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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc2a7db | nervously | David Baldacci | ||
| 8216196 | right or wrong, good or bad. You just didn't wake up one day and decide enough was enough because your mate had a few more wrinkles or a few more pounds. | David Baldacci | ||
| c745f80 | don't know. I've found that people in power can be incredibly insulated and therefore unrealistic about what they can accomplish. | David Baldacci | ||
| 26c0ca7 | So | David Baldacci | ||
| 377f7f3 | Maybe that's how the world was now, thought Dan. Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore. | David Baldacci | ||
| 619fd54 | Even your kids wised up and realized you're an idiot. An evil one, but still an idiot. - Amy, to Isabel | David Baldacci | ||
| 968ce1c | Never a good thing," opined Atticus nervously. "Doors closing by themselves." | David Baldacci | ||
| 078aa8a | Only one billion, nine hundred and sixty-three million, four hundred and seventy-nine Thousand, eight hundred and sixteen possibilities. I should be able to get through them in the next seven Thousand, eight hundred and fourteen years. Just sit tight and call up lots of room service. - Dan | David Baldacci | ||
| 7d96c14 | Just... norma... everyday... lives." With these last words her tone grew rote and her expression became bored. "Yeah, what a relief," said Dan, but he looked every bit as bored as his sister. ... "We're Cahills. We save the world. It's what we do." | David Baldacci | ||
| 1d8c88d | Puller thought about this. He still didn't have a place to stay, but he didn't think it was a good idea to crash at Landry's place again. And even though he had finished processing his aunt's home he still didn't feel comfortable staying there. She had left it to him, of course, so he had every right to be there if he wanted. But what it really came down to was that until he figured out what had happened to her, Puller didn't think he deser.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 5a02084 | But he is sick," Potting interjected. "Takes a sick mind to shove a knife so deep into someone it breaks their spine." | David Baldacci | ||
| 77774f7 | You're going down this time, Isabel Kabra. - Dan | David Baldacci | ||
| 7e9f1c8 | activists and peacemakers are everywhere. And they are changing how politics is done. | Amy Goodman | ||
| 479ee8c | Skeptical of the corporare media, people have developed their own. | Amy Goodman | ||
| fa4b694 | We need a media that covers power, not covers for power. | Amy Goodman | ||
| 631f608 | ED ABBEY'S FBI file was a thick one, and makes for engrossing reading. The file begins in 1947, when Abbey, just twenty and freshly back from serving in the Army in Europe, posts a typewritten notice on the bulletin board at the State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. The note urges young men to send their draft cards to the president in protest of peacetime conscription, exhorting them to "emancipate themselves." It is at that point that A.. | David Gessner | ||
| 687d990 | ED ABBEY'S FBI file was a thick one, and makes for engrossing reading. The file begins in 1947, when Abbey, just twenty and freshly back from serving in the Army in Europe, posts a typewritten notice on the bulletin board at the State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. The note urges young men to send their draft cards to the president in protest of peacetime conscription, exhorting them to "emancipate themselves." It is at that point that A.. | David Gessner | ||
| 0448d08 | Just as important is what writing the book did to Stegner's thinking. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian is a visionary story of the West, but it is also a biography of Powell's beautiful mind. Powell was, according to Stegner, "incorrigibly sane," a man who tried to dispense with fable and "dispel the mists," a man who saw the facts and not the romance. The real enemies were not just greedy and stubborn congressmen but "credulity, superstition,.. | David Gessner | ||
| 67a23a8 | DeVoto decried "the economy of liquidation" that had prevailed in the West since it was first settled, a philosophy that applied to aquifers and farms as well as mines. In the West "the miner's right to exploit transcends all other rights whatsoever." As for agriculture, it soon became clear that it was impossible without irrigation, and that irrigation itself was impossible without the massive dams that only the federal government could bu.. | David Gessner | ||
| 70f16d1 | Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert, Rick Bass's The Watch, Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge, Charles Bowden's Red Line, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Doug Peacock's Grizzly Years, and Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness. | David Gessner | ||
| 5d11f87 | One thing he did more responsibly than almost any Fellow I remember. We had a practice then of having the current Fellows act as preliminary readers on the applications of people wanting to come the next year. Among the manuscripts that he got to read was one by Ken Kesey, then still at Oregon. The manuscript was a football novel all about homosexual quarterbacks and corrupt coaches. Ed's comment (we asked only for a rating: Good, possible,.. | David Gessner | ||
| ec45868 | But most scientists studying the western climate believe the freak will become the norm. Researchers recently concluded that the extended dry period in the West over the last ten years is the worst in eight hundred years--that is, since the years between 1146 and 1151. Eight hundred years! If we were just talking about another decade of this or, worse, a decade of the type of heat we were seeing in the summer of 2012, the results would be c.. | David Gessner | ||
| fef6486 | Terry Tempest Williams's koan came to me in an e-mail, which reads: "I loved both these men. I still feel their hands on my shoulder, wondering what they would be saying, writing, now. In so many ways, Ed was the conservative, Wally, forever the radical." | David Gessner | ||
