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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 983b6ca | I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs. | fame job journalism life work writer | Mitch Albom | |
| d5f19f7 | we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality--and, in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 65a3d86 | Its basic axiom is to be followed by individuals as well as great nations, by Losers and Winners alike. We have demonstrated the workability of the axiom in Vietnam, in Bangladesh, in Biafra, in Palestinian refugee camps, in our own ghettos, in our migrant labor camps, on our Indian reservations, in our institutions for the defective and the deformed and the aged. This is it: Ignore agony. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| fd7bb52 | It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. Our American heirs may find it incredible, as most foreigners do right now, that a nation would want to enforce as a law something which sounds more like a dream, which reads as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit.. | constitution first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-the-press literary-freedom literature writers writing | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| 43854a2 | Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be hooked up to a lie detector and asked this question: "Have you read a book from start to finish since high school?" or "Did you even read a book from start to finish in high school?" If the truthful answer is "no," then the candidate should be told politely that he cannot get on the school committee and blow off his big.. | book-banning books censorship constitution first-amendment freedom-of-speech literature united-states-of-america | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
| c6f7c43 | All's bad that ends badly, and it's only the sick-minded who can feed on the past. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 2dde8f8 | I didn't really steal it. I just borrowed it for all eternity | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| a250025 | You want to know why I don't have AIDS, why I'm not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don't fuck around. It's as simple as that. Trout | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| e47943b | My wife thinks I think I'm such hot stuff. She's wrong. I don't think I'm such hot stuff. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 1288dd3 | No names have been changed in order to protect the innocent since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| e9ee470 | We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do, What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,muddily do, Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 1d43dcf | This is not the case. I find scant evidence in my nonfiction that I have matured at all. I cannot find a single idea I hadn't swiped from somebody else and enunciated plonkingly by the time I reached the seventh grade. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 1488ef6 | The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 323be8b | Remember - and this is very important - you're only one thought away from happiness, you're only one thought away from sadness. The secret lies in Thought. It's the missing link that everybody in this world is looking for... It's a gift that we were given to have the freedom to walk through life and see what we want to see. How much better than that can you get? That you have the freedom to walk through life and see as a free thinker, that .. | Michael Neill | ||
| 0ce9884 | I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism. | humor pacifism smiling | Aimee Bender | |
| 888d60b | Ella tampoco hablaba, pero no era necesario. Desde un principio se establecio entre ellas una comunicacion que iba mas alla de las palabras. Desde | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7dc33d8 | Mi abuela tenia una teoria muy interesante, decia que si bien todos nacemos con una caja de cerillos en nuestro interior, no los podemos encender solos, necesitamos, como en el experimento, oxigeno y la ayuda de una vela. Solo que en este caso el oxigeno tiene que provenir, por ejemplo, del aliento de la persona amada; la vela puede ser cualquier tipo de alimento, musica, caricia, palabra o sonido que haga disparar el detonador y asi encend.. | vida-y-muerte vivir | Laura Esquivel | |
| fb44261 | Inmediatamente, sus miradas enardecidas se fundieron de tal manera que quien los hubiera visto solo habria notado una sola mirada, un solo movimiento ritmico y sensual, una sola respiracion agitada y un mismo deseo | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 3a55f73 | No le fue facil meter en la maleta el dia en que hicieron su primera cumunion las tres juntas.La vela, el libro y la foto afuera de la iglesia cupieron muy bien, pero no asi el sabor de los tamales y del atole que nacha les habia preparado y que habian comido despues en compania de sus amigos y familiares. Cupieron los huesitos de chabacano de colores, pero no asi las risas cuando jugaban con ellos en el patio de la escuela, ni la maestra J.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 73ebd17 | De pronto una idea que cruzo por su mente la hizo levantarse a mirar al cielo estrellado. Ella conocia, pues lo habia sentido en carne propia, lo poderoso que puede ser el fuego de una mirada. Es capaz de encender al mismo sol. Tomando esto en consideracion, ?que pasaria si Gertrudis miraba una estrella? De seguro que el calor de su cuerpo, inflamado por el amor, viajaria con la mirada a traves del espacio infinito sin perder su energia, ha.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 4e337df | Presenciar o misterio da vida era suficientemente impressionante para evitar pensar na morte, em qualquer uma das suas manifestacoes: o abandono, a perda, o desaparecimento. Nao, a unica coisa que o seu espirito e o seu coracao desejavam era festejar a vida. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 68fd563 | My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches | Laura Esquivel | ||
