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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df9bdbc | Porque no todas las verdades son para todos los oidos, ni todas las mentiras pueden ser reconocidas como tales por cualquier alma piadosa, | Umberto Eco | ||
| 07c6522 | At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books. | Umberto Eco | ||
| b6dc63f | Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ... William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 7280cf0 | Komunistite tv'rdiat, che religiiata e opium't za narodite. Viarno e, zashchoto pomaga da se d'rzhat izk'so podanitsite ... | Umberto Eco | ||
| eab334a | I'm a successful businessman, a very successful bussinessman,' he said, dead-eyed to the camera. 'Guys like me don't kill our wives. We trade 'em in and get a new one | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 6304e66 | Trust and stupidity are close friends. Of course, no one really knows that until it's too late. | Gregg Olsen | ||
| f8e8f75 | We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't. | Miranda July | ||
| 50e93c2 | I wouldn't use a British accent out loud, but I'd be using one in my head and it would carry over. | Miranda July | ||
| 5989548 | People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it. | Miranda July | ||
| 61efccb | I was afraid of the consequences of my acts in the right way, beyond guilt, but it was too late. I'd already become the person I should have been afraid of becoming. | Russell Banks | ||
| 3e83b12 | It's like a crime is an act that when you've committed one the act is over and you haven't changed inside. But when you commit a sin it's like you create a condition that you have to live in. | Russell Banks | ||
| 7629cac | They were the only three people I'd chosen on my own to love, and they were gone. But still, that morning in Mobay when I saw Russ for the last time, I saw clearly for the first time that loving Sister Rose and I-Man and even Bruce had left me with riches that I could draw on for the rest of my life, I was totally grateful to them. | Russell Banks | ||
| 9d3d117 | When you have never done a thing before and that thing is not simply and clearly right or wrong, you frequently do not know if it is a cruel thing, you just go ahead and do it. Maybe later you'll be able to determine whether you acted cruelly. Too late, of course, but at least you'll know. | Russell Banks | ||
| c473fa7 | It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand. | the-sweet-hereafter | Russell Banks | |
| 94915b3 | Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self. | russell-banks the-sweet-hereafter | Russell Banks | |
| c8ec50b | She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly." | Nella Larsen | ||
| b2b0c21 | She isn't stupid. She's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn't made the mistake of being born a Negro. | Nella Larsen | ||
| 3ea3bec | Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight. | nautical ocean pirate pirates seas ship youth | Tim Powers | |
| c121d0a | If you are prepared," he told his players, "you will be confident, and will do the job." | Tim Sanders | ||
| 490838d | Think of the many, many stories about God choosing people. There are Moses, Abraham, and Sarah; there are David, Jeremiah, Gideon, Samuel, Jonah, and Isaiah. There is Israel itself. Much later there are Peter and Paul, and, most especially, Mary. God is always choosing people. First impressions aside, God is not primarily choosing them for a role or a task, although it might appear that way. God is really choosing them to be God's self in t.. | Richard Rohr | ||
| 10e24e0 | He didn't call me for a few weeks. This was customary within our friendship, confide and retreat, but I wondered. I wondered if perhaps our last conversation had been an overture. Not the conversation, exactly, but the silences within it. There had been many dark pits of tea-sipping silence; looking back, I could imagine placing my hand on his hand while kneeling in one of these dark pits. And in such a pit could one even be sure what one w.. | Miranda July | ||
| d67ec89 | That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. | Miranda July | ||
| 9fa1149 | I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mother. We didn't. | Miranda July | ||
| 7dcb410 | The usual treatment is psychotherapy." "I know." I didn't explain that I was single. Therapy is for couples. So is Christmas. So is camping. So is beach camping." | Miranda July | ||
| 0bc6f42 | Did she think it was temporary? Or maybe that was the point of love: not to think. | Miranda July | ||
| 91c9646 | There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little. | Miranda July | ||
