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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f9a570c | Seed of the little Seed of the wyld Seed of the berning is Hart of the chyld . . . Out goes the candl Out goes the lite Out goes my story And so Good Nite | Russell Hoban | ||
| 9502b44 | I've seen a film in which Dr Lorenz pointed out the difference between two colonies of cattle egrets, one free and one caged. The free ones, who had to provide for themselves, were monogamous and energetic and kept their numbers within ecologically reasonable limits. The captive egrets were promiscuous, idle, overbreeding and presumably going to hell fast. | Russell Hoban | ||
| c52fe10 | And so now, in the shadow of unspoken events, I watch Zampano's courtyard darken. Everything whimsical has left. I try to study the light-going carefully. From my room. In the glass of memory. In the moonstream of my imagination. The weeds, the windows, every bench. But the old man is not there, and the cats are all gone. Something else has taken their place. Something I am unable to see. Waiting. I'm afraid. It is hungry. It is immortal. W.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| e499942 | Please forgive me for thinking faith means certainty. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| af42735 | How much [vastly {immensely (unfathomably) tremendously}...] Anwar loves [t]his child. It continues to take him by surprise [even when she confounds him with the havoc of her room {for example} which she will proudly describe {defend!} as clean {those beautiful messes (beautiful even today)} even as {in the next moment} she will astonish Anwar with her fearless interest in life {despite the harrowing blows life continues to deliver her (and.. | love parenting | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 9cc6de6 | It's very odd...that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents, stocks, real estate--all those values shrink abominably. | William Dean Howells | ||
| f2ebcdd | No, no. I understand that. And I quite agree with you. But you know I've always contended that the affections could be made to combine pleasure and profit. I wouldn't have a man marry for money,--that would be rather bad,--but I don't see why, when it comes to falling in love, a man shouldn't fall in love with a rich girl as easily as a poor one. Some of the rich girls are very nice, and I should | William Dean Howells | ||
| 07577ca | New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always...Yes, gay is the word...but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York. | William Dean Howells | ||
| 9f11fad | She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases. | mgg william-dean-howells words | William Dean Howells | |
| b76c206 | It's the whole country that makes or breaks a thing like this. New York has very little to do with it. Now if it were a play, it would be different. New York does make or break a play; but it doesn't make or break a book; it doesn't make or break a magazine. The great mass of the readers are outside of New York and the rural districts are what we have got to go for. They don't read much in New York; they write and talk about what they've wr.. | William Dean Howells | ||
| 19a3d6f | Since I was about ten years younger than this crew of alcoholics, I just listened and filled their cups with cheap wine. After they'd had enough, I'd tell them of my escapades in Riverbank and in Panama where I'd worked with the Southern Baptist Convention and Jesus Christ to save the black souls of niggers, spics and Indians. I used to keep my eye on Harris when I told my stories. He had this nasty habit of pulling out a little notebook in.. | Oscar Zeta Acosta | ||
| cedc11e | During World War II, there had been a project to sabotage the Nazi nuclear weapons program. Years earlier, Leo Szilard, the first person to realize the possibility of a fission chain reaction, had convinced Fermi not to publish the discovery that purified graphite was a cheap and effective neutron moderator. Fermi had wanted to publish, for the sake of the great international project of science, which was above nationalism. But Szilard had .. | Eliezer Yudkowsky | ||
| ea80a1e | He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure. Rage would not cure it. Indulgence made it worse, flamed it, made it grow like cancer. And it had ruined his life. Not now, not in this moment. Long before. The world had seemed a good and liveable place. Brutal, yes. but there was a certain joy in that. The brutality on the.. | Harry Crews | ||
| 1ecccad | Sandra nodded. "Agreed. A...oh, God, let's not call it a United Nations, shall we? That would doom things from the start." | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 9ac9855 | Oh Powers of Earth and Sky, what is it that you've brought back, to run wild once more upon the ridge of the world? | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 999155d | I like you, Mike. I just wanted to know about you." He grinned and finished building the fire. "OK, point taken, and I like you too, Juney. It was an RPG." "Role-playing game?" she asked, bewildered, and saw him laugh aloud, his head thrown back--for the first time since they met, she realized. "Rocket Propelled Grenade," he said." | S.M. Stirling | ||
| d9557de | Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| f893f7a | Fear worked both ways - if you suppressed the physical symptoms, it calmed your mind. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 97dab21 | Wholly homelike was the wedge of apple pie with whipped cream, and a piece of yellow cheese beside it, sharp and dry and crumbly, just right to cut the rich sweetness of the pie filling and the buttery taste of the crust. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 8a24374 | It wasn't taking the trip well; cats seldom did, being little furry Republicans with an in-built aversion to change. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| fb4250d | remember that even if you intend to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. | S. M. Stirling | ||
| 3008f99 | Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh? | S. M. Stirling | ||
| c8d1bfd | Every reality that we can make begins with a dream, | S. M. Stirling | ||
| 3ed8c85 | Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. | S. M. Stirling | ||
| 324f2d0 | Who dares, wins," he muttered to himself. "Or gets royally banged about if things go south." | S.M. Stirling | ||
| f2e1513 | The knife he held was obsidian, sharp enough to cut a dream. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 328ae86 | It just took so much effort to get anything done without machinery, particularly since nobody really knew how to do a lot of the necessary things by hand. There were descriptions in books, but they always turned out to be maddeningly incomplete and/or no substitute for the knowledge experience built into your muscles and nerves. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 128fa20 | We had to become other than we were, or cease to be at all, | S.M. Stirling | ||
| cabee09 | if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| a0a27ba | Here below the surface one studies the depths of TO BE, as manifest in AM, IS, and ARE. And if you don't hold up your end of the conversation I may very well snap you in two. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 72983b1 | Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 8782f49 | Given the infinite variety of human personalities, it was impossible to like everyone. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 414777c | Isn't this planet big enough for differences? | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| e5c9480 | There were two bronzes, three browns, a blue and two greens. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| cd3c230 | Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| cd398ef | Ridicule was a better defense than truth. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 4c6c004 | When the tiger executes a merger with the goat, which one walks away? | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 2b93551 | Has been done. Can be done. Must be done... | will | Anne McCaffrey | |
| e8e35f8 | It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 3119372 | seed of a syphilitic she-camel, | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 5dfa977 | Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| bbbfd2b | It's easier to flatter a man than fight him. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 405e9f0 | all the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky breasts in zero-g, you were nothing special, you're lucky a good man took you away from all that. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 3f2bfec | Calum patted her shoulder and prayed to the Gods of Balanced Equations | Anne McCaffrey |