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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4d61a91 | Everything happened exactly as I had intended it shouldn't. | Max Frisch | ||
| b1eb930 | Pisaneto bez v'obrazhenie e trud za prekhrana. Dob'r, ama trud. Ako obache e samo za da si vadish khliaba s nego, togava vs'shchnost bikh predpochel da s'm d'rvodelets. | Max Frisch | ||
| d34eb94 | Das wirkliche Leben, meint er, sei ja so anders... Jedenfalls das seine, denkt er: da erkennt man keinen klaren Ablauf und keinen roten Faden, da zerrinnt es einfach, ohne Abschnitt und ohne Tat, die Leidenschaft zerrinnt in eine Stimmung, und auch die Entschlusse sind wie Sand, der leise durch die Finger rinnt, immer wieder nimmt man eine neue Handvoll, und wenn man sie aufmacht, ist wieder nichts darin geblieben, man ist verzweifelt, und .. | life pain schmerz | Max Frisch | |
| 44cbb2e | Ich finde sie lustig, ihre heutigen Tanze, lustig zum Schauen, diese existentialistische Hopserei, wo jeder fur sich allein tanzt, seine eignen Faxen schwingt, verwickelt in die eignen Beine, geschuttelt wie von einem Schuttelfrost, alles etwas epileptisch, aber lustig, sehr temperamentvoll, muss ich sagen, aber ich kann das nicht. | Max Frisch | ||
| 1082232 | Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. | Max Frisch | ||
| ef4dfdb | Hanna had Communist leanings, which I couldn't bear, and on the other a tendency to mysticism, or to put it less kindly, hysteria | Max Frisch | ||
| 4d8894d | the streamers and the couples busily engaged in bursting one another's balloons. | Max Frisch | ||
| dbd241c | Bei der Beschaftigung mit Geschichte ist Langsamkeit ein Vorzug. Der Forscher verzogert die rasenden Vorgange von damals, bis sein Verstand sie fassen kann. Dann aber weist er dem schnellsten Konig nach, wie er im Gefecht hatte handeln sollen. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 50f3bce | All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| a3bd540 | Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen | Theodor Storm | ||
| fa0bada | Maybe they'll improve their ability to detect neurological damage. Maybe they'll be able to help someone else's baby. It's too late for Nancy, a generation too late. It's good to see people opening their eyes to this syndrome that has no name. You tend to close them until it happens to your child. There is no such thing as a child who is not worth saving. | Deborah Spungen | ||
| 20a105f | Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So that time was a form of sustenance. On earth time was marked by the sun and moon, by rotations that distinguished day from night, that had led to clocks and calendars. The present was a speck that kept blinking, brightening and diminishing, something neither alive nor dead. How long did it last? One second? Less? It was always in flux; in the.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| fef9c5d | So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked towards the sun, and walked into the sky. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 02a3f5c | Will suddenly remembered that a boy at his old school had had a mum like Fiona - not exactly like her, because it seemed to Will that Fiona was a peculiarly contemporary creation, with her seventies albums, her eighties politics and her nineties foot lotion, but certainly a sixties equivalent of Fiona. Stephen Fullick's mother had a thing about TV, that it turned people into androids, so they didn't have a set in the house. 'Did you see Thu.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 7340650 | He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 55b188a | But Tony was a storyteller, and he knew that if you looked at any narrative closely enough you could trace the unraveling back and back and back--right to the very beginning, if the story was good enough. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 25bc8eb | W]hen's it all going to f***ing stop? I'm going to jump from rock to rock for the rest of my life until there aren't any rocks left? I'm going to run each time I get itchy feet? Because I get them about once a quarter, along with the utilities bills. More than that, even... I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have s*** for brains.. | nick-hornby real-love | Nick Hornby | |
| 03be2be | Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself. | creativity music songwriting | Nick Hornby | |
| d367c7f | It was almost as if he had been given a glimpse of what it was like to be human. It wasn't too bad, really; he wouldn't even mind being human on full-time basis | Nick Hornby | ||
| 46d7df2 | He was kind, he was single, he was vulnerable, he made her laugh (not always intentionally, true, but often enough). Every time she saw him, he seemed to have become a little more handsome. | love | Nick Hornby | |
| 11ab94e | I have measured out my life in Arsenal fixtures, and any event of any significance has a footballing shadow. | Nick Hornby | ||
| a93a46f | Tucker, please put him down," said Annie. "You're frightening Jackson." "He's not," said Jackson. "It's cool. I don't like that guy anyway. Punch him, Dad." | Nick Hornby | ||
| cae2b53 | It's love this and love that, but of course it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey -- now there's a miracle. | Nick Hornby | ||
