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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e4769a9 | The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out. Remember Morgenstern. You'll be a lot happier. | William Goldman | ||
| 69324bf | Tienes una soberbia imaginacion, Billy. No se que le conteste. Probablemente "gracias" o algo por el estilo. -Aunque no logro sacarle partido -prosiguio-. ?Por que sera? -Creo que a lo mejor es porque necesito gafas y no puedo leer, ya que veo las palabras muy borrosas. Eso explica por que me paso todo el rato pestaneando. A lo mejor, si fuese a un oculista, podria recetarme gafas y, entonces, seria el mejor lector del curso y usted no tend.. | William Goldman | ||
| 63ac236 | If he had really wanted to control himself, he could have. He simply had not wanted to control himself. To live his way, he had been determined to fight anyone who interfered. So all right then, in a way he had fought for a principle. But it was not that simple, because he had also been proud and delighted to show how good he was at fighting. | David Morrell | ||
| 441d7fc | The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them. | David Morrell | ||
| a5efa87 | The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can scream. And I came here to scream. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 0692ba0 | Siempre he considerado un acto miserable mendigar la vida como un favor. O se vive como uno desea, o es mejor no seguir viviendo | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 1b18294 | Kak se zhivee na ostrov, bez da te puskat do moreto? | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| ba6373b | Historicamente, Cuba habia escapado siempre de la realidad gracias a la satira y a la burla. Sin embargo, con Fidel Castro, el sentido del humor fue desapareciendo hasta quedar prohibido; con eso el pueblo cubano perdio una de sus pocas posibilidades de supervivencia; al quitarle la risa le quitaron al pueblo el mas profundo sentido de las cosas. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 7f64070 | Life is so beautiful | Mario Puzo | ||
| 4aa84f5 | The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 08e5678 | She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fa4c86a | for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 871a7c7 | The don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio. To inspire true love, one also had to be feared. Love alone was contemptible, it was nothing if it did not also include trust and obedience. What good was love to him if it did not acknowledge his rule? | Mario Puzo | ||
| c55393a | The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal. | Mario Puzo | ||
| d59cdfa | I do not seek it or desire it. If I must, I will accept the punishment for all my sins. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 72dcf60 | Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity. -- | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 2bb961c | Good design is as little design as possible. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| e558acc | A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. --L. P. Jacks Patagonia's | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 54fe195 | In the movie that was her life, he'd just asked her to marry him, and the answer was yes, oh, yes. Definitely-yes! Cue straitjacket. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 0e47edd | She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love? | life love | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 690c047 | Don't ever let anyone tell you should be happy with what you have. There's always more, and there's no reason you shouldn't have it all. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| e43747b | The jukebox changed to Elvis's "Don't Be Cruel," and Tinsley smiled her patented Carmichael smile, the one that seemed to say, I'm holding all the cards, but be honored that I've let you play." | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| e79d044 | met the owner of this cozy book-and-candle Apt. G, a tall, leggy, striking girl named Bea or maybe just the letter B or maybe the insect Bee, not sure, her long blond hair pulled in a ponytail, her no-doubt banging body effortlessly buried beneath a pile of tights and sweaters and scarves - she is a walking coat rack - and as we shook hands, Bea fixed me with the most alarming blue-eyed stare of my life, the kind of stare in which you think.. | humor drugs | Jess Walter | |
| 8406402 | But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-- we know what's out there. It's what isn't that truly compels us. | jess-walter quests | Jess Walter | |
| 824076a | I don't know what I expected - no maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface- but this drug dealer is more like Al Pacino at the beginning of The Godfather reasonably bemused, untouched by his criminal world, sitting with Diane Keaton whispering about Luca Brazzi, not yet asleep with the fishes, or like Al Pacino from Glengarry Glen Ross, although actually, now that I think about it, he's not like Al Pacino at all but more like Kevin Sp.. | humor kevin-spacey scarface godfather drugs | Jess Walter | |
