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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 705ccaf | You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal | Anne Carson | ||
| 75519b2 | He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze -- | herakles intimacy mythology | Anne Carson | |
| e2e9851 | Aidos ("shame") is a vast work in Greek. Shame vibrates with honor and also with disgrace, with what is chaste and with what is erotic, with coldness and also with blushing. Shame is felt before the eyes of others and also in facing oneself...shame is a split emotion." | Anne Carson | ||
| dece9db | The fact is that there are people, good people who, not because they want to but all the same, fall in love with the wrong thing. | Anne Carson | ||
| 674c1f5 | like a girl gone mad, in blood, | Anne Carson | ||
| 72ce3e7 | Nothing is as it was before, after the screen has gone to black. Darkness lies on the soul. To use Beckett's phrase, "what cowers behind it begins to seep through." With her new shopping cart Hekabe, queen of Troy, will be prowling the aisle for dog biscuits." | Anne Carson | ||
| 767c670 | What difference would such power make to someone in love? What would the lover ask of time if he were in control? | Anne Carson | ||
| 2c0a3d9 | wife and their three children had taken a quick | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 44b8af2 | Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. It is as if I could dip my hand down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country. I can feel that other day running underneath this one like an old videotape | grieving losing-love loss love repetition time | Anne Carson | |
| 7badb97 | My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night. I open mine as wide as possible. I like to see everything, I say. What's there to see? Moon. Air. Sunrise. All that light on your face in the morning. Wakes you up. I like to wake up. | drapes light morning poem poetry sleeping waking-up | Anne Carson | |
| 9a93031 | Banal sexism aside, I find myself tempted to read as one thick stacked act of revenge for all that life withheld from Emily. But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation. As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women. It is a chilly thought. | emily-bronte poem poetry revenge sexism wuthering-heights | Anne Carson | |
| 821fc1f | The basic rules of male-female relations were imparted atmospherically in our family, no direct speech allowed. | male-female-relationships men-and-women poem poetry relationships sex | Anne Carson | |
| 62c2c92 | The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. | Alexander Hamilton | ||
| d383eb8 | What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is really excellent, and venture to give it expression; and that is saying much in few words. To-day I have had a scene which, if literally related, would make the most beautiful idyl in the world. But why should I talk of poetry and scenes and idyls? Can we never take pleasure in Nature without having recourse to art? If | William Allan Neilson | ||
| 15c1591 | There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion. - General William Thornson, U.S. Army | Jay Allan | ||
| 4dbc752 | It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. - William Tecumseh Sherman | Jay Allan | ||
| 599f814 | We should deal with children as God deals with us,--we are happiest under the influence of innocent delusions. July | William Allan Neilson | ||
| 6903470 | All critics should be assassinated. | Man Ray | ||
| e20f975 | Alas! the void--the fearful void, which I feel in my bosom! Sometimes I think, if I could only once--but once, press her to my heart, this dreadful void would be filled. Oct. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| be40a00 | What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? And if that same cup proved bitter to the God of heaven, under a human form, why should I affect a foolish pride, and call it sweet? Why should I be ashamed of shrinking at that fearful moment when my whole being will tremble between existence and annihilation; when a remembrance of the past, like a flash of lightning, will.. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| e779fd9 | Distance, my friend, is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision; and we desire earnestly to surrender up our whole being, that it may be filled with the complete and perfect bliss of one glorious emotion. But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant there becomes the present here, all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and .. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| 4773182 | am not alone unfortunate. All men are disappointed in their hopes, and deceived in their expectations. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| 13ec414 | The sounds she made got him closer. It started in his thighs. He bit down on his lip. He heard that chiming sound and opened his eyes. He saw Donna's hand coming back with a fistful of ice as she reached beneath him. "What the--" "No," said Donna. "Now you go." She jammed the ice cubes through his asshole and into his rectum. Karras thrashed, the veins defined on his neck. He came convulsively as Donna laughed from far away. "Damn," said Ka.. | George Pelecanos | ||
