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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ba18ce | I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up. | Ken Kesey | ||
| e43697c | Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy" | Ken Kesey | ||
| da9f18e | This world...belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 90fa109 | This world... belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides whe.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 071772b | Maybe he couldn't understand why we weren't able to laugh yet, but he knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things. | laughter | Ken Kesey | |
| df6ca4d | He had only smiled, condescendingly and therapeutically. "No, Leland, not you. You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for you to 'go mad' in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently 'went mad' and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now"--And I think he even went so far as to yawn--"you are too .. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 4d0571b | They've still got their problems, just like all of us. They're still sick men in lots of ways. But at least there's that: they are sick men now. No more rabbits, Mack. Maybe they can be well men someday. I can't say. | mental-illness rabbits strength | Ken Kesey | |
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La gente no suele saber aplicar la filosofia. Dudo de que ni siquiera los filosofos sepan hacerlo. --La gente puede usar conceptos morales lo mismo que tu has usado ahora el concepto de la verdad para convencerme. Cualquiera puede hacerlo. --Quiza. Pero creo que la filosofia moral es algo que resulta desesperanzadamente personal. No puede ser comunicado. < |
moral verdad wittgenstein | Iris Murdoch | |
| 364cdb3 | Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's. | love loves other-people private the-sea-the-sea unknowable | Iris Murdoch | |
| 1453138 | If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bit.. | guilt iris-murdoch jealousy remorse repentance the-sea-the-sea torment | Iris Murdoch | |
| e7c0f3e | You talk of freedom -- I've never had it! I've been lonely and miserable and in despair, and you want me to consent to all that all over again! | freedom iris-murdoch lonely misery the-message-to-the-planet | Iris Murdoch | |
| e127565 | There is no timetable for grief," said Bronwen Morgan. "Grief isn't a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief's time is beyond time, and time itself ... isn't very important." | Susan Howatch | ||
| a634871 | The fierce overhead strip lighting buzzed like the memory of a head injury. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| afc3225 | If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 4a1adac | Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table. | dreary-exterior stack-of-local-history-books | Christopher Fowler | |
| 343c92e | I don't think you should make so many off-colour jokes about him becoming a cuckold. You're only getting away with it because he doesn't know what it means.' 'That's the beauty of the English language. One can wrap insults inside elegance, like popping anchovies into pastry. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| b5879e1 | There are always regrets, of course. But you have to try and make a difference without hurting anyone along the way, so that you can reach a final state of grace without shame. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 7aa9527 | Jung was very conscious of the mysteriousness of the human personality and the difficulty of penetrating the outward appearance and discovering the real individual. | mystial-paths susan-howatch | Christopher Bryant | |
| 139d6fc | Whenever the cadaverous Home Office security supervisor became involved in their affairs, babies cried, women cowered, innocence was punished and blame was wrongly apportioned. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 909ced8 | I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 3c08ee7 | My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| df9e1cc | Don't talk to me about sense. i've been alive for forty-seven years and I have absolutely no understanding of human nature whatsoever. I might as well be living with a completely different species, giant squids or perhaps some kind of insect colony. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| a444cbe | The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| baad39f | A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. --Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian | Mary Karr | ||
| c945a50 | Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich beruhrt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe. | Jay Rubin | ||
| fcd0071 | We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides. What other creature in God's wide domain would carry the memory | Dan Simmons | ||
| 6f9f1dc | I mean exactly that," Mr. Davison retorted. "You've hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position"--he turned to Kay--"have 'privilege.' That's what I read in the Nation and the New Republic." Mrs. Davison nodded. "Good," said Mr. Davison. "Now listen. The fellow who's got privilege gives up some rights or ought to." | Mary McCarthy | ||
| e3227d2 | The group was not afraid of being radical either; they could see the good Roosevelt was doing, despite what Mother and Dad said; they were not taken in by party labels and thought the Democrats should be given a chance to show what they had up their sleeve. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 38a8d9a | He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 3ad644c | the privacy to make a scene was something she would miss in Utopia ... [N]ow, surrounded by these watchers, she felt deprived of a basic right ... [to] behave badly if necessary, until [Preston] responded to her grief." And" | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 215847d | But this poor chap is a dangerous neurotic." Polly laughed. "So you saw that, Father. I never could. He always seemed so normal." "It's the same thing," said her father, putting the groceries away. "All neurotics are petty bourgeois. And vice versa. Madness is too revolutionary for them. They can't go the whole hog. We madmen are the aristocrats of mental illness. You could never marry that fellow, my dear." | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 73d113b | The fault, in their view, lay with no single person, but with the middle class composition of the colony, which, feeling itself imperiled, had acted instinctively, as an organism, to extrude the riffraff from its midst. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 0e247c8 | They had caught a glimpse of themselves in a mirror, a mirror placed at a turning point where they had expected to see daylight and freedom, and though each of them, individually, was far from believing himself perfect, all had counted on the virtues of others to rescue them themselves. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 2393c83 | boredom and urban cynicism had become so natural to them that an experience from which these qualities were absent seemed to be, in some way, defective. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| fa76232 | Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 9c5559b | The Venetians catalogue everything, including themselves. 'These grapes are brown,' I complain to the young vegetable-dealer in Santa Maria Formosa. 'What is wrong with that ? I am brown,' he replies. 'I am the housemaid of the painter Vedova,' says a maid, answering the telephone. 'I am a Jew,' begins a cross-eyed stranger who is next in line in a bookshop. 'Would you care to see the synagogue?' Almost any Venetian, even a child, will aban.. | venice | Mary McCarthy | |
| 793c93c | independent working girls out in the world, in pursuit of the kind of adventure that would strengthen, not deplete, us, as we would then be armed with experience. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 88085ba | Not knaves, fools. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 0d99045 | I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a pier, had made me perfectly reckless. I was going to get myself recognized at whatever price. It was in this cold, empty gambler's mood, common to politicians and adolescents, that I surveyed the convent setup. If I could not win fame by goodne.. | catholic-school fame gambling | Mary McCarthy | |
| 202b401 | I would have said that Eichmann was profoundly, egregiously stupid, and for me stupidity is not the same as having a low IQ. Here I rather agree with Kant, that stupidity is caused, not by brain failure, but by a wicked heart. Insensitiveness, opacity, inability to make connections, ofter accompanied by low "animal" cunning. One cannot help feeling that this mental oblivion is , by the heart or the moral will--an active preference, and tha.. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 46eeaf0 | Que no la conocera nunca, que no tiene los medios para conocer tanta perversidad. Ni de dar tantos y tantos rodeos para atraparla, nunca lo conseguira. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| ea9ade9 | El recuerdo de los hombres nunca surge con esa deslumbrante luminosidad que acompana al de las mujeres | Marguerite Duras | ||
| f2ef3ae | Nos permitiamos el lujo de no querer comer | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 9e5aa33 | Ellas esperan. Se visten para nada. Se contemplan. En la penumbra de esas quintas que se contemplan para mas tarde, creen vivir una novela, ya tienen amplios roperos llenos de vestidos con los que no saben que hacer, coleccionados con el tiempo, la larga sucesion de dias de espera. | Marguerite Duras |