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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 43fd014 | The world is full of talented people. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 9571f47 | Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 7223133 | It's fun to horse around with danger. | Sue Grafton | ||
| bd9be4c | The downside of fitness, which takes years to achieve, is how quickly it vanishes--almost instantly. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 5ba3e37 | I'm not cute at all. I'm a very cranky person. | Sue Grafton | ||
| c9d4f53 | The practice of baring all, analyzing every nuance embedded in a quarrel, is a surefire way to keep an argument alive. Better to establish a temporary peace and revisit the conflict later. Often, by then, both parties have decided the issue isn't worth the relationship. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b4166b2 | I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect. | Sue Grafton | ||
| e950070 | I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good. | kinsey-millhone | Sue Grafton | |
| 9fed47a | This is a quote | Rick Moody | ||
| c4c3d64 | My feeling then was of forlornness, of the desperate inadequacies of this human linguistic apparatus that we employ to forestall, a little longer, aloneness, and of how futile these fumblings so often are. In the next lurch of solitude I began trying to add to the list of things not to say to someone in your marriage: Don't ever use a pen while lying on the bed; don't ever forget to put the cap back on a pen after using the pen; don't ever .. | Rick Moody | ||
| 3c86fc2 | It was monks who first taught the art of reading in silence. During the Dark Ages. Augustine, perhaps, was first. And silence was a tongue Elena understood. Silence was her idiom for support and caring. Silence was permissive and contemplative and nonconfrontational and there was melody to it. It was both earth and ether. | Rick Moody | ||
| a0984fa | Death was terribly durable. It was the sturdiest idea around. A body was dead, and before long it wasn't even a body anymore, it was just elements. But it was still dead. | Rick Moody | ||
| 97d1987 | What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 413c664 | Bill was watching Trump's speech on television. He couldn't believe it. Neither could I. Eventually everyone left, and it was just us. I hadn't cried yet, wasn't sure if I would. But I felt deeply and thoroughly exhausted, like I hadn't slept in ten years. We lay down on the bed and stared at the ceiling. Bill took my hand, and we just lay there. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| a4c630a | Politics was reduced to its most tribal , "us" versus "them," and "them" grew into a big list: blacks, Latinos, immigrants , liberals , city dwellers, you name it." -- | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| ca9aa03 | I wish so badly we were a country where a candidate who said, "My story is the story of a life shaped by and devoted to the movement for women's liberation" would be cheered, not jeered. But that's not who we are. Not yet." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 4bba2ef | And it's the only way I see forward for myself. I can carry around my bitterness forever, or I can open my heart once more to love and kindness. That's the path I choose. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 889732e | A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war--killing people around the world, many of them women and children. | feminism radical-politics | Liza Featherstone | |
| f84bc02 | Just keep going. No feeling is final. --Rainer Maria Rilke | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 781e6be | standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| a45f48d | Philippe took his character study very seriously, including the physicality. Trump looms and lurks on a debate stage, so Philippe did too, always hanging out on the edge of my peripheral vision. He wore a suit like Trump's (a little baggy), a tie like Trump's (way too long), and actual Trump-brand cuff links and a Trump-brand watch he found on eBay. He wore three-and-a-half-inch shoe heighteners, flailed his arms like Trump, shrugged and mu.. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 9e4e895 | I'm not jealous of my male colleagues often, but I am when it comes to how they can just shower, shave, put on a suit, and be ready to go. The few times I've gone out in public without makeup, it's made the news. So I sigh and keep getting back in that chair, and dream of a future in which women in the public eye don't need to wear makeup if they don't want to and no one cares either way. | politics women | Hillary Rodham Clinton | |
| 806d2fe | It was reinforced by my family's Methodist faith, which taught us, "Do all the good you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| f3a40b6 | My mother makes the best cider in Lincolnshire. She swears it is because she always includes a number of rotten apples in the mix. I was wondering if this could be true of people - if the world needs a few rotten people to make the sweetest mix. This would explain the problem of God allowing evil in the world. | Karen Cushman | ||
| aa5c234 | My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy. | Karen Cushman | ||
| da88d4f | Saliva mucusque | humor matilda mucus spit | Karen Cushman | |
