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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea5f409 | Can barely look in the mirror. I've been way too uncomfortable to try and shave and I've grown a thin, scraggy ginger beard which looks redder and thicker than it is, cause of the spots on my face. The yellowheads are repulsive enough, but it's two big boil-like fuckers on my cheek and forehead that cause the distress. They throb under the surface of my skin like a Peter Hook bassline, hurting my face every time I try to move it. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f00a220 | Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade e meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade por omissao, por nao fazer nada porque nao me importo com ninguem o suficiente pra intervir e tal, com excecao das pessoa que eu conheco bem . Por que nao consigo me importar com todo mundo do jeito que me importo com quem eu conheco? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| a856b77 | Es mas facil querer a alguna gente a distancia. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ee309fa | Poor Spud's too pished tae pick up the vibe but, n he's still guan on: -- Naw bit that wis amazing, see if ah could sing like you, Franco - -- Shut the fuck up, Begbie says wi soft menace. Nicksy looks ower tae me wi a fraught, raised brow. -- But ah'm jist sayin - Spud pleads. -- Ah sais tae fuckin well shut it! Right! Spud falls silent, as does the rest ay the room. We all instantly understand how Begbie sees that this wee fragment ay .. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d35d3fa | This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2133d0c | Aye, Charlene's fucked off. She's goat this boyfriend. He's just gittin back oot the jail. Renton taps up a vein in his wrist. -- Well that ain't gonna help. -- It isnae aboot helping, it's aboot being. If being Scottish is about one thing, it's aboot gittin fucked up, Renton explains, working the needle slowly into his flesh. -- Tae us intoxication isnae just a huge laugh, or even a basic human right. It's a way ay life, a political philo.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ac63964 | begbi axla imas mebazreba, ra magari bichi var da imedi ak`vs, ro mec` igives vetqvi. hoda, mec` vemorch`ilebi. rag'ac` xans begbist`vis damaxasiat`ebeli sareklamo shous saqrdeni vxdebi, p`xizel masts vt`amashob da saz'mos begbis c`xovrebidan ramdenime klasikur epizods vuqvebi. eg epizodebi mocmobs, ra magari tipia da rogori sanasheno bug'aa. roc`a am mit`ebs sxvebi qvebian, bevrad damajereblad zhg'ers xolme. mere ch`ven orni baridan gamovd.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| e167e6d | Pero tener buen corazon solo sirve para que algunos quieran clavarte un cuchillo en el. Lo consideran un objetivo, como si fuera la diana de los dardos. Dicen: "Vamos a por ese buen corazon." | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 9570657 | Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 8056b01 | You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any. | sin tears | Leif Enger | |
| 7624805 | C'mon, she says, moving into the darkness. I look into the darkness, but I can't see her, I can only hear her voice. -- C'mon, she shouts. -- I can't, I shout. -- Don't be scared, she says. But I am. I look back onto the observation floor and it's light. Out here is light and she's trying to lead me into the darkness. I know if I start after her now I'll never be able to catch up with her. It's not normal dark down there, it's not shades of.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ce9ce53 | La vita si puo capire solo riandando indietro, ma devi viverla andando avanti. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f05c688 | She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d7a69e5 | Ah wis gaunny say thit Tommy hud a choice; wee Maria disnae. Aw that would huv done wis precipitate an argument aboot whair choice began and ended. How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? Wish tae fuck ah knew. Wish tae fuck ah knew anything. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 38ca788 | Another cunt oaf ma fuckin Christmas caird list. -Didnae ken ye kept a list, likesay, Franco... -Every cunt keeps a fuckn list. He taps his heid, -A Christmas caird list, n that cunt's fuckin well oaf it! | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 19b160e | Female sexual turn on begins, ironically, with a brain turn off. The impulses can rush to the pleasure centers and trigger orgasm only if the amygdala- the fear and anxiety center of the brain- has been deactivated. The fact that a woman requires this extra neurological step may account for why it takes her on average three to ten times longer than the typical man to reach orgasm. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| 6ffd024 | The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 6b98bbd | For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask the questions arrive at my answers or Marshall McLuhan's (quite different answers, by the way). This is an instance in which the asking of the questions is sufficient. To ask is to break the spell. | culture ideology technology | Neil Postman | |
| 24955cc | Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were, having infallibility in their own area of experience. Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended by a mere stepping-up or di.. | rationality | Marshall McLuhan | |
| b54ae0f | Whatever emotional state you're in while you're parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message." | parenting-quotes parenting-teens parenting-tips teenagers-and-parents | Michael Y. Simon | |
| 5cef2f1 | It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the world just as the world is attempting to maximize every form of alert. Sound-light shows, as new cliche, are in effect mergers, retrievers of the tribal condition. It is a state that has already overtaken private enterpris.. | digital-culture media-studies sociology surveillance-society | Marshall McLuhan | |
| e3058c1 | Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 55a27e7 | Don't waste an opportunity for happiness. Just be wise. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 548bba7 | Money is just dirty paper with dead presidents' pictures on it. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 6b00382 | Any kid what begs for a whippin' can find one. | whooping | Carolyn Brown | |
| cf1b22c | Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 3bd0efd | Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. | biology chemical-evolution darwinism evolution id intelligent-design origin-of-information origin-of-life science | Paul Davies | |
| a3433b7 | I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade. (So why write novels? Indeed, why! I suppose we have to go on living ...) | novel writing | Doris Lessing | |
| 6708c59 | The nightmare takes various forms, comes in sleep, or in wakefulness, and can be pictured most simply like this: There is a blindfolded man standing with his back to the brick wall. He has been tortured nearly to death. Opposite him are six men with their rifles raised ready to shoot, commanded by a seventh, who has his hand raised, When he drops his hand, the shots will ring out, and the prisoner will fall dead. But suddenly there is somet.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| fc99a95 | There are people in the world all the time who know" the professor said. "But they keep quiet. They just move about quietly, saving the people who know they are in the trap. And then, for the ones who have got out, it's like coming around from chloroform. They realize that all their lives they've been asleep and dreaming. And then it's their turn to learn the rules and the timing. And they become the ones to live quietly in the world, just .. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 7f8ce71 | So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is. | love | Doris Lessing | |
| b2da1b8 | In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I am on my side, she crouches looking into my face. Soft, soft touches of her paw. I open my eyes, say I don't want to wake. I close my eyes. Cat gently pats my eyelids. Cat licks my nose. Cat starts purring, two inches from my face. Cat, then, as I lie pretending to be asleep, delicately bites my nose. I laugh and sit up. At which sh.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 7980494 | You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all. | Leif Enger | ||
| 199daf6 | For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 1713e1e | Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| db16665 | for his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace. | Leif Enger | ||
| d1c0619 | A person never knows what is next--I don't anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all. | unexpected | Leif Enger | |
| 9aceed1 | how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 3103e0f | But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| 6ee8613 | He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| 6c7580f | You're a sleazy defense lawyer with two ex-wifes and an eight-year-old daughter and we all love you. | Michael Connelly | ||
| d5a0b1b | It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b42c89b | Slowly, his eyes came up and he looked through the kitchen window and out through the Cahuenga Pass. The lights of Hollywood glimmered in the cut, a mirror reflection of the stars of all galaxies everywhere. He thought about all that was bad out there. A city with more things wrong than right. A place where the earth could open up beneath you and suck you into the blackness. A city of lost light. His city. It was all of that and, still, alw.. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 322f9c1 | If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. | Michael Connelly |