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| c2b2c12 | I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin .. | Billy Collins | ||
| 92630f4 | Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. | decisions evolution | Jared Diamond | |
| 1c2714f | The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a m.. | Carl Gustav Jung | ||
| 00ff25c | Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4182d76 | Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. | Herman Melville | ||
| c3c6dee | I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere. | Albert Camus | ||
| 118d003 | Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! | love marriage passion | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| 053bb95 | We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan | Amy Tan | ||
| c9bbabb | But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 79dc934 | O, full of scorpions is my mind! | William Shakespeare | ||
| 84ffc10 | I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 469f9c0 | Kaede: I know this, ungrateful dog. In order to find the sacred jewel shards, Kagome's spirtual power is essential. Yet ye made her upset with your words an sent her running home InuYasha: That was her idea! she chose to go home! She said: "I'm going home! You jerk!" | inuyasha kaede kagome manga | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| fc94a69 | invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, don't swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of the clutches of mediocrity. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you. reinvigorate yourself and accept what is but only on the terms that you have invented and reinvented. be self-taught. and reinvent your life because you must; it is .. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 47cdd17 | Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town the impossibility of being human Burroughs killing his wife with a gun Mailer stabbing his the impossibility of being human Maupassant going mad in a rowboat Dostoevsky lined up ag.. | beatiful bukowski champions cowards creatures dog glory mad soul truth | Charles Bukowski | |
| 747c721 | Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me." | romance | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 661eaee | Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 7eaf011 | Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| ae8a54a | You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road. | life tuck-everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | |
| 5b12a89 | If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things,and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of me, because you love me. I love you too, Kate. If you ever became hurt, I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want'there' to be. -Curran to Kate | curran ilona-andrews kate love magic-slays | Ilona Andrews | |
| cf07750 | I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember? | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 6d0cce7 | Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a30e8a0 | My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7dfe02a | They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 702370c | Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. | reconstruction | Margaret Mitchell | |
| c5c07d5 | To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything | John C. Maxwell | ||
| aa2b073 | Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator! | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 95ee039 | Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| a3b2938 | The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2555de1 | All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. | truth | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 0da1765 | In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| e9e306c | Some powers come more easily to others, but Matthew rocks at reading energies." "What?" I set my fork back down. "Our biology teacher is an alien? Holy crap...all I can think of is that movie The Faculty." Dee choked on her orange juice. "We don't snatch bodies." I hoped not." | katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| b2af367 | Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!" | battle blessing destiny fate fortune frank-zhang happiness happy heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades luck nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan surprise tides-have-turned turning-point | Rick Riordan | |
| c467ee1 | She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-" "No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones." "Awww." | bones collect dan-cahill humor | Rick Riordan | |
| 500b1a4 | No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple. | judging living | Tucker Max | |
| cd6a9d7 | The ones that hurt the most always say the least. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 053ccc1 | Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. | women | Margaret Atwood | |
| a802175 | Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. | self-aggrandizement | Steve Martin | |
| c672aad | In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. | love | C.S. Lewis | |
| 89c6c72 | In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. | observation | C.S. Lewis | |
| a2f7a69 | It's life that matters, nothing but life--the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. | clinging detachment discovery hippolyte | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 14ec3d2 | How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity. | future past present | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| c3a4bfb | I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, . No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships--gone. She went o.. | anonymity born-again clean-slate extinction family genocide germans misery nabokov nazis rwanda rwandan-genocide short-stories signs-and-symbols survivors | Christopher Hitchens | |
| da6e76f | We forget very easily what gives us pain. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8ffdff4 | It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct. | science | Michio Kaku |