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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2318b10 | In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back. | stress | Brian Herbert | |
| 82002ee | Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them. | Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson | ||
| 4ec0d15 | The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives | Brian Herbert Kevin Anderson | ||
| 1549501 | Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 9214559 | One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all creatures different for His own purposes. A horse was not a cat and a cat was not a dog, and only a fool would want them to be. | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ||
| 8614d92 | Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication. | Charles Todd | ||
| 3c4a8d0 | When you learn to force yourself to go to the gym or start your homework or eat a salad instead of a hamburger, part of what's happening is that you're changing how you think," said Todd Heatherton, a researcher at Dartmouth who has worked on willpower studies.5.11 "People get better at regulating their impulses. They learn how to distract themselves from temptations. And once you've gotten into that willpower groove, your brain is" | Charles Duhigg | ||
| 23e9247 | Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 715bfbc | I think the world is often like that." "Like what?" "Comic, but only at the right distance." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| fa36477 | It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones -- black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It's what I do each time I sit down to write. What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us? 'To write,' Marguerite Duras remarked, 'is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 62f0432 | Ella dormiria, dice el actor. Pareceria hacerlo, dormir. Esta en el centro de la habitacion vacia, sobre sabanas blancas extendidas en el mismo suelo. El esta sentado junto a ella. La mira intermitentemente. Tampoco hay sillas en esta habitacion. Sin duda el ha traido las sabanas y luego, acto seguido, una a una, puerta tras puerta, ha cerrado las demas habitaciones de la casa. Esta habitacion da al mar y a la playa. No hay jardin. Ha dejad.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 1b62f97 | I think about you but I don't say it anymore. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| aedf5f7 | I want to take Helene Lagonelle with me to where every evening, my eyes shut, I have imparted to me the pleasure that makes you cry out. I'd like to give Helene Lagonelle to the man who does that to me, so he may do it in turn to her. I want it to happen in my presence, I want her to do it as I wish, I want her to give herself where I give myself. It's via Helene Lagonelle's body, through it, that the ultimate pleasure would pass from him t.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 2719f9b | Toute communaute, qu'elle soit familiale ou autre, nous est haissable, degradante. Nous sommes ensemble dans une honte de principe d'avoir a vivre la vie. C'est la que nous sommes au plus profond de notre histoire commune, celle d'etre tous les trois des enfants de cette personne de bonne foi, notre mere, que la societe a assassinee. Nous sommes du cote de cette societe qui a reduit ma mere au desespoir. A cause de ce qu'on a fait a notre m.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| efb0c93 | Que c'est tandis qu'elle se vit que la vie est immortelle, tandis qu'elle est en vie. Que l'immortalite ce n'est pas une question de plus ou moins de temps, que ce n'est pas une question d'immortalite, que c'est une question d'autre chose qui reste ignore. Que c'est aussi faux de dire qu'elle est sans commencement ni fin que de dire qu'elle commence et qu'elle finit avec la vie de l'esprit du moment que c'est de l'esprit qu'elle participe e.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 8e80c4b | Il se taisait toujours sur les images qu'il voyait derriere ses yeux fermes. On aurait dit qu'il aimait cette douleur, qu'il l'aimait comme il m'avait aimee, tres fort, jusqu'a mourir peut-etre, et que maintenant il la preferait a moi. >> | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 55d72d4 | Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 217f85c | Il faut eviter de penser a ces difficultes que presente le monde. Sans ca, il deviendrait tout a fait irrespirable. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| ab30fc7 | Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes. | content couple happiness hiroshima-mon-amour loneliness longing-for-love love marguerite-duras | Marguerite Duras | |
| ece768a | Et la jeune fille s'etait dressee comme pour aller a son tour se tuer, se jeter a son tour dans la mer et apres elle avait pleure parce qu'elle avait pense a cet homme de Cholen et elle n'avait pas ete sure tout a coup de ne pas l'avoir aime d'un amour qu'elle n'avait pas vu parce qu'il s'etait perdu dans l'histoire comme l'eau dans le sable et qu'elle le retrouvait seulement maintenant a cet instant de la musique jetee a travers la mer. C.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 7ea308a | Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic. | magic populated thing writing | Marguerite Duras | |
| 96e9489 | You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without even knowing that's what he's doing. | living-death | Marguerite Duras | |
| 20f26cf | Ma vie est un film double, mal monte, mal interprete, mal ajuste, une erreur en somme. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 978ef45 | We have more than hope," Buttercup said. "There is true love." | William Goldman | ||
| f7bd998 | Westley y yo estamos unidos por el lazo del amor y eso es algo a lo que no podreis seguirle el rastro ni con mil sabuesos, algo que no podeis romper ni con mil espadas. | William Goldman | ||
| 8501a94 | Well, you haven't once said you loved me.' 'That's all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I. | William Goldman | ||
| 8d12637 | I can live without love." And with that she left Westley alone." | William Goldman | ||
| 02f652f | Is he really so wonderful, this Westley of yours?" "Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side." | love romance young-love | William Goldman | |
| c1ceda0 | I don't think most people realize--and there's no reason they should--the amount of demeaning garbage you have to take if you want a career in the arts. I mean, going off to med school is something you can say with your head high. Or being a banker or going into insurance or the family business--no problem. But the conversations I had with grown-ups after college... "So you're done with school now, Bill." "That's right." "So what's next on .. | William Goldman | ||
| b65aa96 | Two things happened: (1) The door, quite clearly, locked. (2) Out went the candles on the high walls. "DON'T BE FRIGHTENED!" Inigo screamed. "I'M NOT, I'M NOT!" Fezzik screamed." | William Goldman | ||
| 15be8a5 | In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess. | Steven Kotler | ||
| dea4851 | the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers. | insult | William Goldman | |
| e4769a9 | The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out. Remember Morgenstern. You'll be a lot happier. | William Goldman | ||
| 69324bf | Tienes una soberbia imaginacion, Billy. No se que le conteste. Probablemente "gracias" o algo por el estilo. -Aunque no logro sacarle partido -prosiguio-. ?Por que sera? -Creo que a lo mejor es porque necesito gafas y no puedo leer, ya que veo las palabras muy borrosas. Eso explica por que me paso todo el rato pestaneando. A lo mejor, si fuese a un oculista, podria recetarme gafas y, entonces, seria el mejor lector del curso y usted no tend.. | William Goldman | ||
| 63ac236 | If he had really wanted to control himself, he could have. He simply had not wanted to control himself. To live his way, he had been determined to fight anyone who interfered. So all right then, in a way he had fought for a principle. But it was not that simple, because he had also been proud and delighted to show how good he was at fighting. | David Morrell | ||
| 441d7fc | The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them. | David Morrell | ||
| a5efa87 | The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can scream. And I came here to scream. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 0692ba0 | Siempre he considerado un acto miserable mendigar la vida como un favor. O se vive como uno desea, o es mejor no seguir viviendo | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 1b18294 | Kak se zhivee na ostrov, bez da te puskat do moreto? | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| ba6373b | Historicamente, Cuba habia escapado siempre de la realidad gracias a la satira y a la burla. Sin embargo, con Fidel Castro, el sentido del humor fue desapareciendo hasta quedar prohibido; con eso el pueblo cubano perdio una de sus pocas posibilidades de supervivencia; al quitarle la risa le quitaron al pueblo el mas profundo sentido de las cosas. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 7f64070 | Life is so beautiful | Mario Puzo | ||
| 4aa84f5 | The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 08e5678 | She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fa4c86a | for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone. | Mario Puzo |