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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 01c8f62 | The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told! | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5d65977 | But there are some people, some loves, that worry every goodbye, and leaving them is like leaving the country of your birth. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8f2e23d | Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that's all we have--to hold on tight until the dawn. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 49042ac | to milosc czyni ludzi wielkimi, a nienawisc malymi | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 44f4933 | that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8b0d706 | a man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. Then he has to earn her respect. Then he has to cherish her trust. And then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until y.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 95a721e | When we say that this definition of good and evil is universally acceptable, what we mean is that any rational and reasonable person--any rational and reasonable Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist or Christian or Jew or any atheist, for that matter--can accept that this is a reasonable definition of good and evil, because it is based on what we know about how the universe works. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c9cb47a | At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dc2606c | I'm a writer. I have to believe in the power of love. Suicide isn't an option.' 'Not for you.' 'And not for you. If you're thinking about it, you can also put some thought into the fact that you don't have the right to take your own life. Nobody does.' 'Why not?' Rannveig like the runway asked, her eyes wide, innocent of the cruel, broken question she'd just asked. 'Think of it this way, Rannveig, does a deranged person have the right to ki.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a186796 | No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 089e74a | Compassion's a very strange thing. It comes from deep inside. People know it when they see it, because you can't fake it. I know. I've tried. I was terrible at it. I got sick, when I tried. I had to go back to being a genuine, uncaring cunt, just to get well again. It's genuine, see, even being an uncaring cunt, and I'm drawn to genuine things, even if I don't like them. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c533a5c | Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b1462d2 | The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7cde4bf | There's no patience as pure as the patience we spend on loved ones, who make things harder than they need to be. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 73716e2 | The world and I are not on speaking terms, Karla said to me once in those early months. The world keeps trying to win me back, she said, but it doesn't work. I guess I'm just not the forgiving type. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| de67d02 | Men don't like to be that honest about love: to put the gun in a woman's hand, and hold it against their own hearts, and say, Here, this is how you kill me. But it was okay. It was okay. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7bb037a | Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city. I'd lost Prakabar and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7e90022 | And little by little, things settled down to the semblance of peace that's good enough, when you know enough about bad enough. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a5f9632 | But reason didn't play a big part in the guilt I'd felt, deep in my heart, since the moment I'd seen his dead face beneath its shroud of snow. Once I'd faced it, I couldn't shake the shame. And somehow, the blame and repining sorrow changed me. I felt the vengeful stone fall from the hating hand that had wanted to throw it. I felt light, as if light itself filled me and lifted me up. And I felt free - free enough to pity Madame Zhou, and ev.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 462b322 | Good is only half the truth, and truth is only half the story. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c45caee | I'm startin' a new gang, and I want you to join me.' It was my turn to laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'How about... why?' 'Why a gang?' he asked, passing back the joint. 'The usual. So we can buy guns, do a little menace and mayhem, scare people into giving us truckloads of money, spend the truckloads of money, and die in the effort.' 'Dying in the effort? That's your sales pitch? | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6b4398e | People say that money is the root of all evil,' Khaled told me when we met in his apartment. His English was rich with accents of New York and Arabic and the Hindi that he spoke reasonably well. 'But it's not true. It's the other way round. Money isn't the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There's no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there's no clean way to make it. If you ge.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3df87fa | What I am saying is that reality--as you see it, and as most people see it--is nothing more than an illusion. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f399645 | There are demons in all of us. Some of them do not mean us any harm. They just want to live inside us. Some of them want more. They want to eat the souls that hold them. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8f3d7ef | There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3aab07a | his struggle there to love and to be loved in return, and his drag-footed walk along the shoreline of his Fate are the fragments of his shipwreck survival. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2a4452e | syzygies | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 26324d1 | let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0c717e8 | The pages were dog-eared, and heavily annotated in Karla's own hand. (...) She consumed her books, I saw. She devoured her books, and was unafraid to mark them, even to scar them, with her own comments and system of references. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5481fc2 | It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d190736 | We're all only passing stars who have come by to give each other a little light for our few short days here on earth. | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| 1bf0c2b | Let us pray," said Dona Guadalupe, and they all knelt down. And as they prayed and Lupe saw the eastern sky growing yellow and rose and pink, she felt herself fill with such power, with such a strength and well-being, that she just knew in her bones that life was eternal. Her eyes filled with tears, she felt so close to these women. The whole world sang and danced before her very eyes as the cycle of life continued and the new day came fort.. | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| 4cd1df9 | The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 4806e97 | The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 67571f8 | Because, you see, a bad teacher, like Moses, the abusive English teacher that I had in Carlsbad, kills kids, here in the heart, and not just with their tests, but with their superior attitude and those sly smiles that they like to give to their A students, but never to the ones who are also working hard, or maybe even harder, like me, but just couldn't get it! | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| de2d163 | The townspeople were proud of themselves. They saw that they could get things done if they united. | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| 9f6d6a2 | to worship Jesus is out-of-date. What we now need to do is to take Him down from the cross and Live Jesus, Be Jesus, or we got nada-nada-nothing! | Victor E. Villaseñor | ||
| 7680adf | The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant. There is no need to fear men like Tenorio. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 87b9ad6 | Since I began teaching I've wanted to expand the curriculum, but my first year was mostly about surviving rather than looking critically at what I teach and why I was teaching it. American literature conjures up a strong multicultural image for me. I've followed Sherman Alexie's characters on the struggle to find them themselves; I've explored the New Mexican desert of Rudolfo Anaya's novels; I've traveled down Harlem streets with Hughes an.. | Richard W. Beach | ||
| 6117ad2 | It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper-- | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| b68a4ec | It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper--" -Narciso." | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| f1cd9df | car. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 25573b3 | We prayed until our faith passed into an exhaustion that numbed us to sleep. | prayer sleep | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| 5adef25 | There are so many dreams to be fulfilled, but Ultima says a man's destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sun and the earth and water making it blossom, and no one else meddling in it | Rudolfo Anaya |