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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7126d15 | And yet, even if one person finds his way ... that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c17fbc7 | The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please." He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you." "I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt." In his desk drawer he found the cont.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a0514c0 | Fear," Jason said, "can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| cb161c7 | It's impossible that James Joyce could have mentioned "talk-tapes" in his writing, Asher thought. Someday I'm going to get my article published; I'm going to prove that Finnegan's Wake is an information pool based on computer memory systems that didn't exist until a century after James Joyce's era; that Joyce was plugged into a cosmic consciousness from which he derived the inspiration for his entire corpus of work. I'll be famous forever." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7fca93d | The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 8771415 | lmr'@ hy lHy@, lmwt nfsh ykll bjll@ lHq byn ydyh. | life woman | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 602f05e | llfrH ywm wHd, l ytkrr mhm tkrr, w hw mn Sn` lrHmn l lbshr, w mn jl sm~ Gy@ w hy `mrn lwjwd , flzwj T`@ w lHb `bd@ dh Hd Hdhm `n Tryqh Dl l~ l'bd ,w fy mthl hdh lywm tsjl lHy@ 'Hd ntSrth lry'`@ , flnhny' l`rwsyn , w lnHy dhkr~ rby srthm lnbyl@ 'dm w Hw , lldhyn df` dnyn bl`Syn w rf` mnh blGfrn , w lnd` llh n ynSrn `l~ blys `dw lsr@ lqdym ldhy l ykf `n Tlb lth'r , w l`fb~ lkm fy lmsrt " wl qS@ fy mjmw`@ lfjr lkdhb" | Naguib Mahfouz نجيب محفوظ | ||
| 4122db0 | dh khf lktb fl ySH n yz`m nh ktb .. `dt l~ lklm mDTran fqlt : - twjd Hdwd .. nw` mn lmrqb@ ldkhly@ .. - w lrjwl@ ? `lyh n yrfD ! fkrt fym yjb qwlh w lknh sbqny qy'l : - stqwl lHy@ .. lm`ysh@ .. lwld ?? 'Zn nh hmwm Hqyqy@ .. - `Zym .. slmn .. w dhn fl yHq lh n yhjm `dd ltksy .. w yjb `lyh n yrtdy fstn w Hjb w Hdh yk`b `l w yqwl 'n mr@ .. ! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| bcd7eda | Din splendorile cafelei de odineoara, neschimbat ramasese doar mangalul. | nostalgia viața | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 4277a1b | lHry@ hy lqym@ lmqds@ lmslm bh `nd ljmy` -hdhh Hry@ jwzt lHdwd lslmy@ *lknh mqds@ yD fy slmn | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| ab84f29 | Treat a disease with drunkenness, laughter, and sport. If you find any trace of it after that, give it to me. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 30ea740 | nk tkrhny y 'dhm l l'nny knt lsbb fy Trdk, wlkn l'nny 'dhkrk bD`fk. nk tkrh fyWa nfsk lathm@, 'm 'n flm y`d ly mn mbrr lkrhytk, bl 'nt lywm `zy'y wtslyty. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 41fdfe2 | wlkn knt 'nt l`z wlsrwr ! lHy@ SHr qHl@ mhlk@ w 'nt bh wHdk lwH@ lkhDr lrTyb@ tlwdh bh lnfs | life lover | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| bf5c19f | Hqan knt twjd lHZt khy'n@ Ht~ f~ 'ym ls`d@ lkhlS@... w lkn m h~ llHZt lkhy'n@? h~ llHZ@ lt~ tnfSl fyh `n tyr Hytk ftqf `l~ rbw@ fwq lshTy' ltrqbh bdhsh@. f~ tlk llHZ@ knt 'sh`r b'n thm@ shkhSan qd DHk `l~, qd jr`n~ mqlban.. w 's'l nfs~ `m Hdth. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| c1d274b | Always, I liked the infinitive 'to go.' Let's go, let's go. let's really go. 'Andare' was the first verb I learned to conjugate in Italian. 'Andiamo,' let's go, teh sound comes out at a gallop. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 2c1d60b | Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was a small dream about time. I was dead, I guess, in deep black space high up among many white stars. My own consciousness had been disclosed to me, and I was happy. Then I saw far below me a long, curved band of color. As I came closer, I saw that it stretched endlessly in either direction, and I understood that I was seeing all the time of.. | dreams history memory nature reality | Annie Dillard | |
| 951a8ca | At a few times in my life, I've not been aware that I've just stepped onto a large X. Change might not be on my mind. Why change? I've always admired lives that flourish in place. The taproot reaches all the way to the aquifer, the leaves bud, flourish, fall, and grow again. I like generations following one another in the same house, where lamplight falls through the windows in squares of light on the snow, and somebody's height chart still.. | Frances Mayes | ||
| a4c836a | I don't expect to have a fully verified story of how Jo's disorder developed, but I don't think that historical accuracy is as important as what I call "emotional truth." People attach different levels of significance to the same events. No two participants in any event remember it in exactly the same way. A single broken promise, for example, among thousands of promises kept, might not be remembered by a parent, but may never be forgotten .. | Joan Frances Casey | ||
