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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 758c410 | The dawn! The dawn, I repeated. Henry thought it was the dawn itself which was a new experience. I could not explain what I felt. It was the first time I had not felt the compulsion to escape; it was the first time I had abandoned myself to fraternity, exchange, confessions, without feeling suddenly the need to take flight. All night I had stayed there, without experiencing that abrupt end to fusion, that sudden and painful consciousness of.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| d8cd3c6 | I gave away my mystery, knowing I shouldn't, yet incapable of anything else. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| e0023c5 | I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for so many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 2eb9dfd | There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --Anais Nin | HeatherAsh Amara | ||
| 410fb24 | Anais: 'I made a note to ask you why I am obsessed with a few persons only. Why are my devotions so concentrated on a few people? I do not spread out as Henry does.' Dr. Allendy: 'Yes, exactly, it is a bad sign. You do not really confide in many people, then they do not know you, and then you quickly surmise they do not understand and love you. On the few people you feel connected with, you pour a lavish devotion. This must cease. In love, .. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| a5f4565 | Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. --D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, pg. 20 | Anaïs Nin | ||
| fde2602 | No privacy left. No manners. | book-quotes books | Anaïs Nin | |
| 6d28629 | Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts. | emotions expression jealousy security | Anaïs Nin | |
| 133dcd5 | I get furious at stairways, furious at doors, at walls, furious at everyday life which interferes with the continuity of ecstasy. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6bf02bf | and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ----Anais Nin" | Alex Myles | ||
| 8056ba5 | I have decided that if analysis is a hothouse, a hastening of wisdom and growth, nevertheless the life experience must be actually lived out and through, completely, in spite of it; everything that is lived out in the imagination is poison. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 615d7ef | He has made me lucid and sane, and I am suffering cruelly from the loss of my imaginary life. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 125c815 | She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. How are you going to tell about them? | Anaïs Nin | ||
| d47bcd6 | And please, whatever you do, don't tell us that what we do, either in love or lust, is unnatural. For one thing if what you mean by that is that animals don't do it, then you are quite simply in factual error. There are plenty of activities or qualities we could list that are most certainly unnatural if you are so mad as to think that humans are not part of nature, or so dull-witted as to believe that 'natural' means 'all natures but human .. | Stephen Fry | ||
| f1837c0 | Perhaps behind our occasional hostility toward the artist and writer there may be a slight tinge of jealousy. The man or woman who for the sake of family life, children, takes up work he does not like, disciplines himself, sacrifices some fantasy he had once, to travel or to paint, or even possibly to write, may feel toward the artist and writer a jealousy of his adventurous life. The artist and the writer have generally paid the full price.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6811bbf | Love never dies of a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source, it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never of natural death. --Anais Nin | Sue Johnson | ||
| c372ea1 | What if I turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from. | learning looking-back past | Wallace Stegner | |
| 4d1c33f | That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think." | exaggeration metaphors mythology writing | Wallace Stegner | |
| 8062a93 | she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye." | language | Wallace Stegner | |
| 71ee411 | What the disorderly crave above everything is order, what the dislocated aspire to is location. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 570dec5 | Where do I belong in this country? Where is home? | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 442dcdb | Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing. | motivation poverty writing | Wallace Stegner | |
| 903132d | Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me? | Wallace Stegner | ||
| ab77c88 | A poet is somebody who has written a poem. | poet | Wallace Stegner | |
| efc7e7f | Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product . | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 8dc2158 | Perceptions trained in another climate and another landscape have had to be modified. That means we have had to learn to quit depending on perceptual habit. Our first and hardest adaptation was to learn all over again how to see. Our second was to learn to like the new forms and colors and light and scale when we had learned to see them. Our third was to develop new techniques, a new palette, to communicate them. And our fourth, unfortunate.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 093db34 | The Cypress Hills massacre,...one of the final outrages of the literally lawless West...came...along that practical and symbolic divide, between the Canadian system of monopoly trading and the American system of competition, whiskey, bullets, exploitation, and extermination. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 85cc30d | Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life. | reading-motivation | Wallace Stegner | |
| cef7f0e | I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth. | convention culture grandparents progress tribalism | Wallace Stegner | |
| 6e3a78b | In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places. | memory public-history | Wallace Stegner | |
| aab642c | A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 7327d03 | The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| cbb511b | I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou. I tried to give him a code to live by. He wanted not one scrap of it, he didn't agree with a single value that I held. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 7714f96 | I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption. His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| d145720 | Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization. | civilization heartbeat poetry rocky-mountains rough roughness west | Wallace Stegner | |
| df2eb3c | He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 8fc7949 | When we're young, we take so casually every sacrifice offered by the old. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 6114d6a | As moonlight unto sunlight is that desert sage to other greens. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 8412dd2 | There are further considerations I might raise. How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? What are the things that novelists seize upon and readers expect? Where is the high life, the kinky sex, the death wish? Where are the suburban infidelities, the promiscuities, the convulsive divorces, the alcohol, the drugs, the lost weekends? Where are the hatreds, the political ambitions, the lust for power? Where .. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 3c2202e | Good fortune, contentment, peace, happiness have never been able to deceive me for long. I expected the worst, and I was right. So much for the dream of man. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 5db5f43 | A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| f596647 | Security is a big and serious deal, but it's also largely a solved problem. That's why the average person is quite willing to do their banking online and why nobody is afraid of entering their credit card number on Amazon. At 37signals, we've devised a simple security checklist all employees must follow: 1. All computers must use hard drive encryption, like the built-in FileVault feature in Apple's OS X operating system. This ensures that a.. | Jason Fried | ||
| 8225475 | Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done. | Jason Fried | ||
| af41de0 | 40-hour weeks are made of 8-hour days. And 8 hours is actually a long time. It takes about 8 hours to fly direct from Chicago to London. Ever been on a transatlantic flight like that? It's a long flight! You think it's almost over, but you check the time and there's still 3 hours left. Every day your workday is like flying from Chicago to London. But why does the flight feel longer than your time in the office? It's because the flight is un.. | Jason Fried |