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b75a88f Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me. Elizabeth Gilbert
b8ec423 You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others-- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion... but that is not my business. We are all different, I suppose. All I ever wanted was to know this world. I can say now, as I reach my.. Elizabeth Gilbert
fe264d9 One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret. Irvin D. Yalom
704e101 the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death. Irvin D. Yalom
18d2148 The more you know, the less you need. wisdom zen Yvon Chouinard
cba4764 some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. Jeff VanderMeer
d6be5a8 The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the .. politics inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d6cf4fd Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies. to-kill-a-mockingbird Harper Lee
caa0b68 Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with. south small-town summer Harper Lee
0bc084b Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening. "Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common." "'s what everybody at school says." "From now on it'll be everybody less one--" "Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, why do you send me to school?" Harper Lee
dc1135c If you did not want much, there was plenty. Harper Lee
bea48b2 I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. This is feeling so fucking famliar. Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Of is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? loneliness rant David Levithan
5bd4643 A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. understanding wisdom probes social-science opinion Marshall McLuhan
776bf1f The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm
629b57d There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time. G.K. Chesterton
099d428 And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am again haunted by a kind of confirmation. The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. His pathos was natural, almost casual. The Stoics, ancient and modern, were proud of concealing their tears. He never concealed His tears; He s.. G.K. Chesterton
ef24a55 For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. learning instinct Philip Pullman
13c0d4e Roland had sworn off children--they kept trying to kill him. Ilona Andrews
4680061 Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? tragedy Honoré de Balzac
9209fa3 Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?" -- myrnin morganville-vampires shane-collins vampire vampires Rachel Caine
a6941b5 Bite me, Goth princess," Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything." "Maybe you should say that to Michael." "Not funny, Eve," Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit," she said." funny humor eve-rosser myrnin michael-glass ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins teacher vampire vampires Rachel Caine
5e114ad Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. caterpillar funke Cornelia Funke
f3a5aeb In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers. Edgar Rice Burroughs
7a08bb0 Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate. romance humor pixy vampire supernatural Kim Harrison
45149bf I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. hamburgers shattered-mirror comedy Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
1cca91a Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says women aren't funny,' or 'Rick Fenderman says women aren't funny... Do you have anything to say to that?' feminism women humor Tina Fey
49cbb8b for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. new-york-city Evelyn Waugh
bb9e593 Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? Evelyn Waugh
7c2ee03 By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. christianity spirituality bible humor philosophy apple-computer-inc forbidden-fruit garden-of-eden macintosh original-sin jesus-shock old-testament laptop apple steve-jobs mac catholicism theology genesis sarcasm peter kreeft
6d6ba95 America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce. money sex Peter Kreeft
c4bf14e Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. success near-hits near-misses nearly failure luck Neil Gaiman
0220f81 And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would. Neil Gaiman
0fe42bb There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. Carl Sagan
8501036 Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Carl Sagan
f9be077 There's an old, frequently-used definition of insanity, which is "performing the same action over and over, expecting different results."... Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ... ...Other symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia are: Do you see things that aren't there? Such as a link between 9/11 and Iraq? Do you - do you feel things that you shouldn't be feeling, like a .. religion Bill Maher
62c56d7 That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks. S.E. Hinton
5df9672 The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of tru.. erotic Audre Lorde
c3c4cf3 You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim. positive-thinking optimism Jennifer Crusie
8ba7dff Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. Oscar Wilde
25f1d00 A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. sorrow Oscar Wilde
83b668a Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign. Cassandra Clare
5261bd9 The way Magnus' breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he'd said his father's name. magnus Cassandra Clare
b4f24cd It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all. Cassandra Clare
9164528 In fact, it wouldn't hurt if you just spent the next few days inside. You can lock yourself in your room like Isabelle." "I'm not gonna do that." "Of course your not," said Jace, "because you live to torture me, don't you?" "Not everything, Jace, is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you have to admit that the majority of things are." Clary resisted the urge to scream." Cassandra Clare