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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 59227aa | I thought... I thought you might..." "Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <...> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed." | health helping | Tad Williams | |
| f8b196a | They reached the eastern outskirts of the Dimmerskog on the afternoon of the next day. Although the forest was covered in a thick blanket of white snow, it nevertheless seemed, as Binabik had named it, a place of shadows. The company did not pass beneath its eaves, and might have chosen not to even had their path lain that way, so thick with foreboding was the wood's atmosphere. The trees, despite their size--and some of them were huge inde.. | Tad Williams | ||
| 047d041 | He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| e236dd9 | his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| bd63cda | He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it. | Jean Plaidy | ||
| f9d95ab | In fact, many of the most famous anti-Christian polemicists of the last 200 years--who sought to use science to justify their unbelief--never themselves set foot in a laboratory or conducted a single field observation. That includes the Marquis de Sade (a writer), Percy Bysshe Shelley (a poet), Friedrich Nietzsche (a philologist by training), Algernon Swinburne (a poet), Bertrand Russell (a philosopher), Karl Marx (a philosopher), Robert In.. | Robert J. Hutchinson | ||
| e126a8c | In France her tutor had once taught her that to truly fix an image in the mind to fasten it down completely so that it remained forever captive and vivid she should carefully name each aspect of the thing to herself as though she were describing it to a blind person. "For ma petite such is the fickleness of the human mind that it soon lets go of whatever it sees if you would keep it you must tack it down with words." She had tried it and.. | Margaret George | ||
| 519f10c | Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes, their explanations of why there are marriages and why marriage is needed and desired ignore the central truth of marriage: that it is built on sex roles. Pressed to explain the institution, they respond vaguely that human beings want "structure" or desire "intimacy." But however desirable in marria.. | George Gilder | ||
| b3fc388 | Mary fell asleep early, but her dreams were most unpleasant. She was a mouse running across the kitchen floor, and Elizabeth was a sharp-clawed cat waiting silently to pounce. Then she was a wild deer being chased by famished dogs. Elizabeth was a laughing huntsman in black velvet, urging the ravenous pack onward with a whip. And then Mary was her true self, barefoot and in a bedgown, attempting to escape by night. But the castle was dark a.. | Margaret George | ||
| 13d6d2d | Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.) | Lydia Millet | ||
| 4e65ced | Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that rendition was totally spoiled by the single Umpa-Lumpa multiplied by however many in computer graphics. Awful. | Phillip Tomasso III | ||
| ee00658 | Une langue etrangere, c'est comme un muscle frele, delicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit. | language-learning talking | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| a20ef3b | And yet my lexicon develops without logic, in a darting, fleeting manner. The words appear, accompany me for a while, then, often without warning, abandon me. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 82dba84 | Kaushik, what about a picture?" my father suggested. I shook my head. I had left my camera, my father's old Yashica, at school. "But you always have it with you." That look of irritated disappointment, the one that had appeared the day my mother died and was missing now that he'd married Chitra, passed briefly across my father's face. "I forgot it," I said. It was true, I did always have the camera with me. Even on quiet weekends when I cam.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 6f11e54 | O, I do read Indian novels sometimes. But you know, Ms Rupinder, what we Indians want in literature, at least the kind written in English, is not literature at all, but flattery. We want to see ourselves depicted as soulful, sensitive, profound, valorous, wounded, tolerant and funny beings. All that Jhumpa Lahiri stuff. But the truth is, we are absolutely nothing of that kind. What are we, then, Ms Rupinder? We are animals of the jungle, wh.. | literature | Aravind Adiga | |
| a38b82c | tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| a056b4d | Whenever he saw his books in a store, he felt like he'd gotten away with something, said John Updike. Who also expressed the opinion that a nice person wouldn't become a writer. The problem of self-doubt. The problem of shame. The problem of self-loathing. You once put it like this: When I get so fed up with something I'm writing that I decide to quit, and then, later, I find myself irresistibly drawn back to it, I always think: Like a dog .. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 595f73c | Are you a political prisoner, Dooley?" Her blue eyes, immense now in her gaunt face, turned a pitying gaze on the reporter who'd asked her this. "Yes," she said. "And so are you." | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 8580c89 | Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow. | important-facts joseph-brodsky sigrid-nunez | Sigrid Nunez | |
| c118a12 | What we miss--what we lose and what we mourn--isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 9eb4815 | When people are very young they see animals as equals, even as kin. That humans are different, unique and superior to all other species - this they have to be taught. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| f14d6db | When did she plant the roses. In full magnificent bloom now, the red and the white. A fragrance to make you go, Aaah. I think how much they must have pleased her, year after year, and made her proud. And it's not the thought that she must miss them, but that she's no longer capable of missing them, that makes me sad. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| a258fe7 | writing poetry is like prayer, and prayer isn't something you have to share with other people. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 56608d2 | How good is his memory? If very good, as dogs' memories are said to be, what grief being locked up alone might bring him. And - heart-shredding thought - is it still for you that he waits by the door?) | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 020134c | Who doesn't know that the dog is the epitome of devotion? But it's this devotion to humans, so instinctual that it's given freely even to persons who are unworthy of it, that has made me prefer cats. Give me a pet that can get along without me. | devotion dogs pets self-reliance | Sigrid Nunez | |
