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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ae2849f | I do not break my Sabbath fast in a whorehouse. | David Mitchell | ||
| a8add42 | You were five or six, Raf. When you washed up on the rocks below you were in shock, you had hypothermia, you'd seen slaughter at close quarters, you'd drifted for heaven only knows how long in the cold Atlantic, you were alone. You're not a forgetter, you're a survivor. I think it's a miracle you remember anything at all." Rafiq takes a clipping of his own hair, fallen onto his thigh, and rubs it moodily between his finger and thumb. I thin.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5fc1156 | But it's the feeling of love that we love, not the person. It's that giddy exhilaration I just experienced, just now. The feeling of being chosen and desired and cared about. It's pretty pathetic when you examine it clearheadedly. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6c08273 | What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character? | literary-criticism self-deprecating | David Mitchell | |
| c17a02d | February's so gloomy in this part of the world", said Mrs. de Roo, "don't you think? It's not so much a month as a twenty-eight day long Monday morning" | David Mitchell | ||
| c69c774 | I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it, retrospectively. Racial differences I've always found to have an aphrodisiac effect on me, but class difference is sexuality's Berlin Wall. Certainly, I can't read Holly Sykes as well as I can girls from my own incometax tribe, but you never know. God made the whole Earth in six days, and I'm in Switzerland for nine or ten. | David Mitchell | ||
| 60dc8d5 | Or, if he's feeling more poetic, it might be "Now, Frobisher, the clarinet is the concubine, the violas are yew trees in the cemetery, the clavichord is the moon, so ... let the east wind blow that A minor chord, sixteenth bar onwards." | David Mitchell | ||
| 59ebf9f | Sorry, poppet," I tell Aoife. "I was miles away." "No, you weren't. You're right here." "I was miles away metaphorically." "What's meta ... frickilly?" "The opposite of literally." "What's litter-lily?" "The opposite of metaphorically." Aoife pouts. "Be serious, Daddy." | David Mitchell | ||
| a5eafc7 | Las autobiografias ya de por si son infumables, !pero anda que las novelitas! Heroe emprende viaje, forastero llega a la ciudad, alguien persigue algo, lo consigue o no lo consigue, conflicto entre voluntades opuestas. "Admiradme, porque soy una metafora"." -- | literatura literature novela spanish | David Mitchell | |
| fb1e5f3 | an' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon. | David Mitchell | ||
| 98ae8e1 | Chert voz'mi, kogda tvoi roditeli umiraiut, oni pereseliaiutsia v tebia. | David Mitchell | ||
| ff0c643 | Stranno - razmishliava Milt'n. - Vlast, vreme, gravitatsiia, liubov, Oniia sili, koito naistina ne mozhesh prebori, sa vse nevidimi. | David Mitchell | ||
| f152312 | Commuters sway like sides of beef and slump like corpses: red-eyed office slaves plugged into Discmans; their podgier selves in their forties buried in the Evening Standard; and nearly retired versions gazing over West London wondering where their lives went. I am the System you have to beat, clacks the carriage. I am the System you have to beat. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6cb1ec6 | Nie - pod tova razbiram vsichki nad shestdeset -s's samoto si s'shchestvuvane izv'rshvame dve pregresheniia. Ednoto e lipsata na b'rzina. Karame tv'rde bavno, khodim tv'rde bavno, govorim tv'rde bavno. Svet't e gotov da v'rti sdelki s diktatori, perverznitsi i narkobaroni ot vsiakakva velichina, no ne ponasia da go baviat. Vtoroto ni pregreshenie e, che v ochite na vseki chovek nie sme memento mori. Svet't mozhe da otricha s blesnali ochi n.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4dc1629 | Miroliubie, khot' i vozliubleno nashim Gospodom, iavliaet soboi glavnuiu dobrodetel' tol'ko v tom sluchae, esli vashi sosedi razdeliaiut vashi ubezhdeniia. | David Mitchell | ||
