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| c6ed264 | He was blushing. Christ, the kid was so transparent. "Harry, are you going to tell me you've got a girlfriend?" I asked. The blush deepened, and I laughed. "I'll be damned," I said. "Good for you." He looked at me, checking to see whether I was going to tease him. "She's not exactly my girlfriend." "Well, never mind the taxonomy. How did you meet her?" "Work." | Barry Eisler | ||
| 50f48ad | If there's one lesson I learned early on during the decades I've spent in this business, it's that of all the qualities that distinguish a hard target from everyone else, among the most important is self-control. Yes, you have to be able to think like the opposition, which enables you to spot the ambush. And yes, you have to be able to take immediate, violent action in case--oops--your ability to spot the ambush fails. And yes, sentiment is.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 7971549 | Relax," he said again, probably reading my thoughts from my expression. "I'll get you the other file." I considered telling him what would happen if he didn't, but recognized that doing so would have been childish, the product of ego. Worse, because he already knew what would happen, verbalizing it could only serve to dilute the strength of the threat. Because why would anyone waste breath describing what was already axiomatic? I didn't rea.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 39ba546 | Gercek suydu ki, kotu anilar asla silinmiyordu. Hayir, en fazla duraksiyorlardi; acilmayi bekleyen bir kutunun icinde bekler gibi duruyor, Bizi ozledin mi? Merak etme, hala buradayiz! Ve hicbir yere gitmiyoruz! diyorlardi. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 58b7712 | Benimle ilgili hicbir sey bilmiyorsun. - Seninle ilgili bircok sey biliyorum. Benim isim insanlarla ilgili bir seyler ogrenmek. + Oyle mi? Ne biliyorsun? - Senin kadar guzel bir kadinin bir iliskisi olmadiginda, bunun sebebinin kimseyle tanismamasi olmadigini biliyorum. Sebebi istememesidir. Sarah, oturusunu degistirme arzusuna karsi gelerek, ''Ve neden istemiyor musum?'' diye sordu. ''Bircok sebepten. Ofise bu sabah kacta geldin? Yedide mi.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 40fd853 | Sometimes I go to her Facebook page. It's silly, I know. Pathetic. And every time I do, I promise myself next time I'll be stronger. I don't even know what impels me. Why are the most painful memories also the sweetest; why does the sweetness always draw us back no matter how long the pain might have kept us away beforehand? I don't know, any more than I know why sometimes I have to sit in the dark and listen to Terumasa Hino playing "Alone.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 0845d12 | Is she your first girlfriend?" I asked, my tone gentle. "I told you, she's not really my girlfriend," he said, ducking the question. "If she's occupying enough of your attention to keep you in bed until the sun sets, I feel safe using the word as shorthand." | Barry Eisler | ||
| 9ea427f | after our split, I wanted to believe that whatever had been between us was unique, that it could never happen again. Because if it was exceptional, it must be an exception, maybe even the exception that proved the rule. And the rule was that I would always be alone, and could never trust anyone. | Barry Eisler | ||
| e9ecc1b | I have no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane. | Barry Eisler | ||
| cb776e0 | Some vicious thing inside me stirred. I felt it in my gut, the back of my neck, my hands. I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. | Barry Eisler | ||
| be7dfdc | Now death was a place, a place to which people disappeared forever when they died, a place that gradually sucked away the clarity of memory afterward for a similar one-way journey. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 17d5d1d | no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 2085ce2 | The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 79897fc | It's been my experience that people who can express their political views only in cliches and passionate generalizations are fanatics. | Barry Eisler | ||
| fd8ffac | Tatsu was true samurai, and would continue serving the same master no matter how many times that master ignored or even abused him. Devoted service was the highest end he knew. It | Barry Eisler | ||
| 584c9ce | Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 51b2efc | Had I not known that I was dead already I would have mourned my loss of life. --last words of Ota Dokan, scholar of military arts and poet, 1486 | Barry Eisler | ||
| 761c930 | Men use these words to frighten us, Livia would tell them. To intimidate and paralyze. We need to habituate to what upsets us so we can fight through it. Deny our attackers the weapon of their words. And what was true for the verbal was true, too, for the physical. | Barry Eisler | ||
| ce34aa4 | In the twenty-first century, people threw off data like dead skin cells. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 16cce24 | First was the fewer, not less. Now it was the care in avoiding a preposition at the end of a sentence. An educated man, presumably. Precise. Apparently fussy about small-minded rules, perhaps to compensate for a willingness to ignore large ones. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 3672012 | The insult was calculated. Whether this guy was an amateur or a professional, he would perceive himself as the latter, and would now be invested in proving it to me. Interrogators call the technique ego down. | Barry Eisler | ||
