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| e68870b | Each of us remains convinced that our own subjective viewpoint is more urgent than anyone else's--indeed, even more valid than the objective matrix that underlies so-called reality. After all, the subjective view is a grand theater. Each of us gets to be hero of an ongoing drama. It's why ideologies and bigotries survive against all evidence or logic. | David Brin | ||
| 3050915 | Oh, subjective obstinacy had advantages, Morris, when we were busy evolving into nature's champion egotists. It led to human mastery over the planet ... and several times to our species nearly wiping itself out. | David Brin | ||
| 4489fcf | The variety of inventive ideas--and ideologies--that people can come up with never ceases to amaze me, especially when they're stoked by the ultimate drug, self-righteousness. | David Brin | ||
| 1c70882 | d'un homme qui a perdu tout ce qu'il aimait et qui, depuis, n'est plus tout a fait de ce monde. | David Brin | ||
| 39339ac | Concepts that had eluded him because they could not be shaped with images and feelings alone, but needed the rich subtlety of abstract language to shape and anchor them with a webbery of symbols. | David Brin | ||
| dee37fd | Clearly, in this world, you were a fool to count on beneficence from above. | David Brin | ||
| 0b8d19a | Alex hadn't been clubbing in several years. After he and Lydia moved in together, the clubs lost their appeal. Now he felt the return of the old thrill, the anticipation of the hunt--the sense that the night held secrets bound to be unveiled before it was over. Tasha was talking about someone in New York whom Alex was supposed to know. "The last time I saw him, he just kept banging his head against the wall, and I said to him, 'Michael, you.. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 4ecc9cf | When the train begins to move they return to their Posts and their private sorrows. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 2f41abb | Go Home. Cut your losses. Stay. Go for it. You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy. All these voices waving their arms and screaming at one another. | humor indecision italy mind | Jay McInerney | |
| 4b31560 | And as he feels himself falling asleep he has an insight he believes is important, which he hopes he will remember in the morning, although it is one of those thoughts that seldom survive translation to the language of daylight hours | Jay McInerney | ||
| 83331bb | Three months later--a Jewish girl having in the meantime explained the fundamentals of kosher dining--he returned to the B & H Dairy Bar, and when, finally, the old man asked him if he'd ever been in a restaurant, Jeff answered, "I don't know--you ever worked in one?" After that he was a New Yorker. Cruising" | Jay McInerney | ||
| a029c6a | The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two a.m. changes to six a.m. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 62150f8 | Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 69a2733 | hate being alone, but when I wake up in some guy's bed with dry come on the sheets underneath me and he's snoring like a garbage truck, I go, let me out of here. I slip out and crawl around the floor groping for my clothes, trying to untangle his blue jeans from mine, my bra from his Jockeys--Skip wears boxers, of course--and trying to be quiet at the same time, then slide out the door laughing like a seal escaping from the zoo and race hom.. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 79f881c | It's amazing what human beings get accustomed to--how quickly the bizarre, the absurd and the perverse can become routine. People have become accustomed to torture, or so I've read, bonded with their tormentors, the wielders of pliers and electricity. It happens gradually. Maybe one day you get high with another couple and there's a certain amount of joking and talk, and the next thing you know, the guy's making out with your wife and you'r.. | Jay McInerney | ||
| fe59cec | You have always wanted to be a writer. Getting the job at the magazine was only your first step toward literacy celebrity. You used to write what you believed to be urbane sketches infinitely superior to those appearing in the magazine every week. You sent them up to Fiction; they came back with polite notes. "Not quite right for us now, but thanks for letting us see this." You would try to interpret the notes: what about the word now-do th.. | writing | Jay McInerney | |
