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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2c7cf6 | Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no umbilical growth now but a strong slender lady hip-walking through campus--past the science hall, past English, jumping Old Main and the library with deliberate grace and lighting on the shallow rookf of Dewey, where Dad toiled alone. | Leif Enger | ||
| c4ea501 | Does it? Get easier, I mean, he asks urgently. The cop shakes his heid. -- Does it fuck; it gets bleedin worse. All that happens is that the expectations you have of life fall. You just get used to all the shit. Renton | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 0c5fcd7 | Thir no fuckin swaggerin aroond Leith, fuckin well surein thair no. A bunch ay fuckin sheepshaggers wi thair diddy European Cup Winner's Cup, comin doon here, drinkin in oor pubs, chattin up oor... Franco hesitates, looks at Tommy. Tommy can't resist it. -- Sheep? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 79282f0 | When you hurt some cunt [...] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing | Irvine Welsh | ||
| a572bcd | There's some kids playing out in the back, the strip of grass luminated an electric green by the brilliant sunlight. The sky is a delicious clear blue. Life is beautiful. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to have a long life. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 21bcfb3 | Maine dimineat-o sa-mi para rau, da', cum ar zice Sick Boy, dimineata-si poarta singura de grija. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| b521f25 | But you were brave, eh, Granda, charging up that beach, ye must have been brave.' 'I was scared, son,' he'd telt me, his face sombre. 'But most of all ah wis angry; angry at being there. Really angry. I wanted tae take it out on somebody, then go hame.' 'But that man hud tae be stoaped though, Faither,' my dad had implored, 'ye said so yirsel!' 'Ah know that. Ah wis angry that he wis allowed tae git started in the first place. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 23f346e | The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best. And I usually am. | corruption deceit evil manipulation mind-games twisted | Irvine Welsh | |
| d0e54d0 | He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ee39371 | Shirley'e ask siirleri yazardi. Harikulade siirler, edebi anlamda degil belki, ama ona ilettigi harikulade duygularin olaganustu safliginda. Bir keresinde ona yazdigi ozellikle guzel bir dortlugu okuduktan sonra yakmisti. Shirley ona gozyaslarinin arasinda bunu neden yaptigini sormustu, alevler o kadar sembolik gorunmustu ki. Shirley'in hayatinda yasadigi en aci verici deneyimdi. Matty donup dairenin sefaletini gozden gecirmisti. "Suraya ba.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ebb9075 | I'll say one thing for the Weedgies: they don't go in for half measures. 'Ah'll be deid soon, big man,' he cheerfully informs me over a lunch if almost inedible cheese salad for me, and pie, chips and beans for everyone else. (Skreel is, at six foot, an inch taller than me.) 'Ah jist wahnt tae stay aff ma face till it happens, know whit ah mean? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| a05c330 | krematoriumis mezoblad mdebare patara eklesiis moz'g'varma denis sulis mosaxseniebeli c`eremonia scrap`ad moaqomara. im dg'es bevri kremac`ia tardeboda da didxans gatrakebis dro ar hk`onda. ert`i-ori zerele komentarit` shemoip`argla, c`ota igalobes, oriode loc`va carmot`k`ves da gvamis krematoriumshi gasagzavni danadgaris g'ilakmac` gaickapuna. kidev ramdenime gvamic` da misi imdg'evandeli c`vla amoicureboda. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| db8a563 | I prefer Tender Is the Night, though', and as I spoke, I got a raw jolt in my chest that could only br described as tender, as an image of Fiona, on the Bosphorus ferry, under a lambent soak of light, sweeping her hair out of her face, flickered in my brain. Even wasted she looked so poised and dignified. I loved her I loved her I loved her I wanted to melt into her bones. Her absence now felt like I'd been eaten from the inside. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| a49d0b0 | Es bueno que la gente vea peliculas de guerra. Si todo el mundo viera peliculas de guerra, sabria que la guerra esta mal y dejaria de luchar. Lo que si esta mal es que hay demasiadas peliculas de paz. Por eso la gente no puede ver con sus propios ojos que la guerra esta mal. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 04cc68b | Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. | bookish books heroine introversion introvert irvine-welsh library literature read reader reading reading-books skagboys solitude zenith | Irvine Welsh | |
| 0c67b21 | Ah made yous cunts in ma ain image. Yous git oan wi it; yous fuckin well sort it oot. That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark when he sais ah wis deid. Ah'm no deid; ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. It's no fir me tae sort every cunt's problems oot. Nae other cunt gies a fuck so how should ah? Eh? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f7743eb | So what! So fuckin what! -- So ye hud they powers, ye jist couldnae be bothered usin thum. That's why ah'm interested in ye Boab. You're jist like me. A lazy, apathetic, slovenly cunt. Now ah hate bein like this, n bein immortal, ah canny punish masel. Ah kin punish you though, mate. That's whit ah intend tae dae. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2c32879 | Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoose, get fucked aboot and ripped oaf wi some crap gear. Nae contest. In twenty minutes it wis: -- Muirhoose pal? tae the driver oan the 32 bus and quiveringly stickin ma forty-five pence intae the the box. Any port in a storm, and it's raging in here behind ma face. | drug-abuse | Irvine Welsh | |
| 01e5af7 | It was a familiar pattern. They would whisperingly condemn his violence with those sour, baleful expressions, until they wanted some cunt sorting out, then he would suddenly become the big hero. Manipulation. He'd discussed all this with Melanie, with his mentor, John Dick, the prison officer. It had suited them all to keep him as he was. It still suits them. He will leave them back here in Edinburgh. They can either shut the door in his fa.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 07e5cf0 | Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f1a5605 | if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| aaaae9f | They call um Sick Boy, no because he's eywis sick wi junk withdrawal, but because he's just one sick cunt. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 0178df2 | As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and connected, it has progressively alienated itself from needful involvement in its subconscious life. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 43bf1d4 | Story, in other words, continues to fulfill its ancient function of binding society by reinforcing a set of common values and strengthening the ties of common culture. Story enculturates the youth. It defines the people. It tells us what is laudable and what is contemptible. It subtly and constantly encourages us to be decent instead of decadent. Story is the grease and glue of society: by encouraging us to behave well, story reduces social.. | Jonathan Gottschall | ||
