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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 77aed4c | What an enormous longing for a new human order there was in the era between the world wars, and what a miserable failure to live up to it.'(Arthur Koestler) | Tony Judt | ||
| ef81131 | It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was himself being sacrificed: in the precept, that the end justifies the means. . . . Perhaps later, much later, the new movement would arise--with new flags, a new spirit knowing of both: of economic fatality and the "oceanic sense." Perhaps the members of the new party will wear monks' c.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 866c980 | The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to? How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it? He who understands and forgives -- where would he find a motive to act? Where would he not? | motivation rebellion revolution russia | Arthur Koestler | |
| 4eca95b | thm@ Zhrh, hy 'shd GmwDan mn ltkhTr wlm`rf@ lmsbqh, qd Hyrt lnsn mndh fjr l'sTyr, nh dhlk lltq ldhy ybdw `rDan fy lZhr byn thntyn mn lslsl l trbT lsbbyh bynhm, fy Hdth mtwfq hw 'b`d m ykwn `n lHtml wmHml bldllh fy lwqt dhth arthr kwstlr Arthur Koestler | Allan Combs | ||
| dd1ca4b | The metre of the poet, the metronome of the musician, the centimetre of the mathematician, are all derived from the same root, metron: measure, measurement. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| e1734f5 | Our White - Whites were a mixed crowd,including a well - known doctor,owner of a chateau near Versailles,an opera singer with an enormous belly and a chaplainbass;a homosexual architect with a beard,two night club porters,and a lawyer who sold Jewish refugees visas for a Central American Republic,which on arrival turned out to be non valid. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 41b6060 | With you, thought Rubashov and looked at the whitewashed wall behind which the other stood--in the meantime he had probably lit a cigarette and was blowing the smoke against the wall -- with you I have no accounts to settle. To you I owe no fare. Between you and us there is no common currency and no common language. ... Well, what do you want now? | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 91c5bf8 | The sole object of revolution was the abolition of senseless suffering. But it had turned out that the removal of this second kind of suffering was only possible at the price of a temporary enormous increase in the sum total of the first. So the question now ran: Was such an operation justified? Obviously it was, if one spoke in the abstract of "mankind"; but, applied to "man" in the singular, to the cipher 2--4, the real human being of bon.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 6bbdaad | Hierarchies are 'dissectible' into their constituent branches, on which the holons form the 'nodes'. The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises is called its 'depth', and the number of holons on any given level its 'span'. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 6df246e | A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt; but what insignia did the figure wear on the sleeves and shoulder straps of its uniform--and in whose name did it raise the dark pistol barrel? A second, smashing blow hit him on the ear. Then all became quiet. There was the sea again with its sounds. A wave slowly lifted him up. It came from afar and travelled sedately on, a shrug of eternity. | mortality tender-indifference | Arthur Koestler | |
| fcc492d | What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment? | Walter Kirn | ||
| 4b89b3e | Bailey, a former prosecutor, attacked her credibility scattershot, an approach he would use throughout the trial, particularly with female witnesses. ... He accused her, that is--without coming out and saying it--of being a certain kind of woman: conceited, disingenuous, and dissatisfied. The universal misogynist caricature. I'd never gone in for academic gender theories, but Bailey's cross-examination strategy--with Farrar and other women .. | gender misogynist | Walter Kirn | |
| 2356acb | Thoughts are thoughts and that's all they are. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 6befa58 | She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 994287c | We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when we do there's a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 70e86b3 | It's not what you do, it's how you do it. | Cheri Huber | ||
| 695b131 | If you really want to know how you are you, simply pay attention to everything, believe nothing, and don't take anything personally. Everything is a clue. Every resistance, every little bit of miserable conditioning, every cry of helpless victimization brings you a gift of clarity, wisdom, and compassion. Don't miss any of it. | Cheri Huber | ||
| c3ab4ad | Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| dd3356d | Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| c310a7e | He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| dbcf713 | Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool? | Kohta Hirano | ||
| dd06431 | So beautiful... I can see hell. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| e498c67 | Know what?" he said. "The one I'm really mad at is God. I try not to, but the truth is, when you boil it down, he let me get cancer." "Humph," I said. "I always thought that God must trust you a lot to let you go through this." Jeff flinched. "What do you mean?" "Well, he knew you believed in him. He must have known how you would react. He trusted you to go through it." Jeff frowned. "That's a thought. He's the one giving me the strength. T.. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| b787529 | Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| a91f4e5 | What a casual way to say 'The enemy of God is after you'. | Jerry B. Jenkins | ||
