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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 59882d7 | Harry had loved most of the arts long enough to know that artists had to be excused failings which would condemn the general population. The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price. Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance, at the door while they worked. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 39f7ff7 | Beauty is the promise of happiness . . . | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 14d9b46 | Does sex make life worth living? Didn't you say, the other day, 'Our lives are only as good as our orgasms'? | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| c11173e | l`lh mn lkhT' 'n `dm m`rf@ lmr bl'shy lyrwtyky@ wlrGb@ ldnywy@ ts`d fy qtl lrGb@. dh ymkn llrGb@ 'n tjd 'SGr fjw@ tsll mnh | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 661a82a | I love the razor's edge. I want to be cut open. My terror is of a bourgeois, ordinary life. I can't bear the everyday constraint. I believe that ordinariness would put out my spark, such as it is. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| ce4df02 | All sex, and indeed all pleasure, must include a poisonous drop of perversion, of devilish transgression--of evil, even--for it to be worth getting into bed for. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| b318d20 | Most people don't know how to maximize their pleasure, Harry, they sexualize their pain. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 11f2750 | A few words of criticism and I can bear a grudge for three days at a time, convinced she is plotting against me. None of this has diminished despite years of self-analysis, therapy and "writing as healing", as some of my students used to call the attempt to make at. Nothing has cured me of myself, of the self I cling to. If you asked me, I would probably say that my problems are myself; my life is my dilemmas. I'd better enjoy them, then." | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| d8cfd22 | After a bit you realize there's only one invaluable commodity. Not gold or love, but time. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 1b92555 | For him, the writer should be the very devil, a disturber of dreams and wrecker of fatuous utopias, the bringer-in of reality, and rival of God in his wish to make worlds. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 56df4b6 | But to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving one to contemplate the debris with some understanding--that is an enviable state of mind. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 4791080 | Act - make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet. | madness | Hanif Kureishi | |
| cfb2380 | Selbst die Verwandten der Beruhmten [sind] beruhmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich. | pop_culture | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 2cc1d65 | I have a rule about no material being sacred. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 33f1962 | Suicide is one way of saying you're sorry. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 87f61ae | Because it is about that which we can't be prepared for--the great test we men have passed before, but have no way of knowing we will pass again. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 78cb3f3 | I'd send Eleanor a dignified note. Then I'd have to fall out of love with her. That was the rough part. Everything in life is organized around people falling in love with each other. Falling is easy; but no one tells you how to fall out of love. I didn't know where to begin. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| a5fa575 | He would enjoy women more, she had informed him, if he understood their clothes. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 405fa8a | A xente boa veu ao mundo para foderse, a mala anda por ai pisando forte. (p. 166). | Manuel Rivas | ||
| cd0d05d | Aunque as follas sexan moitas, a raiz e so unha. (p. 185). | Manuel Rivas | ||
| 4ef28ea | When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it. | Manuel Rivas | ||
| 7e66bde | See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in .. | life war | Manuel Rivas | |
| cd84944 | La justicia pertenece al campo de las fuerzas del alma. Y por eso puede brotar en los lugares menos propicios, pues cuando la llamamos, alli acude, a veces con la venda en los ojos pero alenta al oido, desde no se sabe muy bien donde, como una cosa anterior a jueces y acusados, incluso a las propias leyes escritas | el-lápiz-dek-carpintero historical humanity justice laws terms | Manuel Rivas | |
| 2bd0661 | Espana! E escoitaronse so as voces das autoridades e dos gardas: Unha! Espana! Os presos seguian en silencio. Berraron os mesmos: Grande! Espana! E enton atronou toda a prision: Libre! | freedom | Manuel Rivas | |
| 43c01a7 | Her hand traces down the zipper line and I say, "Slow." Because this is not a rush. This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening. And this is ours." -- | Rachel Cohn David Levithan | ||
| cbaa17b | Little Jang Li-Li, eight years old, misting the orchids in the Room of a Thousand Fountains. A bright day, sunlight pouring through transparisteel panels, Li-Li making puffs of water with her mister and shrieking with laughter as every little cloud she made broke a sunbeam into colors, fugitive bars of red and violet and green. Master, Master, I'm making rainbows! Those colors hadn't come to mean military signals, yet, or starship navigatin.. | Sean Stewart | ||
| 9bb62c4 | He noticed Miss Bettie was wearing a watch, a steel Rolex with diamond chips. "What time is it?" he asked. Miss Bettie glanced at him and laughed. "You do seem to have difficulty remembering, don't you? Well, then, I shall tell you. It's , Joshua Cane. Always and only now." | time | Sean Stewart | |
| 3fff56a | Mothers don't cry at weddings because they're sentimental-- xxx Mothers cry because they know how hard it's going to be. | Sean Stewart | ||
| 54df7bc | Men presumably always have looked at flowers and been moved by their beauty and their smell: but only since the last century has it been possible to take a flower in your hand and know that you have between your fingers a complex association of organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and a great many other elements, in a complex structure of cells, all of which have evolved from a single cell; and to kno.. | knowledge science | Bryan Magee | |
| 8785896 | obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character," would" | Michael Korda | ||
| e29562c | How do you manage for money?' I asked. I was given two simultaneous replies of 'We get by' from Ian and 'Don't ask' from Neil. I favoured Ian's reply because it had less-sinister connotations. 'Don't ask' left open the possibility that they raised funds by selling hitch-hikers into slavery. I changed the subject. | humourous | Tony Hawks | |
| b96ac9c | What followed was a great treat for me. This was Irish traditional music as I had hoped to see and hear it, spontaneous and from the heart, and not produced for the sake of the tourist industry. As I sat there with my pint in my hand, enjoying the jigs and the reels, I watched the joy in the player's faces and in those around them who tapped their feet and applauded enthusiastically. Music the joybringer. No question of being paid, or any r.. | music pub self-expression | Tony Hawks | |
| b3d45bb | Stella explained that when he had arrived, because of his English accent, she had assumed that he was me, and had asked where his fridge was. She didn't tell me what his reply was, and we can only hazard a guess, but I was impressed that he had been prepared to stay the night. It is surely a brave man who goes ahead and checks into an establishment where the first question is 'Where's your fridge?'. Especially if, as he had done, you had ar.. | humorous | Tony Hawks | |
| 0a7412c | I was on South Bank one day by the Royal Festival Hall. It was a sunny day with a bright blue sky. I was looking up at a train crossing the Hungerford Bridge. Through the train I could see the sky successively framed by each window as the carriage passed. Each window moving quickly forward and away held briefly a rectangle of blue. The windows passing, the blue remained. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 44bb560 | There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 0ca3207 | Love me or I will kick you very hard. | Russell Hoban | ||
| cc784f1 | Mark you that and noat you wel. | Russell Hoban | ||
| cc23c23 | I wouldn't want people to judge me by what I did in my twenties. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 027d8c3 | The issue of how to cede to seduction is tortuous: too soon and one may appear unworthy, too slow and one may lose the interest of the partner. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 37fccd3 | Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape... | travel | Alain de Botton | |
| 38eca41 | We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense that it will be reassuringly familiar in its patterns of frustration. He | Alain de Botton | ||
| f496be2 | in Flaubert's eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly: | Alain de Botton | ||
| f150c1c | Neither does philosophy deny the utility of certain kinds of anxiety. After all, as successful insomniacs have long suggested, it may be the anxious who survive best in the world. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b211ec8 | Hamlet,sorunlari oldugu icin mi o kadar cok dusunuyordu? Yoksa cok fazla dusundugu icin mi sorunlari vardi? | Alain de Botton |