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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2509027 | There are ruins, steeped in shadow, and a bloodred sun going down in turmoil behind distant hills. Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind runs addict's fingers through the trees that line the street. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 3ff9b60 | Soldiers follow orders. Regardless. The moment you refuse to carry out an order, you're no longer a soldier. You're just a paid killer trying to renegotiate your contract. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 795d08d | You know at the end of the day, when you close the door and you're all alone... And you strip off your armor and lower your guard and peel away the mask... When there's nobody watching and nothing to hide... And you no longer need to be strong or clever or pretty or brave... There's just you. That's it. That's the soul. | batgirl dc-comics oracle | Dylan Horrocks | |
| b75e6d9 | Why did the adults in my life demand so much attention anyway? 'Are you listening Barbara?' was one of their favorite inquiries, followed up cleverly by, 'Then what did I say?' Sometimes their eyes bulged out so far when they asked these questions that I wondered whether the attention they needed wasn't medical. Or maybe they lacked inner resources and had no way of being sure they existed unless someone like me was around to confirm that t.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 28b9688 | You do this pronoun shift. You may not even be aware of it. If it's a 'bold idea,' it's 'ours.' If it's a 'nutty idea,' it's 'yours.'" "Grammar Nazi. Would it be enough to say I want to be president to . . ." "I'm listening." Randy said, "I was about to say, 'To give something back,' but it sounds so pathetic. What it really boils down to is, I'd like to be in charge for just five minutes. Balance the books. Get us out of debt. Be nice to o.. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 432800b | Speechwriters are fundamentally Calvinist: They become nervous if their principals exhibit free will and depart from the prepared text. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 2cc2437 | Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 8918f1b | Block of Death. Just inside the door on the left is the room where they held the proceedings. Jarek remarks that the SS officer who sentenced five thousand Poles here to die was still alive last year, living in Germany, age ninety-two. We ask why. He shrugs. At the far end on the corridor, on the left, looking out into the courtyard, is the room where the condemned were stripped and held. An illustration depicts a naked girl holding on to h.. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 19c38fa | It was--unthinkable: three of the most powerful men in Europe--the world--the Pope, the Emperor Maximilian, and Albrecht--all wanted Luther tied to a stake and burned. Yet each time they reached out to light the fire, Luther snatched the torch from their hands and set fire to their own robes. How was a mere monk able to do this? Because he was protected by the Elector Frederick, who declined to hand over one of his Saxon subjects to other a.. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 0c5da31 | There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| f8366b9 | Why should you give up God because of gunpowder? Since the world began, God in his wisdom has given us tools with which to slaughter each other. Jawbones of asses. Slings. Swords. Crossbows. Why shouldn't he give us gunpowder? | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 040929b | Ronald Reagan used to say that the nine scariest words in the English language were 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 72be222 | You are a grand nerveux, Vincent," Doctor Rey had told him. "You never have been normal. But then, no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn't be an artist. Normal men don't create works of art. They eat, sleep, hold down routine jobs, and die. You are hypersensitive to life and nature; that's why you are able to interpret for the rest of us. But if you are not careful, that very hypersensitiveness will lead you to your destruction. The st.. | Irving Stone | ||
| df4f740 | Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif. | Irving Stone | ||
| a1c915a | That was how his pen finally designed his sculpture; in the center the weak, confused, arrogant, soon to be destroyed young man holding cup a loft, behind him the idyllic child, clear-eyed, munching his grapes, symbol of joy ; between them the tiger skin. The Bacchus, hollow within himself, flabby, reeling, already old; the Satyr, eternally young and gay, symbol of man's childhood and naughty innocence | Irving Stone | ||
| de73fa0 | dr dny mrdmy lmdhhb tr, sngdl tr w dny prst tr z khshysh h yft nmy shwnd wnsn wn gwg shwr zndgy, yrwyng stwn | Irving Stone | ||
| 80a3f34 | Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives. | Irving Stone | ||
