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| 637aaa4 | And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the res.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2274765 | Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 59e6bb3 | To create art means | poetry bukowskisism | Charles Bukowski | |
| 4177724 | Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortes'll lay Tenochtitlan to waste again, and later, Ewing will sail again, Adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and I'll sleep under the Corsican stars again, I'll come to Bruges again, fall in and out of love with Eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. Nietzsche's.. | David Mitchell | ||
| c573dbd | I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy. | fantasy good-strategy derek magic-bites ilona-andrews rowena | Ilona Andrews | |
| a9f5e20 | I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks. | cahill grace | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| ddedfab | Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you." "Sir?" "It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority." "Sir?" "That's practically zen." -- | terry-pratchett feet-of-clay prachett sam-vimes zen samuel-vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| c2f227c | It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works. | wonder | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4c21eca | Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1796a5e | Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. An.. | funny humor myrnin ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 3364a3e | You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin. | money | Rachel Caine | |
| 632d052 | To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. | wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| a4442b8 | For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. | color distance wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit | |
| d93dfee | Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness. | fearlessness | Cornelia Funke | |
| 40ec750 | It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 44e01ef | I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so. | religion philosophy-of-life | Isaac Asimov | |
| 4c0546a | You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d25f7da | There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. | Richard Bach | ||
| 71f59cd | I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| c127d3c | To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. | Clive Barker | ||
| 5191b74 | Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids. | gay-rights | Bill Maher | |
| 8f32f01 | At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, | T.S. Eliot | ||
| d835963 | Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. | cowardice | Oscar Wilde | |
| 550857a | If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b519584 | Mr. Lightwood," she said, raising herself up on her elbows. "Are those under your bed?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 460e2b2 | Did you know we were leaving for Idris?" "Catarina told me she'd been summoned to make a portal. I guessed," Magnus said wryly. "I was a little surprised you hadn't called or texted to tell me you were going away." "You never answer my calls or texts," said Alec. "That hasn't stopped you before." "Everyone gives up eventually," Alec said. "Besides, Jace broke my phone." Magnus huffed a laughter. "Oh, Alexander." "What?" alec asked, honestly.. | malec | Cassandra Clare | |
| 34dadef | Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn't fancy her chances. "You don't know James Carstairs. Don't speak about him." "Love him, do you?" Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. "But you love Will, too." Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will's affection for her, but the idea that what .. | tessa jem will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8fff4d1 | I don't want the world. I want you. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 48d50c0 | I should have known what you would do," Jem said in a low voice. "I always know what you will do. I should have known you would put your hands into the fire." "And I should have known you would throw that packet away," said Will, without rancor. "It was--it was a madly noble thing to do. I understand why you did it." "I was thinking of Tessa." Jem drew his knees up and rested his chin on them, then laughed softly. "Madly noble. Isn't that m.. | parabatai will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| f15d01b | I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. | isabelle-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| d335e65 | It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had. | romantic hope love inspirational | Cassandra Clare | |
| eb5e4f1 | Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 20c67cf | You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| aa07780 | In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 6a6a73c | The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Fin.. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 2879648 | It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 57b83a9 | Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know? | hate john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 2e7d447 | Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 493d423 | He sits next to me and puts his arm on the back of my chair, leaning close. I don't stare back -- I to stare back. I stare back. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 30a989f | As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| b65e64a | I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded--and how pitiful that was. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 53d62bf | He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6d27c74 | I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 43108d7 | Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for. | Meg Cabot |