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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9614f1d | The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 6b4a0fb | Sometimes I think my life is nothing but one long process of bodily betrayal. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| bd57857 | The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 2f96195 | Can you imagine going to bed with Kierkegaard? He'd never stop asking, 'Can I do this to you? Is this okay? | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| df437ac | The interesting people are always immoderate. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 1548165 | He had shining dark eyes and an oboe voice and mink-soft hair and could seem, even to Gary, more sentient animal than little boy. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| ab00420 | Only I still had a problem. The problem was my parents. Of the many things I was afraid of in those days - spiders, insomnia, fish hooks, school dances, hardball, heights, bees, urinals, puberty, music teachers, dogs, the school cafeteria, censure, older teenagers, jellyfish, locker rooms, boomerangs, popular girls, the high dive - I was probably most afraid of my parents. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| ec073e3 | You can think of me thinking of you, because that's what I'll be doing whenever you think of me. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 2ca9d15 | Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell! | music thomas-moore | Thomas Moore | |
| 862211e | This was what was keeping me awake at night,' Walter said. 'This fragmentation. Because it's the same problem everywhere. It's like the internet, or cable TV- there's never any center, there's no communal agreement, there's just a trillion little bits of distracting noise. We can never sit down and have any kind of sustained conversation, it's all just cheap trash and shitty development. All the real things, the authentic things, the honest.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| a4a8017 | Simply being a "social isolate" as a child does not, however, doom you to bad breath and poor party skills as an adult. In fact, it can make you hypersocial. It's just that at some point you'll begin to feel a gnawing, almost remorseful need to be alone and do some reading - to reconnect to that community." | readers-life | Jonathan Franzen | |
| e39580d | But in the world of consumer advertising and consumer purchasing, no evil is moral. The evils consist of high prices, inconvenience, lack of choice, lack of privacy, heartburn, hair loss, slippery roads. This is no surprise, since the only problems worth advertising solutions for are problems treatable through the spending of money. But money cannot solve the problem of bad manners--the chatterer in the darkened movie theater, the patronizi.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 6d1f0d3 | The conscious mind is small and weak compared to the emotional and spiritual power that we call daimonic. It may be the urge to create, take risks, and love. Life may be simple when you avoid the daimon of love, but it is also less passionate and meaningful. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 8e206d4 | During any prolonged activity one tends to forget original intentions. But I believe that, when making a start on A Month in the Country, my idea was to write an easy-going story, a rural idyll along the lines of Thomas Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree. And, to establish the right tone of voice to tell such a story, I wanted its narrator to look back regretfully across forty or fifty years but, recalling a time irrecoverably lost, still fee.. | J.L. Carr | ||
| 61baedb | Only when you are fully engaged can you see the activity that will make your life feel worth living. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 30e1d06 | Thomas Edison was not, Paul thought, the first man to become rich by inventing something clever. Rather, he was the first man to build a factory for harnessing cleverness. | Graham Moore | ||
| 650c597 | ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life. I sees every fall into ignorance and confusion as an opportunity to discover that the beast residing at the center of the labyrinth is also an angel. To approach this paradoxical point of tension where adjustment and abnormality meet is to move closer to the realization of our mystery-fille.. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 1468e96 | It is remarkable, however, that at the very lowest point of Kant's depression, when he became perfectly incapable of conversing with any rational meaning on the ordinary affairs of life, he was still able to answer correctly and distinctly, in a degree that was perfectly astonishing, upon any question of philosophy or of science, especially of physical geography, [Footnote: Physical Geography, in opposition to Political.] chemistry, or natu.. | Thomas de Quincey | ||
| 88b7fc1 | Don't take anything literally but always look deeper. For example, if you drink too much, what is your soul looking for in the alcohol? If you eat too much, what part of your soul is in need of nourishing? Think poetically and never respond on a surface level. 4. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 60f3e58 | There is nothing neutral about the soul. It is the seat and the source of life. Either we respond to what the soul presents in its fantasies and desires, or we suffer from this neglect of ourselves. The power of the soul can hurl a person into ecstasy or into depression. It can be creative or destructive, gentle or aggressive. Power incubates within the soul and then makes its influential move into life as the expression of soul. If there i.. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 48e9e4a | This reductionist vision is reflected in the evolution of his work. Perhaps Mondrian also implicitly realized that by excluding certain angles and focusing only on others he might pique the beholder's curiosity and imagination about the omissions. | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 6dcf8e1 | When we step out of our Perfect You, we will be in conflict and this will make us frustrated and unhappy, and even temporarily reduce our intelligence and potentially lead to mental ill health. | Dr. Caroline Leaf | ||
