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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8315aa0 | I'm going to adopt you. You'd make a wonderful daughter. Hey, evil-minded future daughter number two. You heard Arkana. What do you think?" Grudgingly, Shukrat admitted, "I think she's right." "Excellent! Let's go ask your wicked future mother's opinion." We" | Glen Cook | ||
| 51d2f27 | I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going. | youth | Glen Cook | |
| e18b394 | Faith reaches out to where reason points and does not limit itself to where reason stops. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| cd1e401 | The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping "the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds."415" | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 3eb858b | Curiously, Dawkins and Dennett remain firmly committed to the outmoded notion that science and religion are permanently in conflict--an idea often referred to as the "warfare" thesis. This is now regarded as quite unacceptable by historians of science, chiefly because it is so difficult to reconcile with the facts of history.8" | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| ed6e5c3 | The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation. | morality grace-and-law | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 26b756d | A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 724147f | The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 3741524 | n l'shkhS ldhyn y`yshwn Hy@ thny@, kl'shkhS ldhyn ytzwjwn llmr@ lthny@, y'khdhwn kl m yqwmwn bh `d@ `l~ mHml ljd `l~ nHw 'kbr mm knw yf`lwnh mn qbl. dh"ybdw lhm 'n kl lHZ@ hy 'thmn mn llHZ@ lty sbqth" | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 4aca1ba | Mutual transformation is rare, as good things are. In my view, a person should live as they wish until they find someone they want to be faithful to. After all, as you say, one can't suck oneself off. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 5cd976f | NASSER: In this damn country that we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and availble. That's why I believe in England. You just have to know how to squeeze the tits of the system. | tits system immigrant england fascism | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 28bcad1 | I can't quite count the ways in which we hurt one another. It was the means by which we tried to help one another--me, turning her into a patient, her, turning me into a dull authority--which were as bad as, if not worse, than our actual abuses. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 13b6216 | I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| e89c280 | In hindsight, I see it was my decision not to let go. I didn't know how, though some days I focused completely on it: using therapy, distraction, exercise. Other days I left myself wildly grieve. Finn affects it all: every conversation I have, what I choose to wear, what books I read, what films and shows I watch. There's that Buddhist quote, (S)he who angers you owns you. She owned me. I allowed it. She controlled me. I knew this feeling o.. | Chloe Caldwell | ||
| 965ce27 | It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she go to bed with me, she said, 'I don't think we should, just at the moment, do you?' As a man I found this pretty fucking insulting. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| d328fbe | The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them? | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| ec612dd | There's a lot of degradation in sex, isn't there?" "When it's done right." | sex | Hanif Kureishi | |
| e256ac4 | People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities. | people qualities | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 08e339d | Most people don't know how to maximise their pleasure, they sexualise their pain. Surely you've noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they're not turned on by. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| bd20e52 | l tkfH tHt 'y Zrf kn . lkfH jhl ! nh Hkm@ fTry@ . tb` msh`rk fqT w f`l mtHbh. yrd tyd by's : dh tb`t msh`ry ll`yn@ swf yfsd kl shy | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| d2ff2ee | The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety;" | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 3e07639 | A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow. | Manuel Rivas | ||
| e5107d3 | She tell many Cathy story, but I still think your daughter good girl." He nodded reassuringly to Mom. "Except for time start car on fire," he admitted. Then... little worry." | Sean Stewart | ||
| 2242c5f | Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America's flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eager to accept integration, feminism, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, and the drug culture- or to shoulder the blame for the existence of these problems- but they were certainly willing to read .. | Michael Korda | ||
| d015b01 | Running twenty-six miles is no fun. I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him. | Tony Hawks | ||
| 079b2be | Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend. | empathy friendship love support | Alain de Botton | |
