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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f0ac14f | Do you have to live to be a hundred to really grow up? | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 1091637 | As I sat by my mother's side and held her hand and watched her, I remember thinking, It was comforting to know what I would look like. It made death a little less frightening, a little more intimate, a little more dear. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 082bd02 | This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial k.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| ad9769d | The day the mountains move has come. Or so I say, though no one will believe me. The mountains were merely asleep for a while. But in ages past, they had moved, as if they were on fire. If you don't believe me, that's fine with me. All I ask is that you believe this and only this, That at this very moment, women are awakening from their deep slumber. If I could but write entirely in the first person, I, who am a woman. If I could write enti.. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| f97d303 | Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. | Albert Einstein | ||
| dd889d2 | As a child he had gone out for Halloween as a mummy, a vampire, a blue-and-green-swolen drowned boy, all kinds of sufferings and mutilations and perversions represented by his costumes; and looking around him he saw witches and Frankenstein monsters and scarred warty masks of all the kids running around asking for candy in the dark; and he wondered: Why must we hurt ourselves and drive stakes through our hearts and drown ourselves in order .. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| db10dab | Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity. | Albert Einstein | ||
| 3775e6f | We do not want what's good for us. | Richard Russo | ||
| daa7a98 | A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason--if any was needed--to doubt the truth of everything the man had said inside. | Richard Russo | ||
| 84bdf57 | La forma mas rapida de engendrar un nuevo deseo es satisfacer uno antiguo. | Richard Russo | ||
| 34c27ce | The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. | Albert Einstein | ||
| c608e56 | he always had the last word in all differences of opinion with his wife, and that--two words, actually--was, "Yes, dear." | Richard Russo | ||
| 71028f4 | Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it? | Richard Russo | ||
| 8ecbf88 | most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt. | Richard Russo | ||
| c0e2ddf | That she should so puzzled him that he even questioned his behavior, entertaining, albeit briefly, the idea that he might in some fashion be responsible for the apparition of his once loving wife, who had faithfully awaited his return from overseas, now calmly and purposefully blasting away, without visible remorse, in the general direction of his life and property. They | Richard Russo | ||
| 486797e | You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out." | Richard Russo | ||
| 4996685 | The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation was sanctioned hit-and-run posing as democracy in action. Here | Richard Russo | ||
| da393d1 | people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It | Richard Russo | ||
| 92a7c68 | Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward, | Richard Russo | ||
| 0299e95 | It always amazed me how little he understood what I was feeling. It meant, among other things, that my understanding of him probably wasn't much better. | Richard Russo | ||
| 650e1df | Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In" | Richard Russo | ||
| dc77895 | witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility. | Richard Russo | ||
| 6d23efd | No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided. | Richard Russo | ||
| f48f206 | Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where | Richard Russo | ||
| 7e3999f | Y a Raymer, mientras la esperaba, le dio por pensar que esperar a una mujer que habia olvidado algo era uno de los placeres mas infravalorados de la vida.Cuantas veces, a punto de ir a cualquier lugar con Becka, ella habia tenido que volver atras porque se habia dejado algo encima de la mesa de la cocina. Un habito molesto, si, pero que maravilloso era cuando la veia reaparecer, que dulce saber que no se habia ido para siempre. Hasta el dia.. | espera mujer | Richard Russo | |
| 4b47114 | Lest it seem that I was neglected, I should point out that once I became known to the Mohawk Grill crowd, it was like having about two dozen more or less negligent fathers whose slender attentions and vague goodwill nevertheless added up. | Richard Russo | ||
| 0f97e93 | Protection was my strong suit. I needed something to be protected from. I | Richard Russo | ||
| bdcb6d5 | Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who'd been raised to accept life's mysteries--the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman's reasoning, for another. | Richard Russo | ||
| 74afb6f | Here was a wish from another lifetime, granted twenty-five years too late, as if God were in a place so distant that it took almost forever for wishes to travel there, like pale starlight from a distant galaxy, eons old and all worn out even as we look at it. I | Richard Russo | ||
| dd05998 | Is good fiction more likely to be about the air we breathe or the nose we breathe it through? | Richard Russo | ||
| ec10916 | his conviction that he was not put here in this world to learn other people's lessons. He'll accept his punishment because he has no choice, but he'll pass when it comes to the education...If we were capable of learning our lessons we'd become obedient. Sensing this, we're dead set against moral instruction. | Richard Russo | ||
| e889bf7 | It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital truth: most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt. | Richard Russo | ||
| 4bea064 | They turned down the narrow alley that led to the Woohvorth's | Richard Russo | ||
| d3a2c25 | Everywhere that Torah is studied at night one thread-thin ray appears from that hidden light and flows down upon those absorbed in her. --Kabbalah (13th century) | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 3f51d41 | But eating with genuine good appetite is no easy thing when you are seated at the opposite end of a long table from a man who makes it a point of moral significance to subsist on half a grapefruit, eaten in under a minute so that the bowl could be pushed emphatically away, another duty done. | Richard Russo | ||
| 89d9b37 | Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not. | separation | Richard Russo | |
| 363ce7b | Since turning in his resignation, he'd been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He | Richard Russo | ||
| ca309db | old textile mill, which was in the process of being | Richard Russo | ||
| ab23893 | Because--and don't let anybody tell you different--novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. | Richard Russo | ||
| 899ffc8 | She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line. | Richard Russo | ||
| b360b08 | You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. | Richard Russo | ||
| ba7c942 | When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One | Richard Russo | ||
| 00efa4b | I don't now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor | Richard Russo | ||
| f187169 | He looks like he sucked the bottle dry about three in the morning and then stayed awake another hour or two to whistle into it. | Richard Russo |