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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a58508 | Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. | William Goldman | ||
| 2f7cc31 | you miserable vomitous mass, | William Goldman | ||
| 0287bab | In any case, the two countries had stayed alive over the centuries mainly by warring on each other. There had been the Olive War, the Tuna Fish Discrepancy, which almost bankrupted both nations, the Roman Rift, which did send them both into insolvency, only to be followed by the Discord of the Emeralds, in which they both got rich again, chiefly by banding together for a brief period and robbing everybody within sailing distance. | William Goldman | ||
| 171b80a | Buttercup sat up in bed. It must be his teeth. The farm boy did have good teeth, give credit where credit was due. | William Goldman | ||
| 34c8b6e | Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart? | William Goldman | ||
| 6646090 | It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird. | William Goldman | ||
| e74563c | I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not a.. | William Goldman | ||
| 510d8a4 | Stop saying that word. It was inconceivable that anyone could follow us, but when we looked behind, there was the man in black. It was inconceivable that anyone could sail as fast as we could sail, and yet he gained on us. Now this too is inconceivable, but look--look--" and the Spaniard pointed down through the night. "See how he rises." | William Goldman | ||
| 13e0896 | Wow, brains as well as boobs. | William Goldman | ||
| 808aa92 | Non sto cercando di demoralizzarvi, cercate di capire. Voglio dire che penso veramente che l'amore sia la cosa piu bella del mondo, dopo le pasticche per la tosse. Ma devo anche dire, per l'ennesima volta, che la vita non e giusta. E solo piu decente della morte, tutto qui. | William Goldman | ||
| b4d1b81 | She does not get eaten by the sharks at this time," my father said. I looked up at him. "What?" "You looked like you were getting too involved and bothered so I thought I would let you relax." | William Goldman | ||
| 01e773a | Back when we were on the farm, I thought I loved you, but that was not love. When I saw your face behind the mask on the ravine floor, I thought I loved you, but that was again nothing more than deep infatuation. Beloved: I think I love you now, and I pray you only give me the chance to spend my life in constant proving. | William Goldman | ||
| 8103176 | There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection. My mind begs you to ask it something so it can obey. | William Goldman | ||
| 6d19fc6 | You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that | William Goldman | ||
| bcdba02 | It appears to me as if we're doomed, then," Buttercup said. Westley looked at her. "Doomed, madam?" "To be together. Until one of us dies." "I've done that already, and I haven't the slightest intention of ever doing it again," Westley said. Buttercup looked at him. "Don't we sort of have to sometime?" "Not if we promise to outlive each other, and I make that promise now." Buttercup looked at him. "Oh my Westley, so do I." | William Goldman | ||
| baf717d | The old man nodded. "Now I can die." She glanced at him. "Don't." Her tone was surprisingly tender, and probably she sensed how important he really was to her, because when he did die, two years further on, she went right after, and most of the people who knew her well agreed it was the sudden lack of opposition that undid her." | William Goldman | ||
| 1afd32a | The main thing was to know the world, every twenty-five years or so, back for a couple hundred years, and if you had that info handy, always there under your belt, then you could figure out the gaps. | William Goldman | ||
| 5274df7 | This was long after hairdressers; in truth, ever since there have been women, there have been hairdressers, Adam being the first, though the King James scholars do their very best to muddy this point.) | William Goldman | ||
| e7e9aea | The guitar. Rubbing the gentle polish On Every smooth contour. On the lap. Knowing every curve As the light shines from it. On stage a planned metamorphosis Takes places as the hours go by and the Space is transformed to a concert hall. The energetic nemesis has struck. The risers are transformed into a stage And black boxes turned into powerful Pieces of sound equipment. The spring is taut. Backstage while pandemonium Sweeps the hall and p.. | David Morrell | ||
| 8254acb | On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it? | novelist purpose questions writer writing | David Morrell | |
| 1080c63 | Except that it was no more home, just the place where he had grown up, and that first day back, touring the once familiar places only made him realize that he had already lived close to half his life. | David Morrell | ||
| 5355f82 | Cuba will be free. I already am. | liberation suicide | Reinaldo Arenas | |
| 4d516e1 | The town had a faint air of benign neglect that only added to its charm: a seaside village with white clapboard buildings, seagulls wheeling overhead, uneven brick sidewalks and local shops. They passed a gas station, several old storefronts with plate-glass windows, a diner, a funeral parlor, a movie theater turned into a bookstore, and an eighteenth-century sea captain's mansion, complete with widow's walk. A sign out front identified it .. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 76d53fb | Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most powerful innovation in late human evolution. Tribes with religion had an advantage over those without. They had direction and purpose, motivation and a mission. The survival value of religion was so spectacular that the thirst for belief became embedded in the human genome. | Douglas Preston | ||
| bbc5de5 | you shall learn, if you haven't already, that in life insubordination is not only necessary but even, at times, exhilarating. | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | ||
| 045ba25 | People need history in order to know themselves, | Douglas Preston | ||
| 3f69f69 | People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades. | people-change the-last-don | Mario Puzo | |
| 30ac0c5 | Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7ac0b30 | you can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living. | Mario Puzo | ||
| e20183b | I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance. | love mario-puzo omerta truth youth | Mario Puzo | |
| 23ccb22 | Don Corleone did this by putting a pistol to the forehead of the band leader and assuring him with the utmost seriousness that either his signature or his brains would rest on that document in exactly one minute. Les Halley signed. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 76d321f | Luca Brasi was such a man. But he was such an extraordinary man that for a long time nobody could kill him. Most of these people are of no concern to ourselves but a Brasi is a powerful weapon to be used. The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| c066e97 | It was not intelligent to damage the ego of a young boy. You can, with some impunity, insult an older man who has already been humiliated by life itself and will not take to heart the small slights of another human being. But a young man thinks these offences mortal. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fc7ae0f | Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 391509e | Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. "The Baglioni are true believers," he said. "They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this moral life? Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to commit great crimes in the name of good and God." | borgias evil gift god good mario-puzo moral-life paradise | Mario Puzo | |
| 2a309cf | With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." | life the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 75057d6 | But up until that time I want you just to follow my lead and don't worry. There are negotiations going on that will solve problems that you think are not solvable. So just be a little patient." Tessio" | Mario Puzo | ||
| 5a8d5f0 | The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 6f58beb | It was presumptuous for one man to forgive another. That was the duty of God. For men to pretend such mercy was an idle pride and a lack of respect. He did not desire any such mercy for himself. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 2ea20c2 | fy kl ywm tbd' 'mwr jdyd@,wlknh jmy`h tnthy `jl 'w ajl. | José Saramago | ||
| f7acc06 | I'm your tutor, sleazebag, not your Pussycat Doll. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 82defed | lwjwd l'shy tkwn fy Hj@ lshyy'yn : 'n yrh lnsn , w 'n yTlq `lyh sman. | José Saramago | ||
| c76de2c | It's fine." Brett shrugged, suppressing the urge to say something like, "The drugs are okay, but the sex is lousy." But she didn't want her suddenly nun-like sister to have a heart attack before Brett got a chance to pump her for information." | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 7392c09 | History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities. | Rajiv Chandrasekaran |