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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 12d1e22 | Nature Just because you shit fruit Don't think you're the Kingpin of the World | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 7a00bf5 | He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right. | existence life growing-up | Jack Kerouac | |
| 45e621d | The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| d0ac488 | I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can. | writing | Jack Kerouac | |
| b31badc | Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips? | loss hope wise innocence | Jack Kerouac | |
| e4e27c6 | But no matter, the road is life. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 81763b4 | Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on th.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ff635cb | What is the universe but a lot of waves And a craving desire is a wave... | nomad knowledge desire | Jack Kerouac | |
| 23b388a | The floors of bus stations are the same all over the country, always covered with butts and spit and they give a feeling of sadness that only bus stations have. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 8c60d3e | You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ba9e525 | People who choose to earn money first, people who put off their realplans until later, until they are rich, are not necessarily wrong. People who want only to live, and who reckon living is absolute freedom, the exclusive pursuit of happiness, the sole satisfaction of their desires and instincts, the immediate enjoyment of the boundless riches of the world - such people will always be unhappy. | Georges Perec | ||
| 03600ad | What speaks to us, seemingly, is always the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines....Behind the event there is a scandal, a fissure, a danger, as if life reveals itself only by way of the spectacular, as if what speaks, what is significant, is always abnormal. [But] how should we take account of, question, describe what happens everyday and recurs everyday: the banal, the quotidian, the obv.. | space | Georges Perec | |
| f632385 | 4. Or else: Rough draft of a letter I think of you, often sometimes I go back into a cafe, I ist near the door, I order a coffee I arrange my packet of cigarettes, a box of matches, a writing pad, my felt-pen on the fake marble table I Spend a long time stirring my cup of coffee with the teasspoon (yet I don't put any sugar in my coffee, I drink it allowing the sugar to melt in my mouth, like the people of North, like the Russians and Pole.. | George Perec | ||
| 7a2599d | Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of.. | Georges Perec | ||
| 18530b1 | Sen bir aylak, bir uyurgezersin, bir istiridyesin. Tanimlar saatlere, gunlere gore degisiyor ama tasidiklari anlam az cok belli: Yasamanin, harekete gecmenin, bir sey yapmanin pek sana gore olmadigini hissediyorsun; sadece surup gitmek istiyorsun, sadece bekleyisi ve unutusu istiyorsun. | Georges Perec | ||
| 6ad0417 | Onceden dusunulmus bir hareket degil bu, bir hareket de degil zaten, bir hareket yoklugu, yapmadigin bir hareket,yapmaktan kacindigin hareketler. | Georges Perec | ||
| a47109c | It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know. | Georges Perec | ||
| ade6a6e | lqd twqft `n lklm w lSmt wHdh ldhy jwbk. lkn tlk lklmt, 'lf, mlyyn lklmt tlk lty twqft ffy Hlqk, lklmt lty l tkmlh lh, Srkht lfrH, klmt lHb, lDHkt lblh, mt~ tst`ydh..?? | Georges Perec | ||
| 402f6d2 | fltkn Hytk mGlqh, mls, mdwrh mthl byDh, fltSbH Hrktk w skntk mHddh bnZm l ytGyr yqrr kl shyy' lk , yHmyk rGman `nk. | Georges Perec | ||
| 3b27f92 | What's attacking me now is a direct humanitarianism ... | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| b6ec5d7 | Toute grande oeuvre est soit une Iliade soit une Odysee, les odysees etant beaucoup plus nombreuse que les iliades: le , , , , et naturellement | Raymond Queneau | ||
| 4a2332a | Why," he was saying, "why should one not tolerate this life, since so little suffices to deprive one of it? So little brings it into being, so little brightens it, so little blights it, so little bears it away. Otherwise, who would tolerate the blows of fate and the humiliations of a successful career, the swindling of grocers, the prices of butchers, the water of milkmen, the irritation of parents, the fury of teachers, the bawling of serg.. | Raymond Queneau | ||
| 0f25024 | You're not human, Eleanore Jones. I think that somewhere inside you, you must know that. You must always have known. You're not made of ordinary bone or blood but of something else completely." "Really. What am I of, then? Kelp and jellyfish, I suppose?" "You are made of magic." He said it in an absolutely unremarkable way, as if instead he'd just said, or " | Shana Abe | ||
| 13404f1 | Lora, beloved. Lora of the moon and sky. are a dragon." , sighed the fiend, swelling with delight inside me, filled with an awful, awful recognition. "That is ," I shouted over them both; rather, I tried to shout, but my voice was so strangled it came more as a gasp. "I don't know what you're playing at, but I don't appreciate your games. I-I came here to tell you to stop pestering me, and leaving me gifts, and at me-" "You dream of f.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 71550b0 | When her gaze met his, her irises were luminous, pooling bright silvery purple, a definitely inhuman glow. He'd awoken the beast in her. Good. "What you?" she whispered. Jesse took a step back to clear his head, to free himself from the tendrils of her sorcery. It'd be easier for both of them if he could think straight. Right. He needed to focus. He'd waited his lifetime for this moment, but, even so, the words came with difficulty. It w.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 2d6ee6f | Hullo," he said sleepily, rubbing a hand along his jaw. I came to life. "Get out!" He yawned, a lazy yawn, a yawn that clearly indicated he had no intention of leaving. In the moody gray light his body seemed a mere suggestion against the covers, his hair a shaded smudge against the paler lines of his collar and face. "But I've been waiting for you for over an hour up here, and bloody boring it's been, too. I've never known a girl who didn'.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 44e1427 | The duke's son and the pauper girl. I suppose as a couple we were the most interesting thing in view. I took the champagne glass from Armand and finished what he hadn't. As Sophia had said, it wasn't swill. So much for my manners. "Why am I here?" I asked curtly, handing back the empty flute. "Because I invited you." I dropped my voice. "Did you find out anything about Rue?" "Is that why you came?" "No, I came because I simply can't get eno.. | Shana Abe | ||
