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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2552fdc | Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing. | Tony Judt | ||
| 3006ce6 | The degree of rigidity is a matter of profound interest in the study of literary fictions. As an extreme case you will find some novel, probably contemporary with yourself, in which the departure from a basic paradigm, the peripeteia in the sense I am now giving it, seems to begin with the first sentence. The schematic expectations of the reader are discouraged immediately. Since by definition one seeks the maximum peripeteia (in this exten.. | Frank Kermode | ||
| 529a2f1 | I have used the theologians and their treatment of apocalypse as a model of what we might expect to find not only in more literary treatments of the same radical fiction, but in the literary treatment of radical fictions in general. The assumptions I have made in doing so I shall try to examine next time. Meanwhile it may be useful to have some kind of summary account of what I've been saying. The main object: is the critical business of ma.. | Frank Kermode | ||
| 822ef0f | What, then, can Shakespearean tragedy, on this brief view, tell us about human time in an eternal world? It offers imagery of crisis, of futures equivocally offered, by prediction and by action, as actualities; as a confrontation of human time with other orders, and the disastrous attempt to impose limited designs upon the time of the world. What emerges from Hamlet is--after much futile, illusory action--the need of patience and readiness... | Frank Kermode | ||
| e36bf99 | The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival. | day evening judaism night | Nathan Englander | |
| 4669293 | David Abrams's Fobbit, Giorgio Agamben's The Open, Omnia Amin and Rick London's translations of Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi's poetry, Peter Van Buren's We Meant Well, Donovan Campbell's Joker One, C. J. Chivers's The Gun, Seth Connor's Boredom by Day, Death by Night, Daniel Danelo's Blood Stripes, Kimberly Dozier's Breathing the Fire, Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Siobhan Fallon's You Know When the Men Are.. | Phil Klay | ||
| 15471a5 | Begin at the beginning of Genesis, and read to the end of the Revelations, and see if you can find, that there were ever any that trusted in the Lord, and were confounded. | John Bunyan | ||
| 2321c8c | As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream. | John Bunyan | ||
| fc580fa | Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God. | John Bunyan | ||
| 0c837f3 | affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger. | John Bunyan | ||
| 2c7e0cc | is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. | John Bunyan | ||
| b9908f9 | I am definitely insulted that you don't remember me. I gave you some of my best stuff - Ian Fitzgerald | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| df05919 | Can we go out sometime? Or, I mean, I mean... Can we maybe just hang out? Can we get to know each other? You're new in town, right? I've lived here forever-- I mean-- I mean... there are... reasons... for you to hang out with me? | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| fcff746 | Much to my surprise, church has become a spiritual, even a theological struggle for me. I have found it increasingly difficult to sing hymns that celebrate a hierarchical heavenly realm, to recite creeds that feel disconnected from life, to pray liturgies that emphasize salvation through blood, to listen to sermons that preach an exclusive way to God, to participate in sacraments that exclude others, and to find myself confined to a hard pe.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| c17a73e | What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of snow when all night long the only sounds you heard were dogs that parked at trains that passed so far away they took a short cut through your dreams and no one even woke. It was the war that changed that. It was. After the Great War for Civilization - sleep was different everywhere... | Timothy Findley | ||
| cd09def | with every new manoeuvre, the light was growing dimmer--fading by numbers as well as strength--and the sound could no longer be heard, but only the pulse of it--seen going out in the darkness--losing its edges--caving in at its centre--webbing, now, as if a spider was spinning against the rain--until the last few strands of brightness fell--and were extinguished--silenced and removed from life and from all that lives forever. And the bell t.. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 27758ee | Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall. | Timothy Findley | ||
