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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 982d2a8 | Something about the memory caused him to tear up, to think again about the unknowable nature of the people we love. | Jess Walter | ||
| f71234a | But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale? | Jess Walter | ||
| de6f6a9 | First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she had a vision of herself thirty years in the future: a spinster librarian in an apartment full of cats named after New Wave directors. (Godard, leave Rivette's chew toy alone--) | Jess Walter | ||
| e4e6c4f | Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business. | Jess Walter | ||
| 856ee98 | All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character--what we believe--none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story! | Jess Walter | ||
| 21e9ab0 | So I make one phone call, and just like that, we're eating pizza at 6:30. What is this world? You tap seven abstract figures onto a piece of plastic thin as a billfold, hold that plastic device to your head, use your lungs and vocal cords to indicate more abstractions, and in thirty minutes, a guy pulls up in a 2,000-pound machine made on an island on the other side of the world, fueled by viscous liquid made from the rotting corpses of dea.. | Jess Walter | ||
| 72b0596 | happy to no longer expect the dead perfection of museum art, but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life. | Jess Walter | ||
| 074acdf | And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow. Maybe every moment occurs at once, and they will always be twenty-two, their lives always before them. | Jess Walter | ||
| 58166e1 | This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life. He needed coffee. | Jess Walter | ||
| b4e3d01 | Great fiction tells unknown truths. Great film goes further. Great film improves Truth. After all, what Truth ever made $40 million in its first weekend of wide release? What Truth sold in forty foreign territories in six hours? Who's lining up to see a sequel to Truth? | Jess Walter | ||
| 9cfac68 | Another part of Bit's unifying urban theory is sprinklers, that you can gauge a neighborhood's wealth by the way people water. If every house has an automatic system, you're looking at a six-figure mean. If the majority lug hoses around, it's more lower-middle class. And if they don't bother with the lawns... well, that's the sort of shitburg where Bit and Julie always lived, except for that little place they rented in Wenatchee the summer .. | Jess Walter | ||
| 996d042 | Madge did the honors. "Are you...keeping company with Doc Piney?" Jesse answered carefully. "We are not dating, but we are seeing a lot of each other." Factually true. Revealing nothing. The three women sat silently for a long moment, sharing glances with each other. "You know he has a sad history," Walter Lou said finally. "Of course she knows," Madge said immediately. "Everybody knows. The question is are you planning on breaking that man.. | the-lovesick-cure | Pamela Morsi | |
| 84b1ea3 | Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers. | Jess Walter | ||
| b0c13c6 | has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brains? | Jess Walter | ||
| c0cbe2b | I could write for days about the disappointment of politics. | Jess Walter | ||
| 5506314 | Zo gaat het wanneer je je verliest in dromen, dacht hij: je droomt van het een, je droomt van het ander en voor je het weet heb je je hele leven verslapen. | Jess Walter | ||
| cc7dc9e | The eye sees everything upside down," the artist explained, "and then the brain automatically reverses it. I'm just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it." Alvis" | Jess Walter | ||
| 5ae445e | Among the world's evils--fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation-- smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school. | smoking | Jess Walter | |
| cac19e6 | our lives have a way of eddying back on themselves, offering us the same view over and over, daring us to get it right just once. | Jess Walter | ||
| 2f04800 | You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married. | Jess Walter | ||
| 215009d | Caroline was struck by just how close twenty-four feet really is, how little space really exists between us. Of course they were different, Lenny Ryan's shooting of the pawnbroker, her own shooting of the wife beater. But that meant there was a difference between what Lenny Ryan did and what Kevin Verloc did, that in the end we are separated not by distance, but degree. And in that truth was another; none of us knows, in the tumble of event.. | Jess Walter | ||
| 960d947 | And it's a life with no shortage of moments to recommend it, a life that picks up speed like a boulder rolling down a hill, easy and natural and comfortable, and yet beyond control somehow; it all happens so fast, you wake a young man and at lunch are middle-aged and by dinner you can imagine your death. | Jess Walter | ||
| ee9ce0f | For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. | Jess Walter | ||
| 36b1422 | The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery--then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."[" | Walter E. Williams | ||
| bd1fd10 | And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast. | Jess Walter | ||
| c7c44cb | y llHsr@. nHn,m` mrwr lwqt,l`ywb lty tshkln, l lmzy. | José Saramago | ||