| c63188a | Research shows that 75 to 98 percent of mental, physical, and behavioral illness comes from one's thought life. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 6c0797c | If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| cf7e20c | As he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Prov. 23:7)." | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 3ff85eb | Our mind is designed to control the body, of which the brain is a part, not the other way around. Matter does not control us; we control matter through our thinking and choosing. We cannot control the events and circumstances of life but we can control our reactions. In fact, we can control our reactions to anything, and in doing so, we change our brains. It's not easy; it is hard work, but it can be done through our thoughts and choices. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 9ae0cb3 | Scientists have found that the amount of time spent milkshake-multitasking among American young people has increased by 120 percent in the last ten years. According to a report in the Archives of General Psychiatry, simultaneous exposure to electronic media during the teenage years--such as playing a computer game while watching television--appears to be associated with increased depression and anxiety in young adulthood, especially among m.. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 2cc407a | In my book, if you want to be treated like an old person, you have to look like one. That means no face-lift, no blond hair, and definitely no fishnet stockings. | David Sedaris | ||
| 8e5f995 | It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person doesn't conciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them. | understanding-understanding-owls | David Sedaris | |
| 59c28ce | The slumber party took place in what the Methodists called a family room, the Catholics used as an extra bedroom, and the neighborhood's only Jews had turned into a combination darkroom and fallout shelter. | David Sedaris | ||
| cd9672f | She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli. | David Sedaris | ||
| 77981bb | between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she looks out into her audience and tells the story about her mother. Most people laugh and yell for her to lift her skirts, but every so often she'll spot someone weeping and swear they can understand her every word. | sad tragic unaware | David Sedaris | |
| ad6defb | Do you mind if we make this a no-smoking bench?" There is no "we." Our votes automatically cancel one another out. What she meant was, "Do you mind if I make this a no-smoking bench?This woman was wearing a pair of sandals, which are always a sure sign of trouble. They looked like the sort of shoes Moses might have worn while he chiseled regulations onto stone tablets. I looked at her sandals and at her rapidly moving arms and I crushed my .. | David Sedaris | ||
| 709355e | Good girl, Rachel. Now, let's get the hell out of here. Your mother has a headache that won't quit until you're twenty-one | David Sedaris | ||
| c6438be | The whole notion of the nursing home was something dreamed up by people like my mother; American women with sunglasses, always searching for their tanning lotion or cigarette lighters. | David Sedaris | ||
| ac1602a | If you see devils, they lock you up, but in America, if you see angels, they put you on morning TV. | David Sedaris | ||
| 667a66b | Live with liberty, and your imagination can soar. | David Sedaris | ||
| 36903d4 | We were standing near the Lollipop Forest when we realized that Santa is an anagram of Satan... Overhearing the customers we would substitute the Satan for the world Santa. | David Sedaris | ||
| adb203b | We'd all turn our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it. No one wanted to call home asking for money, but we all knew that in a pinch our parents would come through for us. | David Sedaris | ||
| 81fbcf9 | I explained that he was Chinese, and she asked if the movie would be in Chinese. "No," I said, "he lives in America. In California. He's been there since he was a baby." "Then what does it matter if he's Chinese?" "Well," I said, "he's got... you know, a sensibility." | David Sedaris | ||
| d4899f0 | Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, "Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash." | David Sedaris | ||
| c9c429e | Half the people I know have dead animals in their freezers: reptiles, birds, mammals. Is that normal? | David Sedaris | ||
| 69011c2 | It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. | photography | David Sedaris | |
| c1248b9 | You want to be French, Mary Frances, that's your problem, but instead you're just another American." I went to the window for that one an saw a marriage disintegrate before my eyes. Poor Mary Frances in her beige beret... "Americans," he repeated. "We don't live in in France, we live in Virginia. Vienna, Virginia. Got it?" I looked at this guy and knew for certain that if we'd met at a party he'd claim to live in Washington, D.C. Ask for a.. | David Sedaris |