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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4acb2c6 | But the transition from the New York Times to the Ashton Clarion was like jumping off a speeding train into a wall of half-set Jell-O. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 585ca65 | I will go to the saints first. Already there is plenty in Bacon's Corner for them to be upset about, plenty to divide them. I will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying." He" | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 8f027b8 | But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| ddaa78c | SIN IS THE MONSTER we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and bite again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. That makes sin the perfect monster, a man-eater that blinds and numbs its victims, convincing them that nothing is wrong and there is no need to flee, and then consumes them at its leisure. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 0f276fc | We understand deeply that until all women are free no man can be free. Even when we believe that we've taken everything into consideration we acknowledge that we may be behaving as badly and as snoolishly as our forefathers. We are learning to recognize this as a culturally inherited blind spot that leads inevitably to the destruction of women and all life on Earth, including ourselves. Moreover: We resolve to accept counsel when criticism .. | Mary Daly | ||
| 788e146 | Why indeed must "God" be a noun? Why not a verb... the most active and dynamic of all? MARY DALY THEOLOGIAN" | Julia Cameron | ||
| a73201d | Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may indeed be a verb (as Mary Daly insists), poetry is the act of . The process of poetry also mimics the process of nature. 'This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature, grown out of the first, as a leaf out of a tree. What we call nat.. | creative-process decay definition-of-genius emerson genius mary-daly nature poetry process ralph-waldo-emerson transcendentalism workshop writing writing-tips | Robert D. Richardson | |
| 670aed0 | When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution, we do so in contexts framed by Jefferson's writings and arguments. Whatever we think of Jefferson as a person or as a politician, we can never take away from him his remarkable gift as a writer or his ultimate claims to fame. He achieved his intention to express 'the American mind' an.. | R.B. Bernstein | ||
| b5b521d | He gave me a last dark look, not admitting defeat,not giving an inch .I watched him with unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes and they were simply open but seeing nothing. | Dick Francis | ||
| 1098f78 | I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus. | humor | Dick Francis | |
| 5df25f8 | March 22, 2014 I have found the truth in the lies I told myself. I thought I could run from this woman, but she continues to chase me. In my mind, my heart, she's always there. An entire bottle of whiskey can't drown out her voice. I wake up each morning hoping it will finally be the day that I get over her. But then night falls and memories of her begin to torture me until sleep is no longer an option. Each night I fall into this abyss of .. | heartbreak love romance | Jacqueline Francis - The Journal | |
| be4c0c8 | Boyfriend?" Francis said. "Really?" "Yes. Why is that a surprise?" Looking away from Reg, Francis started typing. "I didn't figure you for gay." "I'm sitting here being interrogated because I'm dating your biggest client, remember?" Reg reminded him. "You do realize Jeremy Jameson has a dick, right?" | Cardeno C. | ||
| ff8d3fa | Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote. | silliness stupidity | Dick Francis | |
| 2049689 | In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins matter? Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long, ever-recurring battle. | Dick Francis | ||
| 8015e0e | I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it. | Dick Francis | ||
| 004ff84 | So what happened to the comma in this process? Well, between the 16th century and the present day, it became a kind of scary grammatical sheepdog. As we shall shortly see, the comma has so many jobs as a "separator" (punctuation marks are traditionally either "separators" or "terminators") that it tears about on the hillside of language, endlessly organising words into sensible groups and making them stay put: sorting and dividing; circling.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 78c4424 | She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 61d17b5 | For the first time since she met him, she asked herself whether mr Dodgson was really the sunny personality she had at first imagined. Did she honestly want to spend the rest of her life with him, setting up home in a bathing machine, and living on what she could catch in a shrimp net? She pulled a face, stood up, brushed her frock. She was only eight, she told herself. As Jessie Fowler had pointed out this afternoon, a girl of eight needn'.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 5c122e7 | No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves." | grammar grammar-nazi lynne-truss seventh-sense | Lynne Truss | |