| 1276649 | am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to southern India and to.. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 107f092 | At the beginning of the eighteenth century, as the British economic historian Angus Maddison has demonstrated, India's share of the world economy was 23 per cent, as large as all of Europe put together. (It had been 27 per cent in 1700, when the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's treasury raked in PS100 million in tax revenues alone.) By the time the British departed India, it had dropped to just over 3 per cent. The reason was simple: India was go.. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 439b7f5 | but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| ccea634 | Hinduism is great for encouraging social peace, because everyone basically believes their suffering in this life is the result of misdeeds in a past one... So Hinduism is the best antidote to Marxism. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 71ea504 | It was not just the maharajas who had to suffer: every Indian schoolchild must lament the influence of the British dress code on Indians--especially the tie as a permanent noose around the necks of millions of schoolchildren, in India's sweltering heat, even today. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| a90f58b | India's rape law, enshrined in the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, placed the burden of the victim to establish her 'good character' and prove that a rape had occurred, which left her open to discredit by opposing counsel. Many rapes were never reported as a result of the humiliation to which this system subjected the victims. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| dea0f48 | Alex von Tunzelmann's clever start to her book Indian Summer made my point most tellingly: 'In the beginning, there were two nations. One was a vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive swath of the earth. The other was an undeveloped, semifeudal realm, riven by religious factionalism and barely able to feed its illiterate, diseased and stinking masses. The first nation was .. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 24db533 | If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| de6f3c8 | If you should decide during your old age that you would like to live another five hundred years, come here and drink ten pounds of this sap," they told me. "But don't do it now. You're too young to decide to live forever." | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| f6385e6 | I regret always writing, writing. I gave my kid the whole plastic bag of marshmallows, so i could have 20 minutes to write. I sat at my mother's deathbed, writing. I did swab her mouth with water, and feel her pliant tongue enjoy water, then harden and die. Before I had language, before I had stories, I wanted to write. That desire is going away. I've said what I have to say. I'll stop and look at things I called distractions. Beco.. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 6bc7606 | Trong thoi dai cua su huy diet, hay tao ra mot dieu gi do. Mot bai tho. Mot cuoc dieu hanh. Mot tinh ban. Mot cong dong. Mot dia diem thuoc ve tai san chung. Mot ngoi truong. Mot loi hua. Mot nguyen tac dao duc. Mot khoanh khac yen binh. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| f9d2659 | In America my mother has eyes as strong as boulders, never once skittering off a face, but she has not learned to place decorations and phonograph needles, nor has she stopped seeing land on the other side of the oceans. Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. (1983: 59) | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 2add112 | A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow - alone in white not unlike being alone in black. She had also sailed a boat safely between land and land. | snow space | Maxine Hong Kingston | |
| eaf1ee6 | No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: no one supports me." | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 636698d | And I had to get out of hating range. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| f680073 | Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes....Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 97d238c | The villagers were speeding up the circling of events because she was too shortsighted to see that her infidelity had already harmed the village, the waves of consequences would return unpredictably, sometimes in disguise, as now, to hurt her. This roundness had to be made coin-sized so that she would see is circumference: punish her at the birth of her baby. Awaken her to the inexorable. People who refused fatalism because they could inven.. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| dde37a0 | As they walked back to the laundry, Brave Orchid showed her sister where to buy the various groceries and how to avoid Skid Row. "On days when you are not feeling safe, walk around it. But you can walk through it unharmed on your strong days." On weak days you notice bodies on the sidewalk, and you are visible to Panhandler Ghosts and Mugger Ghosts." | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 4d5d2fa | Do you think it's possible to love more than one person? At the same time?" -"I think just about anything is possible when it comes to love," | Tracey Garvis-Graves |