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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f3a3c01 | Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at all. They were worse than the grave, for in the grave is an absence of consciousness. And God, she reflected, ordered the grave for all of us; but God didn't order such burrows in a third-class New York City Hotel. | new-york noir pessimism | Cornell Woolrich | |
| d476c89 | New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night long. No place like it for living. And probably no place like it for dying. ("New York Blues")" | Cornell Woolrich | ||
| 1555a71 | A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")" | concussion simplicity | Cornell Woolrich | |
| faec127 | After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is ove.. | dread fear | Cornell Woolrich | |
| a12ff9c | La literatura esta llena de cosas inutiles absolutamente necesarias | Rosa Montero | ||
| a780d6e | a menudo oculto riendome mi absoluta falta de alegria. Es algo que aprendi a hacer cuando me di cuenta de que las criaturas que lo viven todo tan intensamente como yo y no son capaces de cambiar esta caracteristica de su naturaleza, tienen que disimularla lo mejor posible.>> | Rosa Montero | ||
| 245ce18 | Y es raro porque, aunque pase el tiempo, el dolor de la perdida, cuando se pone a doler, te sigue pareciendo igual de intenso. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 95897a1 | We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal. | reading | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 35ecc5f | Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss between what we are and what we would like to be has to be bridged somehow. That was why fictions were born: so that, through living this vicarious, transient, precarious, but also passionate and fascinating life that fiction transports us to, we can incorporate the impossible into the possible and our.. | fiction literature reading words | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| d2eb34b | The essential difference between the culture of the past and the entertainment of today is that the products of the former sought to transcend mere present time, to endure, to stay alive for future generations, while the products of the latter are made to be consumed instantly and disappear, like cake or popcorn. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| a248725 | Scrivere un romanzo e una cerimonia che somiglia allo streap-tease. Come la ragazza che, sotto impudichi riflettori, si libera dei propri indumenti e mostra, a uno a uno, i suoi incanti segreti, cosi anche il romanziere mette a nudo la propria intimita in pubblico attraverso i suoi romanzi. | premi-nobel | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 509e02c | Pueden ustedes reirse de mi, cuando les de la espalda. | mofa | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| cb27329 | C'est un parleur etrange, et qui trouve toujours L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours. | Molière | ||
| 9bb0827 | Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal. | Molière | ||
| 965f795 | What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. | Molière | ||
| 8854e33 | Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind | Molière | ||
| 6104fd4 | Quand on sait entendre, on parle toujours bien. | Molière | ||
| 556367c | We'll let time knit these gentle ties between us. | time | Molière | |
| b059c09 | It is our diffidence about the afterlife that leads us to religion | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6a49124 | Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. That the problem was not about being human, but specifically about being a female human. For centuries, the w.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 503be33 | They mimicked what Americans told them: You speak such good English. How bad is AIDS in your country? It's so sad that people live on less than a dollar a day in Africa. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 25f3f87 | Before, she would have said, "I know," that peculiar American expression that professed agreement rather than knowledge" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 03d2dd4 | They will always be doomed to supermarkets like this. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7481c5b | whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e21ff4d | How was it possible to miss something you longer wanted? Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6eb27c3 | hl lHbW hw hdh lHtyj lmuDll l'n tkwna l~ jwry m`Zm lwqt? hl lHbW hw hdh l'mn ldhy 'sh`ru bh 'n fy Smtn? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 002d2fb | She was used to this, being grabbed by men who walked around in a cloud of cologne-drenched entitlement, with the presumption that, because they were powerful and found her beautiful, they belonged together. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4e85c61 | Ujunwa thought she might like her, but only the way she liked alcohol--in small amounts. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 576abfb | She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out. | longing | chimamanda ngozi adichie | |
| c56d7b5 | Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2bba157 | Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: "Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give to your child." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2acbbcc | That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. | patriarchy | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 8cbccca | Tell her that her body belongs to her and her alone, that she should never feel the need to say yes to something she does not want, or something she feels pressured to do. Teach her that saying no when no feels right is something to be proud of. | empowerment | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 0ddd52a | parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given less room and more rules and baby boys more room and fewer rules. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 180835b | This was love, to be eager for tomorrow. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f0d4611 | The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned. Cooking - domestic work in general - is a life skill that both men and women should ideally have. It is also a skill that can elude both men and women. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c448432 | We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 100db5d | Each memory stunned her with its blinding luminosity. Each brought with it a sense of unassailable loss, a great burden hurtling towards her, and she wished she could duck, lower herself so that it would bypass her, so that she would save herself. Love was a kind of grief. This was what the novelists meant by suffering. She had often thought it a little silly, the idea of suffering for love, but now she understood. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7622ee0 | There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d4ad4a0 | What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1619f39 | There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked. | siblings speech | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| f1ce4ce | But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cde2b5e | above all, let your focus be on remaining a full person. Take time for yourself. Nurture your own needs. Please do not think of it as 'doing it all'. Our culture celebrates the idea of women who are able to 'do it all' but does not question the premise of that praise. I have no interest in the debate about women doing it all because it is a debate that assumes that caregiving and domestic work are singularly female domains, and idea that .. | feminism gender-stereotypes motherhood | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2be20d6 | What struck me - with her and with many other female American friends I have - is how invested they are in being 'liked'. How they have been raised to believe that their being likeable is very important and that this 'likeable' trait is a specific thing. And that specific thing does not include showing anger or being aggressive or disagreeing too loudly. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |