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| 4af9c2e | Pike closed his eyes, and filled his lungs, then pushed with his diaphragm. He breathed deep again. Pranayamic breathing from the hatha yoga. Pike lost himself in a cool forest glade, dappled by sunlight filtered through lime green leaves. When he breathed, he smelled moss and sumac. His pulse slowed. He grew calm. He centered. Pike | Robert Crais | ||
| 86be4a4 | She said, "Oh, Studly." I could see her smile. "The law is not about justice. You know that." | Robert Crais | ||
| 359dfd9 | Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. | Robert Crais | ||
| 26ac314 | Throughout the meal Lucy would grin with the knowledge of her secret, and I would ask, "What?" and she would say, "You'll see." Then everyone stopped looking at Johnny Depp and turned toward the door. Lucy grinned wider, and I looked, too. Joe came over, gliding across the floor as the room parted for him. Tall men in sleeveless sweatshirts and dark glasses and brilliant red tattoos tend to stand out in Spago. Even Johnny Depp was looking." | Robert Crais | ||
| fd973c5 | The girl seemed even younger in sleep, and smaller, as if part of her had vanished into the couch. With her asleep, Pike believed he was seeing her Original Person. Pike believed each person created himself or herself; you built yourself from the inside out, with the tensions and will of the inside person holding the outside person together. The outside person was the face you showed the world; it was your mask, your camouflage, your messag.. | Robert Crais | ||
| 23661c5 | to the bullet clips the same way every | Robert Crais | ||
| edec82b | fuckin | Robert Crais | ||
| 1c11019 | Sometimes. Sometimes you can change what's there, sometimes what's there changes you. | Robert Crais | ||
| bc12549 | the complex integration of the three secret senses: the labyrinthine, the proprioceptive, and the visual. It is this synthesis that is impaired in Parkinsonism. The | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 26f63ae | He spent the morning at the beach. He had no idea which one, just some open stretch of coastline reaching out to the sea. An unbroken mantle of soft grey clouds was sitting low over the water. Only on the horizon was there a glimmer of light, a faint blue band of promise. The beach was deserted, not another soul on the vast, wide expanse of sand that stretched out in front of him. Having come from the city, it never ceased to amaze Jejeune .. | Steve Burrows | ||
| c0769b8 | Eddie knelt and lifted a rock. 'Lawyers,' he whispered. | Steve Aylett | ||
| 35f5f92 | Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b5db065 | The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collis.. | Richard V. Reeves | ||
| 05f93d1 | Drug use, once considered a private, public-health matter, was reframed through political rhetoric and media imagery as a grave threat to the national order. Jimmie Reeves and Richard Campbell show in their research how the media imagery surrounding cocaine changed as the practice of smoking cocaine came to be associated with poor blacks.35 | Michelle Alexander | ||
| b166e69 | And here is the difficult part. However messily it is expressed, much of the criticism of our class is true. We proclaim the "net" benefits of free trade, technological advances, and immigration, safe in the knowledge that we will be among the beneficiaries. Equipped with high levels of human capital, we can flourish in a global economy. The cities we live in are zoned to protect our wealth, but deter the unskilled from sharing in it. Profe.. | Richard V. Reeves | ||
| 42051a9 | after visiting the Santa Anita Assembly Center, quoted a small girl she had overheard talking to her mother: "I am tired of Japan, Mother. Let's go back to America." | Richard Reeves | ||
| a2df806 | The 442nd, exhausted and undermanned--the casualty list was over two thousand wounded and killed in just four weeks in the Vosges campaign--was | Richard Reeves | ||
| c14f834 | When we hoard opportunities, we help our own children but hurt others by reducing their chances of securing those opportunities. Every college place or internship that goes to one of our kids because of a legacy bias or personal connection is one less available to others. We may prefer not to dwell on the unfairness here, but that's simply a moral failing on our part. Too many upper middle-class Americans still insist that their success, or.. | Richard V. Reeves | ||
| e5bc2ec | There were few men in press or politics willing to stand up for the rights of the Japanese living on the West Coast. The Santa Ana Register in Orange County, | Richard Reeves | ||
| 25ef06a | Riku, was harassed by scavengers wanting to buy her best dishes, worth about $200. One by one, she took the dishes out of their velvet jackets and smashed them at the men's feet. | Richard Reeves | ||
| 3aa3536 | A small number of national columnists and commentators in other cities also resisted the California hysteria, among them Ernie Pyle of Scripps Howard and Chester Rowell, | Richard Reeves | ||
| 0de624f | Back at Santa Anita, a five-year-old boy, George Takei, who later became a famous actor, was fond of the searchlights. He thought they were there to help him find his way to the latrine and back--rather than to prevent him from escaping. | Richard Reeves | ||
| b86bd41 | He lost that command because he made clear that he thought the commander of the America-backed Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, was simply a corrupt warlord fighting not the Japanese but his great rival the Communist Mao Tse-tung. In the end, Washington sided with Chiang and Stilwell was recalled. | Richard Reeves | ||
| 6e8f2ce | Hoover wrote, "The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data." | Richard Reeves | ||
| 6dc437a | Honolulu's police chief William Gabrielson and Lieutenant General Delos Emmons, the army commander in Hawaii, stating that there were no acts of sabotage preceding or during the attack on Pearl Harbor. | Richard Reeves | ||
