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| 704d82f | The left half of your brain deals with logic, language, calculation, and reason. This is the half people perceive as their personal identity. This is the conscious, rational, everyday basis of reality. The right side of your brain is the center of your intuition, emotion, insight, and pattern recognition skills. Your subconscious. Your left brain is a scientist,. Your right brain is an artist. People live their lives out of the left half o.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 35ee351 | Bana su boktan dunyada aynen gorundugu gibi olan tek bir sey ver. Flas! | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0249905 | jorj orueli c`deboda. didi z'ma t`valqurs ki ar gadevnebs, is c`ekvavs da mg'eris, mas boc`vrebi amohqavs jadosnuri k`udidan. qovelt`vis, roc`a ar gz'inavs, didi z'ma gart`obs, quradg'ebas gip`antavs, qvelap`ers aket`ebs imisat`vis, rom mt`lianad iqo sht`ant`k`muli da ar ip`ik`ro. is qvelap`ers aket`ebs imisat`vis, rom carmosaxvis unari gagik`ros, da ik`amde ar mogeshveba, vidre mas brma naclavivit` usargeblod ar gik`c`evs. didi z'ma t`valq.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6be44a0 | The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4097c37 | Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bd185f2 | In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step--usually the pogo--and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8b0b70d | More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea . . . That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That if someday you were caught, exposed, and revealed enough, then you'd never be able to hide again. There'd be no difference between your public and your private lives. That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| eed3b70 | You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6160622 | And I say no. The problem is the light, the dim light down here. Cupped in the palm of my hand, the cyanide and the wood pill, I can't tell which is which. What's sex and what's death--I can't tell the difference. I ask which one to give her. And Mr. Bacardi leans in to look, both of us breathing hot, damp air into my open hand. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3a0550e | Slang is the writer's palette of colors. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5300890 | All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 600820a | So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 695e3dd | Insan sevdiklerini oldurur diye bir soz vardir ya; aslinda bakin insani olduren de hep sevdigidir. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 13d8c99 | Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2f9c00c | The fish is something to make me settle in one place. According to church colony doctrine, it's why men marry women and why women have children. It's something to live your life around. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5d78e24 | Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bb04eb3 | Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6f01e7e | Give me anger. Flash. Give me vengeance. Flash. Give me total and complete justified retribution. Flash. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d553d40 | You can probably make them do anything for you: Sell people things they don't need; make women who don't know you fall in love with you. | Vance Packard | ||
| e6f0e9f | Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 68998ec | If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. | success | Ian Fleming | |
| 449ad5a | In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 345dab2 | Never send a man where you can send a bullet. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 3acddd8 | Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved a.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| d6053ef | James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 315bc9f | Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual. | skill | Ian Fleming | |
| 10f88e4 | The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead. | death james-bond | Ian Fleming | |
| 318d4a0 | It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favour of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera. | istanbul modernization pera turkey | Ian Fleming | |
| 223964f | The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not. | las-vegas traps | Ian Fleming | |
| 953fe8b | You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 32e541b | My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have stumbled by mischance into a game for grown-ups and you have already found it a painful experience. You are not equipped, my dear boy, to play games with adults and it very foolish of your nanny in London to have sent you out here with your spade and bucket. Very foolish indeed and most unfortunate for you.' 'But we must stop joking, my dear.. | advice wise-words | Ian Fleming | |
| c90e2b6 | The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. | P.D. James | ||
| 7e712b7 | Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am | Rumer Godden | ||
| b19c522 | It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of .. | murder-mysteries | P.D. James | |
| 03d8984 | People should make up their minds whether to live or to die and do one or the other with the least inconvenience to others. | P.D. James | ||
| 9f9dbc3 | I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval. | P.D. James | ||
| 3861361 | I don't think He bargains." "Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He's supposed to he just. If He wants belief He'd better provide some evidence.' "That He exists?" "That He cares." | religion | P.D. James | |
| 71c2331 | What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure. | pd-james the-murder-room | P.D. James | |
| 5d24215 | Like all religious evangelists, she realizes that there is little satisfaction in the contemplation of heaven for oneself if one cannot simultaneously contemplate the horrors of hell for others. | P.D. James | ||
| f9b4b68 | Admirable." Translation: Slut. "I'm confident you could have ripped the vampire's heart out with no help from Sir Conall. You would never need a hero to rescue you." Translation: Amazon." | Nina Bangs | ||
| 5ff6f67 | That's what friends are for," I said. "It doesn't matter if they're old friends or new friends. They're the kind of people who will listen as long as you need them to because, sometimes, telling the story and having someone listen is the only way to figure out how to move on." | J.A. Jance | ||
| 76d666a | She blinked once, then twice, and yet again, sure what she viewed was just another part of this fantasy world that she had stepped into when her feet touched the green grass of Ireland. | fern-michaels holiday secret-santa | Fern Michaels | |
| f86be2d | This is why the rabbis tell us that a broken heart is more full than one that is content: because a broken heart has a vacancy, and the vacancy has the potential to be filled with the infinite. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 22c8253 | Metti chiunque, anche uno scemo, davanti a una finestra, e avrai uno Spinoza. | Nicole Krauss |