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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ab3e682 | She was quite a doll. She wore a white belted raincoat, no hat, a well-cherished head of platinum hair, booties to match the raincoat, a folding plastic umbrella, a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked at me as if I had said a dirty word. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2b366dc | Javonen smiled - very slightly. Call it a down payment on a smile. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| d57f589 | You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 870db38 | I'm a lone wolf, unmarried...and not rich....I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don't like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers and sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens...nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 6352960 | Sit down and rest your sex appeal. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f12a613 | spring rustling in the air, like a paper bag blowing along a concrete sidewalk. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f63a746 | I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 4d28582 | What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 528745d | I went out to the kitchen to make coffee--yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2efa517 | If the mystery novel is at all realistic (which it very seldom is) it is written in a certain spirit of detachment; otherwise nobody but a psychopath would want to write it or read it. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3d40403 | Doctors are just people, born to sorrow, fighting the long grim fight like the rest of us. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| c595c12 | Hemingway says somewhere that the good writer competes only with the dead. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 460c23f | Wherever I went, whatever I did, this was what I would come back to. A blank wall in a meaningless room in a meaningless house. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 60126f1 | On a dance floor half a dozen couples were throwing themselves around with the reckless abandon of a night watchman with arthritis. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 291b480 | Don't kid yourself. You're a dirty low-down detective. Kiss me. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| f1872b0 | Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, it's our own expectations that crush us. | Paul Murray | ||
| 60e4fc4 | On the way back, Dennis, who has been unusually quiet this lunchtime, speaks up. 'I've been thinking about that Robert Frost poem,' he says. 'I don't think it's about making choices at all.' 'What's it about, so?' Geoff says. 'Anal sex,' Dennis says. 'Anal sex?' 'How'd'you figure, Dennis?' 'Well, once you see it, it's pretty obvious. Just look at what he says. He's in a wood, right? He sees two roads in front of him. He takes the one less t.. | Paul Murray | ||
| 7372cab | Never trust an Italian. The Nazis did that, and look where it got them. | trust | Paul Murray | |
| 11742e1 | the greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only with the memory of what you left behind, but with the ghosts of all the untaken paths, now never to be taken, running parallel. | Paul Murray | ||
| b32b326 | But things like the world-inside-this-one are too big to hold in your head by yourself. You need someone to remind you, or else, you need someone you can tell, and you have to keep telling each other, over and over, throughout your whole life. And as you tell them, the things are slowly binding you together, like tiny invisible strings, or like a frisbee that's thrown back and forth, or like words written on the floor in syrup. TELL LORI. T.. | Paul Murray | ||
| f849d95 | To look out the window, it might be the 1980s still, the height of the heroin plague, the police doing nothing, the politicians doing nothing. The same faces loitering in the forecourt of the boarded-up garage, proud of their intractability, the notoriety of their home. Wearing their failure like a badge of honour, generation after generation, parent and child. | Paul Murray | ||
| 8e8d0cf | More pertinent, however, is that capitalism tends to stultify the worker's creativity, his human urge for self-expression, freedom, mutually respectful interaction with others, recognition of his self-determined sense of self, recognition of himself as a self rather than an object, a means to an end. Karl Marx called it "alienation." Capitalism alienates the worker--and the capitalist--from his "fundamental human need" for "self-fulfilling .. | Chris Wright | ||
| 70b48b0 | and she sees, like in a vision, that life and the future are going to be way more complicated than she ever expected, impossibly, unbearably complicated and difficult. In that same moment she feels herself grow older, like she's finished a level in a video game and moved on invisibly to the next stage; it's a tiredness that takes over her body, a tiredness like nothing before, like she's swallowed a ton weight . . . | Paul Murray | ||
| 64694a4 | Prayer - Christian prayer - by its very nature is born out of an acknowledgment of need, out of an honest recognition of spiritual poverty. | Paul Murray | ||
| 2c0f2ac | The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learned to say with Paul, "I be nothing" (2 Cor. 12:11). He has received the spirit of Jesus, who did not please Himself and did not seek His own honor, as the spirit of his life." --Andrew Murray, Humility 6" | Richard J. Foster | ||
