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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce694d7 | would not, I imagine, suggest that it is the task of botanists to devise more flowers? Or that astronomers should labour to rearrange the stars? Magicians, Mr Segundus, study magic which was done long ago. Why should any one expect more?" An elderly gentleman with faint blue eyes and" | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 7ac13c6 | my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror. | Donald Antrim | ||
| 8241c82 | Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial. | Donald Antrim | ||
| 3b91c3d | I think most observance is really more a way of conceptualizing day-to-day life as what it actually is for many people, a progress of meaningful failures. | Donald Antrim | ||
| 89ff76b | Relationships are like powerful moods that people share. | Donald Antrim | ||
| 19a4d02 | Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire. | Donald Antrim | ||
| 7aca998 | They were children of parents who'd acted grotesquely, some might say violently, toward them, even when they were fairly little, and when, in their early thirties, they met and began sharing confidences, their discovery of this common ground--for that was how she thought of it--seemed to her a great, welcome solace. At last! she thought more than once during the weeks and months after they'd started going to bed together--always at friends'.. | Donald Antrim | ||
| 2eff3a8 | milosc to droga jednokierunkowa. Milosc, tak jak szacunek, nie sluzy do brania, tylko do dawania. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a223d48 | Milczenie potrafi ranic jak bat | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5c41a80 | I think that this almost made up to Chubb for the time about the nighthawk, and I think it was good for grandfather, too, that it reminded him to never forget again that the heart of it all is mystery, and that science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge. | Rick Bass | ||
| 85754bb | The rich-soil part, the mystery beneath all those reasons, is that I love it. There is an awareness, an addictive alertness, a super-heightened sensitivity that approaches and then becomes a kind of spirituality. | Rick Bass | ||
| 01249d8 | While reading some old articles to jog my memory for this book, I came across an article in the Chicago Sun-Times by Rick Kogan, a reporter who traveled with Styx for a few concert dates in 1979. I remember him. When we played the Long Beach Civic Center's 12,000-seat sports arena in California, he rode in the car with JY and me as we approached the stadium. His recounting of the scene made me smile. It's also a great snapshot of what life .. | Chuck Panozzo | ||
| 43de261 | What constitutes a fit between artist and mentor? It is not necessarily style, or even sensibility, though sensibility gets closer to describing it. Aesthetic might be the best. If a shared aesthetic exists, the mentor can come to view the mentee as another of his projects: a shaping and sculpting, and a carrying forward of the mentor's aesthetic. | Rick Bass | ||
| c6e2587 | My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. The | Rick Bass | ||
| 5cf56e2 | Industry, and indeed, even people within the Forest Service itself, continue to try to sell us the emperor's myth that clearcuts imitate wildfires, and as such, are healthy, but clearcuts don't leave behind the forest's nutrients, and don't leave behind standing spars and snags for hiding cover and cavity nests for birds and small mammals. Saying a clearcut is like a wildfire is like saying a bank robbery is the same thing as a savings with.. | Rick Bass | ||
| e41eedb | MAY IS THE MONTH of disorderly conduct. | Rick Bass | ||
| d2ce771 | hellbenders. I collected with exuberance and totality, bringing home almost everything I could get my hands on, and releasing them into the assorted outdoor terrariums or aquariums in my back yard (the turtles I let run wild in the yard, like dogs or cats). | Rick Bass | ||
| 0205f4d | Every spare moment was spent tromping about in the exploration, pursuit, and gathering of elusive living things; or, when the weather was too stormy, reading about the exploration, pursuit, and gathering of elusive living things. We | Rick Bass | ||
| 9d13a8a | I look down and see that Colter has returned and has gone on lock-solid, drop-dead point about twenty feet in front of us, head and shoulders hunched and crouched, bony ass stuck way up in the air, body half-twisted, frozen, as if cautioning us of some hidden, deadly betrayal: and green eyes afire, stub tail motionless. We ease forward, adrenaline-drunk. Nothing happens. And then it does. The cock-bird climbs towering above and then flares .. | Rick Bass | ||
