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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3497140 | When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society | Henning Mankell | ||
| 328052d | A message was scribbled on the wall: . | Henning Mankell | ||
| 815108b | One can never wait too long. | Henning Mankell | ||
| e129ada | Memory is like glass. A person who has died is still visible, very close. But we can no longer contact each other. Death is mute; it excludes conversations, only allows silence. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 146f709 | History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 82899c9 | Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend. | Henning Mankell | ||
| a20bf5f | What doesn't exist you have to create yourself. Even a dream can be plucked out of your head and shaped for a purpose. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 7888ab9 | You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That's not a foundation on which friendships are based. | Alex Garland | ||
| d6d40b1 | If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| c16aaf9 | Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 2533415 | For many of us, the people we find most difficult to praise are the ones closest to us--our mates, our children, our parents, and sometimes our friends. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| f720d72 | A self-assured woman who is in control of her life draws like a magnet. She is so filled with positive energy that people want to be around her. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 87dbbb5 | Bir akil caginin kafirligi. Dogruyu gorur ve onaylar, ama yanlisi yaparim. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 87a3b6c | Ya no es un malhechor. Tampoco es una criatura capaz de una eleccion moral. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 42a73f5 | It was very cally and vonny, with one bulb in the ceiling with fly-dirt like obscuring its bit of light, and there were early rabbiters slurping away at chai and horrible-looking sausages and slices of kleb which they like wolfed, going wolf wolf wolf and then creeching for more. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 96bd577 | Kit bowed to all in the manner of a single wave of obeisance and left the chamber in some anger and disquiet. Outside the door he saw Baines waiting for entrance. Kit spat and said: No buboes yet? The devils of the plague know their own. Baines said: &emdash; That is not friendly. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 589fc0a | Mas eu nao conseguia deixar de me sentir um pouquinho decepcionado com as coisas do jeito que eram naquela epoca. Nada contra o que lutar de verdade. Tudo era facil como tirar doce de crianca. Mas a noite ainda era mesmo uma crianca. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 74bb6fc | Power, power, everybody like wants power | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 4ab79ce | Ser bom pode nao ser agradavel, 6655321. Pode ser horrivel ser bom. E quando digo isto a voce, eu compreendo como soa contraditorio. Eu sei que vou passar muitas noites sem dormir por causa disto. O que e que Deus quer? Deus quer a bondade ou a escolha da bondade? O homem que escolhe o mal e talvez de uma certa forma melhor do que aquele a quem a bondade e imposta. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 6b727bb | Oh? And what's so stinking about it?. | literature reading | Anthony Burgess | |
| 520df8e | There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 0df4d48 | El hombre que no puede elegir ha perdido la condicion humana. | decision delarge hombre mecanica naranja vida | Anthony Burgess | |
| 06e7638 | Tudod - mondta -, arra ment ki az egesz, hogy megtudjuk, mi mindent lehet penzen megvenni. Egyszer egy ember azt mondta, hogy ha aggodunk a vilag sorsa miatt, megbolondulunk, probaljunk meg inkabb kellemesen elni. Kellemesen elni, pontosan ezeket a szavakat hasznalta, igy hat azt gondoltam, legjobb, ha alkalomadtan szerzunk egy kis penzt, aztan majd meglatjuk, mire jutunk a kellemes elettel, ha penzunk is van hozza. Tulajdonkeppen mindketto.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| edf3d1d | What's done can't be undone. How do I fit into this new world? I should have been warned, somebody should have told me. How was I to know that that sort of world wasn't going to go on for ever? | new-world the-wanting-seed | Anthony Burgess | |
| 6ffad1a | He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 8f1c81b | Pfffrrrummmp. And a very happy New Year to you too, Mr Enderby! | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 4ac6eb9 | History is a wheel. This sort of world can't go on for ever either. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 85a322c | you are out of the field of the novel | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 918de57 | Iyilik secilemeyen bir seydir. Insan secemediginde insanliktan cikar. (syf. 73 - 74) | Anthony Burgess | ||
| d4fecb2 | They did not understand him. Poor Dorothy had been long in the situation they seemed only to have arrived at, but she tried to tear the head off her doll and cried what sounded like . There, you hear, her mother said. Clever girl, she crooned at her. Say God. Say sky. . She has said her prayers, Kit said in weariness. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 371c58b | I was cured alright. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 72e2584 | A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| b230667 | Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 2bd5a62 | How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| adf3143 | So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 678d519 | I am everyone's friend,' I said. 'Except to my enemies. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| e2f3bc7 | People had got used to the planet dying. They didn't care anymore, it had been lingering on for too long. The Earth was like some aged and slightly disgusting relative that just got sicker and sicker and yet refused to die. Requiring more and more attention, growing bigger tumours, bursting nastier sores and soiling its sheets ever more often. An embarrassment and an inconvenience, a constant reminder of family guilt. | Ben Elton | ||
| 243d764 | When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news. | phone | Ben Elton | |
| 2251afb | To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past. | past | Ben Elton | |
| 11435ba | The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. | Ben Elton | ||
| 635cfd9 | Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable | Ben Elton | ||
| 6e53d71 | He pressed his forehead against hers as he drew in a ragged breath. "I think I'm going to want to keep you." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6e3b9c2 | But it wasn't until the bathroom door was closed that it really set in she was leaving and I...I wanted another hug. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ac19e91 | The tears that rushed to my eyes threatened to spill forth and I was seconds from crying as if I'd watched a marathon of Hallmark movies. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |