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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 51e0fd2 | Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. | Ariel Levy | ||
| c3c2fef | You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 6431838 | There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody and where everything will be a surprise, and then writing about it. | Ariel Levy | ||
| dd499ab | Until recently, I lived in a world where lost things could always be replaced. But it has been made overwhelmingly clear to me now that anything you think is yours by right can vanish, and what you can do about that is nothing at all. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 28c93c0 | Passion isn't the point. The glossy, overheated thumping of sexuality in our culture is less about connection than consumption. Hotness has become our cultural currency, and a lot of people spend a lot of time and a lot of regular, green currency trying to acquire it. Hotness is not the same thing as beauty, which has been valued throughout history. Hot can mean popular. Hot can mean talked about. But when it pertains to women, hot means tw.. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 8f9485d | His mother is dead. She was a suicide. Her marriage was terrifying to her. In the center of it she found herself completely alone. During the last year she sent long telegrams to her sister, sometimes quoting poetry, Swinburne, Blake. One day she burned her diaries, a spring day, and walked into the Connecticut River to drown, just like Virginia Woolf or Madame Magritte. She was buried in Boston, her home. I could see the ceremony. Dean is .. | James Salter | ||
| 9522f3f | DEAD FLIES ON THE SILLS OF sunny windows, weeds along the pathway, the kitchen empty. The house was melancholy, deceiving; it was like a cathedral where, amid the serenity, something is false, the saints are made of florist's wax, the organ has been gutted. | James Salter | ||
| 2eb7751 | He had his life--it was not worth much--not like a life that, though ended, had truly been something. If I had had courage, he thought, if I had had faith. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one--we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who w.. | James Salter | ||
| 48b24eb | If you can think of life, for a moment, as a large house with a nursery, living and dining rooms, bedrooms, study, and so forth, all unfamiliar and bright, the chapters which follow are, in a way, like looking through the windows of this house. Certain occupants will be glimpsed only briefly. Visitors come and go. At some windows you may wish to stay longer, but alas. As with any house, all within cannot be seen. | James Salter | ||
| 789caa9 | Either that," he said, "or it comes true later. I'll tell you another story. There was a father who gave his son a shotgun. It was very small. It was a luparetta. So the son went to school, and he met another boy with a wrist watch. It was a beautiful wrist watch, he fell in love with it. He wanted it, so he traded; he gave his luparetta to the boy and he got the watch." "Is this a true story?" "Who knows? When the son came home that aftern.. | James Salter | ||
| 263f58d | It was easy to find things she would like. Our taste was the same, it had been from the first. It would be impossible to live with someone otherwise. I've always thought it was the most important single thing, though people may not realize it. Perhaps it's transmitted to them in the way someone dresses or, for that matter, undresses, but taste is a thing no one is born with, it's learned, and at a certain point it can't be altered. We somet.. | James Salter | ||
| feed812 | Eve was tall. Her face had cheekbones. Her shoulders slumped when she walked. The shelves in her living room were bent beneath the books. She worked for a publisher; oh, you've heard of him, she said. Her life was one in which everything was left undone--letters unanswered, bills on the floor, the butter sitting out all night. Perhaps that was why her husband had left her; he was even more hopeless than she. At least she was gay. She steppe.. | James Salter | ||
| 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. | solitude self-reliance | 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.. | woolf kafka thomas-mann | 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.. | rain cyclone mediterranean reverie clouds stop sky sun storm nightmare | 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. | mankind light darkness | 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 religion god salvation rebirth | 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. | mankind wanderers land | 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. | racism america learning united-states-of-america blacks usa united-states race-relations knowledge | 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. | rapport listening 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 |