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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f17e825 | In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 498f418 | In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don't think about them, you'll be psychologically unwell. If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent. | intelligence knowledge wisdom | Neal Stephenson | |
| 1cbfca3 | There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 98d5f9e | She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that was not quite as long as a rolled umbrella. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| e00d0e7 | He opened the rear door and I got in and sank down into the cushions and George slid under the wheel and started the big car. It moved away from the curb and around the corner with as much noise as a bill makes in a wallet. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| a350733 | She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3d824f5 | Then there were no more houses, just the burnt foothills and the cement ribbon and a sheer drop on the left into the coolness of a nameless canyon, and on the right heat bouncing off the seared clay bank at whose edge a few unbeatable wild flowers clawed and hung on like naughty children who won't go to bed. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| e96ecca | Anybody ever tell you you're a cute little trick? | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 860af84 | Suddenly, without any real change in her, she ceased to be beautiful. She looked merely like a woman who would have been dangerous a hundred years ago, and twenty years ago daring, but who today was just Grade B Hollywood. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| c08a138 | Lucille has a dull life, Mr. Marlowe. She's stuck here with me and a PBX. And an itty-bitty diamond ring - so small I was ashamed to give it to her. But what can a man do? If he loves a girl, he'd like it to show on her finger." Lucille held her left hand up and moved it around to get a flash from the little stone. "I hate it," she said. "I hate it like I hate the sunshine and the summer and the bright stars and the full moon. That's how I .. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 130dfa3 | I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed mot.. | beautiful-losers bravery courage courage-to-be-oneself fresh-ideas great-art greatness hip-hop innovation integrity lars-von-trier modern-art porn-as-art pornography refinement sasha-grey sex-in-cinema shakespeare struggling-artist struggling-writer the-truth vulgarity | Raymond Chandler | |
| 763b162 | They had Rembrandt on the calendar that year, a rather smeary self-portrait due to imperfectly registered color plate. It showed him holding a smeared palette with a dirty thumb and wearing a tam-o'-shanter which wasn't any too clean either. His other hand held a brush poised in the air, as if he might be going to do a little work after a while, if somebody made a down payment. His face was aging, saggy, full of the disgust of life and the .. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| b991337 | He was California from the tips of his port wine loafers to the buttoned and tieless brown and yellow checked shirt inside his rough cream sports jacket. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 482553c | I'm a copper," he said. "Just a plain ordinary copper. Reasonably honest. As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| d6c2743 | She approached me with enough sex appeal to stampede a businessmen's lunch and tilted her head to finger a stray, but not very stray, tendril of softly glowing hair. Her smile was tentative, but could be persuaded to be nice. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 13db640 | French said: "It's like this with us, baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts. And as if we didn't have enough trouble, we have to have you. As if we didn't get pushed around enough by the guys in the corner offices, the City Hall gang, the day chief, the night chief, the Chamber of Commerce, His Honor the Mayor in his paneled office four times as big as the three lousy rooms the whole homicide staff has to work out of. As if we di.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| a6747af | As for asking favors or handouts, no.' But you'll take them from a stranger.' He looked me straight in the eye. 'The stranger can keep going and pretend not to hear. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3517d4d | The pebbled glass door panel is lettered in flaked black paint: "Philip Marlowe...Investigations." It is a reasonably shabby door at the end of a reasonably shabby corridor in the sort of building that was new about the year the all-tile bathroom became the basis of civilization. The door is locked, but next to it is another door with same legend which is not locked. Come on in--there's nobody here but me an a big bluebottle fly. But not if.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 14ee856 | Her whole body shivered and her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust. She put it together again slowly, as if lifting a great weight, by sheer will power. The smile came back, with a couple of corners badly bent. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| d77eca1 | The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind that solves crimes with the bright light, the soft sap, the kick to the kidneys, the knee to the groin, the fist to the solar plexus, the night stick to the base of the spine. Six months later he was indicted for perjury before a grand jury, booted without trial, and later stamped to death by a big stallion on his.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 09b7655 | I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f47343f | A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| b6e74f9 | However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2bf9f30 | The room was empty. It was full of silence and the memory of a nice perfume. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| b844c70 | H]istory, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot. | Paul Murray | ||
| d0521f2 | Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity." | science | Paul Murray | |
| 32767af | Philosophy--in every field of inquiry--is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 2dce42b | Tabii ki Tanri, Laplace'nin (esyanin nasil isledigine dair) matematiksel tarifinde yer almaz, tipki Bay Ford'un icten yanmali motorun bilimsel tarifinde yer almadigi gibi. | god john-lennox tanrı | John C. Lennox | |
| 3eb8e58 | Evren, serinkanliligimizi koruyamayacagimiz kadar buyuleyici. | bilim god john-c-lennox tanrı | John C. Lennox | |
| 3c0f0dd | Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 889e3c2 | The artist is the closest man comes to being God. | god | Leonard Peikoff | |
| 7b86c93 | Love, it seems, arrives not only unannounced, but so accidentally, so randomly, as to make you wonder why you, why anyone, believes even fleetingly in laws of cause and effect. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 1ecb715 | What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| cc33b6e | You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| b7e34b3 | There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lived seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 9d09c8c | There's no denying his resemblance to the Rodin bronze - the slender, effortless muscularity of youth, the extravagant nonchalance of it; that sense that beauty is in fact the natural human condition and not the rarest of mutations. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 2c9992e | Catherine thought Simon was in the locket, and in heaven, and with them still. Lucas hoped she didn't expect him to be happy about having so many Simons to contend with. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 3a29c23 | It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised by the errands born from the gap between what we can imagine and what we can in fact create. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 2af6fa6 | One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| d0d27a3 | But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you're gone | Michael Cunningham | ||
| cc7193b | There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over. | money relationships | Ted Dekker | |
| c00f512 | When the storms of life rise and threaten to swamp you, can you quiet the waves? Can you leave that cherished boat behind and walk on the troubled waters, or do you cling to your boat like the rest of the world, certain you will drown if you step on the deep dark seas that surround you? | Ted Dekker | ||
| 6beafbe | There was no better way to understand life than to live it--if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 7595559 | Release any offense, not only against others but against the world. Find no offense in the waves. Trust Yeshua instead. | Ted Dekker |