| ec82085 | A Tita le encantaria ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder mostrarle al mundo su vientre germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad. Las semillas no tenian este tipo de problemas, sobre todo, no tenian madre a la que temer, ni miedo a que las enjuiciaran. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| d256398 | durante su ninez Tita no diferenciaba bien las lagrimas de la risa de las del llanto. Para ella reir era una manera de llorar. De | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 0f80762 | Sabes muy bien que por ser la mas chica de las mujeres a ti te corresponde cuidarme hasta el dia de mi muerte. Dicho | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 4798719 | What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying. | drinking | Laura Esquivel | |
| 56a4da5 |
Mama Elena opinaba que la palabra mama sonaba despectiva, asi que obligo a sus hijas desde ninas a utilizar la palabra < |
Laura Esquivel | ||
| 51118db | peor es el chile y el agua lejos! -- | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 2ba980a | A Lupita le llevo muchos anos de encierro descubrir que uno escucha mejor cuando esta en silencio y que esta mucho mas acompanado en la soledad. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 1d21a98 | Mi abuela tenia una teoria muy interesante, decia que si bien todos nacemos con una caja de cerillos en nuestro interior, no los podemos encender solos, necesitamos, como en el experimento, oxigeno y la ayuda de una vela. Solo que en este caso el oxigeno tiene que provenir, por ejemplo, del aliento de la persona amada; la vela puede ser cualquier tipo de alimento, musica, caricia, palabra o sonido que haga disparar el detonador y asi encend.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7fd1e54 | Por eso hay que permanecer alejados de personas que tengan un aliento gelido. Su sola presencia podria apagar el fuego mas intenso, con los resultados que ya conocemos. Mientras mas distancia tomemos de estas personas, sera mas facil protegernos de su soplo. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| a2115e2 |
A memoria>>, disse-lhe, < |
Laura Esquivel | ||
| aebbba4 | Malinalli, como Quetzalcoatl, ao confrontar-se com o seu lado obscuro ganhou consciencia da sua luz. A sua vontade de ser una com o cosmos fez com que os limites do seu corpo desaparecessem. Os seus pes, em contacto com a agua inundada pela luz da lua, foram os primeiros a experimentar a mudanca. Deixaram de a conter. O seu espirito fundiu-se com o da agua e derramou-se pelo ar. A sua pele expandiu-se ao maximo, permitindo-lhe mudar de form.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 83c7275 | Los huipiles hablaban, decian muchas cosas de las mujeres que los habian tejido, hablaban de su tiempo, de su condicion social, de su estado civil, de su conexion con el cosmos. Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciacion, al hacerlo uno repetia diariamente el viaje interior hacia el exterior. Al meter la cabeza por el orificio del huipil, uno transitaba entre el mundo de suenos que esta reflejado en el bordado hacia la vida que aparece. En c.. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7fca0a1 | Al escuchar la confirmacion de la noticia, Tita sintio como si el invierno le hubiera entrado al cuerpo de golpe y porrazo: | Laura Esquivel | ||
| da74524 | Renego como nunca de sus maestros y de su mama por no haberle dicho en ninguna ocasion lo que se tenia que hacer en un parto. De que le servia en ese momento saber los nombres de los planetas y el manual de Carreno de pe a pa si su hermana estaba a punto de morir y ella no podia ayudarla. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| bb19598 | Alguien tenia que asistir a Rosaura desde el mas alla, porque los del mas aca no tenian manera. No | Laura Esquivel | ||
| cff6ec0 | Se sentia tan sola y abandonada! Un chile en nogada olvidado en una charola despues de un gran banquete no se sentiria peor que ella. | cooking food loneliness soledad tristeza | Laura Esquivel | |
| 0ad070a | Life is a banquet, chica. Believe it or not, there's more on the buffet than work. | Emma Holly | ||
| 6d43add | You remind me people are more than the sum of the metadata one can dig up | Emma Holly | ||
| 943d976 | I'm twenty-four, it's a Friday night, and I'm waiting in for a take-out gyros and fries in my onesie. My life is just so exciting I can barely stand it. | Emma Hart | ||
| 1b43e69 | That's why I have birthday parties--to celebrate making it through another twelve months of dealing with assholes and not killing any of them. I | Emma Hart | ||
| d47ac28 | I forgive him, But I don't know if I trully trust him, and this is funny thing about trust. You can love and forgive, but you don't necessarily trust, Broken hearts and promises can be fixed so easily because they break in different way than trust, When trust is broken, it's shattered into thousand pieces. And sometimes, it's never put back together the same way. | Emma Hart | ||
| 2d61d52 | fuck a duck, | Emma Hart |