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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8091c21 | Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always idealists. | crime-fiction criminals idealists | Georges Simenon | |
| 5517c17 | Ayon kay Georges Simenon, ang dahilan daw ng pagsusulat n'ya ay "to exorcise the demon in me." Totoo yon para sa karamihan ng mga manunulat. Ang pagpuksa sa mga personal na demonyo ang nagsilbing makina sa likod ng mga di na mabilang na sanaysay, kwento, at tula. Ang manunulat ay biktima ng isang sumpa na para sa karaniwang tao ay ligo lang ang katapat." | pagsusulat writing | Bob Ong | |
| b7324ac | I felt for too long anyway that there was something creaky about this story. You needn't try to understand, but when all the material clues manage to confuse matters rather than clarify them, it means they've been faked ... and everything, without exception, is fake in this case. It all creaked. | Georges Simenon | ||
| c17e281 | There's no skill and no grace to it, but you | Georges Simenon | ||
| 74ec8a3 | I'm at sea, lieutenant ... We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch. | Georges Simenon | ||
| 93f64b3 | If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions. | Georges Simenon | ||
| f3ab969 | The sun finally died in beauty, flinging out its crimson flames, which cast their reflection on the faces of passers-by, giving them a strangely feverish look. The darkness of the trees became deeper. You could hear the Seine flowing. Sounds carried farther, and people in their beds could feel, as they did every night, the vibration of the ground as buses rolled past. | Georges Simenon | ||
| c16fca2 | When General Johnston had heard them out, he drew himself up in the saddle, leather creaking, and said quietly: "Gentlemen, we shall attack at daylight tomorrow." | battle-of-shiloh civil-war-western-theater | Shelby Foote | |
| 5756519 | The people who hitched to Katmandu (and are doubtlessly still doing so, despite the usual reports of official prohibitions) seem to me to be of this sort, displaced persons, aimless couples without papers. They are ill-suited to play the role which they are conventionally given; that of proletarian playboys, outriders of a modern sub-culture, who intend, mainly through will-power, to end injustice and rule the world. For the most part they .. | Patrick Marnham | ||
| 59cc488 | That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered what Cortes would have said if, when he set out in the wake of Columbus, he had foreseen the beach outside Granada. He knew in his bones of the glory to come, would he have known about its eclipse? A Church without the True Cross, unable to protect its buildings from earthquake or idolatry; the gold and silver .. | Patrick Marnham | ||
| 5a81409 | Ah, ah, no buts. You've just returned to us and it is too soon to express whatever doubts you undoubtedly have with that most cowardly of words, that qualifier of qualifiers, but. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 8984d94 | Rachel felt the grief grow so wide and deep it felt like a dark fathomless pool she'd never emerge from. Because there was nothing left to do now, nothing except endure it. | Ron Rash | ||
| bb4af57 | But as Rachel watched the sheriff enter the front door, it was hard to believe the farmhouse itself was still there, because a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it. | Ron Rash | ||
| d3cf2bd | Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate--and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness." | Ron Rash | ||
| 8bc4432 | It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood. And now this brown-eyed child. Don't love it, Rachel told herself. D.. | Ron Rash | ||
| c879051 | The world lies all before us. | Ron Rash | ||
| 6abb395 | A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime. | Ron Rash | ||
| 4053ad9 | Something Rich and Strange She takes a step and the water rises higher on her knees. Four more steps, she tells herself. Just four more and I'll turn back. She takes another step and the bottom is no longer there and she is being shoved downstream and she does not panic because she has passed the Red Cross courses. The water shallows and her face breaks the surface and she breathes deep. She tries to turn her body so she won' t hit her head.. | Ron Rash | ||
| d8d05e3 | You Men notice so little Pemberton, Physical strength is your genders sole advantage" - Serena" | Ron Rash | ||
| 448146c | I turn onto North Market Street to pass Thomas Wolfe's house. I'd planned to do my dissertation on Wolfe. My advisor argued against it. Wolfe is all but forgotten now, she said, which seemed all the more reason to do it, so he would not be forgotten, or only, as Wolfe himself wrote, by the wind grieved. The | Ron Rash | ||
| 9d2a6d7 | petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone. | Ron Rash | ||
| ba3d1da | The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree. | Ron Rash | ||
| 0bc3eb0 | What does eminent domain mean?" Stewart asked. "It means you're shit out of luck," Ross said." | Ron Rash | ||
| 8d56b15 | a copperhead lay coiled. Part of me not sight knew it was there. The atavistic like flint rock sparked. Amazon tribes see Venus in daylight. My grandfather needed no watch to tell time. What more might we recover if open to it? Perhaps even God. | Ron Rash | ||
| f7d23b1 | Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing. | Ron Rash | ||
