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| 0827919 | She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it. | self-reliance solitude | James Salter | |
| 76be8d0 | Great lovers lie in hell, the poet says. Even now, long afterwards, I cannot destroy the images. They remain within me like the yearnings of an addict. I need only hear certain words, see certain gestures, and my thoughts begin to tumble. I despise myself for thinking of her. Even if she were dead, I would feel the same. Her existence blackens my life. | James Salter | ||
| 05136fb | Dresscodes are for styleless people. | James Salter | ||
| 1acb69a | I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 2152a0a | for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually the entire corpus of surrealism, Dada, and certain major forms of expressionism and abstraction, not to mention Richard Strauss' 'Freudian' operas such as Salome and Elektra, and the iconic novels of numerous writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf? It doesn't render these works less beaut.. | kafka thomas-mann woolf | Peter Watson | |
| 7057123 | You gonna fight for something, you fight for something that you're willing to die for. | Beth Revis | ||
| 978555b | Un lider no es alguien que obliga a los demas a hacerlo mas fuerte; un lider es alguien dispuesto a dar su fuerza a los demas para que tengan la fuerza para ponerse de pie por si mismos. | Beth Revis | ||
| db7cf47 | It takes Elder about 2.5 seconds to reach my room after I com him. "What's wrong?" he asks, skidding through the door. I laugh at the way his eyes search my room, looking for a dragon to slay for his damsel in distress." | Beth Revis | ||
| f1f72d7 | And then I realize: this isn't dirty water falling from the sky. It is--literally--blood. I look up, and a droplet of blood splashes directly into my eye. I curse, rubbing my face, trying to get the blood out, but it's everywhere, it's like trying to dry off in the middle of the ocean. Shielding my face as best I can, I stare up into the sky. I am in the center of a cyclone. Giant white clouds swirl like a spiraling galaxy above me, the eye.. | clouds cyclone mediterranean nightmare rain reverie sky stop storm sun | Beth Revis | |
| 71eb222 | The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day. Fragile she may have been, living on the edge of psychic disturbance, but think what she managed to do nonetheless -- not only the novels (every one a breakthrough in form), but all those essays and reviews, all the work of the Hogarth Press, not only reading mss. and editing, but, at least at the start, packing the boo.. | May Sarton | ||
| 66b8d28 | Perhaps you like to torture yourself by trying on some jeans from a few years ago to see if you can button them. Clothes do not exist to humiliate their owners. Please do not force garments into performing psychological tasks for which they were not designed. | Tim Gunn | ||
| 98fdb9e | Amy decided she was never watching Animal Planet again. | Jude Watson | ||
| 7f044aa | That's my second rule of life," Dan said. "There's always a guy named Joe." | Jude Watson | ||
| 237741f | Un tempo piangevo moltissimo ed ero pieno di speranze. Oggi rido parecchio, un riso disilluso. | David Grossman | ||
| 0bc82f9 | perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light. | darkness light mankind | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 23ff56b | Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 3eac96b | Sin is in the wish to do no harm. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| bb7e47a | What sorrow is like to the sorrow of one who is alone? Once I dwelt in the company of the king I loved well, And my arm was heavy with the weight of the rings he gave, And my heart weighed down with the gold of his love. The face the king is like the sun to those who surrounded,. But now my heart is empty And I wander along throughout the world. The groves take on their blossoms, The trees and meadows grow fair But the cuckoo, saddest of si.. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| afe2359 | It had to do with the knowledge that the world was as it was because of what men believed it was... year by year, these past three or four generations, the minds of men had been hardened to believing that there was one God, one world, one way of describing reality, and that all things which intruded on the realm of that great one-ness must be evil and of the fiends, and that the sound of the bells and the shadow of their holy places would k.. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 3915538 | They have not forgotten the Mysteries," she said, "they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods." Lancelet smiled bitterly. "Perhaps .. | doubt god rebirth religion salvation | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| fbfc3d7 | The symbol of the dragon should be always before them, that mankind seek to accomplish, not to think of sin and do penance! | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 685ddce | Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before. | land mankind wanderers | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 09fd240 | But if men do not believe in more than one life," Igraine protested, shaken, "how will they avoid despair? What just God would create some men wretched, and others happy and prosperous, if one life were all that they could have?" | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 3a750d1 | It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness. | america blacks knowledge learning race-relations racism united-states united-states-of-america usa | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 4961b56 | You still believe the injustice was Michael Brown. You have not yet grappled with your own myths and narratives and discovered the plunder everywhere around us. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| a259e16 | But I was grounded and domesticated by the plain fact that should I now go down, I would not go down alone. