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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9cc6cbd | Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened | Roger Zelazny | ||
| e1d7c9f | Spavati, mozda i sanjati... | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 79e8ed5 | Later, much later, I was to see this for the rationalization it was; my real reason for denying her the answers she desired was that I was not ready to trust her, or anyone, so close to me as I really am. Had I known her longer, better -- another year, say -- I might have answered her. I don't know. We never used the word "love," though it must have run through her mind on occasion, as it did through mine. It was, I suppose, that I didn't l.. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| ac8f02a | The thing had been quite unpremeditated on my part. I had not even thought of her as a woman until she came into my arms and revised my thinking on the subject. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 897949b | Poshchadata, kakto imakh v'zmozhnost da naucha ot lichen opit, e tochno onova, koeto ti otkazvat, kogato nai-mnogo se nuzhdaesh ot nego. Ala kogato ti samiiat d'rzhish kozovete, s'shchite tezi khora vdigat shum do nebeto za da ia poluchat. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 034ea7a | Sve dok nisam dosao do carobne rijeci. Amber. (...) Rijec bijase nabijena strahovitom ceznjom i golemom nostalgijom. Imala je, zamotan u sebi, osjecaj zaboravljene ljepote, grandioznih dostignuca i moci uzasne i gotovo konacne. Nekako, ta je rijec pripadala mom rjecniku. I nekako, ja bijah dio nje, a ona dio mene. Bijase to ime mjesta, znao sam, mjesta koje sam nekoc poznavao. Ali nije izazivala nikakve slike, samo osjecaje. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 37444cd | child of Amber may walk among them, and such was my heritage. You may call them parallel worlds if you wish, alternate universes if you would, the products of a deranged mind if you care to. I call them shadows, as do all who possess the power to walk among them. We select a possibility and we walk until we reach it. So, in a sense, we create it. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 19eb07c | And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest, I suppose. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 15b7ede | Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot du Lac to the Keep of Ganelon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| fda60a5 | When you are going to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 9b37447 | If the writer sees more of the story than he actually tells, it adds strength to the story. It makes the character seem more real."4" | Zelazny Roger | ||
| 25f183a | What should I do?' Coyote yelled. 'Cultivate philosophy and run like hell,' said Bear... | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 129b925 | My books were all on their shelves. Nobody steals books but your friends. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 6855257 | And then the night wind, cool through arches of the years, came hounding after me. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 3f8199d | Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls" "Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?" "She said the Pope says." "The Pope's an old meanie. Animals have much nicer souls than we do. They never tell lies or blow anybody up." "They eat each other." "Well, they have to eat each other; they can't go to Dairy Queen and get a large vanilla cone with sprinkles, can they? " "They could eat grass." "So could we, but we don't.. | religion vegetarianism | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 042de43 | Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together. | time | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| c92ec15 | Turning each page is like making a bed, an enormous expanse of paper slowly rises up and over. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 7620dc2 | Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?" Elspeth" | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 4060e43 | Ali ti znas: znas da bih ostao da sam mogao, da sam mogao nastaviti zivjeti, znas da bih se cvrsto drzao za svaku sekundu: sto god to bilo, ta smrt, znas da je doslo i odnijelo me poput djeteta koje odnesu patuljci. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| d0a38b1 | we are all time travelers in our minds, if not in our bodies. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 42df875 | I was thinking; it's very peaceful, here with you. It's nice to just lie here and know that the future is sort of taken care of." "Henry?" | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c7959e5 | Sonunda kaybetseniz bile hayatta kisa bir sureligine cok mutlu olmak, bir omur boyu orta karar yasamaktan daha iyi degil mi?" -Clare" | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 4384828 | Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 60d56f0 | What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship? | Michael Pollan | ||
| 370e70c | The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control here, and the only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 69c5f27 | In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic." | food magic | Michael Pollan | |
| 2ed1dd4 | Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1 | food | Michael Pollan | |
| 2348b34 | After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands--with all my senses, in fact--is always a welcome change of pace, whether in the kitchen or in the garden. There's something about such work that seems to alter the experience of time, helps me to reoccupy the present tense. I don't want you to get the idea it's made a Buddhist of me, but in the kitchen, maybe a little bit. When stirring the pot, just stir the pot. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 5f45fcb | Immersed this spring in research for this chapter, I was sorely tempted to plant one of the hybrid cannabis seeds I'd seen for sale in Amsterdam. I immediately thought better of it, however. So I planted lots of opium poppies instead. I hasten to add that I've no plans to do anything with my poppies except admire them - first their fleeting tissue-paper blooms, then their swelling blue-green seedpods, fat with milky alkaloid. (Unless, of co.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| d817a1a | As we drove up, Mr. Flowers himself was sitting beneath a tree out front, having a smoke. He was a wiry old white guy with the most unusual facial hair I had ever laid eyes on. If in fact it was facial hair, because it wasn't quite that simple. Mr. Flowers's prodigious muttonchops, once white but now stained yellow by tobacco smoke, had somehow managed to merge with the equally prodigious yellowish-white hair sprouting from his chest. I did.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 1ff28c8 | Two of the most nutritious plants in the world --lamb's quarters and purslane--are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like the Mediterranean, make frequent use of wild greens. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a873d86 | the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating anything (including, notably, other humans) stands in particular need of ethical rules, manners, and rituals. we are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a058d28 | Okay, but what about microbial disease? "To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors." In fact, the twentieth-century war on bacteria--with its profligate use of antibiotics, and routine sterilization of food--has undermined our health by wrecking the ecology of our gut. "For the first time in human history, it .. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 35b9436 | Four of the top ten causes of death today are chronic diseases with well-established links to diet: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancer. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 282b585 | The economic logic of gathering so many animals together to feed them cheap corn in CAFOs is hard to argue with; it has made meat, which used to be a special occasion in most American homes, so cheap and abundant that many of us now eat it three times a day. Not so compelling is the biological logic behind this cheap meat. Already in their short history CAFOs have produced more than their share of environmental and health problems: polluted.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 581d517 | The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art of conversation and acquire the habits of civilization: sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating differences, arguing without offending. | Michael Pollan | ||
| dba2a09 | Easy. You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. Cook it yourself. Eat anything you want--just as long as you're willing to cook it yourself. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 44bad93 | Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too much of a bad thing instead of too little of a good thing. | Michael Pollan | ||
| adf22e5 | By 1900, European scientists recognized that unless a way was found to augment this naturally occurring nitrogen, the growth of the human population would soon grind to a very painful halt... After Nixon's 1972 trip the first major order the Chinese government placed was for thirteen massive fertilizer factories. Without them, China would have probably starved. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 5ea1fe4 | Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn] | farming food | Michael Pollan | |
| e236470 | The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's... the demand for food isn't elastic; people don't eat more just because food is cheap. Even if I go out of business this land will keep producing corn. | farming food | Michael Pollan | |
| f7ac73f | To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from the corporations seeking to organize our every waking moment into yet another occasion for consumption. (Come to think of it, our nonwaking moments as well: Ambien, anyone?) It is to reject the debilitating notion that, at least while we're at home, production is work best done by someone else, and the only legitimate form of leisur.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e930452 | For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? So | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7d21426 | Hand taste, however, involves something greater than mere flavor. It is the infinitely more complex experience of a food that bears the unmistakable signature of the individual who made it--the care and thought and idiosyncrasy that that person has put into the work of preparing it. Hand taste cannot be faked, Hyeon Hee insisted, and hand taste is the reason we go to all this trouble, massaging the individual leaves of each cabbage and then.. | Michael Pollan |