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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b13e2f | Writing was my religion, my foremost purpose in life, my consolation. But as the years passed and I didn't have the successes that others deemed the qualifications of a "real" writer, I went into hiding. I wrote, but I lost the strength of my words. I wrote, but with a doubt that needled each sentence, a lack of self-confidence that clouded my imagination. My boldness evaporated. My verve started to become a distant memory. I lost my truth... | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 682f942 | When we don't lay claim to our creative impulse to share what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us, an agony festers from self-diminishment, and another thorn is added to the daily existence that encircles us. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 8cc6c8b | air. I am still holding the scissors, pointing | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 9e70240 | It is always possible to exchange one hell god for another. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| e243229 | My baby brother would never call Hex soft. Not Hex. And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5c0cd55 | My pain is ugly, Angel Juan. I feel like I have so much ugly pain,' says Witch Baby in a dream. 'Everyone does,' Angel Juan says. 'My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 60feea4 | If you made up a city like this, no one would have believed you. It seemed more like myth than reality- a whole metropolis built up around an industry that recorded dreams on giant screens, a city bordered by an ocean and a desert and snowcapped mountains. And right through the urban sprawl were canyons full of flowers, wild animals and secrets. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a735db0 | No, I'm all right. I think I'm just over-stimulated or something." "Do you want to explain that one to me? Do we need to take you to buy some condoms?" "Mom! No." | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a95a458 | Maybe I'm afraid of the sword not because I think I might fail to defend us but because I'm not so certain I won't give up and turn it on myself. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 2ff2b05 | The homes of so many skeletons. People who used to fight over the last blueberry muffin at the breakfast table, get down on their knees to scrub bathroom floors, and kiss one another good night, thinking they were at least relatively safe. Now they are just dust in the debris. | survival | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 4e2c780 | A dramatic illustration of how environment shapes personality is the story of the Gilmore family. On January 17, 1978, in Utah, the convicted double murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad, his unyielding refusal to appeal his death sentence having gained him a measure of international notoriety. The shattering story of his childhood, blighted by family violence, alcoholism and spite was chronicled later by his brother Mikal Gilm.. | Gabor Maté | ||
| fb1b9e2 | I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 6df4782 | Una mujer se embellece para el hombre que sabe apreciarla>>. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| b948f85 | What are you reading?" "Visual Basics." The answer did not fit the picture in his mind. But it should not be surprising, he thought. He, too, had been taking an evening class on Windows applications." | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 09ae7b8 | Life is like the footprint left by a solitary crane in the snow, visible for one moment, and then gone. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| f1b891e | In the final analysis, the cops work for the Party system, and private investigators work for their clients. That's why even the term 'PI' is still taboo in the official media. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 8799e75 | Among them, there was a glass bowl containing live shrimp immersed in white liquor. The drunken shrimp were still jumping, though less and less energetically. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 58e9931 | L'histoire n'etait pas une tache de sauce soja aisement essuyee par une serviette rose dans la main d'une jolie jeune fille comme celle qui le conduisait a present a sa table, pres de la grande porte-fenetre. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 0cfe406 | Erano gente comune, lui e Peiqin, grandi lavoratori che si accontentavano di poco. Una gena di granchi come quelli della serata passata li poteva rendere felici, eccitati, le piccole cose duravano a lungo per loro: un film nel fine settimana, una visita al Parco delle Meraviglie, la canzone di una nuova cassetta, o una felpa con Topolino per Qinqin. A volte lui si lamentava come tutti gli altri, ma in verita si considerava un tipo fortunato.. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| f115784 | Para Shen, un vestido no era un mero trozo de tela, sino una imagen llena de significados y de asociaciones. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| af978c9 | My life began with you, and my future goes on with you--there's nothing else. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 7e37abd | No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| aa9fcff | Quiza la identidad de una persona solo pueda definirse en relacion a las identidades de los demas. O quiza cualquier identidad no sea mas que una interpretacion de los demas | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 7a04b37 | Heaven or hell is in one's mind, not in the material things one has in the world, | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| f618938 | Permitame que le haga una pregunta. ?Que convierte en buena una historia? -La credibilidad. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| e534388 | Si le damos la vuelta al nido ni un solo huevo quedara intacto, aunque puede que las grietas no sean visibles. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 8dfcbd4 | History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| 57ff53d | A desperately sick man will seek help from any doctor. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| b6d1aa2 | After all, a man is only what he has decided to do, or not to do. | Qiu Xiaolong | ||
| d9f6887 | Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories,' said Lord Dunsany. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3e7eef6 | Comment, Mademoiselle? Vous appelles cela betrugen? Corriger la fortune, l'enchainer sous ses doits, etre sur de son fait, das nenn die Deutsch betrugen? betrugen! O, was ist die deutsch Sprak fur ein arm Sprak! fur ein plump Sprak! | funny german humorous | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 9613270 | Sollte die Freiheit zu streben, die uns die Gotter in allen Umstanden des Lebens gelassen haben, sollte diese ein Mensch dem andern verkummern konnen? | euthanasia freedom-to-die | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 976f633 | Es ware wenig in der Welt unternommen worden, wenn man nur immer auf den Ausgang gesehen hatte. | future | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 3e627cc | But it is possible to study until one has studied oneself deep into error. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| c1d88d5 | Aber was nennen Sie ruhig sein? Die Hande in den Schoss legen? Leiden, was man nicht sollte? Dulden, was man nicht durfte? | liberation resistance revolution | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 22cb4ec | Lass dich fesseln, fluchtiger Gedanke! | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| b1d8a7b | Warum sind wir zu gewissen Tugenden bei einem gesunden und seine Krafte fuhlenden Korper weniger, als bei einem siechen und abgematteten aufgelegt? | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| f9f41b5 | Weil der Pobel noch sein Gefuhlt hat, das bei Vornehmern durch tausend unnaturliche Vorstellungen verderbt und geschwacht wird. | truth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 46820ab | So gewiss es ist, dass ich meine Sara ewig lieben werde: so wenig will es mir ein, dass ich sie ewig lieben soll, - soll! | marriage | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| 1c96851 | Ich liebe den Engel, so ein Teufel ich auch sein mag. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| 427f2dd | Aber wie dem, der in einer schnellen Kreisbewegung drehend geworden, auch da noch, wenn er schon wieder still sitzt, die aussern Gegenstande mit ihm herum zu gehen scheinen: so wird auch das Herz, das zu heftig erschuttert worden, nicht auf einmal wieder ruhig. | love | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | |
| ebf08a8 | Der Blick, des Forschers fand nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wunschte. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| 2131e80 | Was hatt' ein Weiberkopf erdacht, das er nicht zu beschonen wusste! | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | ||
| 798bdfb | O, uber die weilden, unbiegsamen Manner, die nur immer ihr stieres Auge auf das Gespenst der Ehre heften! | honor pride | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |