1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
4157
4158
4159
4160
4161
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 83fb461 | she was usually keenly susceptible to weather conditions and reveled in sunshine like a kitten. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 18b2041 | What on earth are you doing in Paris?" I asked. "Bertie, old man," said Biffy solemnly, "I came here to try and forget." "Well, you've certainly succeeded." | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 162ae6f | When, sometime around my fortieth birthday, I was struck by the urge to try to write a novel, I was vastly comforted to learn that Rex Stout didn't write his first Nero Wolfe tale until he was forty-seven, and that he proceeded to write them right up to his death at the age of eighty-eight. It was considerably less comforting to learn that he typically completed a novel in thirty-eight days, and that he always got it right on the first try... | Rex Stout | ||
| ecfeaf8 | He was, for a young man, extraordinarily obese. Already a second edition of his chin had been published, | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 85a111e | Between camaraderie and love there is a broad gulf. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1b3ff9d | I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know; but give me five minutes to talk the thing over with Jeeves, and I'm game to advise any one about anything. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 9e4250c | For the last day or so there had been a certain amount of coolness in the home over a pair of jazz spats which I had dug up while exploring in the Burlington Arcade. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 960e343 | In fact, it seemed to him that he could almost hear the wedding bells ringing already. Then, coming out of his dreams, he realized that it was the telephone. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 2f18213 | Your aunt is the dearest woman in the world, and nobody could be fonder of her than I am, but I sometimes find her presence ... what is the word I want ... restrictive. She holds, as you know, peculiar views on the subject of my running around loose in London, as she puts it, and this prevents me fulfilling myself. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 1fa243d | When the anesthesia of love wears off, you suffer the pain of consequence. | heartbreak love | Amy Tan | |
| 6842ddb | Maybe the kind of love that would comfort me did not exist. Perhaps I expected too much of love and no one existed who could ever meet my unceasing and bottomless need for it. | Amy Tan | ||
| 4d5ca7d | These days I realize that faith and fate have similar effects on the believer. They suggest that a higher power knows the next move and that we are at the mercy of that force. They differ, among other things, in how you try to cull beneficence and what you do to avoid disaster. | Amy Tan | ||
| 312ec36 | But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness. | Amy Tan | ||
| 14acd7e | I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may. | Amy Tan | ||
| 759045f | We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. | Amy Tan | ||
| c067ae9 | I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity. | Amy Tan | ||
| 8a2dc07 | It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn | Amy Tan | ||
| 85691b5 | The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!--it is too beautiful to eat. | the-joy-luck-club | Amy Tan | |
| cfca417 | Avoid generalizations. As a fiction writer, I distrust absolute truths, homilies, bromides, sound bites, and also shorthand advice of the sort I'm giving. I like specifics, the longhand version of a story in which it takes four hundred pages to answer a single question about a person's character. Literary writers, unless they are writing fairly tales, learn early never to have characters who are polar opposites, one "good," the other "evil... | Amy Tan | ||
| 33c3b1a | I love my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature. | Amy Tan | ||
| 958afb7 | Writing is the witness to myself about myself. Whatever others say of me or how they interpret me is a simulacrum of their own devising. | writing | Amy Tan | |
| 0a83fdb | Being a dominatrix gave me the ultimate power: to sing without self-consciousness. | inspirational | Amy Tan | |
| 8df478a | Precious Auntie, what is our name? I always meant to claim it as my own. Come help me remember. I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm not afraid of ghosts. Are you still mad at me? Don't you recognize me? I am LuLing, your daughter. | Amy Tan | ||
| 5ec32f9 | And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody. | Amy Tan | ||
| db6d82a | Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally -.. | love morals | Amy Tan | |
| 5290c6f | Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls | teenagers | amy tan | |
| ed58c40 | If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would nowhere else to go | Amy Tan | ||
| 7db5ae5 | I ask myself, How can I relax? How can I let go of everything that's happened? You need complete trust to do that. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2abca2d | A moment is not the same as time. | Amy Tan | ||
| 4b2c133 | In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time. | Amy Tan | ||
| 85bd861 | Later they will remember those moments with you. But they are not memories of you, but the feeling they were immortal because you made them gods. | Amy Tan | ||
| dc27394 | And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before before I have a chance to know her better. | good-bye loss memory | Amy Tan | |
| ec54b90 | Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2bea519 | I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| cecb06b | In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility. | Jane Hamilton | ||
| d331c61 | I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving. | hopelessness inspiration | Jane Hamilton | |
| a690ec5 | It was raining a motherfucker. It was raining a Dostoyevsky novel. It was raining a Kurosawa film. It was raining a Trout Mask Repilca. | Corey Mesler | ||
| 3616a30 | Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 437a83e | I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 5a81b8f | Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard. I remember when there were just worms out there and they danced in moonlit cores on warm September nights. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| d03df03 | Once, while cleaning the trout before I went home in the almost night, I had a vision of going over to the poor graveyard and gathering up grass and fruit jars and tin cans and markers and wilted flowers and bugs and weeds and clods and going home and putting a hook in the vise and tying a fly with all that stuff and then going outside and casting it up into the sky, watching it float over clouds and then into the evening star. (from Trout .. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| caa394f | Toi ia pogledna v ochite. Te biakha tesni cherni vseleni, izp'lneni s priblizhavashcha mekota. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| e7d0566 | Kogato otkopcha shnolata, kosata i plisna nazad kato neprogledna noshch i udavi v mrak vrata i. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| cbd97fd | Dumite izliazokha ot ustata mu uzhasno sukhi. Vse edno ti prikazvashe pustiniata Sakhara... - Sb'rkal s'm adresa - sakharosa toi. | Richard Brautigan |