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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b5920f | what you do blurs over what you did before. | John Fowles | ||
| a221337 | One kind of person is engaged in society without realizing it; another kind engages in society by controlling it. The one is a gear, a cog, and the other an engineer, a driver. But a person who has opted out has only his ability to express his disengagement between his existence and nothingness. | John Fowles | ||
| c8fb535 | Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? Which are you drinking? The water or the wave? | John Fowles | ||
| 3460323 | moments one knows only death will obliterate. | John Fowles | ||
| 3643613 | only extroverts cry twice.. | John Fowles | ||
| 3ee6b30 | The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win. | John Fowles | ||
| 26475c7 | Just suppose that the dead do revisit the living. That something approximately to be described as Jim can return to see how George is making out. Would this be at all satisfactory? Would it even be worthwhile? At best, surely, it would be like the brief visit of an observer from another country who is permitted to peep in for a moment from the vast outdoors of his freedom and see, at a distance, through glass, this figure who sits solitary .. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| a34e787 | Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is blind to the fact of his own enormous selfishness. He is one of those invalids who make use of their real or imagined sufferings to get their own way. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| a9216c7 | I've been sitting here and thinking about God. I don't think I believe in God any more. It is not only me, I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war. The Anne Franks. And back through history. What I feel I know now is that God doesn't intervene. He lets us suffer. If you pray for liberty then you may get relief just because you pray, or because things happen anyhow which bring you liberty. But God can't hear. The.. | John Fowles | ||
| bb8c391 | Hemos estado completamente desnudos uno frente al otro... !No podemos estar mas separados, sin embargo! Pero lo estamos, | John Fowles | ||
| e1aa39c | 1. ' I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art.They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more. But I can see they're beautiful arranged.' 2. ' Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in l.. | John Fowles | ||
| 15bf761 | He has that selfishness -- it's not even an honest selfishness, because he puts the blame on life and then enjoys being selfish with a free conscience. | selfishness | John Fowles | |
| d60da7d | Because I don't understand Him. Why He is, who He is, or how He is. And Maurice tells me I am quite intelligent. I think God must be very intelligent to be so much more intelligent than I am. To give me no clues. No certainties. No sights. No reasons. No motives. | John Fowles | ||
| 5baa49e | Now alongside Scovell, John eased preserved peaches out of galliot pots of syrup and picked husked walnuts from puncheons of salt. He clarified butter and poured it into rye-paste coffins. From the Master Cook, John learned to set creams with calves' feet, then isinglass, then hartshorn, pouring decoctions into egg-molds to set and be placed in nests of shredded lemon peel. To make cabbage cream he let the thick liquid clot, lifted off the .. | cooking cooks foods ingredients john-saturnall salt sauces spices | Lawrence Norfolk | |
| 9dc5394 | No religion is the only religion, no church the true church. | John Fowles | ||
| b06dd34 | It's like football. Two sides may each want to beat the other, they may even hate each other as sides, but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about, then they'd feel together. It's feeling that matters. | caring feeling football politics sides | John Fowles | |
| 170d39e | Just because you can't express your feelings it doesn't mean they're not deep. | expressing expressing-yourself expressions-of-emotion feelings | John Fowles | |
| fd972d1 | The sun moved, came on me, made me erotic. Sometimes to return is a vulgarity. The profoundest distances are never geographical. | John Fowles | ||
| 63bc723 | That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women--and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relations.. | John Fowles | ||
| 371cae2 | Perhaps nowhere is our human mania for possessing, our delusion that the owned cannot have a soul of its own, more harmful to us. This disanimation justified all the horrors of the African slave trade. If the black man is so stupid that he can be enslaved, he cannot have the soul of a white man, he must be a mere animal. | ownership possession slavery | John Fowles | |
| 436b585 | Dunya bir genellikse benim hep bir istisna kalacagimi buyuran bir ferman vardi sanki. | John Fowles | ||