| 2019038 | You have to remain critically vigilant." Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views it as obvious. Resist being credulous." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0feb11d | The Mayan system made more sense than the Western system does. Since the Western calendar was created at a time when there was no zero, we never see a day zero, or a year zero. This apparently insignificant omission caused a great deal of trouble; it kindled the controversy over the start of the millenium. The Mayans would never have argued about whether 2000 or 2001 was the first year in the twenty-first century. But it was not the Mayans .. | Charles Seife | ||
| 7bfcabc | The Greeks couldn't do this neat little mathematical trick. They didn't have the concept of a limit because they didn't believe in zero. The terms in the infinite series didn't have a limit or a destination; they seemed to get smaller and smaller without any particular end in sight. As a result, the Greeks couldn't handle the infinite. They pondered the concept of the void but rejected zero as a number, and they toyed with the concept of th.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 5c44558 | The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless. | Charles Seife | ||
| 5b43cd4 | See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot. | mathematics | Charles Seife | |
| 05a51cd | is no question that the vacuum has energy; the Casimir force is witness to that fact. But is it possible that the energy of the vacuum is truly the lowest possible energy? If not, danger might be lurking in the vacuum. In 1983 two scientists suggested in Nature that tinkering with the energy of the vacuum might cause the universe to self-destruct. The paper argued that our vacuum might be a "false" vacuum in an unnaturally energetic state--.. | Charles Seife | ||
| e4197db | It is in the mind of a single person that creative ideas and concepts are born. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f1b0784 | The job of art is to chase ugliness away. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| aded006 | service, which would relay messages to his mother. Ron Wayne drew a logo, using the ornate line-drawing style of Victorian illustrated fiction, that featured Newton sitting under a tree framed by a quote from Wordsworth: "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." It was a rather odd motto, one that fit Wayne's self-image more than Apple Computer. Perhaps" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 98c662d | The culture at Atari was a natural outgrowth of [Nolan] Bushnell's personality. But it was not simply self-indulgent. It was based on a philosophy that drew from the hippie movement and would help define Silicon Valley. At it's core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired and creativity should be nurtured. | corporate-culture | Walter Isaacson | |
| 1027254 | the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fbcaca3 | Throughout, Kubrick and Clarke remained locked in dialogue. One strategy they'd agreed on in advance was that their story's metaphysical and even mystical elements had to be earned through absolute scientific-technical realism. 2001's space shuttles, orbiting stations, lunar bases, and Jupiter missions were thoroughly grounded in actual research and rigorously informed extrapolation, much of it provided by leading American companies then al.. | Michael Benson | ||
| dfda400 | Ah, my dear friend Hassim, seems our paths cross once again, how fortunate for this humble Sheik." As Abdullah spoke in his usual self deprecating manner I realized that a favor was on the tip of his tongue and that I was about to be offered a quid-pro-quo. We were sitting crossed legged on large fat pillows with gold fringe. The tent was large with partitions dividing living, sleeping and cooking space. It was made from heavy cotton canvas.. | human-trafficking interpol sex-slavery undercover-intelligence | Nick Hahn | |
| 8a36c23 | Work hard. Work dirty. Choose your favourite spade and dig a small, deep hole; located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Then bury your cellphone and then find a hobby. Actually, 'hobby' is not a weighty enough word to represent what I am trying to get across. Let's use 'discipline' instead. If you engage in a discipline or do something with your hands, instead of kill time on your phone device, then you have so.. | hobby inspirational-quotes life life-lessons overcome-depression work-hard | Nick Offerman | |
| 9e9d8b4 | We invariably come back to testing as a means of understanding drug use, even though assuming these tests lead to truth puts one on shaky ground. You simply can't prove something to be true or false if the means of confirmation are easily questioned. Consider how the National Survey on Drug Use and Health concludes every four years how many meth addicts there are in the United States. First, surveyors ask employers to give their employees a.. | Nick Reding | ||
| b291c9b | A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5867c34 | Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0a44e8c | He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur," he later said. "He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn't. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs." Matters" | Walter Isaacson |