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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1134d4c | and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round | John Dos Passos | ||
| 266ea33 | you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name | John dos Passos | ||
| 4529178 | When they were all up playing in the nursery George caught something again and had monia on account of getting cold on his chest and Yourfather was very solemn and said not to grieve if God called little brother away. But God brought little George back to them only he was delicate after that and had to wear glasses, and when Dearmother let Eveline help bathe him because Miss Mathilda was having the measles too Eveline noticed he had somethi.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| ac47de0 | If that was a real question, there wasn't time for me to answer because a very smartly dressed woman flared over and began talking to him, standing close with her fists on the hips of her slim-cut skirt, blocking him from view. This was Lillian Hellman, I would soon learn. She and Ernest and the others in the room made up the newly formed Contemporary Historians, a corporation bent on funding a documentary film that would help Spain acquire.. | Paula McLain | ||
| 465ce3f | in this country where an hour's train ride will take you from Siberian snow into African desert, unity of population is hardly to be expected. | John Dos Passos | ||
| fb79063 | While his bread remains sweet, his novels may be as bitter as he likes. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 1646abb | And messengers must have come running to Don Jorge, telling him the service was on the point of beginning, and he must have waved them away with a grave gesture of a long white hand, while in his mind the distant sound of chanting, the jingle of the silver bit of his roan horse stamping nervously where he was tied to a twined Moorish column, memories of cavalcades filing with braying of trumpets and flutter of crimson damask into conquered .. | John Dos Passos | ||
| cfec8f7 | The Camera Eye (38) sealed signed and delivered all over Tours you can smell lindens in bloom it's hot my uniform sticks the OD chafes me under the chin only four days ago AWOL crawling under the freight cars at the station of St. Pierre-des-Corps waiting in the buvette for the MP on guard to look away from the door so's I could slink out with a cigarette (and my heart) in my mouth then in a tiny box of a hotel room changing the date on tha.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 1641222 | The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 994c6af | That is Baroja's world: dismal, ironic, the streets of towns where industrial life sits heavy on the neck of a race as little adapted to it as any in Europe. | John Dos Passos | ||
| fce8eea | The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 251e3cb | a nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 6a45f5f | wlys blkhbz wHdh yHy lnsn! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| cf21aec | bshr fln tkhwD m`rk@ lHy@ l'khyr@ wHydan . | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0337f86 | Not fighting is as good as treason, isn't it? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| fa9b1bc | The shaykh interrupted him, saying, "Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for the sake of encouragement, son of Abd al-Jawad" | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 15625c0 | w'y m's@ fy 'n tndmj nshw@ lqlb wljsd fy aly@ l`d@ lmnZm@ l`ql@ lbrd@ lmtkrr@ lqtl@ llsh`wr wljd@ k'nh rw'y@ rwHny@ rfyq@ tjsdt fy Sl@ lfZy@ trddh ldhkr@ bl w`y !!! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| c1b88d3 | qn` dy'man mn "wTnyth" bl`Tf@ wlmshrk@ lwjdny@ dwn lqdm `l~ `ml yGyr wjh lHy@ ldhy ans lyh fl yrD~ `nh bdyl, ldhlk lm ydr lh bkhld 'n ynDm l~ ljn@ mn ljn lHzb lwTny `l~ shd@ t`lqh bmbdy'h, wl Ht~ 'n yjshm nfsh `n shhwd jtm` mn jtm`th, 'lys fy dhlk hdr lwqth "lthmyn"? lys lwTn fy Hj@ lyh `l~ Hyn ytlhf hw kl dqyq@ mnh lynfqh fy 'srth 'w tjrth 'w `l~ lkhSwS fy lhwh byn l'Hbb wlkhlWn?! lykn dhn wqth khlS lHyth, wllwTn m ysh mn qlbh w`wTfh, bl m.. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0d6e93b | The country's literary and intellectual luminaries were marginalized in the same way. Naguib Mahfouz's23 novels were no longer serialized in Al-Ahram. Tawfik Al-Hakeem's last two novels were published in Paris and Beirut, but not in Cairo. Ihsan Abdel Kodous, Egypt's foremost romance novelist, was branded a 'pornographer', and some of his publishers took it upon themselves to change the endings of some of his novels (without his knowledge) .. | Tarek Osman | ||
| 848603c | l 'ryd 'n 'fkr'w 'n 'sh`r 'w 'n 'tHrk, kl shy ytmzq wymwt, fkhTr ly `l~ sbyl l'ml 'nny s'jd ldhlk sbb `Dwy. | philosophy novel | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 8dc6e52 | La dicha completa es algo que paso. Hay algo que echamos de menos cada vez que estamos a solas con nosotros mismos, pero eso no regresa. Se nos aparece desde el pasado con un palido recuerdo, como esa luz suave que se filtra a traves de la mirilla de la puerta. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d88ee3e | A person who has forgotten his sorrows can be forced to confront them once more when someone with the best intentions favors him with a word of comfort. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 894cda4 | Hrfysh 'm wjh l yhm, stdrk lhn@ dy'man mn ytqblh! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f2132bc | tSwr 'n 'bq~ Ht~ 'shhd zwl dnyy. ydhhb lns rjlan wns, w'bq~ Gryban wsT Grb, 'fr mn mkn l~ mkn, 'byt mTrdan 'bdyan, 'jn , 'tmn~ lmwt ... -tHfZ `l~ shbbk l~ l'bd? wtnjb 'bn wtfr mnhm, wkl jyl t`d nfsk lHy@ jdyd@, wkl jyl tbky lzwj@ wl'bn, wttjns bjnsy@ lGrb@ l'bdy@, l yrbTk b'Hd htmm 'w fkr 'w `Tf@ ... | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d130ac1 | Luxor attack in 1997 in which Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya killed fifty-eight tourists and four Egyptians outside a pharaonic temple. In the same year, an ambush near the Egyptian museum in downtown Cairo by the group took the lives of nine tourists. In 1995, eighteen Greek tourists had been killed close to the Pyramids. But the violence was not only directed at the 'infidel Westerners' (though they, and the tourism industry, were especially prized.. | Tarek Osman | ||
