell Woolrich | |
| f3c2767 | Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did. | Cornell Woolrich | ||
| b526d9b | La razon posee una naturaleza pulcra y hacendosa y siempre se esfuerza por llenar de causas y efectos todos los misterios con los que se topa, al contrario de la imaginacion (la loca de la casa, como la llamaba Santa Teresa de Jesus), que es pura desmesura y deslumbrante caos. | literatura-española rosa-montero teresa-de-jesús | Rosa Montero | |
| 08465d7 | I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| d78f916 | They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 5c287da | Nostalgia is cowardice | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 176d081 | lae shaewYkhy dLgyr hych shtYkh zoertr lae khwYndny khtYbYkhy bsh mroev hYwr nkhtaewae, nae saeyrkhrdny fylm w nae gwYgrtn lae moesyq. bkhaewy w bkhwYny w bYkhaeyLy `laem w y'daem w dny byt. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 20cae8c | That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure. | Molière | ||
| 72b6891 | Loin d'etre aux lois d'un homme en esclave asservie, Mariez-vous, ma soeur, a la philosophie. | Molière | ||
| 374acad | Birth means nothing where there is no virtue. | Molière | ||
| 846e535 | She was a literal person who did not read, she was content rather than curious about the world. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 28f1f1b | The trick was to understand America, to know that America was give-and-take. You gave up a lot but you gained a lot, too. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 450ce84 | My Fellow Non-American Blacks: In America, You Are Black, Baby Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care. So what if you weren't "black" in your country? You're in America now. We all have our moments of initiation into the Society of Former Negroes. Mine was in a class in undergrad when I was asked to give the black pe.. | race | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 1b56e08 | Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor. | stereotypes | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 1950397 | We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b057823 | Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit. | spirit | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 9c3ff64 | Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 487e98f | The waiters are products of a society that has taught them that men are more important than women. And I know the waiters don't intend any harm, but it is one thing to know intellectually, and quite another to feel it emotionally. Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I feel upset. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, that I am just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are little things but sometimes it's the little .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b89023e | They ticked the boxes of a certain kind of enlightened, educated middle-classness, the love of dresses that were more interesting than pretty, the love of the eclectic, the love of what they were supposed to love. Ifemelu imagined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 95a7c4f | If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem "natural" that only men should be heads of corporations." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ecbacee | Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we should begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| eb93e4c | To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| beb4a36 | there is nothing more beautiful than what God gave me. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f49af40 | Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| da1b6b4 | Show her that she does not need to be liked by everyone. Tell her that if someone does not like her, there will be someone else who will. Teach her that she not merely an object to be liked or disliked, she is also a subject who can like and dislike. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6bf83dd | But by far the worst thing we do to males -- by making them feel they have to be hard -- is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. | masculine-bravado masculinity toxic-masculinity | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| ca3e801 | As the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes, "It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| a93f1e7 | Que duda cabe que el mundo que conocemos es el resultado del reflejo de la parte de cosmos del horizonte sensible en nuestro cerebro? Este reflejo unido, contrastado, con las imagenes reflejadas en los cerebros de los demas hombres que han vivido y que viven, es nuestro conocimiento del mundo, es nuestro mundo. ?Es asi, en realidad, fuera de nosotros? No lo sabemos, no lo podremos saber jamas. | Pío Baroja | ||
| a39ba64 | In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did not exist in any spy thriller. 35 | Amos Oz | ||
| a422cef | Vseki ot nas e poluostrov, napolovina sv'rzan s's sushata, napolovina ob'rnat k'm okeana. Ednata ni polovina e sv'rzana zdravo s's semeistvoto, priiatelite, kulturata, mestnata traditsiia, natsiiata, pola, ezika i mnogo drugi neshcha, a drugata polovina iska svobodata da se ob'rne k'm okeana. | Amos Oz | ||
| 4ae21ae | Faith, coming from the lack of faith: as much as the faith in oneself is demolished, as much the intoxicating faith in the salvation becomes strong and the desperate need to be save grows. The savior is that much great, as you're small, insignificant and unworthy. Anri Begrson writes: "It's not true that faith can move mountains. On the contrary, the main thing in faith is the ability not to notice anything, even the moving of the mountain .. | Amos Oz | ||
| 27bb3b1 | La vida es demasiado breve como para vivir el numero suficiente de experiencas, es necesario robarlas. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| b1e6df9 | I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| b0b664a | Envejecer es un desastre. Lo logico seria que todos los que ven declinar sus vidas gritaran de espanto, no se resignaran a un futuro de mandibula colgando y babeo irremediable, y aun menos a ese brutal despedazarse que es la muerte, porque morir es rasgarse en mil pedazos que empiezan a desperdigarse vertiginosamente para siempre, sin testigos. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| fd95dda | I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay? | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| b0c2264 | As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 3a1bc29 | Esos movimientos de rebeldia que tenemos en la sangre nosotros los mexicanos surgen como rios desbocanados en mis venas. | spanish | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | |
| db16edd | And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not suffer from any known "chemical imbalance". However, once a person is put on a psychiatric medication, which, in one manner or another, throws a wrench into the usual mechanics of a neuronal pathway, his or her brain begins to function, as Hyman observed, abnormally." | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 144a4ab | But you don't know what I want, do you. You formed an idea of who I am and What I do, and you've woven that idea in your life. You may listen to my words, but you don't hear my thoughts. You don't hear my needs. You don't see me. You haven't seen me in years. | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| 645ed8d | I agree that is it important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are cause by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 0656011 | May the stars watch over you. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 0641e6d | The true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt. | christopher-paolini war | Christopher Paolini |