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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 15c970f | What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 0e4d2c4 | Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the to kill-though not the to kill. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3d88d9f | Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is wo.. | government humane law rights society unjust | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4973dc5 | After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. | apathy capitalism inevitability inspirational marxism resistance socialism | Terry Eagleton | |
| 165a805 | Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. | nihilism social-science | Cornel West | |
| 34021f1 | For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust an.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 3aef6f7 | in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around him--in that moment his whole disgust for humankind rose up again within him and completely soured his triumph, so that he felt not only no joy, but not even the least bit of satisfaction. What he had always longed for--that other people should love him--became at the moment of his achieveme.. | hatred misanthropy perfume perfumery | Patrick Süskind | |
| 5df1541 | he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 9dcce7f | You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him." | destiny emily love love-story lovers soulmate soulmates space teddy-kent | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 1fbcb23 | If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8b11f8b | I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4ca58fa | Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. | Michael Chabon | ||
| c5a507f | I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 530eaff | I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 384dab2 | She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a7c0646 | Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride." | empire-of-storms pride rowan | Sarah J. Maas | |
| e634061 | She moved like a midnight storm. Whatever training she'd had in Wendlyn, whatever that prince had taught her ... Gods help them all. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1b6bf98 | Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, | self-actualization | Walt Whitman | |
| 59e87a3 | Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? | sanity | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 173ad3f | a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 38d78c7 | You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? | Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| db5f8d7 | It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was authored by the Creator of the universe. The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology. To rely on such a document as the basis for our worldview-however heroic the efforts of redactors- i.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 296e1e8 | We are all migrants through time. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ea89338 | Ma and God God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Use your fork." God gave us voices--Ma says, "Don't scream." Ma says eat broccoli, cereal and carrots. But God gave us tasteys for maple ice cream. God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Use your hanky." God gave us puddles--Ma says, "Don't splash." Ma says, "Be quiet, your father is sleeping." But God gave us garbage can covers to crash. God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Put your gloves on." God gave us rain.. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 5f4d7ba | You're wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you're right. She isn't a phony because she's a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can't talk her out of it. | Truman Capote | ||
| 9e81523 | I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history - true or feigned- with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. | books literature | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5d9a5c9 | When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 1b1f01c | The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 78c9b00 | My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1992da9 | I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 4dc834f | The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skirts, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. There are tyrants, not Muslims. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we shoul.. | fanaticism freedom fundamentalism human-rights terrorism | Salman Rushdie | |
| a5227fd | Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 078ed4c | And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch. | Stephen Fry | ||
| 05684d7 | The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. | nazism post-factual totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | |
| 6848f7c | The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse | Bill Watterson | ||
| f8dea73 | Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime | David Mitchell | ||
| c49d6a4 | Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say 'Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 016ca93 | Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 48a4c84 | Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will spea.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 87a84c2 | So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" croaked Artemis. "And a T-shirt." | artemis-fowl jeans t-shirt | Eoin Colfer | |
| 242ae8f | You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 63ddd42 | What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. Your eyes are safe. The story is just another few hundred pages of your mind. For me, it's here. It's now. I have to go through with this, considering the cost at every turn. Nothing will be the same. | Markus Zusak | ||
| ffd9c2c | Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter! | child | Terry Pratchett | |
| d85502a | We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. | inspirational self-esteem | Elizabeth Gilbert |