| 526a495 | Skol'ko liudei, stol'ko i istin. Vremia ot vremeni mne viditsia bolee istinnaia Istina, skryvaiushchaiasia v nesovershennom podobii samoi sebia, no kak tol'ko ia k nei priblizhaius', ona probuzhdaetsia i pogruzhaetsia eshchio glubzhe v porosshee koliuchim kustarnikom boloto raznoglasii. | David Mitchell | ||
| 14ab62b | flamelight danced with shadows round them unloved walls. | David Mitchell | ||
| d94b560 | Soznanie ne terpit pustoty, a potomu sklonno naseliat' ee prizrakami. | David Mitchell | ||
| e6a84a8 | Ce invatatura se cere trasa? Ca Pacea, oricit de placuta in ochii Domnului Dumnezeului nostru, este o virtute cardinala numai daca si vecinii vad lucrurile la fel. | razboi | David Mitchell | |
| 895534d | Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases? We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor. | conspiracy martyr purpose | David Mitchell | |
| d3c725f | Svijet je skolski ravnatelj koji se bavi tvojim manama. Ne mislim u nekom u nekom misticnom ili Isusovom smislu. Nego prije na foru da se uporno spotices preko neke skrivene stube, bez kraja i konca, dok ti konacno ne sine: pazi, stuba! Sve su stvari u kojima kiksamo skrivene stube, bilo da smo odvec sebicni ili odvec sluga pokoran ili sto vec. Ili nikad neces primijetiti u cemu grijesis pa ces dovijeka trpjeti posljedice ili ces jednog dan.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 235f9a3 | Old Ma Yibber spread the news that Zachry what came down off Mauna Kea weren't the same Zachry what'd gone up, an' true 'nuff I s'pose, there ain't no journey what don't change you some. | David Mitchell | ||
| 46f2b89 | Das Fegen der Wandelgange ist eine lastige Angelegenheit an diesem Nachmittag: Kaum sind die Blatter und Piniennadeln zusammengekehrt, blast der Wind den Haufen davon. Wolken ziehen uber dem Kahlen Gipfel auf und verschutten eisigen Nieselregen. | german japan | David Mitchell | |
| a0117f8 | Citi oameni atitea adevaruri. Cind si cind, parca zaresc un Adevar mai adevarat, care se ascunde in spatele unor simulacre imprefecte, dar, cind incerc sa m-apropii de el, se face nevazut si se afunda si mai adinca in mlastina inselatoare a dezacordului. | credinta minciuna razboi | David Mitchell | |
| 16d999b | Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more. More what? I asked. Old Uns'd got ev'rythin'. Oh, more gear, more food, faster speeds, longer lifes, easier lifes, more power, yay. Now the Hole World is big, but it weren't big 'nuff for that hunger what made Old Uns rip out the skies an' boil up the seas an' poison soil .. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2c4a42c | My spine still works. That's always useful. | David Mitchell | ||
| 46ffb41 | Venga, hombre, ?que es un critico? Un individuo que lee deprisa y corriendo, de manera arrogante pero nunca prudente. | David Mitchell | ||
| 16d9d04 | Ay, TC, ?por que te entregaste a los libros? !Que rollo de oficio, que autentico pestino! Las autobiografias ya de por si son infumables, !pero anda que las novelitas! Heroe emprende viaje, forastero llega a la ciudad, alguien persigue algo, lo consigue o no lo consigue, conflicto entre voluntades opuestas. "Admiradme, porque soy una metafora"." | David Mitchell | ||
| 508d83d | Ya no hay lugar para ti en el mundo exterior. Ahora vives en Aurora House. ?Vas captando el concepto? ?O le pido al senor Withers aqui presente que te lo vuelva a explicar? Mandala a la mierda, me aconsejaba mi espiritu, o te arrepentiras despues. Dile lo que quiere oir, chillaba mi sistema nervioso, o te arrepentiras ahora. El espiritu parecia fuerte, pero la carne es debil. | David Mitchell | ||
| df127ef | The wisdom of skin is underappreciated. | David Mitchell | ||
| f7ca3f8 | Te das cuenta, verdad, mi querido lector? Estaba metido en un asilo de pelicula de serie B. Cuanto mas rabiaba y despotricaba, mas demostraba que deberia estar donde estaba. | David Mitchell | ||
