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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e89ca2 | What's the handle, Zock? | William Goldman | ||
| 13021bc | It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died. Long time. | death dying | William Goldman | |
| 3c24716 | Can you guess what I'm doing?" "Cutting my heart out." "You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I--what could be more just than that?" | William Goldman | ||
| c7861e4 | Butch: Now after we.... wait a minute... Sundance: What? Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there? Sundance: Lefors ? No. Butch: Good. For a minute there I thought we were in trouble. | William Goldman | ||
| 52fa714 | All aboard," the Sicilian said. (This was before trains, but the expression comes originally from carpenters loading lumber, and this was well after carpenters.) With that the Turk began to climb. It was at least a thousand feet and he was carrying the three, but he was not worried. When it came to power, nothing worried him. When it came to reading, he got knots in the middle of his stomach, and when it came to writing, he broke out in a c.. | William Goldman | ||
| 9478894 | One final silly face. One blessed responding laugh. Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all.... | William Goldman | ||
| e5b5f6f | aaron would not come out aaron entered into agony. | epic manhattan stagpole | William Goldman | |
| 4b930b4 | Babe was candy. | William Goldman | ||
| 6a56a04 | If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given. | William Goldman | ||
| aaff561 | Jelenka Harvey Harcourt Trade Publishers 15 East 26th Street New York, NY 10010 | William Goldman | ||
| 0487cea | I could feel almost my heart emptying into my pillow. Iguess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. | William Goldman | ||
| 51c3d67 | For the pedant, dates are deities, worthy of worship, but for the true social historian, they are minutiae only, a shorthand, convenient reminders and no more. You do not ask a Titanic survivor, 'Let me see now, just exactly when was that?' You ask him this: 'What was it like? How did you feel?' And that is the job of the social historian: to make the past vibrant for the present; to emotionally involve those of us who were not there. And t.. | William Goldman | ||
| 59e37ab | The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. "Mawidge," he said. "Vewy old." | William Goldman | ||
| 3989ad2 | Inigo loved him. Totally. Don't ask why. There really wasn't any one reason you could put your finger on. Oh, probably Domingo loved him back, but love is many things, none of them logical. | William Goldman | ||
| 6a749d7 | All right. Your name before mine. You are the greatest sword maker, you deserve to come first." "Have a good trip back." "WHY WON'T YOU?" "Because, my friend Yeste, you are very famous and very rich, and so you should be, because you make wonderful weapons. But you must also make them for any fool who happens along. I am poor, and no one knows me in all the world except you and Inigo, but I do not have to suffer fools." "You are an artist,".. | William Goldman | ||
| 3a67a24 | Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior experience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing... who can sense revelation in the wind? | William Goldman | ||
| 695e1da | The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage. | William Goldman | ||
| eafc0a9 | Back, Witch--" "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" | marriage | William Goldman | |
| 07eecf3 | any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them. | William Goldman | ||
| 2ac3a33 | But I don't think you would accept my help, since I'm only waiting up here so that I can kill you." "That does put a damper on our relationship," the man in black said then." | William Goldman | ||
| cc87aa1 | I think pain is the most underrated emotion available to us," the Count said. "The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain. Pain has been with us always, and it always irritates me when people say 'as important as life and death' because the proper phrase, to my mind, should be, 'as important as pain and death.'" The Count fell silent for a time then, as he began and completed a series of complex adjustments. "One of my theories," he said s.. | William Goldman | ||
| 6c3c000 | This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.) | William Goldman | ||
| ab6800d | May I please tell you something, Highness? You're very cold--" "I'm not--" "--very cold and very young, and if you live, I think you'll turn to hoarfrost--" "Why do you pick at me? I have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair--I am not cold, I swear, but I have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; I have not been happy dealing with it--" Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high." | William Goldman | ||
| 64f9f7e | Life isn't fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be. | William Goldman | ||
