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| 0e0546e | Michael Pollan, in his New York Times article "Unhappy Meals," exhorts us to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." That's seven words; I'll reduce it to three: eat real food. The "not too much" will take care of itself. And the "mostly plants" isn't a worry if you eat the plants as they came out of the ground, or the animals who ate the food that came out of the ground--because they ate plants." | Robert H. Lustig | ||
| 99bc17f | Sto se vise udaljavamo i raskidamo veze sa svijetom pismenosti, svijetom napisane rijeci, svijetom slozenosti i nijanse, svijetom ideja i pojmova i zamjenjujemo ga oku ugodnim, umirujuciim slikama, fantazijama, sloganima, celebrityjima, pohlepom za nasiljem, to smo sve blizi urusavanju i imploziji. Kako nastavljamo propadati, a patnje nam narastaju, poput ljubitelja hrvackih spektakla sto se organiziraju u sklopu World Wresting Entertainmen.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| ac4b36a | As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of war our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, | Chris Hedges | ||
| 6b5f4c7 | This conditioning of children to fear nonconformity and blindly obey ensures continued obedience as adults. The difficult task of learning how to make moral choices, how to accept personal responsibility, how to deal with the chaos of human life is handed over to God-like authority figures. The process makes possible a perpetuation of childhood. It allows the adult to bask in the warm glow and magic of divine protection. It masks from them .. | Chris Hedges | ||
| 6eeb162 | The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and disenfranchised working class presages a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash. I spent two years traveling the country to write a book on the Christian Right called American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. I visited former manufacturing towns where for many the end of the world is no longer an abstraction. They have lost hope. Fear and instability have plunged the wor.. | Chris Hedges | ||
| ba3b6ad | Permanent War One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun. --REINHOLD NIEBUHR, Beyond Tragedy | Chris Hedges | ||
| 3cecec9 | Our woal life is a idear we dint think of nor we dont know what it is. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 2ac01b7 | Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened. | Rachel Klein | ||
| b0a997b | I can't imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don't know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me. | Rachel Klein | ||
| 009bfc3 | He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door. | Maile Meloy | ||
| dbbe961 | For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth. | environment | Ellen Meloy | |
| a728f34 | What was archaeology to him? It was the opposite of killing things. It was trying to will life back into stuff that had been forgotten and buried for thousands or millions of years. It was not about shards and pieces of bone or treasure; it was about kneeling down in the elements, paying very close attention, and trying to locate a spark of the human life that had once touched that spot there. | Marilyn Johnson | ||
| ab8e618 | It's almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these. | Marilyn Johnson | ||
| 5151bf0 | Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer. | librarians librarianship | Marilyn Johnson | |
| 467b3b6 | tegeus-Cromis, sometime soldier and sophisticate, who now dwelt quite alone in a tower by the sea and imagined himself a better poet than swordsman. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 1eeb84f | She was a tall woman with a wide smile, good tits and a way of licking mayonnaise out the corner of her mouth which suggested she might be equally good at licking mayonnaise out the corner of yours. | M. John Harrison | ||
| fb46843 | Such madness was strictly prohibited in New York, but not in New Jersey. | Paul Collins | ||
| ae7c319 | Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.' -Thaddeus | frog insults jelindel-chronicles paul-collins thaddeus | Paul Collins | |
| 8039885 | I had a good title already. My book was originally called Loser: A Brief History of Notable Failures. But American publishers don't like this. Losing is a bad thing in our country. It's not allowed. | Paul Collins | ||
| 853a8a5 | What you mean to find matters less than what you do find. | Paul Collins | ||
| ced7fa0 | You see, literary culture is perpetually dead and dying; and when some respected writer discovers and loudly proclaims the finality of this fact, it is a forensic marker of their own decomposition. It means that they have artistically expired within the last ten years, and that they will corporeally expire within the next twenty. | Paul Collins | ||
| 711c4f3 | Lo que si no es ningun tipo de diversion es la cantidad cada vez mayor de personas que han venido a morir al salon de belleza. Ya no son solamente amigos en cuyos cuerpos el mal esta avanzado, sino que la mayoria son extranos que no tiene donde irse a morir. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| f0e4e7b | The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you please about the author and easily build up an impressive case for it. Consider, for example, the scene in which Alice seizes the end of the White King's pencil and begins scribbling for him. In five minutes one can invent six different interpretations. | psychoanalysis | Martin Gardner | |