| f12b449 | If you wanted to understand the mentality of most Washington insiders, all you had to do was put yourself in the mind of an insecure teenager, at which point it all began to make sense. | Barry Eisler | ||
| fe2f0ff | Well, the club is open until three in the morning and she works every day. So, by the time she gets home..." "I get the picture," I said. Though in fact, it was a little hard to imagine Harry with an attachment that didn't have an Ethernet cable and a mouse. He was an introverted, socially stunted guy, with no contacts I knew of outside of his day job, which he kept at arm's length in any event, and me. Conditions that had always made him u.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 4ba2f37 | I hadn't meant to embarrass him. "Harry, I only ask because, when you're young, you sometimes think you can have it both ways. If you're just having fun, you don't need to tell her anything. You shouldn't tell her anything. But if the attachment gets deeper, you'll need to do some hard thinking. About how close you want to get with her, about how important your hobbies are. Because you can't live with one foot in daylight and the other in s.. | Barry Eisler | ||
| dd19211 | War is a part of human nature, and we Japanese are human. But we have never fought, we have certainly never built weapons of mass destruction, to convince the world of the rightness of an idea. It took America and its bastard twin, communism, to do that." He" | Barry Eisler | ||
| a3e793f | we rarely see what we prefer to overlook. | Barry Eisler | ||
| a1d1b4b | Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light; I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 13db68d | Do all the people who know me know me better than I know myself? | Barry Eisler | ||
| e6f54ca | Checking your six?" he said, still smiling. "I thought you wanted an airport because they're safe. What is it about me that scares people so much?" | Barry Eisler | ||
| 1af56f6 | Medicine isn't supposed to taste good--that's what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 172290e | the young man's blindness irreparable, his mistakes immutable, the consequences irreversible. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 1e5e582 | The truth of the matter I believe to be this. There is, as I stated at first, no absolute right or wrong in love, but everything depends upon the circumstances, to yield to a bad man in a bad way is wrong, but to yield to a worthy man in a right way is right. The bad man is a common or a vulgar lover, who is in love with the body rather than the soul; he is not constant because what he loves is not constant; as soon as the flower of physica.. | philisophy test | Plato Walter Hamilton | |
| bae0c37 | The pain is immense, but I need it because it keeps me from going insane. | James Frey | ||
| 19f63f9 | I am going to die. When I die I will be dead, gone, no more. There will be no more thinking, no more breathing, no more feeling of any kind. There will blackness and the blackness will be eternal. There will be silence and the silence will last forever. I am going to die. | James Frey | ||
| 5bfc38c | I hate myself. I hate myself so much that I can't look myself in the eye. I hate myself so much that suicide seems like a reasonable option. | James Frey | ||
| a693a67 | I start to cry. Tears begin running down my face and quiet sobs escape me. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know how I'm here and I don't know how things ever got this bad. I try to find answers but they aren't there. I'm too fucked up to have answers. I'm too fucked up for anything | James Frey | ||
| 031ba91 | We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best. | James Frey | ||
| 1889d43 | There is no Higher Power or any God who is responsible for what I do and for what I have done and for who I am. There is no Higher Power or any God who will cure me. There is no Meeting where any amount of whining, complaining and blaming is going to make me feel any better. | James Frey | ||
| 6027450 | I dont want to make friends here. Why? I don't like goodbyes. | James Frey | ||
| f9d05d9 | I reach up and out and I put my arms around Leonard and I hug him. I don't know any words, so I let my actions speak. Strong, simple and deep appreciation. The actions speak true. | James Frey | ||
| d2182d7 | I can deal with my life on those terms. It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult inless I allow it to be. A second is no more tha a second, a minute is no more tha a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time wil pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Din't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure. | James frey | ||
| fc77656 | that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late. | James Frey | ||
| f9199ae | We did what people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong. | James Frey | ||
| bc0f669 | life was simple, we were born and we were going to die. There was nothing for us before we were born, and there would be nothing for us after we died. While we were here we had choices. While we were alive we had choices. We could choose to be and do whatever we wanted. | James Frey |