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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2aa510b | Talking to a black-and-white on the Street is like talking to a person who has his face stuck in a xerox machine, repeatedly pounding the copy button, while you stand by the output tray pulling the sheets out one at a time and looking at them. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 0603458 | What's an adventure?" Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with" | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 30fa1eb | What do you mean by values?" "They were code words like honesty, hard work, self-reliance . . . myths, actually, to motivate the people to accept the natural inequities found in a market system." | Neal Stephenson | ||
| abb3eb3 | whose picture appeared to be a state-issued ID of an octogenarian drag queen. I | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 2424e0f | THE LAY OF WALMART TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: "The Lay of Walmart" comprises two parts. Handwriting analysis confirms that both were written by the same author, self-identified as Toki Olafsson, a skald" | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 5522ec5 | Thinking is what angels do--it is a property given to Man by God." "How do you suppose God gives it to us?" "I do not pretend to know, sir!" "If you take a man's brain and distill him, can you extract a mysterious essence--the divine presence of God on Earth?" "That is called the Philosophick Mercury by Alchemists." "Or, if Hooke were to peer into a man's brain with a good enough microscope, would he see tiny meshings of gears?" Daniel said.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 98a5f26 | he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible | Neal Stephenson | ||
| dab8826 | Godspeed? Godspeed! What kind of a thing is that to say to a fucking galley slave? | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 23a8acd | At any rate the total number of persons at the table was not enormously larger than the number of categories, meaning that nearly everyone present was reacting in an altogether different way, and in most cases doing so rather strongly, leading to a pandemonium of fainting, screaming, knife waving, malicious glaring, furious remonstration, hand-clapping delight, dismay, judicious beard stroking, etc. to say nothing of secondary interactions,.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| d2e9b08 | Jack was finally going mad, and it was a small comfort to know that he'd picked the right city for it. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 03c4348 | This Land was made wrong. All of his efforts to make it right only spread the wrongness about in new ways. It is left to souls like me to decide what to do about it; and though I cannot see all the answers, I can guess that adding more wrongness will not help matters. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| b71ce89 | The Barkers are gratuitously radical, however--for example, they believe that Government and Church should have naught to do with each other, and that all slaves in the world should be set free. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c27460e | It's so hard for women - even nice women - to realize that their bodies are not irresistible. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f6672f8 | Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. It | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 788904e | I thought about that, watching the ambulance growing smaller in the distance, thought about the bottomless abuse of power by the bottom feeders gorging on the feedbag of greed while plowing scars into the souls of others, justified for the purported good of the masses, when it was really all about them. | Tom Lowe | ||
| 4ed4eae | No you can't." "I can." "You can't." "Can!" "Can't!" An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said: "What's your name?" "'Tisn't any of your business, maybe." "Well I 'low I'll MAKE it my business." "Well why don't you?" "If you say much, I will." "Much--much--MUCH. There now." | Mark Twain | ||
| 6530681 | board, and as the law of energy balance dictates, you'll still lose weight. But if you hold the protein steady, or even increase the protein, it's more likely that all the weight you lose will be fat. Maintaining muscle isn't the only advantage: Protein also suppresses hunger and increases metabolism more than any other macronutrient. That makes three major advantages to keeping protein high when calories are low. | Tom Venuto | ||
| e4ba9e4 | The sunset played hide-and-seek with leaves and limbs sauntering in the breeze, causing the old oaks to be painted in deep shadow one moment, then turning a golden light. | Tom Lowe | ||
| 6dff7a6 | there is no line of delineation between good friends and good family, and that circle of people around you is the wheel supporting your wheelbarrow and the baggage you carry in it. Family isn't defined by blood any more than a person is defined by the color of his or her skin. Unconditional support parallels unconditional love and grace. Fortunate is the man or woman who has a large circle of family and close friends. | Tom Lowe | ||
| 7f3e307 | Chaloner. And to put it in closer viewpoint, Carlson is the grandson of Andrew Chaloner, the man whose firm, Chaloner Industries, backed | Tom Lowe | ||
