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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aac1be1 | Para los demas, el no era mas que un nombre y un apellido. Pero Nina Citrone lo habia reconocido como persona, habia visto en el una amabilidad cuya existencia el mismo desconocia. | Robert Cormier | ||
| dd9760b | The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. | André Gide | ||
| 7d7b554 | The tires catch, the truck moves off, and for an instant there is a hole of quiet, a pocket of air without any noise, before the call of radios and televisions and bees and wind rushes in to fill my ears. | Michael Dorris | ||
| 4fbe158 | There's something about her that reminds me of Ellen, but then I realize that it's Ellen who's reminded me of Annabelle. Ellen is dim in comparison. | Michael Dorris | ||
| 028842b | I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough. | Michael Dorris | ||
| 18fa1bd | She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy. | happy pretty | Michael Dorris | |
| 0339d68 | Around us she didn't bother with English at all, and in Indian her words poured like thick whiskey that had never seen water, like hootch straight from the barrel. | Michael Dorris | ||
| f7c90c4 | As a man with cut hair, he did not identity the rhythm of three strands, the whispers of coming and going, of twisting and tying and blending, of catching and of letting go, of braiding. | Michael Dorris | ||
| 3253eab | As a man with cut hair, he did not identify the rhythm of three strands, the whispers of coming and going, of twisting and tying and blending, of catching and of letting go, of braiding. | Michael Dorris | ||
| f9c9aeb | busy with people getting off the boat, is it? It's all one-way.' Bee reached up to take the glass of whiskey Paddy was holding out to her. 'I'll be back,' she said, but in her mind she was asking herself when. Captain Bob had secured a job as a captain, meeting the cargo ships and piloting them down the Mersey into the port of Liverpool, from where they had waited, out on the bar. He had already travelled to Liverpool and found them a house.. | Nadine Dorries | ||
| f4d33d2 | Names are strange and special gifts. There are names you give to yourself and names you show to the world, names that stay for a short while and names that remain with you forever, names that come from things you do and names that you receive as presents from other people. If your name is true, it is who you are. | Michael Dorris | ||
| e486ed9 | In the hopelessness of her situation she had found strength, and in her strength there was irresistible pain. | Michael Dorris | ||
| fda6615 | The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. | André Gide | ||
| 583ab11 | He began to speak dreamily, partly because he wanted to thrill his companions a little, partly because something apart from him seemed to be speaking through his lips. "The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes--he pipes--and we must follow--Jem and Carl and Jerry and I--round and" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 68665d0 | A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. | André Gide | ||
| f4ed998 | O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth? | André Gide | ||
| 8ca252a | If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided the uncertain extremes of the scale. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| d068de7 | Without light I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 4e97581 | Here I had thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men ... For all they were concerned, we were so many names scribbled on fake ballots, to be used at their convenience and when not needed to be filed away. It was a joke, an absurd joke. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| b52a2b9 | I had switched from the arrogant absurdity of Norton and Emerson to that of Jack and the Brotherhood, and it all came out the same--except I now recognized my invisibility. So I'd accept it, I'd explore it, rine and heart. I'd | Ralph Ellison | ||
| f814e8b | If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided uncertain extremes of the scale. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| df01d63 | Was it that she understood that we resented having others think that we were all entertainers and natural singers? But now after the mutual laughter something disturbed me: Shouldn't there be some way for us to be asked to sing? Shouldn't the short man have the right to make a mistake without his motives being considered consciously or unconsciously malicious? After all, he was singing, or trying to. What if I asked him to sing? | problems timeless | Ralph Ellison | |
| fa791ab | sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 0623690 | Here are the facts. He was standing and he fell. He fell and he kneeled. He kneeled and he bled. He bled and he died. He fell in a heap like any man and his blood spilled out like any blood; red as any blood, wet as any blood and reflecting the sky and buildings and birds and trees, or your face if you looked into its dulling mirror-and it dried in the sun as blood dries. That's all. They spilled his blood and he bled. They cut him down and.. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 2e9b9f3 | Why do you laugh?" he said. "Because at a price I now see that which I couldn't see," I said." | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 9137fba | I'm an invisible man and it placed me in a hole--or showed me the hole I was in, if you will--and I reluctantly accepted the fact. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 571b7c6 | When one is invisible he finds such problems as good and evil, honesty and dishonesty, of such shifting shapes that he confuses one with the other, depending upon who happens to be looking through him at the time. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 1f3a398 | I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 6c32036 | I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to "justify" and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friends the incorrect, absurd answers they wished to hear." | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 10d9cf0 | they could talk and agree with themselves, the world was nailed down, and they loved it. They received a feeling of security. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 1d4e426 | And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| f590d0a | I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 62ffed0 | Our fate is to become one, and yet many-- This is not prophecy, but description. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| c33ae7b | Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are. That must be it, I thought--to lose your direction is to lose your face. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 42a522e | Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget." | Ralph Ellison | ||
| fda3c67 | And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 0916375 | Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and Turgenev as models. Ralph Ellison studied Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. Thoreau loved Homer; Eudora Welty loved Chekhov. Faulkner described his debt to Sherwood Anderson and Joyce; E. M. Forster, his debt to Jane Austen and Proust. By contrast, if you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he.. | Annie Dillard | ||
| d38ec2e | But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| d7c8bb0 | You are made who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 16c4ee6 | But now thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob: and He that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee: I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the floods, that they do not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the very fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. | Hannah Duggan | ||
| c14fe2a | Congregados los sentidos, surge el alma. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| dbf78c7 | Often the best in us springs from the worst in us. | André Gide | ||
| e4eee3d | Passing the kitchen the second time, the vodka sang to him from the freezer its sweet song of forgetfulness. He longed to dart in there and free it from its prison, to twist the cap off with a practiced flick of his thumb and tip his head back, filling his mouth with the only thing that could quell the fear that roiled his stomach. Mullins clapped one hand on his shoulder, perhaps sensing something. The goddamn man was on him like a tick. | Fred Anderson | ||
| 8efcbd6 | smacked into the asphalt | Fred Anderson |