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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 70cd1b5 | the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other'--it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists...same old, same old. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0749f7b | How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go? | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 3ea78d0 | A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon. | James Hamilton-Paterson | ||
| 59c50dc | I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you tell me more about this 'profanity'?" Mrs. Miller nodded at my dictionary. "I'll assume you don't need a definition. Perhaps you'd prefer an example?" "That would be so helpful, thank you very much." Without missing a beat, Mrs. Miller rattled off a stream of obscenities so fully and completely unexpected that I fell off my chair. Mothers were defiled, their male and female children, as well as any a.. | humour profanity sprout | Dale Peck | |
| ee65800 | What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way? | Delia Sherman | ||
| b7502ab | Once I used my powers. Now I feel like a dancing instructor, reminding the queen whom she is dancing with at this hour and with which foot she should begin.' 'Be thankful,' Gavin advised with a laugh, 'that so far the music is still being played and everyone is trying to dance in harmony. | harmony | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| f5d3187 | He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?" I stared at him. He had to be kidding." | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| eea2f68 | A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth. | words | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| ad8cd70 | I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort. | knowledge protection | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 3269be6 | I learned regret in the ruins of Tarbfhlaith. I regretted that ambition had ruled my heart instead of affection for my kin. And with the lesson of regret came the gratitude for having life still to move my lips and limbs, and to speak kind words to and embrace those I may not see again on this sweet-smelling earth. I learned that I cannot wait to love what is in my presence, for it or I may well be gone tomorrow. To some, such as Giannon, t.. | Kate Horsley | ||
| c25395f | He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 7ac5a76 | A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth. | deep-time earth geology geoscience science | John McPhee | |
| c5c29d3 | No one will ever write in just the way that you do, or in just the way that anyone else does. Because of this fact, there is no real competition between writers. What appears to be competition is actually nothing more than jealousy and gossip. Writing is a matter strictly of developing oneself. You compete only with yourself. You develop yourself by writing. | John McPhee | ||
| 0d9cb3e | Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it. | Wendy Wasserstein | ||
| 69313a0 | Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it. | pressure stress | Brian Herbert | |
| 6675529 | Seeker, who says religion is the way to God? | Brian Herbert | ||
| 7bcfc8c | We are trained to believe and not to know. | Brian Herbert | ||
| c825dbe | We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconscious content so much definition. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 67b21f7 | The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 7dd462d | The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 29450dc | Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 69bbfbb | We did an evil thing, father." "What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible." -- | morality war | Daniel Abraham | |
| 3e09c37 | How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore? | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 9478844 | Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 94b0b5f | Avant et maintenant c'est l'amour entre toi et moi. Ce sera ce que tu voudrais, toi, que tu sois. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d1ce690 | She opens her eyes, says: Stop lying. She says she hopes she'll never know anything, anything in the world, the way you do. She says: I don't want to know anything the way you do, with that death-derived certainty, that hopeless monotony, the same every day of your life, every night, and that deadly routine of lovelessness. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 5555227 | Je pense souvent a cette image que je suis seule a voir encore et dont je n'ai jamais parle. Elle est toujours la dans le meme silence,emerveillante. C'est entre toutes celle qui me plait de moi-meme, celle ou je me reconnais, ou je m'enchante. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 63bc021 | Ellos rien. Verse reir los vuelve locos de alegria. Ella le pide que la avise cuando un dia se lance a amarla y a saberlo, si alguna vez sucede. Despues de haber reido, lloran juntos como cada dia. Cuando ella se va el sol se precipita, estalla en la habitacion. Cuando ella cierra la puerta, la habitacion cae en la oscuridad, y el entra ya en la espera de la noche | Marguerite Duras | ||
| dc93073 | La historia esta ahi, inevitable ya. La de un amor cegador. Siempre por venir, jamas olvidado. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 388335c | I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 0bc58b4 | Buttercup could picture Westley rounding the final corner. There were four guards outside waiting. At ten seconds per guard, she began figuring, but then stopped, because numbers had always been her enemy. She looked down at her hands. Oh, I hope he still thinks I'm pretty, she thought; those nightmares took a lot out of me. | William Goldman | ||
| c03f80a | You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ] | William Goldman | ||
| 720cfde | Wide brimmed and narrow, some tall, some not, some fancy, some colorful, some plaid, some plain. She doted on changing hats at every opportunity. When she met the Prince, she was wearing one hat, when he asked her for a stroll, she excused herself, shortly to return wearing another, equally flattering. | William Goldman | ||
| 7e77646 | Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor. | family funny miracle-max s-morgenstern the-princess-bride valerie william-goldman | William Goldman | |
| ca315b7 | Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die, | William Goldman | ||
| 0b50eeb | Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything. | pressure | William Goldman | |
| 43420b7 | The only way forward is to never look back. | William Goldman | ||
| ea4b750 | If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse words through sentence after sentence. 'If you don't -blanking- get your -blanking-blank-blank- in to this house this -blanking- minute, I'm going to -blank- your -blank- and nail it to the -blanking- door.' Two things happen when I read this junk: I get bored and I get angry. I didn't pick up your book to read ga.. | writing writing-advice writing-craft | David Morrell | |
| 3a4b6a1 | Like a lightning bug... Like a lightning bug?... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 1642a40 | What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families. | grudges-against-people mafia reason the-godfather vendetta | Mario Puzo | |
| 966e32a | That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 616c4a9 | Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers. Since Johnny's father died, Mr. Corleone feels his responsibility even more deeply. As for trying you again, Mr. Corleone is much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the first. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 4b733ca | The world is what it is, and you are what you are. | mario-puzo the-last-don wisdom world | Mario Puzo | |
| ad9221b | Every man has one destiny, | Mario Puzo |