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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ecd5403 | What's that? You've never heard of the freshman thirty-five? That's funny, because neither had my parents, who welcomed me home on spring vacation with mild horror. I was a vaguely familiar food monster who had eaten their daughter. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 246fe46 | As an adult, I've met an ocean of divorced people. I might even know more divorced people than married people, because I live in godless Los Angeles, where if you're engaged it simply means you're publicly announcing that you are dating a person monogamishly. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 4873b67 | I know a small part of you thinks you could've ended up with Natalie Portman if you had played things a little differently. That's nice. You can have that. That's not hurting anybody. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2168d2b | Gail loved to talk about how stressed she was. She would do this thing where we'd be walking in the hallway, and suddenly she'd stop in her tracks, rub both of her temples with her index and middle fingers, and theatrically let out a deep guttural moan: "Mooooog." "Mooog. Minz. I am just so stressed out," she'd say. "I just want to go home, open a bottle of red wine, draw up a hot bath, light some candles and listen to David Gray." A note .. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 9e19fc6 | If you're reading this, you're probably a woman. Or perhaps you're a gay man getting a present for your even gayer friend. Maybe you accidentally bought this thinking it was the Malala book. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| aa066c5 | So much of college is girls labeling other girls terrible things when they don't like their behavior, but using concerned language so they have plausible deniability is they get accused of being bitches: That girl is not cheerfully doing what the rest of us are doing, so she is probably 'depressed' or 'has an eating disorder' or 'is weird with guys,' and so on. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 063a3e7 | When I pick songs for karaoke, I have three concerns: (1) What will this song say about me? (2) How will I sound singing it? and (3) How will it make people feel? | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f9e73de | It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f46600b | Thank you, Teach for America! Luring away America's finest minds so that the rest of us can snatch up their jobs.) | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ecaca33 | That is why I, a noted Hollywood bad boy with nothing to lose, must be the person to tell the truth. Sex scenes are the tits. You're welcome. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e7cc0fb | IF OUR PHONE CONVERSATION GETS DISCONNECTED, THERE'S NO NEED TO CALL BACK I get it. You get it. We take forever getting off the phone anyway. This was a blessing. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 730dc49 | If you're Natalie Dormer, you can take big fashion risks and shave half your head, and it looks good. If you're a normal person and you try that, you just look like you had recent brain surgery. | humor | Mindy Kaling | |
| c128114 | que a gente carece de fingir as vezes que raiva tem, mas raiva mesma nunca se deve de tolerar de ter. Porque, quando se curte raiva de alguem, e a mesma coisa que se autorizar que essa propria pessoa passe durante o tempo governando a ideia e o sentir da gente; o que isso era falta de soberania, e farta bobice, e fato e. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 86e51df | Quem muito se evita, se convive | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| e9f56a6 | A gente quer passar um rio a nado, e passa; mas vai dar na outra banda e num ponto muito mais embaixo, bem diverso do em que primeiro se pensou. Viver nem nao e muito perigoso? | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 19404e3 | Todo amor nao e uma especie de comparacao? | comparação | João Guimarães Rosa | |
| bb766e6 | Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in books, the Sixth Patriarch was saying, is like mistaking the finger for the moon. The moon and the finger are not the same thing. "Not same," old Jiko would have said. "Not different, either." | books ruth-ozeki truths | Ruth Ozeki | |
| b0fb9a2 | Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 31ed57f | Do you have a cat and is she sitting on your lap? Does her forehead smell like cedar trees and fresh sweet air? | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| b2df37e | Everybody has fishes in their stomach so does Jiko. But the biggest fish of all belonged to Haruki#1 and it was more like a whale. After she has become a nun, she learned how to open up her heart so that the whale could swim away. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 708f17c | Now that I think of it, maybe she loves him because all his problems give her so much to pray about, and when you're as old as she is , and your body is like enough already, you need some pretty powerful reasons to stay alive. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| e774bc2 | Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 757d18f | Sometimes you don't need words to say what's in your heart. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 0295ea5 | Bullshitting god would be Max's plan in a nutshell. Miles could even guess his father's opening gambit. He'd point out to God that if He expected better results, He ought to have given Max better character to work with, instead of sending him into battle so poorly equipped. | Richard Russo | ||
| a3993be | The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored. | Richard Russo | ||
| 630f8b4 | He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other. | Richard Russo | ||
| 4992373 | But of course everything had conspired to spoil her entrance, which only went to prove what Janine already knew: that no matter how well you planned something, God always planned better. If He was feeling stingy that day and didn't want you to have some little thing you had your heart set on, then you weren't going to get it and that was all there was to it. | Richard Russo | ||
| 4cd6eb5 | Throughout his life a case study underachiever, Sully--people still remarked--was nobody's fool, a phrase that Sully no doubt appreciated without ever sensing its literal application--that at sixty, he was divorced from his own wife, carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, estranged from his son, devoid of self-knowledge, badly crippled and virtually unemployable--all of which he stubbornly confused with independence. | Richard Russo | ||
| b62c868 | There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original. | Richard Russo | ||
| 7d6556f | Tick's strategy for dealing with lying adults is to say nothing and watch thee lies swell and constrict in their throats. when this happens, the lie takes on a physical life of its own and must be either expelled or swallowed. Most adults prefer to expel untruths with little burplike coughs behind their hands, while others chuckle or snort or make barking sounds. When Mr. Meyer's Adam's apple bobs once, Tick sees that he's a swallower, and .. | Richard Russo | ||
| 347ddd0 | Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own...Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do... | Richard Russo | ||
| 7c30521 | If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity." Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad." | Richard Russo | ||
| b565aa2 | And now, while he didn't particularly think any of these stories was a bit truer, he did realize that he didn't really know his wife at all; and that in fact the entire conception of knowing another person--of trust, of closeness, of marriage itself--while not exactly a lie since it existed if only as an idea (in his parents' life, at least marginally) was still completely out-of-date, defunct, was something typifying another era, now unf.. | marriage | Richard Ford | |
| 8d4b4c0 | You survived. Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?" I don't, of course, believe this. Most things that don't kill us right off, kill us later." | Richard Ford | ||
| 35953c3 | It was on such a night as this that the unhappy things came about. | Richard Ford | ||
| d43e909 | And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people are concerned--even the people who love you--and that is all right. It can be lived with. | Richard Ford | ||
| e8e046a | She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic. | life memories nostalgia siblings | Richard Ford | |
| 0f7ece7 | I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people--men and women alike--could go on to happier, more productive lives. | writing | Richard Ford | |
| 20d0929 | Such mental haziness is in order, given the delightful vagueness of the terrain. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 39947a7 | What is a woman to me? The answer must be: A projection. Who is projecting, and for what reason, I cannot necessarily know from the performance itself. Mr. Umewaka and Mr. Mikata do not when playing their feminine roles feel themselves to be women; they strive, as I so often in my wonderment repeat, to be nothing; yet when they enact women I see them as women. Meanwhile the psyche within a male body which mechanically performs itself as suc.. | masks womanhood | William T. Vollmann | |
| cfcb646 | The reformed addict who feels the craving almost believes in it, then merely smiles... | William T. Vollmann | ||
| e9857a5 | I do most sincerely believe that ethical behavior as we best construe it ought to be followed by us throughout our lives, even on the last day of life, and that if we have made a bad or even evil choice we are not barred (or excused) thereby from continuing to live the last moments or years given to us in whatever way we consider to be most right. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 8dd97d6 | Anyone who would pay to have sex with a woman who has no options deserves to get ripped off. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 63670f1 | When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it. | feminism | Hilary Mantel |