| 04cd6ad | Aprendi que: - o homem pode ser enganado pela ilusao e pensar que ela e verdade, e que a unica salvacao para nos e quando estamos em terra firme. Para diferenciar ilusao e verdade, temos de usar quantos sentidos e inteligencias Deus nos deu; - nao se pode dormir quando a vigilia e necessaria, e que enquanto ha vida, nao ha motivo para desespero; - a comida e alimento quando ingerida com moderacao, mas um perigo quando ingerida por gulodice.. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 06345c0 | hl khlt lbld mn rjl kf llHkm ? = qD~ lqnwn b'n yrshH lmwjwd l n ytjshm l`n f~ lbHth `n lmTlwb | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 895d11f | Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk, set in Cairo, a | Frances Mayes | ||
| dd2cb05 | Now I find the stack of chapters I called Under Magnolia. Why, after many years, even open these flowered folders? Dare alla luce, the Tuscans say at the birth of a baby, to give to the light. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 1a0d5db | Birds of the Western Front Your mess-tin cover's lost. Kestrels hover above the shelling. They don't turn a feather when hunting-ground explodes in yellow earth, flickering star-shells and flares from the Revelation of St John. You look away from artillery lobbing roar and suck and snap against one corner of a thicket to the partridge of the war zone making its nest in shattered clods. History floods into subsoil to be blown apart. You cl.. | western-front war | Ruth Padel | |
| f911783 | And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties." | Frances Mayes | ||
| c411c69 | Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 9021de7 | In France the concept of la belle famille - in-laws - is broader than that in the UK where the term brother-in-law is limited to my wife's brother or my sister's husband. Seen from a French point of view, my beau-frere - brother-in-law - also includes my wife's sister's husband, while my wife's brother's wife is my belle-soeur - sister-in-law. Having more brothers- and sisters-in-law than you would otherwise have may well strike you as a gr.. | Charles Timoney | ||
| f0fae64 | in AD 732, when the king of the Franks, Charles Martel, otherwise known as 'Charles the Hammer', and a coalition of troops under his leadership, defeated an Umayyad invading army near Poitiers in France. While there is disagreement as to the size of this invading army, world history may have turned out very differently indeed had it not been defeated. | Christopher Lascelles | ||
| acb84c3 | We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. | Winston S. Churchill | ||
| 25de150 | Andi pauses. "So you're saying that the person who asked about moving to France may be the person who wrote the angry letter and hates us." "Yes." Andi pauses again. "And you're saying that this person may be locked inside our school library right now." "Yes." "OK. I was just trying to get everything straight." | Meg Kimball | ||
| 1a404e3 | All revolutions destroy defining structures of a previous era. The information revolution was no different. The limitations imposed by distance and geography were fundamental to the social, economic, and political structure of the nation-state. In 1995 Frances Cairncross, senior editor of the Economist, pointed out that information technology destroys distance, insamuch as distance serves as a barrier to communication.15 Decades earlier, sc.. | Benjamin Schwartz | ||
| 86d304b | Ik hou van de spannende periode van afwachten, van de geestelijke en fysieke sensatie van bochten als iets geheimzinnigs naar de oppervlakte van het bewustzijn zigzagt. | Frances Mayes | ||
| adce7d6 | Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts | Frances Mayes | ||
| cfdc484 | The Germans had a family of three main battle tanks. The Mark IV, which received its first real combat test in May 1940, weighed twenty-seven tons, had somewhat less armor than the Sherman, about the same maximum road speed, and a tank gun comparable in weight of projectile and muzzle velocity to the 76-mm. American tank gun but superior to the short-barreled 75-mm. The Panther, Mark V, had proved itself during 1944 but still was subject to.. | Hugh M. Cole | ||
| 3058179 | Children who need movement may benefit from standing up to do their lessons; children who need pressure may benefit from squeezing or lifting heavy objects; children who are sensitive to sounds may need to be protected from noisy environments; and, children who become overwhelmed may need to learn deep breathing. | Frances Collette | ||
| 829d113 | Mr. Nobley had entered the room before he noticed her. He groaned. "And here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return." "You shouldn't have told me that's what you want, Mr. Nobley, because now you're not going to get it." "Then I must stay?" "Unless you want to risk me accusing you of ungentleman-like b.. | Shannon Hale | ||
| b5938d5 | Isn't this Michigan?" She laughed, "Oh oui monsieur, but the French came to Paradis more than cent ans...a hundred years ago." "And they still speak French?" "But we are French." "Aren't you American?" | new-france vivian-lemay michigan | Vivian LeMay | |
| a9034bc | There is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that we have chosen the wrong road and that others were more shrewd than we were. But don't be surprised by pain. Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little Flower that shows its Beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen |