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| 4c24c11 | Don't you find," he said, "judging from his picture, that his eyes are full of tears and that his lips are sad with a secret sorrow?" | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 65e5973 | Another well-known study, led by Nancy Andreasen, used structured interviews and matched control groups to examine thirty writers at the prestigious University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Eighty percent of the writers met formal criteria for a major mood disorder, compared with thirty percent of controls matched for age, education, and sex. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| fd35645 | One of the basic ideas of the evangelical movement in the early nineteenth century was that people could help themselves. Rather than wonder and fear the fate God decreed for them, they could actively change their lives by renouncing sin and accepting Christ. From this same pool of thought rose a wave of healers who claimed that disease wasn't a product of inscrutable humors that needed to be poisoned or purged from the body, but natural ph.. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 3a31e40 | You," she said, "are the ugliest man I ever saw." Sadly, the man answered, "Perhaps so, but I can't help that." "No," the woman allowed, "but you might stay at home." | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| f379d8b | An argument can be made--a rigorous, persuasive argument--that every good new thing results from a teeming complexity. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 459ac60 | You say you are conservative--eminently conservative--while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by 'our fathers who framed the Government under which we live'; while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old p.. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| e8c424b | In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. | Joshua Wolf Shenk | ||
| 3b0d10b | There's no sinner like a young saint. | Aphra Behn | ||
| 009c671 | Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir. | Aphra Behn | ||
| 089156f | The real point is this: We don't know where to go because we don't know what we are. Do you want to go back to living in a sewer-pipe? And eating other people's garbage? Because that's what rats do. But the fact is, we aren't rats anymore. We are something Dr. Schultz has made. Something new. | jenner rats science | Robert C. O'Brien | |
| 542c725 | Variety is the soul of pleasure. | Aphra Behn | ||
| 14a64a3 | Come away; poverty's catching. | Aphra Behn | ||
| dfe1389 | Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. | Aphra Behn | ||
| a5c1f25 | One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. | Aphra Behn | ||
| 24c136d | A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. | Aphra Behn | ||
| a9e39f1 | The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 1475402 | Never happens. I've spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 0c930bc | It's wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 57e67d9 | The guy walking past was wearing a shit five sizes too big (innovated by gangbangers to hide guns in their waistbands), shorts down below his knees (innovated by surfers to keep their thighs from getting sunburned), and oversized shoes (innovated by skaters to save their feet from injury). | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8fa88f3 | Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima | ignorance knowledge salvation sin | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 0e75480 | The stitches in my forehead itched, loud noises made me jump, and I'd been wearing the same socks for three days in a row. Everyone | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5202de5 | I stayed against the back wall, as far away as I could get. Not just to stay away from the Plague Lady but to be farther away from the weird old dolls that lined the shelves of her office. Real-looking hair sprouted from their crumbling heads and all their faces were painted with smiles. Kids in the old days must have loved nightmares or something. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6eba530 | Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. | beauty | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 0b789d6 | My compliments," Alek said slowly and evenly. "Your contempt was most convincing." "I am your servant." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 543facb | And barking famous, these friends are | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3312186 | Paradigmatica Autorevolezza Extranumerica | Scott Westerfeld | ||
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Aspettate un attimo!>>, esclamo all'improvviso Melissa. < |
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Be', potete anche non crederci, ma la gente si metteva davvero in maschera>>, rispose Rex. <|
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| 4cdf77b | Inattaccabile. Inoppugnabile. Perfettissima. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3084cdb | Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other. | love-quotes | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 13e5a55 | she wasn't so much a writer as a thief. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3f0990a | The word "happy" had started to sound wrong in Darcy's head, like a random collection of Scrabble letters. "What about" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 9fc80a7 | But somehow her satisfaction never lasted very long. She always found herself changing, pushing against the limits and ruining things for everyone around her. "It's not always my fault," she said softly. "Things just get complicated, sometimes." | fault life tally unhappiness | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 846d133 | Your first novel is like your first relationship. You won't really understand the decisions you make until years later." She laughed. "And you'll probably screw up the ending." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| a855e30 | The war will end one day. Wars always do. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| bcc0cc9 | But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along!" Tally laughed. "So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault." | worldview | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 8e5e59d | We all steal," Standerson said. "The trick is to steal from regular people, not other novelists." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5b77705 | Beauty is that Medusa's head Which men go armed to seek and sever. It is most deadly when most dead. And dead will stare and sting forever. --Archibald MacLeish, "Beauty" -- | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b96f9ce | She scanned the captives, looking for Shay and David. The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. It was the cold expressions of the Specials, beautiful though they were, that seemed horrific to her now. A | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8a3d69f | Yeah, you should have seen your face. Actually, I should have seen your face. Stupid sneak suits. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f1b1b6b | Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 62720a5 | Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms. "Deryn" he sobbed. Anything but this." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 522cef2 | and kisses are a better fate than wisdom --e. e. cummings, "since feeling is first" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d58da85 | Darcy didn't want this interruption to last only a year. She wanted to see how long she could stretch this feeling out. To be dizzy with words again, like in that glorious week at the end of last November when everything had fallen into place. Darcy wanted that feeling not just for a year. She wanted it forever. | Scott Westerfeld |