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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 94f2ef5 | In a political discussion about the empire, Harold the diplomat argued for the benefits of colonial rule: 'our English genius is for government.' Raymond opposed him: 'The governed don't seem to enjoy it. | Hermione Lee | ||
| f07f35e | We can allow ourselves this 1920s picture of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, dancing the Chicken Strut or the Memphis Shake together, with Leonard, pehaps, winding up the gramophone, after tea on a June afternoon. | Hermione Lee | ||
| ba13855 | Look to the east," she said, "for always, while the light dies in the west, there is the promise of rebirth from the east." | hope life rebirth | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 041fb0f | humans--far from being a dominant species, were regarded as one of the most unstable and untrustworthy, being at the mercy of what most of the Unity's people regarded as a dangerously prevalent sex drive. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| d01cfeb | As life grew better, happier, safer, did it also lose some indefinable edge which made it worth living at all? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| fd9588e | They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?...know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise. | knowledge understanding wisdom | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| f03ed24 | And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God's goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh heh heh . . . | god | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 359aa22 | if there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle in the affairs of men. Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done--who's to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another. | gods-will | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 0dbf6f4 | His head was heavy on my breast, heavy as the child in my own childish arms, heavy as the King Stag who had come to me in triumph. Morgaine, my mother had called impatiently, take care of the baby... and all my life I had borne him with me. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| a1a664d | has become their one diversion, their one pleasure--their religion. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 7bf8151 | For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth: that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 8f67dc9 | If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath." | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| d49b8a2 | Ai miei tempi sono stata chiamata in molti modi: sorella, amante, sacerdotessa, maga, regina. Ora in verita sono una maga e forse verra un giorno in cui queste cose dovranno essere conosciute | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| cb132c3 | At last she drifted into sleep, and in the country of sleep she found herself standing in the orchard where she had spoken with Uther, where she had dried his tears with her veil. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 0cf18fd | For all the Gods are one god (...) and all the Goddesses are one Goddess, and their is only one Initiator. And to every man his own truth, and the God within. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 2a364a4 | In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen. Now in truth I have come to be wise-woman, and a time may come when these things may need to be known. But in sober truth, I think it is the Christians who will tell the last tale. For ever the world of Fairy drifts further from the world in which the Christ holds sway. I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess .. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 32f7a0e | Yes, I am a sorceress. I do not think I am ugly, but you must decide for yourself whether I am good or evil. I try to do the will of the Goddess, and that is all anyone can do. | the-mists-of-avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 8bb7a30 | Why should I waste my breath with a curse? I would as willingly bid you Godspeed to your own heaven, and may your God find more pleasure in your company than I do. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 0e39d36 | For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. And | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 8ad6ea1 | For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth: that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive in the Holy Isle of Eternity or among the priests with their bells and their death and their Satan and Hell and damnation | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| efbc8fe | it is the belief of mankind which shapes the world, and all of reality. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| f4eec20 | But a voice said within her, Now it is too late. They found her at high noon, just as the sun came out after the storm, floating among the reeds of the Lake. Her long hair was spread out on the surface like water reeds, and Morgaine, stunned with grief, could not find it in her heart to regret that Kevin had not gone alone into the shadowed land beyond death. | king-arthur page-802 the-mists-of-avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 6178cd4 | And now the priests, thinking that this infringes upon the power of their God, who created the world once and for all to be unchanging, have closed those doors (which were never doors, except in the minds of men), and the pathway leads only to the priests' Isle, which they have safeguarded with the sound of their church bells, driving away all thoughts of another world lying in the darkness. Indeed, they say that world, if it indeed exists,.. