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| 6d05aca | There were dozens of pictures similar to the one I had found in the Brooklyn Museum; the same forest, the same moon, the same silence. The moon was always full in these works, and it was always the same: small, perfectly round circle in the middle of the canvas, glowing with the palest white light. After I had looked at five or six of them, they gradually began to separate themselves from their surrounds, and I was no long able to see them .. | Paul Auster | ||
| 806ae9e | Since all is plenum, all matter is connected and all movement in the plenum produces some effect on the distant bodies, in proportion to the distance. Hence every body is affected not only by those with which is in contact, and thus feels in some way everything that happens to them; but through them it also feels those that touch the ones with which it is in immediate contact. Hence it follows that the communication extends over any distanc.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 7666495 | what at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune | Paul Auster | ||
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| 20df577 | That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease. If only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started. | knowledge wisdom | Paul Auster | |
| 4284d02 | The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimism had led to an ethos of fear, and the other's pessimism had led to a noisy, fractious disdain for Everything-That-Was. One shrank, the other flailed. One toed the line, the other crossed it out. Much of the time they were at loggerheads, and because Willy found it so easy to shock his mother, he rarely wasted an opportunity to provoke an ar.. | optimism pessimism rebellion son | Paul Auster | |
| 492db7e | una vida rota por el exceso y la escasez de este mundo | exceso vida | Paul Auster | |
| fb53d7d | They have trapped Blue into doing nothing, into being so inactive as to reduce his life to almost no life at all. Yes, says Blue to himself, that's what it feels like: like nothing at all. He feels like a man who has been condemned to sit in a room and go on reading a book for the rest of his life. This is strange enough - to be only half alive at best, seeing the world only through words, living only through the lives of others. | reader | Paul Auster | |
| 5e48825 | She seemed perfect to you, and even during her first attack of vertigo, which you happened to witness when you were six (the two of you climbing up the inner staircase of the Statue of Liberty), you were not alarmed, because she was a good and conscientious mother, and she managed to hide her fear from you by turning the descent into a game: sitting on the stairs together and going down one step at a time, asses on the rungs, laughing all t.. | Paul Auster | ||
| 11e62bd | He realized that for Ponge there was no division between the work of writing and the work of seeing. For no word can be written without first having been seen, and before it finds its way to the page it must first have been part of the body, a physical presence that one has lived with in the same way one lives with one's heart, one's stomach, and one's brain. Memory, then, not so much as the past contained within us, but as proof of our lif.. | Paul Auster | ||
| b70eb8d | Hjm kfyh wljld ldhy khshwshn Hwl mfSlh y'kl lqshr@ lmtkwn@ `l~ sTH lshwkwl lskhn@ lshy bllymwn 'kwbh lmwz`@ Hwl lmnzl, 'kwbh blHwf lswd, Hwl HwD lGsyl, `l~ lTwlt. mshhdth yl`b ltns. lTryq@ lty tTqTq bh rkbth 'Hyn wjhh. shbhh bbrhm lynkn. shj`th m` lklb. wjhh mn jdyd. wjhh. lsmk@ lstwy'y@. | Paul Auster | ||
| 9d64f24 | I have always been a plodder, a person who anguishes and struggles over each sentence, and even on my best days I do no more than inch along, crawling on my belly like a man lost in the desert. The smallest word is surrounded by acres of silence for me, and even after I manage to get that word down on the page, it seems to sit there like a mirage, a speck of doubt glimmering in the sand. | Paul Auster | ||
| 42da4c3 | Everything is connected to everything else, every story overlaps with every other story. | Paul Auster | ||
| 528442f | At fifty-seven, I felt old. Now, at seventy-four, I feel much younger than I did then. | Paul Auster | ||
| c550a29 | The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. | Paul Auster | ||
| ec07e69 | Such were the contradictions of manhood, Ferguson discovered. Your heart could be broken, but your gonads kept telling you to forget about your heart. | Paul Auster | ||
| fa1588c | I'm not going to apologize for things that need no apology. | Paul Auster | ||
| fdc77fb | And that's finally all anyone wants out of a book- to be amused | Paul Auster | ||
| ba422b5 | Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating.. | gaps opportunity schooling | Robert D. Putnam | |
| a92257d | We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law. | Philip K. Howard | ||
| 5d18265 | Overthrow the bureaucracy, and return to a system based on human responsibility. | Philip K. Howard | ||
| 60d32f0 | Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite. | government law rules uncertainty | Philip K. Howard | |
