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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16617cc | This October like November, That August like a hundred thousand hours, And that September, A hundred thousand dragging sunlit days, And half October like a thousand years... | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f6cc2a5 | Why?" he cried. "Why the hell are you doing this? Why do you even care? Is it guilt? Is this your way of getting back at me? Do you really hate me that much? Why the hell are you doing this, Gordo? Now, after all this time, why are you doing this?" "It's because I'm scared," I said, voice breaking. "I love you, and I'm so scared I'm going to lose you." | T.J. Klune | ||
| fa164f2 | It's been said by many people that I look like I know what I'm doing. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 57afa37 | He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 4dae85a | And then Gary choked and said, "Hot motherfucking damn, that is some good shit right there." So I turned around. And immediately realized I was wearing the wrong kind of pants to be on the boner carriage to Holy Fuck Me Town. "Sweet molasses," I managed to say." | T.J. Klune | ||
| b5c2361 | Is there then any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or all men's lives like the lives of us good people - like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords - broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1c2ab77 | They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| eae55d3 | She asked herself the eternal question - and she knew it to be the eternal question - whether no man and woman can ever leave it at the beautiful inclination. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| a57ef5b | It is a queer world and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1096abe | You are to understand that Lenora loved Edward with a passion that was yet like an agony of hatred. And she had lived with him for years and years without addressing to him one word of tenderness. I don't know how she could do it. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| e788a3a | His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| e66ec11 | All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet. | cruelty power women | Ford Madox Ford | |
| f04be67 | The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! . . . It was, of course, just like German spools to go mining by candle-light. Obsoletely Nibenlungen-like. Dwarfs probably! | tietjens war | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 16c1b12 | He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse! | tietjens | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 048a8ab | If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1a32120 | The day of her long interview with Tietjens, amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings, she marked in the calendar of her mind as her great love scene. That had been two years ago; he had been going into the army. Now he was going out again. From that she knew what a love scene was. It passed without mention of the word 'love'; it passed in impulses; warmths; rigors of the skin. Yet with every word they had said to each other th.. | love-scene | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 94f0a50 | Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link in a love-speech. It was not merely that he had confessed to her as he would have to no other soul in the world - 'To no other soul in the world,' he had said! - his doubts, his misgivings, and his fears; it was that every word he uttered and that came to her, during the lasting of that magic, had sung of passion. If he had uttered the word '.. | love lovers | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 6a8a90f | No, by God, it is false! It wasn't a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison - a prison full of screaming hysterics, tied down so that they might not outsound the rolling of our carriage wheels as we went along the shaded avenues of the Taunus Wald. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f624813 | In one's own home it is as if little, innate sympathies draw one to particular chairs that seem to enfold one in an embrace, or take one along particular streets that seem friendly when others may be hostile. And, believe me, that feeling is a very important part of life. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 7149ef0 | In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor - a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives as to some weak spot in one's character or in one's career. For it is intolerable to live constantly with one human being who perceives one's small meannesses. It is really death to do so - that is why so many marriages turn out unhappily. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| d9b39c9 | They're trying to understand what space is. That's tough for them. They break distances down into concentrations of chemicals. For them, space is a range of taste intensities. | Greg Bear | ||
| 1cabb87 | Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance. | Greg Bear | ||
| d754504 | Equal in law is not equal in nature. | Greg Bear | ||
| 82beb52 | You are what you leave behind. | Greg Bear | ||
| 20ba082 | You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable." "You enjoy being nurtured?" "Well, that isn't all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to grow and find my true story, my purpose. You seem to want to be there when I see new things. You want to share and enjoy my discoveries." | humour love lovers nurturing | Greg Bear | |
| 9d5e624 | All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile, | Greg Bear | ||
| 7202b0a | Don't be difficult, Bear. It's unattractive. | T.J. Klune | ||
| eb8a7b5 | Bear, I think having sand in your butt crack must be really uncomfortable. Maybe you should go change your clothes. You don't want to catch sand crabs. What's the point of getting crabs when you weren't having any fun doing it? | T.J. Klune | ||
| fceee42 | and every time I saw him in the hall, I couldn't help but think, There goes Captain Hook, | T.J. Klune | ||
| bea6abd | Normal Seven went to Heaven where he immediately tripped and fell! God said, 'Gee you're too Normal for me' and sent him straight to hell! | T.J. Klune | ||
| bbf30b4 | I am a strong, independent unicorn, and I will not take your shit. | T.J. Klune | ||
| f1a6a73 | When Big Eddie left, I only worried about how it affected me. I didn't worry about the others. I was selfish. Self-centred. I took to the river and let myself float on its waters. I didn't care if I drowned. I didn't care what became of me. I was hurt, I was angry, and I didn't care what that meant for the future. I just wanted everything to stop. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 06a141f | Gus, dressed in the finest button-down shirt he could find in his house (plain white--Pastor Tommy had worn it when he was trying to infiltrate a Young Republicans meeting, only to have been found out, as he was neither young nor a Republican). He also found a bright pink tie to be his splash of color. He wore his slacks from work and a pair of loafers that he hoped would be considered sensible. "I look like a gay Mormon missionary," he lam.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 8722c17 | I told the Kid I thought Wednesday was Latin for Satan, and that we probably shouldn't do it then because it might be bad luck. The Kid then proceeded to tell me what the word Wednesday actually means and where it came from (apparently it's Middle English for Wednes dei, the day of the English God Woden--how the hell he knows these things, I'll never know). He then said to stop being such a girl. | the-kid | T.J. Klune | |
| 5bdb3f5 | You should have just gone with the crazy guy in the bar, the voice said. No shit. Any ideas? Yeah: don't die. Thanks. | T.J. Klune | ||
| acc901e | Villanelle It is the pain, it is the pain endures. Your chemic beauty burned my muscles through. Poise of my hands reminded me of yours. What later purge from this deep toxin cures? What kindness now could the old salve renew? It is the pain, it is the pain endures. The infection slept (custom or changes inures) And when pain's secondary phase was due Poise of my hands reminded me of yours. How safe I felt, whom memory assures, R.. | William Empson | ||
| af1a8a2 | Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well. | mercy | Janny Wurts | |
| 5d361bb | The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 9fea25b | My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe. | Chip Kidd | ||
| de1b3d1 | Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom. | learning life university | Chip Kidd | |
| eef7ce4 | It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he'd come and touch me. I did, too, but when I got out I wasn't me-I was a little white bunny. And he started out of the room and I had to go with him for fear he'd touch me. It felt so horrid, going out with him and looking back at mother there asleep. "We went into the main part of the house, and one of the big front doors was open, and we went out through i.. | hare moon nightmare nightmares rabbit witch | Evangeline Walton | |
| a229cee | In one experiment conducted on five classes of Australian college students, a man was introduced as a visitor from Cambridge University in England. However, his status at Cambridge was represented differently in each of the classes. To one class, he was presented as a student; to a second class, a demonstrator; to another, a lecturer; to yet another, a senior lecturer; to a fifth, a professor. After he left the room, each class was asked to.. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 9d513e6 | It is much more profitable for salespeople to present the expensive item first, not only because to fail to do so will lose the influence of the contrast principle; to fail to do so will also cause the principle to work actively against them. Presenting an inexpensive product first and following it with an expensive one will cause the expensive item to seem even more costly as a result--hardly a desirable consequence for most sales organiza.. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| b89a25c | audiences have been successfully manipulated by those who use social evidence, even when that evidence has been openly falsified. | Robert B. Cialdini |