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| c0fc623 | But whatever it is that they believe, the views they hold are altering this world; not only in the spirit, but on the material plane. As they deny the world of the spirit, and the realms of Avalon, so those realms cease to exist for them. They still exist, of course; but not in the same world with the world of the followers of Christ. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 49a27f0 | Mas o caminho que e construido com base na esperanca e mais agradavel para o viajante do que uma estrada construida com desespero, embora ambas possam levar ao mesmo destino. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 959b0df | gave so much time and thought to units - the Nation, the Race, Humanity-as-a-Whole - that it laid terrific burdens on humanity as individuals. To benefit the monster of Humanity-as-a-Whole, they even fought wars - which killed off humanity, individually, at a fearful rate. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 6a61aad | The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. | imagery young-adult | John Green | |
| a5c6643 | Funny thing, how people keep fighting about religion, when really it's all the same. Seems to me it's the priests who make all the problems; most folks just want good harvests and healthy babies, just trying to get along. If it's not the cattle stampeding, it's the priests haranguing the crowds. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 0dc8861 | Perche? si chiese Morgana. Forse perche il mondo era quale lo credevano gli uomini? Nelle ultime generazioni gli uomini avevano imparato a credere che esistessero un solo Dio, un solo mondo, un solo modo di descrivere la realta, e che quanto era estraneo a quel mondo appartenesse ai diavoli, e che il suono delle campane tenesse lontano il male...E piu era numerosa la gente che lo credeva, piu Avalon diventava un sogno alla deriva in un altr.. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 617a4f6 | Sarebbe una tragedia tanto grande, Morgana?" chiese a voce bassa Lancillotto. "In questa terra il Dio cristiano sta portando una rinascita spirituale...e un male, quando gli uomini hanno dimenticato i Misteri?" "Non li hanno dimenticati: li hanno trovati troppo difficili", disse lei. "Vogliono un Dio che abbia cura di loro e non pretenda che lottino per l'Illuminazione e cancelli i peccati con il pentimento. Non e cosi, non la sara mai: ma .. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 753ca2b | There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 9eb0387 | From these Christians who came to us to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| ff12462 | Let them go!" interrupted Viviane angrily. "I still think we should let them go! I do not want to live in a world of Christians, who deny the Mother--" | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 21da2d6 | I learned only so great a love of music as to be discontented with my own sounds. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 2d894f2 | The martinis came, not in little glasses but big as bird baths with twists of lemon peel. The first taste bit like a vampire bat, made its little anesthesia, and after that the drink mellowed and toward the bottom turned downright good. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 497dc49 | I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself. The | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 30e1f3c | In the 1950s, John Nash disrupted the balance between geometry and analysis when he discovered that the abstract geometric problem of isometric embedding could be solved by the fine "peeling" of partial differential equations." | Cédric Villani | ||
| bbaa2cf | John's somber dark eyes regarded her quietly. "Good morning," he rumbled. Damn, Shannon thought, his voice was even sexier with that rasp in it. She tried to summon up a smile. "Good morning. Uh, how did I get here?" "You fell asleep, and rather than let you crumple on the floor, I brought you up here with me." Blood crept into her cheeks. "Oh. Sorry 'bout that." Shannon started to peel back the blanket to sit up, but John tugged her back d.. | J.M. Madden | ||
| 747b639 | We each peeled a stick and solemnly chewed it; it was Beeman's peppermint, and nothing so delicious has been made since. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 072476d | It's time to chip away the plaster, pull down the ask, peel off the bandages, and allow the miracle of life to shine brightly. | John O'Leary | ||
| 984310a | In early December 1971, he signed a rather flat defense of Bob Dylan, who had suffered months of harassment from a "fan" named A. J. Weberman: "A.J. claims everything Dylan writes is either about Weberman or about heroin. What bullshit," the letter read. "It is time we defended and loved each other--and saved our anger for the true enemy, whose ignorance and greed destroys our planet." The letter was signed: "The Rock Liberation Front, Davi.. | Tim Riley | ||
| 79d0d7c | You know who invented the twist, right?" asked the man next to him. "It was John D. Rockefeller. He was a germophobe, and citrus was a natural disinfectant, so Rockefeller always asked his bartenders to run a lemon peel around the rim of his glass." | Elin Hilderbrand | ||
| 05b2a0f | The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me because, even then, in some inchoate form. I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth. | killing murder police | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 02bee00 | And no one would be brought to account for this destruction, because my death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate but immutable fact of "race," imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment of invisible gods. The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment." | Ta-Nehisi Coates |