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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16d9ffc | To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round | writing | Gore Vidal | |
| affcf56 | Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 9ba83f8 | I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time." Cyrus Sitema" | Gore Vidal | ||
| bd56995 | Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. | Ha-Joon Chang | ||
| 29b0c85 | As for our Ouija-board Supreme Court, it would be nice if they would take time off from holding seances with the long-dead founders, whose original intent so puzzles them, and actually examine what the founders wrought, the Constitution itself and the Bill of Rights. | supreme-court constitution | Gore Vidal | |
| 7bb15c9 | the bandits own the media," said Gore. "And the media tells them that America is the greatest country in the world. Well, it sure as hell isn't, at least not for the people who live in it. But the media are there cheerleading, 'These are the greatest guys on earth.' The infantilizing of the republic is one of the triumphs of American television." | Real Network | ||
| 9578e2e | we no longer live in a nation, but in a Homeland. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 619010d | But then in all his words if not deeds Jefferson was so beautifully human, so eminently vague, so entirely dishonest but not in any meretricious way. Rather it was a passionate form of self-delusion that rendered Jefferson as president and as man (not to mention as writer of tangled sentences and lunatic metaphors) confusing even to his admirers. Proclaiming the unalienable rights of man for everyone (excepting slaves, Indians, women and th.. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 763e13a | A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness of which man is capable, enameled with manners and gilded with hypocrisy. | 355 rulership hypocrisy monarchy court | Gore Vidal | |
| 6b39844 | The Federalist Papers are very clear. Whenever one of the founding fathers and one of the people who was inventing the Constitution, they start to get apoplectic at the mention of Athens, the mention of Pericles, the mention of democracy. They go on and on about mobs, and we don't want this, and we don't want that. We're an oligarchy of the well-to-do. We were at the very beginning, when the Constitution was made, and we're even more so now.. | Real Network | ||
| 8056776 | In 1970, I wrote in the New York Times, of all uncongenial places, It is possible to stop most drug addiction in the United States within a very short time. Simply make all drugs available and sell them at cost. Label each drug with a precise description of what effect--good or bad--the drug will have on the taker. This will require heroic honesty. Don't say that marijuana is addictive or dangerous when it is neither, as millions of people .. | Gore Vidal | ||
| ea311d7 | That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 161606d | No. It's no the same. The interviewers want you to say what they want to hear. I want to hear what you have to say. | Val McDermid | ||
| 592e6c9 | ndm ykwn m tqwm bh lHkwm@ mtH blkml lfHS mwTnyh wkhD` llmnqsh@ wljdl lf`l, ySbH mn lS`b khf lstkhdm lfsd llslT@ l`m@ mn 'jl mksb shkhSy@, wdh kn Hkm l`ql hw lm`yr ldhy yqwWm bh kl stkhdm llslT@ lrsmy@, ymkn `ndy'dh ljm`@ lmwTnyn lw`y@ lkshf `n 'shd khTT khrq lthq@ l`m@ t`qyd wDbTh, Df@ l~ dhlk fnh `ndm tS`d l'fkr 'w thbT Hsb jdrth, ymyl l`ql l~ df`n fy tjh qrrt t`ks 'fDl lmtH mn Hkm@ ljm`@ klh. | Al Gore | ||
| f3354a1 | Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable." - Al Gore" | Susan Cain | ||
| a111f93 | Having a TV--which gives you the ability to receive information--fails to establish any capacity for sending information in the opposite direction. And the odd one-way nature of the primary connection Americans now have to our national conversation has a profound impact on their basic attitude toward democracy itself. If you can receive but not send, what does that do to your basic feelings about the nature of your connection to American se.. | Al Gore | ||
| 3cccc2c | The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system. | Al Gore | ||
| d7ca712 | How are we going to bring about these transformations? Politics as usual--debate and argument, even voting--are no longer sufficient. Our system of representative democracy, created by a great revolution, must now itself become the target of revolutionary change. For too many years counting, vast numbers of people stopped going to the polls, either because they did not care what happened to the country or the world or because they did not b.. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| b9c5f76 | ndm ktsb lbshr tdryjyan mstw~ '`l~ mn ltfkyr ,fnn ktsbn myz@ lqdr@ `l~ twq` lthdydt lnshy'@ ,wktsbn lqdr@ `l~ tSwr lthdydt bdlan mn drkh fqT .lknn 'yDan ktsbn lqdr@ `l~ tSwr lthdydt (lmtkhyl@). w`ndm tqtn` mjmw`@ mn lns btSwr hdhh lthdydt (lmtkhyl@ ),ymknhm tnshyT stjb@ lkhwf ltSyr bqw@ lstjb@ nfsh llthdydt lHqyq@ . | Al Gore | ||
| bb1fb48 | I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 406d75d | She watched his pale, square hands on the map, the short almost stubby fingers, with their neatly trimmed nails and a sparse scattering of fine black hairs on the bottom section of each finger. Appalled, she felt a stirring of desire. You're pathetic as an adolescent, she savagely chided herself. Like a teenager who fancies the first teacher who says anything nice about your work. Grow up, Jordan! | Val McDermid | ||
