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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 92e7607 | She could not have asked for a more perfect day. The sun was shining, the humidity was low. There was a slight breeze. The water was a silvery blue. It was a bright, beautiful, early, autumn day. Perfect. | bay blue breeze fall ocean sun water waves | Sharon Brubaker | |
| 031dac9 | If [his] peace of mind depended on me promising to be a sweet and careful little girl, he'd be smart to get used to chaos. | domination humor | Sharon Green | |
| 7fde3bd | My, my, aren't we upper class and therefore faultlessly grammatical. | humor | Sharon Green | |
| ea3d256 | America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend. | foreign-policy-of-the-us united-states | Bernard Lewis | |
| bc3dcc3 | Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 712e692 | The difference between Middle Eastern and Western economic approaches can be seen even in their distinctive forms of corruption, from which neither society is exempt. In the West, one makes money in the market, and uses it to buy or influence power. In the East, one seizes power, and uses it to make money. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 370d368 | Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 86c02a3 | I turned to the audience and asked, "Have any of you ever been wounded by humanity?" They laughed with me; in that moment, we knew that we were all weird, all in this together, and that addressing our own suffering while learning not to inflict it on others is part of the work we're all here to do. So is love, which comes in so many forms and can be directed at so many things. There are many questions in life worth asking, but perhaps if we.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| db6ff86 | There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn't matter. It went up in a flash. | Norman Rush | ||
| 5ad6cf5 | Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be t.. | Philip Caputo | ||
| 1066540 | And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it. | Philip Caputo | ||
| e65a8f2 | One thing you distinctly never want to hear a man you're interested in say softly is that his favorite book in the whole world is The Golden Notebook. Here you are dealing with a liar from the black lagoon and it's time to start feeling in your purse for carfare. | Norman Rush | ||
| 529465c | Very goodlooking people are as a rule more forgetful than the median. Their mothers start it and the world at large continues it, handing them things, picking things up for them, smoothing their vicinity out for them in every way. I on the other hand remember everything. | Norman Rush | ||
| fb121df | She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst possible thing had happened to her as well. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 3cc48ac | He knew he was giving off the mischievous contentment of someone left behind for an afternoon, sleepy hints that he might have got up to something but in fact had done the more enviable and inexplicable nothing | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 7f5fcb7 | Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| 96de3fe | After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut. "What have you found there?" said Lord Kessler, in a genially possessive tone. "Ah, you're a Trollope man, are you?" "I'm not sure I am, really," said Nick. "I always think he wrote too fast. Wh.. | trollope | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 8675281 | I can't bear the smell of cigars, can you?" said Lady Partridge. "Lionel hates it too," murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men's tastes and habits, and their readiness to impose them on their fellows." | men | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| fec2a71 | Yesterday I noticed a scent of bark outside that I had not smelled in years. While the bark lingered in my nose, flushing out ancient tree houses and campfires and games of tag and capture the flag, I noticed that the birds seemed to be singing louder than usual and the leaves on the trees looked more pronounced, almost exaggerated in their lush clarity. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 14fcc50 | Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| b347565 | Completely alive. I thought abut what she meant by that; about all the joy and wonder and passion that had slipped from her fingers. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 88c395e | What is it about beauty that intimidates; causing us to kneel somewhere deep inside and pray and wonder just how close we might crawl before being banished from the sanctuary? | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 8bc09ea | Was [her] life really better than most, or did she appreciate it more or just remember it differently? I suspect she remembers it differently, which is really the trick. If you want to age gracefully, remember selectively. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| 8974e26 | I noticed how the band members watched her and how she made them smile and I realized that she was the kind of person who changed the feeling in a room, so that others suddenly feel that they are in the right place. Is that the secret of life, to surround yourself with people who are so full of passion, people who know sadness but not bitterness? I looked into her face, which was alive with excitement, and then into her eyes, which were ful.. | Jonathan Hull | ||
| dcb3d5e | The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections. | lyrical mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting street-lamps | Mary Stewart | |