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 5812b29 | love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e33367e | I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories. | listening rapport vulnerability | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 5e4ee1d | To be a black male is to be always at war, and no flight to the county can save us, because even there we are met by the assupmtion of violence, by the specter of who we might turn on next. | race-relations | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 88e851f | When our elders presented school to use, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and personal warehousing. Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not, and while I couldn't crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the school.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e117700 | Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e7221dd | Educated children walked in single file on the right side of the hallway, raised their hands to use the lavatory, and carried the lavatory pass when en route. Educated children never offered excuses--certainly not childhood itself. The world had no time for the childhoods of black boys and girls. How could the schools? Algebra, Biology, and English were not subjects so much as opportunities to better discipline the body, | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c2b1214 | Faggot" was a word I had employed all my life. And now here they were, The Cabal, The Coven, The Others, The Monsters, The Outsiders, The Faggots, The Dykes, dressed in all their human clothes. I am black, and have been plundered and have lost my body. But perhaps I too had the capacity for plunder, maybe I would take another human's body to confirm myself in a community. Perhaps I already had. Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3ac4e78 | Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans. The black diaspora was not just our own world but, in so many ways, the Western world itself. Now, the heirs of those Virginia planters could never directly acknowledge this legacy or reckon with its power. And so that beauty that Malcolm pledged us to protect, black beauty, was never celebrated in movies, in television, or in the textbooks I'd seen as.. | blacks history howard-university malcolm-x race-relations racism whites | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| bda7a6c | In such revisions of history lay the roots of the noble Lost Cause--the belief that the South didn't lose, so much as it was simply overwhelmed by superior numbers; that General Robert E. Lee was a contemporary King Arthur; that slavery, to be sure a benevolent institution, was never central to the South's true designs. Historical lies aside, the Lost Cause presented to the North an attractive compromise. Having preserved the Union and save.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c667f96 | They knew our names and they knew our parents. But they did not know us, because not knowing was essential to their power. To sell a child right from under his mother, you must know that mother only in the thinnest way possible. To strip a man down, condemn him to be beaten, flayed alive, then anointed with salt water, you cannot feel him the way you feel your own. You cannot see yourself in him, lest your hand be stayed, and your hand must.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 4db9edf | The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies--the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects--are the product of democratic will. And so to challenge the police is to challenge the Ameri.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| a0c5518 | She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers. | prejudice | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 9bcd85a | I have raised you to respect every human being as singular. And you must extend that same respect into the past. Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings as vast as your own, who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddys in the nearby stream, who loves her mother in .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 033f7da | As for now, it must be said that the process of washing the disparate tribes white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land; through the flaying of backs; the chaining of limbs; the strangling of dissidents; the destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sale of children; and various other acts meant, f.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0eaac11 | Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains--whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. You must struggle to truly remember this past in all its nuance, error, and humanity. You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 835f775 | That was the week you learned that the killers of Michael Brown would go free. The men who had left his body in the street like some awesome declaration of their inviolable power would never be punished. It was not my expectation that anyone would ever be punished. But you were young and still believed. You stayed up till 11 P.M. that night, waiting for the announcement of an indictment, and when instead it was announced that there was none.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 08050fc | By the time I visited those battlefields, I knew that they had been retrofitted as the staging ground for a great deception, and this was my only security, because they could no longer insult me by lying to me. I knew--and the most important thing I knew was that, somewhere deep with them, they knew too. I like to think that knowing might have kept me from endangering you, that having understood and acknowledged the anger, I could control i.. | blacks life race-relations racism struggle whites | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 02738a5 | One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness--the black gangster, the black rioter--that strikes the ultimate terror in white America. Perhaps it does, in the most individual sense. But in the collective sense, what this country really fears is black respectability, Good Negro Government. It applauds, even celebrates, Good Negro Government in the unthreatening abstract--The Cosby Show, for instance. B.. | american-myths birtherism black-respectability good-negro-government race race-relations racism | Ta-Nehisi Coates |