| d0de8bb | He looked so vulnerable and fallible, his shoulders slumped, his head down, that Carol's impulses overrode the decision she'd taken only minutes before to play it cool. She stepped forward and pulled Tony into a tight hug. 'If anyone can do it, you can,' she whispered against his chin like a cat marking its territory. | tony-hill | Val McDermid | |
| b593a80 | You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are. | tadeusz-radecki | Val McDermid | |
| fa6a36a | We see some of the worst things that mankind can do to each other and I still get shocked by some of the things that occur. Most people can go home and talk to their families about what they've done at work. We can't. But even if I could, I don't want my family to know some of the things that I've seen. | Val McDermid | ||
| 37b3bba | It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fiction shelves, and I don't remember ever reading one that told me how to interrogate an eight-year old without feeling like I was auditioning for the Gestapo. | Val McDermid | ||
| 384db5f | I'm not into little boys till they're old enough to have their own credit card. | Val McDermid | ||
| 8ff14fd | It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books. Or rather, that the books in which she found its likeness were so unexciting. | Val McDermid | ||
| 48e7594 | No two bodies will decompose in the same way, and at the same rate. You can have two bodies that are literally six feet apart and they will decompose in entirely different manners. It could be the amount of fat on the body. It could be the drugs they were taking, or the medication. It could be the type of clothing they're wearing. It could be that one has a particular odour that is more attractive to flies than the other. Absolutely anythin.. | Val McDermid | ||
| 67778af | We all make mistakes, Carol. Sometimes they're more expensive than others. But I don't deserve to lose you,' he said, spreading his hands in appeal. | Val McDermid | ||
| 0aea86c | You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man | Val McDermid | ||
| d35126e | You've always been handy with a knife, Mother | Val McDermid | ||
| d7195bc | The skerry was resting in the sea. It was like being in a cradle, or on a deathbed, he thought. All the voices hidden in the cliff were whispering. Even rocks have memories, as do waves and breakers. And down below, in the darkness where fish swam along invisible and silent channels, there were also memories. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 333e577 | There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of very old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 20beb62 | On the one hand, everything is connected, on the other hand, it is not. | Henning Mankell | ||
| a24b6c7 | Ako mi se beshe razvikala, shchiakh da si pliuia na petite - pomisli si Iuel. - No kak da izbiagam ot zhena, koiato izglezhda tolkova t'zhna? | Henning Mankell | ||
| 1da902e | He had never been particularly inclined to philosophical meditation. He had never felt a need to delve into himself. Life was a continual interplay among various practical questions awaiting a solution. Whatever was out there was something inescapable which he could not affect no matter how much he worried about some meaning that probably didn't even exist. Having a few minutes of solitude was another thing altogether. It was the vast peace.. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 02b0b53 | The forest has been growing for hundreds of years. Each time a child is born, a tree is planted. You could see from his tree how old a person was. The tall and thick tree trunks, which gave the most shade, belonged to people who had already returned to the spirit world. But the trees of the living and the dead stood in the same grove, sought their nourishment from the same soil and the same rain. They stood there waiting for the children th.. | Henning Mankell | ||
| ea4178b | But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up. | Henning Mankell | ||
| af5ae82 | Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| 7392a42 | sometimes second chances lead to great things. All of my doubts, all of the things I thought I wanted out of a relationship, and many of the things I thought I wanted out of life itself turned out to be just plain wrong. Instead? That voice from our first date turned out to be the thing that was absolutely right. | Joanna Gaines | ||
| ca0eb86 | transparent evasion exercises. | Alex Garland | ||
| bca9796 | You wake, you die. | Alex Garland | ||
| 9bfba3b | All my parents wanted was the open road and a VW camper van. That was enough escape for them. The ocean, the night sky, some acoustic guitar.. what more could you ask? Well, actually, you could ask to go soaring off the side of a mountain on a snowboard, feeling as if, for one moment you are riding the clouds instead of the snow. You could scour Southeast Asia, like the world weary twenty somethings in Alex Garland's novel The Beach, lookin.. | Naomi Klein | ||
| 98c0e2c | Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness. | susan jeffers |