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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 488ff07 | Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by the civilized man. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| d5555e8 | I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work,--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself, not for others--what no other man can ever know. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| f109ad0 | He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger; a black mist emanated from him; a subtle and dismal influence; a something cold and gloomy that floated out and settled on all the faces like a mourning veil. The circle broke up. The joy of laughter died on stiffened lips. | race-relations racism | Joseph Conrad | |
| 4580a9b | of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| c41e2c3 | hych trsy dr brbr grsngy tb nmyawrd, hych Sbry an r z byn nmybrd, jyy hm khh grsngy bshd, nfrt mwj myznd. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| df38fd9 | We could not understand, because we were too far and could not remember, | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 23c18e8 | Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 47d5c58 | A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough. For, even if the weather be thick, it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| c658a9c | Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga--perhaps too much dice, you know--coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes. Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation eit.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 6036d76 | All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| e1d0c26 | There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 707bedd | The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal experiences. In all of them the facts are inherently true, by which I mean that they are not only possible but that they have actually happened. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 323715f | The artist, wrote Joseph Conrad, "speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives." That was the art that Scott Fitzgerald would find, reminding us that a mirage may be more marvelous in its way than an oasis in the desert. Gatsby's great error is his belief in the reality of the mirage; Fitzgerald's great gift was his belief in the mirage as a mirage. "Splendor," Fitzgerald came to understand, ".. | Sarah Churchwell | ||
| 1bee67b | A horse," he once said, "is the symbol of the rider's soul." | Jay Parini | ||
| da5a707 | Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material. | educational-philosophy teaching | Jay Parini | |
| 0cfe861 | This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath." | Jay Parini | ||
| 5fd0e78 | and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not this hard, unthinking, mechanical drive toward a goal or destinations, so typical of the age itself. | Jay Parini | ||
| 9597694 | I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. So many people I work with--famous actors, accomplished writers--were overlooked in high school. Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever .. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 531740d | As a kid, I was curious but not remotely adventurous, if that makes sense. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| a0075c5 | No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum. THE | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 1136512 | The Skinny Woman Who Is Beautiful and Toned but Also Gluttonous and Disgusting Again, I am more than willing to suspend my disbelief for good set decoration alone. One pristine kitchen from a Nancy Meyers movie like "It's Complicated" compensates for five scenes of Diane Keaton being caught half naked in a topiary. But I can't suspend disbelief enough, for instance, if the gorgeous and skinny heroine is also a ravenous pig when it comes to .. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c3886ba | The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat. I mean, maybe being in a coma would be more boring, but at least then you're free to dream about all of your favorite foods. And the fact of the matter is, I don't have that much brain space to use thinking about .. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| de0ac8e | It was October 2001 and I lived in New York City. I was twenty-two. I, like many of my female friends, suffered from a strange combination of post-9/11 anxiety and height-of-Sex-and-the-City anxiety. They are distinct and unnerving anxieties. The questions that ran through my mind went something like this: Should I keep a gas mask in my kitchen? Am I supposed to be able to afford Manolo Blahnik shoes? What is Barneys New York? You're trying.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| af4abf6 | It wasn't even one of those stoic pimples that goes quietly when you pop it; this one was cystic and painful and had roots that seemed to extend into my brain. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b7ac8e4 | I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen. Other lessons: * No matter how good you have it, it's cool to want more. * Self-pity gets results. * Sometimes you can get a second chance. * Sometimes you get a third chance. * Never take a vacation. * Austin Mahone has a bright future as a singer and youth-brand spokesperson. * It's OK to drink tequila in the car if you just had a really good meeting. .. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 30c1fa4 | 10. I will never have a husband and all my female acquaintances will. 11. I WILL have a husband and he will be like my female acquaintances' husbands. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 999c0bb | It sounds odd, but cheerful is very hard to find in Los Angeles. I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 102d698 | Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we? | love relationships soulmates | Mindy Kaling | |
| 3d9513b | I don't read them; I just hit "accept." iTunes may own my ovaries, for all I know." | terms-and-conditions | Mindy Kaling | |
| 8470803 | If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it? | self self-esteem self-improvement | Mindy Kaling | |
| d7b473d | Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 8d47a16 | Is soap cool again, or is body wash still the way to go? | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 51bc1ad | I want you to picture me as a cute little anime character that popped out from behind a mushroom or something and landed in Hollywood. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| bedf990 | A not 100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| bf0f526 | Your girlfriend's sibling or parents might be totally nuts, but always defend them. Always. All a girl wants to do is to get along with her family and if you are on the side of making it easy, you will be loved eternally. It might be easier to condemn them - especially if she's doing that already - but, remarkably, even if they are murderers, she will find the good in them, especially if you start trashing them. | girlfriend in-laws parents | Mindy Kaling | |
| e1485de | Teenage girls, please don't worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I've.. | high-school mindy-kaling | Mindy Kaling | |
| e88082c | When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2641fab | I was surprised she'd heard us. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you. My sense of invisibility had made me loose-lipped. | social-invisibility unimportant | Mindy Kaling | |
| bd47f7c | I guess the lesson is that if you're going to punch someone in the face, your best bet is to punch your best friend. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 76fdc6f | I think it's a federal crime parking meters won't accept pennies. Yeah, government, we know pennies suck. But you made them! You have to accept them! Parking meters are literally one of the three things anyone uses coins for and you decide you don't want to deal with them? | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 14a4939 | And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that is why you need to be a little bit brave. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 506dc70 | Chubby: A regular-size person who could lose a few, for whom you feel affection. Chubster: An overweight, adorable child. That kid from Two and a Half Men for the first couple of years. Fatso: An antiquated term, really. In the 1970s, mean sorority girls would call a pledge this. Probably most often used on people who aren't even really fat, but who fear being fat. Fatass: Not usually used to describe weight, actually. This deceptive term i.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 50d2f7b | They say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face -- who will love them now? | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 82b03a6 | Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine. | Mindy Kaling |