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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aea8e64 | To paraphrase Frank Zappa, she'd thought it was a man she wanted, but instead it was a muffin. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 1f5cbac | I can tell by now that you are wondering whether I can be trusted as a narrator. Why didn't I dump Inge and head for a Singles Bar? The answer is her breasts. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| df67763 | The end of every game is an anti-climax. What you thought you would feel you don't feel, what you thought was so important isn't any more. It's the game that's exciting. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8eed5dd | Your first task is to find the place where your soul is at home. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 5c56ba2 | ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life. I sees every fall into ignorance and confusion as an opportunity to discover that the beast residing at the center of the labyrinth is also an angel. To approach this paradoxial point of tension where adjustment and abnormality meet is to move closer to the realization of our mystery-filled.. | care soul star | Thomas Moore | |
| a57d5a1 | Intel engineers did a rough calculation of what would happen had a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle improved at the same rate as microchips did under Moore's law. These are the numbers: Today, that Beetle would be able to go about three hundred thousand miles per hour. It would get two million miles per gallon of gas, and it would cost four cents! Intel engineers also estimated that if automobile fuel efficiency improved at the same rate as Moore's l.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 11895d8 | One day I would like to make up my own DSM-111 with a list of "disorders" I have seen in my practice. For example, I would want to include the diagnosis "psychological modernism," an uncritical acceptance of the values of the modern world. It includes blind faith in technology, inordinate attachment to material gadgets and conveniences, uncritical acceptance of the march of scientific progress, devotion to the electronic media, and a life-s.. | Thomas Moore | ||
| fed3f3b | Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from the relentless pace of time. | sex sexuality soul time | Thomas Moore | |
| 7925f96 | But this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination's struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good, That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence. | soul | John Keats | |
| 03e24ea | I'm painfully aware that the experts in fields like religion and spirituality sometimes feel that bringing mysticism down so far into ordinary life is an insult to the great mystics and makes it all too light and breezy. I feel just the opposite. I believe that one day we'll understand that we've lost out on religion because we made it too lofty and distant. I see it as a simple quality of everyday life, and in that simplicity lie its beaut.. | Thomas Moore | ||
| ef52cf8 | Many of the arts practiced at home are especially nourishing to the soul because they foster contemplation and demand a degree of artfulness, such as arranging flowers, cooking, and making repairs. | Thomas Moore | ||
| bb20cb3 | Your body is not in control of your mind--your mind is in control of your body, and your mind is stronger than your body. Mind certainly is over matter. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| f8cccbf | Multitasking is a persistent myth. Paying deep, focused attention to one task at a time is the correct way. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 72f5b2b | Daytime thinking is a building process, whereas nighttime thinking is a sorting process. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 7d51cc9 | Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A star the size of a city, a city the size of a star, whirling round and round, its death-song caught by a radio receiver, light years later, like a recorded message nobody heard, back-played now into infinity across time. Love and loss. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a30f639 | The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation. | urbanism | Ray Oldenburg | |
| 4d57539 | He sounded like me when I sensed there were drugs around: "All I know is that if someone wants to get high, or wants to watch while I smoke his dope, I'll do it. I really will." | David Sedaris | ||
| 8ddb645 | The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were white. | David Sedaris | ||
| 9097cc6 | In the role of Mary, six-year-old Shannon Burke just barely manages to pass herself off as a virgin. | David Sedaris | ||
| ef4267f | It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it was their fault, not yours. | David Sedaris | ||
| 75e830a | Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change goals. | David Sedaris | ||
| ea64fd2 | Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you. | pleasure | David Sedaris | |
| 7ec2ded | In the last month of the presidential campaign, I tuned in to conservative talk radio and listened as callers considered the unthinkable. One after another, they all threatened the same thing: "If McCain doesn't win, I'm leaving the country." "Oh, right," I'd say. "You're going to leave and go where? Right-wing Europe?" In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn .. | David Sedaris | ||
| 6a3d156 | Use the word "y'all," and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack French-kissing an underage goat. Along with grits and hush puppies, the abbreviated form of you all was a dangerous step on an insidious path leading straight to the doors of the Baptist church." | David Sedaris | ||
| 6dce9b5 | never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk near a train, and never, under any circumstances, cut off your air supply while masturbating. | David Sedaris | ||
| 3a75594 | Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restuarants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out." | smoking | David Sedaris | |
| 15f10fb | Her expression changed then, becoming fearful rather than merely pained. It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shakey ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape. | David Sedaris | ||
| e82ce64 | Leeches are singing in my asshole. | David Sedaris | ||
| c544cdb | On the plane from Paris I heard a man say, "The first thing I'm going to do when I get home is order a Big Gulp. I'm going to supersize everything!" He said he'd been thirsty the entire time he was in Paris, and though I'd never thought about it, if you're used to carrying a trash-can-size cup filled with crushed ice and soda, I suppose it would be hard to spend a few weeks in Europe." | David Sedaris | ||
| 587d349 | My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. 'I think it was very nice of Paul to give me this vase,' she once said, arranging a bouquet of wildflowers into the skull-shaped bong my brother had left on the kitchen table. 'It's nontraditional, but that's the Rooster's way. He's a free spirit, and we're lucky t.. | drugs family humor satire | David Sedaris | |
| ce4fc91 | Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns. | David Sedaris | ||
| ce6accd | In imagining myself as modest, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent, I'm forced to realize that, in real life, I am none of these qualities. Nobody dreams of the things he already has. | David Sedaris | ||
| 4578e30 | Dad wants to talk about her death--he needs to--but unlike the rest of us, who yak incessantly about our feelings, he has no vocabulary for it and is reduced to the cliches you'd find on a sympathy card. It's like not knowing a language. | David Sedaris | ||
| 1873fa8 | It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!" | David Sedaris | ||
| 955c2a9 | My only comfort was the knowledge that I was not alone. Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overheard in refugee camps. "Sometime me cry alone at night." "That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay." | french-language humor language-learning students | David Sedaris | |
| 1b171ab | You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you. | David Sedaris | ||
| db255e9 | It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate. | place smoking | David Sedaris | |
| 3297a76 | Honestly, though, does choice even come into it? Is it my fault that the good times fade to nothing while the bad ones burn forever bright? | David Sedaris | ||
| a016002 | Someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels. What made this exceptionally disturbing was that all our towels were fudge-colored. You'd be drying your hair when, too late, you noticed an unmistakable odor on your hands, head, and face. | David Sedaris | ||
| 854443a | It's time to demythologise an era and build a new myth from the gutter to the stars. It's time to embrace bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their time. | James Ellroy | ||
| ec4a178 | You can't make history all the time, Dougie. Sometimes the best you can do is make money. | James Ellroy | ||
| af256fa | He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History. | James Ellroy | ||
| de9f1d9 | I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop. | James Ellroy | ||
| 7820af2 | I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is tight. | James Ellroy |