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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2187b3d | Hell is Whole Foods on a Sunday. It's hordes of moms in lightweight fleeces pushing one another out of the way to get to bins of dry lentils. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 35ff70a | Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever unexciting thing the actual high school class clown is doing now. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 0ca5c42 | Bren was the kind of best friend I dreamed about having when I was a little kid. I never knew you could have someone in your life who was pretty much on the same page about essentially everything. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ba459ba | I had placed a lot of faith in Woody Allen's belief that 80 percent of success is just showing up. I said to myself: Sure, I can just Here I am, New York! Give me a job! | Mindy Kaling | ||
| aacc28e | Um, Mindy is much less like Elizabeth Bennet than she is a combination of Carrie Bradshaw and Eric Cartman. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 31c5708 | I have the opposite of a dry sense of humor, so I'm always impressed by it. My sense of humor is wet and loud and risque, like topless day at the water park. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 8cfa623 | Is Dwight really like that in real life?" to which I respond: "Oh, no, Rainn isn't like Dwight. Dwight is an angel next to Rainn. Rainn is a demon." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 82d3cfb | I happen to believe that no one inherently deserves anything, except basic human rights, and not to have to watch an ad before you watch a trailer on YouTube. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 3844ad9 | When we graduated high school, she went to the Cooper Union in Manhattan to pursue her love of set design, and I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| cc8cbf2 | It's one of those songs-- like Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven"-- that everyone knows all the words to without ever having chosen to learn them." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 32e2183 | And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2a4bbc1 | Even though Mavis was my secret friend, she is the only one I hope I see again. She's the only one I wonder about. I hope she wonders about me too. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 5393801 | So, with my zit throbbing like a nightclub, I went to the interview. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 49ba3d1 | if making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another. | Richard Russo | ||
| 497b206 | In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury. | Nancy Milford | ||
| 2584356 | O senhor sabe: sertao e onde manda quem e forte, com as astucias. Deus mesmo, quando vier, que venha armado! E bala e um pedacinhozinho de metal... | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 4651c49 | Sou o culpado do que nem sei, de dor em aberto, no meu foro. Soubesse - se as coisas fossem outras. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 3c82cbc | Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand "flying" as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a separation would exist between you and time. So if you understand time as only passing, then you do not understand the time being." | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| a0d3887 | He hated the idea of killing people he could not hate. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 47447c0 | Spinoza writes, "A free man, that is to say, a man who lives according to the dictates of reason alone, is not led by fear of death, but directly desires the good, that is to say, desires to act, and to preserve his being in accordance with the principle of seeking his own profit. He thinks, therefore, of nothing less than death, and his wisdom is a meditation upon life." | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| c8b4928 | So then you ask her when her birthday is, and she says, "Hmm, I don't really remember being born" | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 0cad471 | Over and over, I ran at the sea, beating it until I was so tired I could barely stand. And then the next time I fell down, I just lay there and let the waves wash over me, and I wondered what would happen if I stopped trying to get back up. Just let my body go. Would I be washed out to sea? The sharks would eat my limbs and organs. Little fish would feed on my fingertips. My beautiful white bones would fall to the bottom of the ocean, where.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 82802b5 | How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father? | trust | Ruth Ozeki | |
| d4e5b32 | Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| db867d9 | We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves. | soldier war | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 39b0911 | Stories worked much the same way...A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation. | Richard Russo | ||
| 1a41646 | That man truly loathes you," Herbert says when he's sure Rourke isn't coming back. "I don't think so," I smile. "I just give his life focus, that's all." | Richard Russo | ||
| 7f381b2 | My mother had more than once remarked that my father was one of the war's casualties, that the Sam Hall who came back wasn't the one who left, the one she'd fallen in love with. I didn't doubt that she believed this certain truth, or even that it was true, after a fashion. But it was a nice way of ignoring another simple truth--that people changed, with or without wars, and that we sometimes don't know people as well as we think we do, that.. | Richard Russo | ||
| 435baac | Though here his voice faltered, because he knew as well as she did what came next, what words came next. If he could speak them, he might even convince her they were true, as his father had convinced his mother that Browning summer. It was the worst lie there was, imprisoning and ultimately embittering the hearer, playing upon her terrible need to believe. He could feel the I love you forming on his lips. Would he have said it if she hadn't.. | richard russo | ||
| a032395 | There have been times," Father Mark admitted, "when I feared that God would turn out to be like my maternal grandmother [...] Ours was a large family, and every Christmas my grandmother gave gifts of cash in varying amounts, claiming she was rewarding her grandchildren according to how much they loved her. She swore she could look right into our hearts and know. One child would get a crisp fifty-dollar bill, the next a crumpled single. No t.. | Richard Russo | ||
| a03661e | Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility? | Richard Russo | ||
| fce692a | For Miles, one of the great mysteries of marriage was that you had to actually say things before you realized they were wrong. Because he'd been saying the wrong thing to Janine for so many years, he'd grown wary, testing most of his observations in the arena of his imagination before saying them out loud, but even then he was often wrong. Of course, the other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't betw.. | Richard Russo | ||
| 238f2a6 | It's not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you've given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is your living legacy, that it bears your name. | Richard Russo | ||
| b9fdd82 | Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you? Sully: Not often. Now and then. | Richard Russo | ||
| f3bc303 | a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect. | Richard Russo | ||
| 57e1f60 | No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many .. | sully wisdom words-to-live-by | Richard Russo | |
| 8fc8c37 | What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept. | Richard Russo | ||
| afb782d | She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched. | Richard Russo | ||
| 816b17a | Just exactly what that good life was--the one I expected--I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not come to pass, only that much has come in between. | Richard Ford | ||
| 10eb5cc | Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible -- time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket. | Richard Ford | ||
| 4d6ea23 | It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just catching up with myself. | Richard Ford | ||
| 27fc534 | He smiled at me, and it was not the worried, nervous smile from before, but a smile that meant he was pleased. And I don't remember him ever smiling at me that way again. | Richard Ford | ||
| 1bd9a8d | It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged. | Richard Yates | ||
| 2622396 | The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Whereas life, real life, is different and can't even be appraised as simply "happy", but only in terms of "Yes, I'll take it all, thanks" or "No, I believe I won't." Happy, as my poor father used to .. | life | Richard Ford |