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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eba7e6f | that the unfortunate thing about losing the trivia game was that they had been caught cheating and should have cheated better, I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing. | Suki Kim | ||
| f57304a | I sang along, but I could not help noticing that if you replaced the word Jesus with Great Leader, the content was not so different from some of the North Korean songs my students chanted several times each day. In both groups, singing was a joyful, collective ritual from which they took strength. | Suki Kim | ||
| b290c4a | They were always comparing themselves to the outside world, which none of them had ever seen, declaring themselves the best. This insistence on "best" seemed strangely childlike, and the words best and greatest were used so frequently that they gradually lost their meaning." | Suki Kim | ||
| 505ce97 | But the blessing came with its price. Being bilingual, being multicultural should have brought two worlds into one heart, and yet for Suzy, it meant a persistent hollowness. It seems that she needed to love one culture to be able to love the other. Piling up cultural references led to no further identification. What Damian had called a "blessing" pushed her out of context, always. She was stuck in a vacuum where neither culture moved nor ow.. | Suki Kim | ||
| 8ac8a78 | The entire country was like a linguistic and cultural Galapagos. | Suki Kim | ||
| 92c31f1 | History is a record of many such irrationalities. | Suki Kim | ||
| dc97c9a | The interpreter, however, is the shadow. The key is to be invisible. She is the only one in the room who hears the truth, a keeper of secrets. | Suki Kim | ||
| 54380eb | North Korea was the evangelical Christian Holy Grail, the hardest place to crack in the whole world, and converting its people would guarantee the missionaries a spot in heaven. | Suki Kim | ||
| 7859209 | For even now, decades after I first adopted it, English does not pierce my heart the same way that my mother tongue does. The word division weighs less than bundan, and war is easier to say than junjeng. | Suki Kim | ||
| 760c7cc | You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world | going-crazy insanity the-world truths | Suki Kim | |
| 4132251 | I did not tell my students that, or how their team faced Portugal, the opposing team, all alone in a stadium packed with more than sixty thousand Portuguese fans and just seventy North Korean laborers shipped in from Namibia. Seeing the World Cup in person would have sounded unreal to them, and besides, they did not like the topic. North Koreans still seemed to feel great shame over their team's loss, despite the fact that in the world's ey.. | Suki Kim | ||
| b762e49 | For thousands of years, scarcely anyone left. Korea was the hermit kingdom, with its spiritual basis in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shamanism, until 1910, when it was annexed by Japan and colonized for thirty-five years thereafter, followed by the Korean War in 1950. Having been born and raised under these brutal colonizers, my paternal grandfather spoke fluent Japanese. Shortly before his death, in the mid-1980s, he came to stay with my fa.. | Suki Kim | ||
| 1e2b1af | Even teaching them to write an essay turned out to be dangerous, since the idea of coming up with your own thesis and making an argument based on evidence doesn't exist in North Korea. | Suki Kim | ||
| c412b69 | More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history." Then" | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 14d63e0 | Then the universe rocks. The very fabric of reality is rent. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 2a52c41 | The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost. | fear impressions | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 651c8cc | here you've got to live, breathe, and eat trust, or you're dead. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 744dc1d | The sun had burned off whatever morning fog and low clouds had gripped the city, and now a glorious fall day was upon them. Warm sunlight caressed his face as cool ocean breezes carried the sound of gulls and the tang of salt. He remembered the stab of pain he had felt when he had thought he would not see the day, and the terror and panic that had gripped him as rough hands had placed him upon the gallows returned. Erik felt a choking sensa.. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 881aa2d | power is limited to the strength of will within the man who holds it. Falter in your resolve and you will fall. Remain steadfast and you shall prevail. Always remember that. 'Come, | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 3bbef2a | The ways of the heart are complex." He looked out at the ocean again. "The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man's undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you." -- | passionate-love pragmatism wisdom | Raymond E. Feist | |
| fcabe73 | Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'." | gossip the-great-game | Raymond E. Feist | |
| daa4e6f | Mama shrieked. The first man turned | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| bc90e7c | he had seen the worst and best of the rest, and had gone from a fraternity of men bent on trivial gain by any means, including murder, to a fellowship of men who would sacrifice even their own lives for the greater good. His ambition was to be like them, to be noble by strength of purpose and clarity of vision rather than by accident of birth. | nobility-of-spirit purpose-in-life | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 677cf15 | But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 696aa71 | he reminded himself as he turned another corner -- glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there -- the deed was the thing, not the praise. | no-good-deed praise | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 82c3b69 | Kato dete izpitvakh s'shchoto po klonite na golemite d'rveta. Da stoish prilepen do edin stvol, tolkova dreven, che i nai-drevnata choveshka pamet blednee pred nego, ti vnushava s'shchoto chuvstvo za miasto v sveta. | български бард bulgarian човек чувство дълголъкия дървета древен elder фийст философ human longbow martin memory място old памет philosopher philosophy разлом реймънд riftwar saga sea свят tree война | Raymond E. Feist | |
| a8dff2f | Ishap, moreto e goliamo, a lodkata mi - malka. Imai milost k'm men. | амос aruta български boat bulgarian дълголъкия feist фийст философия ishap лодка longbow martin mercy място милост more моряк phylosopher phylosophy place raymond разлом реймънд saga sea small свят война world | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 04e6369 | Forgive me, Magnus.' 'I don't know if I can.' 'You must.' | forgiveness inspirational life | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 9d2a760 | A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey. | vivid | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 62a54fc | That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect. | respect warrior-ethos | Raymond E. Feist | |
| a61083c | The thought struck Dennis that a hundred years before he was even born Tinuva undoubtedly knew of the river. Again he realized just how ancient the elven race was and with it came the recognition of just how much they risked when facing battle: it wasn't just a score of years in the balance, it was a score of decades. | perspectives-on-time | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 00fe4ab | the sound of old winter ice breaking at spring's touch, | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 791337f | It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling. | killing remorse | Raymond E. Feist | |
| db91e62 | Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win. | warrior-ethos | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 7084097 | in kings people overlook and forgive behaviour they would not tolerate in others. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| fc7ed24 | Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 28df151 | People most often don't see what is right before them. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 3750854 | Trying to guess the enemy's next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 1cb81e0 | Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind. | choices-and-attitude perspectives | Raymond E. Feist | |
| f9bf198 | When you lose everything,' Nathan had said, 'you've nothing left to lose. You've got two choices then: either kill yourself or start building a new life. When I started this new life, without my family, I decided the only sensible thing in it was to live for the small rewards: a job well done, a beautiful sunrise, the sound of children laughing at play, a good cup of wine. Makes it easy to deal with the harsher side of life. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 034534a | Still, few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy. | worthwhile | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 46107b0 | Good," said Creed. "I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random." | plans | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 86deb83 | A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy. | fear leadership | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 6462b3d | What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it's a good way to keep things separated. | meaning-of-things purpose-of-life | Raymond E. Feist |