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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 80465f3 | Yes, the sound of water, the voice of the wind - completely foreign to human passions. All the other sounds of this earth brought contamination to the solitude of a soul. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 2808c65 | This was the unbounded power of eloquence--of words--of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash .. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 1c3e4d9 | Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream. | pain grief past change-of-scene changes-in-life loss-of-love grit rebirth heartache new old life-after-death | Joseph Conrad | |
| cb36098 | The last thing I want to tell you is this: in a real revolution--not a simple dynastic change or a mere reform of institutions--in a real revolution the best characters do not come to the front. A violent revolution falls into the hands of narrow-minded fanatics and of tyrannical hypocrites at first. Afterwards comes the turn of all the pretentious intellectual failures of the time. Such are the chiefs and the leaders. You will notice that .. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 0831128 | The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines--a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony. | Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 65e4902 | They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything! | joseph-conrad lord-jim modernist modernism | Joseph Conrad | |
| 4c3a1ca | Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| f2a813b | Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. | necessity invention | Joseph Conrad | |
| 4a61150 | Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience. | Jay Parini | ||
| dcc146d | However, you should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face--who will love them now? | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 9ba6d08 | That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want! | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 88fd39a | As it is, I guess I find "Jack & Diane" a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can't help but notice the wasteful frivolity of it all. Why are these kids not home doing their homework? Why aren't they setting the table for dinner or helping out around the house? Who allows their kids to hang out in parking lots? Isn't that loitering?" | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c95deee | And when I say the Fashion Police, of course I'm speaking of the small group of screeching gay guys and fashion "experts" on that E! show led by the reanimated corpse of Joan Rivers." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 17f9b99 | So it was surprising that I killed it as a babysitter. Er, maybe "killed it" is a wrong and potentially troubling way to express what I'm trying to say." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 82f1bf7 | Bennifer was so big it was as though two people had never been in love before, and they had discovered it. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| a75b3bf | Our Klutz clangs into Stop signs while riding a bike, and knocks over giant displays of expensive fine china. Despite being five foot nine and weighing 110 pounds, she is basically like a drunk buffalo who has never been a part of human society. But Fred Tom loves her anyway. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 1dc7607 | If you look closely, you can see this woman's ribs through the dress she's wearing-- that's how skinny she is, this cheesecake-loving cow. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 5e23e23 | my secret is: even though I wish I could be thin, and that I could have the ease of lifestyle that I associate with being thin, I don't wish for it with all of my heart. Because my heart is reserved for way more important things. I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it? | Mindy Kaling | ||
| fcc4f21 | I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| a982376 | When I played the "I don't feel comfortable" card, he knew it was over. "I don't feel comfortable" is the classic manipulative girl get-my-way line. It's right up there with "I don't feel entirely safe." Was it fair? Nope. Was it cool? Absolutely not. But it also wasn't fair or cool for him to have brought three dozen size-zero gowns to my photo shoot." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b7147ce | Haters are just more people paying attention to you. (P.21) | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c21f1aa | There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks. | writing-life writing | Mindy Kaling | |
| 22aea99 | And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 34181f8 | It felt to me like I was making more of an effort than he was, and when I sensed that, I pulled back, not returning his calls or texts because I felt hurt. But none of that mattered, because I knew the truth, which is if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always. That hurt my heart, but I realized, unlike in past relationships when I was younger, it didn't need to be dramatic. Will and I didn't know each other that wel.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 8c8f85e | We will never come home to each other again and we will never again have each other's undivided attention. That version of our friendship is over forever. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2796134 | WHAT I'M ASKING for is not that much. I just want a boyfriend who is sweet and trustworthy. That's it. He doesn't need to have a perfect body or look like George Clooney. I want a guy who wants to curl up on a Friday night and watch Netflix. He can even pick the show. I mean, ideally, it's serialized and female-driven, and maybe not that boring political one. But honestly, I don't care. It's not important. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 7b9629e | But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 834c44b | The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's .. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f35dbd2 | My guest to dinner was my best friend, Jocelyn, who had taken the train down from New York. We forewent seeing any DC museums or national monuments to order cheeseburgers and watch Will & Grace in bed at our hotel, because we are real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| a04f284 | Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it. (P.220) | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 1c09248 | It's traumatizing to think that a best friend could become just a friend. That's because there is virtually no difference between an acquaintance and a friend. But the gulf between a friend and a best friend is enormous and profound. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 11e50e8 | If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 67af9ba | For lunch I usually have something hearty like a burger or tacos. I have always believed lunch should be the biggest meal of the day. People who say breakfast should be the biggest meal are insane. You can't have dessert at breakfast. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 0a93f53 | Na propria precisao com que outras passagens lembradas se oferecem, de entre impressoes confusas, talvez se agite a maligna astucia da porcao escura de nos mesmos, que tenta incmpreensivelmente enganar-nos, ou, pelo menos, retardar, que prescutemos qualquer verdade. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 891c1e3 | Ah, o tempo e o magico de todas as traicoes... E os proprios olhos, de cada um de nos, padecem viciacao de origem, defeitos com que cresceram e a que se afizeram mais e mais. | visão | João Guimarães Rosa | |
| ac089dc | My mother has always been the sort of woman whose emotional state can be intuited from the volume at which she rattles kitchen utensils. | Richard Russo | ||
| c8e72e2 | When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder. Jiko says that this is an example of the time being. Sound and no-sound. Thunder and silence. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 512cd19 | She can hear the crazy thoughts that are going through your mind before you can even find them. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| e6a62c6 | At the time I was feeling hopeful, which now seems kind of sad and brave. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 85a8f1d | What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 29b9af7 | There's nothing sadder than cyberspace . . . but I've already said this. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| c4e302e | You can feel life completely by taking it away | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 2dbda2e | Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing. | change life floating | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 0d67b09 | In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence. | Ruth Ozeki |