| c1843f7 | semicolons are dangerously habit-forming. Many writers hooked on semicolons become an embarrassment to their families and friends. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 7446174 | Punctuation has been defined many ways. Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. I have even seen a rather fanciful reference to the full stop and comma as "the invisible servants in fairy tales - the ones who bring gl.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 5674831 | I'm sure people did question whether Italian printers were quite the right people to legislate on the meaning of everything; but on the other hand, resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 933f9a4 | What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 499971f | Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, "The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition." | Lynne Truss | ||
| d2669d1 | If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 46ed33b | humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald - that well-known knockabout gag-man - said it was like laughing at your own jokes), | Lynne Truss | ||
| 5587ce2 | pretentious and over-active" semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought." | Lynne Truss | ||
| 63c97b8 | No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked uo on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave." | Lynne Truss | ||
| e77e3cb | Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks - which explains why they get so desperate when their choices are challenged (or corrected) by copy-editors legislating according to a "house style"." | Lynne Truss | ||
| fa7daeb | So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician's assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete. | colon-usage colon-use colons magic-trick magic-tricks punctuation punctuation-metaphor sentence sentences | Lynne Truss | |
| 3124ae9 | Some may say that the British are obsessed with class difference and that knowing your apostrophes is a way of belittling the uneducated. To which accusation, I say (mainly), 'Pah!' How can it be a matter of class difference when ignorance is universal? | class-difference grammar humor ignorance intellectualism | Lynne Truss | |
| 2c6e9d7 | nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste. | Lynne Truss | ||
| ae077d1 | The rule is: the word "it's" (with apostrophe) stands for "it is" or "it has". If the word does not stand for "it is" or "it has" then what you require is "its". This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning,.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 27420ae | there is here a striving, avid and worldly civilisation, of course; these huge and eager markets, to this incessant buying and selling, that make that self evident; but I had no conception of the ubiquitous sense of the holy, no notion of how another world can permeate the secular. Filth, stench, disease, "gross superstition" as our people say, extreme poverty, promiscuous universal defecation, do not affect it: nor do they affect my sense .. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 9d21408 | I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 23bfe66 | He had known it often enough. A delightful child, even a delightful early adolescent, interested in everything, alive,affectionate, would turn into a thick, heavy, stupid brute and never recover: ageing men would become wholly self-centered, indifferent to those who had been their friends, avaricious | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| aaac1ad | Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 12ff8d0 | But when a man puts on maturity and invulnerability, it seems that he necessarily becomes indifferent to many things that gave him joy. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 77373f1 | But I will tell you another misery that is not to be denied. In the common, natural course of events physicians, surgeons and apothecaries are faced with enormous demands for sympathy: they may come into immediate contact with half a dozen deeply distressing cases in a single day. Those who are not saints are in danger of running out of funds and becoming bankrupt; a state which deprives them of a great deal of their humanity. If the man is.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| d946fea | He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: examples presented themselves to his mind, not only of mental decay, physical weakness, gout, stone and rheumatism, but of boastful mendacious garrulity, intense and peevish selfishness; timidity if not cowardice, dirt, concupiscence, avarice. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 1a0e74e | As it usually happened after an engagement, a heavy sadness was coming down over his spirits. To some degree it was the prodigious contrastbetween two modes of life: in violent hand-to-hand fighting threr was no room for time, reflexion, enmity or even pain unless it was disabling; everything moved with extreme speed, cut and parry with a reflex as fast as a sword-thrust, eyes automatically keeping watch on three or four men within reach, a.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| bc7ecd5 | The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy. | bitterness depression melancholy resentment | Patrick O'Brian | |
| ac7a0ad | But, however, I clapped a stopper over his capers.' Dr Maturin was proud of his nautical expressions: sometimes he got them right, but right or wrong he always brought them out with a slight emphasis of satisfaction, much as others might utter a particularly apt Greek or Latin quotation. 'And brought him up with a round stern,' he added. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 37c1fd1 | I will tell you a thing about women. They are superior to men in this, that they have an unfeigned, objective, candid admiration for good looks in other women - a real pleasure in their beauty. Yours, | Patrick O'Brian |