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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 633107e | A slice of spumoni wouldn't have melted on her now. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| c593793 | Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue youi could get better somewhere else. | hollywood los-angeles | Raymond Chandler | |
| 09ae7e5 | I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets. | philip-marlowe scarecrows so-noir-it-hurts | Raymond Chandler | |
| f8da987 | Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds. | vitality writing | Raymond Chandler | |
| a0ecfdb | so that for these few moments it actually seems that Ruprecht could be right, that everything, or at least the small corner of everything that is the Seabrook Sports Hall, is resonating to the same chord, the same feeling, the one that over a lifetime you learn a million ways to camouflage but never quite to banish - the feeling living in a world of apartness, of distances you cannot overcome; it's almost as if the strange out-of-nowhere vo.. | Paul Murray | ||
| fe4f600 | And even though it didn't work, it did sort of work, because when we're all together, it's like Skippy's there too, because each of us has his own little jigsaw piece of him he remembers, and when you fit them all together, and you make the whole picture, then it's like he comes to life. | Paul Murray | ||
| ea7733e | Liam was too Scottish-' 'Oh but Scottish, Bel! Come on, the ? The interminable quotations from ? Anyone who's of coming from Scotland obviously has issues- | Paul Murray | ||
| 83f641c | His name was Paul Eluard, and he said this thing once: There is another world, but it is in this one. Ruprecht looked baffled. It's about how -- she could feel herself going red, she squeezed her eyes shut, trying to remember what Mr Scott had told them -- like, how people are always going somewhere? Like everybody's always trying to be not where they are? Like they want to be in Stanford, or in Tuscany, or in Heaven, or in a bigger house o.. | Paul Murray | ||
| 8178d20 | When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't it? ... Well, I mean to say, one day we'll all leave here and become scientists and bank clerks and driving instructors and hotel managers -- the fabric of society, so to speak. But in the meantime, that fabric, that is to say, us, the , is crowded into one tiny little point where none of the laws of society applies, viz., this school. -Ruprecht | Paul Murray | ||
| ded9312 | I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think -- just ask my critics. | multiple-drafts-model qualia | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 23eaa41 | Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 6952823 | Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other sp.. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 3632e82 | The man who waits for reality to write the truth inside his soul waits in vain. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 930b194 | End of story. 'Happily ever after' fell on everyone like a guillotine's blade. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 7946967 | The point of sex is... Sex doesn't have a point. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| e8e12af | The problem with the truth is, it's so often mild and cliched. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 3f2f720 | He believes that a real work of art can be owned but should not be subject to capture; that it should radiate such authority, such bizarre but confident beauty (or unbeauty) that it can't be undone by even the most ludicrous sofas or side tables. A real work of art should rule the room, and the clients should call up not to complain about the art but to say that the art has helped them understand how the room is all a horrible mistake, can .. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 5882ed3 | It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| d4b9b84 | If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I cant go on spoiling your life any longer. I dont think two people could have been happier than we have been. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 6ec9436 | We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we . | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4618bc9 | The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it to be. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4ef9381 | I'm here to say that you can't make the troubled waters of life go away by defending yourself against them. You can only walk over those troubled waters if you offer peace to them and leave the safety of your boat. | Ted Dekker | ||
| d7603b8 | You are not your mind. You are not your body. You are not even your beliefs-these are only of this world, mere flesh and blood and a few electrochemical reactions. You, my friend, are far greater than this. Be still and know, not with your mind, but with that which is beyond your mind. Are these words true to you? | Ted Dekker | ||
| d598afd | My name is Gerhard Braun, and I am God. | obsessed ted-dekker | Ted Dekker | |
| 18014f2 | The Great Romance is for you. If only one of you would have followed me, the heavens would not have been able to contain my cries of joy. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 5c82f6c | If you look to anyone to satisfy your longing, you will think you need something more than him and what he has made you to be complete and at peace. The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you, and you will hold grievances that darken your world. You will become blind to the light that guides to the narrow path. You were taught this on the mountain alone, and yet among others you forget. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 1bb698c | Women could be quite crafty, he knew that much. His father said it often. Smarter than men, too, most of the time. You had to know your way around if you wanted to fall in love with a woman. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 79e42c9 | Now I've given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don't care if I write a great book anymore, but just one which, whatever its flaws, will leave a record of my impossible life. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| d3e3499 | He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders, as if he'd been a naughty boy. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| efa1490 | Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called "Of Grammatology". When Madeleine asked what the book was about, she was given to understand by Whitney that the idea of a book being "about" something was exactly what this book was against, and that, if it was "about" anything, then it was about the need to stop thinking of books as being about things." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| e807224 | But as I peeked at my brother's inert body....I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable. | gender-based-discrimination war | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 8a0d27c | I went to church. It didn't help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| aa05082 | Here it comes, I thought. The first ex-boyfriend had been summoned. Soon the rest would follow. They would file around the table, presenting their deficiencies, telling of their addictions, their cheating hearts... But that didn't happen with Julie. This was because Julie isn't husband-hunting. So she didn't have to interview me for the job. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b44ead1 | Shit. What have kids got to be worried about now? If they want trouble, they should go live in Bangladesh. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b11730a | His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 15a77f9 | In between calls, she lay on her side, thinking about calling. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 612dab9 | She was always saying, 'Fuck this school,' or 'I can't wait until I get out of here.' But so did lots of kids. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
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| 5b47f2b | It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 609bb52 | Dear Mom and Dad, I know you're only trying to do what's best for me, but I don't think anyone knows for sure what's best. I love you and don't want to be a problem, so I've decided to go away. I know you'll say I'm not a problem, but I know I am. If you want to know why I'm doing this, you should ask Dr. Luce, who is a big liar! I am not a girl. I'm a boy. That's what I found out today. So I'm going where no one knows me. Everyone in Gross.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 38482b5 | This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b082bbb | Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens? The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell. | survival | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| b0f6bf6 | Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril; | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 86fb6c6 | The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his death had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood, his laborious efforts to educate himself, his string of political failures, and a depression so profound that he declared himself more than willing to die, except that "he had done nothing to make any human being remember that he had lived." | Doris Kearns Goodwin |