| a51ebe4 | I had two choices. I could be bitter, or I could get on with life...Mine had been made...I wasn't going to be bitter. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| b533d16 | God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 33b62a6 | Yes. Laugh. But there's sense in the old rules. They kept people out of trouble.' He was annoyed because I laughed, and said that a woman in my position needed extra dignity of behaviour. 'What position?' - I was suddenly very angry, because of the trapped feeling women get at such moments. | Doris Lessing | ||
| b69d4a1 | So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it?" | Doris Lessing | ||
| 1b95e2e | Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels wil.. | curiosity journalist writing | Doris Lessing | |
| 33b11d8 | Her ears, lightly fringed with white that looked silver, lifted and moved, back, forward, listening and sensing. Her face turned, slightly, after each new sensation, alert. Her tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears -- everything, in delicate vibration. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 99a3b01 | War...strengthened the position of the armament industries...to a point...that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations...war barbarised and lowered the already very low level of accepted conduct. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 876077e | And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of 'personality'. Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the 'personality' doesn't exist any more. It's the theme of half the novels written, the theme of the sociologists and all the other -ologists. We're told so often that human personality has disintegrated.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 9b913c8 | While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot held an infant or a small child in whom the human template had been wrenched out of pattern, sometimes horribly, sometimes slightly. A baby like a comma, great lolling head on a stalk of a body... then something like a stick insect, enormous bulging eyes among stiff fragilities that were limbs... a small girl all blurred, her fl.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 3daaabb | Most people cannot stand being alone for long. They are always seeking groups to belong to, and if one group dissolves, they look for another. We are group animals still, and there is nothing wrong with that. But what is dangerous is not the belonging to a group, or groups, but not understanding the social laws that govern groups and govern us. When we're in a group, we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to .. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 9557cb3 | I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed. Great things have been achieved through feminism. We now have pretty much equality at least on the pay and opportunities front, though almost nothing has been done on child care, the real liberation. We have many wonderful, clever, powerful women everywhere, but what is happening to men? Wh.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 519de6a | She had known it all the time: I'm so enormously exhausted, so utterly, basically tired, and in fibre of myself, that to know I haven't got to go through with living is like a reprieve. How extraordinary! And every one of these people, with the possible exception of this exuberant young man, is terrified that the machine is going to crash, and yet we all trooped obediently into it. So perhaps we all feel the same way? | Doris Lessing | ||
| 86bf0a1 | The human being is given by Nature little more energy than what is needed to maintain the species; to reproduce and to live out our (very short) spans. But if we want to be fit for the journey up and out of the limits of ordinary life, we have to learn not to waste energy. Which we do by busying ourselves too much with material things, and by using our minds in wasteful and damaging ways. You will have seen that I am describing concepts fam.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| e3617c5 | she had to fight for qualities that had not been even in her vocabulary. Patience. Self-discipline. Self-control. Self-abnegation. Chastity. Adaptability to others - this above all. This always. | Doris Lessing | ||
| b764b40 | We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate. But when the Gods explode, or err, or dissolve into flying clouds of gas, or shrink, or expand, or whatever else their fates might demand, then the minuscule items of their substance may in their small ways express--not protest, which of course is inappropriate to thei.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 6fbb909 | This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's, thirteen o's, three p's, one q, fourteen r's, twenty-nine s's, twenty-four t's, five u's, six v's, seven w's, four x's, five y's, and one z. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| b2b9ad5 | It is curious, how one often mistrusts one's own opinions if they are stated by someone else. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| fb56911 | Concepts in the brains of humans acquired the property that they could get rolled together with other concepts into larger packets, and any such larger packet could then become a new concept in its own right. In other words, concepts could nest inside each other hierarchically, and such nesting could go on to arbitrary degrees. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 0ac11a2 | Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human "now." Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the "phi phenomenon." The essence of phi shows up in experiments in a darkened room where two small spots are briefly lit in quick succession, at slightly separated locations. What the subjects report seeing is not a succession of spots, but a spot moving.. | now phi-phenomenon psychology reality time time-passing | Paul Davies | |
| 322b624 | It all made me realize I wasn't the only one who wasn't sure they belonged. There was no one right way to fit in--it seemed like everyone was finding their own place, even if that place was on the edge of things. Still, there had to be ways to make it easier. | Marissa Moss |