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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| d375213 | This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers! | evil hypocrisy suffering torture | Victor Hugo | |
| 38bc285 | Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 663b339 | How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 173e8c8 | Ne soyons plus anglais ni francais ni allemands. Soyons europeens. Ne soyons plus europeens, soyons hommes. - Soyons l'humanite. Il nous reste a abdiquer un dernier egoisme : la patrie. | fraternité homme humanité nationalité patrie | Victor Hugo | |
| 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? | life life-lessons philosphy 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 | ||
| 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. | bird country crow farm farmer nature raven | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 0b2141c | I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home. | canada-day cape-breton coal country hazardous home life living nova-scotia patriot pollution steel sydney-tar-ponds toxic | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 581d398 | Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh. | funny happy joy laugh life live | Rebecca McNutt | |
| bb347ad | There are some things in the past that... that just aren't meant to be viewed. | found-footage met past 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? | brother hatred history human man monster morality prejudice race racism sister | 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.. | army bigitry box classroom education ignorance military nuclear nuclear-war propaganda public-service-announcement racism radiation radioactive school screen sheeple society stereotype storage-box united-states war weapon | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 407e360 | I don't want any other friends! They'd never be as good a friend as you are. | friend | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 9d645e6 | Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep. | cynical deams fake false lie nightmare sleep | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 5322620 | Oh, I'm Chrissy Mackenzie, I'm from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism," the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. "You got any advice?" "Search me," Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. "I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it's in favor of all that "go green" hippie crap." "Oh, well...." Chriss.. | cape-breton change drea drunk environmntal friend gol hippie hope ice-cube improve journalist joy nova-scotia peace pollution sad vancouver world | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 1adb6c9 | People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience... but we'd be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives... because we didn't like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get ri.. | animals canada dangerous death earth environment environmentalism evil garbage help hippie hope human life litter mental-illness people plants pollution scary smog water | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 2a0a0e9 | Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be. | family-drama happy people social | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 20c3944 | Selena was born in a generation that had grown up on the edge. She'd grown up knowing that the little child starlet who voiced Anne-Marie on 'All Dogs Go to Heaven', Judith Barsi, had been murdered and set on fire by her own father. She'd grown up knowing that school shootings were more common than winning the lottery. She'd grown up in an age of terror. | fear growing-up judith-barsi millennial-quotes millennials murder school-shooting terror | Rebecca McNutt | |
| f93063f | There was a heaven beyond anything he knew where there was no jet fuel, no jumping, no burning towers... but he wasn't looking beyond yet. He was still looking back. | death heaven life new-york new-york-city september-11-attacks september-11th skyscrapers terrorism | Rebecca McNutt | |
| bb6b4ba | Wendy's house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy's bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the washer hose, bubbling up, threatening to overflow, but it never did. Next-door was a motel with a neon sign that read in turquoise and pink, "We have the best rates in town!", but the 'E' in 'rates' kept flickering on and off day and night so that .. | bedroom best bubble canada cape-breton funny hotel house inn laundry-room motel neon nostalgia odd pink poor quaint rat rates rats sink small-town strange sydney turquoise weird | Rebecca McNutt | |
| d0f338e | They think I'm not entirely 'grounded in reality', they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back programmed like some robot, dressed in a tye-dyed shirt and eating tuna sandwiches," Mandy explained, a horrified look on her face. "You're eighteen, not twelve! Would they really send you to some rat's nest like that?" Wendy questioned in mock ho.. | canada center coming-of-age family friendship humor locks nostalgia nova-scotia ontario pressure preteen rebel reprogramming self-help sleepaway straight-camp summer-camp teen troubled tuna-sandwich wiener-roast | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 615584f | On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did. | glass greed morality september-11-attacks wall-street | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 6d95d6b | The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon coupled with the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty. Those towers were like the soul of lower Manhattan, alive in their own right. | brooklyn-bridge empire-state-building icon landmark manhattan skyscraper statue-of-liberty twin-towers world-trade-center | Rebecca McNutt |