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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62520d0 | it is more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain. | William Styron | ||
| 3a40810 | Sophie slept, understanding with a dreamer's fierce clarity that she was doomed. | William Styron | ||
| 8c440a4 | O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles... | William Styron | ||
| 3525098 | retaining the other half for yourself in savings for the future. Thereupon, at Mr. Pemberton's good report of your labor--and again I have no doubt that this might be anything but exemplary--I shall draw up the papers for your emancipation. You will then at the age of twenty-five be a free man." He paused and gave my shoulder a soft nudge with his gloved fist, adding: "I shall only stipulate that you return to Turner's Mill for a visit ever.. | William Styron | ||
| 2fcd147 | they appeared from where I stood as peaceful as two lovers who had gaily costumed themselves for an afternoon stroll, but on impulse had decided to lie down and nap, or kiss and make love, or merely whisper to each other of fond matters, and were frozen in this grave and tender embrace forever. | William Styron | ||
| c079352 | But I could tell from the way his muscles become stiff and this trembling that ran through him that he was finished with me. Even so I couldn't stop. | William Styron | ||
| e16339d | Somehow I still could not believe that this life we all have together would ever be changed. | William Styron | ||
| 0d745ea | Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. | William Styron | ||
| bc8fcd9 | She was determined to put behind her the madness of the past--or as much as a vulnerable and memory-racked mind permitted-- | William Styron | ||
| 94f578b | officials were losing their jobs over their involvement in real collusion that as of yet lacked a special investigator or counsel. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 64f5ef1 | The easiest intellectual analogue of pure Quality that people in our environment can understand is that 'Quality is the response of an organism to its environment' [he | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 9670824 | Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret it. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 3e2e6ab | One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| e30c870 | Out of spite, McCain had flipped on his earlier support of Obamacare just to cast the deciding vote that defeated Trump's effort to repeal and replace it. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| ea411c7 | Despite the far greater carnage between 1939 and 1945, seventy years later historians rarely write of the political or strategic futility of the Second World War as they so often do of the First. Apparently, losing sixty million for a subsequent general seventy-year peace and the end of nightmarish ideologies was defensible, while losing fifteen to twenty million for a twenty-one-year hiatus was sometimes not. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 3398e3e | agenda. These themes frame the formal plan of this book. The argument covers the three years since Trump announced his presidential bid in July 2015 to mid-2018, as he neared the end of the second year of his presidency. Part 1, the first three chapters | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| d584318 | It proved almost impossible to square the circle of ensuring crew safety and comfort when trapped in a riveted or welded steel shell of stored gasoline, high-explosive shells and machine gun bullets, sparking engine plugs, and incoming projectiles. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| a83547e | Nicholas Monsarrat's epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at sea amid | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 5e7de3c | The system rather than the man was what would win the war. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| d9ac8be | Barack Obama, for at least the first two years after his departure, had all but destroyed the traditional role of Democrats as a federal, state, and local majority party--and in its place had paved the way for a new neosocialist ascendency. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 9bb6ab6 | In Trump's mind, the problem with federal agencies was not just that they overreached and were weaponized, but that their folds of bureaucracy led to incompetency. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| c79d5d0 | Only about one in a thousand of DACA's participants had joined the military. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 10c060b | one can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 9319d47 | close cooperation with Saudi Arabia against the Shiite Houthis in Yemen. Apparently, Trump figured that to demand cessations of these operations that others had started would call upon him the wrath of hawkish Republicans and fuel charges of isolationism | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 0905100 | One-third of all American residents currently on welfare live in California, as do a quarter of the nation's illegal aliens--a state where one in four was not born in the United States, but otherwise with just 12 percent of the population. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| b6d29d2 | Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant--and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civilian. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 4034022 | hue, his combed-over | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 36f255e | Often the white elite signaled their disgust of the "white privilege" of the disintegrating middle class as a means of exempting their own quite genuine white privilege of insider contacts, professional degrees, wealth, inheritance, and influence." | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| c13fa00 | The larger themes of the new signature progressivism were identity politics, radical environmentalism, and redistributionism. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 0ede3b1 | Hillary apparently never appreciated that when she went after Trump's sins of the flesh, it would quickly prove a losing proposition. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| bced711 | It may be now blasphemous to concede that much of the current division in the country was deliberately whipped up by Obama. Often in mellifluous tones and with near academic authority, he accentuated racial and cultural differences. | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| 22375b7 | What you need is an hypothesis for how you're going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn't provide any of these hypotheses. It operates only after they're around. This is the zero moment of consciousness. Stuck. No answer. Honked. Kaput. It's a miserable experience emotionally. You're losing time. You're incompetent. You don't know what you're doing. You should be ashamed of yourself. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 9fb4ea7 | These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you're bound to be very discouraged very soon if you've derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| fff8c42 | One of the gentleman guests chuckled. "Do you think the mother made up the story out of whole cloth?" | Sharyn McCrumb | ||
| dc39551 | Surely doctors saw nothing but the eyes of their patient's family: the staring, pleading eyes that waited to hear what sentence would be pronounced on their loved one. | Sharyn McCrumb | ||
| 3f09f07 | Men are trained to discount women in any number of ways, Lydia. | Jane Feather | ||
| ae1edce | The Origin" of what happened is not in language-- of this much I am certain. Six degrees south, six east-- and you have it: the bird with the blue feathers, the brown bird-- same white breasts, same scaly ankles. The waves between us-- house light and transform motion into the harboring of sounds in language. Where there is newsprint the fact of desire is turned from again-- and again. Just the sense that what remains might well be held up-.. | Jane Mead | ||
| 321c261 | had just begun in the isolated parts of the country, not yet recognized for what it was--a vast rebellion of an entire population against the cruelties and injustices of generations of tyranny perpetrated by the few on the many. | Jane Feather | ||
| 7ef20fe | You have heard tales of the 'jacquerie' beginning in the villages? | Jane Feather | ||
| dd5229f | Now there was an alternative explanation: people disagreed about Quality because some just used their immediate emotions whereas others applied their overall knowledge. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 5b91b0f | Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 7ec48c9 | Buddhist sutra, the Tripitaka. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 10b6c89 | An odd coughing sound came out of me, and I realized I was almost laughing. The recognition hurt my chest, and I stopped immediately. I didn't deserve to laugh. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| b98081c | Kes leaned back in his chair and stared at me appraisingly. He wants you but he can't have you. I know how that feels. | Jane Harvey-Berrick |