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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8294aac | Pointless labor, useless trash, but for the bureaucrat nothing's trash until he affronts his soul by throwing it out. | Denis Johnson | ||
| b5c81bf | That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied, because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition, and approaches nearer than either to the appearance of life, by sh.. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 8f74b8b | Now please please no please don't tell me now Crow Books, too...? I loved that place, the paperbacks shoved behind the other paperbacks on the metal racks because there wasn't space, the mostly sense that they just want to have all those nice books in there for you, waiting for you if you want - need - to discover something, and the bad lighting, and the rumply chair with its bottom rupturing stuff, and Mr. Shelling and his rectangular mus.. | vermont | Evan Dara | |
| c14caf3 | The antichrist spirit has a goal for the Church--embrace Jesus apart from the anointing. Without the anointing, He becomes a safe religious figure who is sure not to challenge or offend us. Paul described this deceptive possibility as "having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!" (2 Tim. 3:5)." | Bill Johnson | ||
| 3002258 | Faded posters of Donald Trump on the cover of Time magazine cover the windows of another abandoned restaurant, | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| fbeb75c | On May 7 crowds had gathered on Dam Square in the center of Amsterdam in front of the Royal Palace, cheering, dancing, singing, waving the orange flag of the Dutch royal family, in anticipation of the triumphant British and Canadian troops whose arrival was imminent. Watching the happy throng from the windows of a gentlemen's club on the square, German naval officers decided in a last-minute fit of pique to fire into the crowd with a machin.. | Ian Buruma | ||
| f714e3a | after all that, after the concentration camps in Germany, after we stated definitely that our former home was changed into a mass grave, we can only grope and clasp with our finger tips the shadows of our dearest and painfully cry: I can never more see my home. The victorious nations that in the 20th century removed the black plague from Europe must understand once and for all the specific Jewish problem. No, we are not Polish when we are b.. | Ian Buruma | ||
| ecd5c19 | Without ideology, and with nothing but jobs for the boys at stake, party politics was losing its raison d'etre, and trust in the old democratic order could no longer be taken for granted. | Ian Buruma | ||
| 08a598b | LIBERATION IS PERHAPS not the right word to describe the end of the war in colonial societies. Most Asians were more than happy to be rid of the Japanese, whose "Asian liberation" had turned out to be worse than the Western imperialism it temporarily replaced. But liberation is not quite what the Dutch had in mind for the Dutch East Indies in 1945, or the French for Indochina, or the British for Malaya." | Ian Buruma | ||
| 86dd3b4 | Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered ever went in there. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 1f20ec2 | Feeling. I didn't want to feel. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fbfd80b | I did upset the children. Not intentionally, but effectively. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a1e93ee | Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again. The | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 65397bf | When I woke Herbert, he sprang to his feet. What was the matter? When he saw that nothing was the matter, he started snoring again--to avoid being bored. | Max Frisch | ||
| 3887757 | I don't deny that it was more than a coincidence which made things turn out as they did, it was a whole train of coincidences. But what has providence to do with it? I don't need any mystical explanation for the occurrence of the improbable; mathematics explains it adequately, as far as I'm concerned. Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the one will come up approximately 1,000,000.. | mathematics providence | Max Frisch | |
| 4c3f37a | Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the die will come up proximately 1 ,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the same die the one will come approximately up six times) are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable. But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention o.. | coincidence fate mysticism probability | Max Frisch | |
| 3b85ec8 | Our journey wasn't easy, though often curious: I bored her with my experience of life, she made me old by waiting from morning to evening, wherever we were, for my enthusiasm . . . | Max Frisch | ||
| 50418db | Man kann alles erzahlen, nur nicht sein wirkliches Leben; - diese Unmoglichkeit ist es, was uns verurteilt zu bleiben, wie unsere Gefahrten uns sehen und spiegeln, sie, die vorgeben, mich zu kennen, sie, die sich als meine Freunde bezeichnen und nimmer gestatten, dass ich mich wandle [...]. | Max Frisch | ||
| 3de7c4c | I can't bear being told what I ought to feel; although I can see the subject under discussion, I feel like a blind man. | Max Frisch | ||
| 818e763 | Az ne moga prez tsialoto vreme da izpitvam chuvstva. Da b'da sam, za mene tova e edinstvenata v'zmozhna forma na s'shchestvuvane, ponezhe niamam nikakvo zhelanie da pravia edna zhena neshchastna, a zhenite proiaviavat tazi sklonnost - da stavat neshchastni. Priznavam - da b'desh sam e ne vinagi veselo, chovek ne vinagi e v'v forma. Vprochem, ot opit znaia, che shchom nie ne sme v'v forma, i zhenite zagubvat formata si; a shchom gi obzeme sk.. | Max Frisch | ||
