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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aa27691 | The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley; | optimism | David Mitchell | |
| 6a0d3bf | Hay tantas verdades como hombres. De vez en cuando, alcanzo a vislumbrar una Verdad mas verdadera, escondida entre simulacros imperfectos de si misma, pero en cuanto me acerco, se agita y se hunde mas todavia en la espinosa cienaga del desacuerdo. | spanish truth verdad | David Mitchell | |
| 69ea8d9 | You can't go changing what you've already set down, not without botching things up even more | David Mitchell | ||
| 19c0354 | After the nuclear war, kids like them'll rule what's left. It'll be hell. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1bf41a1 | Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The human world is made up of stories, not people." | stories writing | David Mitchell | |
| a789ee5 | Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower. | David Mitchell | ||
| 0197fcc | The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature. | humor | David Mitchell | |
| a4e29eb | Prejudice is permafrost | David Mitchell | ||
| 481713c | Foolproof depends on the size of the fool | David Mitchell | ||
| 163220a | You underestimate humanity's ability to bring such evil into being. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8fed103 | Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6808ca6 | Hell hell because, there, evil passes unremarked upon. | hell | David Mitchell | |
| 77d460a | In the corridor outside, a trolley squeaks by. The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the clock, shelves of handsome books nobody ever reads, and one certainty: that whatever I do with my life, however much power, wealth, experience, knowledge, or beauty I'll accrue, I, too, will end up like this vulnerable old man. When I look at Brigadier Reginald Philby, I'm looking down time's telescope at myself. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3d9408a | The pursuit of insight takes you deep into the forest. | David Mitchell | ||
| 78984b7 | Our brains are dark globes lit by very distant stars. | David Mitchell | ||
| b208acb | The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2f7d484 | Faust tends not to have happy endings. | happy-endings | David Mitchell | |
| e8eda2e | Life's more science-fictiony by the day. | science-fiction | David Mitchell | |
| 627315e | You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters. That's not quite the same as wishing to be one | David Mitchell | ||
| e9e6dfc | The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature. | human-nature | David Mitchell | |
| bc1e349 | The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty. | happiness mirrors | David Mitchell | |
| 8ea220b | Think larger. Redraw what is possible. | possible redraw think | David Mitchell | |
| 2d9d85e | Survival often demands our courage. | life survival | David Mitchell | |
| ac0b556 | A finite infinity, | David Mitchell | ||
| 7beb421 | Meni dode da cijeli ovaj debilni svijet raspalim po njuski, majku mu, pa da ga tabam dok mu napokon ne dode iz dupeta u glavu da je milijun puta vaznije da nikoga ne povrijedis nego da na kraju likujes. | David Mitchell | ||
| e363ccd | If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation. | hope pay | David Mitchell | |
| ea7ddf6 | It was only a wasp,' I say, 'there are plenty more where they came from.' This is not good enough for Tomomi: 'There are plenty more humans where we come from, so does that make homicide okay? | David Mitchell | ||
| c2e054f | Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden. | nature | David Mitchell | |
| 1ba0320 | Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning. | ragnarok | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| 9a39462 | A culture finds the gods it needs. | Kevin Crossley-Holland | ||
| b5e7e6d | Another [interviewee] told me that because her relationships aren't built on false ideas about exclusivity forever, she feels more cherished by her partners; she said, "There is an investment in what we have rather than what we should have." | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 88167af | Open marriage thus can be defined as a relationship in which the partners are committed to their own and to each other's growth. It is an honest and open relationship of intimacy and self-disclosure based on the equal freedom and identity of both partners. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 47dc46c | Open relationships can give you the freedom to create unique relationships, explore yourself and your sexuality, and challenge society's expectations. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 42cbffa | This is the myth of finding "the One": the one partner you're "meant" to be with, your soul mate, your Prince Charming, the girl of your dreams. Nonmonogamous folks reject this myth and acknowledge that no one person can be, or should be expected to be, everything for another." | Tristan Taormino | ||
| f9c1cad | By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. --Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d448b04 | But it wasn't any of those reasons that had set her on this course, Deryn knew. Alek was here in the city and needed help. Perhaps it was daft to risk everything for some barking prince, a boy who didn't even know she was a girl. But it was no more daft than Alek walking across a glacier to assist a wounded enemy airship, was it? | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 80872d9 | Your public-spiritedness is appreciated, I assure you. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5bb734a | Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| de31e9c | If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren't, why did she feel this way inside? | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 64d4d2c | Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8a4a063 | For me, writing's the only thing that's always real. I've never regretted a day I wrote a good scene, whatever else I screwed up that day. That's what's fucking real. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 596b501 | If a meteor falls in the forest and no one realizes it, does it end the war? | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 9311341 | Alek coughed politely, "If I promise to avoid funny business, could you perhaps remove this knife from my throat?" | funny | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 4abad7b | Her parents didn't understand that braille meant big clunky books that marked you as different, while audiobooks live invisibly on your phone and text-to-speech gave you the whole damn internet. | margo-lanagan | Scott Westerfeld |