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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a32f33 | Did he who made the lamb make thee? | christianity god innocence religion william-blake | William Blake | |
| 379fc1a | If she dis her letter opener into her brandy, she can stab him in the neck. It will be a race to see whether he dies of the poison or the blood loss. | william | Kendare Blake | |
| d66dc84 | It could have been suicide or an accident, or perhaps that grey area in between. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 0382b26 | Awareness is seventy percent of the solution. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 7543aec | Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate. | trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | |
| 4e78e3c | You pushed me away mister. You rejected me. You tricked me and spoiled things between me and my true love. I've seen you before. Long ago, just lying there as you are now. Black, broken, dying, I was glad then and I'm glad now. | rejection | Irvine Welsh | |
| c7ae58c | Bazen insanlarin junkie olmayi farkinda olmadan sirf bir parca sessizlik istedikleri icin sectiklerini dusunurum. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d5ef5ec | Kev shuddered. This was crazy, but there it was; his name, spelt by an insect... -- Boab? Is that really you? Fuckin hell! Eh, buzz twice fir aye, once fir naw. Two buzzes. -- Did eh, what's his name, did God dae this? Two buzzes. -- Whit the fuck ur ye gaunny dae? Frantic buzzing. -- Sorry Boab... kin ah git ye anything? Scran, likesay? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 89ba611 | that fucker defines cuntishness. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 594244e | Sin embargo, los fotografos no representaban el autentico fondo del barril -ese honor recaia sobre los alumnos de comunicacion visual y diseno grafico (?por que pagaria alguien tanto dinero para obtener una licenciatura en diseno grafico?)-, aunque les faltaba bien poquito. Y Jerry no era un tipo de la categoria fondo del barril. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| fe05152 | Skinners guts were in turmoil from the beer and curry at the weekend and a viscous, silent eye-stinging killer of a fart slipped out of him, as poignantly weeping as a lover's last farewell, just as the lift stopped at the next floor to let in two men wearing overalls. Everybody suffered in silence. As the workmen got off at the following level, Skinner seized the opportunity, announcing, - That is minging, looking towards the departing wor.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 6a448bf | It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same | Irvine Welsh | ||
| c1df4bf | Thir must be less tae life than this. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 39c2d85 | Statistically speaking, he reflects, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than by anyone else. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ece3e03 | The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 9cda68d | Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 0043cf8 | It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 00accbe | We were slowly, but irrevocably, coming apart. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| d3a114b | Las historias de drogas son como las historias de suenos o de polvos: solo te interesan si son tuyas. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| f00e71e | They disembark like pieces of broken crockery being poured out of a packing case. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| c27bbbb | 1926. The General Strike in Leith. You read all that and what they said then and you pure see what the Labour Party used to believe in - freedom for the ordinary cat. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 5ebd628 | We all see what we want to see. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| c2dd53f | esli kto-to opazdyvaet na vstrechu, znachit on 1) nekompetentnyi mudak (62 %), 2) pytaetsia zaniat' sil'nuiu pozitsiiu (31 %) i kraine redko 3) tushit gde-to pozhar (7 %) | Irvine Welsh | ||
| e943e6d | am inc`identma, c`ota ar iqos, damap`ik`ra. neta, saidan vic`i-met`k`i, ro homosek`sualisti ara var, t`uki kac`t`an arasodes vcolilvar? anu, aset`i darcmunebuli ratom var-met`k`i, vp`ik`rob. ise, sul mindoda momesinja, ro azrze movsuliqavi, eg rogoria. imis t`k`ma minda, ro adamianma, ert`xel mainc`, qvelap`eri unda mosinjos. mara ch`ems t`avs mxolod ak`tiur rolshi vxedav da ver carmomidgenia, me rogor unda gamidos vig'ac`am ukanalshi. ert`.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 32d455c | In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value." | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| d107ca9 | War and the fear of war have always been considered the main incentives to technological extension of our bodies. Indeed, Lewis Mumford, in his The City in History, considers the walled city itself an extension of our skins, as much as housing and clothing. More even than the preparation for war, the aftermath of invasion is a rich technological period; because the subject culture has to adjust all its sense ratios to accommodate the impact.. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 6ca68d3 | It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have failed to confront. What is needed is a readiness to undervalue the world altogether. This is only possible for a Christian... All technologies and all cultures, ancient and modern, are part of our immediate expanse. There is hope in this diversity since it creates vast new possibilities of detac.. | marshall-mcluhan media | Marshall McLuhan | |