| 6a6c776 | I have become far better satisfied with myself. For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery depends very much on the objects and persons around us. On this account nothing is more dangerous than solitude; there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. Al.. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| 8a455b5 | If I were not a fool, I could spend the happiest and most delightful life here. So many agreeable circumstances, and of a kind to insure a worthy man's happiness, are seldom united. Alas! I feel it too sensibly,--the heart alone makes our happiness! To be admitted into this most charming family, to be loved by the father as a son, by the children as a father, and by Charlotte!--then the noble Albert, who never disturbs my happiness by any a.. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| f8a73bd | Human nature," I continued, "has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes annihilated as soon as this measure is exceeded. The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings. The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a c.. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| 5387e4a | Aside from being famous, what do Beethoven, Mark Rothko, Hemingway, Francis Ford Coppola, Van Gogh, Alvin Ailey, Robin Williams, Sylvia Plath, Balzac, Jackson Pollock, Edgar Allan Poe, Axl Rose, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf have in common? They all suffered from some form of mental illness. Even | B.A. Shapiro | ||
| f3b5abe | From the inaccessible mountains, across the desert which no mortal foot has trod, far as the confines of the unknown ocean, breathes the spirit of the eternal Creator; and every atom to which he has given existence finds favour in his sight. Ah, how often at that time has the flight of a bird, soaring above my head, inspired me with the desire of being transported to the shores of the immeasurable waters, there to quaff the pleasures of lif.. | William Allan Neilson | ||
| 40425cb | Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man. --JOHN W. CAMPBELL | Steve Silberman | ||
| 590a6ef | I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth. | W. John Campbell | ||
| 3e93ce5 | We're more interested in the editor of this Astounding Science Fiction. General Groves sent me to ask that someone who knows more about this work you're doing interview this"--he glanced at a card--"John W. Campbell." | Gregory Benford | ||
| edaa959 | As Asimov himself had once remarked, "We are now living in a science fictional world." | Alec Nevala-Lee | ||
| 345bfc7 | STYLE & STRUCTURE LANGUAGE Simple, clear; effectively creates the atmosphere of a world that, on the surface, is down-to-earth and unsophisticated, but that on a deeper level is complex and contains many conflicting forces. NARRATOR Invisible, third-person narrator who emphasizes the thoughts, feelings, and actions of animals. FABLE (Short tale that teaches a moral lesson, with animals as characters.) The animals act in accordance with thei.. | W. John Campbell | ||
| 56f3e11 | a fine job of work and a fine colt. Shall I reward you or Coquette -- or both? | Beryl Markham | ||
| 552cd0d | CRITICAL OVERVIEW POLITICAL MEANING The political message of Animal Farm is inspired by the events of the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution (1917-21), when Russian peasants overthrew the monarchy in favor of socialism, a political system in which land, business, property, and capital are owned by the community as a whole. In Animal Farm, Orwell (a Socialist) shows the animals' efforts to overthrow human dictatorship and to establish a socialis.. | W. John Campbell | ||
| da27164 | manjar blanco | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4e665a2 | waste of paper so heinous that as "editor" she should have been convicted of arboricide." | George Pelecanos | ||
| 5dc8aba | There was a long while, after my marriage flamed out, I resigned myself to the fact that I was never going to have any kids. It's not an easy thing to come to terms with, believe me. Having kids always seemed to me to be the most elemental thing to do. But there's certain people maybe shouldn't have kids, even if they want to. I'm probably one of them. | George Pelecanos | ||
| 41e6174 | And Constantine thought: So this is how it is, at the end. | George Pelecanos | ||
| 6c8d383 | I got problems at home, I got problems at school, I got problems walkin down the street. | George Pelecanos | ||
| f96789c | It's the forgetting that allows trash like them to come back. | George Pelecanos | ||
| febe18e | He rooted for two teams: the Washington Redskins and whoever was playing the Dallas Cowboys. | George Pelecanos | ||
| aff3369 | Lyla McCubbin. | George Pelecanos | ||
| ea8b90d | Karras dipped one finger in the cocaine, rubbed some on Donna's clit and along the silk pink of her lips. Donna followed, touching cocaine to the head of his cock, running the remainder down the underside of his shaft and massaging his balls. Karras's sex felt frozen and hot at once. He cupped a hand under her ass, lifted her and brought her forward, slipped himself inside her. Engulfed in her warmth, he let out a long, relieved breath. "Bu.. | George Pelecanos |