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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d49a98d | No one would have liked that. Maybe I liked it even less. Here we go again, I said to myself. I said this so distinctly in my head that I heard it as well as said it. As if I was quite used to finding someone with no sense of boundaries in my space, fiddling with my things and breaking most of them. Here we go again | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 354b041 | I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. | choices | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| fb3feb1 | I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved, or its memory is (it must have changed a lot). Our visions coincided--'visions' is too serious a word--our looks, two looks: art 'copying from life' and life itself, life and the memory of it so compressed they've turned into each other. Which is which? Li.. | life life-and-living memory | Elizabeth Bishop | |
| 41a3c92 | Then I put the hot barrel beneath my chin. "No." Zoeller lurched toward me, eyes wide. "No, Laney." I curled my finger around the trigger and he froze. I could see his white sclera. I'd never seen him frightened. I was only half-serious but his fear made it feel suddenly real. "Don't," he said. "This is all I want. It's all I can think about." "It's defeat. You're too strong for this." "No I'm not." I laughed, the muzzle digging into the so.. | Leah Raeder | ||
| 770560d | Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy. Most of all it exhibits to us the connection, in human beings, of clear realistic vision with compassion. The realism of a great artist is not a photographic realism, it is essentially both pity and justice. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 2d35773 | Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 2703805 | There are mysterious agencies of the human mind which, like roving gases, travel the world, causing pain and mutilation, without their owners having any full awareness, or even any awareness at all, of the strength and the whereabouts of these exhalations... So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all.. | interaction mind | Iris Murdoch | |
| 6777a5e | Today there is a pleasant very light haze over the whole sky, and the sea has a misleadingly docile silvered look, as if the substantial wavelets were determined to stroke the rocks as hard as they could without showing any trace of foam. It is a compact radiant complacent sort of sea, very beautiful. There ought to be seals, the waves themselves are almost seals today, but still I scan the water in vain with my long-distance glasses. Enorm.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| fb81042 | I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.' 'Oh Christ !' 'But, Bradley, you mustn't reject people,you musn't just write them of. You must be curious about them. Curiosity is kind of charity.' 'I don't think curiosity is a kind of charity. I think it's a kind of malice.' 'That's what makes a writer, knowing the details.' 'It may make your kind of writer. It doesn't make mine.' 'Here we go again,' said Arnold. 'Why pile up a jumble o.. | philosophy writing | Iris Murdoch | |
| febc086 | I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself? | cars driving women | Iris Murdoch | |
| c9167d8 | When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 66a86ff | And all this time I was keeping my eyes open, or trying to, only they kept closing, because I wanted to go on watching the stars, where the most extraordinary things were happening. A bright satellite, a man-made star, very slowly and somehow carefully crossed the sky in a great arc, from one side to the other, a close arc, one knew it was not far away, a friendly satellite slowly going about its business round and round the globe. And then.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 62bb2e1 | I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's . I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner. | iris-murdoch left-out metaphor misery outsider sad single the-message-to-the-planet unloved | Iris Murdoch | |
| 8639c6b | One might have all sorts of reasons for avoiding people. It's none of our business. | avoidance iris-murdoch misanthropic reclusive the-green-knight | Iris Murdoch | |
| f2f38de | You don't respect me," said Dora, her voice trembling. "Of course I don't respect you," said Paul. "Have I any reason to? I'm in love with you, unfortunately, that's all." "Well, it's unfortunate for me too," said Dora, starting to cry." | Iris Murdoch | ||
| b9a97cb | Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell." "Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!" "I can't. I'm hell, myself." | depressed dialogue hell iris-murdoch release suffering suicidal the-sea-the-sea trapped | Iris Murdoch | |
| b50c6ba | Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope. | determined eyes giving-up hopeless iris-murdoch the-sea-the-sea | iris murdoch | |
| 9aa16a7 | What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn? | light the-green-knight torment withdrawal | Iris Murdoch | |