| 758cf72 | Khorata me umoriavat, dori m'zhete. | Max Frisch | ||
| ebf91d7 | Das Wahrscheinliche (dass bei 6 000 000 000 Wurfen mit einem regelmassigen Sechserwurfel annahernd 1 000 000 000 Einser vorkommen) und das Unwahrscheinliche (dass bei 6 Wurfen mit demselben Wurfel einmal 6 Einser vorkommen) unterscheiden sich nicht dem Wesen nach, sondern nur Haufigkeit nach, wobei das Haufigere von vornherein als glaubwurdiger erscheint. Es ist aber, wenn einmal das Unwahrscheinliche eintritt, nichts Hoheres dabei, keinerl.. | schicksal wahrscheinlichkeit zufall | Max Frisch | |
| 22930a8 | Ich verdanke dir mein Leben. Ich weiss. Wenn du Wert darauf legst, ich kann es jeden Tag einmal sagen: ich verdanke dir mein Leben (...) Du ekelst mich (...) Geh pissen (...) Heul nicht deinen Schnaps aus den Augen, wenn du ihn nicht halten kannst, sag ich, geh | Max Frisch | ||
| 69f4c23 | Wenn ich so allein bin, siehst du, und mich an alles erinnere, das ist das Schlimmste, dass man allein nicht daruber lachen kann, oder dann ist es nur so ein boses und bitteres Lachen, so dass man spater uber genau die gleichen Dinge doch wieder heult. | Max Frisch | ||
| 80f9315 | JOURNAL INTIME: Wenn ich einmal darin lese, zum Beispiel weil ich ein Datum brauche fur unser Gesprach, so bin ich besturzt: dass ich vor zwei oder funf Jahren genu zu derselben Einsicht gekommen bin - nur habe ich sie dann wieder vergessen, weil es mir nicht gelungen ist, nach meiner Einsicht zu leben; ich habe das Gegenteil gelebt mit zaher Energie. | Max Frisch | ||
| 1c7d2af | I had said what I never meant to say, but what has been said cannot be unsaid, I enjoyed our silence, I was completely sober again, but all the same I had no idea what I was thinking, probably nothing. | Max Frisch | ||
| 168511f | Wir sind nicht fertig geworden miteinander. Und darum, glaube ich, haben wir uns trotz allem nicht trennen konnen. Der arme Monsieur Dmitritsch! Er konnte alle ersinnbaren Qualitaten eines Mannes haben, vergeblich, er wurde nie aufkommen gegen das Vakuum, das uns verbindet. | stiller unfulfilled-love unfulfillment vacuum | Max Frisch | |
| 7a5e0c6 | Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism! | Max Frisch | ||
| bfcf090 | In general, only the future counted for her, and to a slight extent the present; but she had no interest at all in past experiences, like all young people. | Max Frisch | ||
| 601880d | I can't have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form. | Max Frisch | ||
| c63cb31 | Novels are no use at all on days like these, they deal with people and their relationships, with themselves and others, fathers and mothers and daughters or sons, lovers, etc., with individual souls, usually unhappy ones, with society, etc., as if the place for these things were assured, the earth for all time earth, the sea level fixed for all time.) | Max Frisch | ||
| 29a7ffa | Blinders als blind ist die Aengstlicher | Max Frisch | ||
| 389aed3 | Conversation was hardly possible; I had forgotten that anyone could be so young. | Max Frisch | ||
| f7429a4 | As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed. | god philosophy women | Max Frisch | |
| 319807c | Auf dem Pult] stand die Sanduhr. Alle Korner mussten durch die Engstelle, um unten denselben Haufen zu bilden wie vordem oben. Der entstandene Zeitverlust hiess Lateinstunde. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 831f555 | On Sunday, May 23rd, 1819, all of our people embarked..." "Our people?" But they went on board themselves, not just some other people that belong to them. So he'd better say "travelling party". No, "the men under my command". But that was also wrong, since the phrase didn't include him, and he had installed himself on the at the same time. "I and the men" pleased him as little as "the men and I". "We embarked in full number" was inaccurat.. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 93a9893 | Es gibt zwei Sorten von Mannern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiss nicht, welche Sorte mir verdachtiger ist. | empathy gender men mysogyny prejudice understanding women | Sten Nadolny | |
| 0e79db3 | Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred percent. | Sten Nadolny | ||
| 846975b | Navy Secretary Adams, a wealthy, polo-playing yachtsman, sent for Butler and delivered a blistering reprimand, declaring that he was doing so at the direct personal order of the President of the United States. Butler saw red. "This is the first time in my service of thirty-two years," he snapped back, "that I've ever been hauled on the carpet and treated like an unruly schoolboy. I haven't always approved of the actions of the administratio.. | Jules Archer | ||
| af0fa4a | She was] a strange butterfly which had flown across his garden and which his eyes had continued to follow long after it had disappeared from sight. | Theodor Storm | ||
| d981e5b | Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!" schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen." | guilt ignorance mobs prejudice responsibility | Theodor Storm | |
| 810819f | How had I managed to edit all this out in the intervening years? How had I managed to turn her into the answer to all the world's problems? | Nick Hornby | ||
| d123b22 | She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier. | Nick Hornby | ||
| d24e611 | Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem... and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto. | Nick Hornby |