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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c1ce4a8 | The pool was steaming in the cold night air, and an electric light glowed under the water. | pool the-checquy-files the-rook | Daniel O'Malley | |
| 3145cad | A large piece of lead floated out of Bobby head, followed by dark chunks of what could only be pieces of Bobby's brain. The torrent started up again. It flowed steady rather than pulsed with his heart. I knew from that, and from the amount of blood, that it was that mofo vein bleeding. And probably more than a small tear if the amount of blood was telling. I thought there had to be a hole the size of Montana in that thing. "Jesus Mother Mar.. | medical-fiction medicine surgery | Edison McDaniels | |
| 6d6f3cc | They shift the moving toyshop of their heart. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 4fb8eb4 | Realizing he wouldn't get more soldiers, Schoomaker told his subordinates to squeeze more out of what they had. Each of ten regular Army divisions raised a fourth maneuver brigade, adding ten more deployable BCTs to the pool. Divisions shut down long-established but now extraneous headquarters: the division engineer brigade, the division artillery, the division support command, the MI battalion, and the signal battalion. All of their subord.. | Daniel P. Bolger | ||
| 187ca36 | It provides a convenient excuse for arbitrary decisions: asked why it rejected a student, a college can say that he or she looked wonderful on paper but didn't fit into the mix. The image of a fair but fickle process also pumps up the applicant pool: | Daniel Golden | ||
| 67578ab | For a freshman nobody, I look pretty good. At least that's what some girls hanging at the pool said. Sure, they were only eleven and twelve, but girls' opinions are always worth something to me. | Lurlene McDaniel | ||
| 3ec1eb8 | decorrelate error! To understand how this principle works, imagine that a large number of observers are shown glass jars containing pennies and are challenged to estimate the number of pennies in each jar. As James Surowiecki explained in his best-selling The Wisdom of Crowds, this is the kind of task in which individuals do very poorly, but pools of individual judgments do remarkably well. Some individuals greatly overestimate the true num.. | Daniel Kahneman | ||
| ea88fca | We need to act and embrace uncertainty as a pool of opportunity. | inspirational-quotes | Daniel Egger | |
| 2e0f77a | Examples of aggregated simple appearances occurring during concentration include: seeds (thig le), subtle attributes (mtshan ma phra mo), and light rays (od zer gyi yan lag; JP, f. 36b). These are all experienced as a consequence of visualization. Because they appear during meditation, they are classified as perceptual events, and are therefore considered to be supports to concentration training.366 Seeds (thig le) are the most common type .. | Daniel P. Brown | ||
| cd631a5 | Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man's table, or the child from a woman's breast, or the wife from a man's bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these goods in place. And others remarked to themselves how sweet these goods were, in spite of that, and saw that pleasure lost in every moment is pleasure lost forever. | happiness lost pleasure | Jane Smiley | |
| 9601522 | It was one of life's treats, wasn't it, paying a visit to your past, swinging like a ball on a string away from the person you loved, always knowing that the string must pull you back, and you would be oh so glad to get there. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 6556489 | Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms. The hay just cut. The mix of odors in the barn when the sunlight was shafting through the cracks in the boards, heating everything up. | Jane Smiley | ||
| c3c34b5 | She didn't relate this memory to Janet, but she did think right then that all golden ages are discovered within. No one would ever know that her father, Carl, the endless Iowa horizon, a pan of shortbread emerging from the oven, and her grandchildren laughing in the next room had indeed made her life a golden age. | Jane Smiley | ||
| c603f01 | Walter didn't know what to make of his two boys. If you looked at it a certain way, then the one who needed the beatings to toughen him up, namely Joey, never did a thing to earn a beating, because he hadn't the gumption, and the one who got the beatings learned nothing from them. Looking back on his own childhood, Walter saw a much more orderly system: His father or mother told them the rules. If they got out of line, even not intending to.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| a254e06 | He laughed with a kind of mirthless bark. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 0c030fd | THE TWINS WERE eighteen months old now, walking (and standing and staring and screaming and sitting) just like other children more or less their age, and Andy found herself increasingly preoccupied with those baby scrapbooks her brother's wife had sent when they were born. Andy had gotten Janny's to the six-month mark--the last photo was of her sitting up in the baby bath with her fingers in her mouth. Richie's and Michael's--not even birth.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| c538732 | Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It's all very nice to say you're an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make sure we do what you say, think how you think, and remember you're the boss. You ask me why you wear that jacket or give away that piece of crap on the street, even though you know that when people take it they just throw it in the next trash c.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| bff21d6 | hands behind his head. He took another deep breath. The whore | Jane Smiley | ||