| b01d67f | There is the old joke made by the Marx who laughed about not deigning to belong to a club that would accept someone like him as a member, a truth as appropriate in love as it is in club membership. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 5b48789 | Perfectiunea exercita o anume tiranie, aproape o epuizare, ceva care neaga privitorului un rol in propria creatie si care se impune cu tot dogmatismul unei afirmatii lipsite de ambiguitate. Adevarata frumusete nu poate fi masurata pentru ca fluctueaza, exosta numai cateva unghiuri din care poate fi vazuta si nici atunci in orice luminp si in orice moment. Flirteaza periculos cu uratenia, isi asuma riscuri, nu se aliniaza confortabil cu regu.. | eseuri-de-îndrăgostit frumusețe perfecțiune on-love | Alain de Botton | |
| 1fcfa5b | A definition of beauty that more accurately summed up my feelings for Chloe was delivered by Stendhal. "Beauty is the promise of happiness," he wrote, pointing to the way Chloe's face alluded to qualities I identified with a good life: there was humor in her nose, her freckles spoke of innocence, and her teeth suggested a casual, cheeky disregard for convention." | Alain de Botton | ||
| 59e5d52 | The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate secrets (with the fear of the opposite soon leading to lover's paranoia and the creation of a secret police). | Alain de Botton | ||
| 8d36ca9 | wisdom lies in correctly discerning where we are free to mould reality according to our wishes and where we must accept the unalterable with tranquillity. The | Alain de Botton | ||
| 7a1e87e | W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0486ff2 | In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way. | violence concern serenity chaos news worry peace | Alain de Botton | |
| dbd968c | doubts only inflame desire. As Rabih has realized, the most attractive people aren't those who accept him right away (he doubts their judgement) or those who never give him a chance (he grows to resent their indifference) but rather those who, for unfathomable reasons - perhaps a competing romantic entanglement or a cautious nature, a physical predicament or a psychological inhibition, a religious commitment or a political objection - leave.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 1811fdf | E surprinzator cat de des respingerea in dragoste este exprimata in limbajul moralitatii, limbajul aceea ce e corect si ce nu, a ceea ce e bun si ce e rau, ca si cand a respinge sau a nu respinge, a iubi sau a nu iubi este ceva ce apartine in mod natural unei ramuri a eticii. E surprinzator cat de des cel care respinge este etichetat ca fiind rau, iar cel respins ajunge sa intruchipeze binele. | Alain de Botton | ||
| d690fa9 | Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes. | Alain de Botton | ||
| eefc2ef | The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil war on our perplexing physical envelopes and learn to accept them as unalterable facts of our condition; neither so terrible, nor so humiliating. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 1a8c344 | If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find the same process of simplification or selection at work as in the imagination. | Alain de Botton | ||
| db17df6 | Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. | Alain de Botton | ||
| f86cb6f | Then, in a further challenge to reality and because of the way she felt towards them, Chloe would (with the grin of a six-year-old child facing the power of its hostile impulses) tell her parents she could kill them by shutting her eyes and never thinking of them again - a plan which no doubt elicit a profoundly unphilosophical response from the parents. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 15b1c14 | We do our sulking lovers the greatest possible favor when we are able to regard their tantrums as we would those of an infant. We are so alive to the idea that it's patronizing to be thought of as younger than we are; we forget that it is also, at times, the greatest privilege for someone to look beyond our adult self in order to engage with--and forgive--the disappointed, furious, inarticulate child within. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 872f3d0 | Ruskin's interest in beauty and in its possession led him to five central conclusions. First, beauty was the result of a number of complex factors that affected the mind both psychologically and visually. Second, humans had an innate tendency to respond to beauty and to desire to possess it. Third, there were many lower expressions of this desire for possession (including, as we have seen, buying souvenirs and carpets, carving one's name on.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 3e55823 | The new pornography would combine sexual excitement with an interest in other human ideals. The usual animalistic categories and hackneyed plots, replete with stock characters seemingly incapable of coherent speech, would give way to pornographic images and scenarios based aorund such qualities as intelligence (showing people reading or wandering the stacks in libraries), kindness (people performing oral sex on one another with an air of sw.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 034ba2b | We start trying to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live, but that life is a skill that has to be acquired, | Alain de Botton |