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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 90e65ff | a man's value was not in his mode of mobility but what was inside. | Jeff Rovin | ||
| 89def9e | American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula "Beep" Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes Jacky Jakes, his mother Greg Peshkov, his father Lev Peshkov, his grandfather Marga, his grandmother MARQUAND FAMILY Verena Marquand Percy Marquand, her father Babe Lee, her mother CIA Florence Geary Tony Savino Tim Tedder, semiretired Keith Dorset OTHERS Maria Summers Joseph Hugo, FBI Larry M.. | Ken Follett | ||
| 5867f9c | Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron. | loss past time | William Timothy Murray | |
| e6de25f | William sits opposite her, drinking water from a Murray's glass with a trace of lipstick on the rim. His fingers hold the glass, his other hand lies on the table, his neck comes out of his shirt collar, which is light green, and on top of that is his head. His eyes are blue and he has two of them. This is the sum total of William in the present tense. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| dc9a134 | Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.' W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951 | Mark Williams | ||
| 65c2ace | In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology: This is rather extraordinary. Orwell did indeed meet Garrett in Liverpool in 1936, and was highly impressed to find that he knew him already through his pseudonymous writing--under the name Matt Lowe--for John Middleton Murry's Adelphi. As he told his diary: | economics edward-said george-orwell politics poverty tautology writing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 4bb8049 | How could the crusaders be motivated by love and piety, considering all the brutal violence and bloodshed they committed? Not only is such a question anachronistic--violence was part and parcel of the medieval world--but centuries before Islam, Christian theologians had concluded that "the so called charity texts of the New Testament that preached passivism and forgiveness, not retaliation, were firmly defined as applying to the beliefs and.. | Raymond Ibrahim | ||
| 4d923b4 | It is not the dying that matters, it is how the man lived. | Michael Jecks | ||
| 6002cb9 | McCandless's contrived asceticism and a pseudoliterary stance compound rather than reduce the fault. . . . McCandless's postcards, notes, and journals . . . read like the work of an above average, somewhat histrionic high school kid--or am I missing something? | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 1eb7a59 | How much of the appeal of mountaineering lies in its simplification of interpersonal relationships, its reduction of friendship to smooth interaction (like war), its substitution of an Other (the mountain, the challenge) for the relationship itself? Behind a mystique of adventure, toughness, footloose vagabondage--all much needed antidotes to our culture's built-in comfort and convenience--may lie a kind of adolescent refusal to take seriou.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 1982334 | This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0f65ad3 | I had been granted unusual freedom and responsibility at an early age, for which I should have been grateful in the extreme, but I wasn't. Instead, I felt oppressed by the old man's expectations. It was drilled into me that anything less than winning was failure. In the impressionable way of sons, I did not consider this rhetorically; I took him at his word. And that's why later, when long-held family secrets came to light, when I noticed t.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4ccb1b6 | I knew that people sometimes died climbing mountains. But at the age of twenty-three, personal mortality--the idea of my own death--was still largely outside my conceptual grasp. When I decamped from Boulder for Alaska, my head swimming with visions of glory and redemption on the Devils Thumb, it didn't occur to me that I might be bound by the same cause-and-effect relationships that governed the actions of others. Because I wanted to climb.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ab61673 | Chris answered that careers were demeaning "twentieth-century inventions," more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5329df6 | Seemingly by design, the American legal system encourages defense counsel to be as mendacious as possible. As Monroe Freedman, a legal ethicist and former dean of Hofstra Law School, has written, "The attorney is obligated to attack, if he can, the reliability or credibility of an opposing witness whom he knows to be truthful." It's an essential component of our adversarial system of justice, based on the theory that justice is best achieve.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a99560b | how the powers of government were being improperly used through improper warrants of arrest--how it was unconstitutional to stop a person on the freeway and arrest them. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| fadcbbc | Mountaineering, she understood, was an essential expression of some odd, immutable aspect of my personality that I could no sooner alter than change the color of my eyes. Then, in the midst of this delicate rapprochement, Outside magazine confirmed it was sending me to Everest. At first I pretended that I'd be going as a journalist more than a climber--that I'd accepted the assignment because the commercialization of Everest was an interest.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 08188eb | Ed Smart, even before he called the police, phoned the president of his local LDS stake, | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f64a71b | going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect. Chris | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 356cf21 | Jack London es el Rey Alexander Supertramp Mayo 1992 [Inscripcion | Jon Krakauer | ||
| caf83a6 | Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5031550 | By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e26c3eb | Those who would assail The Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f2edaae | Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. Taske, | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 6d5461a | You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience. You | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0623969 | Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything--the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds--to stand out in brilliant relief. Life thrummed at a higher pitch. The world was made real. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9c009b6 | That guy, he has done some bad things against me. If someone is bad to me, I must be bad to them. You know why? Because if you didn't, that guy will think you are a pussy guy. And then he will be bothering you all the time. You have to go against him back, you know? | Jon Krakauer | ||
| edbc799 | My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a54979e | mii`yaanghnuengthiichan`yaakb`keth`aiw hlangcchaakaidyineruue`ngph`aemkhr`bkhrawaelakaartadsinaicchkh`ngeth`thanghmdaelw chan`yaakcchab`kkabeth`waakaaraih`phayepneruue`ngsamkhayna emuue`eth`aih`phayeth`kccharak | love | Jon Krakauer | |
| 1ea55a5 | A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence--the lapses of consciousness, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes--all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4701b52 | A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence--the lapses of consciousness, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes--all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ea5441c | A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. -- | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 490c7e3 | Suddenly, [Cecilia Washburn] was getting a lot of attention from her friends," Pabst explained to the jury. "Attention from the dean of the pharmacy school....Attention by Dean Charles Couture, the then dean of students; by the Crime Victim Advocate office; by the nurse, [Claire] Francoeur....Miss Washburn got attention by the investigator and by the prosecutor. Her regret was replaced by sympathy, attention, and support, and a little bit o.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| cf677a0 | When cops and prosecutors fail to aggressively pursue sexual-assault cases, Kevin argued, it sends a message to sexual predators that women are fair game and can be raped with impunity. On | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3d2eaa7 | Using his gift for fundamentalist rhetoric and adroitly manipulating the religious indoctrination Elizabeth had received since she was old enough to talk, Mitchell cowed the girl into becoming an utterly submissive polygamous concubine--buttressing his powers of theological persuasion with threats to kill her and her family. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d490d24 | We're disinclined to believe that someone who's an attentive student or a congenial athlete could also be a serial rapist. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 6f21bd0 | If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| af57ea2 | As Katie J. M. Baker observed in her Jezebel article, "In Missoula...drunk guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c6acb8c | ways--raw, boiled, baked, or fried--and enjoy it | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0fc49c4 | If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,--that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c4c9030 | Se essa aventura se revelar fatal e nunca mais tiver noticias de mim, quero que saiba que voce e um grande homem. Caminho agora para dentro da Natureza Selvagem | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 27fa9ae | Ich mochte aber gern noch einmal auf meinen Ratschlag zuruckkommen; ich finde namlich, dass du dein Leben radikal andern und ganz mutig Dinge in Angriff nehmen solltest, die dir fruher nie in den Sinn gekommen waren oder vor denen du im letzten Moment zuruckgeschreckt bist. So viele Leute sind unglucklich mit ihrem Leben und schaffen es trotzdem nicht, etwas an ihrer Situation zu andern, weil sie total fixiert sind auf ein angepasstes Leben.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c8ee398 | He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 43e0b70 | The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society--a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed. Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle-class grind. | Jon Krakauer |