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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c22e96 | I love L.A. It's a great, sprawling, spread-to-hell city that protects us by its sheer size. Four hundred sixty-five square miles. Eleven million beating hearts in Los Angeles County, documented and not. Eleven million. What are the odds? The girl raped beneath the Hollywood sign isn't your sister, the boy back-stroking in a red pool isn't your son, the splatter patterns on the ATM machine are sourceless urban art. We're safe that way. When.. | Robert Crais | ||
| 06bf33b | A fine layer of ash had blown into the carport, showing a single set of cat prints going from the side of the house to the cat hatch built into my door. People in Minnesota see things like this with snow. | Robert Crais | ||
| 1fd183c | When someone out there says that I'm not really human--what are they giving themselves permission to do to me? | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| c599668 | And then, as if thrown by a giant paintbrush, there appeared a huge, trembling, pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo. Luminous, numinous, it filled me with rapture: It was the color of heaven, the color, I thought, which Giotto had spent a lifetime trying to get but never achieved--never achieved, perhaps, because the color of heaven is not to be seen on earth. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9e9ba36 | This drove home to me how barbaric our own medicine and our own customs are in the "civilized" world, where we put ill or demented people away and try to forget them." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 028f5c8 | Color is not a trivial subject but one that has compelled, for hundreds of years, a passionate curiosity in the greatest artists, philosophers, and natural scientists. The young Spinoza wrote his first treatise on the rainbow; the young Newton's most joyous discovery was the composition of white light; Goethe's great color work, like Newton's, started with a prism; Schopenhauer, Young, Helmholtz, and Maxwell, in the last century, were all t.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c4ff37c | Auden poem, "Let your last thinks all be thanks," | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2f8fb90 | In this, then, lies their power of understanding--understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the voice, which rang false for those wordless but immensely sensitive patients. It was to these (for them) most glaring, even grotesque, incongruities and improprieties that my aphasic patients responded, undeceived an.. | humorous political politics ronald-reagan | Oliver Sacks | |
| 7629ee2 | yd@ lTbyb 'w jnH lmstshf~ lys dy'man lmkn l'fDl lmlHZ@ lmrD - 'w `l~ l'ql lys lmkn l'fDl lmlHZ@ DTrb yZhr , dh kn mnsh'h `Dwyan , bSwr@ ndf` , w tqlyd , w tshkhyS , w rdW f`l , w tf`l qd ySl l~ drj@ l ymkn tSdyqh tqryban .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a30eb42 | She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 282472d | yHtj lnsn l~ qS@ dkhly@ mstmr@ llHfZ `l~ nfsh whwyth * | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 1478cf6 | Professional musicians, in general, possess what most of us would regard as remarkable powers of musical imagery. Many composers, indeed, do not compose initially or entirely at an instrument but in their minds. There is no more extraordinary example of this than Beethoven, who continued to compose (and whose compositions rose to greater and greater heights) years after he had become totally deaf. It is possible that his musical imagery was.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c5c1eba | Nothing I could say could repel or shock her; there seemed no limit to her powers of sympathy and understanding, the generosity and spaciousness of her heart. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c3d3b70 | I feel glad to be alive--"I'm glad I'm not dead!" sometimes bursts out of me when the weather is perfect." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a94caeb | I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive. I am haunted by the density of reality and try to capture this with (in Clifford Geertz's phrase) "thick description." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 899d6e2 | Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness, as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.... Looking back on my own experiences, they all converge towards a kind of insight to which I cannot help ascribing some mystical significance. The keynote of it is invariably a reconciliation. It is as .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| bed0513 | You keep pressing me," he said, "to say that the attacks start with this symptom or that symptom, this phenomenon or that phenomenon, but this is not the way I experience them. It doesn't start with one symptom, it starts as a whole. You feel the whole thing, quite tiny at first, right from the start.... It's like glimpsing a point, a familiar point, on the horizon, and gradually getting nearer, seeing it get larger and larger; or glimpsing.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b56594d | Jesus, you talk too much. | kitty | Carrie Vaughn | |
| cb6a350 | You poked the hornet's nest," I said flatly. "Guess so." "And how did that work out for you?" Ben asked. "Found the hornets," he answered, grinning sleepily." | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| a955f89 | The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime. | Colin Wilson | ||
| d208733 | mDmwn rwy@ (tmhn fylhlm mytsr) ljwth hw: 'n tt`lm kyf t`ysh yfwq 'hmy@ 'n tt`lm k~ tksb qwtk. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 2eefb2b | Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden...man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 490ccdd | lns ldhyn fqdw lqdr@ `l~ lnwm qd ysh`rwn bnw` mn lHsd lkhrfy tjh mn ysyrwn 'thn nwmhm. | Colin Wilson | ||
| b5451b1 | rb qT`@ mwsyqy@ 'w lwH@ fny@ twSl rwH lwq`y@ bTryq@ 'rw` w'fDl mn nZr@ flsfy@, wrb msrHy@ njH@ 'w qS@ qSyr@, 'w rwy@ tj`ln nqbD `l~ l'Sl@, dwn lt`mq fy drs@ lflsf@. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 0297c7a | n lksl wl`d@ wlD`f tTwWqn wtHddn. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 255354f | With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime. | Herman Wouk | ||
| c503ade | She had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world-the piece of knowledge that more than anything else divides women from girls. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 76e4d0c | In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth. | life | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 4b72103 | If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH | reflection shadow stranger stranger-in-the-mirror youself | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 29ecc54 | Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| e81ae4e | Part of me wanted to swoon into nothing, but the other women's bones were talking. I didn't see the bones but I knew they were there, under the house. The little runaway bones of skinny, hungry girls who didn't think they were worth much--anything--so they stayed after the party was over and let Derrick Blue tell them his stories. He probable didn't even have to use much force on most of them. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 1ca7af8 | I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death? | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| cfacebb | A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 25de940 | I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin--if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain. | death-and-dying death-of-a-loved-one empathetic empathy loss pain suffer suffering twin twins | Francesca Lia Block | |
| b55abfa | Life was small but good. (15) | life simplicity small | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 538cbf3 | Ash swirls in the air and the landscape is gray rubble that falls away into the sea. They kept saying global warming wan't going to be the end of us, that it was just threats from the fanatics, that we didn't have to make changes. But every year there were more earthquakes and flood and hurricanes and fires- every element expressing its imbalance. Every year the temperatures soared and the ice melted and no one did anything. My pink house -.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| ed91805 | One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 7c59f6c | Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht. | family-ties father | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 14b171d | If there was a bad guy we could appeal to the people because, like it or not, we, the huddled masses, want our public figures to be good or bad but rarely allow them to mix the two. Not good an bad. We place people in these categories, which then creates a smooth story-line but also a dichotomy. It's why we like our male movie stars to be either bad boys or heroes, our leading ladies sluts or soccer moms. We like our politicians to be tough.. | Bill Carter | ||
| 473b934 | It's my experience that people want to do something, but become confused by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, not knowing what to do, and in the end do the only thing they believe they possibly can: nothing. | Bill Carter | ||
| 6f9ea60 | You'll get through it," she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 8039dcf | She took no pleasure from the very things I loved, from her size, her amplitude, her luscious, zaftig heft. As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did. I was just one voice, and the world's voice was louder. I could feel her shame like a palpable thing, walking beside us on the street, crouched down between us in a movie theater, coile.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 742d4c7 | Born on third base and think they hit a triple, | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 433b5cf | If she married a man, she could let him plan, let him push, let him maneuver; and the world they inhabited would welcome them. They would always have a place. It would be easy, and Jo was so tired. | Jennifer Weiner |