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| 6b9def8 | in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals. | ideals right wrong | Tony Judt | |
| a779947 | What Kant took to be the necessary schemata of reality,' says a modern Freudian, 'are really only the necessary schemata of repression.' And an experimental psychologist adds that 'a sense of time can only exist where there is submission to reality.' To see everything as out of mere succession is to behave like a man drugged or insane. Literature and history, as we know them, are not like that; they must submit, be repressed. It is characte.. | Frank Kermode | ||
| d6caae5 | In fact this desire for consonance in the apocalyptic data, and our tendency to be derisive about it, seem to me equally interesting. Each manifests itself, in the presence of the other, in most of our minds. We are all ready to be sceptical about Father Marystone, but we are most of us given to some form of 'centurial mysticism,' and even to more extravagant apocalyptic practices: a point I shall be taking up in my fourth talk. What it see.. | Frank Kermode | ||
| d2af3ca | The formerly absolute distinction between time and eternity in Christian thought--between nunc movens with its beginning and end, and nunc stans, the perfect possession of endless life--acquired a third intermediate order based on this peculiar betwixt-and-between position of angels. But like the Principle of Complementarity, this concord-fiction soon proved that it had uses outside its immediate context, angelology. Because it served as a .. | Frank Kermode | ||
| b1f5c82 | It might be useful here to say a word about Beckett, as a link between the two stages, and as illustrating the shift towards schism. He wrote for transition, an apocalyptic magazine (renovation out of decadence, a Joachite indication in the title), and has often shown a flair for apocalyptic variations, the funniest of which is the frustrated millennialism of the Lynch family in Watt, and the most telling, perhaps, the conclusion of Comment.. | Frank Kermode | ||
| 0bf12fe | At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called human nature, however conscious some, as against others, may become of the fictive quality of these fictions. | Frank Kermode | ||
| 57c6891 | 43. My couch is 92 inches; it's a deep green three-cushion. It seats hundreds. But that's not why I got it. I got it because, lying down the long way, in the spooning-in-front-of-a-movie way, in the head-to-toe lying with a pair of lamps burning and a pair of people reading, it fits me and another - it fits her - really well. | Nathan Englander | ||
| 920bd24 | So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and took her death patiently. Then said the Interpreter, "You must learn of this sheep to suffer, and put up wrongs without murmurings and complaints. Behold how quietly she takes her death! And without objecting she suffereth her skin to be pulled over her ears. Your King doth call you his sheep." | suffering | John Bunyan | |
| 2c4e9b7 | Prudence asked further, "Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?" "Yes, but against my will. I still have within me some of the carnal thoughts that all my countrymen, as well as myself, were delighted with. Now all those things cause me to grieve. If I could master my own heart, I would choose never to think of those things again, but when I try only to think about those things that are best, those things tha.. | John Bunyan | ||
| a00eb87 | I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do; if not, I will venture for thy name. | John Bunyan | ||
| 25126b1 | Maybe all these desperate clashing feelings I'm feeling are just random brain activity, maybe I'm just delusional. But there are things that I miss, and things that I feel like I should be seeing and feeling every time I turn around, and I just keep turning and turning and turning, and there's nothing. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 24348e9 | There is, however, something odd about this pattern. Other than joining a political party, it is hard to think of any other sort of community that people join by agreeing to a set of principles. Imagine joining a knitting group. Does anyone go to a knitting group and ask if the knitters believe in knitting or what they hold to be true about knitting? Do people ask for a knitting doctrinal statement? Indeed, if you start knitting by reading .. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 587c4a0 | The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition. | experience knowledge perception recognition | Timothy Findley | |
| 6960a68 | All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 7ef4ab8 | I have dreamt of a life you will never know; the life of a loving and caring companion. I simply thought you should know. I see that you are in trouble. I watch and listen to you. I want to help, but you won't let me. So be it. I love you still. Do what you will, I shall watch over you. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 086c1de | I walk in the direction she tells me. I feel my pores opening, sweat and heat radiating out of my body. A firefly dances in the distance, leaving tracers, and if I turn my head from side to side, I see long yellow-green streaks that cut through my vision and burn in front of my retinas even after the light that sparked them has gone. I emerge from the mango grove into a field. In the distance unseen trucks pass with a sound like the ocean l.. | fireflies nature pakistan pores trace | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 27a0386 | They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change. | power | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 689f1e0 | Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in. | cigarettes-smoking smoking | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 367f546 | Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e0b4d94 | Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ded43ec | Language lacks the power to describe Faith. | language power | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 2a6177a | Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can. | connection-with-people friendship inspirational knowing-a-person loyalty secrets sharing sharing-secrets soul | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 7e8c1be | As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life." | Philip Levine | ||
| 03cc620 | In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice | Richard Bach | ||
| dd64704 | What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk? | Richard Bach | ||
| 5f52105 | Everything above may be wrong! | Richard Bach | ||
| 802fb49 | The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof | Richard Bach | ||
| e21bc97 | Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on. | Richard Bach | ||
| 58f8607 | Are you telling me that even though it's changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky? | Richard Bach | ||
| 9d44272 | Peki bundan sonra ne olacak? Nereye gidiyoruz? Cennet diye bir yer yok mu? -Hayir Jonathan oyle bir yer yok. O ne bir yer, ne de bir zaman. Cennet, kendinde kusursuzlugu bulmaktir. | Richard Bach | ||
| 357eede | Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly." -- Richard Bach," | Erin Noelle | ||
| 72aedee | A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning. | Richard Bach | ||
| b430af5 | Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed. | Richard Bach | ||
| 5cf9190 | You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it? | Richard Bach | ||
| 1d36eba | Good-bye, Jon, my friend." "Good-bye, Sully. We'll meet again." And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all." | Richard Bach | ||
| 6dc79e8 | The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference? | Richard Bach | ||
| 0068c1c | If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road. | Richard Bach | ||
| 8e6a5a4 | Interesno, kak sebia chuvstvuet tot, - skazala ona, - kto pokonchil s soboi, a potom ponial, chto ego rodnaia dusha vse eshche zhivet na zemle i zhdet ego? | Richard Bach | ||
| 4559e18 | Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight." "That's great." I picked up my bathrobe. "I was afraid I was going to have to get some sleep." She was bending over looking for her slippers. "Don't be such an old fluff. You can sleep all day." She found her slippers and stood up in them. "Is she really as afraid of her mother as she says?" "If she's got any sense. Mimi's poison." Nora screwed up her dark eyes at me and asked slowly: "What are you.. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| bdee359 | You like Nick a lot, don't you, Nora?" Dorothy asked. "He's an old Greek fool, but I'm used to him." "Charles isn't a Greek name." "It's Charalambides," I explained. "When the old man came over, the mugg that put him through Ellis Island said Charalambides was too long...too much trouble to write... and whittled it down to Charles. It was all right with the old man; they could have called him X so they let him in." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 6616647 | But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 044f790 | If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, "It seems to be raining," on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 60491de | What do you do with all your money?" "Me and the French hoard gold." | funny gold hoarding humor money | Dashiell Hammett | |
| b155d32 | I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in a late-Roman settlement, amongst them people from Africa and the Near East. 'You mean they had black people back then!' was actually what my boss exclaimed when he read that. 'Could Lancelot's sidekick be black? | Michael Moorcock |