| 2090897 | He turned, stood above the crowd gazing up at him. There was silence in the square. And yet he had never felt such complete communication. It was as though they read each other's thoughts, as though they were one and the same: they were part of him,every Florentine standing below, eyes turned up to him, and he was a part of them. | Irving Stone | ||
| cee6c24 | Naci ce se drugi papa, ali nikad vise nece biti Boticelija. | Irving Stone | ||
| 56a4311 | It had been an evening in the empty dance hall when not even that depth of stone and the constant stirring of the ceiling fans could cool the stifling and humid night air, which had entered the Duckworth Club as heavily as a fog from the Arabian Sea. Even atheists, like Lowji, were praying for the monsoon rains. After | John Irving | ||
| 917775e | Van Gogh asked, | Irving Stone | ||
| 05b7351 | God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created. | Irving Stone | ||
| 11cbfe6 | The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate. | Irving Stone | ||
| b1fbbf5 | Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful. | painful | Irving Stone | |
| fc61adb | He turned, stood above the crowd gazing up at him. There was silence in the square. And yet he had never felt such complete communication. | Irving Stone | ||
| 9f7cd02 | Do you call yourself an artist?" "Yes." "How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life." "Is that what being an artist means--selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely finding. I thought it means the contrary from 'I know it, I have found it.' When I say I am an artist, I only mean" | Irving Stone | ||
| 810ff81 | I don't know myself," he said. "I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me, and I say, 'That white board must become something!' I work for a long time, I come back home dissatisfied, I put it away in the closet. When I have rested a little I go to look at it with a kind of fear. I am still dissatisfied because I have too clearly in my mind the splendid original to be content with what I have made of it. But after all, I .. | Irving Stone | ||
| 7c0acaf | The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns. | Irving Stone | ||
| 80d5ac8 | But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little. | artists death life selfish | Irving Stone | |
| a438415 | They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived. | Irving Stone | ||
| 5ccc77f | You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value. | Irving Stone | ||
| c0cc6aa | What went through the mind of Christ between the sunset hour when the Roman soldier drove the first nail through his flesh, and the hour when he died? For these thoughts would determine not only how he accepted his fate, but also the position of his body on the cross. Donatello's Christ accepted in serenity, and thought nothing. Brunelleschi's Christ was so ethereal that he died at the first touch of the nail, and had no time to think. He.. | Irving Stone | ||
| 0d6cceb | As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth. | Irving Stone | ||
| 15f4d01 | Vincent took them in the full spirit of friendship which knows that the difference between giving and taking is purely temporal. | giving taking van-gogh | Irving Stone | |
| e754977 | As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or a scene over the roofs of Paris; for no man ever pictured anything but himself, his core, the things that he was basically. With every brush stroke the artist was mercilessly exposed: he could not conceal nothing, he could pretend to be another person, to believe in other values, but in the end he would fool no one. | life | Irving Stone | |
| fbf3479 | Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer created only one novel; throw away the individual bindings and the whole of each man's writing constituted one book: the true and complete portrait of himself. An artist had one thing to say, and one only; he might flail about, seek new techniques, forms, colour combinations, subjects, but intrinsi.. | writing | Irving Stone | |
| f355345 | Sometimes I think that just as trains and carriages are means of locomotion to get us from one place to another on this earth, so typhoid and consumption are means of locomotion to get us from one world to another. | life locomotion van-gogh | Irving Stone | |
| 0e7d6f8 | Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life. | Irving Stone | ||
| 0e87f7c | there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris. | Irving Stone | ||
| 59a4b0b | One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it. | artists artists-life sculpture artist | Irving Stone | |
| 137cc0d | Have you ever been in love?" "...in a way." "It's always 'in a way." | Irving Stone | ||
| 896bcb7 | gwgn: aqy wn gwg prys r chTwr my bynyd? wn gwg: khyly dwst drm gwgn: `jybh! hmh hmyn r mygn! mn bh shm khwdm prys r khkhrwbh dwnyi bzrgy my dwnm khh tmdn hm khkhrwbh sh st shwr zndgy, yrwyng stwn | Irving Stone | ||
| 6842601 |
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| 0d44826 | Let us bless thee at all times and forget not how thou hast forgiven our iniquities, healed our diseases, redeemed our lives from destruction, crowned us with lovingkindness and tender mercies, satisfied our mouths with good things, renewed our youth like the eagle's. | Arthur Bennett |