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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8d50c6c | Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while. 'That'll do,' said Haroun. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 632362c | Now the only person you think is lying to you is the expert who actually knows something. He's the one not to believe because he's the elite and the elites are against the people, they will do the people down. To know the truth is to be elite. If you say you saw God's face in a watermelon, more people will believe you than if you find the Missing Link, because if you're a scientist then you're elite. Reality TV is fake but it's not elite so.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 2412902 | Things--even people--have a way of leaking into each other," I explain, "like flavors when you cook." | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 9135fb8 | But sixteen years without optimism had taken a heavy toll; | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 903e579 | Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| a224bc7 | I am by nature an inward man, he said silently into the disconnected phone. I have struggled, in my fashion, to find my way towards an appreciation of the high things, towards a small measure of fineness. On good days I felt it was within my grasp, somewhere within me, somewhere within. But it eluded me. I have become embroiled, in things, in the world and in its messes, and I cannot resist. The grotesque has me, as before the quotidian had.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 832e4f1 | A man who sets out to make himself up is taking on the Creator's role, according to one way of seeing things; he's unnatural, a blasphemer, an abomination of abominations. From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk: not all mutants survive. Or, consider him socio-politically: most migrants learn, and can become disguises. Our own false descriptions to counter the falsehoods invented .. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 31e5ca5 | Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then it was perfectly possible to lead a good life, to have a strong sense of right and wrong, without ever letting God and his harpies into the room. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 21aed19 | We know the force of gravity, but not its origins; and to explain why we become attached to our birthplaces we pretend that we are trees and speak of roots. Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| f2c49ba | w z nsly z bchhhy jdwyy bwd khh bsyr skhttr z nsl wl khwhd shd, bchhhyy khh srnwshtshn r z pyshgwyn w khtr shnsn nkhwhnd prsyd, blkhh an r dr khwrh shmgyn rdh khwd shkhl khwhnd dd. | بچه جادو | Salman Rushdie | |
| 1055a1b | Is it possible that evil is never total, that its victory, no matter how overwhelming, is never absolute? Consider this fallen man. He sought without remorse to shatter the mind of a fellow human being; and exploited, to do so, an entirely blameless woman, at least partly owing to his own impossible and voyeuristic desire for her. Yet this same man has risked death, with scarcely any hesitation, in a foolhardy rescue attempt. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| e7d451f | After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1f6676f | Don't you feel cut off?" I asked. "Cut off from what?" she replied. "No, on the whole I'd say we rather enjoy our separateness." -- | John Berendt | ||
| 932dd73 | Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,' he wrote. 'Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. | John Berendt | ||
| 4cb8cc6 | the doorbell rang again, and there was Mrs. Onassis and her friend Maurice | John Berendt | ||
| d3976fa | With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts. | Alice Kaplan | ||
| b76bab2 | But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art. | Ha Jin | ||
| 0cb3367 | On the first landing, Langdon came face-to-face with a bronze bust of Masonic luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. | masons | Dan Brown | |
| fcda9a2 | What the fuck are you talking about?" I asked, wondering if I was in some crazy surrealist movie, wandering from telepathic sheriffs to homosexual assassins, to nympho lady Masons, to psychotic pirates, according to a script written in advance by two acid-heads and a Martian humorist." | Robert Shea | ||
| 4654c4e | Clever advertising can convince people to try a bad product once. But it can't convince them to buy a product they've already tried and didn't like. | Robert W. Bly | ||
| d77d348 | Great diggings and foundations spread across what had been the Warders' practice yard, tall wooden cranes and stacks of cut marble and granite. Masons and laborers swarmed over the workings like ants, and endless streams of wagons trailed through the gates onto the Tower grounds, bringing more stone. To one side stood a wooden "working model," as the masons called it, big enough for men to enter crouching on their heels and see every detail.. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 46b71db | Hair is intuition. Hair is the abundance of perceptions, insights, thoughts, resentments, images, fantasies waiting and ready to come out whenever we are thinking of something else. | Robert Bly | ||
| 658bc5c | The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, | Robert Bly | ||