| 0183f6e | Well I 'low I'll MAKE it my business." "Well why don't you?" "If you say much, I will." "Much--much--MUCH. There now." "Oh, you think you're mighty smart, DON'T you? I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to." "Well why don't you DO it? You SAY you can do it." "Well I WILL, if you fool with me." "Oh yes--I've seen whole families in the same fix." "Smarty! You think you're SOME, now, DON'T you? Oh, what a hat!" | Mark Twain | ||
| 73ba4de | You're a full portion of what I don't like,' she said. 'Get out of my way.' I didn't move. She didn't move. We were both sitting down - and not even close to each other. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| cebe995 | His voice was the elaborately casual voice of the tough guy in pictures. Pictures have made them all like that. | movies noir | Raymond Chandler | |
| 228cb22 | Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2e5bc09 | Hammett wrote at first (and almost to the end) for people with a sharp, aggressive attitude to life. They were not afraid of the seamy side of things; they lived there. Violence did not dismay them; it was right down their street. Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. He put these people .. | hammett | Raymond Chandler | |
| 544b18a | The music gushed from the loudspeaker in a swirl of shadowed melody. Since Vienna died, all waltzes are shadowed. (I'll be waiting) | Raymond Chandler | ||
| d51e81d | You were lucky about that gun. All the people we know have been playing with it, wiping prints off and putting them on. I even put a set on myself just to be fashionable. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| b2bd44f | I dreamed I was far down in the depths of icy green water with a corpse under my arm. The corpse had long blond hair that kept floating around in front of my face. An enormous fish with bulging eyes and a bloated body and scales shining with putrescence swam around leering like an elderly roue. Just as I was about to burst from lack of air, the corpse came alive under my arm and got away from me and then I was fighting with the fish and the.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| de08afd | in a voice with half the steps missing. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 5647fe1 | His blue eyes frosted. 'Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?' 'No. But I'm having a lot of fun trying to guess what they are. | snark | Raymond Chandler | |
| 8403f33 | It's like that, isn't it? Just as Raymond Chandler says, 'The first kiss is dynamite, the second is routine and then you take her clothes off,' It had been like that for Alan in his previous affairs, even the extended one he had had with Sybil while Naomi was pregnant. Sure, Alan went on enjoying sex with Sybil, but at a fundamental level his lust for her had died the very first time he felt the shock of her pubic bone against his, and knew.. | Will Self | ||
| f5cac27 | Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow) | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 43bb893 | The thin man had a tight voice that expected to be lied to. (The King in Yellow) | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 933b55e | Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill) | Raymond Chandler | ||
| df4a840 | A dark woman with a sharp nose opened her mouth to yell and no sound came from her. There was the instant when nobody makes a sound, when it almost seems as if there will never again be any sound--after the sound of a gun. (Guns at Cyrano's) | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f77d984 | His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's) | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 1fe0376 | It was twenty-five minutes past nine when he got to the corner of Seventh and Spring, where the Metropole was. It was an old hotel that had once been exclusive and was now steering a shaky course between a receivership and a bad name at Headquarters. It had too much oily dark wood paneling, too many chipped gilt mirrors. Too much smoke hung below its low beamed lobby ceiling and too many grifters bummed around in its worn leather rockers. T.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 58a1616 | coffee was overtrained and the sandwich was as full of rich flavor as a piece torn off an old shirt. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 47fb7bf | I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on. "That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 45aa2cb | One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?" Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?" "Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word." Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| dc40f5a | Racket beer, sonny," he said sadly. "Tasteless as a roadhouse blonde." (Spanish Blood)" | Raymond Chandler | ||
| c02f022 | You know who they are?" Tony said softly. "I could maybe give nine guesses. And twelve of them would be right." (I'll be waiting)" | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2ea6fe8 | How can such a hard man be so gentle? she asked wonderingly. If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 62cf2d3 | I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I | Raymond Chandler |