| 963ae86 | buried him next to my cabin door, in that sunken, blissful spot where he had napped, always waiting for the next hunt: beneath the wild rose bushes. I buried him, as I had Ann, with bones and antlers and venison and dog food and a wreath of cedar and lupine. I buried him with shells, both 12- and 20-gauge, for whenever we went hunting again, and I put in extras because I knew I'd miss some shots. The bones and wings of his quarry. A whistle.. | Rick Bass | ||
| 337f764 | The sole purpose of all the other work was just to buy time to be still for a moment and write. | Rick Bass | ||
| cfa659d | Kazde uderzenie ludzkiego serca jest kosmosem mozliwosci | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5d99039 | hate politics, and politicians even more. They make a religion of being greedy. It's unforgivable. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 1e0d5b4 | He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 91a2a70 | Suffering is not virtue, nor does it make virtue, nor does of it virtue necessarily flow. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 3cda3c4 | After all, it wasn't food; it was survival. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 3e378e4 | And all the time he knew it was his hunger eating him. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| cfe2016 | Lest we forget, we say, Bonox Baker said. Isn't that what we say, sir? We do, Bonox. Or incant. Perhaps it's not quite the same thing. So that's why it should be saved. So it's not forgotten. Do you know the poem, Bonox? It's by Kipling. It's not about remembering. It's about forgetting--how everything gets forgotten. Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and.. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| d39cd7a | People are afraid, Mina. And when people are afraid, their inner cavemen come out. There's no rationality in a man when he panics. | Iain Rob Wright | ||
| 3480455 | Nothing endures. Don't you see, Bonox? That's what Kipling meant. Not empires, not memories. We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 2f09638 | good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| ce323e1 | He waited for death as a traveller for a bus. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 55aff3a | Viktor Hyowgoyin pashtogh paron Hange t`erews iravats`i er aselov, or girk` steghtsel (nowyisk aynk`an ankatar, inch`pisin ays khghchowk orinakn e, or dowk` ayzhm ent`erts`owm ek`), nshanakowm e haskanal, or dra ejerowm aproghnerin vayel miak zgats`owme sern e: Ch`e? or girk` ent`erts`ele kam grele mekn e ayn sakavat`iv eghanaknerits`, oronts`ov mardik karogh en pashtpanel irents` arzhanapatvowt`yowne: Verjin hashvov, hents` grk`ern en mez .. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| bb856f4 | Gaghowt`apetn owzowm er asel, or ink`e verjapes giti ayn harts`i pataskhane, ore vaghowts` tanjowm er iren: Ishanowt`yane dzgtele, ezrakats`rets` na ir mtk`i parzowt`yan verjin pahin, siro bats`akayowt`yan ew, orn aveli vat e, sirelow anendownakowt`yan amenats`avali artahaytowt`yownn e: | Richard Flanagan | ||
| a68d9e4 | You could never know when everything might change--a mood, a decision, a blanket. A life. They | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 5565bba | smell its acrid horsehair upholstery and stale flour, | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 451cc11 | Asowm en, t`e lav patmoghe na e, ov patvatsk`i bots`in t`owyl e talis khzhrhel ir kyank`i patrowyge: | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 6360e9d | He would live to see people praised for things that were not worthy of praise, simply because truth was seen to be bad for their feelings. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 7c4fc09 | auger-eyed woman's small stout form, outlining her | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 8672c29 | O amor e publico, ou nao e amor. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| e6c3e2a | As a meteorite strike long ago explains the large lake now, so Amy's absence shaped everything, even when--and sometimes most particularly when--he wasn't thinking of her. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 44cd857 | Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 39e4950 | Stories as written are progressive, sentence must build upon sentence as brick upon brick, yet the beauty of this life in its endless mystery is circular. Sun & moon, spheres endlessly circling. Black man, full circle; white man, bisected circle; life, the third circle, on & on, & round & round. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 48a0fe2 | What do the hieroglyphs tell us of what it was like to live under the lash, building the pyramids? Do we talk of that? Do we? No, we talk of the magnificence and majesty of the Egyptians. Of the Romans. Of Saint Petersburg, and nothing of the bones of the hundred thousand slaves that it is built on. | Richard Flanagan |