| 4b833d8 | We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond. | Miranda July | ||
| 6aa0e20 | Seminggu lalu dari hari itu Richard menulis di facebook: "'I miss her terribly.' - Miranda July" Aku jujur saja, merasa sedikit cemburu. Siapa si jalang ini, pikirku, dan meng-google namanya." | Norman Erikson Pasaribu | ||
| aabde6a | He loved me. He was a complex person with layers of percolating emotions, some of them spiritual, some tortured in a more secular way, and he burned for me. This complicated flame of being was mine. | Miranda July | ||
| 3f6b2c4 | We had fallen in love; that was still true. But given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone or anything. A wooden desk -- always on all fours, always prone, always there for you. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part -- there was no one to blame an.. | Miranda July | ||
| f6ddc07 | When I leave my car my iPhone escorts me, letting everyone else in the post office know that I'm not really with them, I'm with my own people, who are so hilarious that I can't help smiling to myself as I text them back. | Miranda July | ||
| 821d4c4 | A howl was curdling inside me; the ache felt inhuman. Or maybe this was my first human feeling. | Miranda July | ||
| 771e3b5 | wynsnt hmsry drd bh nm hln. w ywnny st w mwhy blndy drd. rngshn khrdhst. mykhwstm mbdy adb bshm w ngwym khh rngshn khrdhst m fkhr nmykhnm brysh hmyty dshth bshd gr dygrn hm bdnnd rng mwhysh Tby`y nyst. Hl hm khh ryshhy mwh khwdshn r nshn ddhnd dygr qyfhsh khml shbyh khsy shdh khh mwhysh r rng khrdh. chh myshd gr mn w w dwstn Smymy bwdym. chh myshd gr lbshysh r bh mn qrD mydd w mygft, yn bh tw byshtr myad, pysht bmwnh. chh myshd gr dr myn sh.. | Miranda July | ||
| 9715737 | It was only with the crisis that debt soared. Yet many Europeans in key positions - especially politicians and officials in Germany, but also the leadership of the European Central Bank and opinion leaders throughout the world of finance and banking - are deeply committed to the Big Delusion, and no amount of contrary evidence will shake them. As a result, the problem of dealing with the crisis is often couched in moral terms: nations are i.. | Paul Krugman | ||
| c8cfa44 | The only people discussing "race" with any insight and courage are loud middle-aged white men who romanticize the Kennedys and Motown, well-read open-minded white kids like the tie-dyed familiar sitting next to me in the Free Tibet and Boba Fett T-shirt, a few freelance journalists in Detroit, and the American hikikomori who sit in their basements pounding away at their keyboards composing measured and well-thought-out responses to the endl.. | race-and-culture | Paul Beatty | |
| cc0cab2 | She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all. | hope | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| 4c4f965 | Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals." | John Hersey | ||
| e4b35ff | This means, of course, that the most foundational change of all, the one from which all else issues, is hardest to track. It means that politics arises out of the spread of ideas and the shaping of imaginations. It means that symbolic and cultural acts have real political power. And it means that the changes that count take place not merely onstage as action but in the minds of those who are again and again pictured only as audience or byst.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| c604724 | Truth is found at the bottom of a bottomless pit." Jerome Facher - A Civil Action." | Jonathan Harr | ||
| 6be11fc | The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a t.. | hope politics | Rebecca Solnit | |
| cd60b26 | Other eras and cultures often asked different questions from the ones we ask now: What is the most meaningful thing you can do with your life? What's your contribution to the world or your community? Do you live according to your principles? What will your legacy be? What does your life mean? Maybe our obsession with happiness is a way not to ask those other questions, a way to ignore how spacious our lives can be, how effective our work ca.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 5b24a27 | The moon is profound except when we land on it. | profound | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 016ee6e | To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| bc548f5 | SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art; Annie Dillard and Cort Conley, eds., Modern American Memoirs; Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory; Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay; Jane Taylor McDonnell, Living to Tell the Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir; and William Zinsser, ed.,.. | Vivian Gornick |