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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a4981d | I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| d2ca645 | at Cambridge, a graduate in grammar in the late Middle Ages was required to demonstrate his pedagogical fitness by flogging a dull or recalcitrant boy. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 31cce19 | Violators of the edict were threatened with eternal damnation and a fine of 10 ducats. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 18537e2 | Falstaff something roughly similar--a gentleman sinking into mire--but darker and deeper: a debauched genius; a fathomlessly cynical, almost irresistible confidence man; a diseased, cowardly, seductive, lovable monster; a father who cannot be trusted. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 319f14e | The highest goal of human life is the enhancement of pleasure and the reduction of pain. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 12f42f2 | Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 729ec65 | The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 633f606 | podes estar apaixonada e ao mesmo tempo incrivelmente so. Podes ter tudo o que sempre quiseste so para te dares conta que tudo o que querias estava errado. Podes ter um marido inteligente atraente e cheio de compaixao como o meu e mesmo assim nao o ter na realidade. E algumas vezes podes olhar para a tua filha linda e preciosa e ficar genuinamente ciumenta de quanto ele a ama em vez de ti. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 8588559 | The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| e1fe585 | This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn't deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 7242aee | why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it? | Lisa Gardner | ||
| ffe1f5f | And a man and woman should fight. Frankly, they should have a good head-to-head battle about every six months, then make love until they break the box springs. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 57327aa | I want to cry but I don't. I don't. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 8d14770 | It's not the flying that's the hard part; it's the landing. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 3d3a81c | Starship command is like comedy, Number One. Timing is everything. | David Mack | ||
| abc9a8d | The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops. | cats-vs-dogs | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| f47fc55 | The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. | inspirational partying | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 77e3719 | Dark gray, flexible, and infinitely tough. Seven-foot membranous wings of same color, found folded, spread out of furrows between ridges. Wing framework tubular or glandular, of lighter gray, with orifices at wing tips. Spread wings have serrated edge. Around equator, one at central apex of each of the five vertical, stave-like ridges are five systems of light gray flexible arms or tentacles found tightly folded to torso but expansible to m.. | H.P.Lovecraft | ||
| 4bab3a7 | We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 4eb0adf | There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life. | imagination | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 43918c8 | And because mere walls and windows must soon drive to madness a man who dreams and reads much, the dweller in that room used night after night to lean out and peer aloft to glimpse some fragment of things beyond the waking world and the greyness of tall cities. After years he began to call the slow-sailing stars by name, and to follow them in fancy when they glided regretfully out of sight; till at length his vision opened to many secret vi.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| bbfc627 | Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon's dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small black kitten crept upstairs and sprang in Carter's lap to purr and play, and curled up near his feet when he lay down at last on the little couch whose pillows were stuffed with fragrant drowsy herbs. | lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 1ddcab0 | The Lurking Fear: Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky... formless phantasms and kaleidoscopic mutations of a ghoulish, remembered scene; forests of monstrous over-nourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannibal devils; mound-like tentacles groping from undergr.. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 4e4c069 | En epocas extranas hasta la muerte puede morir. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| a304bd8 | By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the King of Ilek-Vad comes from his far realm on the twilight sea once a year in a golden palanquin to pray to the god of Oukranos, who sang to him in youth when he dwelt in a cottage by its banks. All of jasper is that temple, and covering an acre of ground with its walls and courts, its seven pinnacled towers.. | fantasy lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| f2be045 | Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening, and saw twilight float up from the river to the marvelous golden spires of Thran. And just at the hour of dusk he came to the southern gate, and was stopped by a red-robed sentry till he had told three dreams beyond belief, and proved himself a dreamer worthy to walk up Thran's steep mysterious streets and linger in the bazaars where the wares of the ornate galleons were sold. Then in.. | dream fantasy lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| b95931e | What we did see--for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned--was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist's "thing that should not be";" | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 6f70c4e | I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 5e71cd3 | The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| c498614 | Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me--to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 5d92506 | I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 706feee | I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road. | confusion roads regrets | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| f8ee60c | This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound - the verminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 13df61b | There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 552949e | Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware; for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. | warning legendary epic monster | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 25925b8 | At this horror I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| a1ebb0e | All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 633fa6b | In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 979ae66 | It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He is the kin of the jungle's lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. The Sphinx .. | cats-and-other-myths | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 5a31033 | A horrible coma call'd living So now in this coma call'd living | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 69dec07 | Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 83e1976 | Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism. | H. P. Lovecraft | ||
| e557d94 | He talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion; making me see with terrible vividness the damp Cyclopean city of slimy green stone--whose geometry, he oddly said, was all wrong--and hear with frightened expectancy the ceaseless, half-mental calling from underground: "Cthulhu fhtagn", "Cthulhu fhtagn"." | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| ff4ea3e | Everyone is so desensitised that the potency of artfully deployed italics has long been lost. It was good enough for H. P. Lovecraft, but apparently it isn't good enough for the modern world, filled as it is with obtuse bastards. | Jonathan L. Howard |