| 43e8092 | Hey, what about you? That monastery didn't make you soft, I hope." "The Cistercians?" Chris laughed. "Make me soft? They're the toughest order in the Catholic Church." "They really don't talk?" "Not only that. They believe in brutal daily work. I might as well have spent another six years in Special Forces." | David Morrell | ||
| 6524500 | First Blood Rambo knife by Jimmy Lile. It features a saw, a guard with straight and Philips screwdriver heads, holes in the guard for a wrist lanyard, | David Morrell | ||
| 95a8423 | Cavanaugh's knife, Ernest Emerson's CQC-7W. The hook at the top opens the blade as the knife is drawn from a pocket. (Emersonknives.com) | David Morrell | ||
| f02d844 | La Griffe, "The Claw." Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters. Designed by Fredric Perrin, manufactured by Ernest Emerson. (Emersonknoves.com)" | David Morrell | ||
| d73e5c0 | Learn to respect a craftsman's talent, to realize that a task done well seems easy but is terribly difficult. | David Morrell | ||
| 2e81302 | if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business | David Morrell | ||
| e883923 | I suppose none of what I'm saying matters. In a few years a search like this won't even be necessary. We have instruments now that can be mounted on the underside of an airplane. To find a man all you have to do is fly over the spot where you think he is, and the machine will register his body heat. Right now there aren't enough of those machines to go around. Most of them are in the war. But when we come home from there, well, a man on the.. | progress | David Morrell | |
| f92c3bc | Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, critique. | Douglas Preston | ||
| d26d721 | Nasheto priiatelstvo beshe ot tezi, koito shchom vedn'zh se zav'rzhat, ostavat za tsial zhivot; vse edno si sreshchnal liubim chovek, koito se poiaviava vnezapno, sled kato d'lgo si t'guval po nego. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 4361381 | Pero hoy, se decia Juan, todo el mundo necesita hablar. De alguna manera inconsciente (con un chiste, con una palabra o con un grito) la gente necesita resumir el ano. El inventario no tiene que ser exhaustivo, pero es imprescindible. Reflejara lo que nos falta y por lo mismo nos alentara a buscarlo | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| f7448e8 | queria una persona, queria que esa persona me quisiera y no pensaba que uno tenia que buscar, incesantemente, en otros cuerpos lo que ya habia encontrado en uno solo (...) | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| e842ceb | Porque tambien estaba eso. No enloquecer. Tener el suficiente coraje para tolerar sin (autenticamente) tolerar, para aparentemente aceptar sin aceptar. Tener el suficiente valor para (aparentemente) hacer el juego sin traicionarse, sin perder el juicio; sin perder ese hilo casi inapresable que es el verdadero sentido, el que nadie conocia, y que nunca serviria para alimentarlo, para complacer a su familia, ni para disminuir el estruendo de .. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| 1818486 | En los sistemas politicos siniestros, se vuelven siniestras tambien muchas de las personas que lo padecen; no son muchos los que pueden escapar a esa maldad delirante y envolvente de la cual, si uno se excluye, perece. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| e3c4cc1 | What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 6a7e61c | sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing--even if knowing proves to be very painful. | Douglas Preston | ||
| efee2e7 | This was a Third World disease attacking First World people. The world is now divided into Third and First, not Old and New. Pathogens once confined to the Third World are now making deadly inroads into the First. This is the future trajectory of disease on planet Earth. | Douglas Preston | ||
| 9d3459f | Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. "I had lunch at Maisie's Diner." "And?" "And what? It was the most revolting lunch it has been my misfortune to consume." "And after?" "Diarrhea, of course." | food | Douglas Preston | |
| dfb47bd | Do what? Kill me? Then my blood would be on your hands--more than it already is--as well as that of your four dear friends. Because you, frater, are responsible for all this. You know it. You made me what I am." "I made you nothing." "Well said! Well said!" A dry, almost desiccated laugh came over the tiny speaker. Listening," | Douglas Preston | ||
| c73763d | You mean, let our most excellent Congress deal with this situation in the same way it has handled our other pressing national problems, such as global warming, terrorism, education, and our crumbling infrastructure? | Douglas Preston | ||
| 79f5e5a | Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now entering our country include Zika, West Nile virus, chikungunya, and dengue fever. Even diseases like cholera, Ebola, Lyme, babesiosis, and bubonic plague will potentially infect more people as global warming accelerates. | Douglas Preston |