| f991f1c | they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 4f27b65 | Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. The goose quill put an end to talk. It abolished mystery; it gave architecture and towns; it brought roads and armies, bureaucracy. It was the basic metaphor with which the cycle of civilization began, the step from the d.. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 841abd2 | The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function. | media | Marshall McLuhan | |
| 964c25d | I loved that kite, that cinnamon hound. We were old friends. I had soared and laughed with that kite. It got me out on the perimeter. I felt I had failed it somehow, and rune too, even though he would've offered the string to Leer, just as I had. Thinking it over I became a bit less angry, and more proud of the kite itself: it had refused to be flown by Leer one moment longer. It broke the line and caught the next gust out of town. A perilo.. | Leif Enger | ||
| 1297919 | If you can't talk sense, don't talk at all. | Leif Enger | ||
| a1238d0 | Sleep that day was a warm pool in which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world. | Leif Enger | ||
| b35f22d | Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy. | Leif Enger | ||
| 89bccc6 | A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory... | Leif Enger | ||
| acaefe0 | He seems to be supporting her tenderly. But what holds them together is difficult to pin down. In her memoir, she wrote that he once dropped her on her hip very painfully, and she had the distinct impression he'd done it on purpose. What really goes on between two people is very difficult to say. | dance merce-cunningham relationships | Barbara Browning | |
| ac1adec | Guess you never know how much you like the water until the well runs dry, and if I can't have your love unconditionally, then I'll just have to do without it until you grow up. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| d7732df | They came one at a time or in shy small groups. I remember when sea-kindly showed up, a sentimental favorite, followed by desiccated and massive. Brusque appeared all by itself, which seemed apt; merry and boisterous arrived together. This would be a good time to ask for your patience if I use an adjective too many now and again--even now, some years on, they're still returning. I'm just so glad to see them. | Leif Enger | ||
| 3d4820d | But my poor Saul, there's no help for you, you're heading straight for it. What about all those marvelous people we know, aged about fifty or sixty? Well, there are a few of them...marvelous, mature, wise people. Real people, the phrase is, radiating serenity. And how did they get to be that way? Well, we know, don't we? Every blood one of them's got a history of emotional crime, oh the sad bleeding corpses that litter the road to maturity .. | Doris Lessing | ||
| c28eddb | Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut -- she is -- but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that behaves quite ordinarily with everybody, manages everything, you'd never think she was a nut, but there's just one person, with that person, she's out of control. It makes you wonder,' said Alice. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 3ed11c1 | It was not a question of Philip's having "lost hold." He had never grasped hold. Something had not happened that should have happened: a teacher, or someone, should have said: This one, Philip Fowler, he must be a craftsman, do something small, and delicate and intricate; we must get him trained for that. Look how perfectly he does things! He can't fold a shirt or arrange some chips and a piece of fish on a plate without making a picture of.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| f6c7e48 | As for Anna she was thinking: If I join in now, in a what's-wrong-with-men session, then I won't go home, I'll stay for lunch and all afternoon, and Molly and I will feel warm and friendly, all barriers gone. And when we part, there'll be a sudden resentment, a rancour--because after all, our real loyalties are always to men, and not to women...Anna nearly sat down, ready to submerge herself. But she did not. She thought: I want to be done .. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 7a79a0b | My sense of urgency is very simple,' said the professor, 'I've remembered that much. It's because what I have to remember has to do with time running out. And that's what anxiety is, in a lot of people. They know they have to do something, they should be doing something else, not just living hand-to-mouth, putting paint on their faces and decorating their caves and playing nasty tricks on their rivals. No. They have to do something else bef.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 5600ae2 | The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat: it meant that every penny must be watched, new clothes foregone, amusements abandoned, holidays kept in the never-never-land of the future. A poverty that allows a tiny margin for spending, but which is shadowed always by a weight of debt that nags like a conscience, is worse than starvation itself. That was how.. | Doris Lessing |