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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5630e46 | We must always look at things from the point of view of eternity, the college theologians used to insist, from which, I imagine, we would all appear to have speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world, | Billy Collins | ||
| 84ed046 | Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born you would be all done in only one more year? Of course, you couldn't have done it alone, so never mind, you're fine just as you are. You are loved simply for being yourself. | Billy Collins | ||
| f652bc2 | But did you know that at your age Judy Garland was pulling down $ 150,000 a picture, Joan of Arc was leading the French army to victory, and Blaise Pascal had cleaned up his room? No wait, I mean he had invented the calculator. Of course, there will be time for all that later in your life after you come out of your room and begin to blossom, or at least pick up all your socks. | Billy Collins | ||
| 7f2fd69 | This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of infancy, part a literary calculation, | Billy Collins | ||
| a9db580 | are we just avoiding our one true destiny when we do that, averting our glance from Philip Larkin who waits for us in an undertaker's coat? | Billy Collins | ||
| ce9431c | It was getting late in the year, the sky had been low and overcast for days, and I was drinking tea in a glassy room with a woman without children, a gate through which no one had entered the world. She was turning the pages of an expensive book on a coffee table, even though we were drinking tea, a book of colorful paintings-- a landscape, a portrait, a still life, a field, a face, a pear and a knife, all turning on the table. Men had ente.. | feminism woman womanhood women women-without-children | Billy Collins | |
| e6ab062 | The boy at the far end of the train car kept looking behind him as if he were afraid or expecting someone | Billy Collins | ||
| b25b08c | My favorite time to write is in the late afternoon, weekdays, particularly Wednesday. This is how I go about it: I take a fresh pot of tea into my study and close the door. Then I remove my clothes and leave them in a pile as if I had melted to death and my legacy consisted of only a white shirt, a pair of pants, and a pot of cold tea. Then I remove my flesh and hand it over a chair. I slide if off my bones like a silken garment. I do th.. | Billy Collins | ||
| 3149fe7 | A poem by Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, captures the ache of loss at the end of childhood. Its title is significant: "On Turning Ten": The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light-- a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chickenpox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be.. | Marcus J. Borg | ||
| 07783f4 | Mor-Rioghain is a bean-sidhe, a banshee, | Graham Masterton | ||
| 9fbef59 | Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal; | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a15b88b | How much myth do we build into our experience of time? | Don DeLillo | ||
| f0ead92 | As a rule, it takes time for information to get into LTM and time and effort to get it out again. | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 27fe456 | Old hospitals with saints' names are the ones you want to go to if you have cuts and abrasions. They haven't forgotten how to treat the classic Crusader wounds. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 4dfb4ff | Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams. | conspiracy jfk | Don DeLillo | |
| 3720597 | No sense of the irony of human existence, that we are the highest form of life on earth and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2ecd43a | Pause for a moment, you wretched weakling, and take stock of yourself. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a5a2e20 | Muitas vezes, a coisa que relutamos em tocar parece ser nossa propria salvacao. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 56de46c | Eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 0c4fac0 | Murray says it is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a39c14d | The blank expanse is more powerful than you think. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d2e5832 | Brian ebbe un attimo di illuminazione. Guardo tutta quella spazzatura in perenne aumento e per la prima volta capi in cosa consistesse il suo lavoro. Non in progettazione o trasporto o riduzione alla fonte. Lui si occupava di comportamento umano, delle abitudini e degli impulsi della gente, dei loro incontrollabili bisogni e innocenti desideri, forse delle loro passioni, sicuramente dei loro eccessi e delle loro debolezze ma anche della lor.. | garbage rifiuti spazzatura umanità | Don DeLillo | |
| 867d915 | This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying. | Don DeLillo | ||
| fa68c04 | Las puestas de sol no tienen prisa, y nosotros tampoco. El cielo se encuentra sometido a un sortilegio poderoso y estructurado. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2f9f3d9 | You know what you did? You embraced the insanity you were telling us about. - Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street | Don Watson | ||
| 0a92f10 | I will read," she said. "But I don't want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. 'I entered her.' 'He entered me.' We're not lobbies or elevators. 'I wanted him inside me,' as if he could crawl completely in, sign the register, sleep, eat, so forth. Can we agree on that? I don't care what these people do as long as they don't enter or get entered." | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5b181d5 | What good is my truth? My truth means nothing. What if this guy with the gun comes from a planet in a whole different solar system? What we call rain he calls soap. What we call apples he calls rain. So what am I supposed to tell him?" "His name is Frank J. Smalley and he comes from St. Louis." | Don DeLillo | ||
| b237bbf | This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can't absorb this idea, best go home now." I" | Don DeLillo | ||
| 238aa07 | The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What | Don DeLillo | ||
| 225a02f | We are the sum total of our data, I told her, just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses. I | Don DeLillo | ||
| ac65d27 | How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body? | Don DeLillo | ||
| 340682f | There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 21177e4 | Quando tutto e nuovo, il piacere e tutto in superficie. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e6041e4 | I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit." I" | Don DeLillo | ||
| ec98064 | Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night flying down before you're ready. It's a terror. It's a bareness of the soul. He hears the rustle of nuns. Here comes winter in the bone. We've set it loose on the land. There must be some song or poem, some folk magic we can use to ease this fear. Skelly Bone Pete. Here it is in the landscape and sky. We.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e1c05b3 | This is the whole point of Babette. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d5774ff | E depois? Voce nao fica se perguntando? Nao apenas o mes que vem. Os anos. - Depois nao tem nada. Nao tem depois. O depois era isso. Oito anos atras eles puseram uma bomba numa das torres. Ninguem perguntou: e depois? Depois foi isso. A hora de ter medo e quando nao tem motivo pra ter medo. Agora e tarde demais. | medo | Don DeLillo | |
| 803f0f9 | Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 499f4b1 | E dificil imaginar esses homens se entristecendo por causa da morte. Atila, o Huno, morreu jovem. Estava ainda na casa dos quarenta. Sera que ele se entregou a autocomiseracao e a depressao? Era o rei dos hunos, o invasor da Europa, o flagelo de Deus. Gosto de imagina-lo deitado em sua tenda, envolto em peles de animais, como numa superproducao internacional, dizendo coisas corajosas e crueis a seus auxiliares e dependentes. Nenhum amolecim.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 0a939c6 | There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding. They make me wary not of personal failure and defeat but of something more general, something large in scope and content. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 63b92bc | A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. --Don DeLillo, Libra | David Grann | ||
| d989c3c | Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I" | Don DeLillo | ||
| 382baa5 | He's under house arrest aboard the ship." "On what charge?" "Heinousness," | Don DeLillo | ||
| 48d1a1d | There was an aluminum awning over the office door. On the door itself were little plastic letters arranged in slots to spell out a message. The message was: NU MISH BOOT ZUP KO. Gibberish but high-quality gibberish. | Don DeLillo |