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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 94f37d5 | I guess I'm the kind of person who likes to be part of something so much that I won't care if the something is bad. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| d52ac86 | But I'm the kind of person who actually likes feeling a little bit out of place. Aspirational is how I feel comfortable. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| c54aaaf | Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 10fe9df | There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. | Nancy Milford | ||
| 39ad4a0 | Que isso foi o que sempre me invocou, o senhor sabe: eu careco de que o bom seja bom e o ruim ruim, que dum lado esteja o preto e do outro o branco, que o feio fique bem apartado do bonito e a alegria longe da tristeza! Quero os todos pastos demarcados... Como e que posso com este mundo? | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 527c563 | Vida" e nocao que a gente completa seguida assim, mas so por lei duma ideia falsa. Cada dia e um dia." | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| c26cf26 | quando e que a velhice comeca, surgindo de dentro da mocidade. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| fc147e1 | Tudo o que ja foi, e o comeco do que vai vir, toda a hora a gente esta num compito. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 0870d42 | What does separation look like? A wall? A wave? A body of water? A ripple of light or a shimmer of subatomic particles, parting? What does it feel like to push through? Her fingers press against the rag surface of her dream, recognize the tenacity of filaments and know that it is paper about to tear, but for the fibrous memory that still lingers there, supple, vascular, and standing tall. The tree was past and the paper is present, and yet .. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 9081b2e | Old Jiko says that nowadays we young Japanese people are heiwaboke.112 I don't know how to translate it, but basically it means that we're spaced out and careless because we don't understand about war. She says we think Japan is a peaceful nation, because we were born after the war ended and peace is all we can remember, and we like it that way, but actually our whole lives are shaped by the war and the past and we should understand that. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| acc5625 | It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| c77e6fc | Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| c0f90b9 | And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever? | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| a070c40 | I don't hate anybody. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 8535bc6 | No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 65e69ac | There's so much to write. Where should I start? I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this: 'You should start where you are | creativity individuality inspirational perspective present startup | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 6760aaa | It is not true, what I said before, because I hated him. He was the war criminal, and after the war they hanged him. I was so happy I wept for joy when I heard he was dead. Then I shave my head and took the vow to stop hating. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| a50e2e2 | A wave is born from deep conditions of the ocean...A person is born from deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and rolls along like a wave, until it is time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| f5334e0 | To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array. | japanese life meditation physics quantum-mechanics science sense-of-self spirituality | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 496fde0 | I'm a novelist," Ruth said. "I can't help it. My narrative preferences are all I've got." | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 909afe9 | As she stared at the restless pixels on the screen, her impatience grew. This agitation was familiar, a paradoxical feeling that built up inside her when she was spending too much time online, as though some force was at once goading her and holding her back. How to describe it? A temporal stuttering, an urgent lassitude, a feeling of simultaneous rushing and lagging behind. It was a horrible, stilted, panicky sensation, hard to put into wo.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 6a487ea | Maybe this is what it's like when you die. Your inbox stays empty. At first, you just think nobody's answering, so you check your SENT box to make sure your outgoing mail is okay, and then you check your ISP to make sure your account is still active, and eventually you have to conclude that you're dead. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| acbe2cb | The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the t.. | spirit tofu trash useless | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 98dcbe9 | By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame. | memory shame | ruth ozeki | |
| 753943e | Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 2cfdea1 | After a few short years (fifteen, to be exact -- brief by his count, interminable by hers), surrounded by all this vegetative rampancy, she was feeling increasingly unsure of herself. She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. As a novelist she needed this. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, d.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 90d1e79 | she turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 74ba7d3 | There's nothing like realizing that you don't have much time left to stimulate your appreciation for the moments of your life. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 11e2e0e | On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see its way home. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| f0569d0 | I think it's important to have clearly defined goals in life, don't you? Especially if you don't have a lot of life left. Because if you don't have clear goals, you might run out of time, and when the day comes, you'll find yourself standing on the parapet of a tall building, or sitting on your bed with a bottle of pills in your hand, thinking, Shit! I blew it. If only I'd set clearer goals for myself! I'm telling you this because I'm actua.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| f6e6511 | You get more misanthropic every day. - I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper. | Richard Russo | ||
| 3e82330 | Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He'd been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and pathetically unable to cope once they started to go wrong. | Richard Russo | ||
| f1ad91b | By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference. | Richard Russo | ||
| eda13b6 | He clearly regarded finding the glove compartment locked now as a disappointing development. Like arriving someplace for dinner, assuming you'd be welcome, and finding your place setting in the cupboard. | Richard Russo | ||
| 90adbf2 | Non basta una vita "One life isn't enough" | Richard Russo | ||
| e98e126 | Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money." | money pope | Richard Russo | |
| 96efcca | Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel. | Richard Russo | ||
| 56445af | imagination without energy remains inert... | Richard Russo | ||
| 2e53975 | For people who dealt largely in dreams, his father was fond of observing, realtors were a surprisingly unromantic bunch, like card counters in a Vegas casino. | Richard Russo | ||
| e3859f0 | He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company. | Richard Russo | ||
| 0a42f18 | Mr. Purty has cheered me up. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding... (Richard Russo, Straight Man) | Richard Russo | ||
| 9b77eea | Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque. | Richard Russo | ||
| 2c299a9 | These are not men of great imagination, but one can hardly blame them for not being prepared for this particular contingency, the sight of a tweet-jacketed, tenured, middle-aged, senior professor and department chair in a fake nose and glasses, brandishing a live, terrified goose... (Richard Russo, Straight Man) | Richard Russo | ||
| ea9a362 | Hell, at twenty, he'd been ready to junk everything and start over too. But now, at sixty, he was less willing to throw things away that could be patched together and kept running for a few more months. He wanted to keep going forward, not stop and turn around and analyze the validity of decisions made and courses charted long ago. | Richard Russo |