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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b570a92 | Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did. | humor humour | Graham Greene | |
| 1ca3616 | It was as if she had spoken slightingly of a woman he loved. For he dreamed of peace by day and night. Once in sleep it had appeared to him as the great glowing shoulder of the moon heaving across his window like an iceberg, arctic and destructive in the moment before the world was struck: by day he tried to win a few moments of its company, crouched under the rusting handcuffs in the locked office, reading the reports from the sub-stations.. | Graham Greene | ||
| fa6cfc2 | I think the reason lay partly in his idea of immortality, but I think too it belonged to his war against the Inland Revenue. He was a great believer in delaying tactics. "Never answer all their questions," he would say. "Make them write again. And be ambiguous. You can always decide what you mean later according to circumstances. The bigger the file the bigger the work. Personnel frequently change. A newcomer has to start looking at the fil.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 4550544 | to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory... | houses memory streets | Graham Greene | |
| 43dc58a | I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement. | Graham Greene | ||
| 885d77a | I was afraid of burglars and Indian thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take-over bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert. | Graham Greene | ||
| f6ba476 | It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it. | Graham Greene | ||
| 2113833 | In the vision there is no morality | Graham Greene | ||
| f69d9c3 | They had to tread carefully for a lifetime, never speak without thinking twice: they must watch each other like enemies because they loved each other so much. They would never know what it was not to be afraid of being found out. It occurred to him that perhaps after all one could atone even to the dead if one suffered for the living enough. | Graham Greene | ||
| a3c8728 | What will we care for the why and the wherefore? | Graham Greene | ||
| 8af7854 | They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him. | innocence nation-building war | Graham Greene | |
| e6765b0 | He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power. | Graham Greene | ||
| 787746b | I know he is afraid of that desert which would be around him if our love were to end, but he can't realize that I feel exactly the same. What he says aloud I say to myself silently and write it here. What can one build in the desert? Sometimes after a day when we have made love many times, I wonder whether it isn't possible to come to an end of sex, and I know that he is wondering too and is afraid of that point where the desert begins. Wha.. | love love-ending | Graham Greene | |
| 84527a1 | And sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to, I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like. | Graham Greene | ||
| f496f68 | The dead do not squabble as this land's rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace... | warhammer | Graham McNeill | |
| af43273 | It is the folly of men to believe that they are great players on the stage of history, that their actions might affect the grand procession that is the pasage of time. | Graham McNeill | ||
| 9ddd13d | In a meeting, the Estonian president, Toomas Ilves, insisted to Obama that we had to take Putin at his word if he said he would take Kiev. Ilves had an academic manner, and he described methodically how Russia was using fake news and disinformation to turn Estonia's Russian-speaking minority against Europe. Speaking in paragraphs, he tied together Putin, the emergence of right-wing political parties in Europe, and ISIL. These are people, he.. | Ben Rhodes | ||
| cdec7e4 | Cassie?" It's Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he's feeling the Ben thing a little more than he is the Cassie one at the moment. Who's this guy falling from the ductwork, and what's he doing with my sister? "This must be Sammy," Evan says. "This is Sammy," I say. "Oh! And this is--" "Ben Parish," Ben says. "Ben Parish?" Evan looks at me. That Ben Parish? "Ben," I say, my face on fire. I want to laugh and crawl under the counter at the same.. | ben-parish blush boyfriend cassie-sullivan embarrassed evan-walker friend introductions know meet sam-sullivan | Rick Yancey | |
| 246f3c3 | Countries that quash free inquiry, distrust reason, and practice pseudoscience, such as Revolutionary France, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and, more recently, fundamentalist Islamist states, stagnate, regress, and often collapse. Theists and postmodernist critics of science and reason often label the disastrous Soviet and Nazi utopias as "scientific," but their science was a thin patina covering a deep layer of counter-Enli.. | Michael Shermer | ||
| 020cc15 | Wow, this pizza is so good," I said, swallowing a gooey bite. "It is," Ben agreed. "But I think Sage needs a little more garlic on his. Piri says he loves the stuff." "Nice," I said, nodding. "So what have you guys been doing since we got to the hotel?" Rayna asked. "Playing cribbage," Ben said. "Ask Sage who won." "You say that like you never lost a game," Sage countered. "Not at all. I'm just asking you to inform the ladies who won the .. | Hilary Duff | ||
| 6ece809 | I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks. | peter-grant tea the-folly | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| f171fd5 | I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking--I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please? | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1270af3 | So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a ... what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| b4d7afd | People don't like to speak ill of the dead even when they're monsters, let alone when they're loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember? | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 71f8775 | The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick. 'Is | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 5d8640e | It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem. | limitations london | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| a739324 | Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though," I said." | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 49fe90c | I didn't tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I'd have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he'd understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 05bd237 | Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those l.. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a437ccc | One thing for certain, Abigail who lived up the road was going on my watch list. In fact I was going to create a watch list just so I could put Abigail at the top of it. | watch-list | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 068098b | A London copper doesn't like to intrude upon a traveller camp with anything less than a van full of bodies in riot gear - it's considered disrespectful otherwise. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 5d19424 | When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?" | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 2ee52ec | I may be a city boy, but I'm fairly certain that the greasy purple and red squishy bits are supposed to stay inside the sheep and not be sprayed across a surprisingly large area. "Animal attack?" I asked." | intestines sheep | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 62321ac | I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions. | waking waking-up | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 2c258cb | Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything--everything--because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a5a9d1b | Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 29557c7 | With a grunt he levered himself to his feet, causing the chair to bang against the bookcase behind him and set the various objet d'bollocks rattling. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0427406 | Seen something?" asked Nightingale, making me jump. "Jesus Christ," I said. "Not on this river," said Nightingale. "Not even Blake thought that was possible." We" | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| f7b5ecb | This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever "it" is and however small the thing it is they do." | it | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| f1e6e08 | Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?" | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 52f4ae0 | What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| a01e89e | Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 00307c2 | I suspected Molly wanted the pictures to send to her friends on Twitter and Facebook, the ones that I was not supposed to know about. I didn't dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement--I don't question what she does on my computer when I'm out and, in return, she doesn't murder me in my sleep. Back | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 170e278 | In 1666, following an unfortunate workplace accident, the city of London burnt down. | Ben Aaronovitch |