| ea8abf4 | Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them, | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 9f9a3d3 | The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they're not particularly fattening. So don't share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 8deb7c8 | like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony... | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b541e4d | But even now the city's freewheeling virtual world stood in stark contrast to the day-to-day lives of most people, to those of young men, and especially of young women, and above all of children who went to sleep unfed but could see on some small screen people in foreign lands preparing and consuming and even conducting food fights with feasts of such opulence that the very fact of their existence boggled the mind. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 9d713aa | He was a man who discovered love through his penis. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2ccae41 | You feel a love you know you will never be able to adequately explain or express to him, a love that flows one way, down the generations, not in reverse, and is understood and reciprocated only when time has made of a younger generation an older one. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 6862957 | From the perspective of the world's national security apparatuses you exist in several locations. You appear on property and income-tax registries, on passport and ID card databases. You show up on passenger manifests and telephone logs . . . You are fingertip swirls, facial ratios, dental records, voice patterns, spending trails, e-mail threads. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 200a2f3 | I tried not to dwell on the comparison; it was one thing to accept that New York was more wealthy than Lahore, but quite another to swallow the fact that Manila was as well. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 79bd1b2 | A revolver is) just a tool, really, like stapler. A stapler that punch through a person. Pin them. Drive blunt metal through flesh and bone. | flesh pin punch revolver stapler tool | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 9b4d30d | chovek nevinagi mozhe da v'zstanovi lichnite si granitsi, sled kato e dopusnal da b'dat razmiti i prekracheni ot drugo choveshko s'shchestvo v protsesa na romantichna vr'zka: kolkoto i da se opitvame ne mozhem da v'zv'rnem onazi avtonomnost na lichnostta, koiato sme si v'obraziavali che pritezhavame | relationships | Mohsin Hamid | |
| ea062c6 | She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b056bf9 | A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago as slaves. While this layer of nativeness was not vast in proportion of the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it. An unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a str.. | history-repeating-itself immigrants immigration natives slavery slaves u-s-history us-history | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 47ea7b9 | It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not.. | government pakistan terrorism war war-on-terror | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 289ed33 | So what's Pakistan like?" she asked. I told her Pakistan was many things, from seaside to desert to farmland stretched between rivers and canals; I told her that I had driven with my parents and my brother to China on the Karakoram Highway, passing along the bottoms of valleys higher than the tops of the Alps; I told her that alcohol was illegal for Muslims to buy and so I had a Christian bootlegger who delivered booze to my house in a Suzu.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 8f2443b | Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine. | sin wine | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 4803093 | The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns hidden in the shadows of the cottonwoods beside the streambed. I go higher to where the road gives up and there's only a faint path strewn with lupine between the mountain oaks. I don't ask myself what I'm looking for. I didn't come for answers to a place like this, I came to walk on the earth, still cold, still silent. Still ungiving, I'v.. | poetry words | Philip Levine | |
| 1e63609 | Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice. | Richard Bach | ||
| 2f9c15c | Os livros sao escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que nao nos libertam ate serem escritas e, ate mesmo entao, a escrita e o ultimo recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida. | job question success work | Richard Bach | |
| 6d8f0a8 | Tienes idea de cuantas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lograramos la primera idea de que hay mas en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? !Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil! Y luego cien vidas mas hasta que empezaramos a aprender que hay algo llamado perfeccion, y otras cien para comprender que la meta de la vida es encontrar esa perfeccion y reflejarla. | life-lessons | Richard Bach | |
| 5d70226 | The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities." | Richard Bach | ||
| db8083d | In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams. | Richard Bach | ||
| 2742d7a | Bach, Chopin, Schumann, these composers have mastered the art of listening. Richard hears Debussy's "Clair de lune," and every cell in his body has a broken heart and bare feet dancing in the moonlight. Playing Brahms is communing with God." | Lisa Genova | ||
| 32c3c36 | Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too...." | Richard Bach | ||
| 18d48da | He's changing. Every day more remote, protected, distant. He builds fests now for the soulmate he hasn't found, bricking wall and maze and mountain fortress, dares her to find him at the hidden center of them all Here's an A in self-protection from the one in the world he might love and who might someday love him. | love | Richard Bach | |
| 96e20da | This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. | Richard Bach | ||
| 75340ba | Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera. | Jon Gordon | ||
| a1eb620 | Sledui neizmenno za odnoi i toi zhe zvezdoi i obnaruzhish', chto ne tol'ko sbilsia s puti, no i vovse poterialsia. | Richard Bach |