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| 589c0cd | A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the speedometer begins to lose ground. The man glances in his mirror at the girl, a little anxiously as if this oncoming town were some kind of test to be met. An illuminated road sign flashes by: CAUTION! MAIN STREET AHEAD - SLOW UP The man nods grimly, as if agreeing with that first word. But not in the way it i.. | night small-town small-town-life small-towns | Cornell Woolrich | |
| 252559d | One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas. The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying. ("New York Blu.. | insanity mental-illness | Cornell Woolrich | |
| 18bae26 | He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back it was to BLACK MASK and the other detective magazines with a curious and terrible fiction which had never been seen before in the genre markets; Hart Crane and certainly Hemingway were writing of people on the edge of their emotions and their possibilit.. | crime crime-fiction crime-thriller dashiel-hammett detective detective-fiction detective-noir detective-novel detective-novels detective-stories detectives ernest-hemingway f-scott-fitzgerald francois-truffaut hart-crane jean-paul-sartre mystery mystery-and-crime-drama mystery-suspense mystery-thriller noir noir-fiction raymond-chandler sartre truffaut | Barry N. Malzberg | |
| 03fc635 | He's prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There's a shiny streak down one side of his face. "I shouldn't have let her go ahead - I ought to be hung! Something's gone wrong. I can't stand this any more!" he says with a choked sound. "I'm starting now -" "But how are you -" "Spring for it and fire as I go if they try to stop me." And then as he barges out, the fat lady waddling solicitously after him, "Stay there; take .. | chase crime gun gunplay mob mobsters noir | Cornell Woolrich | |
| b2baedf | He just lingers long enough to see his plane put to bed properly, then grabs a cab at the airport-gate. "The Settlement" and forgetting that he's not inland any more, that Shanghai's snappier than Chicago, "Chop-chop." "Sure, Mike," grins the slant-eyed driver. "Hop in." A change has come over the city since he went away, he can feel that the minute they hit the outskirts, clear the congested native sections, and cross the bridge into the.. | Cornell Woolrich | ||
| 060b1fc | I believe passionately in edutainment--whether in front of a business audience, a classroom of students or a crowd of parishioners at church. Laughter | Paco Underhill | ||
| 02de239 | El arte en general, y la literatura en particular, son armas poderosas contra el Mal y el Dolor. Las novelas no los vencen (son invencibles), pero nos consuelan del espanto. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 2ba135d | we always feel our reality isn't enough. So we consume drugs and give ourselves artificial memories; we want to escape from the confinement of our lives. But I assure you that the only way to resolve the conflict is to learn to accept it and find your own place in the world. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 0a83286 | Pero ya digo que la recuperacion no existe: no es posible volver a ser quien eras. Existe la reinvencion, y no es mala cosa. Con suerte, puede que consigas reinventarte mejor que antes. A fin de cuentas, ahora sabes mas. | Rosa Montero | ||
| c249c65 | I taka, sama s'm i mi kharesva. Sled tolkova mnogo godini na s'zhitelstvo, sega v'zvr'shcham doma si s's s'shchiia plam, s koito kolonialnite strani v'zvr'shchat nezavisimostta si ot imperiite. Sega az s'm printsesata na svoia khol, tsaritsa na spalniata si i imperatritsa na chasovete si. Ostaviam v bezporiad'k diskovete, koito slusham, cheta do pet sutrinta i iam, kogato mi se iade. Da zhiveesh s niakogo, znachi da otst'pvash. Znachi da se.. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 06cc81f | Em seu precioso ensaio , Nuria Amat propoe aos escritores uma pergunta cruel que consiste em decidir entre duas mutilacoes, duas catastrofes: se, por alguma circunstancia que nao vem ao caso, voce tivesse que escolher entre nunca mais escrever ou nunca mais ler, o que escolheria? Nestes ultimos anos, formulei esta inquietante questao, na base da brincadeira, a quase todos os autores com quem me encontrei pelo mundo afora e descobri duas co.. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 55591c4 | Ya se sabe que sufrir de mal de amores es como marearse en un barco: a la gente tu estado le parece divertido, pero tu te sientes morir. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 858a46a | En los castillos medievales, en el enigmatico Machu Picchu, en las vetustas piramides de Egipto: la piel siempre tuvo que ser la piel y el ansia, el ansia. | Rosa Montero | ||
| 4ae6c09 | todo socialismo, al poner en marcha la planificacion economica, al acabar con la competencia y la propiedad privada, establece automaticamente un mecanismo que a la corta o a la larga liquida el pluralismo politico y las libertades, lo quieran o no los planificadores. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 9096f30 | d'lg na sl'ntseto e da sveti, kakvo da se pravi, ako vse pak tova predizvika pozhar? | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 3e6f795 | Eramos mas que enamorados, Gee. Hermanos, complices. Las dos caras de una moneda. Asi de unidos. Tu fuiste muchas cosas para mi. La madre que perdi a los nueve anos. Los amigos que nunca tuve. Contigo me senti siempre mejor que con mis propios hermanos. Me dabas confianza, seguridad en la vida, alegria. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 8d327cb | Trujillo podia hacer que el agua se volviera vino y los panes se multiplicaran, si le daba en los cojones | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 3e41c74 | He undressed and, wearing slippers and a robe, went to the bathroom to shave. He turned on the radio. They read the newspapers on the Dominican Voice and Caribbean Radio. Until a few years ago the news bulletins had begun at five. But when his brother Petan, the owner of the Dominican Voice, found out that he woke at four, he moved the newscasts up an hour. The other stations followed suit. They knew he listened to the radio while he shaved.. | mario vargas llosa | ||