| 6c1edf0 | she discovered that her feet were cold, her head ached, and that her heart was colder than the former, fuller of pain than the latter. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f7d128c | Trifles show character | Alcott Louisa May 1832-1888 | ||
| e2d08ac | if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then--as Socrates and Aristotle alike remind us--they can indeed become real accomplices to evil through inaction. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| c489dc6 | Athens's disastrous 415 B.C. expedition against Sicily, the largest democracy in the Greek world, may not prefigure our war in Iraq. (A hypothetical parallel to democratic Athens's preemptive attack on the neutral, distant, far larger, and equally democratic Syracuse in the midst of an ongoing though dormant war with Sparta would be America's dropping its struggle with al-Qaeda to invade India). | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 4fe1e25 | For a capitalist system to work, the state had to protect, not regulate or interfere with, free markets. Both for political and religious reasons, this the sultan could not do: The Ottomans had then no idea of the balance of trade. . . . Originated from an age-old tradition in the Middle East, the Ottoman trade policy was that the state had to be concerned above all that the people and craftsmen in the cities in particular would not suffer .. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 3203780 | Do you know how alone I've always felt? | Alice Sebold | ||
| 0586a22 | My father was too distracted to see anything in this. Mimicking my mother, he taped it to the fridge in the same place Buckley's long-forgotten drawing of the Inbetween had been. But my brother knew something was wrong with his story. Knew it by how his teacher reacted, doing a double take like they did in his comic books. He took the story down and brought it to my old room while Grandma Lynn was downstairs. He folded it into a tiny square.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 61c2228 | On my way home from the junior high, I would sometimes stop at the edge of our property and watch my mother ride the ride-on mower, looping in and out among the pine trees, and I could remember then how she used to whistle in the mornings as she made her tea and how my father, rushing home on Thursdays, would bring her marigolds and her face would light up in yellowy in delight. They had been deeply, separately, wholly in love- apart from h.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 01df013 | For Lorenz, virgins were not a part of his world. He was skeptical of many things I said. Later, when the serology reports proved that what I had said was not a lie, that I had been a virgin, and that I was telling the truth, he could not respect me enough. I think he felt responsible, somehow. It was, after all, in his world where this hideous thing had happened to me. A world of violent crime. | Alice Sebold | ||
| ddc7193 | You save yourself or you remain unsaved | Alice Sebold | ||
| 611c36b | She was armed to the teeth for any onslaught of sympathy. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 51d550b | You can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth. | Alice Sebold | ||
| a872eed | Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 338388f | They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 8b6ed73 | Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose to tell it, even to one person at a time. | Alice Sebold | ||
| aea9999 | The most momentous events in life--baptisms, weddings, and funerals--don't seem to take much time, but the effects of them bind up the whole of your existence. | Sharyn McCrumb | ||
| aeb42ca | Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ... | Sharyn McCrumb | ||
| 613e5a5 | Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide. | ballad-novels southern-fiction | Sharyn McCrumb | |
| b5d9e3d | Every time something goes wrong, you give up on us. You're killing me, Caro ... I don't know what will happen...but neither do you. Maybe we'll make it...maybe we won't. But you're giving up before we've even tried. I don't understand. Why won't you take a chance? | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| ba1a0a8 | Here in this room, with our bodies entwined, I felt that I could trust this fierce love that had shattered and rebuilt my life. But outside, the world was a cold and dangerous place. I didn't know if love would be enough. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 2e33c6f | God, Jordan, I'd fix it for you if I could. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 9f1182b | What do you want, Lisanne?" "You," "Are you sure? You don't get to have your first time again, baby doll. This isn't how I'd imagined it." "You've imagined it... with me?" "Are you fucking kidding me? You are hot. I've wanted you since I met you, but I figured you just wanted to be friends. That's cool. I like having a friend who's a girl." "Can I just... can I touch you?" He nodded slowly, his eyes following her hand as it moved shakily to.. | Jane Harvey-Berrick |