| 7271163 | The "mare" in "nightmare" originally referred to a demonic woman who suffocated sleepers by lying on their chests (she was called "Old Hag" in Newfoundland)." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 3c34d29 | I was half-afraid that I would do something awful, like faint or fart right in front of the queen, but all went well. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| d8e4769 | If God, or the eternal order, was revealed to Dostoievski in seizures, why should not other organic conditions serve as 'portals' to the beyond or the unknown? | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 44c62f0 | Characteristic of such affective equivalents is their brevity--manic-depressive cycles, as generally understood, occupy several weeks, and frequently longer. Monthly | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9c8e3d2 | Patients were real, often passionate individuals with real problems--and sometimes choices--of an often agonizing sort. It was not just a question of diagnosis and treatment; much graver questions could present themselves--questions about the quality of life and whether life was even worth living in some circumstances. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8a0463d | At eighty, one can take a long view and have a vivid, lived sense of history not possible at an earlier age. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 5f9acb9 | At some second transcendent moment in evolution, Edelman proposed, the development of "higher-order consciousness" was made possible in humans (and perhaps a few other species including apes and dolphins) by a higher level of reentrant signaling. Higher-order consciousness brings an unprecedented power of generalization and reflection, of recognizing past and future, so that finally self-consciousness, the awareness of being a self in the w.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 365470a | Where was I? What had been done? I replied that I was in the recovery room and that he had detached the lateral rectus muscle of the right eye and attached the plaque containing radioiodine (I-125, to be precise) to the sclera. I said that I was sorry it was not radioactive ruthenium instead of iodine (I have a thing for the platinum metals) but that 125, at least, was memorable for being the smallest number that was the sum of two squares .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 084e646 | when the attack is "due" (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| ef54059 | I wondered if what one normally calls "normal" was itself a sort of dullness, a deadening of sense and spirit, if not, indeed, a very closure of their doors. For myself, now, liberated, released, emergent from the dark night and abyss, there was an intoxication of light and love and health." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9b51115 | There was an irony and a paradox here: Franco thought of Pontito constantly, saw it in fantasy, depicted it, as infinitely desirable - and yet he had a profound reluctance to return. But it is precisely such a paradox that lies at the heart of nostalgia - for nostalgia is about a fantasy that never takes place, one that maintains itself by not being fulfilled. And yet such fantasies are not just idle daydreams or fancies; they press toward .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a9d56c8 | When writing my Leg book, I drew heavily on the detailed journals I had kept as a patient in 1974. Oaxaca Journal, too, relied heavily on my handwritten notebooks. But for the most part, I rarely look at the journals I have kept for the greater part of a lifetime. The act of writing is itself enough; it serves to clarify my thoughts and feelings. The act of writing is an integral part of my mental life; ideas emerge, are shaped, in the act .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 7ce6593 | An animal, or a man, may get on very well without 'abstract attitude' but will speedily perish if deprived of judgment. Judgment must be the first faculty of higher life or mind-- | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 98a4ee9 | While some of these near-death experiences are marked by a sense of helplessness and passivity, even dissociation, in others there is an intense sense of immediacy and reality, and a dramatic acceleration of thought and perception and reaction, which allow one to negotiate danger successfully. Noyes and Kletti describe a jet pilot who faced almost certain death when his plane was improperly launched from its carrier: "I vividly recalled, in.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| ba2ac76 | I went back into the house and had put on the kettle for another cup of tea when my attention was caught by a spider on the kitchen wall. As I drew nearer to look at it, the spider called out, "Hello!" It did not seem at all strange to me that a spider should say hello (any more than it seemed strange to Alice when the White Rabbit spoke). I said, "Hello, yourself," and with this we started a conversation, mostly on rather technical matters.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 1cd0f4b | There are no files in my memory that are repressed,' she asserted. 'You have files that are blocked. I have none so painful that they're blocked. There are no secrets, no locked doors--nothing is hidden. I can infer that there are hidden areas in other people, so that they can't bear to talk of certain things. The amygdala locks the files of the hippocampus. In me, the amygdala doesn't generate enough emotion to lock the files of the hippoc.. | temple-grandin | Oliver Sacks | |
| ea03474 | Se abrian a sus pies continuamente abismos de amnesia, pero el los salvaba, con ingenio, mediante rapidas fabulaciones y ficciones de todo tipo. Para el no eran ficciones, era como veia de pronto o interpretaba el mundo. El flujo incesante y la incoherencia del mundo no podia tolerarlos, no podia admitirlos ni un instante... substituia aquella cuasicoherencia extrana y delirante, con la que el senor Thomson, con sus invenciones continuas, i.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 4d4f952 | For me, this was an example of how unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the context, the economy of someone's life. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b4bb00f | Physiological confirmation of such "filling in" by involuntary musical imagery has recently been obtained by William Kelley and his colleagues at Dartmouth, who used functional MRI to scan the auditory cortex while their subjects listened to familiar and unfamiliar songs in which short segments had been replaced by gaps of silence. The silent gaps embedded in familiar songs were not consciously noticed by their subjects, but the researchers.. | Oliver Sacks |