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53fd52d While Saladin is attacking Reynald at Kerak: "As it happens, Raynald is hosting a wedding party for his wife's son, Humphrey of Toron, and princess Isabelle, King Baldwin's half sister, who is eleven years old.The pounding continues increasingly, but the guests have traveled from all over the Latin East for this party and they are not about to put an end to the festivities over a mere Moslem attack. Finally, Lady Stephanie, Raynald's wife,.. Paul L. Williams
6245924 No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. Nonsense
7004d12 In order to have focus we need to escape to focus. Greg McKeown
372d7b2 faded smiles oft linger in the face,While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head! Alfred Austin
098b039 Love and naughtiness are always in their teens. Alfred Austin
8587e18 Omit death's certain sharpness, life would lackThe salt that lends it savour. Alfred Austin
3df58eb Death is master of lord and clown.Close the coffin and hammer it down. Alfred Austin
a07159d But to be furious, murderously furious, is to be alive. Claire Messud
b0d4004 Public opinion is no more than this,What people think that other people think. Alfred Austin
b32f6d2 Who once has doubted never quite believes. Alfred Austin
4d038b5 But long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: The less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them; while on the other hand, to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new. Kim Stanley Robinson
f2d12dd It was winter here, as if they were in Patagonia or New Zealand, and the light from the sunspot on the sunline smeared so that shadows blurred at the edges, and the air looked rusty. Kim Stanley Robinson
5a12089 Nikoli ne sumnivaisia u divi, iakshch vono trapit'sia Ray Bradbury
656306b The darkness within darkness was still. Ray Bradbury
f2b8d5f Who once believed will never wholly doubt. Alfred Austin
58fa832 I claim no victory. But there was blood on my gloves when I hung them up. When was the last time you did a story like that, out of pure indignation? writing Ray Bradbury
5abb302 I have not so much thought my way through life as done things and found what it was and who I was after the doing. Ray Bradbury
4f4ec48 It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as your change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. Ray Bradbury
79d534a Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?' 'I'd much rather recognize the inhuman in the human. Ray Bradbury
fd56c89 His eyes took on a different color. It was a subtle shift, a flex, like a man stepping out from the shade of a tree into sunlight on a cloudy day. Ray Bradbury
a5f9dd0 There was a silence gathered all about that fire and the silence was in the men's faces, and time was there, time enough to sit by this rusting track under the trees, and look at the world and turn it over with the eyes, as if it were held to the center of the bonfire, a piece of steel these men were all shaping. Ray Bradbury
9758604 That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want Ray Bradbury
51026a6 Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean. Ray Bradbury
e8f90be Mistakes can be profited by. Ray Bradbury
1430769 breathing the finest pollen in the world, book dust, with which to develop literary allergies. Dunyanin en guzel poleni olan ve insanda edebi alerji yaratan kitap tozu (Turkish) Ray Bradbury
8c7be90 Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired. He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces to burn and glitter with the knowledge they carried, to glow as lanterns glow, with the light in them. But all the light had come from the campfire, and these men had seemed no different than any others who.. Ray Bradbury
64749cd how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other. Ray Bradbury
48c3a7c Leave these people alone. They've got something good and decent, and you come and foul up the nest and sneer at it. Well, I've talked to them too. I've gone through the city and seen their faces, and they've got something you'll never have -- a little simple faith, and they'll move mountains with it. You, you're boiled because someone stole your act, got here ahead and made you unimportant. Ray Bradbury
84aa243 You're very tired, he said. You've traveled a long way and you belong to a tired people who've been without faith a long time, and you want to believe so much now that you're interfering with yourself. You'll only make it harder if you kill. You'll never find him that way. Ray Bradbury
c2345e2 That's the way to tour Disneyland, with a complete suspension of disbelief, with a drunken sense of joy and eyes wide with wonder. Let the child inside you come out and play. Laugh and shout! Plunge into the mind and soul of Walt Disney. ---Ray Bradbury disneyland ray-bradbury walt-disney Jim Denney
350a09c People forget if they don't keep testing things. Ray Bradbury
d219cad hungry eyes, Ray Bradbury
73420c6 Remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audiences would know. Ray Bradbury
2871cc2 Thomas Wolfe ate the world and vomited lava. Dickens dined at a different table every hour of his life. Moliere, tasting society, turned to pick up his scalpel, as did Pope and Shaw. Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating. Ray Bradbury
7e162b1 We carry our homes in our heads. Ray Bradbury
d88e0f9 Night after night for every year and every year, for no reason at all, the woman comes out and looks at the sky, her hands up, for a long moment, looking at the green burning of Earth, not knowing why she looks, and then she goes back and throws a stick on the fire, and the wind comes up and the dead sea goes on being dead. Ray Bradbury
0852624 The accident had occurred at an intersection surrounded on one side by empty factories and a deserted schoolyard, and on the opposite side, by a graveyard. I had come running from the nearest house, a hundred yards away. Yet, within moments, it seemed, a crowd had gathered. Where had they all come from? Later on in time, I could only imagine that some came, in some strange fashion, out of the empty factories, or even more strangely, out of .. shapes Ray Bradbury
edd6970 It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it and it alone has sensed it and shaped it to its own truth." -- Ray Bradbury
477bdd4 I leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other's Fate, For if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair No country far enough to hide your loss. Ray Bradbury
137b959 Go Panther-pawed where all the mined truths sleep. Not smash and grab, but rather find and keep; Go panther-pawed where all the mined truths sleep To detonate the hidden seeds with stealth So in your wake a weltering dream of wealth Springs up unseen, ignored and left behind As you sneak on, pretending to be blind. Ray Bradbury
ba0786c So, lost, erased, you seek a lifetime's days for it And dig deep to find the sweet instructions there Put by when God first circuited and printed thee to life: "Go hence! do this! do that! do yet another thing! This self is yours! Be it!" And what is that?! you cry at hearthing breast, Is there no rest? No, only journeying to be yourself. And even as the Birthmark vanishes, in seashell ear Now fading to a sigh, His last words send you in t.. Ray Bradbury
a7830fc I leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other's Fate, For if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair No countryfar enough to hide your loss. Ray Bradbury
098d0b4 I circumnavigate each cell in you Your merest molecule is right and true Look there for destinies indelible and fine And rare. Ten thousand futures share your blood each instant; Each drop of blood a cloned electric twin of you. Ray Bradbury
ada8dd4 I've heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! Ray Bradbury