| 68a8a0d | Me habia equivocado de estrategia desde el primer movimiento. Habia tratado de salir de aquel absurdo a grito pelado, pero una vez internado eso es imposible. Los negreros reciben con los brazos abiertos a los rebeldes, para darles un escarmiento delante de los demas. En toda la literatura carcelaria que conozco, desde Archipielago Gulag a An Evil Cradling, sin olvidarnos de Sandwich de nudillos, los derechos hay que ganarselos a base de tr.. | David Mitchell | ||
| d218aa8 | La felicidad significa ausencia de privaciones? Si es asi, entonces los sirvientes, tal y como los purasangres gustan de creer, son el estrato mas feliz de toda la Corpocracia. Pero si la felicidad significa superar adversidades, o sentirse valorado y realizado, entonces, de todos los esclavos de Nea So Copros, somos sin ninguna duda los mas desdichados. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9d01cdf | por que cualquier dominador teme que sus vasallos adquieran conocimiento. No me atrevi a pronunciar la palabra insurreccion | David Mitchell | ||
| 1644be2 | la verdadera adquisicion de conocimiento no se limitaba a la lectura, que el conocimiento sin experiencia era como la comida sin sustancia. | David Mitchell | ||
| e9bd52d | I'd always worried but kissing's not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anemones know what to do. | David Mitchell | ||
| ef02ced | Bueno --tanteo Hae-Joo--, ?que haces para relajarte? --Jugar al go con el sony --dije. --?Para relajarte? --replico incredulo--. ?Y quien gana, tu o el sony? --El sony --respondi--. ?Como si no iba a mejorar? --O sea, que los ganadores --razono Hae-Joo--, ?son, en realidad, los perdedores, porque no aprenden nada nuevo? Entonces, ?que son los perdedores? ?Ganadores? Yo no sabia si hablaba en serio. --Si los perdedores consiguen sacar partid.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 53bbc35 | Pero si sabias que todo era un montaje, ?por que te prestaste a colaborar? ?Por que se presta todo martir a colaborar con su Judas? Porque atisba un objetivo mas elevado. | David Mitchell | ||
| 86ff666 | la historia no admite leyes, solo consecuencias. ?Que determina las consecuencias? Las acciones depravadas y las acciones virtuosas. ?Y que determina las acciones? Las creencias. | David Mitchell | ||
| 4c8d4c5 | Sentimientos liberales! !Pero a mi no me vengas con monsergas de justicia! !Vete a Tennessee montado en un pollino y ponte a convencer a esos palurdos sudistas de que en realidad son negros pintados de blanco y de que sus esclavos son blancos pintados de negro! !Vete a Europa y ponte a decirles que los derechos de los esclavos del imperio son tan inalienables como los de la reina de Belgica! !Ah, terminaras pobre, canoso y ronco en las reun.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5481dcd | entre todas las razas del mundo, nuestra sed, o mejor dicho, nuestra avidez, de tesoros, de oro, de especias y de dominio, !oh, si!, sobre todo del dulce dominio, !es la mas aguda, la mas insaciable, la mas carente de todo escrupulo! Es esta avidez la que alimenta nuestro progreso, no se si con fines diabolicos o divinos. Ni usted tampoco lo sabe, senor. Ni yo tengo el menor interes en saberlo. Simplemente, me alegro de que el Creador me ar.. | diabólico divine divino español progreso progress spanish vencer win winner | David Mitchell | |
| fd469dc | Commander Aronsson of the Icelandic Marines, that ship is the ICGV Sjalfstaedi." The officer's voice has a military crispness, and when he turns to his left, the bulletproof visor reflects the low sun. "This is Lieutenant Eriksdottir." He indicates a slighter figure, a woman, also watching us through an augvisor. She nods by way of hello. "Last, we have 'Mr.' Harry Veracruz, a presidential adviser who is joining us on our mission." -- | David Mitchell | ||
| 3865848 | They need shinier myths that will never be soiled by becoming true. | David Mitchell | ||
| 732644f | I put ten sugar cubes in my coffee. I drank it through my tongue, and my blood sang like the Archangel Gabriel as the sugar flooded in. That can't be natural | humor | David Mitchell |