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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d9a6322 | Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 86052ef | Maybe it's not a coincidence that I've always been interested in heroes, starting with my dad, Phil Robertson, and my mom, Miss Kay. My other heroes are my pa and my granny, who taught me how to play cards and dominoes and everything about fishing (which was a lot), and my three older brothers, who teased me, beat me up, and sometimes let me follow them around. Not much has changed in that department. I've always loved movies, and when I wa.. | Jep Robertson | ||
| 1dc7b8d | A true lady could weather tragedy and heartache and keep her pride and dignity. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 9a67d83 | Omelets now or later?" she panted. "Later than what?" he asked huskily. "How hungry are you?" "For what?" She started unbuttoning his shirt at the top, stopping to admire and touch the soft hair on his chest on the way to the bottom. When she reached the last one, she tugged the tail out from behind his belt, slipped her arms around his body, and laid her cheek against his chest. "Let's make love and only use words when necessary," she.. | small-town-romance western-romance | Carolyn Brown | |
| 31cb681 | I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you. | small-town-romance western-romance | Carolyn Brown | |
| 9e50db7 | The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth." "So" -- | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 36292cd | I can't say I've been in love with you my whole life. But I can say that I intend to be for the rest of it. I don't even know when it happened, but it did. I can't get you off my mind or out of my heart. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| f8e0b85 | Daisies. They outlast roses, and they're tough little flowers. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 712a65e | There had to be more to wooing a woman than feeding cattle, minding the store, tending the bar, and sex. That wasn't a bad combination in getting to know a woman, but now that he knew Jill, he wanted to hang the moon for her, make the stars brighter, and force daisies to grow from frozen ground. | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 5017f0b | Now tell me, Sawyer O'Donnell, are you more Irish or Hispanic?" "Half and half. Love the Mexican food but also love a good Irish whiskey on occasion. They're both really good lovers, you know. Hot-blooded and stand by their women." | Carolyn Brown | ||
| ac584d0 | The point is, it seems to me that my mind is a mass of totally contradictory attitudes about everything.' 'Everyone's mind is a mass of contradictory attitudes. Why should it matter?' 'It should matter to us, surely? | Doris Lessing | ||
| dc70ce8 | You talk as if--a person is a person. A man is what he is. He can't be anything else. You can't change that.' 'Well then, I think that's the real difference between us. Because I believe you can change it.' 'Then I don't follow you. And I don't want to. Bad enough to cope with what one is, instead of complicating things even more. | Doris Lessing | ||
| d89b16b | He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures. | Doris Lessing | ||
| ab59fd9 | But we were friends all our childhood, a voice said inside her; and that other voice answered coldly, Friends are whom you choose, not the people forced on you by circumstances. And yet she was nearly crying with misery and humiliation and friendlessness, in the hot back seat of the car, while grains of sunlight danced through the fractured roof, and stung her flesh like needles. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 8073354 | Zena bez muskarca ne moze se upoznati s muskarcem, s bilo kojim muskarcem , bilo koje dobi, a da ne pomisli, makar to bilo i na pola sekunde: Mozda je ovo pravi muskarac. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 6f88bba | Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 5818456 | The young often have moments of clear thinking, which as they grow older become fewer, and muddied. He had kept alive in some part of him a knowledge that he was "destined" to do something or other. He felt this as pure and unsullied, but--more often and more deeply as he grew older--"impractical"." | Doris Lessing | ||
| 90ec2d2 | I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind. | Doris Lessing | ||
| d533846 | And when the dark comes, he will look up and out and see a little smudge of light that is a galaxy that exploded millions of years ago, and the oppression that had gripped his heart lifts, and he laughs, and he calls his wife and says: Look, we are seeing something that ceased to exist millions of years ago--and she sees, exactly, and laughs with him. | Doris Lessing | ||
| a77d539 | themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about. | Doris Lessing | ||
| d4fb1a1 | As time went on, he began to use mechanical means. (I look at the word mechanical -- a man wouldn't use it.) Paul began to rely on manipulating her externally, on giving Ella clitoral orgasms. Very exciting. Yet there was always a part of her that resented it. Because she felt that the fact he wanted to, was an expression of his instinctive desire not to commit himself to her. She felt that without knowing it or being conscious of it (thoug.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 746dc31 | They have not yet evolved into an understanding of their individual selves as merely parts of a whole, first of all humanity, their own species, let alone achieving a conscious knowledge of humanity as part of Nature; plants, animals, birds, insects reptiles, and all these together making a small chord in the Cosmic Harmony | Doris Lessing | ||
| 8de489f | Es terrible destruir la imagen que una persona tiene de si misma en aras de la verdad o cualquier otra abstraccion. ?Como saber si sera capaz de crear otra que le permita seguir viviendo? | Doris Lessing | ||
| 9e374b1 | The tale must be rehearsed-and we may amuse ourselves imagining how these must have been, often, acrimonious, or at least in dispute. Whose version of events is going to be committed to memory by the Memories? | Doris Lessing | ||
