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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb3d940 | With the use of a map, I could walk from Paris to Calcutta; without a map, I might find myself in Odessa. Well, if we had a similar 'map' of the human mind, a man could explore all the territory that lies between death and mystical vision, between catatonia and genius. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 7871f70 | If you say that everything--chaos, darkness, anathema-- can be reduced to mathematical formulae--then man will go insane on purpose to have no judgement, and to behave as he likes. I believe this because it appears that man's whole business is to prove that he is a man and not a cog-wheel... And perhaps, who knows, the striving of man on earth may consist in this uninterrupted striving for something ahead, that is, in life itself rather tha.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 910ab25 | l'mrD l`Sby@ hy l'mrD lty tnsh' mn lyqZ@ l'kthr mm hw mTlwb. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 6c23fec | I've read Joyce and Sartre and Beckett and the rest, and every atom in me rejects what they say. They strike me as liars and fools. I don't think they're dishonest so much as hopelessly tired and defeated. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 3bee110 | mn lmstHyl `l~ mn kn fy lsds@ `shr@ mn `mrh 'n ytbyn 'nh fy GDwn khms snwt ln ykwn fy lwHd@ wl`shryn, wnm fy lthlthyn. thm fy lkhms@ wlthlthyn b`d `m wHd. thm fy l'rb`yn b`d st@ 'shhr. n sr`@ lzmn ttzyd ldrj@ tkhd`n. | Colin Wilson | ||
| bb341d0 | nTlqt l~ lHy@ mthl rjl l jld lh, mrt`shan mn lshmy'zz klm kn `ly 'n 'Htk bwHd mn lns. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 1779d59 | Imagine that a tribe of ignorant natives find a motor-car, and decide that it makes an ideal storage room for food. So when they set out on a journey, they load it with food, attach ropes to it, and pull it through the jungle as if it was a cart. One of them fiddling about inside it, discovers the hand brake and releases it. Immediately, they find the car much easier to pull. They congratulate the discoverer, tell him he is a genius, and co.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| f270e0a | Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia, Hermann Hesse's Glimpse Into Chaos, Edmund Husserl's The Crisis in European Science, Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind, Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, Jose Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses, Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, Rene Guenon's The Reign of Quantity, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Colin Wi.. | Gary Lachman | ||
| 46d096d | Tell me, Briny," Natalie said, "are you still having fun?" He looked around at the noisy, crowded, evil-smelling ward, where the Polish women were helplessly bringing new life into a city which was being dynamited to death by the Germans, going through unpostponable birth pangs with the best care the dying city could give them. "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." | Herman Wouk | ||
| a7a1813 | Seventeen days before the end of the war, the minesweeper Caine finally swept a mine. | Herman Wouk | ||
| b5e57c9 | Your country baffles me: a luxurious unharmed lotus land in which great hordes of handsome dynamic people either wallow in deep gloom, or play like overexcited children, or fall to work like all the devils in hell, while the press steadily drones detestation of the government and despair of the system. I don't understand how America works, any more than Frances Trollope or Dickens did, but it's an ongoing miracle of sorts. | Herman Wouk | ||
| ac58634 | Can't stop a Nazi with a lawbook. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 0e5bfbc | Of course the Russians under Zhukov were | Herman Wouk | ||
| 3cc0955 | dithyramb coming to majestic life: a swarm of fresh seapower | Herman Wouk | ||
| a833248 | Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. He was less free than before. He developed the apprehensive listening ears of a young mother; the ears listened on in his sleep; he never quite slept, not the way he had before. | Herman Wouk | ||
| bc7cc56 | don't make the mistake of skipping the Old Testament. It's the core of all religion, I | Herman Wouk | ||
| 8e4e704 | Please tell Field Marshal Goring for me, to stick his Swiss bank account up his fat ass. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 79ade53 | Sir, my inferior understanding prevents my grasping the unquestionable soundness of the mission. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 6902b15 | There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. --SIR WILLIAM OSLER | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| edc70ad | The line came from a legend about a hunter who was relating an experience he had on safari. "This huge lion was racing toward me, and all my gun bearers had fled. I had no gun, and there was nowhere to hide. Not a bush or a tree in sight. And the beast was charging straight at me, coming closer and closer." "How did you escape?" a listener asked. "I ran over to the nearest tree and climbed it." "But you said there were no trees." "You don't.. