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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a9b652 | With women, love always comes first. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 01d88da | There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime. | antisemitism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 7b69012 | Why you wan' the whole world when ya have a likkle piece a hope here? Stay. Stay and fight, man. Fight till you look 'pon what you wan' see. | Andrea Levy | ||
| c292b34 | Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain | Andrea Levy | ||
| 5890cfd | Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal. | internet | Alberto Manguel | |
| 7b6d31f | 'n qrt lakhryn ttrk 'thrh bkl t'kyd `l~ qrty lkhS@, fhy thbny wjht nZr jdyd@ 'w tlwn 'mmy b`D lmqT`, lknh tshbh fy m`Zmh ldhbb@ lSGyr@ lty m fty't tnGD `l~ 'lys bwshwshth ldy'm@: (ymknk lmmHk@ bltl`b blklmt Hwl hdh l'mr). 'n 'rfD, f'n qry' Gywr, wl 'qr lky'n mn kn b'n ykwn lh Hq llyl@ l'wl~ `l~ lktb lty 'qrw'h | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 04ee4c5 | Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing. | chronologies histories progress | Alberto Manguel | |
| 83799db | Sartre, in his memoirs, confessed to much the same experience. "Like Plato, I passed from knowledge to its subject. I found more reality in the idea than in the thing because it was given to me first and because it was given for a thing. It was in books that I encountered the universe: digested, classified, labelled, mediated, still formidable." | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 98f7933 | Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. Families beg to be united: volume XVIII of the Complete Works of Lope de Vega is announced in a catalogue, calling to the other seventeen that sit, barely leafed through, on my shelf. How fortunate for Captain Nemo to be able to say, during his twenty-thousand-league journey .. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 55f7d8c | n lnZm lshmwly@ lyst lwHyd@ lty tkhsh~ lqr@, bl wHt~ fy sHt lmdrs, wfy khzy'n lmlbs, wfy dwy'r ldwl@ wlsjwn tjry mrqb@ jmhr@ lqr b`yn lrtyb, nZran lm ysh`r lmr bh mn slTn lqr@ wqwth lkmn@. w`l~ lrGm mn l`trf b'n l`lq@ byn lktb wlqry' `lq@ mfyd@ wmthmr@, l 'nh `lq@ t`tbr mtrf`@ wrfD@, rbm l'n mshhd qry' wqd nzw~ fy 'Hd l'rkn wnsy l`lm lmHyT bh yshyr l~ jw shkhSy Gyr qbl llqtHm wl~ nZr@ mnTwy@ `l~ ldht wtSrf 'nny | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 95b98d4 | There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings <...> This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| b040c5c | 'SbHt ktby hy mwTny lthbt lwHyd, Hyth knt 'stTy` 'n 'tHrk dkhlh fy 'y wqt 'sh, wHsb m tshthyh rGbty wmywly. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| d7c3c90 | How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. | literature philosophy | Nadeem Aslam | |
| d4fef85 | You see, I'm not above helping an unfortunate soul find new purpose in life...so long as it benefits me | Frank Beddor | ||
| 3746377 | I would find no value in the allegiance of a fool ready to give himself up to any old hag of Black Imagination who presented herself. I will accept your allegiance. For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 4c8d1d6 | I | Frank Beddor | ||
| c58446b | Suffering the nasty twisting of body parts that should never be twisted, the card soldiers fell, lifeless, and Arch's bodyguards were soon pushing through the tangles of Outerwilderbeastie, cruching twigs and leaves underfoot. Visit the labs?" Blister said, refurring the squate network of building in Wondertropolies' warehouse district, where a consortium of Alyss' scientists and engineers had tried to transform a host of captured Glass Eye.. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 4dd067f | How's our young guest?" he asked. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 6e6e124 | Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance. | Ron Rash | ||
| bc0a3b1 | A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly. | passion sex | Ron Rash | |
| f24cd60 | The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 851a2e3 | I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 5fdaccb | Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else... | mississippi-authors mississippi-writers | Shelby Foote | |
| 53fc0bb | Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer said "went far toward confirming one's belief in the wealth and flexibility of the English language as a medium of personal dispute." | army-of-the-potomac civil-war-eastern-theater union-army | Shelby Foote | |
| 598a351 | There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock, they ask you for some water and then they're dead. On D-day I ran past a guy lying on his spilled guts with his eyes closed and his thumb in his mouth. Eisenhower's speech had been read to us over the loudspeaker by our commander when we crossed the channel that morning. What valor and inspiration were in his .. | Elizabeth Berg | ||
| 2fd05a8 | Fools will always break out o' bounds. | strike to-margaret | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 355b128 | You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse. | devil industry manufacturers trade | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 02721e7 | he is the personification of sensible silence. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | ||
| aebfcba | Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life. My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of "Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money." My precept is, "Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| e76621b | he had never known her value, he thought, till now. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 4ef22f3 | There's iron, they say, in all our blood, And a grain or two perhaps is good; But his, he makes me harshly feel, Has got a little too much of steel.' ANON. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| b35106a | Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognise it. I begin to understand now what heaven must be-and, oh! the grandeur and repose of the words-"The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever." Everlasting! "From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God." That sky above me looks as though it could not change, and yet it will. I am so t.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 0978b90 | Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded were its eyes - Mr. Thornton, instead of being shocked, seemed to have through that very stage of thought himself, and could suggest where the exact ray of light was to be found, which should make the dark places plain. Man of action as he was, busy in the world's great battle, there was a deeper religion binding him to God in his heart, in sp.. | men-of-action uncertainty | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 807b50c | People with green eyes were close to the fairies, we were told; they were just here for a little while, looking for a human child they could take away. If we ever met anyone with one green and one brown eye we were to cross ourselves, for that was a human child that had been taken over by the fairies. The brown eye was the sign it had been human. When it died, it would go into the fairy mounds that lay behind the Donegal mountains, not to h.. | Seamus Deane | ||
| d62d182 | That's why the Bible is not a book about going to heaven. The action is here. The life is here. The point is here. It's a library of books about the healing and restoring and reconciling and renewing of this world. Our home. | Rob Bell | ||
| f3ea693 | This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they're dance partners. It's possible to hold your faith with open hands, living with great conviction and yet at the same time humbly admitting that your knowledge and perspective will always be limited. | Rob Bell | ||
| 6c13479 | When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting. Revenge always escalates. | Rob Bell | ||
| 7c137ad | God doesn't wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish--God comes to us and meets us and blesses us while we are still in the middle of the mess we created. | Rob Bell | ||
| 962d736 | The failure to understand the infinite depth of the human soul is often why people who are married have affairs. They stop exploring the person they married. They find somebody who appears more interesting. | Rob Bell | ||
| 0286498 | Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love." | jesus love religion | Rob Bell | |
| 1777c49 | Some things that are labeled Christian aren't true, and some things that aren't labeled Christian are true. Some atheists say lots of things that are true, and some Christians are full of shit. | Rob Bell | ||
| 353e934 | Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours. | Rob Bell | ||
| 264706e | When we don't throw ourselves completely into it and we hold back our best efforts because of what happened in the past, we are letting the past decide the future. | Rob Bell | ||
| a34b67a | Imagine if organized religion organized billions of people and trillions of dollars to tackle the challenges that our economic and political systems are afraid or unwilling to tackle--a planet ravaged by unsustainable human behavior and an out-of-control consumptive economy, the growing gap between the rich minority and the poor majority, and the proliferation of weapons of all kinds--including weapons of mass destruction. "Wow," people fre.. | Brian D. McLaren |