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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b4597d | Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates. Hence, rivalry for power and exaggerated distrust pervade the entire organism from top to bottom. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 4607827 | Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It | C.G. Jung | ||
| c7d2a1d | Western science, following Roger Bacon, believed man could force nature to reveal its secrets; the Sioux simply petitioned nature for friendship. -- Vine Deloria, Jr. | Vine Deloria Jr. | ||
| c86981b | tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside. | rain tears | Celeste De Blasis | |
| 03a537c | The Greeks were smarter. They used different words, eros and agape, to distinguish between these two profoundly different ways of experiencing what we call "love." Eros, of course, refers to passionate love, while agape describes the stable and committed relationship, free of passion, that exists between two individuals who care deeply for each other. The contrast of eros and agape allows us to understand our dilemma when we look for both t.. | Robin Norwood | ||
| 3ee439f | Let me guess..." said Mal. She popped a piece of candy into her mouth. "New class?" Doug nodded sheepishly." | Walt Disney Company | ||
| a66ed93 | No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company. | Meghan Daum | ||
| 4866599 | The End | Walt Disney Company | ||
| e2f34c6 | I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| cc7b97a | Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 27301c5 | By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could be better than life, that they could redeem life. In fact, I believe they are, and do. My life is dedicated to that belief. But still, I asked too much of them: I asked them also to be both safer than life and fuller, a better family. That they couldn't give. At the depths I'd plumb them, so many perfectly sufficient w.. | obsession reality regret too-much-affection too-much-of-a-good-thing truth what-you-love | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 9afed4d | The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated. | weather-conditions | Jonathan Lethem | |
| c79dea0 | I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 5e37572 | Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 0daac83 | It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 5be0a29 | Despite their authoritarian light show, those ice-cream trucks of death couldn't do any more for Perkus's murdered infatuation, his crushed crush, than could keening Greek chorus, or a moaning witch doctor. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| acf5f5d | I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| ab704ef | Life is fundamentally up for grabs | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| e61bb29 | Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan. | gentrification vendlemachine | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 335988d | Of all records, Chase, Some Girls! It was in a clutch of the most horrendous crap, J. Geils Band, Sniff 'n' the Tears, the kind of albums you'd use for landfill. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| c1d6a82 | They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 078052c | How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all? | summer | Jonathan Lethem | |
| d5b378b | Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| d3e6841 | Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 5039848 | Paranoia has its downsides as an agency in daily life, or in the political sphere of collective action, which finds itself beset everywhere by the nightmarish influence of conspiracy thinking (they call it , but theories exist to be tested, and conspiracy thinking exists never to be tested, and globally ignores the results of tests imposed by others). The suspicion that malign operators are responsible for every one of the injustices and h.. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 053c6e2 | The earth itself was unchangeable, the endless tracts of sand and water and pavement. It was the people, the perturbable madmen who roamed its surface, who viewed the world as transient and broken. Everett wished the earth could somehow reach up and still them, the crazy people, and invest them with its silence and permanence and depth. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 0e2464e | Eso es muy superficial. - No se puede ser profundo sin superficie. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 38ae35d | I met someone who lives in an elevator. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 71dc375 | Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. He took it in stride by now. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| f4ea665 | This kiss would be with me, invisible badge or scar, when I went back to the apartment. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 229d629 | There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes. But it is up to us to make it come. All women have had up till now has been their connection with men. All we have had. No more lives of our own, really, than domestic animals. He shall hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, a little closer than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Tennyson wrote that. It's true. Was true. You will want to have.. | Alice Munro | ||
| ad1c25f | For later generations of women--post Sexual Revolution--enjoying sex was to become simply a duty, the perfect orgasm yet another thing to add to the list of required accomplishments; and when enjoyment becomes a duty, we're back in the land of "dreariness of spirit." | Alice Munro | ||
| 0539509 | It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness -- however temporary, however flimsy -- of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another. | Alice Munro | ||
| f0131f3 | Children use that word "hate" to mean various things. It may mean that they are frightened...It is not physical harm that is feared...so much as some spell, or dark intention. It is a feeling you can have when you are very young even about certain house faces, or tree trunks, or very much about moldy cellars or deep closets." | fears hate | Alice Munro | |
| 79e7365 | It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee. | sex | Alice Munro | |
| 55fc93e | I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough. | Alice Munro | ||
| 3d2bef0 | I had once heard somebody say, at a party, that one of the nice things about marriage was that you could have real affairs - an affair before marriage could always turn out to be nothing but courtship. | Alice Munro | ||
| 43cf17f | The only choice I make is to write about what interests me in a way that interests me, that gives me pleasure. It may not look like pleasure, because the difficulties can make me morose and distracted, but that's what it is--the pleasure of telling the story I mean to tell as wholly as I can tell it, of finding out in fact what that story is, by working around the different ways of telling it. | Alice Munro | ||
| 9695d47 | People doing something that seems to them natural and necessary. At least, one of them is doing what seems natural and necessary, and the other believes that the important thing is for that person to be free, to go ahead. They understand that other people might not think so. They do not care. | Alice Munro | ||
| 3c3468f | In all my years in the town, I encountered no one who was divorced, and so it may be taken for granted that there were other couples living separate lives in one house, other men and women who had accepted the fact that there were differences never to be mended, a word or an act never to be forgiven, a barrier never to be washed away. | Alice Munro | ||
| 8c41b1d | Lies of that nature could be waiting around in the corners of a person's mind, hanging like bats in the corners, waiting to take advantage of any kind of darkness. | Alice Munro | ||
| 6e7b97a | Her hair had been long and wavy and brown then, natural in curl and color, as he liked it, and her face bashful and soft -- a reflection less of the way she was than of the way he wanted to see her. | Alice Munro | ||
| 5329d03 | If you were writing poetry it was somewhat safer to be a woman than a man. | Alice Munro | ||
| afe2009 | A story is not like a road to follow ... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or spars.. | Alice Munro |