| c830ffe | Another question: why do people often find animal suffering harder to accept than the suffering of other human beings? | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| ed825ea | That there could be something in the world that a woman could want more than children has been viewed as unacceptable. Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants--and should want--both. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| d92eb8d | each is associated with different neurochemicals. Lust is associated primarily with the hormone testosterone in both men and women. Romantic love is linked with the natural stimulant dopamine and perhaps norepinephrine and serotonin. And feelings of male-female attachment are produced primarily by the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin. Moreover, | Helen Fisher | ||
| 2e4311a | Recently, evolutionary psychologist have turned their sights on love and divorce. It didn't take long to notice that when people fall in love, there's period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to r.. | David Eagleman | ||
| 474ef79 | Take dopamine. Elevated levels of dopamine in the brain produce extremely focussed attention,2 as well as unwavering motivation and goal-directed behaviors.3 These are central characteristics of romantic love. Lovers intensely focus on the beloved, often to the exclusion of all around them. Indeed, they concentrate so relentlessly on the positive qualities of the adored one that they easily overlook his or her negative traits;4 they even do.. | Helen Fisher | ||
| 1a8b136 | some psychiatrists believe that exercise (aerobic or anaerobic) can be as effective in healing depression as psychotherapy or antidepressant drugs.14 | Helen Fisher | ||
| b8506aa | Dr. Helen Fisher divides love into three categories that correspond to different hormones and brain systems. Her analysis of the data suggests that high androgen and estrogen levels generate lust, romantic love correlates with high dopamine and norepinephrine and low serotonin, and attachment is driven by oxytocin and vasopressin. To make matters more complicated, these three systems interact. For example, testosterone can "kickstart the tw.. | Deborah Anapol | ||
| 0eb536b | SENKA Moja senka kao dvorska luda za kraljicom. Kad kraljica sa stolice ustane, luda se na zidu nakostresi i u plafon glupom glavom udari. Sto moze u dvodimenzionalnom svetu na svoj nacin boli. Mozda je ludi na mom dvoru lose i sebe bi u drugoj ulozi volela. Kraljica ce se kroz prozor nagnuti, a luda s prozora dole skociti. Svaku aktivnost su podelile, ali ne na pola. Onaj prostak na sebe uzeo gestove, patos i svu njegovu bestidnost, to j.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 1d05629 | History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: --it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| abfe033 | Under a Certain Little Star" My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity in case I'm mistaken. May happiness not be angry if I take it for my own. May the dead forgive me that their memory's but a flicker. My apologies to time for the multiplicity of the world overlooked each second. My apologies to an old love for treating the new one as the first. Forgive me far-off wars for taking my flowers home. Forgive .. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 12cc84a | Let me have your abyss. | love | Wisława Szymborska | |
| 1215406 | Ningun dia se repite, ni dos noches son iguales, | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 846e6bd | Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. Even | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| cf407eb | We treat each other with exceeding courtesy; we says, it's great to see you after all these years. Our tigers drink milk. Our hawks tread the ground. Our sharks have all drowned. Our wolves yawn beyond the open cage. Our snakes have shed their lightning, our apes their flights of fancy, our peacocks have renounced their plumes. The bats flew out of our hair long ago. We fall silent in mid-sentence, all smiles, past help. Our humans don't kn.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 12b1b92 | LA ESTACION DE FERROCARRIL. Mi no llegada a la ciudad de N tuvo lugar puntualmente. Fuiste avisado con una carta no enviada. Lograste no llegar a la hora prevista. El tren llego al anden numero tres. Bajo mucha gente. Entre la muchedumbre se dirigio a la salida la ausencia de mi persona. Varias mujeres me sustituyeron rapidamente en aquella prisa. A una de ellas se acerco corriendo alguien desconocido para mi pero ella lo reconocio al ins.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 5d18c0a | Nothing Twice Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. Even if there is no one dumber, if you're the planet's biggest dunce, you can't repeat the class in summer: this course is only offered once. No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with exactly the same kisses. One day, perhaps, s.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| ee1295c | Have you really become so much an Angrezi that you believe your people have only to say "It is forbidden", for such old customs as this to cease immediately? Bah!" | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 5e7cb21 | I do not doubt that you would have done all that was in your power to make her happy. But it is not in your power to build a new world; or to turn back time | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 52bc8ec | people everywhere are suspicious of strangers and hostile towards anyone different from themselves | M.M. Kaye |