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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7bff062 | The important things to remember she remembered, she told herself. The rest was chaff, which time would have winnowed out of active memory anyway. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 06c01d4 | The eyes of a vengeful man miss few details he can turn to advantage. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| b8fe969 | Then there's Russell and Lillian Hoban's Frances series, which is almost unbearably wistful, and no wonder: written just before the Hobans' marriage ended, the books seem to document a happy family that was dissolving as they wrote. | Jennifer Traig | ||
| 713cf7f | I said, "That souns like the end of the song. What about the beginning?" He said, "Thats jus it you see thats why he wer too late he never come in to it at the beginning." I said, "You never sung no beginning if youd sung it he cudve come in to it." He said, "I never sung no beginning becaws you wont never fynd no beginning its long gone and far pas. What ever youre after youwl never fynd the beginning of it thats why youwl all ways be too .. | Russell Hoban | ||
| fd1d79d | We've tried the other way; we've tried making both things and people It, and we've seen the results. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 5d1f4a7 | I said, 'Then whered the other story come from? . . .' He said, 'It come in to my mynd.' | Russell Hoban | ||
| c1cc745 | Stoans want to be lissent to. Them big brown stoans in the formers feal they want to stan up and talk like men. Some times youwl see them lying on the groun with ther humps and hollers theywl say to you, Sit a wyl and res easy why dont you. Then when youre sitting on them theywl talk and theywl tel if you lissen. Theywl tel whats in them but you wont hear nothing what theyre saying without you go as fas as the stoan. You myt think a stoan i.. | atoms molecules stones | Russell Hoban | |
| 7fbe407 | Time's arrow points one way only. Even the moment just past cannot be returned to. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 51f2fe3 | Shamans wear bird costumes and they fly. Somehow they experience flying. | Russell Hoban | ||
| d081378 | But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 8c882e3 | Stil it takes you strange walking in your old foot steps like that. Putting your groan up foot where your chyld foot run nor dint know nothing what wer coming. | Russell Hoban | ||
| dc13bfd | He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken. | Russell Hoban | ||
| cac314d | He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| b899174 | I knew he was the real thing because when he laughed other men at the table laughed with him. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 97bf6a2 | One of Winston's colleagues in the Ministry of Truth who is working on the dictionary explains the beauty of Newspeak: You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We're destroying words--scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone.... It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.... Take good, for instance. If you have a word like good, what need is .. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 1245019 | Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table a.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| e2d9157 | That a president is inevitably put forward and elected by the forces of established wealth and power means usually that he will be indentured by the time he reaches office. But in fact he is the freest of men if he will have the courage to think so and, at least theoretically, could be so transported by the millions of people who have endorsed his candidacy as to want to do the best for them. He might come to solemn appreciation of the vote.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| d7ca375 | Under the charge against us the normal rules of evidence are suspended. For us they don't exist.WE are charged not with committing espionage, but with conspiring to commit espionage. Since espionage itself does not have to be proved, no evidence is required that we have done anything. All that is required is evidence that we intended to do something. And what is this evidence? Coincidentally enough under the law the testimony of our so-call.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 9b84246 | Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy, it's an animal serenity, something between contentment and joy, a steadiness of the belonged self in the world. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 621c423 | It's a kind of jail, the brain's mind. We've got these mysterious three-pound brains and they jail us. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 44f3393 | The experience of experience is untransmittable. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| dcde97f | Consciousness without world is impossible, just as there is no sight without the light to see by. Is that your objection, | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 7d246c3 | the forms of life were volatile and that everything in the world could as easily be something else. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| c082629 | I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative...A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| a2f46e4 | And now I will tell of the revels that went on for three nights and two days in the brothel on West Seventy-sixth Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 1e437a6 | And to top everything he's got this problem he can't let her know how he feels: What-he's shy? Shy! Tell me who in this goddamn world is shy? Young, old, the lame and halt. Clobber you over the head with what they feel. Oh Man I wish just once in my long fucked-up life someone had come up to me who was too shy to tell me what they thought of me... | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 6501821 | if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected lightsuch as a mirror. I would be like a ghost in the universe, materially unverifiable in the stream of time. | E.L. DoctorowDoctorow | ||
| 3f5099d | It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 3ed6502 | Generally speaking a view of the available economic systems that have been tested historically must acknowledge the immense power of capitalism to generate living standards food housing education the amenities to a degree unprecedented in human civilization. The benefits of such a system while occasionally random and unpredictable with periods of undeniable stress and misery depression starvation and degradation are inevitably distributed t.. | E. L. Doctorow | ||
| d595918 | Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 9ae660b | A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South African brothers and Spanish brothers and to my brothers in South Vietnam, all in their prison camps: You are in the free world! | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| bbafa75 | We have to be wary of our brains. They make our decisions before we make them. They lead us to still waters. They renounceth free will. And it gets weirder: If you slice a brain down the middle, the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere will operate self-sufficiently and not know what the other is doing. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 407769f | Daniel: What do you think of the idea? Sternlight: I'll tell you man, I think it's a fantastic idea. Fuck me if I'm consistent. I told your sister if she had all that bread to pass on for a bail fund or a free school or any good shit like that, I would retract everything I said about your parents. Not only that, I would actually change my opinion. I would think differently. OK? Daniel: OK. Sternlight: discards the poster. Sternlight: That's.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 807235e | It was as if the wars they were conducting were to be symbolized in their own relationships. I thought how contention makes us human. How every form of it is practiced religiously, from gentlemanly debate to rape and pillage, from dirty political attacks to assassinations. Our nighttime street fights outside of bars, our slapping arguments in plush bedrooms, our murderous mutterings in the divorce courts. We had parents who beat their child.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| dca7090 | Oppenheimer's story also reminds us that our identity as a people remains intimately connected with the culture of things nuclear. "We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945," E. L. Doctorow has observed. "It was first our weaponry and then our diplomacy, and now it's our economy. How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful would not, after forty years, compose our identity? The great golem we have made against our enemies .. | Kai Bird | ||
| caf90a4 | By the rules of evidence in this trial the verdict is foreordained. If the testimony ... is admitted as competent, the conspiracy is proved. Because it would not be admitted except under the assumption that a conspiracy existed.... Here ... a defendant can be found guilty of being brought to court as a defendant. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| e374a29 | Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 6847fec | The images of things are not the things in themselves. | images | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 9a4d003 | The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 70f3cd8 | Nobody doan never have touch Porhl! When I little, de brudder try. Oh yeah. I raise up dis bony knee hard in his what he got dere, and dat were dat and nobody since! You hear dis gul, Mr. free man Jacob Early? And nobody since! An I ain't no Jez'bel, she screamed. In this way was Pearl's decision made, and by the time they were on the march through Milledgeville she was drummer for Clarke's company. She just hit the drum once every other st.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 698507b | I keep thinking someone will come by sometime who will want to use the wood. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 4c11bb5 | Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO | threat | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 043701c | That fat freak a guarantee one hunner percen nucular bum. Shit. Drop him on somebody, everbody gettin caught in the fallout, gettin their ass blowed up. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| fdfca14 | Pese a lo que han estado sometidos, los negros son una gente bastante agradable en general. Yo habia tenido poca relacion con ellos, en realidad, pues solo me relaciono con mis iguales, y como no tengo iguales, no me relaciono con nadie. | John Kennedy Toole |