| 7f75306 | What you don't understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don't believe. Hard lines. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 194034a | Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution. This emotion is one of the strongest reasons why wars continue. And | Doris Lessing | ||
| 40f6227 | When she was older, after ten or so, she could tell she was being useful, but as a small child she was tolerated (only just, she knew) by this whirlwind of efficiency that was her mother organizing a party. Still she insisted on arranging fruit on a dish, or disposing ashtrays around the house, while her mother reduced her pace to Alice's. At least while "helping," Alice did not feel quite so much as if she were a tiny creature on top of a .. | Doris Lessing | ||
| c551c2f | Maryrose smiled good-humouredly, and remained in the circle of his arm, but as if she detached herself from him and every other man. Very many as it were professionally pretty girls have this gift of allowing themselves to be touched, kissed, held, as if this were a fee they have to pay to Providence for being born beautiful. There is a tolerant smile which goes with a submission to the hands of men, like a yawn or a patient sigh. But there.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 251ad12 | Oh, yes, Alice did know that she forgot things, but not how badly, or how often. When her mind started to dazzle and to puzzle, frantically trying to lay hold of something stable, then she always at once allowed herself -- as she did now -- to slide back into her childhood, where she dwelt pleasurably on some scene or other that she had smoothed and polished and painted over and over again with fresh colour until it was like walking into a .. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 643f46a | Kompleks't za vina e pochti opredelenie na maichinstvoto v nashata prosvetena epokha. | феминизъм | Doris Lessing | |
| 5d8436d | The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind. | great-men humanity instinct mankind mountain stupidity truth | Doris Lessing | |
| 436a616 | The thought [behind the Golden Notebook] was that to divide off and compartmentalize living was dangerous and led to nothing but trouble. Old, young, black, white, men, women, capitalism, socialism: these great dichotomies undo us, force us into unreal categorization, make us look for what separates us rather than what we have in common. | Doris Lessing | ||
| e8df282 | I feel sick when I look at the parody synopsis, at the letters from the film company... The novel is 'about' a colour problem. I said nothing in it that wasn't true. But the emotion it came out of was something frightening, the unhealthy, feverish illicit excitement of wartime, a lying nostalgia, a longing for licence, for freedom, for the jungle, for formlessness. It is so clear to me that I can't read that novel now without feeling ashame.. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 3be8957 | Harriet's parents had taken it for granted that family life was the basis for a happy one. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 3714d05 | Do you really think it's right for a socialist to get what he wants by making a fool of an old woman?' 'I'm earning her a lot of money.' 'I was talking about sex,' said Paul, and Willi said: 'I don't know what you mean.' He didn't. Men are far more unconscious than women about using their sex this way; far less honest. | Doris Lessing | ||
| d028768 | what happens on the lower level is responsible for what happens on the higher level, it is nonetheless irrelevant to the higher level. The higher level can blithely ignore the processes on the lower level. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 769b209 | There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 182ddcb | To paraphrase Descartes again: "I think; therefore I have no access to the level where I sum." | i-think think | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| b3fb19c | What gives us word-users the right to make life-and-death decisions concerning other living creatures that have no words? Why do we find ourselves in positions of such anguish (at least for some of us)? In the final analysis, it is simply because might makes right, and we humans, thanks to the intelligence afforded us by the complexity of our brains and our embeddedness in rich languages and cultures, are indeed high and mighty, relative to.. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| ca4e480 | Through many types of abstraction and analogy-making and inductive reasoning, and through many long and tortuous chains of citations of all sorts of authorities (which constitute an indispensable pillar supporting every adult's belief system, despite the insistence of high-school teachers who year after year teach that "arguments by authority" are spurious and are convinced that they ought to be believed because they are, after all, authori.. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 5595342 | the groundbreakers in many sciences were devout believers. Witness the accomplishments of Nicolaus Copernicus (a priest) in astronomy, Blaise Pascal (a lay apologist) in mathematics, Gregor Mendel (a monk) in genetics, Louis Pasteur in biology, Antoine Lavoisier in chemistry, John von Neumann in computer science, and Enrico Fermi and Erwin Schrodinger in physics. That's a short list, and it includes only Roman Catholics; a long list could c.. | Scott Hahn | ||
| fda75c3 | The sergeant frowned. "Really, sir? And who might they be? Is there a gang of militant atheists at work in the district, that I know nothing about? Or a guerrilla unit of disaffected campanologists, perhaps?" | Paul Bassett Davies | ||
| 6ca92ca | So, that was the original Happy Mondays line-up before Bez joined. Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Mark Day, Paul Davis and Gaz Whelan. X, Horse, Cowhead, Knobhead and No Arse. | happy-mondays shaun-ryder | Shaun Ryder | |
| 6342616 | we're not helping. So now we're helping. Me: (Standing in doorway, looking bewildered.) Thanks, I guess. Joey: (Takes away Stevie's hand.) But that's not fair! Alex: What's not fair? Stevie: (Striking Shakespeare pose.) All's fair in love and sisters. Me: You guys are weird, you know that? Stevie: Go ahead. Take it. Go. (Makes shooing-dog motion with hands.) OK. Bye-bye, then. Joey: (Calling after Alex.) Bye-bye, Birdie! Me: (Leaves room, t.. | Megan McDonald |