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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb091fe | He that died o'Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| baaf606 | a few months after he penned his Dialogue in Praise of the Papal Court, poor Lapo died of plague at the age of thirty-three.) | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| e0e3d43 | the dread of something after death,/The undiscovered country from whose bourn/No traveller returns. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| dd0e738 | Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| e7768a5 | This man," remarked a contemporary, dismayed at the wanton damage, "knew as much of antiquities as the moon does of lobsters.")" | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| a17ef00 | The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. (4.1.179-81) | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| c5ef355 | affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 98371c1 | If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| d9d1f39 | Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. (4.1.192-97) | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 30cbcfc | If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 99d3e77 | the government-controlled Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published a column declaring that "the Jews' spilling human blood to prepare pastry for their holidays is a well-established fact." | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 2f351e7 | always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| bdca831 | Instead, he wrote, quoting Lucretius, there were multiple worlds, where the seeds of things, in their infinite numbers, would certainly combine to form other races of men, other creatures. Each of the fixed stars observed in the sky is a sun, scattered through limitless space. Many of these are accompanied by satellites that revolve around them as the earth revolves around our sun. The universe is not all about us, about our behavior and ou.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 3f56fc0 | If the original ink proved tenacious, it could still be possible to make out the traces of the texts that were written over: a unique fourth-century copy of Cicero's On the Republic remained visible beneath a seventh-century copy of St. Augustine's meditation on the Psalms; the sole surviving copy of Seneca's book on friendship was deciphered beneath an Old Testament inscribed in the late sixth century. These strange, layered manuscripts--c.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 66486ba | Vouchsafe, O Lord,21 to bless this workroom of Thy servants," declared the dedication of one scriptorium, "that all which they write therein may be comprehended by their intelligence and realized in their works." But the actual interest of the scribes in the books they copied (or their distaste for those books) was strictly irrelevant. Indeed, insofar as the copying was a form of discipline--an exercise in humility and a willing embrace of .. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| f05a1b4 | In Gilgamesh the human formed from clay is a wild man, with flowing hair (possibly all over his body) and the strength and manner of life of the animals. In Genesis the clay human is created "in the image of God" and has from the beginning the status of one who is not a companion to the other animals but of one who dominates them." | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| f0dedff | You bitches, sows, screech-owls, night owls, she-wolves, blood suckers, [who] cry "Give, give! without ceasing" (Prov. 30:15-16). Come now, hear me, harlots, prostitutes, with your lascivious kisses, you wallowing places for fat pigs, couches for unclean spirits, demi-goddesses, sirens, witches, devotees of Diana, if any portents, if any omens are found thus far, they should be judged sufficient to your name. For you are the victims of demo.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 2923ec1 | APART FROM THE charred papyrus fragments recovered in Herculaneum, there are no surviving contemporary manuscripts from the ancient Greek and Roman world. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 7dbfc95 | It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't. (2.3.114-15) | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 24323ce | progress--like those cartoons that begin with an ape and end with a man sitting at a computer--now gets lost in a hundred detours and false starts, intersecting paths and dead ends. It is difficult to find the story line in a tangled bush. Evolutionary theory is not threatened by the disappearance of the main highway. On the contrary, from the beginning Darwin insisted on the randomness of mutations, followed by the editing of natural selec.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| b99b8eb | Finally, there a motley crowd of those who carry out his orders, some reluctantly but simply eager to avoid trouble; others with gusto, hoping to seize something along the way for themselves; still others enjoying the cruel game of making his targets, often high in the social hierarchy, suffer and die. The aspiring tyrant never lacks for such people, in Shakespeare and, from what I can tell, in life. True, there might be a world somewhere w.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| fa5dec3 | You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 85f2831 | And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help. Go to, then. You come to me, and you say 'Shylock, we would have moneys'--you say so, You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold. (1.3.107-15) | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 6f9e522 | Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For suff 'rance is the badge of all our tribe. (1.3.105-6) | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| e89d41c | He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what's his reason?