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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6fc4c8a | When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped. | Jack London | ||
| acf6fdc | Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable. | Jack London | ||
| 8a88d8c | He cut short my request for something to eat, snapping out, "I don't believe you want to work." Now this was irrelevant. I hadn't said anything about work. The topic of conversation I had introduced was "food." In fact, I didn't want to work. I wanted to take the westbound overland that night." | humor tramp | Jack London | |
| 17af1e0 | I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you. | Jack London | ||
| e28c722 | For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason, | Jack London | ||
| 54c8997 | mn 'fwh Hfn@ mn l'Tfl khrjt Hkm@ kl l'zmn@; lb`D swf yqtl .. wlb`D swf yHkm .. wlb`D swf ySl~ .. 'm lbqwn fswf ytjr`wn lkdH wlm`n@, wynzfwn fwq jththhm, mr@ tlw mr@ bl nhy@ .. y jml ldwl@ lmtHDr@ lmdhsh ! | Jack London | ||
| e461b58 | Is this flesh of yours you? Or is it an extraneous something possessed by you? Your body--what is it? A machine for converting stimuli into reactions. Stimuli and reactions are remembered. They constitute experience. Then you are in your consciousness these experiences. You are at any moment what you are thinking at that moment. Your I is both subject and object; it predicates things of itself and is the things predicated. The thinker is th.. | Jack London | ||
| 60f9396 | This is the first time I have heard 'ethics' in the mouth of a man. You and I are the only men on this ship that know its meaning. At one time in my life, I dreamed that I might someday talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics. | Jack London | ||
| 750616f | Buck found it to be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate. | Jack London | ||
| dabe9d2 | All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what | Jack London | ||
| 070944e | All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. | Jack London | ||
| 3097bee | Sometimes they went hungry, sometimes they feasted riotously, all according to the abundance of game and the fortune of hunting. | Jack London | ||
| bbfca5f | The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view. | Jack London | ||
| 9aaa9d4 | A wolf does not think like a human. | Jack London | ||
| 586841b | Charley Hapgood is what they call a rising young man - somebody told me as much. And it is true. He'll make the Governor's Chair before he dies, and, who knows? maybe the United States Senate." "What makes you think so?" Mrs. Morse had inquired. "I've heard him make a campaign speech. It was so cleverly stupid and unoriginal, and also so convincing, that the leaders cannot help but regard him as safe and sure, while his platitudes are so mu.. | Jack London | ||
| 9ccd22f | It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. | Jack London | ||
| 3e5d687 | He was older than the days he had seen and the breaths he had drawn. He linked the past with the present, and the eternity behind him throbbed through him in a mighty rhythm to which he swayed as the tides and seasons swayed. | Jack London | ||
| 718f63b | Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden. | Jack London | ||
| d92264a | On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence. It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of deep water affect the body of the diver. It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree. It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, unti.. | Jack London | ||
| 415ee39 | Between us and the bottom of the sea was less than an inch of wood. And yet, I aver it, and I aver it again, I was unafraid. | Jack London | ||
| 16b1fc0 | If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began! | Jack London | ||
| eec0405 | It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. | Jack London | ||
| 7af1ff2 | I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting skill beyond the effort to appear unperturbed in the face of the inexplicable, which is as far as I can see one of the central tasks of adulthood. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| ffe9df0 | But who could resist the erotic lives of atoms and molecules - the violent passion of electrostatic attractions, the comfortable mutuality of covalent bonds, the gentle air kisses of van der Waals forces? The rules governing the couplings and uncouplings of tiny particles seemed to me as fascinating as the kinship rules of what we still called "primitive" societies - with the revulsion of like-charged particles, for example, functioning as .. | chemistry erotic | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| e6a6bda | My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers--the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being "reamed out" by managers--are part of what keeps wages low. If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth. It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Managers may truly believe that, without their unremitting efforts, all work.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| bd27675 | Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of "negative" people." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 68c43cb | I had discovered that writing--with whatever instrument--was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| b108eee | Almost everyone smokes as if their pulmonary well-being depended on it -- the multinational melange of gooks; the dishwashers, who are all Czechs here; the servers, who are American natives -- creating an atmosphere in which oxygen is only an occasional pollutant. My first morning at Jerry's, when the hypoglycemic shakes set in, I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don'.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 2e6cbb5 | And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 179d3c7 | On, I don't think I'm a genius!' cried Josie, growing calm and sober as she listened to the melodious voice and looked into the expressive face that filled her with confidence, so strong, sincere and kindly was it. 'I only want to find out if I have talent enough to go on, and after years of study be able to act well in any of the good plays people never tire of seeing. I don't expected to be a Mrs. Siddons or a Miss Cameron, much as I long.. | jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 83f02ae | Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds. | louisa-may-alcott love | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 62e17a5 | but mortal man was helpless there... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| c67ebdf | To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 97b3cf9 | thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| bcf9392 | a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck. | louisa-may-alcott luck | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 075eb31 | And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace... | louisa-may-alcott mothers | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 6f05296 | Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 4194cb0 | he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| e896973 | feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| e3474da | the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 609fb9f | possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 5bd24ac | By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper)... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7e40abb | It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b269d2b | Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and w.. | talent values virtue wealth | Louisa May Alcott |