| 5457048 | I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa," Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look shocked whenever Dad went Old-Faithful-profane, and I began to wonder if Lisa and I shouldn't swear more so Franklin and Teddy weren't so put off by curse words." | swearing | Jess Walter | |
| 6f22d15 | In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. "It's a lazy man's meal.", she always said. "What laggard expects to eat before doing any work?" | italy lazy | Jess Walter | |
| c838210 | And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned forward in the boat, closed his eyes, still seeing her standing there in his memory. He shook with the strain of not looking back until they rounded the breakwater into the open sea and Pasquale exhaled, his head falling to his chest. "You are a strange young man," Tomasso the Communist said." | Jess Walter | ||
| c6572a3 | Rather, he found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. | Jess Walter | ||
| 192cdae | Whole worlds exist beneath the surface. And maybe you can't see down there, Michael thought, but there's a part of you that knows. | Jess Walter | ||
| 7dae773 | You don't really want my side of the story. You don't want to understand me, know me, to crawl inside of my head. You don't want to feel the things I've felt. You just want to know that one thing: why. Fine. Here's why: Her. I did it all for her. | Jess Walter | ||
| 44c2216 | My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it's embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth. | jess-walter insecurity | Jess Walter | |
| cb7f97b | Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you. | Jess Walter | ||
| 728d270 | There are many ways to generate numerical falsehoods from data, many ways to create proofiness from even valid meaurements. Causuistry distorts the relationships between two sets of numbers. Randumbness creates patterns where none are to be found. Regression to the moon disguises nonsense in mathematical-looking lines or equations or formulae, making even the silliest ideas seem respectable. Such as the one described by this formula: Callip.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 7701ad0 | Bad information is a disease that attacks the brain. It messes with your head, making you do things that you shouldn't, causing you to make wrong decisions. Just as a potent virus co-opts your cells' machinery, bad information can co-opt your behavior. It can alter the way you interact with the world and, as a result, it can change the world. | Charles Seife | ||
| 7854ff7 | The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain," explains a god. "And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free." | Charles Seife | ||
| 8bd8915 | I stood in the doorway, taking that image in: a Brannick, cooking breakfast for two demons. Who could have imagined Nick saw me and grinned. Well, tried to. Like me-heck, like all of us-he still had that haunted look in his eyes that made friendly expressions seem sad. "'Morning, Sophia. I saved you a slice of bacon. You too, Jenna," he said, glancing over my shoulder. His eyes flicked to my other side. "Sorry, cuz, you're out of luck." Ar.. | Rachel Hawkins | ||
| 344fa8b | The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of his giant mixing bowl. MacArthur never addressed his troops from a mixing bowl--not even one made from a spare geodesic radio emplacement shell--and certainly de Gaulle never did. But Gonzo Lubitsch does, and he does it as if a whole long line of commanders were standing at his shoulder, urging him on. "Gentlemen," says Gonzo softly, "holidays .. | war humor flapjacks pancakes soldiers | Nick Harkaway | |
| 6216e83 | Our thoughts are only illusions when they do not reflect who we really are, our emotions only wasteful when we are not seeing them all the way through to the spiritual lessons they contain. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 6f46934 | Stop looking for answers outside yourself. Don't ask God, BE GOD. You're the sculptor of your own reality--don't hand your tools to anyone else. Even the Big G! | Jeff Brown | ||
| 8b21aea | You are here, now, because you have been loved forward. If not by fellow humans, then surely by Grace itself. That we are here means we are wanted here. It means we belong here. It is our life's work to uncover why. At the heart of this book is the belief that every individual came into this life with a sacred purpose at the core of their birth. We are not random concentrations of stardust, nor are we accidental tourists. We are divinely in.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| b713fac | Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we identify with a socially acceptable idea of self. | Jeff Brown | ||
| ef7b537 | It isn't for the faint of heart, nor is it ever to be taken lightly. Real love is heartcore. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 6f19855 | You think I married you because I lost when we drew straws?" He chuckled softly. "Oh, Meri. Sweetheart. I won the straw draw. I didn't lose it." She stared at him, not comprehending the difference. "What are you saying?" Travis grinned. "When we sat around the table that night, we didn't decide to draw straws because none of us wanted to marry you. We drew straws because all of us wanted to marry you." Meredith blinked up at her husband. Co.. | Karen Witemeyer |