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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 102275b | If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.' - Juan Ramon Jimenez | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1ed01db | It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer. | summer | Ray Bradbury | |
| 573aba8 | And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final day, the final night had come. As the day grew late they realized that for two or three nights now, porches had emptied early of their inhabitants. The air hard a different, drier smell and Grandma was talking of hot coffee instead of iced tea; the open, white-flutter-curtained windows were clo.. | fall summer | Ray Bradbury | |
| ad31900 | And Will? Why, he's the last peach, high on a summer tree. Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above peeing off a bridge, or stealing an occasional dime-store pencil sharpener; it's not that. It's just, you know, seeing them pass, that's how they'll be all their life; they'll get hit, hurt, cut, bruised, and always wonder why, why does it happen? how can it happen to the.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0f03847 | Three in the morning, thought Charles Halloway, seated on the edge of his bed. Why did the train come at that hour? For, he thought, it's a special hour. Women never wake then, do they? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6a89780 | Faber sniffed the book. "Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 167fec8 | It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it's an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, 'How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn't life a play? Don't I play it well? | old-age | Ray Bradbury | |
| 2f4b1ba | No," moaned Tom in despair. "School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer's even over! Ruin half the vacation!" | school summer | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8c9936e | I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c6450a4 | They banged doors, they shouted Trick or Treat and their brown paper bags began to fill with incredible sweets. They galloped with their teeth glued shut with pink gum. They ran with red wax lips bedazzling their faces. But all the people who met them at doors looked like candy factory duplicates of their own mothers and fathers. It was like never leaving home. Too much kindness flashed from every window and every portal. What they wanted w.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1c38313 | You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you... | burn censorship censorship-of-books dystopian fahrenheit-451 fire ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| ed42e56 | The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, reading your story, will catch fire, too? | gusto ray-bradbury writers writing zest | Ray Bradbury | |
| dc07650 | Somewhere on the Earth tonight, my Tylla, there is a Man with a Lever, which, when he pulls it, Will Save The World. The man is now unemployed. His switch gathers dust. He himself plays pinochle. | end-of-the-world | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7d6daee | Sure, it's money runs the world," Doone agreed, seated there. "But it is music that holds down the friction." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e1ab333 | The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| fec736f | You see?" Granger turned to Montag. "Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ded3547 | For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 130fcdf | My dear, you never will understand time, will you? You're always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight. Why do you save those ticket stubs and theater programs? They'll only hurt you later. Throw them away, my dear. | possessions the-past | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7871c44 | Evil has only the power that we give it. I give you nothing. I take back. Starve. Starve. Starve. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 80de360 | at sea, things appear different. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 089abe4 | Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote; "neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 13be16d | This meant that while the vast majority of the country's citizens stayed at home, the War for Independence was being waged, in large part, by newly arrived immigrants. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| dc4bd39 | Modern survival psychologists have determined that this "social"--as opposed to "authoritarian"--form of leadership is ill suited to the early stages of a disaster, when decisions must be made quickly and firmly. Only later, as the ordeal drags on and it is necessary to maintain morale, do social leadership skills become important." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 116691f | fluidity of the sea, not the rigidity of irresistible law, characterizes human conduct, especially in the midst of a calamity. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 5440ef8 | It is painful to witness the death of the smallest of God's created beings, much more, one in which life is so vigorously maintained as the Whale! And when I saw this, the largest and most terrible of all created animals bleeding, quivering, dying a victim to the cunning of man, my feelings were indeed peculiar! | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 5432e46 | Brown made a claim that possibly hit a little too close to home. 'Money is this man's god,' the handbill read, 'and to get enough of it, he would sacrifice his country. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 25dde1b | The sperm whales' network of female-based family units resembled, to a remarkable extent, the community the whalemen had left back home on Nantucket. In both societies the males were itinerants. In their dedication to killing sperm whales the Nantucketers had developed a system of social relationships that mimicked those of their prey. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| f85ec99 | Kids have too much money these days, if you ask me. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 178d4d7 | Getting answers to my questions is not the goal of the spiritual life. Living in the presence of God is the greater call. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 8f6fc80 | To console does not mean to take away the pain but rather to be there and say, "You are not alone, I am with you. Together" -- | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| ca6d164 | Often hell is portrayed as a place of punishment and heaven as a place of reward. But this concept easily leads us to think about God as either a policeman, who tries to catch us when we make a mistake and send us to prison when our mistakes become too big, or a Santa Claus, who counts up all our good deeds and puts rewards in our stockings at the end of the year. God, however, is neither a policeman nor a Santa Claus. God does not send us .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 16d6585 | Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3da6ac9 | By inviting God into our difficulties we ground life--even its sad moments--in joy and hope. When we stop grasping our lives we can finally be given more than we could ever grab for ourselves. And we learn the way to a deeper love for others. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 8a3069e | Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 41fe7d3 | Isn't it important for your friends close by and far away to know the high cost of these insights? Wouldn't they find it a source of consolation to see that light and darkness, hope and despair, love and fear are never very far from each other, and that spiritual freedom often requires a fierce spiritual battle? | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 19d27dd | Listening in the spiritual life is much more than a psychological strategy to help others discover themselves. In the spiritual life the listener is not the ego, which would like to speak but is trained to restrain itself, but the Spirit of God within us. When we are baptised in the Spirit - that is, when we have received the Spirit of Jesus as the breath of God breathing within us - that Spirit creates in us a sacred space where the other .. | holy-spirit jesus | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| ff70590 | Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| c5e9c1e | You have to acknowledge where you are and affirm that place. You have to be willing to live your loneliness, your incompleteness, your lack of total incarnation fearlessly, and trust that God will give you the people to keep showing you the truth of who you are. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| cd3156a | Still, as long as you keep pointing to the specifics, you will miss the full meaning of your pain. You will deceive yourself into believing that if the people, circumstances, and events had been different, your pain would not exist. This might be partly true, but | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 207c6ce | Christ invites us to remain in touch with the many sufferings of every day and to taste the beginning of hope and new life right there, where we live amid our hurts and pains and brokenness. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| cdc27db | Mourning our losses is the first step away from resentment and toward gratitude. The tears of our grief can soften our hardened hearts and open us to the possibility to say "thanks." | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3ed1ebc | there are many other voices, voices that are loud, full of promises and very seductive. These voices say, "Go out and prove that you are worth something." Soon after Jesus had heard the voice calling him the Beloved, he was led to the desert to hear those other voices. They told him to prove that he was worth love in being successful, popular, and powerful. Those same voices are not unfamiliar to me. They are always there and, always, they .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 96597ee | When spirituality becomes spiritualization, life in the body becomes carnality. When ministers and priests live their ministry mostly in their heads and relate to the Gospel as a set of valuable ideas to be announced, the body quickly takes revenge by screaming loudly for affection and intimacy. Christian leaders are called to live the Incarnation, that is, to live in the body, not only in their own bodies but also in the corporate body of .. | holy-spirit incarnation practicing-faith | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 7b0c0be | Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint. I can choose to be grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen |