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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ae39f2 | In an ideal world the gossip of the idle would be of no consequence. But I have seen the consequences in the real world and they can be very grave indeed. | gossip | Cormac McCarthy | |
| cf8ac17 | You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 81dfb73 | Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f496b8b | Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 99227e2 | In the novel All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy writes that the body's scars have the capacity to remind us that our past is real. It is an ancient practice among friends and lovers to study and compare scars, because they provide clear physical evidence of past events, and establish a link between then and now. | Svend Brinkmann | ||
| 1f910b4 | People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f91586a | They have a long life, dreams. I have dreams now which I had as a young girl. They have an odd durability for something not quite real." "Do you think they mean anything?" She looked surprised. "Oh yes," she said. "Dont you?" "Well. I dont know. They're in your head." She smiled again. "I suppose I dont consider that to be the condemnation you do." | unreality | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 0f2ad29 | The drought didnt know when the last one was and nobody knew when the next one was coming. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 2db7a57 | The Sabbath had passed and in the gray Monday dawn a procession of schoolchildren dressed in blue uniforms all alike were being led along the gritty walkway. The woman had stepped from the curb to take them across at the intersection when she saw the man coming up the street all dark with blood bearing in his arms the dead body of a friend. She held up her hand and the children stopped and huddled with their books at their breasts. He passe.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 8383f62 | It just sounds like superstition to me. And what is that? Superstition? Yes. Well. I guess it's when you believe in things that dont exist. Such as tomorrow? Or yesterday? Such as the dreams of somebody you dreamt. Yesterday was here and tomorrow's comin. | superstition tomorrow yesterday | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 0cbe4da | He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| d18f2a6 | The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 657a112 | Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| a988520 | I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid. | smaller-things | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 9b11a92 | Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden. | Joseph H. Hertz | ||
| 20e87cc | The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments | disappointments wrong-turnings | Cormac McCarthy | |
| e63cc93 | The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist's pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter. | Pete McCarthy | ||
| 18b194c | Wherever you go in the world, there will be people to tell you it'll be bigger, stranger, better, more authentic if you take the time to go somewhere else instead; but if you are there, you won't be here. You can only be at one place at a time, and sleep in one bed each night. Sometimes it's good to know where you are when you wake up. | Pete McCarthy | ||
| f119021 | I find my grandfather, buried with Great-Aunt Hannah and Uncle Jack. His surname is spelled 'MacCarthy', with an extra 'a'; like many names here, it's a translation from the Irish, so the 'a' is optional, and may appear and disappear with the generations. | Pete McCarthy | ||
| e6f0e8c | Your heart doesn't flutter like that of a fourteen-year-old girl's when you aren't fourteen anymore. | Mike Greenberg | ||
| aa766e5 | was described to me as "emerald green," but that is underselling: it was far richer than that, more vivid, a color so intense I could almost taste it. I could certainly feel it. You know a color has moved you when to see it is only the beginning of the experience." | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 26cb56c | What makes life worth living is all the wonderful things that could happen to you. | Mike Greenberg | ||
| f8c581b | differently | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 5944121 | All I have is right now. I have all that I want, and no one can promise me I'll have it forever no matter what I do, so I'm going to live it, love it, treasure it, for every second I can, and whatever comes next I'm prepared for it. | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 3ac99e6 | The only permanent thing is impermanence. This was what I came up understand right then, right there, with the sun on my cheeks and the champagne on my lips. The notion that you could actually know what you want for the rest of your life is illogical and unreasonable. The best you can do is figure out what you want for lunch. | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 3d5300c | May I be filled with loving-kindness May I be well May I be peaceful and at ease May I be happy | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 2f29ae3 | KILLER BEE IS made with two tablespoons of honey, orange juice, club soda, passion fruit juice, black pepper, lime, and a healthy portion of light rum. The first sip is an explosion. After that | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 3660128 | What makes life worth living is what is happening right now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, right now. | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 6994ee9 | We, as a people,will leave only one mark on this planet long after our time, and that mark will be the sum total of all the decisions we make. | Mike Greenberg | ||
| 481770b | Men of all lands and climes are brothers. | Joseph H. Hertz | ||
| 5203eb8 | If I fail all the time, it must be that I think of myself as a failure. If I do not want to think of myself as a failure, perhaps I should begin by succeeding now and again. Look. The tests, you see, which you encounter, in school, in college, in life, were designed, in the most part, for idiots. By idiots. There is no need to fail at them. They are not a test of your worth. They are a test of your ability to retain and spout back misinform.. | David Mamet | ||
| f5b11f8 | Somebody told you, and you hold it as an article of faith, that higher education is an unassailable good. This notion is so dear to you that when I question it you become angry. Good. Good, I say. Are not those the very things which we should question? I say college education, since the war, has become so a matter of course, and such a fashionable necessity, for those either of or aspiring to to the new vast middle class, that we espouse it.. | David Mamet | ||
| 1bc79e0 | That men prove their manhood in the eyes of other men is both a consequence of sexism and one of its chief props. "Women have, in men's minds, such a low place on the social ladder of this country that it's useless to define yourself in terms of a woman," noted playwright David Mamet. "What men need is men's approval." Women become a kind of currency that men use to improve their ranking on the masculine social scale." | Michael S. Kimmel | ||
| 3980494 | David Mamet's film House of Games is a wonderful exploration of cons and con artists that shows forced teaming at work. | Gavin de Becker | ||
| df4e295 | reason. | David Mamet | ||
| a2b9a23 | What gives you the right. Yes. To speak to a woman in your private ... Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You feel yourself empowered ... you say so yourself. To strut. To posture. To "perform." To "Call me in here ..." Eh? You say that higher education is a joke. And treat it as such, you treat it as such. And confess to a taste to play the Patriarch in your class. To grant this. To deny that. To embrace your students." | David Mamet | ||
| e6843d5 | the Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her "accomplishment," but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we like it, but we leave the theatre moved only by our capacity to be moved." | David Mamet | ||
| abaf07e | Fuck you. | David Mamet | ||
| dd1f75b | In April 2013, Pulitzer Prize winning author David Mamet announced his decision to self-publish "because publishing is like Hollywood - nobody ever does the marketing they promise." | J.F. Penn | ||
| 534e5ea | I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner. | Albert Kesselring | ||
| 198b823 | CHARLES: I believe that any professional bears the shame of the questionable worth of his ministrations. I know of my racket what you know of yours: that, for the most part, we are paid for the ability to keep a straight face. While accomplishing little or nothing. | David Mamet | ||
| a0915fd | Richard wanted to take me to all the town's secret places, the nooks only the locals knew about. Places where people meet to screw or smoke dope, where teens drink, or folks go to sit by themselves and decide where their lives had unraveled. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails. | unraveling | Gillian Flynn | |
| 73efba8 | What does an administrative assistant do? I wondered. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 139d27d | such: From the first morning after the move, when she | Gillian Flynn |