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| b866797 | You must not fear or hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and your feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to receive, to nourish yourself, and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow. Allow for the rise in temperature and all the expansions .. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b968c21 | You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka,' I said. 'That is what our age is supposed to have produced because the tension between the masculine and the feminine has broken down, people are mostly half of one and half of the other. But I have never seen it before--actually, physically. It must make you very unhappy. | hermaphrodite sexuality | Anaïs Nin | |
| f430aad | while the rest of the show continued, she made her round of the boxes. There, on request, she knelt before a man, unbuttoned his pants, took his penis in her jeweled hands, and with a neatness of touch, an expertness, a subtlety few women had ever developed, sucked at it until he was satisfied. Her two hands were as active as her mouth. The titillation almost deprived each man of his senses. The elasticity of her hands; the variety of rhyth.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| cbfc116 | No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies... | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| aea0d77 | There are women's voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change. I believe that all these legends about people changing into animals at night - like the stories of the werewolf, for instance - were invented by men who saw women transformed at night - from idealized, worshipful creatures into animals and thought that they were possessed. | wild | Anaïs Nin | |
| a2fa30b | Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was us.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 971be76 | There is one thing above all others that I despise. It is fingers, especially female fingers, messing around in my guts. My guts, like Victorian marriage, are private. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| b1394c0 | Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 305c98f | After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 003932f | The clear lesson of New England's history is that when there are not enough suitable men around to run the world, women are perfectly capable of doing so. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| b3a591b | Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary. | philosophy survival | Wallace Stegner | |
| c0ac46a | We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...] My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents.. | build-up chronology development existentialism family generation-gap history life modernity past present time | Wallace Stegner | |
| 698a57f | The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 5b20f45 | When you treat people like children, you get children's work. | Jason Fried | ||
| 1db6792 | Plans let past drives the future. | Jason Fried | ||
| 72ba74c | Press Releases are spam | Jason Fried | ||
| bb618fa | Marketing is not a department Do you have a marketing department? If not, good. If you do, don't think these are the only people responsible for marketing. Accounting is a department. Marketing isn't. Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365. Just as you cannot not communicate, you cannot not market: Every time you answer the phone, it's marketing. Every time you send an e-mail, it's marketing. Every time someone us.. | Jason Fried | ||
| 3a04236 | Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish." "Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish." | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| d09905d | What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child." | literacy-children read-aloud reading | Jim Trelease | |
| 9387658 | For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 70e96d9 | When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must--at that moment--become the center of the universe. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| c154ab9 | Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| a0d413c | With the years and convulsions of history, the word-as reductionist as the dictionary itself-has undergone absurd metamorphoses. In some countries, they prefer the word "destabilization." Poor" countries no longer exist, just "disadvantaged" or "underprivileged" ones. We say "brainwashing" instead of "propaganda." And now we refer to revolutions in fashion, music and electronics, where ink flows but not blood. The point is profit, not truth.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| b5bdb55 | Where is God to be found? In suffering or in rebellion? When is a man most truly a man? When he submits or when he refuses? Where does suffering lead him? To purification or to bestiality? | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 0816cff | There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928) You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 62f33c0 | I was the accuser, God the accused. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| b0e669b | How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy? | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 4e48210 | In retrospect I must confess that I do not know, or no longer know, what I wanted to achieve with my words. I only know that without this testimony, my life as a writer--or my life, period--would not have become what it is: that of a witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 90b3d65 | Elveszni talan nem is olyan rossz. | Ken Kesey | ||
| df8089c | If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| f6f57ab | Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon. | Susan Howatch | ||
| 26fc479 | we honor the people we lost by loving again. | honor love second-chances | Marie Force | |
| 543396a | Oh, poor baby," she said, mimicking his drawl. "Whew. You're back. There was this other Susie here a minute ago, and she was really nice to me. She scared the shit out of me." She laughed. "They locked her back up in the loony bin." "Good, because there's only one Susie for me--the one who calls me on my crap and doesn't let me get away with jack shit. That's the Susie I need. That's the Susie I've missed coming home to over the last year.".. | love pain | Marie Force | |
| 838624a | In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful. Do you not acta similar part, when you force all women, by denying them civil and political rights, to remain immured in their families groping in the dark? | Mary Wollstonecraft | ||
| b8e888b | They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; | fight infectious | Stevenson Robert Louis | |
| 961e94d | A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 1240b00 | I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suff.. | inner-conflict self | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 06a4545 | I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| c9b62e1 | It was Stevenson, I think, who most notably that there are some places that simply demand a story should be told of them. ... After all, perhaps Stevenson had only half of the matter. It is true there are places which stir the mind to think that a story must be told about them. But there are also, I believe, places which have their story stored already, and want to tell this to us, through whatever powers they can; through our legends and l.. | genius-loci horror legend location place psychogeography robert-louis-stevenson story | Mark Valentine | |
| df384cb | my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1ddd759 | What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2de7d9b | I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5ef5958 | If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 724d798 | It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it. | Tom Robbins |