--I am a Jew. (3.1.46-49) | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 0a7543e | Tyrannical power is more easily exercised when it appears that the old order continues to exist. The reassuring consensual structures may now be hollowed out and merely decorative, but they are all still in place, so that the bystanders, who crave psychological security and a sense of well-being, can persuade themselves that the rule of law is being upheld. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 721aedb | Something happened in the Renaissance, something that surged up against the constraints that centuries had constructed around curiosity, desire, individuality, sustained attention to the material world, the claims of the body. The cultural shift is notoriously difficult to define, and its significance has been fiercely contested. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 2b9d7b1 | The transformation was not sudden or once-for-all, but it became increasingly possible to turn away from a preoccupation with angels and demons and immaterial causes and to focus instead on things in this world; to understand that humans are made of the same stuff as everything else and are part of the natural order; to conduct experiments without fearing that one is infringing on God's jealously guarded secrets; to question authorities and.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| d9d8fea | In . . . Menenius Agrippa, Shakespeare draws a deft portrait of a successful conservative politician, altogether in the camp of the rich but adept at presenting himself as the people's friend. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 1b66557 | he "obliterated by the praiseworthy use he made of leisure the stain he had incurred through his active exertions in former days." | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 0ecafba | The patricians urge [Coriolanus] to set aside his most deeply held convictions for the purpose of getting elected. They want him to lie and to pander and to play the demagogue. Once he is securely in office, there will be plenty of time for him to resume his actual stance and to roll back the concessions that have been made to the poor. It is the most familiar of political games: the plutocrat, born into every privilege and inwardly contemp.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| 03d990c | Shakespeare believed that . . . tyrants and their minions would ultimately fail, brought down by their own viciousness and by a popular spirit of humanity that could be suppressed but never completely extinguished. The best chance for the recovery of collective decency lay, he thought, in the political action of ordinary citizens. He never lost sight of . . . the hungry citizen who demanded economic justice. 'What is the city but the people.. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| df0e506 | the printers who set the books in type still depended on accurate, readable, handwritten transcriptions, often of manuscripts that were illegible to all but a few. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| e73e57a | He [Cade] promises to make England great again. How will he do that? He shows the crowd at once: he attacks education. | politics shakespeare | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| d6c4d10 | Populism may look like an embrace of the have-nots, but in reality it is a form of cynical exploitation. The unscrupulous leader has no actual interest in bettering the lot of the poor. Surrounded from birth with great wealth, his tastes run to extravagant luxuries, and he finds nothing remotely appealing the lives of underclasses... But he sees that they can be made to further his ambition. | politics shakespeare | Stephen Greenblatt | |
| 759b292 | Even in systems that have multiple moderating institutions, the chief executive almost always has considerable power. But what happens when that executive is not mentally fit to hold office? What if he begins to make decisions that threaten the well-being and security of the realm? | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| cf99f49 | It is extremely dangerous to have a state run by someone who governs by impulse. | Stephen Greenblatt | ||
| be136e6 | the front doors. Flashbulbs flashed. A roar rose up from the crowd at the sign of fresh activity. Then Rainie caught a new sound--the faint beating of helicopters bearing down upon them. The medevac choppers had finally arrived to carry the wounded away. And Rainie couldn't help thinking that it would be much later before the ME's office came for the bodies. Officer Luke Hayes was thirty-six years old, balding, and shorter than mo.. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| dd42ba8 | it, Shep does his ordering for the department and for himself all from the same manufacturer. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 4ab8dd1 | doorknob | Lisa Gardner | ||
| ce46f27 | Shallow graves took on a life of their own. And eventually, all bodies did what they were meant to do. Decay. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Disappearing back into the earth, until months later, a uniquely shaped depression was formed. The kind of hollow that any experienced homicide detective could look at and say, hey, betcha a body is buried there. The | Lisa Gardner | ||
| d5b3f9c | Chances are that he's experiencing a great deal of guilt and self-loathing. Someone needs to help him come to terms with that. Otherwise, there is the danger that he will simply shut down that part of himself. He will start actively considering himself to be a remorseless killer. And he will become one. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| ad580df | We're about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| ec497fc | What's the last thing you remember?" I ask instead. "Dancing." "You were at a bar, a nightclub? In Boston?" It takes her a bit, but finally, "Y-y-yes." "Did you drink too much?" A small hiccup I take to be yes. Kids, I think. We're all so young and fearless once. Nightclubs are nothing but a source of adventure. And a fourth, fifth, sixth rum runner the best idea in the world. I hated myself for my own stupidity, waking up in a coffin-size .. | Lisa Gardner |