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| ea277f7 | I REMEMBER the day the Aleut ship came to our island. At first it seemed like a small shell afloat on the sea. Then it grew larger and was a gull with folded wings. At last in the rising sun it became what it really was--a red ship with two red sails. My brother and I had gone to the head of a canyon that winds down to a little harbor which is called Coral Cove. We had gone to gather roots that grow there in the spring. My brother Ramo was .. | Scott O'Dell | ||
| 23d0aea | My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love." Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire" | Shirley Hazzard | ||
| b893d1b | while Norah described to me her plans for carpets and curtains, or showed me the sample of bedspread material she had hung over a chair to see if she could live with it. When I began to know her, I wondered if their courtship had been, for her, something of the same -- my brother draped over a chair for the statutory length of time, to see if she could live with him. In that case she might have noticed that he did not really go with the sur.. | decorating sister-in-law | Shirley Hazzard | |
| 7b3ee31 | He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed the fact that nothing terrible had ever happened to him. | Shirley Hazzard | ||
| d184f8c | At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities; exchanging symptoms in undertones as boys might speak of lust. | ailments similies | Shirley Hazzard | |
| 14f7ab5 | I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]" | Shirley Hazzard | ||
| d08253d | Para que lo sepas, Lenny, esta no es una cita --Trish dice. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ef5d10a | Choking the gopher. What'd you think I'd do, my homework? | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9dbd8f7 | Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit? | contemporary humor reaction | Simone Elkeles | |
| 0714a87 | I wonder if I should back off from our friendship sometimes, to make sure she's kept at arm's length. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 15a32c5 | You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 3cdf9b3 | Me estas siguiendo? --ella pregunta, pero no se encuentra con mi mirada. --Si --le digo. -- ?Por que? -- ?Honestamente? Ella me mira, sus cejas enarcadas. Le doy la unica respuesta honesta y verdadera que tengo. --Estas donde yo quiero estar. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 9e85314 | A veces hay que alejarse de la multitud para ser una mejor persona. No siempre es facil, eso es seguro. Pero es correcto. Y a veces hacer lo correcto se siente muy bien. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| f233e29 | The Professor doesn't have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I'd even settle for being called Chard. | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| cb2b4a2 | cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder. | humour romance young-adult-fiction young-adult-romance | Simone Elkeles | |
| cfad118 | Ser judia es mas algo de tu corazon que de tu mente. Para algunos, ser judio es seguir estrictamente las leyes y las costumbres de nuestros antepasados. Para otros, es ser parte de una comunidad. La religion es muy personal. Siempre estare alli para ti si quieres o lo necesitas. Puedes elegir adoptar el judaismo o decidir que tu vida no lo necesita. Nadie puede imponer la religion en ti o esta no sera real. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4d7071e | They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 0be754d | And my grandfather... was forever knocked into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve. Permanent alteration: a hole. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 20e90ae | Easily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there were always more. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| ca42393 | He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart. | love | Salman Rushdie | |
| 62f6b1d | Rich kid," Shiva yelled, "you don't know one damn thing! What , man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got , yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everyt.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 37b649d | Keep away from her," said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of the mythic has been set in motion, you might as well try and keep bees from honey, crooks from money, politicians from babies, philosophers from maybes. Vina had her hooks in me, and the consequence was the story of my life." | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 0d4ea38 | He was learning that to win a fight like this, it was not enough to know what one was fighting against. That was easy. He was fighting against the view that people could be killed for their ideas, and against the ability of any religion to place a limiting point on thought. But he needed, now, to be clear of what he was fighting for. Freedom of speech, freedom of the imagination, freedom from fear, and the beautiful, ancient art of which he.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| ba7c9be | And so I returned to that city in which, in those last hours before reunions, Shaheed and I saw many things which were not true, which were not possible, because our boys would not could not have behaved so badly; we saw men in spectacles with heads like eggs being shot in side-streets, we saw the intelligentsia of the city being massacred by the hundred, but it was not true because it could not have been true, the Tiger was a decent chap, .. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 67bd6cb | Bir yere ait olmayan insanlar ne olacak?" "Nereye? Nereye ait olmayan?" "Herhangi bir yere. Herhangi bir seye, herhangi bir kimseye. Fiziksel olarak bir bagi olmayanlar. Uzay boslugundaki kuyrukluyildizlar gibi hicbir cekim gucune tabi olmayanlar." | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 4560ab2 | People retreated behind their front doors into the hidden zone of their private, family worlds and when outsiders asked how things were they answered, Oh, everything's going along just fine, not much to report, situation normal. But everyone secretly knew that behind that door things were rarely humdrum. More typically, all hell was breaking loose, as people dealt with their angry fathers, drunken mothers, resentful siblings, mad aunts, lec.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 5a70934 | Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| c77de30 | To grow up steeped in these tellings was to learn two unforgettable lessons: first, that stories were not true (there were no "real" genies in bottles or flying carpets or wonderful lamps), but by being untrue they could make him feel and know truths that the truth could not tell him, and second, that they all belonged to him, just as they belonged to his father, Anis, and to everyone else, they were all his, as they were hsi father's, brig.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| b64ea7c | the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| d416a27 | When he resigned his boss thought he was asking for more money. 'No,' he said. 'I'm just going to try to be a full-time writer.' Oh, his boss said, you want a more money. 'No, really,' he said. 'This isn't a negotiation. I'm just giving you my thirty days' notice. Thirty-one days from now, I won't be coming in.' Hmm, his boss replied. I don't think we can give you as much money as . | raises resignation | Salman Rushdie | |
| fa6ca60 | If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse. | the-satanic-verses | Salman Rushdie | |
| 1ac2a91 | we can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse | Salman Rushdie | ||
| e155f18 | And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and abou.. | survival | Salman Rushdie | |
| 974a64c | Are you familiar," he said finally, "with the Bang?" "The Big Bang?" Luka asked. "Or some other Bang I don't know about?" "There was only one Bang," said Nobodaddy, "so the adjective Big is redundant and meaningless. The Bang would only be Big if there was at least one other Little or Medium-Sized or even Bigger Bang to compare it with, and to differentiate it from." | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 285140b | There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost. | bitterness loss-of-belief | Salman Rushdie | |
| 5559c3b | Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which history and sexuality moved. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 2019505 | Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best, | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 8bbf239 | Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| d515d63 | In my stolen photographs -- for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make his own tiny eternities -- it was this intimacy I sought, hte closeness of the living and the dead. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 7815e0d | Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| adb0103 | BOMBAY WAS CENTRAL, had been so from the moment of its creation: the bastard child of a Portuguese-English wedding, and yet the most Indian of Indian cities. In Bombay all Indias met and merged. In Bombay, too, all-India met what-was-not-India, what came across the black water to flow into our veins. Everything north of Bombay was North India, everything south of it was the South. To the east lay India's East and to the west, the world's We.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 12f6419 | En el exilio todo intento de arraigo se considera traicion: es el reconocimiento de la derrota. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 3f34ef3 | Did you know, ji,' Zulu offered, 'that the map of Tolkien's Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst. | england fairytale lord-of-the-rings tolkien wales | Salman Rushdie | |
| 765a3f5 | He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent smile, the terror in the brightness with which she faced the world, or the reasons why she hid when she couldn't manage to beam... every moment she spent in the world was full of panic, so she smiled and smiled and maybe once a week she locked the door and shook and felt like a husk, like an empty peanut-.. | loneliness masks sadness | Salman Rushdie |