| c604920 | Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child. | Ron Rash | ||
| 678a26e | all the while remembering what it had felt like when the world you knew had up and vanished, and you needed to find something to bring that world back, and you weren't sure that you could. | Ron Rash | ||
| 113bc83 | It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing. | Ron Rash | ||
| aa836d8 | What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first, the smell of the soap her mother had bathed with, the color of the dress she'd worn to church, then after a while the sound of her mother's voice, the color of her hair. It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time pas.. | Ron Rash | ||
| cd0dde7 | My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures. | Ron Rash | ||
| 7d19758 | College costs money- a lot. Yet education in itself is not of much value. For example, we can look to the general public's almost complete disregard for anything that educated people have to say about global warming, shrinking oil reserves, pollution, or the threat of nuclear annihilation. But if all this is true, why does something as worthless as a college diploma cost so much money? | Bobby Henderson | ||
| f5a672f | I have never even seen a witch, let alone felt the need to burn one to death. We can conclude, then, that our forefathers, equipped with the knowledge that supernatural explanations were reasonable, rounded up all the witches in existence and took care of them. The other possibility is that there are witches out there, hiding somewhere, plotting their revenge, liberally applying fireproofing compounds to themselves. And someday they may rea.. | Bobby Henderson | ||
| d9ea6d3 | Out of frustration and hopelessness our young people have reached the point of no return. We no longer endorse patience and turning the other cheek. We assert the right of self-defense by whatever means necessary, and reserve the right of maximum retaliation against our racist oppressors, no matter what the odds against us are. | Sanyika Shakur | ||
| 49c8d8a | For the first time I got a good look at the woman who, despite avowed intentions, had saved my life. I was surprised first to see that she was old. Her hair was silver, tied back behind her head in a no-nonsense bun. Her face was lined with wrinkles. On her head she wore a hat with a very wide brim, a kind of hat I'd never seen before. She also wore tight-fitting black pants and black leather boots and a brown leather jacket. A patch on her.. | David Wellington | ||
| 378d5fe | All of Europe, as far as we knew, was gone. It might as well not be there anymore. Russia was gone. By the time you got to wondering where America went there just wasn't any more room for it in your brain. A world without America just couldn't happen - the global economy would collapse. Every two penny warlord and dictator in the Third World would have a field day. It just wasn't possible. It would mean global chaos. It would mean the of hi.. | David Wellington | ||
| be65646 | Sir Thomas Beecham once said this at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall when I was there as a boy. He said 'I'm often asked why operas survive generation after generation--La Boheme and things like that. And I always reply. 'They survive because they consist of bloody good tunes'. | Brian Epstein | ||
| c2b6449 | A very loud group of bronies advances down the hall. | Brian Katcher | ||
| 4f86096 | There was a noise out back and Megan stalked to the end of the hall to look out the window. The door to the shed was just closing. Finn. He was just as bad as his brother. Finn had stranded her that morning too and he hadn't said a word to her about Spanish class, even though he never would have passed that pop quiz they had taken without her help. Megan turned and stormed down the hallway. Maybe she was too scared to say anything to Evan, .. | Kate Brian | ||
| d8c6777 | It is possible to take against someone, then continue to loathe them out of pure prejudice. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 36f4b63 | Free time, time to do whatever you liked, or to do absolutely nothing, alone or in company you valued: of all the luxuries in the Empire, perhaps this was the greatest. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 6604d2d | We both had a tender regard for this god. Min had not only helped us learn something material; more importantly, his presence had helped Tiberius. Working in disguise at the lettuce booth, though ludicrous, had taken his mind off his troubles after the lightning strike. Min had restored my man to me. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 6ff0bf1 | Even the impetuous Helena Justina was an advocate of traditional family councils. However, every Roman matron knows that domestic councils were devised by our foremothers purely so the views of the matron of a household may prevail. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| d0674e1 | They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls. | delphi humor souls | Lindsey Davis | |
| 28e64e5 | I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could pay the butcher's bill than by some mad limb like Nero, who was brought up believing himself the son and the grandson of gods, and who thought wearing the purple gave him free rein to indulge his personal vanities, execute real talent, bankrupt the Treasury, burn half of Rome - and bore the living daylights out of paying custo.. | Lindsey Davis |