| 9c0eaa2 | In the face of this vision, Powell put forth another. What was needed above all else, Powell believed, was to know the land, to understand the land, and to react accordingly. This had practical consequences: while a cow might properly graze on a half-acre in the lush East, it would require fifty times that amount of land in most of the West. It followed that the standard acreage of settlement should be different, and it followed that settle.. | David Gessner | ||
| 807c856 | It was one of those bookstores that barely exist anymore in our age of the antiseptic chain store, replete with the smell of the musty pages and the sense that reading itself is, at its heart, a countercultural act. | David Gessner | ||
| 109e99a | Democracy has always been a rare and fragile institution in human history. . . . As social conflict tends to become more severe in this country . . . there will inevitably be a tendency on the part of the authoritarian element--always present in our history--to suppress individual freedoms, to utilize the refined techniques of police surveillance (not excluding torture of course) in order to preserve--not wilderness!--but the status quo, th.. | David Gessner | ||
| 3d1b55d | Stegner, for all his striving toward largeness, shared some of Abbey's bitterness. Of course he, characteristically, framed it in a larger way. He believed that western writing as a whole was ignored, and as he became known throughout his home region he chafed against being considered regional--when considered at all--by the East. I remembered watching a television interview with Stegner where he mentioned that something he had written had .. | David Gessner | ||
| d86927b | How some scientists speculated that gathering around fires was the original unique characteristic of human beings. Not language or metaphor or tool use but the social circle, the gathering around the flame, the place where all those other discoveries were communicated. "Yup, that's right. Around the campfire you have a lot of spirit and it comes out in different ways. Kidding each other, serious thought. Singing. Politics, nature, jokes. Ev.. | David Gessner | ||
| cf93ac9 | Stegner's could sometimes be a grumpy goodness. In a fascinating exchange of letters with the beat poet and environmental guru Gary Snyder, Stegner argues for the less exotic virtues of the cultivated western mind versus the enlightened eastern one. This included the importance of doing what one should and not what one felt like. In a letter dated January 27, 1968, he wrote: "I have spent a lot of days and weeks at the desks and in the meet.. | David Gessner | ||
| cb5a8b5 | You never really "won" an environmental battle, after all, just saved places that would be fought over again in the future." | David Gessner | ||
| 56168b8 | Environmentalism or conservation or preservation, or whatever it should be called, is not a fact, and never has been. It is a job. | David Gessner | ||
| 16ea88f | There is a fundamental irony at work. More and more of us keep pouring into the region, in no small part because it seems relatively empty compared to the rest of the country. What attracts us we then ruin. | David Gessner | ||
| 01784f7 | We talked for a while about the difficulty he and others had had trying to make a movie of The Monkey Wrench Gang. Part of the difficulty was that while Hollywood is fine with violence toward people and cars and buildings, they don't want to make a movie where the principal and intended victims are private or industrial property. Peacock cursed the various producers and directors. He had written several drafts of scripts for the movie and e.. | David Gessner | ||
| 543a2f4 | One thing I know is that the inward way is not the way," he said. "That's a trap. Anything that gets you outside of yourself is good. Don't look inside for salvation. Go spend a little time alone in the wilderness." | David Gessner | ||
| cfd278e | Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part. | play the-goat-or-who-is-sylvia | Edward Albee | |
| 69bed12 | George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am. | bittersweet bittersweet-endings echo illusion ironic ironic-echo | Edward Albee | |
| 28ee8af | MARTHA. So? He's a biologist. Good for him. Biology's even better. It's less...abstruse. GEORGE. Abstract. MARTHA. ABSTRUSE! In the sense of recondite. (Sticks her tongue out at GEORGE) Don't you tell me words. --Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Benjamin Dreyer | ||
| 0f64b5c | I swear if you existed I'd divorce you. | Edward Albee | ||
| a39f1c4 | Yes ... but was I happy? Did I sit there and did contentment bathe me in its warm light? | Edward Albee | ||
| f331d91 | ROSS I hear a kind of ... rushing sound, like a ... wooooosh!, or ... wings, or something. MARTIN It's probably the Eumenides. | Edward Albee | ||
| 6e5d648 | You became the youngest person ever to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture's version of the Nobel. | Edward Albee | ||
| ca49ba0 | ON 26 July 1926, Vita Sackville-West gave the Woolfs a cocker spaniel puppy which they named Pinka (or Pinker). She ate holes in Virginia's skirt and devoured Leonard's proofs. "But", writes Virginia, "she is an angel of light. Leonard says seriously she makes him believe in God . . . and this after she has wetted his floor 8 times in one day". For nine years Pinka was the much loved companion of both Leonard and Virginia, though in time sh.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| f76c4f4 | It was passion between women. They feared its acceptance if Radclyffe Hall was heard. They had their view of a woman's place and they intended to legislate against this affront to it. | Diana Souhami | ||
| 6910d9e | Farfallina, bella e bianca, vola vola, mai si stanca, gira qua, e gira la- poi si resta sopra un fiore, e poi si resta sopra un fiore... Butterfly, beautiful and white, fly and fly, never get tired, turn here and turn there- she rests upon a flower... and she rests upon a flower. | lullaby mother-to-daughter pascalina | Kate Forsyth |