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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2afd48 | Remember I'm from Dauphine Street. We useta put the kitchen chairs out on the banquette and set there till midnight sometimes waiting for the house to cool off. And the things the people down here say! Lord. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| fc5bdeb | Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do. And if ever there was something I didn't want to do, this was surely it: to deal with the mother of a dead novelist and, worst of all, to have to read a manuscript that she said was great, and that, as it turned out, was a badly smeared, scarcely readable carbon. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 52bea94 | Je suggere que tu mettes de cote une partie des sommes que tu investis a fonds perdus dans l'industrie des boissons alcooliques. | french vin | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 09a7fd3 | Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose. | hipsters humor ironic | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 6b9a09d | What is your opinion of a society that considers "Turkey in the Straw" to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?" | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 0de670e | Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 811d4ab | Mercaderes y charlatanes se hicieron con el control de Europa, llamando a su insidioso evangelio "La Ilustracion". El dia de la plaga estaba proximo; pero de las cenizas de la humanidad no surgio ningun fenix. El campesino humilde y piadoso, Pedro Labrador, se fue a la ciudad a vender a sus hijos a los senores del Nuevo Sistema para empresas que podemos calificar, en el mejor de los casos, de dudosas. (...) El giroscopio se habia ampliado. .. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 09ebd8a | Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss. By the time we had left the swamps and reached those rolling hills near Baton Rouge, I was getting afraid that some rural rednecks might toss bombs at the bus. They love to attack vehicles, which are a symbol of progress, I guess. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| fea27ee | What may be learned from the rebuttals made by the defendants in New Jersey and from the protests that were sparked by the decision of the court? Much of the resistance, it appears, derives from a conservative anxiety that equity equates to "leveling." The fear that comes across in many of the letters and the editorials in the New Jersey press is that democratizing opportunity will undermine diversity and even elegance in our society and th.. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| fb23b63 | This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river an ersatz father figure. Actually, the Mississippi River is a treacherous and sinister body of water whose eddies and currents yearly claim many lives. I have never known anyone who would even venture to stick his toe in its polluted waters, which seethe with sewage, industrial waste, and deadly insecticides. Even the fish ar.. | art mark-twain reality the-mississippi | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 327885b | He resented my worldview rather actively. | John Kennedy toole | ||
| cc5cd9f | This had been a very productive morning, he thought. He had not accomplished so much in weeks. Looking at the Big Chief tablets that made a rug of Indian headdresses around the bed, Ignatius thought smugly that on their yellowed pages and wide-ruled lines were the seeds of a magnificent study in comparative history. Very disordered, of course. But one day he would assume the task of editing these fragments of his mentality into a jigsaw puz.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 272051c | Just look at my sweater, you disgusting monster." "Only the most flamboyant offal would be seen in a miscarriage like that. You must have some shame or at least some taste in dress." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 69ae280 | Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. Thus | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8394bd7 | After all, I do not believe that one must necessarily scrape bottom, as it were, in order to view his society subjectively. Rather than moving vertically downward, one may move horizontally outward toward a point of sufficient detachment where a modicum of creature comforts are not necessarily precluded. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
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realidade | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 4844450 | I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| a8a1a46 | I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I'll pour water on her. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8681ca0 | My excellence confused them | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 70298e9 | I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm. | humorous-quotations mothers | Victoria Alexander | |
| 8e17339 | Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. | beauty | Victoria Alexander | |
| fa3b0e7 | Leo offered his arm and Cassie took it. Sister and brother strolled aimlessly for a few moments. "Perhaps we have not suffered enough to earn happiness?" Cassie glanced up at him, relieved to note the teasing twinkle in his eye. "I should be happy to make you suffer with a well-placed kick to your backside if that's what you wish." Leo laughed. "I shall pass if you don't mind. Besides, I am barely nine-and-twenty and have plenty of time lef.. | humor sibling | Victoria Alexander | |
