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| 080b149 | NISTA DVAPUT Dvaput se nista ne dogada niti ce se dogoditi. Zbog toga neuvezbani smo se rodili i nerutinski pomrecemo. Makar ucenici najgluplji u skoli sveta bili, nijednu zimu ni leto necemo ponavljati. Nijedan dan se nece ponoviti, dve slicne noci ne postoje, ni dva ista poljupca, ni dva jednaka pogleda u oci. Juce, kada ime tvoje neko kraj mene glasno izgovori, bi mi kao da ruza kroz otvoren prozor pade. Danas, kada smo zajedno, okrenula.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 530123c | So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres." | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 455fa74 | The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 90f7d4b | Letters to the Dead" We read the letters of the dead like puzzled gods -- gods nevertheless, because we know what happened later. We know what money wasn't repaid, the widows who rushed to remarry. Poor, unseeing dead, deceived, fallible, toiling in solemn foolery. We see the signs made behind their backs, catch the rustle of ripped-up wills. They sit there before us, ridiculous as things perched on buttered bread, or fling themselves after.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| d9c0d22 | SHrym vSHb` `TSmvt, SHlSHym vHmySHh SHryrym ySH bKHl KHryt SHl ATSb`vtynv hHmSH. hry zh dy vhvtr, | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| dea3c06 | Memory Finally Memory's finally found what it was after. My mother has turned up, my father has been spotted. I dreamed up a table and two chairs. They sat. They were mine again, alive again for me. The two lamps of their faces gleamed at dusk as if for Rembrandt. Only now can I begin to tell in how many dreams they've wandered, in how many crowds I dragged them out from underneath the wheels, in how many deathbeds they moaned with me at th.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 98694a4 | Niakoi obichat poeziiata Niakoi - obache ne vsichki. Dazhe ne povecheto, a po-malko. Bez uchilishchata, k'deto ia uchat, i bez samite poeti, takiva shche sa edno na khiliada. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| f39c8d1 | The Three Oddest Words" When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word Nothing, I make something no nonbeing can hold." -- | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 2d8ba23 | They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite. We'll | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 81c7236 | So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres." I" | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| ab9466e | I let myself be invented, modeled on my own reflection in his eyes. I dance, dance, dance in the stir of sudden wings. The | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| e3ec62d | When they said he didn't exist, he couldn't die of grief, so he had to be born. He's already out there living somewhere; he blinks his little eyes and grows. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| d2f894c | M'zhko stopanstvo Toi e ot tezi m'zhe, deto vsichko si v'rshat samichki. Triabva da go obichash s's vse shkafcheta i polichki. S onova, koeto e v tiakh ili nav'n se podava. Niama veshch, koiato s'khranenie ne zasluzhava. Chukcheta, kleshchi, dleta i svredeli, i epruvetki, gvozdei, shnurcheta, diubeli razni, niakakvi chetki, tubichki ot lepilo, kolektsiia kam'ni rechni, mengeme i nakovalnia, burkanche s tainstvena technost, star budilnik, k.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 0a8784d | In the absence of any concrete evidence. I plump for Leonard Stock as the murderer. First, because he's the most unlikely person, and as anyone who has ever read a murder story knows, it's always the most unlikely person who turns out to have done the deed--and fifty thousand authors can't be wrong. | suspects | M.M. Kaye | |
| d857377 | I will devour you. | m-m-erotic-romance m-m-romance romance | Kay Berrisford | |
| 0c0e078 | People everywhere preferred to make their own mistakes, and resented strangers (even efficient and well-meaning ones) interfering with their affairs | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 63d6b30 | He means, Coppy, that even though he had no intention of getting engaged or married, or otherwise entangled, he has discovered--probably with disgust--that the light of Reason has been put out and that he has been forced, against every prompting of intelligence, common sense and will-power, to chuck himself and his future at your feet, because he knows that unless you can be persuaded to pick them up, neither the one or the other will ever .. | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 560fa25 | Okay. Oh-kay. Re-cap. He just had a man come in his mouth. He liked it. He may be embarking on anal sex, soon, if he was reading the subtext right. Options: stay or leave. Pros of staying: first experience with anal sex. Cons of staying: first experience with anal sex. No, no. That isn't right. Pros of staying: first experience with anal sex. Cons of staying: not being able to face Pete the next day. Maybe ever. The thing about sex, though,.. | funny m-m | Dominique Frost | |
| 05a1b99 | because Afghanistan is no country to fight a war in - and an impossible one to hold if you win. | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 0dadc53 | It'd taken only a few hours, but I felt like Michelangelo staring at the Sistine Chapel after four years of hard labor, like Banksy after spending six days searching the Internet for ideas to steal and three minutes of sidewalk vandalism to execute them. | Paul Beatty | ||
| cf94874 | Curtis grew up to become King Cuz. A gangster well respected for his brain and his derring-do. His set, the Rollin' Paper Chasers, was the first gang to have trained medics at their rumbles. A shoot-out would pop off at the swap meet and the stretcher-bearers would cart off the wounded to be treated in some field hospital set up behind the frontlines. You didn't know whether to be sad or impressed. It wasn't long after that innovation that .. | Paul Beatty | ||
| d9661cf | Congratulations, you may already be a winner! Your case has been selected from hundreds of other appellate cases to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States of America. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 9b5c599 | The bus here because they lost Rosa Parks's bus." "Who lost Rosa Parks's bus?" "White people. Who the fuck else? Supposedly, every February when schoolkids visit the Rosa Parks Museum, or wherever the fuck the bus is at, the bus they tell the kids is the birthplace of the civil rights movement is a phony. Just some old Birmingham city bus they found in some junkyard. That's what my sister says, anyway." "I don't know." Cuz took two deep swa.. | artifacts civil-rights museums race-relations rosa-parks the-henry-ford whites | Paul Beatty | |
