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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 10bc4a6 | The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill. | lying queer-youth | Bob Smith | |
| aa3c0cf | the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3c970bb | Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards. | truth writing | Lewis Carroll | |
| 8baf5d6 | There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to he.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 52b67b9 | I have a fairy by my side Which says I must not sleep, When once in pain I loudly cried It said "You must not weep" If, full of mirth, I smile and grin, It says "You must not laugh" When once I wished to drink some gin It said "You must not quaff". When once a meal I wished to taste It said "You must not bite" When to the wars I went in haste It said "You must not fight". "What may I do?" at length I cried, Tired of the painful.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| c94f0a2 | The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry. You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 21a42af | Why, about !" Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. "And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?" "Where I am now, of course," said Alice. "Not you!" Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. "You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!" "If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out--bang!--just like a candle!" "I shouldn't!" Alice exclaimed indignantly." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 6d8737f | Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 7f5a71c | I've had nothing yet,'Alice repilied in an offended tone, 'so I can't takr more.' 'You mean you can't take less.' said the Hatter: ' it's very easy to take more than nothing. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 58b9510 | What I tell you three times is true. | three | Lewis Carroll | |
| ae052d9 | Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3c65e3f | That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 98e7b87 | The time has come,the Walrus said, | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 07ca14b | Well!" thought Alice to herself. "After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very likely true.)" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2b50dbf | Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 5a7715e | Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?" when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could be no mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it any further. | So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. "If it had grown up," she s.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f3a7178 | Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature-- at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes-- is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. | writing-books writing-life | Lewis Carroll | |
| df0706b | So may it be for him, and me, and all of us!" I mused. "All that is evil, and dead, and hopeless, fading with the Night that is past! All that is good, and living, and hopeful, rising with the dawn of Day!" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 697b392 | I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 47e9cde | What do you know about this business?' the King said to Alice. 'Nothing,' said Alice. 'Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the King. 'Nothing whatever,' said Alice. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 51b4010 | You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| bb6eb72 | What do you know about this business?' the King said to Alice. 'Nothing,' said Alice. 'Nothing whatever?' persisted the King. 'Nothing whatever,' said Alice. 'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury. They were just beginning | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 0fe0196 | And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. "The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off." | grass-is-greener want wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| 879cf24 | Who cares for You're nothing but a pack of cards! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2756a05 | Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-at least I mean what I say-that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!" "You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!" "You might just a.. | language similarity | Lewis Carroll | |
| 8449d75 | The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax -- Of cabbages -- and kings -- And why the sea is boiling hot -- And whether pigs have wings | verse | Lewis Carroll | |
| e7e9922 | Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f6b8849 | To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." "I call it purring, not growling," said Alice. "Call it what you like," said the Cat." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| c5177a6 | And if he left off dreaming about you, | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8c1f0b3 | I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again." | true | Lewis Carroll | |
| 3e4a76b | Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| ab4e2a0 | When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. | self words | Lewis Carroll | |
| fbb84f6 | How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head though the doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| aa1af36 | I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." -- | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f07c9f1 | Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 5517433 | and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know-- | Lewis Carroll | ||
| e88de22 | Alice asked the cheshire cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What raod do I take?" The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know", Alice answered "Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8922eba | There is nothing stranger than to love somebody who is mad, or who is intermittently so. The weight, the strain, the anxiety is a heavy load to bear - if only because among these confusional states and hysterias loom dreadful probabilities like suicide or murder. It shakes one's hold also on one's own grasp of reality; one realises how precariously we manage | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| f9dee5c | the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| b76d7a7 | He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| ae584d6 | Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 3a9b394 | But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time. | islands places time | Lawrence Durrell | |
| 9f2f990 | Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate his kingdom: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 46d0778 | Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger. | Philip Yancey |