| e591596 | De siste ti arene hadde Hellas opplevd minst et dusin statskupp og nesten dobbelt sa mange regjeringer, og pendelen hadde fortsat a svinge mellom tilhengere og motstandere av monarkiet. Monarkiets vaere eller ikke vaere var et evig tema for stridigheter og debatt i Hellas. I 1920, da kong Alexander dode av et apebitt, vendte faren hans hjem fra eksil, bare for a bli kastet ut av landet igjen to ar senere. Han ble erstattet av sin eldste son.. | Victoria Hislop | ||
| 1e93c8c | need a whole weekend and he replied that yes--he did." She shook her head. "On fire, I tell you," she whispered. "He became impossible to refuse, to refute, to resist. And so . . . " Alexander remembered Anthony from that summer before he left for West Point sitting alone outside on the moon deck, strumming his guitar, nearly naked in the Arizona 115-degree heat, singing "Ochi Chernye" over and over. Alexander and Tatiana had said quietly t.. | Paullina Simons | ||
| 79e44cd | You want to kiss me now,Matthew. I can see it in the look in your eyes." "I want to do considerably more than kiss you." He grinned wickedly. "And that too you should see in my eyes." | Victoria Alexander | ||
| aa9b386 | I never said I wouldn't come - only that I understood why you didn't want me to come.' 'You led me to believe you wouldn't be here. That you understood that I needed time to grasp the fact of your existence and I did not wish to do so in a public manner.' She fairly spit the words. 'Under the eyes of everyone in the ton. [...] You lulled me into a false sense of well-being. Deliberately, I might add.' 'Perhaps. And while I rather like the i.. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| f2e5beb | the only way to become the man I was always supposed to become was to serve a higher cause than myself.' 'You served it with your life, and, in some ways mine as well. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| a2092c3 | Moge ihnen die Liebe fur immer ihre Schwingen leihen, so dass ihre Fusse nie wieder den Boden beruhren. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| e427f1d | La vida tiene una interesante forma de cambiar tus planes y de cambiar incluso aquello que crees que quieres. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 7a6077a | It cannot rain but it pours." --JONATHAN SWIFT Oh," | Connie Willis | ||
| 799977a | maybe I should join It's Only Brunch. It's like JustDinner, but with mimosas. | Connie Willis | ||
| 7815bc7 | She watched him a while longer and then shut her eyes again. And even though she knew her hand was tucked beneath her cheek and he was on the far side of the room, the instant she closed her eyes he was there beside her again, his hands crossed on his chest and her hand held tightly under them, pressed safely against his heart. Who | Connie Willis | ||
| 9bf1ff8 | Bigotry is one of the oldest and ugliest of trends, so persistent it only counts as a fad because the target keeps changing: Huguenots, Koreans, homosexuals, Muslims, Tutsis, Jews, Quakers, wolves, Serbs, Salem housewives. Nearly every group, so long as it's small and different, has had a turn, and the pattern never changes--disapproval, isolation, demonization, persecution. Which was one of the reasons it'd be nice to find the switch that .. | trends | Connie Willis | |
| bde604b | But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off." --WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream The" | Connie Willis | ||
| 5b29225 | Time is the fire in which we burn. --Delmore Schwartz | Connie Willis | ||
| edd56a5 | face Lady Schrapnell. And I promised I'd help | Connie Willis | ||
| bdd580c | Don't come all the way across town. There's a Metro station right outside of Arlington. I'll meet you there, all right? | Connie Willis | ||
| 568e876 | We weren't even a halfway decent detectin' team. We hadn't solved the case. The case had been solved in spite of us. Worse, we had been such an impediment, we'd had to be packed off out of the way before the course of history could correct itself. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement. | Connie Willis | ||
| cb414cf | How much of an effect on history can an animal have? A big one. Look at Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus, and "the little gentleman in the black fur coat" who'd killed King William the Third when his horse stepped in the mole's front door. And Richard the Third standing on the field at Bosworth and shouting, "My kingdom for a horse!" | Connie Willis | ||
| c89efdf | Since I spend my working days studying trends, many of which are downright disgusting, I feel it's my duty after work to encourage the trends I'd like to see catch on, like signaling before you change lanes, and chocolate cheesecake. And reading. Also, | Connie Willis | ||
| 242e2d2 | The perfect metaphor," he said, "looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. [...]" | Connie Willis | ||
| edac96a | io sui ici en liu dami amo' ('I am here in place of a friend love') | Connie Willis | ||
| a14bb0f | Nothing can save you, not youth or beauty or wealth, not intelligence or power or courage. You are all alone, in the middle of the ocean, with the lights going out. | Connie Willis | ||
| 0070c54 | Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives together. I don't suppose you fave any thought to where we should be married while I was in with that lot of fools, did you?" "Yes," she said. "I decided we shouldn't, that wartime attachments are a bad idea. Particularly if you're going to be lassoing flying bombs." | marriage wartime | connie willis |