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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4011625 | DEELEY: Myself I was a student then, juggling with my future, wondering should I bejasus saddle myself with a slip of a girl not long out of her swaddling clothes whose only claim to virtue was silence but who lacked any sense of fixedness, any sense of decisiveness, but was compliant only to the shifting winds, with which she went, but not the winds, and certainly not my winds, such as they are, but I suppose winds that only she understood.. | Harold Pinter | ||
| 32f2399 | She answers no more, the one who used to answer always. | Albert Cohen | ||
| d4dd283 | As a youth, he would lie awake listening to the sounds of the night--his sisters' breathing, the dog at the back door--and worry about "how or when I'm going to die." | John J. Winters | ||
| 90301b0 | There are times when I can't help thinking about the past. I know the present is the place to be. It's always been the place to be. I know I've been recommended by very wise people to stay in the present as much as possible, but the past sometimes presents itself. The past doesn't come as a whole. It always comes in parts. | Sam Shepard | ||
| f6768d9 | The experience is always different than the plans. The experience was exhausting. I am still exhausted from it. | Sam Shepard | ||
| 21f6f90 | It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you know better than the world. Accepting contradictions means not believing any more in the primacy of "true feeling." Everything is true and simultaneously. It's why I hate Sam Shepard and all your True West stuff - it's like analysis, as if the riddle could be solved by digging up the buried child." | Chris Kraus | ||
| 3ba84d3 | Now? Why now? Why am I missing her now, Frankie? Why not then? When she was there? Why am I afraid that I'm gonna' lose her when she's already gone. And this fear--this fear swarms through me--floods my whole body 'til there's nothing left. Nothing left of me. And then it turns--it turns to a fear for my whole life. Like my whole life is lost from losing her. Gone. That I'll die like this. Lost. Just lost. | Sam Shepard | ||
| 82e5322 | I believe in my mask/The man I made up is me. | John J. Winters | ||
| a039daf | and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking. | John J. Winters | ||
| 193cb24 | o Sujo: o que aceita as mas palavras e pensamentos da gente, e que completa tudo em obra; | João Guimarães Rosa | ||
| b4aff0c | She does not talk anymore, the one who used to talk so pleasantly. | Albert Cohen | ||
| f940987 | With her alone I could be far away from everyone. | Albert Cohen | ||
| e16384b | Only with her I was not alone, now I am alone with everyone. | Albert Cohen | ||
| 51ed862 | Brothers, my human brothers, force me to believe in eternal life. | Albert Cohen | ||
| ef85712 | The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content. | Albert Einstein | ||
| dcf5f51 | Wholeness [Ganzheit], Gestalt, is the primary attribute of life. | Gestalt psychology | ||
| bc55520 | I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 1dbdacd | Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 143d9da | I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. | Albert Einstein | ||
| f17f34e | Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 8fb5b0b | The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 0b99b54 | I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 27bca06 | Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 620e2ba | Force always attracts men of low morality. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 16aee0e | All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. | Albert Einstein | ||
| e480a40 | One may say "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." | Albert Einstein | ||
| 594397f | Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem--in my opinion--to characterize our age. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 8670257 | Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me? | Albert Einstein | ||
| 6cca68f | That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 642f8df | It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 316e650 | A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels. | Albert Einstein | ||
| b5b467f | Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 679301b | Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 522e6a7 | The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 74b39fe | I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 8e0e625 | That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics. | Albert Einstein | ||
| f31cf82 | I got secretly furious, spent ten minutes just winding myself up--because at this point of our marriage, I was so used to being angry with her, it felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesn't really feel as good as you think, but you can't quit grinding away. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c0e9538 | Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 1f5e405 | I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 935f895 | Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else--unless it is an enemy. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 2e1c54e | Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 0242427 | God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 486571a | you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f2c7bdb | As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. | Albert Einstein |