| 229756a | Biliyor musun, senle ben -garip sey- ayni yolun yolcusuyuz aslinda. Ikimizin de evleri biraz buyukce ama gene de bir bakima bize dar geliyor. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| d816d52 | Seytanlari yok ediyorlarsa, polisler melek demektir, oyle degil mi? Eh, akla yatkin. Polislerin melek oldugu yer de ancak timarhane olabilir. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| b4685d8 | Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 876a373 | Sulphuric acid was added to vinegar for extra sharpness, chalk to milk, turpentine to gin. Arsenite of copper was used to make vegetables greener or to make jellies glisten. Lead chromate gave bakery products a golden glow and brought radiance to mustard. Lead acetate was added to drinks as a sweetener, and red lead somehow made Gloucester cheese lovelier to behold, if not safer to eat. There was hardly a foodstuff, it seems, that couldn't .. | Bill Bryson | ||
| d8f5872 | She had not wanted to come, and now that she was there, she was still praying for deliverance. "Aunt Berta!" she said forcefully as the front door of the great, rambling house was swung open. The butler stepped aside, and footmen hurried forward. "Aunt Berta!" she said urgently, and in desperation Elizabeth reached for the maid's tightly clenched eyelid. She pried it open and looked straight into a frightened brown orb. "Please do not do th.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 1d9c8d1 | He stared at it in utter disbelief while his secretary, Peters, who'd only been with him for a fortnight, muttered a silent prayer of gratitude for the break and continued scribbling as fast as he could, trying futilely to catch up with his employer's dictation. "This," said Ian curtly, "was sent to me either by mistake or as a joke. In either case, it's in excruciatingly bad taste." A memory of Elizabeth Cameron flickered across Ian's mind.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 84bcaa5 | 2 NOTES "You broke your other appointment, didn't you?" "I did not! I told you on the phone--these people canceled at the last minute--" "Oh, Geo dear, come off it! You know, I sometimes think, about you, whenever you do something really sweet, you're ashamed of it afterwords! You knew jolly well how badly I needed you tonight, so you broke that appointment. I could tell you were fibbing, the minute you opened your mouth! You and I can't pu.. | love | Christopher Isherwood | |
| d679bc4 | It was as crude as his drafts always were. But it accomplished the enormous feat of making this shapeless blob of potential material emerge 'out of the everywhere into here. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 19eeacf | And now, as George pours the vodka (giving her a light one, to slow her down) and the scotch (giving himself a heavier one, to catch up on) he begins to feel this utterly mysterious unsensational thing - not bliss, not ecstasy, not joy - just plain happiness - das Glueck, le bonheur, la felicidad - they have given it all three genders but one has to admit, however grudgingly, that the Spanish are right, it is usually feminine, that's to say.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 384dcd6 | It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| ab1fa12 | She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| a7b7b50 | I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| 364af02 | When Wade brought you home, I thought, Now here's a girl with a little fire in her. And where there's fire, there's usually smoke. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| 80d5539 | But even the best luck is no good until it's used, and we must find the right way to use it. | fred Saberhagen | ||
| 79df4a7 | In stories, any number of imbeciles may be encountered, ready to deliberately insult strangers who are aiming deadly weapons at them. In real life, there are only a few folk so suicidally inclined. | Fred Saberhagen | ||
| 7953c07 | I zashcho chovechestvoto poluchi svoiata Vtora V'zmozhnost? - popita Kolop s tikhiia si seriozen glas. - Nima ia zasluzhava? Ne. S malko izkliucheniia khorata sa podlo, nishchozhno, drebnavo, zlobno, tesnogr'do, neveroiatno sebichno, vechno prepirashcho se i gnusno g'mzhilo. Kato go nabliudavat, bogovete - ili Bog - bi triabvalo da pov'rnat. No v tazi bozhestvena khrachka se namirat i s'siretsi na s'stradanieto, molia da me izvinite, che si.. | Philip José Farmer | ||
| a461f6d | Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it. | Philip José Farmer | ||
| 0b016c6 | You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took. | survival | Philip José Farmer | |
| 1d641df | I'm not a Christian," Goring said. "I admire a man who can admit that. I don't think I ever met a preacher who came out and said so, in so many words." | Philip José Farmer | ||
| c246614 | On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again. | Philip José Farmer | ||
| a8cdff5 | Purgatory is hell with hope. | hell hope purgatory | Philip José Farmer | |
| 8f3c08b | I seldom lie,' he said. | irony | Philip José Farmer | |
| 9f9a3a5 | Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum. | witty | Philip José Farmer |