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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 708e801 | Znaesh veche kak da se smeesh na sm'rtta, Aruta - kaza Amos. - Nikoga poveche niama da si s'shchiiat. | амос aruta bulgaria bulgarian death feist laugh life магьосник magician майстор master raymond разлом реймънд riftwar saga смърт смях trask война живот | Raymond E. Feist | |
| e31b1b7 | Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love." | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| e65b1da | I just pray I don't have to work on you some day. Stitching together flesh that has no soul is bitter work. | soulless | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 7277aea | Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute. | knowing-when-the-time-is-right knowing-when-to-let-go | Raymond E. Feist | |
| d1fd11f | You must define yourself, for no one else has the wisdom to do it for you. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 60518b7 | Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre. 'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 75dfc41 | You are a deviant from the social norm!" "Is that an insult or a diagnosis?" | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 92d0494 | One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you. | traveling | Roger Zelazny | |
| 29297a5 | And call me Conrad! | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 24118b7 | He spent the last second of his life screaming, as the force of Bortan's leap pulped him against the ground, before his head was snatched from his shoulders. My hellhound had arrived. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| c6f2e0e | Beyond the River of the Blessed, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Avalon. Our swords were shattered in our hands and we hung our shields on the oak tree. The silver towers were fallen, into a sea of blood. How many miles to Avalon? None, I say, and all. The silver towers are fallen. ...waters,where the stars shone like bonfires at night and the green of day was always the green of spring. Youth, love, beauty-I knew them i.. | avalon | Roger Zelazny | |
| d861588 | Between you and me, the words, like mortar, separating, holding together those pieces of the structure ourselves. To say them, to cast their shadows on the page, is the act of binding mutual passions, is cognizance, yourself/myself, of our sameness under skin; it rears possible cathedrals indicating infinity with steeply-high styli. For when tomorrow comes it is today, and if it is not the drop that is eternity glistening at .. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 5813fdb | Yes," he said. "But I wonder . . . I've a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out." "I can appreciate the feeling," I said. "My own role sometimes makes me want to strangle the author. But look at it this way: inside stories seldom live up to one's expectations. Usually they are grubby little things, .. | sign-of-the-unircorn | Roger Zelazny | |
| 14d2f6f | Borbom protiv sanjara koji sanja ruznocu, bili oni ljudi ili bogovi, ne mozemo a da ne ispunjavamo istovremeno i volju Bezimenog. U toj borbi bice i patnje, cime covek ujedno olaksava svoj karmicki teret, sto bi mu se, doduse, desilo i kada bi jednostavno trpeo rugobnost; ali ova patnja doprinosi visem cilju, a u svetlosti vecitih vrednosti o kojima mudraci tako cesto govore. Prvo, covek moze da bude na izvestan nacin superioran u odnosu na.. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 15588b0 | While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 714439e | New learning never hurt anybody. | learn learning new teach teaching | Tamora Pierce | |
| dd8f664 | And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving. | self-love | Tamora Pierce | |
| e2a04a8 | We're just frisking like little captive lambkins. | friendship frisking fun funny laughing | Tamora Pierce | |
| 0009212 | Think selfishly,' Daine said, trying to make these arrogant two-leggers see what she meant. 'You can't go on this way. Soon you will have no forests to get wood from or to hunt game in. You poison water you drink and bathe and fish in. Even if you keep the farms, they won't be enough to feed you if the rest of the valley's laid waste. You'll starve. Your people will starve- unless you buy from outside the valley, and that's fair expensive. .. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 7efb05d | You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes? | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 5a1fb0e | Things change," Daja said softly. "We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 4085e74 | The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0cf09fa | Fungi constitute the most poorly understood and underappreciated kingdom of life on earth. Though indispensable to the health of the planet (as recyclers of organic matter and builders of soil), they are the victims not only of our disregard but of a deep-seated ill will, a mycophobia that Stamets deems a form of "biological racism." Leaving aside their reputation for poisoning us, this is surprising in that we are closer, genetically speak.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 16bbe5b | whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that with our food all the costs are figured into the price. Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illness, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water -- of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make chea.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 2b88b69 | Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on grass, now typically comes from Holsteins that spend their working lives indoor.. | american-culture americans big-business corn corn-corn-corn fast-food george-mcgovern hfcs it-s-all-about-the-corn nixon-administration obesity obesity-epidemic solyent-green-is-corn you-are-what-you-eat | Michael Pollan | |
| 7d17b83 | It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 128edd0 | If the omnivore's dilemma is to determine what is good and safe to eat amid the myriad and occasionally risky choices nature puts before us, then familiar flavor profiles can serve as a useful guide, a sensory signal of the tried and true. To an extent, these familiar blends of flavor take the place of the hardwired taste preferences that guide most other species in their food choices. They have instincts to steer them; we have cuisines. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 2f84997 | People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7bc94c1 | cultural change occurs whenever a new meme is introduced and catches on. It might be romanticism or double-entry book-keeping, chaos theory or Pokemon. So where in the world do new memes come from? sometimes they spring full-blown from the brains of artists or scientists, advertising copywriters or teenagers. often a process of mutation is involved in the creation of a new meme, in much the same way that mutations in natural environment can.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0db5d02 | Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener. | Michael Pollan | ||
| ab7da52 | There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 1156d37 | Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo. | drugs rules taboos | Michael Pollan | |
| 018f30d | Witches the Church simply burned at the stake, but something more interesting happened to the witches' magic plants. The plants were too precious to banish from human society, so in the decades after Pope Innocent's fiat against witchcraft, cannabis, opium, belladonna, and the rest were simply transferred from the realm of sorcery to medicine, thanks largely to the work of a sixteenth-century Swiss alchemist and physician named Paracelsus. .. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 8cc9c4c | I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 85a765d | Eating in our time has gotten complicated -- needlessly so, in my opinion. I will get to the "needlessly" part in a moment, but consider first the complexity that now attends this most basic of creaturely activities. Most of us have come to rely on experts of one kind or another to tell us how to eat -- doctors and diet books, media accounts of the latest findings in nutritional science, government advisories and food pyramids, the prolifer.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a866511 | But don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health. | Michael Pollan | ||
| f5146f8 | The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own. | Michael Pollan | ||
| c3fca49 | It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction. | eating food | Michael Pollan | |
| 54c7a4a | Compared with other drugs, psychedelics seldom affect people the same way twice, because they tend to magnify whatever's already going on both inside and outside one's head. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 2e4eb0e | One good way to understand a complex system is to disturb it and then see what happens. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 3ead683 | Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life--the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids--is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simpl.. | biology carbon corn food photosynthesis plants science | Michael Pollan | |
| ca583a7 | A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. | food health-problems | Michael Pollan | |
| d515b96 | To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes - against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a great, undifferentiated lawn across the globe. It is also a declaration of independence from an economy that would much prefer we remain passive consumers of its standardized commodities, rather than creators of idiosyncratic products expressive of oursel.. | cooking fermentation | Michael Pollan | |
| 53e7153 | Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism). | Michael Pollan |