| 67af17e | el primer dia que pudo ponerse de pie a los pocos pasos se desplomo al suelo, exhausto, en un estado de debilidad que no recordaba haber sentido antes. | ponerse-en-pie | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 05ce0bf | No lo entiendes, Urania. Hay muchas cosas de la Era que has llegado a entender; algunas, al principio, te parecian inextricables, pero, a fuerza de leer, escuchar, cotejar y pensar, has llegado a comprender que tantos millones de personas, machacadas por la propaganda, por la falta de informacion, embrutecidas por el adoctrinamiento, el aislamiento, despojadas de libre albedrio, de voluntad y hasta de curiosidad por el miedo y la practica d.. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 1521d1d | Aqui cambian las personas, teniente, nunca las cosas. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 5b5ccad | slr azdy khd nyst; shyTn an `Sy wlyn st! | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 475f108 | The naive idea that, through education, one can transmit culture to all of society is destroying 'higher culture', because the only way of achieving this universal democratization of culture is by impoverishing culture, making it ever more superficial. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 5fd102f | Que suerte tenian aquellos para quienes la existencia del ser supremo no habia sido nunca un problema, sino una certeza gracias a la cual el mundo se les ordenaba y todo encontraba su explicacion y razon de ser. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| a780d7f | Mas don Rigoberto sabia que nao havia outro remedio, tinha que se resignar e esperar. Provavelmente as unicas brigas do casal ao longo de todos os anos que estavam juntos foram causadas pelos atrasos de Lucrecia sempre que iam sair, para onde fosse, um cinema, um jantar, uma exposicao, fazer compras, uma operacao bancaria, uma viagem. No comeco, quando comecaram a morar juntos, recem-casados, ele pensava que sua mulher demorava por mera ina.. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 1688ac5 | Cu toate acestea, jocul de-a literatura nu e unul inofensiv. Rod al unei intime insatisfactii fata de viata asa cum este, fictiunea e la randul ei prilej de nemultumire, de frustrare. Iar asta se intampla fiindca cel ce, prin lectura, traieste o mare fictiune revine la viata reala cu o sensibilitate mult mai ascutita fata de limitarile si imperfectiunile ei, afland din acele marete fantezii ca lumea reala, viata traita sunt infinit mai medi.. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 8134c71 | Because happiness was temporal, individual, in exceptional circumstances twofold, on extremely rare occasions tripartite, and never collective, civic. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| c175b49 | La sua cecita intellettuale non gli permetteva di capire che questi fratelli, con istinto sicuro, hanno orientato la loro rivolta verso il nemico primo della liberta: il potere. E qual e il potere che li opprime, che nega loro il diritto alla terra, alla cultura, all'uguaglianza? Non e forse la Repubblica? E se sono armati per combatterla cio significa che hanno indovinato anche il metodo, l'unico che posseggono gli sfruttati per spezzare l.. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 343e49e | Solo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho, llevarla a un cine, encerrarse con ella en cualquier parte. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| f852796 | La nature, d'elle-meme, quand nous la laissons faire, se tire doucement du desordre ou elle est tombee. | Molière | ||
| 424f340 | He quoi ? vous ne ferez nulle distinction Entre l'hypocrisie et la devotion? Vous les voulez traiter d'un semblable langage, Et rendre meme honneur au masque qu'au visage, Egaler l'artifice a la sincerite, Confondre l'apparence avec la verite, Estimer le fantome autant que la personne, Et la fausse monnaie a l'egal de la bonne ? Les hommes la plupart sont etrangement faits ! Dans la juste nature on ne les voit jamais ; La raison a p.. | Molière | ||
| 4fc4569 | It was our passion for words and our ardent desire to write that drew me and Michael together, and the same that drove us apart. Michael wanted to be a great playwright, like the former master Moliere. He had high ambitions and scorned what I wrote as frivolous and feminine. 'All these disguises and duels and abductions,' he said contemptuously, one day a year or so after our affair began, slapping down the pile of paper covered with my spr.. | love writing | Kate Forsyth | |
| ab780de | I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same. | Molière | ||
| 72707a2 | Like Moliere's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'. | george-boole jean-baptiste-poquelin logic m-jourdain math mathematics molière nature reasoning science study | Ernest Nagel | |
| af92b04 | I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered! | Molière | ||
| 204249f | Tartuffe: For heaven's sake! Before you speak, I pray you take this handkerchief. Dorine: Whatever do you mean? | tartuffe | Molière | |
| 4cc1898 | Soit qu'on fasse bien ou soit qu'on fasse mal, on est toujours paye de meme sorte. | Molière | ||
| 579cce9 | Mais la grande marque d'amour, c'est d'etre soumis aux volontes de celle qu'on aime. | Molière | ||
| 4286bde | Et puis quoi, qu'importe la culture ? Quand il a ecrit Hamlet, Moliere avait-il lu Rostand ? Non. | Pierre Desproges | ||
| b34dc82 | Il faut qu'il ait tue bien des gens pour s'etre fait si riche. | Molière | ||
| 67e1d91 | Her first love, her first lover, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6710fb5 | l'Tfl l`ur@ yDHkwn, k'nm lrjl ln yltqT lSwr@ thm b`d dhlk ytrkhm wHdhm lmSyrhm | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 47c5814 | Do it together. Remember in primary school we learned that a verb is a 'doing' word? Well, a father is as much a verb as a mother. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bd1ce84 | He said "see" as if it meant something more than what one did with one's eyes." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |