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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 21eec81 | Edward Albee, our greatest living playwright, American treasure, who watched Doubt from beginning to end and loved it, all while a bored B. J. Novak slept on him. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b599b9d | writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 87675d9 | If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true. Well...I guess the people who work hard whose dreams come true don't get to write books about it, so we never really find out what happens to them. So... If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true. | humor life-lessons | Mindy Kaling | |
| 620c71d | Cat Hats: Sixteen Paper Hats to Put on Your Unsuspecting Kitty. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 69f9f0e | Just as long as it pays enough to give me the option to go back to work part-time if I decide to pursue my hobby professionally, which is photographing cool manicures for Instagram. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f254a6a | It felt to me like I was making more of an effort than he was, and when I sensed that, I pulled back, not returning his calls or texts because I felt hurt. But none of that mattered, because I knew the truth, which is if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always. That hurt my heart, but I realized, unlike in past relationships when I was younger, it didn't need to be dramatic. Will and I didn't know each other that wel.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| b283db6 | As a bridesmaid, on the morning of the wedding you will be unfolding the rusty metal legs of a banquet table and in the distance you will see a useless groomsman playing Frisbee with a dog. To rub salt in the wound, he might lightly ask, "Is there anything I can do to help?" knowing full well no self-respecting bridesmaid will task him with any job because he will do it too slowly." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 0b1bd7f | I just sometimes get the sneaking suspicion that corporations are co-opting "girl confidence" language to rally girls into buying body wash. Be careful." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2afad09 | If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in the prison play, it's this: write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f15501e | Teenage girls, please don't worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 1fd7fb8 | The idealism and adorability of Rob Lowe and Bradley Whitford had made me long for a civic-minded beau who is constantly making long, important speeches and taking principled stands. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 66ca241 | GHOSTBUSTERS I always wanted the reboot of Ghostbusters to be four girl-ghostbusters. Like, four normal, plucky women living in New York City searching for Mr. Right and trying to find jobs--but who also bust ghosts. I'm not an idiot, though. I know the demographic for Ghostbusters is teenage boys, and I know they would kill themselves if two ghostbusters had a makeover at Sephora. I just have always wanted to see a cool girl having her fir.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| fc3f0e9 | the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!" This was in New York City. In a room full of Jewish sports fans. I don't even really like baseball that much! I have problems." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 53ffac5 | PARIS APRIL 1ST, 1922 A mile of clean sand. I will write my name here, and the trouble that is in my heart. I will write the date & place of my birth, What I was to be, And what I am. I will write my forty sins, my thousand follies, My four unspeakable acts.... I will write the names of the cities I have fled from, The names of the men & women I have wronged. I will write the holy name of her I serve, And how I serve her ill. And I will sit.. | Nancy Milford | ||
| 17aad76 | It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. | Nancy Milford | ||
| 4eb1d09 | My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light! | Nancy Milford | ||
| 10fcb2d | If I can write just one poem that will turn the minds of a few to a more decent outlook...what does it matter if I compose a bad line or lose my reputation as a craftsman?...I used to think it very important to write only good poetry. Over and over I worked it to make it as flawless as I could. What does it matter now, when men are dying for their hopes and their ideals? If I live or die as a poet it won't matter, but anyone who believes in.. | meaning poetry propaganda purpose war | Nancy Milford | |
| 6ff7d23 | Espera, olha a chuva descendo o morro. Eh, agua do ceu para cheirar gostoso, cheiro de novidade!... E da fina... [...] -- Ei, gente, olha o pe-d'agua! Chegava a chuva, branquejante, farfalhando rumorosa, vinda de tras e nao de cima, de carreira. Alcancou a boiada, enrolando-a toda em bruma e continuando corrida alem. Os vultos dos bois pareciam crescer no nevoeiro, virando sombras esguias, de reptis desdebuxados, informes, com o esguicho .. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 119794b | acho que o sentir da gente volteia, mas em certos modos, rodando em si mas por regras. O prazer muito vira medo, o medo vai vira odio, o odio vira esses desesperos? -- desespero e bom que vire a maior tristeza, constante entao para o um amor -- quanta saudade... --; ai, outra esperanca ja vem... | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 7c56d33 | A ceia indo principiando, somente falei tambem de serios assuntos, que eram a politica e os negocios da lavoura e cria. So faltava la uma boa cerveja e alguem com jornal na mao, para alto se ler e a respeito disso tudo se falar. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| a896c4c | Sofrimento passado e gloria, e sal em cinza. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| cc098f9 | Vivendo minha sorte, com lutas e guerras! | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 2444e26 | Eu nao podia tao depressa fechar meu coracao a ele. Sabia disso. Senti. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 980a9f2 | Vai assim, vem outro cafe, se pita um bom cigarro. | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| 21f46a2 | I felt a wish to be fictionalized. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 87fd112 | We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful. | appearance beauty youth | Ruth Ozeki | |
| ef8277b | It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 8d434a6 | I'm sorry. I was just talking to the moon. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 9feaaf0 | The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 1afc8c8 | nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the time being. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 280e773 | You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 1bc688f | As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 5d0334b | If time is annihilated, mountains and oceans are annihilated. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| e8fa6af | When a breeze blew, petals rained down on my upturned face, and I stopped and gasped, stunned by the beauty and sadness. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 9056421 | A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Desolation Sound still hovered in the liminal space and felt to her both oracular and haunted. | names | Ruth Ozeki | |
| c65cf3b | I've always though of writing as the opposite of suicide," she said. "That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it." "Like Scheherazade?" "Yes," she said. "Spinning tales to forestall her execution..." | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| db79c55 | I write this in the moonlight, straining my ears to hear beyond the cold mechanical clock to the warm biological noises of the night, but my being is attuned only to one thing, the relentless rhythm of time. If I could only smash the clock and stop time from advancing! Crush the infernal machine! Shatter its bland face and rip those cursed hands from their torturous axis of circumscription! I can almost feel the sturdy metal body crumpling .. | time | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 10cd78e | I started to think about how words and stories are time beings, too, | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| e1595f0 | By entering the cave of mind and walking into fire. By making shadows bleed. You can feel life completely by taking it away. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 749499b | Somewhere Dogen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don't remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite arbitrary and absurd, but I imagine that when I am in the cockpit of my plane, aiming the nose at the hull of an American battleship, every single one will be clear and pure and discernible. At the moment of my death, I look forward at last to being fully aware and alive. | death life | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 0f19a08 | Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen," he said, without looking up. "I" -- | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 283b7b8 | Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 2add8cf | Blessed Stars, please make this world into a place where we will never again be forced to kill an enemy whom we cannot hate. Were such a thing to come about, I would not complain even if my body were torn to pieces, again and again. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 7ee30f9 | Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. | Ruth Ozeki |