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 4437929 | It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 15c574f | If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 64de060 | God will never throw anything at you that you can't handle. Just take it one step at a time. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 5467aca | They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn't think 'us' because I didn't feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them. | friends girls magical other otherness outsider | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 65e79a9 | Dirk, this is Peace, Granola, Crystal, Chi, Aura, Tahini, and the twins, Yin and Yang," Duck said. ... "They had all of us one right after the other. Me while they were into the total surf scene when they lived in Malibu, Peace and Granola during their hippie-rebel phase, and then they got more into Eastern philosophy-you know, the twins Yin and Yang." | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 3883bdb | We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world? | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| e86221b | Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that for me or not or if it was real love or just my sadness about my dad that had turned into longing. Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5f20894 | My mind is like the valley--this vast barren waste. Car lots. Malls. Tract homes. I know there are other worlds beyond it--of canyons full of coyote and monarch butterflies, squirrels, bunnies, purple and yellow wildflowers, of magical boulevards lined with palatial movie theaters and movie-star haunted mansions, of parks and palms and palisades, especially, especially of the ocean, where it all ends and everything begins. I know the rest i.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 3caf4d7 | The most beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 67e1714 | She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never remember who you are unless someone else shows it to you. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| c06c701 | It's scary to feel this much in such a dangerous world. Even if what you feel, overwhelmingly, like inhaling the precious, still-surviving existing earth, is not fear but love. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 1b83fe3 | valentine my friends stitched it up with golden thread like a red satin pillow they gave me other whole ones too roses and charms and red candles milagros to repair the real one they told me i was no longer allowed to give it away a pretty pin cushion a piece of mexican folk art a hundred beating poems left unanswered like a thing to wear around the neck they said you must heal we will protect you but i sat weeping at the computer forging a.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 71611a0 | Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| d1229cd | Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 9e36ec3 | It wasn't that shocking kind of feeling they both expected. More like a huge sigh of relief spreading through them. Like your cold, naked body falling into a soft, warm bed, under covers, into arms. The place that you knew you needed but you were afraid to even imagine for fear that it would never come. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 10d6982 | believe him when he tells you you are beautiful it will only hurt you both not to (it is true besides) | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| fe3a9f5 | Are you? What? What you once were? I can't remember. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 09327f9 | El cielo o el infierno estan en nuestra cabeza, no en las cosas materiales que poseemos. | infierno | Qiu Xiaolong | |
| 7955164 | Lies in meinen Augen, was ich dir nicht alles sagen kann. | love soul-mates | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 4e09bc1 | Grabschrift auf einen Gehenkten Hier ruht er, wenn der Wind nicht weht! | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| a37d7fb | Daja: Die Menschen sind nicht immer, was sie scheinen. Tempelherr: Doch selten Etwas Besser. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| 527df8c | Religion didn't matter to the city drunks but they knew it mattered to the village people. What the city people wanted was land. Power. But because that all sounds rather greedy and a bit crass, they made it religious and ethnic. | Bill Carter | ||
| b64bf86 | Someone who spoke English had been listening to his speeches of promised freedom and would have realized they were the drunken lies of men who have titles of power but no authority to exercise it. | Bill Carter | ||
| db7e366 | Obama was the fourth president I had worked for who said outright that he wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons (Carter, Reagan, and Bush 41 were the others). Former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former defense secretary Bill Perry, and former senator Sam Nunn had also called for "going to zero." The only problem, in my view, was that I hadn't heard the leaders of any other nuclear country--Britain, France, Russi.. | Robert M. Gates |