| cf0e282 | You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then? I've got to get more stuff, more clutter, more detail in here, because at .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 4c34060 | Barry, if I were to say to you that I haven't seen Reservoir Dogs yet, what would that mean?" Barry looks at me. "Just...come on, what would it mean to you? That sentence? 'I haven't seen Reservoir Dogs yet?'" "To me, it would mean that you're a liar. Either that or you've gone potty. You saw it twice. Once with Laura, once with me and Dick. We had that conversation about who killed Mr. Pink or whatever fucking color he was." "Yeah, yeah, I.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 05b98d4 | Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was indicative of an undervalued kind of moral courage, that only cool people screwed up. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 96bddf4 | Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun. | rolling-stones shark | Nick Hornby | |
| 7d11264 | What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever changing a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids. And nor do you think about your husband waking up in the morning being someone you don't recognize. If anyone thought about any of these things, then no one would ever get married. In fact, the impulse to marr.. | marriage | Nick Hornby | |
| bd3f765 | Napravikh kafe - kaza toi. - V dzhezve. Dzhezveto be vazhno, inak ne bi go spomenal. D'nkan smiatashe, che prigotvianeto na istinsko kafe iziskva tv'rde mnogo shetnia s vsichkoto tam dozirane i chakane, i povtariashe, che neskafeto si mu kharesva. Zhest't mu ochevidno beshe znak na razkaianie za izneviarata mu. - Brei, mnogo s'm ti zad'lzhena. - Ne b'di takava. - Zashcho da me interesuva kakvo kafe piesh? - Ako ne biakh prespal s druga, sh.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| ec4bb5a | He could see why his mum chose (italicized) friends, instead of just putting up with anyone she happened to bump into, or sticking with people who supported the same football team, or wore the same clothes, which was pretty much happened at school; his must have conversations like this with Suzie, conversations that moved, conversations where each thing the other person said seemed to lead you on somewhere. | Nick Hornby | ||
| b02083f | We laughed. Ha, ha, we went. Ha, ha, ha. I'm not laughing now. Never has a joke filled me with such nausea and paranoia and insecurity and self-pity and dread and doubt. | Nick Hornby | ||
| d1adb32 | Kids must spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed to pick a duck that pathetic? | humor life | Nick Hornby | |
| 46116df | Thank you,' said Annie. 'Second thing : Juliet is brilliant. Don't lump the music in with the rest of it.' 'Have you been taking any of this in ?' 'Yes. You're a very bad man. You've been a useless father to four of your five children, and a useless husband to every single one of your wives, and a rubbish partner to every single one of your girlfriends? And Juliet is still brilliant. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 224b38c | The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That's what the whole thing is about. And we can't stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but the best of us manage to limp on into our sixties or seventies before we succumb. Me, I made it to about thirty-seven, and David made it to the same age, and my brother gave up the ghost even before that. And I'm not sure that there is a cure for.. | regret | Nick Hornby | |
| 4f911d3 | I decided, on the spot, to let God into my heart, in the hope that my newfound faith can somehow be used as a vicious weapon in the marital war. | humor marriage religion | Nick Hornby | |
| eab99a3 | I have tried to live with women who share a similar sensibility to mine, with predictably disastrous consequences, but the opposite route seems every bit as hopeless. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c8304e4 | Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fa5b681 | What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? | Nick Hornby | ||
| 42c2602 | I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just taken place could have happened when I was sixteen, or twenty, or twenty-five. We got to adolescence and just stopped dead; we drew up the map then and left the boundaries exactly as they were. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e097d50 | Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 58ed660 | He really liked this woman. Or, rather, he was really attracted to her, and nothing she had said so far had weakened the attraction. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 8481c17 | A veces hemos de ser juzgados por nuestros actos unicos. | juicio vida | Nick Hornby | |
| b1359f1 | They were expressions of who he was and what he'd become, and he couldn't do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his steps back and back and back, until he was fifteen or ten or three years old, and start again. | Nick Hornby | ||
| db36ca9 | There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. He wasn't a fraud. He was Robert De Niro. | Nick Hornby |