| 0633ab0 | People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens. | lies modernity truth | Paul Murray | |
| 442c10f | I'm just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think it's all okay because it's just their job, while their real self is what happens after work, when they're bouncing a baby on the knee, or writing poems about snowflakes or whatever. | morals professional-life work | Paul Murray | |
| bb8700d | Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out. | love marriage relationships | Paul Murray | |
| 4e17ef3 | As Richard mounted his horse to follow, some of his Household protested that he must not wear into battle the helmet with the golden crown, for it would mark him as the prime target for the enemy. Quietly Richard replied that he would live, and die, King of England. | richard-iii | Paul Murray Kendall | |
| dd232ff | IT'S A staggering list of achievements--the acting, the racing, the earnings, the giving away--and he could sometimes seem uneasy about it all and, especially, about the image that the rest of the world had of him as a result. The great sportswriter Jim Murray, who met him on a racetrack, opined, "He's probably the only guy in America who doesn't want to be Paul Newman." | Shawn Levy | ||
| fdc5781 | St Thomas, in his commentary on Psalm 16, writes: `When God examines, he does three things, namely, he tests, he visits, he examines.''`' What is more, as a result of this testing, as soon as God finds that an individual possesses a certain integrity, there begins the deeper testing, the more searching examination. Thomas cites Jer. 17.10: I, the Lord, search the heart and probe the loins. I give everyone according to his way.20 Finding one.. | Paul Murray | ||
| 974a475 | Capitalism needs war. | cynicism | Paul Murray | |
| 5bc4924 | It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people. | philistines values | Paul Murray | |
| 649bca2 | The accursed ship didn't sink for a full three hours. By the time it did, I was feeling so traumatized that even watching Dogface die offered little consolation. The dialogue, the acting, the vast emptiness of the whole endeavour! Was that what passed for cinema these days? I felt like I have been violated; violated by a team of accountants. | Paul Murray | ||
| 6fd4db3 | The stories we read in books, what's presented to us as being interesting - they have very little to do with real life as it's lived today. I'm not talking about straight-up escapism, your vampires, serial killers, codes hidden in paintings, and so on. I mean so-called serious literature. A boy goes hunting with his emotionally volatile father, a bereaved woman befriends an asylum seeker, a composer with a rare neurological disorder walks a.. | literature meaning modern-life modernity novels | Paul Murray | |
| cd627ee | This is the way they live now, like two actors in the final performances of a show no one comes to see anymore. | Paul Murray | ||
| c58ffe5 | I do not think my life would make a very interesting book,' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here. | humor | Paul Murray | |
| a06d347 | Lack is the last great gold rush, Claude. The world is poor and getting poorer. But we can turn that to our advantage. When someone's got nothing, does he care how much debt he gets into? When he's walled in and someone offers him a way out, does he stop to read the small print? | Paul Murray | ||
| e327f6b | By noting that she seems to listen but not speak, Bellincioni conveyed what makes the portrait so momentous: it captures the sense of an inner mind at work. Her emotions seem to be revealed, or at least hinted at, by the look in her eyes, the enigma of her smile, and the erotic way she clutches and caresses the ermine. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b249464 | macrocosm analogy began with his curiosity about why water, which should in theory tend to settle on the earth's surface, emerges from springs and flows into rivers at the top of mountains. The veins of the earth, he wrote, carry "the blood that keeps the mountains alive." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| dfea26b | Closely related are the entries in his bestiary, a compendium of short tales of animals and moral lessons based on their traits. Bestiaries were popular among the ancients and in the Middle Ages, and the spread of printing presses meant that many were reprinted in Italy beginning in the 1470s. Leonardo had a copy of the bestiary written by Pliny the Elder and three others by medieval compilers. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 445ae5a | it is clear that Leonardo was charming and attractive and had many friends. "His disposition was so lovable that he commanded everyone's affection," according to Vasari. "He was so pleasing in conversation that he attracted to himself the hearts of men." Paolo Giovio, a near contemporary who met Leonardo in Milan, similarly remembered his pleasant nature. "He was friendly, precise, and generous, with a radiant, graceful expression," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 19cb9e9 | Its leading thinkers embraced a Renaissance humanism that put its faith in the dignity of the individual and in the aspiration to find happiness on this earth through knowledge. Fully a third of Florence's population was literate, the highest rate in Europe. By embracing trade, it became a center of finance and a cauldron of ideas. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 791ef52 | how the ability to make connections across disciplines--arts and sciences, humanities and technology--is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius. | Walter Isaacson |