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| 0b0e1d7 | I never really even tried. But if I'm not a New York actress, what am I? I'm a person who takes a subway from the outer boroughs to lower Manhattan office every morning, who spends her days answering phones and doing copying, who is too disconsolate when she gets back to her apartment at night to do anything but sit on the couch and stare vacantly at reality TV shows until she falls asleep. Oh Godm it really was true, wasn't it? I really wa.. | Julie Powell | ||
| 9fa6937 | Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are. | truthful witty | Julie Powell | |
| 207b7d1 | Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. | inspirational julie-julia julie-powell | Julie Powell | |
| 097a9a9 | No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| a8be50d | more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 7916674 | That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 31e696e | Our words always paint two portraits when we describe our families to others. Outsiders cannot but see the small peeves and follies that wrinkle our relationships with our loved ones. The claims we make in defensive certainty--that we were the one wronged, that we were the one who wanted the best--cannot but fall on skeptical ears since everyone makes the same claimsof virtue and innocence. We are always more than we want to be in the eyes .. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0a7a1d3 | And Cnaiur grinned as only a Chieftain of the Utemot could grin. The neck of the world, it seemed, lay pressed against the point of his sword. I shall butcher. All hungered here. All starved. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 4f59b68 | Sheltered by his caste, Sarcellus had not, as the impoverished must, made fear the pivot of his passions. As a result he possessed an immovable self-assurance. He felt. He acted. He judged. The fear of being wrong that so characterized Achamian simply did not exist for Cutias Sarcellus. Where Achamian was ignorant of the answers, Sarcellus was ignorant of the questions. No certitude, she thought, could be greater. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| e8a5181 | You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0d73dd1 | It sounds cool to say you are going to fight with a pen not a sword but violence with words is still violence .. | words romance josei reality-quotes journalism manga swords | Yayoi Ogawa | |
| b7300af | How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence. | Suki Kim | ||
| 29bed94 | He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'. | the-great-game shame | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 5df2073 | Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner's acceptance of the other's intractability. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 8c457ee | There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn't. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| ec835aa | Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 12d77a4 | Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 708e801 | Znaesh veche kak da se smeesh na sm'rtta, Aruta - kaza Amos. - Nikoga poveche niama da si s'shchiiat. | death life bulgaria trask магьосник майстор смърт смях riftwar bulgarian feist raymond амос aruta война разлом реймънд живот saga master magician laugh | Raymond E. Feist | |
| e31b1b7 | Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love." | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| e65b1da | I just pray I don't have to work on you some day. Stitching together flesh that has no soul is bitter work. | soulless | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 7277aea | Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute. | knowing-when-to-let-go knowing-when-the-time-is-right | Raymond E. Feist | |
| d1fd11f | You must define yourself, for no one else has the wisdom to do it for you. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 60518b7 | Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre. 'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 75dfc41 | You are a deviant from the social norm!" "Is that an insult or a diagnosis?" | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 92d0494 | One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you. | traveling | Roger Zelazny | |
| 29297a5 | And call me Conrad! | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 24118b7 | He spent the last second of his life screaming, as the force of Bortan's leap pulped him against the ground, before his head was snatched from his shoulders. My hellhound had arrived. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| c6f2e0e | Beyond the River of the Blessed, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Avalon. Our swords were shattered in our hands and we hung our shields on the oak tree. The silver towers were fallen, into a sea of blood. How many miles to Avalon? None, I say, and all. The silver towers are fallen. ...waters,where the stars shone like bonfires at night and the green of day was always the green of spring. Youth, love, beauty-I knew them i.. | avalon | Roger Zelazny | |
| d861588 | Between you and me, the words, like mortar, separating, holding together those pieces of the structure ourselves. To say them, to cast their shadows on the page, is the act of binding mutual passions, is cognizance, yourself/myself, of our sameness under skin; it rears possible cathedrals indicating infinity with steeply-high styli. For when tomorrow comes it is today, and if it is not the drop that is eternity glistening at .. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 5813fdb | Yes," he said. "But I wonder . . . I've a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out." "I can appreciate the feeling," I said. "My own role sometimes makes me want to strangle the author. But look at it this way: inside stories seldom live up to one's expectations. Usually they are grubby little things, .. | sign-of-the-unircorn | Roger Zelazny | |
| 14d2f6f | Borbom protiv sanjara koji sanja ruznocu, bili oni ljudi ili bogovi, ne mozemo a da ne ispunjavamo istovremeno i volju Bezimenog. U toj borbi bice i patnje, cime covek ujedno olaksava svoj karmicki teret, sto bi mu se, doduse, desilo i kada bi jednostavno trpeo rugobnost; ali ova patnja doprinosi visem cilju, a u svetlosti vecitih vrednosti o kojima mudraci tako cesto govore. Prvo, covek moze da bude na izvestan nacin superioran u odnosu na.. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 15588b0 | While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 714439e | New learning never hurt anybody. | learning new teach learn teaching | Tamora Pierce | |
| dd8f664 | And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving. | self-love | Tamora Pierce | |
| e2a04a8 | We're just frisking like little captive lambkins. | fun funny friendship frisking laughing | Tamora Pierce | |
| 0009212 | Think selfishly,' Daine said, trying to make these arrogant two-leggers see what she meant. 'You can't go on this way. Soon you will have no forests to get wood from or to hunt game in. You poison water you drink and bathe and fish in. Even if you keep the farms, they won't be enough to feed you if the rest of the valley's laid waste. You'll starve. Your people will starve- unless you buy from outside the valley, and that's fair expensive. .. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 7efb05d | You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes? | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 5a1fb0e | Things change," Daja said softly. "We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 4085e74 | The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0cf09fa | Fungi constitute the most poorly understood and underappreciated kingdom of life on earth. Though indispensable to the health of the planet (as recyclers of organic matter and builders of soil), they are the victims not only of our disregard but of a deep-seated ill will, a mycophobia that Stamets deems a form of "biological racism." Leaving aside their reputation for poisoning us, this is surprising in that we are closer, genetically speak.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 16bbe5b | whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that with our food all the costs are figured into the price. Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illness, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water -- of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make chea.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 2b88b69 | Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on grass, now typically comes from Holsteins that spend their working lives indoor.. | corn-corn-corn george-mcgovern it-s-all-about-the-corn nixon-administration obesity-epidemic solyent-green-is-corn corn hfcs american-culture obesity fast-food you-are-what-you-eat americans big-business | Michael Pollan | |
| 7d17b83 | It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 128edd0 | If the omnivore's dilemma is to determine what is good and safe to eat amid the myriad and occasionally risky choices nature puts before us, then familiar flavor profiles can serve as a useful guide, a sensory signal of the tried and true. To an extent, these familiar blends of flavor take the place of the hardwired taste preferences that guide most other species in their food choices. They have instincts to steer them; we have cuisines. | Michael Pollan |