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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9a49ce8 | These numbers gave Virginia's population about six times as large a proportion of gentlemen as England had. Gentlemen, by definition, had no manual skill, nor could they be expected to work at ordinary labor. | Edmund S. Morgan | ||
| 25c31f3 | There is no denying that Francis Drake was a pirate and that the enterprise he conducted four years later in Panama was highway robbery, or at best, highjacking. But it was on the scale that transforms crime into politics. | Edmund S. Morgan | ||
| 56b603c | the great and fundamental principles of their policy are, that every man is naturally free and independent, that no one ... on earth has any right to deprive him of his freedom and independency, and that nothing can be a compensation for the loss of it." Robert Rogers, A Concise Account of North America (London, 1765)," | Edmund S. Morgan | ||
| 815ec30 | To call it a "setback" is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding." | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 93aaeea | When you're small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead. | Amanda Eyre Ward | ||
| c372dd0 | also, i wanted to kiss you, said lola. come here, said emmett. | Amanda Eyre Ward | ||
| f6ab06d | and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not. in this, my husband and i were fundamentally different. in my opinion, a mistake required a getaway. | Amanda Eyre Ward | ||
| 8efcf93 | Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 29efa62 | He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| ffe2afd | I spoke to Sylvia. "Do you think this is a good life?" | Donald Barthelme | ||
| e35469a | This is one of the most crucial things that the newcomer needs to know about Barthelme. Though his stuff is sometimes difficult to puncture, and sometimes difficult to follow, while you're finding your way, he's always grinning at you in a warm and very compassionate way. The reader gets the feeling that the author is a nice man. That he knows when he's being difficult and when he's full of shit. Knows how much of this and how much of that .. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 6c8239f | Have you noticed the weather? asked Thomas. All turned to look for the weather. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 9007206 | mead for my men! | happy-playgrounds | Donald Barthelme | |
| 3f61ba2 | And Harold came into Perpetua's apartment. He said, 'I just want to know one thing. Are you happy?' 'Sure,' Perpetua said. (Donald Barthelme, "Perpetua")" | Donald Barthelme | ||
| bfee842 | I sit down on the curb, outside the Opera. People passing look at me. I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is cooled by the dull gravy of common sense once more | Donald Barthelme | ||
| b4b1c9e | Dun-colored fathers tend to shy at obstacles, and therefore you do not want a father of this color, because life, in one sense, is nothing but obstacles, and his continual shying will reduce your nerves to grease. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 8203f21 | My mother was a royal virgin," Peterson said, "and my father a shower of gold. My childhood was pastoral and energetic and rich in experiences which developed my character. As a young man I was noble in reason, infinite in faculty, in form express and admirable, and in apprehension..." Peterson went on and on and although he was, in a sense, lying, in a sense he was not." | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 12fced8 | Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history? | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 21183e1 | Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe for that. The root causes of poetry have been studied and studied. And now that we know that pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in the large urban centers, we ought to be able to wash it out totally in one generation, if we put our backs into it. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 288156c | your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there have been other wars since, better-publisized ones, more expensive ones perhaps, but our war is the one I'll always remember. Our war is the one that means war to me. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| b271854 | Our becoming is done. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 46e859a | The snow is coming," she said. "Soon it will be snow time. Together then as in other snow times. Drinking busthead 'round the fire. Truth is a locked room that we knock the lock off from time to time, and then board up again. Tomorrow you will hurt me, and I will inform you that you have done so, and so on and so on. To hell with it. Come, viridian friend, come and sup with me." -- | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 89b6cef | Some fathers have made themselves over into convincing replicas of beautiful sea animals, and some into convincing replicas of people they hated as children. Some fathers are goats, some are milk, some teach Spanish in cloisters, some are exceptions, some are capable of attacking world economic problems and killing them, but have not yet done so, they are waiting for one last vital piece of data. Some fathers strut but most do not, except i.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 92d92c1 | I have to admit we are mired in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 3da38b9 | On the other hand I myself have impulses toward violence uneasily concealed. Especially when I look out of the window at the men and women, walking along in the course of a day because I spend so much time, as we all do, looking out of windows to determine what is out there, and what should be done about it. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| fa02ac2 | never figured out what sort of animal I was | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 7773854 | The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is "ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog's belly"." | Lynne Truss | ||
| 8e0f312 | Driving Horace and Margot smoothly to the Armory, the new cabdriver thought about basketball. Why do they always applaud the man who makes the shot? Why don't they applaud the ball? It is the ball that actually goes into the net. The man doesn't go into the net. Never have I seen a man going into the net. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 211dfcb | I thought Marie could handle whatever came along. I thought of her as someone who did whatever she wanted to. That's what she would have said. She skipped school a lot, and when she did come, no one seemed to care what she did. The principals and teachers at school had already given up on Marie. They hardly even saw her, except as some kind of blemish. She could have stood on her head wearing a burlap bag, and nobody would have noticed all .. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 55a9a9d | If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet him. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| eeaa310 | I tried to think whether I had ever had a great adventure. I decided that I had. It's all in how you look at it. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 9b293fe | But at least I have my health," he said. It was a joke." | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 1439335 | How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 4b4558c | What is forgiveness worth without trust? | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| d0057f3 | Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 825554c | If that's how you'd rather remember it. But I did not mean that as a reproach. I do not, in truth, think less of you for having the common sense to abandon a ship once waves began to break over the bow. Nor, after sixteen years shut away from the sun, am I likely to find tears to spare for Henry Plantagenet. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| cd0b1ba | In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d4a06ab | It was true what they said about mothers and sons: it was a special bond, a mutual admiration society. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 5a88290 | Yen Sid surveyed the young villains in front of him. ,,What you are about to do is very dangerous." Carlos perked up. ,,That's fine, my middle name is-" ,,Oscar" said Evie. ,,We know." | descendants funny | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 3509dff | Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| aae8cde | Joanna looked down at | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 0b7f5d1 | We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,by the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none, Love and loyalty bind us as one. Time and tide shall heal all wounds Memories and madness shall not consume. To death and despair we shall never surrender, The pact never to be forsaken, or torn asunder. | pact wolf-pact | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| beaf9f7 | It was hopeless. Their journey was ended before it had truly begun. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 39fc5d7 | The stone is called the Rose of Lucifer, or Lucifer's Bane," the senator explained with a smile. "Have you heard the story?" | Melissa de la Cruz |