| d47ebb8 | They felt that it was much easier and safer to rob their own people, for they knew that white policemen never really searched diligently for Negroes who committed crimes against other Negroes. | Richard Wright | ||
| 754221b | Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death! | fate hate scathing vengeance | Richard Wright | |
| 68b8c32 | Toi nong long hoc de doc tieu thuyet va toi day vo me toi de me giai thich cho toi nghia moi tu xa la toi gap, khong phai vi tu ngu co mot gia tri tu than, ma vi rang day la chia khoa cua mot the gioi than tien va cam doan. | cấm-đoán đọc giá-trị-tự-thân thần-tiên tiểu-thuyết tr67 từ-ngữ | Richard Wright | |
| b00c990 | I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one. | adaptation culture defense defense-mechanism enculturation evolved-consciousness evolving flinch | Richard Wright | |
| dde44c7 | One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes the look of the world in a strangeness, and the more one stares blankly at the world, the stranger it looks, the more hideously frightening it seems. There is then born in one a wild, hot wish to project out upon the alien world the world that one is seeki.. | panic path power | Richard Wright | |
| 8bb6935 | Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You're a lucky bastard, 'cause if you'd said that to some other white man, you might've been a dead nigger now." I was learning rapidly how to watch white people, to observe their every move, every fleeting expression, how to interpret what was said and what left unsaid. Late one Saturday night I made some deliveries in a white neighborhood. I was pedaling my bicycle back t.. | Richard Wright | ||
| c8bd5eb | If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation, not to spy upon or club rebellious workers, not to break strikes or disrupt unions, but to ferret out those who no longer respond to the system in which they live. I would make it known that the real danger does not stem from those who seek to grab their share of wealth through force, or from those who try to defend their property through vi.. | corporate-america materialism revolutions | Richard Wright | |
| e9d8e3b | In all my life-- though surrounded by many people-- I had not had a single satisfying, sustained relationship with another human being and, not having had any, I did not miss it. I made no demands whatever upon others. | Richard Wright | ||
| de890e0 | the civilization which had given birth to Bigger contained no spiritual sustenance, had created no culture which could hold and claim his allegiance and faith, had sensitized him and had left him stranded, | Richard Wright | ||
| f2b58b2 | They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue. | debate ignorance | Richard Wright | |
| 7ade451 | We just decided to. We said if we were going to end it, we had to earn our way out. We had to pick up every single stone and look beneath it for a solution. We vowed we weren't walking away until we'd exhausted every possible option. | Katrina Kittle | ||
| 56860d2 | The ocean tosses up a thousand arms to embrace the storm that falls across her like a drunken sailor. His thunder slaps her thighs, his lighting piercing her waters. They pound me between the hips and I begin to panic, knowing their passion will destroy me. | emmie katchoo | Terry Moore | |
| fb6c0a3 | We might laugh at the notion of plastic tea sets in the jungle, but it is a time-honored ritual for Western travelers to collect preindustrial artifacts to use as home decorations...Possession of primitive artifacts suggests worldly knowledge, just as in the highland communities of Borneo an electronic wristwatch that plays "Happy Birthday" is the mark of a great traveler. Funny thing how travel can narrow the mind." | preconceptions travel | Eric Hansen | |
| b4cb66f | Government observers, keen on getting the Penan out of the valuable hardwood forests, have claimed that Penan health is poor and that they are malnourished. This is a ploy to get them settled so they can be controlled. Also, it is a source of embarrassment to the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia that in the 1980s, nomadic hunters are still roaming the jungles. This doesn't help the national image of a modern, developing country. | culture politics | Eric Hansen | |
| 372d5a9 | He hated her. Yes, he did. He hated her. Love, too, but it was a hard, hating kind of love. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 3f203dd | In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items that he is predisposed to register and not a single thing more. Do you understand this? So I am saying to you that after a battle each soldier will have different stories to tell, vastly different stories, and that when a was is ended it is as.. | soldiers vietnam war | Tim O'Brien | |
| bedea68 | Down inside, of course, I wasn't sure, and yet I had to see her one more time. What I needed, I suppose, was some sort of final confirmation, something to carry with me when she was gone. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 4b818bf | Psychology--that was one thing I knew. You don't try to scare people in broad daylight. You wait. Because the darkness squeezes you inside yourself, you get cut off from the outside world, the imagination takes over. That's basic psychology. I'd pulled enough night guard to know how the fear factor gets multiplied as you sit there hour after hour, nobody to talk to, nothing to do but stare into the big black hole at the center of your.. | Tim O'Brien |