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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 39dcea9 | You didn't go on MySpace to communicate, you went there to show yourself off. It was like one big narcissistic playground. | Ben Mezrich | ||
| 21cf532 | Zuckerberg had gotten lucky--in another world, the twins never would have had to approach him for coding help. In any event, Tyler and Cameron didn't believe they were on the earth to exist; they were here to create, to build. | Ben Mezrich | ||
| 054b6de | Silicon Valley was a town made up of engineers who thought in frameworks, decision trees, and game theory. | Ben Mezrich | ||
| d4860f8 | One of the many pieces of advice his father had given him--besides the importance of antivenom and the need for a good, sturdy blade--was that field anthropology was ninety percent preparation, and ten percent trying desperately to recover when you didn't prepare properly. | Ben Mezrich | ||
| ce26592 | Within a six-month period in 1935 and 1936, the Tigers, Red Wings, and Lions all captured titles as Detroit's own Joe Louis reigned as boxing's uncrowned champion. Detroit remains the only city to score the trifecta of a World Series, a Stanley Cup, and an NFL championship in one season. | Tom Stanton | ||
| e86e2ea | Geography is destiny. - James Ellroy | Iain Sinclair | ||
| fd1b27a | America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception. Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. | ellroy | James Ellroy | |
| 9798aaa | But who? | James Ellroy | ||
| e0bfe7c | I walked to the heart of the neon smear. | James Ellroy | ||
| aaa0eb3 | He was wearing an American Legion poppy on his lapel - probably purchased from the wino legionnaire who slept in the Hall of Records parking lot - a man he had once vigorously prosecuted for vagrancy. The | James Ellroy | ||
| bbfda82 | The spook pimp was up. The spook pimp was de-O'd and revived. He bossed his whores around. He made his whores strip. He made his whores hop on three tables. They linked up. They performed table tricks. They French-kissed and went 69. Wayne weaved. Pete steadied him. A Buddhist monk walked in. His robe dripped. He looked stupefied. His robe reeked of gas. He bowed. He squatted. He lit a match. He gook-cooked with gas. He whooshed. He flared... | James Ellroy | ||
| dc4593e | Padre Divino, concedimi una tregua. Accetta la mia fraudolenta rettitudine. Revoca l'arroganza che mi lega agli intrighi di altri e mi conduce verso orridi errori e unioni sbagliate. Tempera la mia ambizione con la Tua grazia, Signore. | James Ellroy | ||
| d8947f4 | chippies. | James Ellroy | ||
| d5bbd4a | America: I window-peeped four years of our History. It was one long mobile stakeout and kick- the-door-in shakedown. I had a license to steal and a ticket to ride. I followed people. I bugged and tapped and caught big events in ellipses. I remained unknown. My surveillance links the Then to the Now in a never-before-revealed manner. I was there. My reportage is buttressed by credible hearsay and insider tattle. Massive paper trails provid.. | James Ellroy | ||
| 746f2cc | Head-on impact. The frontseat men sustain massive chest wounds. Their hearts explode. The backseat men sustain downward-thrust trauma and are thus disemboweled. | James Ellroy | ||
| a95526f | He wore piss-poor lime cologne. He sucked a hide-the-hooch lozenge. | James Ellroy | ||
| 5aeaa96 | J. J. Cantwell said, "We're three Catholic men relieved of our duties. We're going to get shit-faced drunk and defame the Prottys and the kikes." Parker ushered them in. His Eminence was sixty-six and rambunctious. Dudley doted on him. They met in Ireland, circa 1919. Dudley killed British soldiers. Cantwell funneled gun money." | James Ellroy | ||
| a76bfcc | Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. | James Ellroy | ||
| 1a5383a | He kept his extralegal shit there. Throwdown guns, burglars' tools, maryjane to plant on suspects. | James Ellroy | ||
| 93e2258 | Matsura dribbled blood on the table. Ace threw a head shot. Matsura screamed. Gold bridgework flew. | James Ellroy | ||
| 9b5cf16 | Cantwell said, "We'll have to have Bill explain this new war to us, Dud. Father Coughlin lays the blame on the coons and the sheenie bankers, and I tend to agree with him." Dudley said, "America and Ireland first, Your Eminence. You know where I stand on that." Cantwell said, "Let's get shit-faced drunk and defame that Jew shitheel in the White House. Franklin Double-Cross Rosenfeld, his name is." | James Ellroy | ||
| 7bf3145 | I had to talk to people. All people scared me. | James Ellroy | ||
| 6ef437c | Elmer was scared. He ran a call-girl ring. He peddled flesh to the L.A. elite. He made biz calls from the Vice squadroom. | James Ellroy | ||
| a64ba93 | These tracts are inherently unradical and fail to critique the systematic bigotry that has fueled this counteraggression for the past two horrible days. This cravenly jingoistic display of yours is an insufficient response to the injustice currently being perpetrated on this very street. | James Ellroy | ||
| 8defda7 | Treason is ideology and free speech perverted. Seditious thought and its reckless public expression is a grave criminal offense that fully sanctions me in this action that you allege to be precipitous, presumptuous and subversive in and of itself, so help me fucking God, I know it to be true. | James Ellroy | ||
| fa11727 | A key-in-lock noise jarred him. He walked into the living room. Mariko had 11:00 a.m. booze breath. He said, "Hello, Mother." She spoke slurred Japanese back. He bowed and tried to take her hand. She pulled away and flashed a magazine. A "picture bride" rag. Choose a photograph and send for a young woman. She'll be shipped from Japan. Include the five-hundred-dollar steamship fare. All brides guaranteed to be fertile and subservient. "I've .. | James Ellroy | ||
| 2f1a60f | The incumbent Sheriff, "Kickback" Kit Denkins, was a notorious no-goodnik. He took bribes from crooked building contractors and solicited high school girls for their soiled underwear." | James Ellroy | ||
| 4d401fe | T]he sense of humour has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. | Alice Meynell | ||
| 6e4f3f9 | doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 850e727 | these people are crazy. I mean like shooting-guns-at-chickens crazy. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ba47a9c | we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6a51018 | Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 22149b0 | Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128 | war | Donna Tartt | |
| d7e4620 | A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death. p136 | japanese-death-poem | Donna Tartt | |
| 3841c5c | He had an orange stain on his mouth from the prawns, the old jabberwock. | donna tartt | ||
| 74207f2 | A wall is the safeguard of simplicity. | Alice Meynell | ||
| 54bb527 | And--maybe it's ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn't matter since no one's ever going to see this--but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest | Donna Tartt | ||
| 02966dd | if you didn't take picture from museum, and Sascha didn't steal it back, and I didn't think of claiming reward--well, wouldn't all those dozens of other paintings remain missing too? Forever maybe? Wrapped in brown paper? Still shut in that apartment? No one to look at them? Lonely and lost to the world? Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?" "I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providenc.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| f33911d | And yet it was remarkable too how his world limped on without him. Strange, I thought, as I jumped a sheet of water at the curb, how a few hours could change everything--or rather, how strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed. | Donna Tartt | ||
| affead2 | What do you think about America?" "Everyone always smiles so big! Well--most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid." -- | fiction literary-fiction literature the-goldfinch | Donna Tartt | |
| 6d358c2 | Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you | Donna Tartt | ||
| f54bf16 | What else, indeed, should mediocrity be but widespread, anywhere? | Alice Meynell | ||
| 013ab37 | This moment's Tiber with his shining eyes Never saw Rome before. | Alice Meynell | ||
| 75bd6ce | And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky--so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime. And | Donna Tartt |