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| e11166d | It is important to understand that an enormous amount of our human experience is really a response to symbols. I speak in Origins of the Sexual Impulse of an underwear fetichist who stopped the car when he was driving with his wife, went into a garden, and removed a brassiere and panties from a clothesline; he laid these on the ground, and proceeded to go through the motions of copulation with them. Response to the symbol of 'forbidden-ness.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| ff0c417 | I planned a mystical order that should buy or hire the castle, and keep it as a place where its members could retire for a while for contemplation, and where we might establish mysteries like those of Eleusis or Samothrace. ... I had an unshakeable conviction that invisible gates would open, as they opened for Blake, as they opened for Swedenborg, as they opened for Boehme, and that this philosophy would find its manuals of devotion in all .. | Colin Wilson | ||
| f3a5ee0 | The real difference between the Marxian and the romantic Outsider is that one would like to bring heaven down to earth, the other dreams of raising earth up to heaven. To the Outsider, the Marxian seems hopelessly short-sighted in his requirements for a heaven on earth; his notions seem to be based on a total failure to understand human psychology. (Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Zamyatin's We are typical expressions of Outsider critic.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 8dab9f1 | Never, until these last few days, had I understood the meaning of existence. I was like the others...I said with them: The ocean is green, that white speck up there is a seagull, but I didn't feel that it existed...And then suddenly existence had unveiled itself. | Colin Wilson | ||
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| 8a61956 | lktb@ `mly@ dkhly@ rqyq@, mthl lhDm, wmn lshl 'n tfsd wtntks mn khll lw`y ldhty bh. | Colin Wilson | ||
| abfa790 | Professor A. H. Maslow, for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to conclude that health and optimism are far more positive principles in human psychology than Freud would ever have admitted. Man is a slave to the delusion that he is a passive creature, a creature of circumstance; this is because he makes the mistake of identifying himself with his limited everyday consciousness, and .. | altered-states-of-consciousness colin-wilson humanistic-psychology peak-experiences transpersonal-psychology | Colin Wilson | |
| cf41a5a | This game still had its old ritual fascination for Pug; he was following it tensely, smoking a cigar. Once his nostalgia had been keen for the tough youthful combat on the grass, the slamming of bodies, the tricky well-drilled plays, above all for the rare moments of breaking free and sprinting down the field, dodging one man and another with the stands around him a roaring sea of voices. Nothing in his life had since been quite like it. Bu.. | Herman Wouk | ||
| ba0bebb | There are good and bad things in all political systems. | Herman Wouk | ||
| bfa2117 | Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu--and a recognizable part--unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 5754a43 | The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his daily thoughts. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 0b2f277 | Al nations celebrate the day of their coming into being with a work stoppage and ceremonies. The Jews, who believe that God created the universe, celebrate its coming into being, and give thanks to its Maker, once a week. | Herman Wouk | ||
| fa14d5b | The Jewish Sabbath may be too hard for some people, or they may not subscribe to its ideas; but within its own terms it is a dramatic ceremony penetrating all of life. It is not simply a day off. This demanding rite turns twenty-four hours of every week into a separated time, apart in mood, texture, acts, and events from daily existence. | Herman Wouk | ||
| ecdaa74 | It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 9a79c4a | The Second Table of the Ten Commandments reads in Hebrew something like this: 'Don't kill; don't be vile; don't steal; don't tell lies about others; don't envy any man his wife or house or animals, or anything he has.' This sounds shockingly wrong in English. For the English genius, religion is solemn and stately; Canterbury Cathedral, not a shul. The grand slow march of "Thou Shalt Nots" is exactly right. Religion for the Jews is intimate .. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 9c8e2a0 | Judaism takes the verse in Genesis, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' as part of its statutory law. Because it is the first law in the Torah it holds a special eminence. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 364ef20 | Scholars call it [the Torah] the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were Hebrew scribes of the first centuries of the present era. They fixed the wording and spelling of the Bible; since then it has not changed. It has long been a matter of critical controversy as to just how accurate the Masoretes were; for one thing, did they have a true text from ancient sources, or did they invent and corrupt? Opinion has swayed back and forth on this point... | Herman Wouk | ||