| 7cbca45 | That's the difference between most oppressed peoples of the world and American blacks. They vow never to forget, and we want everything expunged from our record, sealed and filed away for eternity. We want someone like Foy Cheshire to present our case to the world with a set of instructions that the jury will disregard centuries of ridicule and stereotype and pretend the woebegone niggers in front of you are starting from scratch. Foy | Paul Beatty | ||
| bd5b67f | All Vices and Bad Habits Referred to as "Phases" Not Responsible for Scratches, Dents, and Items Left in the Subconscious" -- | Paul Beatty | ||
| 7d45540 | This traffic-court jester did more than tell jokes; he plucked out your subconscious and beat you silly with it, not until you were unrecognizable, but until you were recognizable. | Paul Beatty | ||
| b242480 | Motherfuckers from Harvard to Harlem respect the Pew Research Center, and hearing this, the concerned patrons turned around in their squeaky plastic seats as best they could, given that donut shop swivel chairs swivel only six degrees in either direction. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 35abb9c | a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit. | Paul Beatty | ||
| c1f867b | During social studies, otherwise known as Dad's cirriculum as the Ways and Means of the Indefatigable White People, my father used to warn me about listening to rap or the blues with Caucasian strangers. And as I got older, I'd be admonished not to play Monopoly, drink more than two beers, or smoke weed with them either. For such activities can breed a false sense of familiarity . And nothing, from a hungry jungle cat to the African ferrybo.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| dec5458 | During the height of the government enforcement of the Civil Rights Act, some segregated townships filled in their municipal pools rather than let nonwhite kids share in the perverse joy of peeing in the water. | Paul Beatty | ||
| b23a234 | I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us from the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 612d3b0 | because I knew that racist Negro Archetypes, like Bebe's Kids, don't die. They multiply. | Paul Beatty | ||
| e6db1f8 | And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, | Paul Beatty | ||
| b771364 | Every race has a motto. Don't believe me? You know that dark-haired guy in human resources? The one who acts white, talks white, but doesn't quite look right? Go up to him. Ask him why Mexican goalkeepers play so recklessly or if the food at the taco truck parked outside is really safe to eat. Go ahead. Ask him. Prod him. Rub the back of his flat indio skull and see if he doesn't turn around with the pronunciamiento !Por La Raza--todo! !Fue.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 59cc2d9 | Most languages have a word for the day before yesterday. Anteayer in Spanish. Vorgestern in German. There is no word for it in English. It's a language that tries to keep the past simple and perfect, free of the subjunctive blurring of memory and mood. I take out a pen, tapping the end impatiently on a bar napkin as I try to think of a English word for "the day before yesterday." I consider myself to be a political-linguistic refugee, come .. | paul beatty | ||
| e9fb4a5 | I'm convinced that Nabokov wrote his novels around words like agglutinate, siliceous, gardyloo, ophidian, triskelions. That he took an ESL course at a local night school and the teacher wrote those words on the blackboard and said, "Today's assignment is to take these words and use them in a first novel the New York Times will call 'Riveting, truly a classic for the ages." | Paul Beatty | ||
| 670fc5e | When she finished, the white teacher, his face streaked with tears, tapped his boss on the shoulder, and like a television cop handing in his badge and gun, he solemnly removed the shiny new Teach for America button fastened to his sweater vest, placed it in Charisma's palm, and walked off into the squall. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 01eb402 | Your dad used to think I was bipolar, but what I really am is by myself. | Paul Beatty | ||
| e455b09 | In English you label groups of people by their moral intentions and collective needs. A mob tries to convince itself it's right and needs to prove it. A crowd knows it's right because if it weren't right, they would all need to be someplace else. A throng doesn't give a fuck about moral imperatives, it just wants and needs something to happen. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 83d3af8 | Hominy got out of the car to untangle the snarl. Waving his arms like the crazy man he was, he separated the cars by color, not that of the respective paint jobs, but by the hue of the motorists. "If you black, get back! White, to the right. Brown, go around. Yellow, follow the sites and let it mellow. Red, full speed ahead! Mulattos, full throttle!" If he couldn't categorize by sight, he asked the drivers what color they were. "Chicano? Wh.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| e84b59e | Deep ecology does not see the world as a collection of isolated objects but rather as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. It recognizes the intrinsic value of all living beings and views humans--in the celebrated words attributed to Chief Seattle--as just one particular strand in the web of life. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 106b7d3 | the properties of a particle can only be understood in terms of its activity--of its interaction with the surrounding environment--and that the particle, therefore, cannot be seen as an isolated entity but has to be understood as an integrated part of the whole. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 52ebea5 | taught us to be aware of ourselves as isolated egos existing "inside" our bodies; it has led us to set a higher value on mental than manual work; it has enabled huge industries to sell products - especially to women - that would make us owners of the "ideal body"; it has kept doctors from seriously considering the psychological dimensions of illness, and psychotherapists from dealing with their patients' bodies." | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 3fd58d9 | The paradigm that is now receding has dominated our culture for several hundred years, during which it has shaped our modern Western society and has significantly influenced the rest of the world. This paradigm consists of a number of entrenched ideas and values, among them the view of the universe as a mechanical system composed of elementary building-blocks, the view of the human body as a machine, the view of life in society as a competi.. | Fritjof Capra |