1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
3589
3590
3591
3592
3593
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7fd3ca8 | Ain't nothing wrong with Shug Avery. She just sick. Sicker than anybody I ever seen. She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive. | Alice Walker | ||
| a62beb4 | Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself. | Alice Walker | ||
| 2245fec | Pagan At home in the countryside I make the decision to leave your book --overdue at the library-- face up, 'promiscuous' out in the sun. Pagan. I laugh to see this was our religion all along. Hidden even from ourselves taught early not to touch the earth. Years of white gloves straight seamed hose. 'Being good girls.' Scripture like chains. Dogma like flies. | Alice Walker | ||
| c2ec2b5 | Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry. | Alice Walker | ||
| 876862a | Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then. It is being capable of looking after myself intellectually as well as financially. It is being able to tell when I am being wronged and by whom. It means being awake to protect myself and the ones I love. It means being a part of the world community, and being alert to which part it is that I have joined, and knowing how to change to anot.. | Alice Walker | ||
| cde0bd0 | Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman? | Alice Walker | ||
| a4db5d7 | We are the ones that we've been waiting for. -- ALICE WALKER | Steven Kotler | ||
| 2ba85c5 | My fantasy life. Without it I'm afraid to exist. | Alice Walker | ||
| 84acb3f | As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks. | Alice Walker | ||
| 21359e1 | The heaving sickness past, her nausea gone, her bodily fluids replaced, she felt the lightness of being in the open space around her. Her walls the canyon's walls, she owned them not at all; her floor, the river beach. Her view, the heavens. It was, this freedom she was in, the longed-for cathedral of her dreams. | Alice Walker | ||
| 721900d | If this were a courageous country, it would ask Gloria to lead it since she is sane and funny and beautiful and smart and the National Leaders we've always had are not. When I listen to her talk about women's rights children's rights men's rights I think of the long line of Americans who should have been president, but weren't. Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth. John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo. Imagine Pre.. | politics leadership change us united-states-of-america presidents usa leaders united-states | Alice Walker | |
| 2082645 | What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all. | wisdom grandmothers grandmother | Alice Walker | |
| d397dd8 | One good thing bout the way he never do any work round the place, us never miss him when he gone. | Alice Walker | ||
| 30b95a1 | Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. | Alice Walker | ||
| b2a987e | Whoever he is, he is not worth all this. And I will never unclench my teeth long enough to tell him so. | Alice Walker | ||
| 463a004 | How can this be? How could we have been just sitting there, happily eating our lunch, and then Jess announces that she's gay? Like who does that anyway? And how is it possible that I never even saw this coming? I mean if you best friend has no clue that you're gay, then who does? | Melody Carlson | ||
| b9a1f91 | if you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend. | Melody Carlson | ||
| 1bc73b8 | You know the real reason we celebrate Christmas, don't you? I mean, beyond Santa Claus and jungle bells and Christmas trees? You mean because Jesus was born? she asked. Yes... but did you ever think how Jesus was born? I mean, have you considered how it was such a humble birth, in a small barn...how he was laid in a hay trough...how the Son if almighty God humbled himself to be born in such lowly conditions? Have you thought about it like .. | jesus god | Melody Carlson | |
| 5cc48e4 | You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. | Melody Carlson | ||
| f0746df | Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 373acc1 | I knew by this time what Thea thought of these people and in fact of most people, with their faulty humanity. She couldn't stand them. And what her eccentricity amounted to was that she proposed a different kind of humanity altogether. I guess nothing restrains people from demanding ideal conditions. Very little restrains them from anything. Thea's standard was high, but she wasn't exactly to blame as having arbitrarily set it high. For whe.. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 80f21f6 | The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty. | Saul Bellow | ||
| f6b48a2 | There's the most extraordinary, unheard of poetry buried in America, but none of the conventional means known to culture can even begin to extract it...the agony is too deep, the disorder too big for art enterprises undertaken in the old way. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 1bd855f | Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself - Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols. Make it the object of imitation to reach and release the high qualities. Make peace therefore with intermediacy and representations. Otherwise the individual must be the failure he now sees and knows himself to be. | originality | Saul Bellow | |
| f93e7b7 | This development is possibly related to the fact that so much of "value" has been absorbed by technology itself. It is "good" to electrify a primitive area. Civilization and even morality are implicit in technological transformation...New techniques are in themselves bien pensant and represent not only rationality but benevolence...Romantic individuals (a mass of them by now) accuse this mass civilization of obstructing their attainment of .. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 34a74be | Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. | madness unlimited-freedom | Saul Bellow | |
| 09d73de | He wondered at times whether he didn't belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life. | fate life good-will brutality | Saul Bellow | |
| f8a28bb | The sun of that chilishness goes on shining even when the larger bodies of hotter stars have risen to smelt you and cover you with their influence. The recenter stars may be more critical, more in the eye, but that earlier sun still remains a long time. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 359decd | I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When it was time to have them, there was no telling how I picked them from the air. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 8f72634 | it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 2eaeea7 | Fantasia, fantasia, fantasia. Si trasforma in realta. Essa sorregge, essa altera, essa redime! | Saul Bellow | ||
| a9f8bf7 | Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want." "I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time?" "I intend to use it." I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned?" | Saul Bellow | ||
| 68e03a8 | Look out! Oh, you chump and weak fool, you are one of a humanity that can't be numbered and not more than the dust of metals scattered in a magnetic field and clinging to the lines of force, determined by laws, eating, sleeping, employed, conveyed, obedient, and subject. So why hunt for still more ways to lose liberty? Why go toward, and not instead run from, the huge drag that threatens to wear out your ribs, rub away your face, splinter y.. | Saul Bellow | ||
| a0a45bf | What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them. | america origins | Saul Bellow | |
| 4010dfb | God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few. | salvation redemption | Saul Bellow | |
| 9c9744d | The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112). | Saul Bellow | ||
| a0716a0 | Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness | Saul Bellow | ||
| 59fcc6d | Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves." | Saul Bellow | ||
| 79e135d | Go to sleep, Asher. You've had a difficult day." "A difficult day? I didn't do a thing all day!" "For you, my husband, that is the most difficult kind of day you can have." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 71a2253 | God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 0a1cda0 | Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp. | poetic piano | Chaim Potok | |
| 4f0b423 | I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them; | Chaim Potok | ||
| 5851d88 | Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. | beauty family true-culture universal nation artist | Chaim Potok | |
| 0263298 | Only one who has mastered a tradition has a right to attempt to add to it or rebel against it. | Chaim Potok |