| 02b1351 | I've kind of been crushing on this girl. Up until now, I've been semi-content just saying "Hi" from time-to-time but now I really want to call her up and ask her out. I guess that means I've finally fallen for her all the way, doesn't it?" | Maki Murakami | ||
| 183ff36 | It was an endless cycle--put one thing away, pick another up anew. You see what I'm saying? There's no evolution, no chance for growth. | Maki Murakami | ||
| b759f3e | Davidson] Black procured cadavers for research, obtained from the Peking police department. These cadavers were mostly of people who had been executed for various crimes; the police regularly sent Black truckloads of the bodies of the executed convicts. Execution in China was by beheading, and thus the cadavers Black received lacked heads and had mutilated necks. After some time, he asked the police whether there was any possibility of gett.. | cadavers china medical-research | Amir D. Aczel | |
| e0dbe90 | m 'n lan? Sfr! mdh 'stTy` 'n 'kwn Gdan? 'stTy` 'n 'Hyy mwty f'st'nf lHy@. 'stTy` 'n 'ktshf fy nfsy lnsn qbl 'n yDy`. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5533af9 | For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: "Mystery!" | morality-without-religion mystery science | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 116efb5 | He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel. | youth | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| eccc4af | What's more, the awareness I have that no matter how ridiculous and humiliated I may seem, there lies within me that treasure of strength which will someday make them all change their opinion of me, this awareness - almost since the humiliated years of my childhood - then constituted the only source of my life, my light and my dignity, my weapon and my consolation, otherwise I might have killed myself while still a child. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1e18e88 | I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them! | loneliness unwanted white-nights | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 9785e8b | So it is that when we are unhappy we sense more acutely the unhappiness of others; rather than dispersing, the emotion becomes focused... | white-nights | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 510bdd9 | Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me. "Sluggard"--why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career. Do not jest, it is so." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a6d4ee4 | it seems to me that a man's character may be recognized by his mere laugh. If you know a man whose laugh inspires you with sympathy, be assured he is an honest man. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d7dc97e | You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned to see more clearly than in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate. | man science | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 5888cba | But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself. II | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3baba87 | we took from him, ... proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth, though we have not yet been able to complete our work. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fa7c1df | And all that for the most foolish reason, which, one would think, was hardly worth mentioning: that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated. And one may choose what is contrary to one's own interests, and sometimes one positively ought (that is my idea). | interests | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8b2620c | Todas las hormigas respetables comenzaron con el hormiguero y probablemente terminaran con el, lo que las honra por su aplicacion y su perseverancia. Pero el hombre es una criatura frivola e imprevisible y quiza, a la manera de un jugador de ajedrez, gusta solo del proceso de llegar a la meta, y no de la meta misma. ?Y quien sabe? (nadie puede saberlo de cierto), quiza la unica meta que en este mundo persigue el hombre consista unicamente e.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2cf5ee7 | Perhaps it was because a terrible anguish had developed within my soul, occasioned by a circumstance which loomed infinitely larger than my own self: to be precise, it was the dawning conviction that in the world at large, . I had had a presentiment of this for a good long time, but complete conviction came swiftly during this last year. All of a sudden, I realized that it to me whether the world existed or whether there was nothing at a.. | dreams existentialism | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f17c2a4 | Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth," he added dreamily, not in the tone of the conversation." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b0101b0 | And what aim in life is more important or sacred than a parental aim? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5de15d5 | And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and out ought not to live? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 72a03c4 | And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and who ought not to live? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |