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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 986a8e0 | No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 43b1024 | Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 54dce02 | At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ff5f677 | I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad.. | Beth Revis | ||
| 790b00b | No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c73399a | He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex. | men women love french | Gustave Flaubert | |
| e4d1fc0 | It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid.. | passion | George Eliot | |
| 81775b4 | The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. | irresponsible liars | George Eliot | |
| f4dc14f | Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 6d553a2 | As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop) | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ae36d1e | This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. | solitude | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 485c727 | You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less. | death sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| e75948d | Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c484cbc | We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 254a027 | Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy .. | Anonymous | ||
| 1b4a9e4 | Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caug.. | stereotypes men temptation women greed beauty clichés drunkenness social-norms misogyny hypocrisy double-standards immorality gender lust sexuality wine | Anonymous | |
| cead5a1 | It is worth saying something about the social position of beggars, for when one has consorted with them, and found that they are ordinary human beings, one cannot help being struck by the curious attitude that society takes towards them. People seem to feel that there is some essential difference between beggars and ordinary 'working' men. They are a race apart--outcasts, like criminals and prostitutes. Working men 'work', beggars do not 'w.. | George Orwell | ||
| 573e538 | I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence. | Lee Child | ||
| f518008 | I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said. | William Goldman | ||
| 69a3167 | If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start. | David Levithan | ||
| abb9f32 | there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity. | loneliness poem poetry death life love bukowski clarity nonsense lonely | Charles Bukowski | |
| 50ef4f9 | we were in her big oak bed facing south so much of the rest of the time that I memorized each wrinkle in the drapes and especially all the cracks in the ceiling. I used to play games with her with that ceiling. "see those cracks up there?" "where?" "look where I'm pointing..." "o.k." "now, see those cracks, see the pattern? it forms and image. do you see what it is?" "umm, umm ..." "go on, what is it?" "I know! It's a man on top of a woman.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 868bd92 | She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something. | women love wild insane | Charles Bukowski | |
| fa97ab0 | the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 9f89d91 | Ann, I love you. I hope my car starts. I hope the sink isn't plugged up. I'm glad I didn't fuck a groupie. I'm glad I'm not very good at getting into bed with strange females. I'm glad I'm an idiot. I'm glad I don't know anything. I'm glad I haven't been murdered. When I look at my hands and they are still on my wrists, I think to myself, I am lucky. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 7147e00 | You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 145db46 | In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water. | women grotesque | Natsuo Kirino | |
| bc684b9 | You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks." "He's my fiance," I told her. "We are living in sin." Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice." "It's very nice. I highly recommend it." | irony marital-bliss neigbors kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 94304b0 | You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?" | magic-slays ilona-andrews kate prince-charming | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4d261a2 | Barabas pulled Christopher out of the cage. The man stared up at him. "I died, didn't I? Are you an angel?" "Sure," Barabas said. "Follow me to the Heavenly Shower >>" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0b7c9ef | as small as a world and as large as alone | E. E. Cummings | ||
| f67a216 | existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 0d5152f | He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap. "Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please." "What?" "Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password!" "You have GOT to be kidding." "Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn." | funny humor myrnin ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| b1c4733 | How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her, and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acted with a high hand in resolving her affairs in places like Cote d'Ivoire, a name she had been given because of her export products, not her own identity. Her name was Asia. His was Europe. Her name was silence. His was power. Her name was poverty... | feminism fables possibilities | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c750a4f | If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| b4c2e50 | The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 6d12c0f | I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 9413375 | Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. | Christopher Moore | ||
| a2a4198 | If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 39f231b | An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight. | religious | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 62102ec | The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages. | inspirational | Richard Bach | |
| 68eeac8 | the mad have a grace all their own | Kim Harrison | ||
| b77115a | It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession | possession | Thomas Hardy | |
| af7a501 | Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something. | Graham Greene |