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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c614c6 | What matters most: | spirit | Richard Bach | |
| a8cb182 | She laughed. "All right, all right. Still want to leave for San Francisco tomorrow?" Not unless you're in a hurry. Let's stick around awhile. This excitement has put us behind in our drinking." -- | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| d12c449 | The hell of it, Miss- Is your name Wonderly or Leblanc?' She blushed and murmured: 'It's really O'Shaughnessy - Brigid O'Shaughnessy | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| d02939a | Desaparecio - dijo Spade - como desaparece un puno cuando se abre la mano. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 60eaf0f | How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 80fcf16 | Quinn came over to refill his glass. He looked towards the bedroom door. "Where'd you find the little blonde?" "Used to bounce it on my knee." "Which knew?" he asked. "Could I touch it?" | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 72d84bd | Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 51047aa | I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me. I probably didn't jump twenty feet. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 7f38acf | Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us. | detective | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 732a727 | Now I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there'd be no sense to it. That's the fix I am in. I don't know anything else, don't enjoy anything else, don't want to know or enjoy anything else. You can't weight that against any sum of money. Money's good stuff. I haven't anything against it. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| fe14e86 | Leda: 'I would rather become an international adventuress and bring down kings and emperors.' Maxim: 'But this is the age of republics and democracies. It's much harder to seduce a committee. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 672e66e | We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation. | library readers reading | Michael Moorcock | |
| 0f63151 | If we remain adaptable, we remain strong. If we force others to accept our traditions and values, we ultimately grow weak... | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 3556340 | Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 59b41ba | We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 2eb4e22 | You can love completely without complete understanding. | love | Norman MacLean | |
| ecd5724 | It is a strange and wonderful and somewhat embarrassing feeling to hold someone in your arms who is trying to detach you from the earth and you aren't good enough to follow her. | love | Norman Maclean | |
| 07f2d39 | Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 4edf46c | If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman." "You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful." | love | Norman Maclean | |
| d68892c | Just how many pairs of black shoes do you need?" he finally asked, staring at them lined up on the floor. Okay, shoes aren't a laughing matter. I gave him a cool stare. "One pair more than I have." "Then why didn't you get them?" "Because I would still need one pair more than I have." | Linda Howard | ||
| c552ef8 | Nice is good. It doesn't sound exciting, but think about it. I think Mr. Perfect would be kind to kids and animals, help old ladies across the street, not insult you when your opinion is different from his. Being nice is so important it's close to being number one. | nice perfect-boyfriend trust | Linda Howard | |
| cbefd0f | Love by itself isn't enough; it's never enough. There had to be other things, such as liking and respect, or love would get worn away by the realities of everyday life. | reality-of-life | Linda Howard | |
| fa7298c | She felt oddly safe with him, though not safe from him. | Linda Howard | ||
| 65615b8 | They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you understood that the very thing that was supposed to protect them was the thing that made them vulnerable, and you knew you couldn't help them, so you decided to love them instead. | Kevin Brockmeier | ||
| 21ee590 | The United States has the most powerful government, with the longest reach, of any nation in history. It is also the Brokest Nation in History. Resolving that contradiction is unlikely to be pretty. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 799ec96 | It is a basic rule of life that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. | Mark Steyn | ||
| bac74e2 | Multicultural societies are so invested in "tolerance" that they'll tolerate the explicitly intolerant (and avowedly unicultural) before they'll tolerate anyone pointing out that intolerance." | Mark Steyn | ||
| c7c1ef3 | when you hit the expressway to Declinistan there are few exit ramps. That America's animating principles should require a defense at all is a melancholy reflection on how far we've already gone. Live free--or die from a thousand soothing caresses of nanny-state sirens. | Mark Steyn | ||
| ceb3cc1 | In the Sixties, the hippies used to say, "Never trust anyone over 30." Now all the Sixties hippies are in their sixties, and they've gone quiet about that, but it's good advice for you: never trust anyone over 30 with the societal checkbook. You thought you were the idealistic youth of the Obama era, but in fact you're the designated fall-guys. You weren't voting for "the future," but to deny yourself the very possibility of one--like turke.. | Mark Steyn | ||
| f45da99 | They have our soul who have our bonds - and the world was more fortunate in who had London's bonds than America is seventy years later. Britain's eclipse by its wayward son was a changing of the guard, not a razing of the palace. | Mark Steyn | ||
| ef747cd | The most consequential act of state ownership in the twentieth-century western world was not the nationalization of airlines or the nationalization of railways or the nationalization of health care, but the nationalization of the family. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 536dbbc | The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood - health care, child care, care of the elderly - to the point where it's effectively severed its citizens from humanity's primal instincts, not the least the survival instinct...They corrode the citizen's sense of self-reliance to a potentially fatal degree. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 54262d9 | The continent has embraced a spiritual death long before the demographic one. In those seventeen European countries that have fallen into the "lowest-low fertility," where are the children? In a way, you're looking at them: the guy sipping espresso at a sidewalk cafe listening to his iPod, the eternal adolescent charges of the paternalistic state. The government makes the grown-up decisions and we spend our pocket money on our record collec.. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 24edb43 | We have been shirking too long, and that's unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be tough and demanding. The alternative will be worse. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 93fdf6e | I can be someone's and still be my own. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| e238901 | Getting back to the issue of the child," Tina said, harshing our buzz as visual, "I really think you should reconsider. He--" The phone rang. She picked it up, glanced at the caller ID. "We're kind of busy," I said, a little sharply. The phone was a whole thing between Tina and me. "But--" "If it's important, they'll call back." "But it's your mother." I practically snarled. The phone, the fucking phone! People used it the way they used to .. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| b38967c | I mean, not that I killed her just to get the car, or anything. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 90f1c7c | I can't believe your boss tried to kill you, too," Jessica said. "I mean, I know they're trying to keep the unemployment rate down, but that's ridiculous." "Most people think their bosses are out to get them. But mine really was!" | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 71aef6d | Don't look at his groin. Don't look at his groin. Don't mention that he doesn't have a vagina, so 'we' is bullshit. This is not the time to mention your pet peeve about expectant fathers talking how 'we' are having a baby. Don't. Don't. | humor pet-peeves pregnancy | MaryJanice Davidson | |
| 124bf44 | What the hell was it about e-mail that made everybody forget the stuff they learned in second grade, like capitalizing I and proper names, and using periods? Hello? We all learned how to do this less than five years out of diapers! | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| e15fbb4 | Have you lost your teeny tiny mind, you too-tall, too-skinny, too-crazy jerk?" "Oh, look who's talking, Miss Let's Blunder Around the Time Stream and Hang the Consequences! Thanks to you, we've got a dead Marc and a live Marc in the same timeline . . . in the same house! Thanks to you, I got chomped on by a dim, blonde, undead, selfish, whorish, blood-sucking leech when I was minding my own business in the past." "Don't you call me dim!" "U.. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 2dce795 | What it comes down to is this, Betsy: you do what you need to, and then you haul ass out of there. Every single time. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| a9be0aa | Somehow, when I wasn't looking, somehow because it's electronic mail, none of the basic grammar rules applied. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 74fb1f8 | Crying's okay while it lasts, but you can only do it for so long. And it's weird to do it when you apparently can't make tears anymore (did this mean I wouldn't pee or sweat, either?). Anyway, eventually you're done, and you have to figure out what to do next. | MaryJanice Davidson |