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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4f81a3d | He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of god. | Helen Fisher | ||
| d044430 | To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which has had no experience of attack, is to enter an unfortified and ungarrisoned city. Education, family feeling, the sense of duty, the family, are strong sentinels, but there are no sentinels so vigilant as not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen t.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 45c65a5 | A che serve qui chiedersi | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 2e5b2b7 | Ash said slowly: 'I don't believe that anyone can have no regrets ... Perhaps there are times when even God regrets that He created such a thing as man. But one can put them away and not dwell upon them; and I'll have you, Larla ... that alone is enough happiness for any man.' He | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 364307a | the reason they don't permit cameras has nothing to do with maintaining decorum and dignity. It's to protect the country from seeing what's underneath Plymouth Rock. Because the Supreme Court is where the country takes out its dick and tits and decides who's going to get fucked and who's getting a taste of mother's milk. It's constitutional pornography in there, and what did Justice Potter once say about obscenity? I know it when I see it. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 50cf594 | Weary and stuffed from being force-fed the falsehood that when one of your kind makes it, it means that you've all made it. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 4a23d52 | I seriously doubt that some slave ship ancestor, in those idle moments between being raped and beaten, was standing knee-deep in their own feces rationalizing that, in the end, the generations of murder, unbearable pain and suffering, mental anguish, and rampant disease will all be worth it because someday my great-great-great-great-grandson will have Wi-Fi, no matter how slow and intermittent the signal is. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 998b3ed | I wasn't fed; I was presented with lukewarm appetitive stimuli. I wasn't punished, but broken of my unconditioned reflexes. I wasn't loved, but brought up in an atmosphere of calculated intimacy and intense levels of commitment. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 5ed19ba | Man, didn't anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn't matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn't be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you're sitting on a funky Magna Carta. | dj-blaze humor music | Paul Beatty | |
| 5b98cf7 | Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the entire rhythm nation. Set the Dj up as the executive, the legislative, and judicial branches. I mean, after listening to your beat, anything I've heard on the pop radio in the last five years feels like a violation of my civil rights. | humor music | Paul Beatty | |
| 68ab794 | Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between "guilty" and "innocent." Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn't I be "neither" or "both"?" | Paul Beatty | ||
| 79620f3 | If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." -Paul Beatty" | Angela Roquet | ||
| f1a4499 | Sitting here on the steps of the Supreme Court smoking weed, under the "Equal Justice Under Law" motto, staring into the stars, I've finally figured out what's wrong with Washington, D.C. It's that all the buildings are more or less the same height and there's absolutely no skyline, save for the Washington Monument touching the night sky like a giant middle finger to the world." | Paul Beatty | ||
| c22eaf6 | And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap. | boogie-boards gangsta-rap pop-culture popular-culture rap twentieth-century | Paul Beatty | |
| 5536f20 | Whenever we look at life, we look at networks. | networks | Fritjof Capra | |
| 9a40588 | As the systems theorist Fritjof Capra points out, humanity's social, political, economic, and environmental plights are all manifestations of a cultural crisis brought about by adherence to outdated conceptual models ... Under the reductionist paradigm, humans' concept of nature devolved from that of living organism to machine, and the predominant value system came to be based on the domination and control of nature rather than respect for .. | Alex Gerber Jr. | ||
| 55642a7 | Albert Einstein, for one, repeatedly expressed these feelings, as in the following celebrated passage (Einstein, 1949, p. 5): The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science...the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavor to comprehend a portion, be it ever so t.. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 87fc30c | If I were asked under what sky the human mind...has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions to some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant--I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the correcti.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 68c83ab | Science makes major contributions to minor needs, Justice Holmes was fond of saying, adding that religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most. | Huston Smith | ||
| 1429589 | The disciples of Jesus "found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave... he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe...he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer's hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed." | spirituality | Huston Smith | |
| 2f331d8 | Holmes," I asked as we stepped into the street, "I realise the question sounds sophomoric, but do you find that there are aspects of yourself with which you feel most comfortable? I only ask out of curiosity; you needn't feel obliged to answer." He offered me his arm and, formally, I took it. "'Who am I?' you mean." He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. "Do you know what a fugue is?" "Are you cha.. | Laurie R. King | ||
| b3575c3 | Who am I?' you mean." He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. "Do you know what a fugue is?" "Are you changing the subject?" "No." I thought in silence for some distance before his answer arranged itself sensibly in my mind. "I see. Two discrete sections of a fugue may not appear related, unless the listener has received the entire work, at which time the music's internal logic makes clear the rela.. | Laurie R. King | ||
| dd710d9 | One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newt's surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didn't scent them. It was a beautiful day--no clouds in the sky. Augustus rode with his big rifle propped across the saddle--he was in the highest of spirits. They rode ahead of the herd some fifteen miles or more, and yet when they stopped to look back they could still see the cattle, tiny black do.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0a41403 | Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b9895fd | I don't claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it," Doc said." | dentistry fucking | Larry McMurtry | |
| fc6abb7 | Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess -- but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you is out of luck! | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 9331d12 | I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 31b86d9 | i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 282389f | She had always loved to tease and considered it an irony of her life that she was often drawn to men who didn't recognize teasing even when she was inflicting it on them. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2ccfd5b | He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 1c30bff | Are you expecting a war party?" Call asked the judge. "You seem to be thoroughly armed." "I expect perdition, always have," the judge replied. "I keep this building at my back, and several guns handy, in case perdition arrives in a form that's susceptible to bullets. I expect it will come in the disease form, though. I'm susceptible to diseases, and you can't shoot a goddamn disease." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 08d52a1 | Blue Duck could never avoid a moment of fear, when his father's eyes became the eyes of a snake. He choked off his insult -- he knew that if he spoke, he might, in an instant, find himself fighting Buffalo Hump. He had seen it before, with other warriors. Someone would say one word too many, would fail to see the snake in his father's eyes, and the next moment Buffalo Hump would be pulling his long bloody knife from between the other warrio.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2039698 | You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4970559 | Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4bc3d04 | Dish said no more, and Augustus decided not to tease him. Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity- they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour. Young Dish, skilled cowhand that he was, might not live to see the whores of Ogallala, and the tender feelings he harbored for Lorena might be the sweetest he would ever have. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| da09a13 | But once in a while, even if nobody mentioned one, the thought of women entered his head all on its own, and once it came it usually tneded to stay for several hours, filling his noggin like a cloud of gnats. Of course, a cloud of gnats was nothing in comparison to a cloud of Gulf coast mosquitoes, so the thought of women was not that bothersome, but it was a thought Pea would rather not have in his head. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 138063f | His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 00c375a | Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even if she wasn't particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years were no way to count. Happenings were the way to count, the big happening that separated her from youth or even middle age was the death of her daughter, Pepper. That death made her realize that life, once you got around to producing children, was.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 16c2391 | Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f3b3bdb | Well, I got to admit I still like a fight," Augustus said. "They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0cbc888 | You ought to take more chances," I said. "I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry." | relationships | Larry McMurtry | |
| 1db1bc5 | He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat. | her-smell like liked love mornings smelled | Larry McMurtry | |
| 2749c51 | You're the only man I know whose brain don't work unless it's in the shade. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a47ded1 | Wrong theory," Augustus said. "Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death." | Larry McMurtry |