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| a34ddce | His tall figure, the distinguished simplicity of his air--it was a living Vandyke, a cavalier, one of his noble cavalier ancestors, or one to whom her fancy had always likened him, who long of yore had with an Umfraville fought the Paynim far beyond the sea. Was this reality?" Very little like it, certainly." | George Eliot | ||
| bf59da4 | The cubic feet of oxygen yearly swallowed by a full-grown man - what a shudder they might have created in some Middlemarch circles! 'Oxygen! nobody knows what that may be - is it any wonder the cholera has got to Dantzic? | George Eliot | ||
| 27983d8 | He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James. "No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader." | humor sarcasm wit | George Eliot | |
| 5c96024 | folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done. | George Eliot | ||
| 0e653d0 | There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects. | discipleship | George Eliot | |
| 5540a24 | Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. | George Eliot | ||
| 941c876 | The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine. | George Eliot | ||
| 59203fe | Fred fancied that he saw to the bottom of his uncle Featherstone's soul, though in reality half what he saw there was no more than the reflex of his own inclinations. The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. | George Eliot | ||
| 9a0a7c9 | If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself--that's where it is. | George Eliot | ||
| 9f1fd7d | I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this.. | literature teaching truth | Mary Rose O'Reilley | |
| c9ecd67 | We didn't know it then," Hooper said. "We used to talk about how when we got back in the world we were going to do this and we were going to do that. Back in the world we were going to have it made. But ever since then it's been nothing but confusion." Hooper took the cigarette case from his pocket but didn't open it. He leaned forward on the table. "Everything was clear," he said. "You learned what you had to know and you forgot the rest... | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 5b27df3 | But for now Anders can still make time. Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark at the flying ball, time for the boy in right field to smack his sweat-blackened mitt and softly chant, They is, they is, they is. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 6954114 | And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can. | experience | Tobias Wolff | |
| 9ab1b29 | I am thinking of Achilles' grief, he said. That famous, terrible, grief. Let me tell you boys something. Such grief can only be told in form. Form is everything. Without it you've got nothing but a stubbed-toe cry--sincere, maybe, for what that's worth, but with no depth or carry. No echo. You may have a grievance but you do not have grief, and grievances are for petitions, not poetry. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 71332a2 | We didn't know it then,' Hooper said. 'We used to talk about how when we got back in the world we were going to do this and we were going to do that. Back in the world we were going to have it made. But ever since then it's been nothing but confusion.' Hooper took the cigarette case from his pocket but didn't open it. He leaned forward on the table. 'Everything was clear,' he said. 'You learned what you had to know and you forgot the rest... | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 05c8803 | That room--once you enter it, you never really leave. You can forget you're there, you can go on as if you hold the reins, that the course of your life, yea even its length, will reflect the force of your character and the wisdom of your judgments. And then you hit an icy patch on a turn one sunny March day and the wheel in your hands becomes a joke and you no more than a spectator to your own dreamy slide toward the verge, and then you rem.. | trouble | Tobias Wolff | |
| 34daa1e | No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." - Alice Walker" | Transcendence | ||
| b5f0773 | I'd like to talk to him," Edmond said. "I want him to explain to me what this thing was, how he could do this thing. My surviving sister said, 'Let's denounce him.' I saw what was happening--a wave of arrests all at once--and I said, 'What good is prison, if he doesn't feel what I feel? Let him live in fear.' When the time is right, I want to make him understand that I'm not asking for his arrest, but for him to live forever with what he ha.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 3678be7 | Rwanda had presented the world with the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews, and the world sent blankets, beans, and bandages to camps controlled by the killers, apparently hoping that everybody would behave nicely in the future. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| ab862b4 | power largely consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality, even if you have to kill a lot of them to make that happen. In this raw sense, power has always been very much the same everywhere; what varies is primarily the quality of the reality it seeks to create: is it based more on truth than in falsehood, which is to say, is it more or less abusive to its subjects? The answer is often a function of how broadl.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| ad05b79 | the war about the genocide was truly a postmodern war: a battle between those who believed that because the realities we inhabit are constructs of our imaginations, they are all equally true or false, valid or invalid, just or unjust, and those who believed that constructs of reality can--in fact, must--be judged as right or wrong, good or bad. While academic debates about the possibility of objective truth and falsehood are often rarified.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| b0b49a7 | great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind that new order may be criminal and objectively very stupid, it must also be compellingly simple and at the same time absolute. The ideology of genocide is all of those things. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 3a1f096 | This is what fascinates me most: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| fcc5fac | Fourteen meters deep," Edmond said. He told me that his brother-in-law had been a fanatically religious man, and on April 12, 1994, when he was stopped by interahamwe at a roadblock down the street and forced to lead them back to his house, he had persuaded the killers to let him pray. Edmond's brother-in-law had prayed for half an hour. Then he told the militiamen that he didn't want his family dismembered, so they invited him to throw his.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| d0c3f9b | it occurred to me that if others have so often made your life their business--made your life into a question, really, and made that question their business-- then perhaps you will want to guard the memory of those times when you were freer to imagine yourself as the only times that are truly and inviolably your own. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 2f2c0d4 | As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world's powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact, Mars is probably of greater strategic concern. But Rwanda, unlike Mars, is populated by human beings, and when Rwanda had a genocide, the world's powers left Rwanda to it. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| f73fcff | When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea. | Alice Walker | ||
| b9f170d | He liked to say that what makes literature is "inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than what you might remember." -- | Paul Hendrickson | ||
| c52081c | What makes it is when you go over the whole piece each day from the start to where you go on from rewriting it really and then going on. Even then the actual writing is probably only about an hour and a half. Of course lots of times you can't write but nearly always you do. Each day you throw away what turned out to be shit in the stuff you did the day before. | Paul Hendrickson | ||
| ed9d55e | The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever. | Alice Walker | ||
| 3e46a12 | There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world. | Alice Walker | ||
| dfc7343 | Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them. | charity hardship irony pity race | Alice Walker | |
| d69c6e0 | Never can you climb over this wall, you're not strong enough; girls aren't strong enough; girls aren't big enough; your body is fragile and breakable, like a doll; your body is a doll; your body is for others to admire and to pet; your body is to be used by others, not used by you; your body is a luscious fruit for others to bite into and to savor; your body is for others, not for you. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| d7b2295 | You can think of your life as the mistakes you made that catch up with you finally. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 689613a | T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity. | Alice Walker | ||
| 5774d1a | I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean. | Alice Walker | ||
| d2fec5e | When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats. | reading | Alice Walker | |
| 1626468 | You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what. | Alice Walker | ||
| 534e61c | Two old fools left over from love | Alice Walker | ||
| 23f2886 | The mysterious inner life that she had imagined gave them a secret joy was simply a full knowledge of the fact that they were dead, living just enough for their children. | Alice Walker | ||
| d650cfe | Because you rubbed my shoulder last night a poem | poetry | Alice Walker | |
| 37110e4 | The end is coming yesterday it was here too. | death | Alice Walker | |
| 2971200 | Ha qualquer faceta em todos nos que deseja uma medalha por aquilo que temos feito. Essa faceta deseja ser apreciada. | Alice Walker | ||
| a6de845 | In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in .. | Alice Walker |