| a59208c | Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed? | Shana Abe | ||
| 3bcb826 | You called me," I whispered. "And you came," Jesse Holms answered, a green-eyed glance back at me, a half smile that dissolved my bones. Then we were moving hand in hand down the rotting plank stairs." | Shana Abe | ||
| 481a2c2 | But how... am I a dragon? How are a starman?" "I don't think of myself as a , exactly," he said soberly, though I sensed he wanted to smile. His hand released mine, the bridge broken; he moved to hang the lantern on a shiny new hook dug into the wall behind us. "I was born here, on earth. Not even far from here, in fact. Just over in Devon. My parents died young, when I was only five. Hastings is my great-uncle and he took me in, and I'.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 670c64d | Bundled in my shawl and uniform, I might have been partaking in any one of Mrs. Westcliffe's permitted after-supper al fresco activities, like: Strolling to the edge of the rose garden to admire the sunset. Strolling to the edge of the orchard to admire the sunset. Strolling to the edge of the bridge to admire the sunset. At England's foremost educational opportunity for young women, strolling to the brink of things was allowed. Leaving the.. | Shana Abe | ||
| ce9866b | Don't allow yourself to waste that chance. Don't succumb to any...distractions." I could only imagine my expression. Miss Swanston lowered her candy-red lashes and glanced back at Armand. "Oh," I said, swallowing. "No. Definitely not." "Forgive me. He seems quite taken with you." The bite of roll lodged in my throat; I coughed. "He isn't, I assure you." "Eleanore, it grieves me to correct you, but he is staring at you even now. He hasn't be.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 7fe5691 | You are, after all, Armand's inamorata of the moment." I gave up on the titles. "I'm his what?" "Inamorata. It means " "I know what it means." She took in my face and slanted a smile. "Dear me. Have I offended you?" "Only by your ignorance. I'm not his lover. I'm not-anyone's anything." "But you could be, if you wished it. If you looked at him the way he looks at you.." "You're imagining things." "I'm not. Everyone's noticed." "What does i.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 6a14742 | You need to get home, both of you. Louis, I'd like to keep the letters here, if you don't mind. I want to go over them again." I came to my feet. "And ask the stars about them?" Jesse nodded. Armand only shook his head, gloomy. There were bruises under his eyes that hadn't been there yesterday. "Ask the-fine. Splendid. Keep them if you like. Burn them. Turn them to gold or silver or lead. In the morning I'll wake up and none of this will h.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 7eb1926 | I'm spending until dawn with you," I said firmly. "Don't bother to argue." "God forbid," said Jesse, solemn. I pushed past him into the cottage. He'd been waiting up for me, I could tell. There was a book spread facedown upon the table, a pair of lamps lit beside it. "I thought you said you were resting tonight. "Aye. I was. But then it occurred to me that the bed wasn't nearly so comfortable without you. So I got up and hoped." I crossed m.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 73e2d28 | What is what?" asked Armand. "I don't hear anything." I hadn't taken my eyes from Jesse. "There's more than one. Two at least, right?" "Two," he said. "I hear two." Armand stood. "Two " I sent him a look. "Zeppelins. Headed this way." He stared at us, silent. And really, what could he say? "All right, all right." I chafed my hands nervously up and down my sides, rumpling the shirt. "I can-I can fly up there. Turn to dragon. Claw them open.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 494c5a0 | Armand needs to see you. He's had all this time to think things through. He'll have questions. He'd rather go to you with them than to me." "I hardly have answers." "Then guess." I huffed a laugh. "Are you serious?" "I am. Either you guess or I do." That brought me upright. "You mean, you've only been guessing at what you've been telling me?" He gave a grin, folding his arms behind his head. "Not entirely. Sheathe your claws, love. The star.. | Shana Abe | ||
| 844aae6 | As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road. | Margaret MacMillan | ||
| abc073a | Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and damn the course of youth groping among the obstacles erected, dutifully, by its own hands earlier, along the way of that sublime delusion known as the pursuit of happiness. Not to be confused with the state of political bigotry, mental obstinacy, financial security, sensual atrophy, emotional penury, an.. | humor recognitions maturity | William Gaddis | |
| a9bc6cb | where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior | William Gaddis | ||
| 91bc64e | The function of this school is custodial. It's here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station. | William Gaddis | ||
| 91fc6b3 | The ship's surgeon was a spotty unshaven little man whose clothes, arrayed with smudges, drippings, and cigarette burns, were held about him by an extensive network of knotted string, The buttons down the front of those duck trousers had originally been made, with all of false economy's ingenious drear deception, of coated cardboard. After many launderings they persisted as a row of gray stumps posted along the gaping portals of his fly. Th.. | William Gaddis | ||
| 1910216 | I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian. | David Markson | ||
| c5b936f | As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt." | Ford Madox Ford |