| 631f4d6 | To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 3b2b9a4 | There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 50c211b | Waiting in fear is surely one of the most awful of human tribulations. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 46667c3 | I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 4f8e9cb | You know what. You've killed me and sent me to hell, and you must descend to the underworld to find me and make me live again. If you don't come for me, I'll become a demon and drag you down into the dark. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| dd99b27 | You've got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| e7be3f7 | You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 221abea | I crave for love, everybody does . . . and I've never had a bloody crumb of it--and I've given so much love to people--I can really love people, I can, I let them walk over me--but nobody's ever loved me. | iris-murdoch love sad the-black-prince unloved unreciprocated-love unrequited-love | Iris Murdoch | |
| a3ec577 | Life is a series of complications. We have to deal with each one as it comes. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 548c546 | There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. | Tom Morris | ||
| d1e8f95 | I had this guy's file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado." Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction. "Did you say Desperado?" I couldn't stop the snort of laughter that bubbled to the surface. "Yeah," the Director confirmed. "He changed his name when he turned eighteen. It was Melvin." I was still laughing. "'Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin." | fantasy fiction humor joseph-carter keepers novella timeless-series tom-morris ya | Laura Kreitzer | |
| 7e2126a | If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something. | choices decisions right role warhol wrong | Andy Warhol | |
| 928e9cc | Buying is much more American than thinking. | Andy Warhol | ||
| 87b14e8 | The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in. | Andy Warhol | ||
| 04ad91c | Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television - you don't feel anything. Right when I .. | Andy Warhol | ||
| d15e369 | Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say. | Andy Warhol | ||
| bfc99db | The subject matter is perhaps best characterized as "the subjective quality of experience." When we perceive, think, and act, there is a whir of causation and information processing, but this processing does not usually go on in the dark. There is also an internal aspect; there is something it feels like to be a cognitive agent. This internal aspect is conscious experience. Conscious experiences range from vivid color sensations to experien.. | David J. Chalmers | ||
| 80dce66 | Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| f166743 | Human knowledge progresses when people recognize that they may be wrong even on issues that seem certain to them. Wisdom involves openness to those who disagree with us. It is only when our ideas have been subjected to criticism and all objections considered--if necessary seeking these objections out--that we have any right to think of our judgement as better than another's. | Nigel Warburton | ||
| a7971e5 | justice hath no meaning lest it be tempered with mercy."26" -- | William Irwin | ||
| 7a80554 | The computer-simulated dreamworld of the Matrix trilogy is a technological version of Descartes's evil demon. In essence it represents the idea of a mind (the Architect) more powerful than our own that is intent on deceiving us whenever, and however, it sees fit. | matrix | William Irwin | |
| 5839b0b | Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to bel.. | believe darkness debate equal falsehood feel feeling freedom heart light meaning nonsense optimism optimists plan plans public reason scheme schemes truth unreason vitality | Roger Scruton | |
| 943c76c | Conservatism and conservation are two aspects of a single long-term policy, which is that of husbanding resources and ensuring their renewal. These resources include the social capital embodied in laws, customs and institutions; they also include the material capital contained in the environment, and the economic capital contained in a free but law-governed economy. According to this view, the purpose of politics is not to rearrange society.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 4bfafd7 | Given that Europe's legacy to the world consists in the two great goods of Christianity and democracy it is hardly surprising if the EU no longer has the endorsement of the European people, even if it has created a network of clients upon whose support it can always rely. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 9d08ab3 | When, in the works of Lacan, Deleuze and Althusser, the nonsense machine began to crank out its impenetrable sentences, of which nothing could be understood except that they all had "capitalism" as their target, it looked as though Nothing had at last found its voice." | Roger Scruton | ||
| 9696b3a | The first axiom of Marx Scientist is that everything they tell you is a lie. The second axiom is that it doesn't matter, since you are lying too. The third axiom is 'Kill all liars! | Roger Scruton |