| 294b709 | Sex takes up a very small part of the day, anyway." "It makes the rest of the day worth living." "You" | Herman Wouk | ||
| 9a8eb2c | Cabs, cabs! Why did God give you feet? Walk me to Fiftieth. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 3cd1425 | Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and fearful. It would be just as silly to assert that disbelief in God is a crutch for the immoral and the ill-read. | Herman Wouk | ||
| ab4b59a | Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end--only at the end it becomes more obvious. Use your time while you have it, Willie, in making something of yourself. | Herman Wouk | ||
| b621ded | There are no difficulties that can't be overcome, | Herman Wouk | ||
| e236882 | You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 4e359f9 | God's grace is a pretty cool concept. It stays intact every time it's not you. | Stephen King | ||
| af38a32 | Nothing lasts forever. Nothing. How could everything have gone so wrong...so wrong...so wrong... | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 991d44b | Anna Chapman was born Anna Vasil'yevna Kushchyenko, in Volgograd, formally Stalingrad, Russia, an important Russian industrial city. During the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II, the city became famous for its resistance against the German Army. As a matter of personal history, I had an uncle, by marriage that was killed in this battle. Many historians consider the battle of Stalingrad the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of w.. | russia spies | Captain Hank Bracker The Exciting Story of Cuba | |
| 2576bf7 | What I'm about to tell you," Elliott told me, "ninety-nine percent of people in the world will never understand." For the first time all week, it was just the two of us. Elliott had told Austin he wanted to talk to me one-on-one. We were standing on a rooftop lounge during sunset, looking out at the Manhattan skyline. "You see, most people live a linear life," he continued. "They go to college, get an internship, graduate, land a job, get a.. | Alex Banayan | ||
| 8e90344 | was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naive. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| b2b37fc | Men were handy to have around, when required. They were not particularly intelligent, but they could be taught to fetch and light cigarettes, run errands, open doors and give satisfaction in bed. They made excellent pets, dressed and bathed themselves and were toilet-trained. An amusing species. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 7a3a3ae | They met in the library searching for old Sidney Sheldon books. Her silence and calmness drew her to him. His brooding nature drew him to her. Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sparked flames like the forest caught in a wild fire! | eyes reading | Avijeet Das | |
| 9d49655 | But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit. | inspirational | Sidney Sheldon | |
| a8c9a07 | How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied." | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 7888611 | We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we're all Jews. | happiness life | Sidney Sheldon | |
| d3568f6 | Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| d73d9b9 | only in this life you made your own miracles, because god was busy elsewhere. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 8eeb39a | When you're trying to hide something,' Paul Martin advised, 'always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you're doing anything wrong. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| d5a4be2 | Each manager sees his own division as the center of the world, and that's as it should be. But someone has to have an overall view and decide what's best for the company. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 61eaec3 | Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| e229e15 | You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It's the people who matter. I'm able to give them a comfortable place to work or to live, a place where they can raise families and have decent lives. That's what was important to my father, and it became important to me. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| dfb8a5b | I create with my mind. I don't physically put up a building, but I make it possible. I dream a dream of bricks and concrete and steel, and make it come true. I create jobs for hundreds of people; architects and bricklayers and designers and carpenters and plumbers. Because of me, they're able to support their families. I give people beautiful surroundings to live in and make them comfortable. I build attractive stores where people can shop .. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| d31c57c | Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. | political-correctness politics-observation | Qiu Xiaolong | |
| c924bcf | Un amico in un momento nero e un amico per davvero. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 7757893 | Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| eee33f6 | My breath clouded the air like a little ghost escaping from my body. | Francesca Lia Block |