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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2f3715 | Independence isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. What country could be more independent than Russia? And in Russia now there isn't a squeak or a pinpoint of light. I have nowhere to publish. The Contemporary has stuck its head up out of harm's way. So I've stopped quarrelling with the world. I sat in this chair the first morning I woke up in this house ... and for the first time ... for a long time, there was silence. I didn't have t.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 663defe | Why do I have a sense of impending disaster? Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address where I am sending her to the safe keeping of my sister-in-law Miss Blumenblatt, who has never laid eyes on him, or, for that matter, on Marie either since she was a baby--while I have to leave my business in the charge of my assistant and an apprentice, and follow my new servant, whom I haven't had time to introduce to anyone, to t.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 895b890 | My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself that this was how I would act if I ever saw you.' 'I have the same thing, but with Tom Stoppard,' I said. 'You'd kill Tom Stoppard?' 'Not at all. I promised myself many years ago that I would throw myself at his feet and scream "I'm not worthy!" .. | fandom hatred humor | Jasper Fforde | |
| 80cb55f | HENRY: You don't get visited by happiness like being lucky with the weather. The weather is the weather. DEBBIE: And happiness? HENRY: Happiness is . . . equilibrium. Shift your weight. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 9a8715a | You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 9ba6f8a | HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| fa520b7 | People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| f922dbe | Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 2993742 | Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace. | peace | Roméo Dallaire | |
| b20965c | Uno se acerca a otra persona para divertirse o para quererla; no hay nada de malo en eso. De pronto uno, para no hacer sufrir, oculta algo. El otro descubre que le han ocultado algo, pero no sabe que. Trata de averiguar, acepta las explicaciones, disimula que no las cree del todo. Asi empieza el desastre. Quisiera que nunca nos hicieramos mal. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 021f2a2 | En los momentos mas terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atencion a trivialidades. | irresponsibility life procrastination trauma | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| ac937a6 | The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 439f43c | It can play solitaire and minesweeper," replied Artemis innocently." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a5a99da | Certain battles were won by retreating. | battle battle-of-wills eoin-colfer retreat | Eoin Colfer | |
| 1bf512c | Artemis took a chance on some calculated sarcasm. "Really, Spiro. Did you think I would attempt a break-in? Perhaps you thought I would fly in here with my fairy friends and magic your box away?" Spiro laughed. "You can bring all the fairy friends you like, Arty-boy. Short of a miracle that Cube is staying right where it is." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 536df89 | The thought of revenge always gave her a warm fuzzy feeling. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 685cf7b | Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c958a58 | Si gano, soy un genio. Si pierdo, estoy loco. Asi es como se escribe la historia. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 7de7cbd | These headsets could pick up a spider scratching in Madagascar." "And is there a spider scratching in Madagascar?" "Well ... I don't know. They can't really--" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 542770c | There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance. | inaction | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 7a28ffa | Women did such things and went on doing them while the sun died because in all of women's lives there were so many moments that would kill the mind if one thought about them, which would suck the heart and the life out of one, and engrave lines in the face and put gray in the hair if ever one let one's mind work; but there was in the rhythm and the fascination of the stitches a loss of thought, a void, a blank, that was only numbers and not.. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 265aaba | Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 14cbdfb | Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 85eb00c | What you need Lois, is a man. All your artistic brilliance, wasted, toiling away in the sordid day-to-day of White's little paper empire. Reporting on traffic mishaps. Domestic trifles. Wondering if you can afford a pair of shoes. Knowing you can't afford the really good wines, the really exquisite things. That suit, for instance. Nice, but not the standard you're used to." "We're not here to discuss my wardrobe." "Or your writing career? H.. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 93bb0c3 | There is your best path, if you can get on it and direct it as best you can. The direction it may take yet is not in your power: but what sort of man walks that path, when you are a man, that you decide. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 7d5f2a0 | Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| cc20431 | It was a monumental achievement that the serpentine tc'a had once upon a time gotten the knnn to understand the concept of trade: so nowadays knnn simply contacted a station, rushed onto its methane-dock and deposited whatever they liked, grabbed whatever they wanted and left. This was an improvement over their former behavior, in which they simply looted and left. | funny negotiation piracy trade | C.J. Cherryh | |
| 4eac194 | Monsignor...you are asking whether I promise God chastity, poverty, and obedience. I heard what you said and my answer is no | Denis Diderot | ||
| cd5b96a | Nothing is duller than a progression of common chords. One wants some contrast, which breaks up the clear white light and makes it iridescent. | Denis Diderot | ||
| 3a1550b | Time passed, worlds diverged. | Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason | ||
| 9089c9a | To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d2ca268 | To blame or praise men on account of the result, is almost like praising or blaming figures on account of the sum total. Whatever is to happen, happens; whatever is to blow, blows. The eternal serenity does not suffer from these north winds. Above Revolutions, Truth and Justice reign, as the starry heavens above the tempest. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6219304 | He was not to perceive that of two men engaged in an action so hideous, he who permits the thing is worse than the man who does the work, because he is the coward! | ninety-three | Victor Hugo | |
| 33c2c9a | frwmndgn bh qfy khwd nmyngrnd. khwb mydnnd khh bkht bd hmhj dnblshn mykhnd | Victor Hugo | ||
| 75ca292 | Et ces deux ames, soeurs tragiques, s'envolerent ensemble, l'ombre de l'une melee a la lumiere de l'autre. | soulmates | Victor Hugo | |
| 33a73a6 | In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the day when all will be peace, harmony, light, joy, and life, it will come. And it is so that it comes that we are going to die. | revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| 467d72b | For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d7aa4a9 | If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4387b30 | He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being." -Jean Valjean about Cossette-" | inspirational | Victor Hugo | |
| b14bbaf | There is a way of avoiding which resembles seeking. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 4f76251 | Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c7d6317 | He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think. | les-misérables small-town | Victor Hugo | |
| 3646681 | He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 54662fd | There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid. | Victor Hugo |