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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3734e83 | It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined. | cora-groan | Mervyn Peake | |
| 9ecb2c6 | It was a long head. It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the features had been forced to stake their claims, and it appeared that they had done so in a great hurry and with no attempt to form any kind of symmetrical pattern for their mutual advantage. The nose had evidently been first upon the scene and had spread itself down the entire length of the wedge, beginning among the grey stubble of the hair and ending am.. | mervyn-peake steerpike | Mervyn Peake | |
| 012b253 | another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific - the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit t.. | melancholy | Mervyn Peake | |
| 26cdd7a | His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple fruit, had broken hearts and hymens, had tosses flowers to ladies on balconies, had drunk champagne out of their shoes and generally been irresistible. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 58c14f6 | The Aunts put their arms about one another so that their faces were cheek to cheek, and from this doublehead they gazed up at Steerpike with a row of four equidistant eyes. There was no reason why there should not have been forty, or four hundred of them. It so happened that only four had been removed from a dead and endless frieze whose inexhaustible and repetitive theme was forever, eyes, eyes, eyes. | humor weird | Mervyn Peake | |
| 29874b9 | Home is a room dappled with firelight: there are pictures and books. And when the rain sighs, and the acorns fall, there are patterns of leaves against the drawn curtains. Home is where I was safe. Home is what I fled from. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 4aaf8de | Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any other body than his own into that crater of undulating horsehair a hazardous enterprise. | habit lazy | Mervyn Peake | |
| d38ffc7 | Keda,' she said to herself,' Keda, this is tragedy.' But as her words hung emptily in the morning air, she clenched her hands for she could feel no anguish and the bright bird that had filled her breast was still singing... was still singing. | keda rantel | Mervyn Peake | |
| 5bccd06 | Each day we live is a glass room Until we break it with the thrusting Of the spirit and pass through The splintered walls to the green pastures Where the birds and buds are breaking Into fabulous song and hue By the still waters. - | life spirit | Mervyn Peake | |
| b3dedb9 | The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in the room the rearing canvas stares back with tentative shapes halted in their growth, moving in a new rhythm from floor to ceiling. The twisted tubes, the fresh paint squeezed and smeared across the dry upon his palette. The dust beneath the easel. The paint has edged along the brushes' handles. The white light in a n.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| c6b5196 | The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burn With love. How pitiful is our enforced return To those small things we are the masters of. | death humans love mervyn-peake poetry | Mervyn Peake | |
| 253ae0d | As his lord stared at the door another figure appeared, a girl of about fifteen with long, rather wild black hair. She was gauche in movement and in a sense, ugly of face, but with how small a twist might she not suddenly have become beautiful. Her sullen mouth was full and rich - her eyes smouldered. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 31cb789 | The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions, unhappiness and problems in human relationships. | inspirational life-changing | Brian Tracy | |
| afa4b45 | It is impossible to succeed without failing. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 0fd59ab | Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 1138653 | Successful people are simply those with successful habits. --Brian Tracy | Lewis Howes | ||
| 1bff270 | Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 462c13a | If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long. | Brian Tracy | ||
| d3f85e7 | Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place." | Brian Tracy | ||
| 7b26d1c | Whenever you have a problem, take a few minutes to meditate. You'll be amazed at the renewed clarity that you'll bring to the issue. | clarity meditate meditation problem renewed | Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy | |
| 64ea504 | The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. but he trembles when we pray. | John Mason | ||
| ef947ef | The world is a book where those who do not take risks read only one page. | John Mason | ||
| 6edf47a | Faith is like a toothbrush. Everyone should have one and use it daily, but you shouldn't try to use someone else's. | John Mason | ||
| 2b7b075 | Let God dominate your day. | John Mason | ||
| fbb6c6e | It is right to be content with what you have, but never with what you are. Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. Don't make the mistake of looking too far ahead and missing the things close by. | John Mason | ||
| ca791d2 | Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. | humanity legacy life | John Nichols | |
| 13f7281 | And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut? | feminism sexual-objectification woman | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 4356b34 | There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter. | lying-to-ourselves truth | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 5c4855c | Besides, you know how I love the theater, and let's face it-a wedding is like a big show followed by a cast party. | wedding | Jennifer Allison | |
| f05f8de | I put the kitch into kitchen. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 82eb461 | By God, no matter what Republicans say, the people of this country really do care about each other. We are not a cold people. By God, when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask what you can do for your country," he spoke to this country's heart and conscience." -- | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 04d044f | James Brown went to the pearly gates and met St. Peter who took him to a room where Jerry Garcia was playing and Jimi Hendricks and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. James Brown says, "I was worried maybe I was going to hell, but I guess not." Jerry Garcia says "You think this is heaven?" Just then Lawrence Welk walked in and says "All right, one more time. 'The Anniversary Waltz.' And a one and a two and a one, two, three..." | Garrison Keillor | ||
| eb4b02b | The drag queen walks into a Catholic church as the priest is coming down the aisle swinging the incense pot. And he says to the priest, "Oh, honey, I love your dress, but did you know your handbag's on fire?" | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 883aa2f | In TIME June 7, 2010 | writers-groups | Garrison Keillor | |
| 8a7c443 | WE DEMOCRATS are deeply flawed people, but we do stick to our guns, and believe in decency and public spiritedness and have refused to hitch our wagon to yahooism and intolerance and have supported government as a necessary force for good to "establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty . . ." | Garrison Keillor | ||
| d5bf33a | Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I'm counting them as blessings? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e5d4645 | I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a6ee0b9 | The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6f8409c | Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees! | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1043eaa | Oh, how can I say this: People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know once again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers. To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less ab.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4c535e0 | Questioning our government's actions does not violate the principles of liberty, equality, and freedom of speech; it exercises them, and by exercise we grow stronger. I have read enough of Thomas Jefferson to feel sure | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 356e263 | What is new is that we know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time. As far as I can tell, that is the intent and purpose of television news. We see so much, understand so little, and are simultaneously told so much about What We Think, as a populace polled minute by minute, that is begins .. | news television truth | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| a97d810 | But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will. | dreams hope progress | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| a439b6b | It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself. | Barbara Kingsolver |