| 4e16f1a | It's hard to grasp how much generosity Is involved in letting us go on breathing, When we contribute nothing valuable but our grief. Each of us deserves to be forgiven, if only for Our persistence in keeping our small boat afloat When so many have gone down in the storm. | Robert Bly | ||
| a52c92a | There's a general assumption now that every man in a position of power is or will soon be corrupt and oppressive. Yet the Greeks understood and praised a positive male energy that has accepted authority. | Robert Bly | ||
| 93e1b97 | Something in the adolescent male wants risk, courts danger, goes out to the edge - even to the edge of death. | Robert Bly | ||
| 663b339 | How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 5398b00 | A hunter knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| e939939 | Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? | philosphy life-lessons life power thought | Carlos Castaneda | |
| 2df9afe | Nai-trudnoto neshcho na sveta e voin't da ostavi drugite da b'dat samite sebe si. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| d7358cf | We either make ourselves miserable," said the Brazilian sage Carlos Castaneda, "or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." | Steve Chandler | ||
| c9337af | Can we perceive those inorganic beings, don Juan?" I asked. "We certainly can," he replied. "Sorcerers do it at will. Average people do it, but they don't realize that they're doing it because they are not conscious of the existence of a twin world. When they think of a twin world, they enter into all kinds of mental masturbation, but it has never occurred to them that their fantasies have their origin in a subliminal knowledge that all of .. | anunnaki esoteric inorganic-beings psychedelic predators parallel-universe mental occult shamanism shaman | Carlos Castaneda | |
| 0085c58 | Man's predicament is that he intuits his hidden resources, but he does not dare use them. This is why warriors say that man's plight is the counterpoint between his stupidity and his ignorance. Man needs now, more than ever, to be taught new ideas that have to do exclusively with his inner world--shamans' ideas, not social ideas, ideas pertaining to man facing the unknown, facing his personal death. Now, more than anything else, he needs to.. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 76f1aee | He said he'd heard the sound of one hand clapping. He said, once his mind took in the wondrous no-sound of holy oneness, the empty echo of eternal bliss, he was never the same. He could hear it still, he said, resounding in the ether and tickling the back of his brain. Something not normal was going on with his brain. No argument there. | magic tim-leary carlos-castaneda hippies new-age epic-fantasy zen paranormal-romance mysticism | Brenda Marie Smith | |
| 44f13c6 | This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student. | education mentoring teaching | Rebecca Goldstein | |
| 57c23f8 | If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 14cf8d7 | Listen," he said, raising himself up on one elbow. "You don't just decide one day you're going to run a marathon, right? You have to do some training first." "Aren't you being glib about this?" His hands slid around her, inside her sweater, touching her naked back. Everything in her wanted to melt. Oh, just let it go, she told herself. "Am I the marathon?" He smiled and nodded. "The New York Marathon." "The Boston is harder," she muttered. .. | Rebecca Flowers | ||
| c39b311 | They were relentless, brilliant scavengers with a keen sense of craftiness, and no human being could outwit them. The kind of cunning mischief and competition that a murder of crows possessed was unbeatable, and the war between farmer and fowl was a never-ending tale of woe which often led purely to bankruptcy. | nature farm farmer country bird crow raven | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 0b2141c | I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home. | living life canada-day hazardous sydney-tar-ponds cape-breton nova-scotia toxic country coal patriot steel pollution home | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 581d398 | Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh. | live happy joy funny life laugh | Rebecca McNutt | |
| bb347ad | There are some things in the past that... that just aren't meant to be viewed. | past found-footage met viewed | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 814b528 | When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters? | hatred prejudice racism man history human morality sister brother race monster | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 3f0d35c | Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn't listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed in identical uniforms, just like in school, always standing with stony faces, setting up shelters and warning signals and food storage boxes. And as the public service announcements and racist propaganda bloomed onto the screens in every cla.. | racism war education bigitry box public-service-announcement radiation radioactive screen sheeple storage-box classroom nuclear nuclear-war army military united-states society weapon propaganda ignorance stereotype school | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 407e360 | I don't want any other friends! They'd never be as good a friend as you are. | friend | Rebecca McNutt |