| e5864b5 | But now I saw with fresh conviction that is was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was the way we ate with our heads down, hungrily, quickly, because there was nothing else to do at the table | family-drama | Jane Smiley | |
| da96124 | This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight. | evil truth | Jane Smiley | |
| a700408 | redound to the university's professed goal of excellence | Jane Smiley | ||
| 10e905c | dark, wet sides of the well dropped maybe | Jane Smiley | ||
| fa3746e | Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place. Felicity was her last chance to enjoy this, and so she did, day after day | Jane Smiley | ||
| 430f7ac | There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time. | Jane Smiley | ||
| b3cfe96 | She had felt a surge of fear so strong | Jane Smiley | ||
| 03267ea | In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea. | Jane Smiley | ||
| eb97adf | She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers. | cleaning home housework relaxation | Jane Smiley | |
| 471b315 | The plays he had liked were the one called Measure for Measure, and another one called Macbeth. They were easy to follow, and what happened in them was kind of like what happened in junior high school. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 94e8581 | poking around in this dump, as it would be | Jane Smiley | ||
| 72bfc31 | She chewed the tender meat and sucked out the juices and felt the sauce coat her tongue and roll down her throat. After that, he looked still better. Another | Jane Smiley | ||
| e9f58f0 | What?" he would say, practically snapping to attention. What I had thought to be of passing interest would now take on profound fascination as I read it aloud, and Pat would inhale it. A few hours or a few days later, he would give it back, in talk or as gifts--books, records, tickets to a performance. I would like to tell Joe what a peculiar and suffocating feeling it got to be, to be attended to so closely, to have every idle remark sucke.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 756420d | She was almost sixty and she had not been to London, or Paris, or Rome, and there was no going there now. Yes, she was balanced, as she had gotten into the habit of congratulating herself for being. But, she saw, she was balanced on a very narrow perch. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 662c3ed | And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That's what knitting groups and sewing groups were for, wasn't it? Commiserating about marriage. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 67b56e0 | Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of the opposition is to starve them. Lenin did it the expensive way, shooting them, but the Soviets can no longer afford that. | repression soviets | Jane Smiley | |
| b00e3ae | It was the exact combination of the ephemeral and the eternal that a dying man needed to know about. | Jane Smiley | ||
| edd3650 | Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. | Nonsense | ||
| 0bbf7a7 | Once again, the curious thing was how strange and forceful the world was, how it battered and clanged and could not be withstood, and yet some individuals withstood it while others did not. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 3a0ba79 | what would happen to others, not oneself. Rosanna thought that was what accounted for the crowd's | Jane Smiley | ||
| d1db9ef | But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before. | fathers-and-daughters late-in-life-children parenthood | Jane Smiley | |
| 3213ba4 | If you don't furnish your brain with what everyone knows, then it will furnish itself with what no one else knows! | Jane Smiley | ||
| ff8d1c4 | she had a cloth in her hands. She said, "Frankie hungry?" | Jane Smiley | ||
| b27fee4 | It was imperative that the growing discord in our family be made to appear minor. The indication that my father truly was beside himself was the way he had carried his argument with us to others. But we couldn't give in to that--we were well trained. We knew our roles and our strategies without hesitation and without consultation. The paramount value of looking right is not something you walk away from after a single night. After such a nig.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 244832f | surprised. Then everyone, by unspoken | Jane Smiley | ||
| 2ce5483 | the two of them prayed to Jesus that they might learn their lessons sooner rather than later, and that they would be gentle lessons rather than hard lessons. | Jane Smiley |