| 8db2fed | Remember, you can't change anybody else. But you can write your own story differently. | Ann Marie Stewart | ||
| 2777925 | It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free. | Mary Stewart | ||
| ee66857 | Still, even now, when a woman says something uncomfortable about male misconduct, she is routinely portrayed as delusional, a malicious conspirator, a pathological liar, a whiner who doesn't recognize it's all in fun, or all of the above. The overkill of these responses recalls Freud's deployment of the joke about the broken kettle. A man accused by his neighbor of having returned a broken kettle damaged replies that he had returned it unda.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 240a198 | Je meurs, vous entendez, je veux dire que je meurs, je n'arrive pas a le dire, je ne fais que de la litterature. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| d2ccd83 | Ceea ce se poate cunoaste din fiecare e,in primul rand,politetea,retinerea sa.Nu trebuie mers mai departe,am cadea in abis.Pe cine ai ucis tu,fie numai in gand,tu care esti imbracat in haine de duminica?Si tu,draguto,cate fiinte ai vrut sa ucizi,pe cine ai mai vrea sa ucizi,ai vrea sa ma pun la dispozitia ta ca sa distrug vietile care te deranjeaza?.. Din moment ce lumea nu e un paradis,nu poate fi decat un infern,afara doar daca n-a nimici.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| c61a4a5 | nu fiti indulgenti (indulgenta e o lasitate) si sa nu va fie frica sa marturisiti clar ca tot ce se face in cultura noastra este nouazeci si noua la suta rizibil si unu la suta lizibil. Nu aveti incredere nici in acest lizibil si aveti mai degraba incredere in ilizibil. cand vi s-o prezenta ceva ilizibil, adica ceva care trebuie nu sa fie recunoscut, ci cunoscut pentru intaia data, poate sa gasiti acolo ceva trainic. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| f886b0d | Toata problema prepoporanista a lui Alecu Russo, problema specificului romanesc, a formelor goale ale culturii, teoria pseudomorfozelor culturii, a simbolismului ce reveleaza el singur adevaratul nostru spirit: cel latin, a samanatorismului ce reveleaza el singur adevaratul nostru spirit: cel rural, a ortodoxismului ce reveleaza el singur adevaratul nostru spirit: cel slav, si alte bajbaieli, imi aminteste povestea aceluia care nu stia daca.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 69429b7 | Desigur bucuria este sentimentul unei certitudini sau unei impliniri de viata. Stim insa cu totii ca viata este moarte.Tristetea este, poate, sentimentul incertitudinii sau al neimplinitii mele in viata. Aceasta este insa necesara pentru mantuirea mea spirituala. Tristetea -- sentiment de moarte in aceasta viata -- este reversul bucuriei fata de viata mea in moarte.Bucuria neimplinita are aceasta tristete spirituala; tristetea este luminata.. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| 625b825 | What you imagine as overwhelming or terrifying while at leisure becomes something you can cope with when you must-there is no time for fear. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 46fc62f | I started out in silence, writing as quietly as I had read, and then eventually people read some of what I had written, and some of the readers entered my world or drew me into theirs. I started out in silence and traveled until I arrived at a voice that was heard far away--first the silent voice that can only be read, and then I was asked to speak aloud and to read aloud. When I began to read aloud, another voice, one I hardly recognized, .. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| beb1e6f | Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 914085e | According to our most recent survey, the typical American millionaire reported that he (she) never spent more than $399 for a suit of clothing for himself or for anyone else. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| aa1cbe7 | It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You'll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| cafb596 | What if he had taken full advantage of the tax-advantaged benefit from the time he was first employed? Today he would be a millionaire. Instead, he is on the perpetual earn-and-consume treadmill. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| b8cbbc9 | As Nancy Frey writes of the long-distance pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, 'When pilgrims begin to walk several things usually begin to happen to their perceptions of the world which continue over the course of the journey: they develop a changing sense of time, a heightening of the senses, and a new awareness of their bodies and the landscape....A young German man expressed it this way: 'In the experience of walking, each ste.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 7fc093d | Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. | language street | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 1bdc276 | Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. As they did in Egypt, where liberty leading the masses was an earnest young woman in a black hijab. | gender hijab liberty revolution women | Rebecca Solnit | |
| aa989dc | Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 12d6632 | I'm not blind,you know." His gaze flicked down to her breasts, interestingly encased in her tight riding habit. "I can see well." Her cheeks flushed, and she tried to pull away again. Behind Dougal came a bang, like the sound of a large door slamming, and Sophia's eyes widened. "Angus, " she cried. "Ye misbegotten bounder!" Angus roared. Dougal turned just in time to see a huge fist hit him squarely in the eye. Thanks to Sophia, who'd ju.. | Karen Hawkins |