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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 415fcf9 | O Canada I have not forgotten you, as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision of a bookcase. You are the paddle, the snowshoe, the cabin in the pines. You are the moose in the clearing and the moosehead on the wall. You are the rapids, the propeller, the kerosene lamp. You are the dust that coats the roadside berries. But not only that, you are the two boys with pails walking along that road. | poetry | Billy Collins | |
| b9176d7 | perhaps the answer is simply one: one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet, a small jazz combo working in the background. She sways like a branch in the wind, her beautiful eyes closed, and the tall thin bassist leans over to glance at his watch because she has been dancing forever, and now it is very late, even for musicians. | eternity | Billy Collins | |
| dd01585 | When she went out to the kitchen, I knew she would be getting her Triscuits. That was what she had for her snack at the end of every workday: six Triscuits exactly, because six was the "serving size" listed on the box. She showed a slavish devotion to the concept of a recommended serving size...." | Anne Tyler | ||
| 064fa3e | For me, writing was the only way out. | Anne Tyler | ||
| a2cd838 | Didn't anyone stop to reflect that the so-called old people of today used to smoke pot, for heaven's sake, and wear bandannas tied around their heads and picket the White House? When Amanda chided her for saying that something was "cool" ("I hate it when the older generation tries to copy the younger," she had said), did she not realize that "cool" had been used in Abby's time, too, not to mention long before?" | Anne Tyler | ||
| 7166bf9 | She opened her eyes and studied him a moment. Then she slipped her hand in her pocket, come up with something and held it toward him - palming it, like a secret. "For you," she said. "For me?" "I'd like you to have it." It was a snapshot stolen from her family album: Muriel as a toddler, clambering out of a wading pool. She meant, he supposed, to give him the best of her. And so she had. But the best of her was not that cild's Shirley Tem.. | Anne Tyler | ||
| c51edd7 | Abby had a little trick that she used any time Red acted like a cranky old codger. She reminded herself of the day she had fallen in love with him. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon," she'd begin, and it would all come back to her--the newness of it, the whole new world magically opening before her at the moment when she first realized that this person that she'd barely noticed all these years was, in fact, a treasure... | Anne Tyler | ||
| 3815893 | To my earlier self I would like to say, "Relax. The story will come in due time. Trust your characters. Let them tell you what happens next." | Anne Tyler | ||
| ceb9b62 | Either she was admirably at ease anywhere or she suffered from a total lack of discrimination; Liam couldn't decide which. | Anne Tyler | ||
| bff2eef | People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 5003c49 | Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food--to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food? | Anne Tyler | ||
| 2419cbf | seven. seven was when ethan had learned to ride a bicycle. macon was visited by one of those memories that dent the skin, that strain the muscles. he felt the seat of ethan's bike pressing into his hand--the curled-under edge at the rear that you hold onto when you're trying to keep a bicycle upright. he felt the sidewalk slapping against his soles as he ran. he felt himself let go, slow to a walk, stop with his hands on his hips to call ou.. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 8d1279d | There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide," the text began. I winced. "Whether or not the world has three dimensions or the mind nine or twelve categories," it continued, "comes afterward"; such questions, the text explained, were part of the game humanity played, but they deserved attention only after the one true issue had been settled. The book was The Myth of Sisyphus and was written by the Algerian-born philosop.. | Brian Greene | ||
| 62c5e3f | The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sleights of hand. | science | Brian Greene | |
| 51ca504 | Athletics lasts for such a short period of time. It ends for people. But while it lasts, it creates this make-believe world where normal rules don't apply. We build this false atmosphere. When it's over and the harsh reality sets in, that's the real joke we play on people. . . . Everybody wants to experience that superlative moment, and being an athlete can give you that. It's Camelot for them. But there's even life after it. | H.G. Bissinger | ||
| 3479251 | Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| c344f69 | Norman's Law: The day the product team is announced, it is behind schedule and over its budget. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| c9eb234 | Everything popular is wrong. --OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5841003 | We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." --Archilochus" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| db80bb9 | Being alone was the best thing I ever did for myself. I've always gone from one relationship to another, hoping the other person would help me figure out who I was or complete me and make me feel whole. But it never worked out that way. When the other person didn't make me feel whole, I was left with an even bigger emptiness inside. It took the pain of the last year to realize that I needed to stop being a half trying to find my other half,.. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 80f1198 | Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 850856b | Every man has something too dear to trust to another. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ab79fb4 | He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. "The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off." | Neil Strauss | ||
| 8b6e944 | Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 0869b9c | each woman is a wonderful world unto herself. And monogamy? It's like choosing to live in a single town and never traveling to experience the beauty, history, and enchantment of all the other unique, wonderful places in the world. Why does love have to limit us? Perhaps it doesn't. Only fear is restrictive. Love is expansive. And I wonder, since fear of enmeshment impels us to avoid commitment and fear of abandonment makes us possessive, w.. | monogamy women | Neil Strauss | |
| 90b0a4f | Childhood trauma may sneak up from behind and fuck you in the ass when you grow up, but at least it leaves a tip on the nightstand. | Neil Strauss | ||
| b57bd29 | Well," he said, opening the door to his car, "all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it." [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. "And then you die." | Neil Strauss | ||
| 5090e68 | She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth. | Ellen Raskin | ||
| a267a59 | Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker." That was a hard one. Chris had to say very slowly." | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 18e847d | Frenssh-fry | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 5ccfaca | Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you. | memories quote richness | Arthur Golden | |
| bfa0f47 | No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7d58d93 | You're eighteen years old, Sayuri," she went on. "Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day." "But, Mameha-san, how cruel!" "Yes, it is cruel," she said. "But none of us can escape destiny." "Please, it isn't a matter of escaping my destiny, or anything of that sort. Nobu-san is a good.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 2034662 | I took him by the arm to steady him. He opened his eyes slowly, the bright golden gleam now darkened with pain and sorrow. "Morgian!' he uttered, his voice strangled with grief. "It was Morgian. . . " | Stephen R. Lawhead | ||
| f0eb6a5 | Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. | Arthur Golden | ||
| cd312c7 | Even stone can be worn down with enough rain | Arthur Golden | ||
| 670d546 | Every time I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass of a shop, I felt I was someone to be taken seriously; not a girl anymore, but a young woman. | Arthur Golden | ||
| c2baa1a | But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!" "Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask." | kindness life love | Arthur Golden | |
| 95b44d4 | Chairman: "Sometimes", he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see." | Arthur Golden | ||
| 8c3e194 | The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket!" | Arthur Golden | ||
| 6b1a8b0 | A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. | memoir memory | Arthur Golden | |
| 70a572f | I'd have given you everything I had. If you'd needed more, I'd have found it, and given you that. It's the way I love. It's the only way I know how. | love romance | Nora Roberts | |
| 067fe30 | In my world, the self-righteous are often the ones sneaking around getting blow jobs before they go home to the wives and kiddies. | Nora Roberts | ||
| ac75717 | Um ano e um seculo quando se espera o amor. | nora roberts |