| 6eccb0b | There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 4134dd5 | If I lived here,...I have a feeling this place would take me. | Frances Mayes | ||
| b27487b | Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered? Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom? Is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed amongst the blessings of mankind, that I am seriousl.. | Edmund Burke | ||
| 9a580fb | Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes... | Frances Mayes | ||
| 6f6c478 | I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards your immortal soul. Seek God's glory in the Holy Land rather than your own, that I may see you in heaven if never again in France. | blanche-de-castile louis-iv motherhood | Sophie Perinot | |
| 1d64868 | When Libya fought against the Italian occupation, all the Arabs supported the Libyan mujahideen. We Arabs never occupied any country. Well, we occupied Andalusia unjustly, and they drove us out, but since then, we Arabs have not occupied any country. It is our countries that are occupied. Palestine is occupied, Iraq is occupied, and as for the UAE islands... It is not in the best interest of the Arabs for hostility to develop between them .. | Muammar Al-Qaddafi | ||
| 5c2caa6 | They all agree, Italy is not what it used to be. What is? All my adult life I've heard how Silicon Valley used to be all orchards, how Atlanta used to be genteel, how publishing used to be run by gentlemen, how houses used to cost what a car costs now. All true, but what can you do but live now? | Frances Mayes | ||
| 6ddf899 | The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait while the world's ethicists work out some centuries-long paradigm shift in moral thought. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 264b969 | As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals themselves. | Matthew Scully | ||
| ae683b0 | Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 4d20897 | Yeah, good to see you too. Her hand stays on the gun. "Did I say it was good to see you, Joe? "No, but I always try to read between the lines. Figured you going for your gun was how you express affection these days." | Charlie Huston | ||
| 43bd0d7 | When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 980c98b | God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously. | heaven help kingdom money s wealth | Randy Alcorn | |
| 966553e | A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again." | comfort disciple discipline faith give giving keep obedience share stewardship trust | Randy Alcorn | |
| 007e535 | Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King. | inspirational | Randy Alcorn | |
| 54b1f36 | Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. | giving greed need scripture sharing stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| bf78738 | Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. | encouragement example giving stewardship stories | Randy Alcorn | |
| f90a27d | Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn. | change christianity eternity life upside-down | Randy Alcorn | |
| f8b22a3 | Real gold fears no fire | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 5a682c0 | He had wanted to be a sophomore. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 5818b28 | No, they didn't have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today. | work-life-balance | Annie Proulx | |
| a1c0391 | The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 579f8cc | the vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those times, when her aloneness took on a darker hue, that she almost wished there would be no more guess, for then there would be no chasm of emptiness for her to negotiate when they were gone. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 234fed3 | In my early teens, I heard about and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, was my first foray into consuming smut. It was because of Burroughs that I knew about the particular musk that blooms when a rectum is penetrated, and that death-by-hanging produces spontaneous trouser tents. The first Burroughs I read was , but I buried myself in a few of.. | coming-of-age erotica homosexuality literature queer william-s-burroughs youth | Peter Dubé | |
| 5d71a8b | The gods do not exists, and even if they exist they do not trouble themselves about people, and we have nothing in common with them. The piety and devotion to the gods that the majority of people invoke is a lie devised by swindlers and con men and, if you can believe it, by legislators, to keep criminals in line by putting the fear of God into them. | Epictetus | ||
| 7913f9d | Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. | Epictetus |