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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a7f8ad2 | I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees. | Lawrence Block | ||
| cc82af0 | Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god. | haggle haiti rum | Wade Davis | |
| 92160c8 | Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole. | Wade Davis | ||
| e0ffab7 | and in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| ceb1a74 | Llena, pues, de palabras mi locura | Federico García Lorca | ||
| c931340 | El corazon Que tenia en la escuela Donde estuvo pintada La cartilla primera ?Esta en ti Noche negra Frio frio Como el agua Del rio. El primer beso Que supo a beso y fue Para mis labios ninos Como la lluvia fresca | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 7051f2c | Gelmek istemiyor gece.. Ne sen gelebiliyorsun o yuzden Ne de ben gidebiliyorum. Ama ben gidecegim. Akrepten bir gunes sakagimi yese de... | love | Federico García Lorca | |
| 869ad2c | But hurry! so united, entwined, mouths broken by love and soul bitten, time will find us destroyed | Federico García Lorca | ||
| df2e00c | Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers" | Chris Van Allsburg | ||
| 6ed0c92 | He had heard men talk of the unfairness of a death-bed repentance - as if it was an easy thing to break the habit of a life whether to do good or evil. | Graham Greene | ||
| fc26648 | The human liver, unless it is Graham Greene's, can take so much and no more. | drinking-alcohol drinking-quotes graham-greene | Anthony Burgess | |
| 3d08e3d | A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me. | Graham Greene | ||
| e953fb1 | how twisted we humans are, and yet they say a god made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any god wo is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as the air. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8c990aa | Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge. | Graham Greene | ||
| 01a0bd1 | Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan--it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8c59ea7 | There wasn't any point in being angry with anyone - the offender was too obviously myself... | Graham Greene | ||
| e84a24d | We most of us hesitate to make so complete a statement - we remember and we foresee and we doubt. She had no doubts. The moment only mattered. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space. What did time matter - all the past and the other men she may from time to time.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 6c7b9e1 | She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to. | Graham Greene | ||
| cf0f74c | And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed. | Graham Greene | ||
| e6973fc | Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. | Graham Greene | ||
| 72b81a4 | I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. | books doctor-fischer-of-geneva graham-greene love | Graham Greene | |
| a96e0e2 | My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman. | Graham Greene | ||
| f11d040 | But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1319d15 | In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act. | Graham Greene | ||
| 0099a6e | They deserved nothing less than the truth--a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose. | Graham Greene | ||
| f7228f8 | He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. | Graham Greene | ||
| 99f503a | Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality. | Graham Greene | ||
| b189711 | All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape left, nothing you could touch and say: this is Scobie. | Graham Greene | ||
| b4b5b52 | Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. | Graham Greene | ||
| aec6489 | We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism. | the-last-word-and-other-stories the-news-in-english | Graham Greene | |
| 402db87 | The Mayor about the fable of the Prodigal Son: 'But he came home.' 'Yes, his courage failed him. He felt very alone on that pig farm. There was no branch of the Party to which he could look for help. had not yet been written, so he was unable to situate himself in the class struggle. Is it any wonder that he wavered for a time, poor boy? | Graham Greene | ||
| ef758db | When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred. | hate hatred lesbian love man women | Graham Greene | |
| 3f1524f | He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests. | Graham McNeill | ||
| 12233f7 | The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, as old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled. They wrestled with mysteries and transformed them into myths which coded the world and helped the community to live through one more darkness, with eyes wide open and hearts set alight. "I can see them now, the old masters. I can see them standing on the other.. | Ben Okri | ||
| 984035a | The mark was from the glue that once held a folder into which a library card would have fitted back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth and computers were the size of washing machines. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 3d50ecb | Murder investigations start with the victim, because usually in the first instance that's all you've got. The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with an 'ology' tacked on the end. To make sure you make a proper fist of this, the police have developed the world's most useless mnemonic - 5 x W H & H - otherwise known as Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How? Next time you watch a real murder investigatio.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 27363d4 | There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along. | latin | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 48ab70a | Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f4ad75d | Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig. | country humor | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 76430e8 | I've already told the police what happened, they didn't believe me. Why should you,' he said. 'Because we're the people that believe people that other people don't believe,' I said. 'How can I know that?' he asked. 'You're just going to have to believe me,' I said. | trust | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 412a875 | Peter Grant,' I said. 'Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1131065 | The word "bollocks" is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 9be71df | A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 201994c | I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential--I was torn between the two. | Karen Joy Fowler |