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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d9b6cc9 | Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. | Sara Gruen | ||
| af43b31 | And don't miss Frank Otto, the world's most tattooed man! Held hostage in the darkest jungles of Borneo and tried for a crime he didn't commit, and his punishment? Well, folks, his punishment is written all over his body in permanent ink! | Sara Gruen | ||
| 5b935c1 | b`D l'shy fyn l tmwt bd. | Sara Gruen | ||
| aa99a0a | It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 545e374 | Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks" | humour | Sara Gruen | |
| 5b29364 | I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: | Sara Gruen | ||
| 18b8fe8 | Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head... | Sara Gruen | ||
| 3e270a3 | I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 8ea1504 | The longer I do this job, the less I like people. The species, of course," he adds grimly. "There are individuals I like just fine." | Sara Gruen | ||
| 1104276 | I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, .. | Sara Gruen | ||
| d7f1b7f | And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 32c05db | You learn, no matter what age you are, to keep things to yourself. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 70c8409 | The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, . He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that - and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych." | conceit critique diptychs grandeur novelists novels reviews self-importance writers | Colm Tóibín | |
| c2ad504 | Wait until you're old, Nora," she said, "and then you'll know. It's the mixture of being content with even the smallest thing and then feeling a great dissatisfaction with everything." | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 0ed1b1a | As they sat at the table, she did not like the girls talking among themselves, or discussing matters she knew nothing about, and she did not encourage any mention of boyfriends. She was mainly interested in clothes and shoes, and where they could be bought and at what price and at what time of the year. Changing fashions and new trends were her daily topic, although she herself, as she often pointed out, was too old for some of the new colo.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 4317cba | the problem for her was that she was on her own now and that she had no idea how to live. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 0dfd42f | On one of the nights during my journey I wandered out under the sky which was lit with stars and I believed for a moment that soon these stars would cease to glitter, that the nights of the future would be dark beyond dark, that the world itself would undergo a great change, and then I quickly came to see that the change would happen only to me and to the few who knew me; it would be only we who would look at the sky at night in the future .. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| d33e733 | So this was what being alone was like, she thought. ... It was this wandering in a sea of people with the anchor lifted, and all of it oddly pointless and confusing. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 5659357 | You never know what way life goes. Some of it makes no sense at all. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 0d50ae5 | Az ne podozirakh, che muzikata, koiato tazi noshch me izvisi i iztr'gna ot samiia men, koiato biakh v'zpriel kato veliko novo nachalo, sled desetiletie shche mi se struva sladnikava i neseriozna, nedostat'chno germanska, nedostat'chno kategorichna. B'deshcheto e kato chuzhda d'rzhava - tam vsichko se v'rshi drugoiache. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 6ebda76 | Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem. | identity karen-tei-yamashita poems poet poetry poets self stories tropic-of-orange | Karen Tei Yamashita | |
| 4033031 | Tallow was nervously aware that his name was on the worse cold-case dump CSU had ever seen. He was not looking forward to having them look at him and judge by eye exactly how much his organs might be worth on the black market. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 24d1922 | These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we're not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don't have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have. | knowledge | Warren Ellis | |
| 4a309a5 | I stood there alone in the eerily silent streets of Las Vegas and listened to my penis cry. | Warren Ellis | ||
| f290b91 | You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 91ab7c3 | The best gifts are never given, but claimed. | hard-work life-philosophy success | Warren Ellis | |
| 1cdaf3b | Our guy has a property office, John. And I don't mean the Property Office here in One PP. I mean the huge fucking storage facility. A guy in there, with access to thousands of fucking handguns. Even the ones that other people would be keeping an eye on, like Son of Sam's piece, for fuck's sake - a guy in there who'll just boost them and give them to our guy to kill people with. And if the guns are too famous, he'll cut his own slugs out of .. | Warren Ellis | ||
| a8732cd | At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. | drunkenness humor security | Warren Ellis | |
| 1be380d | Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card that read YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRANSHUMAN SECURITY WHORE! STERILIZED INNARDS! ACCEPTS ALL CREDIT CARDS to a large man who had trained attack cancers on his face and possessed seventy-five indentured Komodo Dragons instead of legs. And they had sex. Right in front of me. And six of the Komodo Dragons spat napalm on my new shoes. | cyberpunk dystopia future science-fiction sex | Warren Ellis | |
| c8ef537 | Act like you live in the Science Fiction Condition. Act like you can do magic and hold seances for the future and build a brightness control for the sky. Act like you live in a place where you could walk into space if you wanted. Think big. And then make it better. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 0920042 | I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them. | people problems spider-jerusalem | Warren Ellis | |
| b5cd2b0 | Of I don't care if you're bleeding! I'm fucking ! | Warren Ellis | ||
| c1ea208 | From his vantage, three steps back and to the right, Tallow could see Rosato's eye a good five inches outside Rosato's head and still attached to his eye socket by a mess of red worms. In that single second, Tallow abstractedly realized that in his last moment of life, James Rosato could see his killer from two different angles. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 4baafaf | The ECTs are moving the guns in small batches," Bat said. "We're making them take so many photos that one of them asked if she was being trained to shoot porno." | Warren Ellis | ||
| 30bce66 | Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston. Bat emerged from behind the thing. "Don't judge me," he said. "I got bored." | Warren Ellis | ||
| 18e3a02 | answer is simple. With one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 707f5b6 | mn ynZr ly khrjh .. yHlm wmn ynZr bdkhlh .. ystyqZ | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 98259af | Brez discipline in volje, si izgubljen kot pomorscak brez kompasa, ki na koncu potone z ladjo vred. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 778c73b | lHZ lys 'kthr mn tzwj byn l`dd wlfrS@ | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| a5824f9 | nn lsn bshran nmr btjrb@ rwHny@ , bl ky'nt rwHny@ tmr btjrb@ nsny@ | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 039cb84 | You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own. Stop feeding what doesn't serve you. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 4be8db7 | If you care for your mind, if you nurture it and if you cultivate it just like a fertile, rich garden, it will blossom far beyond your expectations. But if you let the weeds take root, lasting peace of mind and deep inner harmony will always elude you. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 7233571 | Carl Jung once said, 'Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| a756ac1 | Victims recite problems. Leaders present solutions. | Robin S. Sharma |