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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4afc70 | This was an aspect of Barbie-hood that Mary had never given any thought to, that Barbie created Ken, anatomically incorrect to the very core of his brain, where he understood as well as he understood his own name that Barbie was inviolable. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 09659f2 | If you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 8b0fd99 | Don't you want to know what happened?" Carol turned to look at her and put her hands on her hips. She said, "No, I don't, because I don't want you making a story out of it, because as soon as you make a story out of it, then it keeps happening every time you tell it, and if you make a good story out of it, then you're gonna want to tell it, so don't bother." | Jane Smiley | ||
| 2f8c7cc | And she had gone off from her husband to live by herself with the priests, had she not? Does a man, seeing a trinket lying before him in the grass, fail to pick it up? | Jane Smiley | ||
| 270ee91 | Margret saw that this is how it is that folk are made to desire what they know they should not have, they are made to wait for it, so that when it comes, no matter how dark and full of sin and repellent it is, they are glad enough to welcome it. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 0c05d31 | that there is such pleasure in enmity that after a while it cannot be left off even if one would will it. Another thing is also true, that when a quarrel is new, one's friends hold one back, and give cool advice, but when it is long-standing, folk put off its end and goad the rivals. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 23ce291 | This is my thought, that for every soul, something must come to pass, and for everything that does come to pass, every soul can imagine many things that might have come to pass, all of them less evil than what actually fell out. Folk must have something to think on, or they would be unable to hope for Heaven or remember Paradise. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 75537c2 | To bring him into such agonies as a man should never know, to deny him shrift, to tear his flesh shred from shred. And how will I ever be forgiven for such a lust as this? | Jane Smiley | ||
| af97634 | It was always and ever hard to tell with women why they chose one way and not another. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 82a9ef2 | So it was with Vigdis' neighbors. Folk recalled how fat she was, how proud, though only the daughter of a cowman, and how niggardly. Serving boys had been beaten for taking a bit of honey, and neighbors had been summoned before the Thing on suspicion of hay stealing or sheep stealing, when anyone could see that the hay had only been used up, and the sheep had only been lost in the hills above the steading. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 5c3550b | cats swore that they had pretended to be domesticated to protect themselves--any cat who lived with a human did so under duress, and all cats escaped whenever they could. | Jane Smiley | ||
| f5e4600 | However much these acres looked like a gift of nature, or of God, they were not. We went to church to pay our respects, not to give thanks. | Jane Smiley | ||
| dd955ea | Even in Minnesota, where the winter was a big topic of conversation and a permanent occasion for people's heroic self-regard, it was only winter on the highway a few hours out of the year. The rest of the time, traffic kept moving. Snow and rain were reduced to scenery nearly as much as any other kind of weather, something to look out the window at but nothing that hindered you. The | Jane Smiley | ||
| 6f9b357 | And then he saw what he was, an old man, ready to die, pressed against the Greenland earth, as small as an ash berry on the face of a mountain, and he did the only thing that men can do when they know themselves, which was to weep and weep and weep. | Jane Smiley | ||
| a3546ab | I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 271f3ac | Otherwise, my life passed in a blur, that blessing of urban routine. The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness and timing, where omens of prosperity or ruin to come are sought in every change, where any of the world's details may contain the one thing that above all else you will regret not knowing, this sense lifted off me. Maybe another way of saying i.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 3f44de9 | La mamma, David e io ci sentivamo come incollati insieme finche non ci fu Em. Lei condivideva il sangue di tutti noi e ci rese una vera famiglia. Lei chiuse una specie di cerchio e quando arrivasti tu, ti ci ponesti proprio nel mezzo. Adesso e diverso. Adesso sembra che noi siamo semplicemente il cerchio senza niente in mezzo. | Philip Beard | ||
| f167553 | E io mi aprii a lui piangendo perche, anche se non meritavo di provare cosi tanto, lui mi meritava, e vedevo dal suo volto che lui era nel luogo dove prima ero stata io e cercai, cercai davvero, di tornarci con lui | Philip Beard | ||
| 41b11cc | Jimmy improvvisamente sembro rovente dentro di me, e bruciava via tutto fin su nel mio petto e in gola e io resistetti finche potei, non piu per lui ma per me, perche pensavo che se fossi rimasta in silenzio, lasciando che continuasse soltanto a respirare, che continuasse a spingere il suo fuoco dentro di me, Jimmy Freeze sarebbe stato in grado di bruciarmi annullandomi | Philip Beard | ||
| ea739e3 | Questo e tutto cio che Faunia, nel suo tono freddo e distaccato, stava dicendo alla ragazza che nutriva il serpente: noi lasciamo una macchia, lasciamo una traccia, lasciamo la nostra impronta. Impurita, crudelta, abuso, errore, escremento, seme: non c'e altro mezzo per essere qui. Nulla a che fare con la disobbedienza. Nulla a che fare con la grazia o la salvezza o la redenzione. E' in ognuno di noi. Insita. Inerente. Qualificante. La macc.. | american human roth stain trilogy | Philip Roth | |
| 86c3a6f | Volto le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli. Cosi Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo. | Philip Pullman | ||
| fac5b4a | Children's books can break [the] silence. Reading the un-bowdlerized classics of children's literature can help young people understand that racism is not anomalous. It is embedded in the culture, and defended by cultural gatekeepers. | classic-literature librarian racism | Philip Nel | |
| 64805ae | Un piccolissimo simbolo, se ce ne fosse stato bisogno, del milione di circostanze della vita altrui, di quella bufera di dettagli che formano il guazzabuglio di una biografia umana: un piccolissimo simbolo che mi ricordava perche la nostra comprensione della gente dev'essere sempre, per forza, nel migliore dei casi, difettosa. | Philip Roth | ||
| d5fa6cd | Bisogna fare una distinzione tra il morire e la morte. Non e tutto un morire ininterrotto. Se si e sani e ci si sente bene, e un morire invisibile. La fine, che e una certezza, non dev'essere per forza annunciata con spavalderia. No, tu non puoi capire. L'unica cosa che capisci di vecchi, quando non lo sei, e che sono stati segnati dal loro tempo. Ma capire solo questo li mummifica nel loro tempo, ed equivale a non capire nulla.Per quelli c.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 88fbbd9 | This casket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 5f02238 | On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. | Alexander Pope | ||
| fb06be3 | Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 611c78f | The perception of unfairness or injustice is the ultimate cause of most, if not all, anger... | David D. Burns | ||
| a597a69 | Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 9c25e7a | Until that time, we have more than enough people to create healthy non-inbred children just by the usual process of fucking each other. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| fed8854 | opprobrious | Isabel Allende | ||
| 39d9d5d | Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 980de71 | they didn't even try to arrest her in a gentlemanly way. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 030d154 | calumny, | Isabel Allende | ||
| c16dce2 | At every word a reputation dies. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 336842c | The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 36c53fa | venture | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| db9402a | Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 60bcc07 | Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. | Alexander Pope | ||
| 2c2a0eb | patiperros, | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9cfc64f | The nonsense that charms is close to sense. | Nonsense | ||
| 3d8e6d7 | The reality is that in the business world almost everyone is just a very small cog in a huge collection of cogs.2 2 Sorry. Try not to take it personally. Do good work. Enjoy your home life. Be happy. | Steve Krug | ||
| dfe2db7 | general | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 68fef33 | Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his | Walter Isaacson |