| 8b6b694 | Semmihez sincs igazan kedved, mignem felmerul benned az iras gondolata. A gyotrodes allitolag az iras nyersanyaga. Irhatnal egy konyvet. Ugy erzed, csak ossze kellene szedned magad, hogy leulj az irogephez, es formaba tudnad rendezni mindazt, ami most ertelmetlen tragediak puszta lancreakciojanak tunik. Vagy bosszut allhatnal, a te szemszogedbol adhatnad elo a tortenetet, a megsebzett hos szerepet alakithatnad. Hamlet a var fokan. Esetleg t.. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 7e2c9b3 | Gyermekkorodban, ahogy nottel, ugy erosodott benned a gyanu, hogy mindenki mas be van avatva valami alapveto titokba, mely elotted zarva maradt. A tobbiek mind tudtak, hogy mit csinalnak. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 62af025 | A fejukben ez jar: Velem is megtortenhet?, es te szeretned megnyugtatni oket, hogy ez csakis a te hibad. Probaljak magukat a borodbe kepzelni, csakhogy ez fogos feladat. Tegnap este Vicky a belso elmeny megoszthatatlansagarol beszelt. Kepzeld el, milyen lehet denevernek lenni, mondta. Meg ha tudod is, mi az a radar es hogyan mukodik, akkor sem tudhatod meg soha, milyen erzes radarral latni vagy kicsi, szoros lenykent fejjel lefele logni egy.. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 5cb0cb3 | Van bizonyos szakadt meltosag a maganyos bukasban. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 0a57088 | Az elet nem all meg, az emberek valtoznak", mondta Amanda. Ot ez tokeletesen kielegitette. Te magyarazatot akartal, szep kerek befejezest, a felelosseg megallapitasaval, es jogos igazsagszolgaltatassal. Fejedben megfordult a bosszu es megfordult a kibekules gondolata. S lam, mindebbol nem maradt egyeb, mint a sejtelem, hogy az eleted ugy valik semmive mogotted, akar egy konyv, melyet tul gyorsan futottal at, s melynek nyomaban csak egy szet.. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 3f1a8c4 | Egy magankonyvtar a jellemanalizis kincsesbanyaja. | Jay McInerney | ||
| e239798 | Lassan kell jarnod. Ujra kell tanulnod mindent. | Jay McInerney | ||
| b767ac3 | He belonged to the new breed of male epicureans who viewed cooking as a competitive sport, and pursued it with the same avidity that others had for fly-fishing or golf, with the attendant fetishization of the associated gadgetry and equipment. He | Jay McInerney | ||
| bf5375c | The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong. | tripping | Jay McInerney | |
| eab271e | they'd followed their best instincts and based their lives on the premise that money couldn't buy happiness, learning only gradually the many varieties of unhappiness it might have staved off. Russell | Jay McInerney | ||
| aad0420 | Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede. | social-interaction | Jay McInerney | |
| 9958868 | The bald girl i emblematic of the problem. The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. When you meet her you are going to tell her that what you really want is a house in the country with a a garden. New York, the club scene, bald women - you're tired of all that. Your presence here is only a matter of conducting a.. | city-life connection-with-people meeting-people | Jay McInerney | |
| 1690ff6 | The bald girl is emblematic of the problem. The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. When you meet her you are going to tell her that what you really want is a house in the country with a a garden. New York, the club scene, bald women - you're tired of all that. Your presence here is only a matter of conducting .. | city-life connections-with-people meeting-people | Jay McInerney | |
| 836c02a | Just outside the door you spot her: tall, dark and alone, half hidden behind a pillar on the edge of the dance floor. You approach laterally, moving your stuff like a Bad Spade through the slalom of a synthesized conga rhytm. She jumps when you touch her shoulder. "Dance?" She looks at you as if you had just suggested instrumental rape. "I do not speak English," she says, when you ask again. "Francais?" She shakes her head. Why is she looki.. | Jay McInerney | ||
| cf95bc3 | For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in the other room. Then your night life started getting more interesting and complicated, and climbing out of bed became harder and harder. You were gathering experience for a novel. You went to parties with writers, cultivated a writerly persona. You wanted to be Dylan Thomas without the paunch. F. Scott Fitzgerald without the crack-up. .. | writing | Jay McInerney | |
| 70fd3fa | Rosania says. "To keep them to myself would be unimaginable. Wine is meant to be shared." It's a refreshing attitude, particularly if you are on the receiving end of it. The night before the auction I personally consumed, by my best estimate, over $20,000 worth of his wine--including the 1945 Mouton and the 1947 Cheval Blanc--and I was one of fourteen drinkers." | Jay McInerney | ||
| 80eeaa2 | I don't care what people think about me if they don't let me see it." | Anne of Avonlea | ||
| bf1c126 | slh bharmy z rh nmyrsnd blkhh ywrsh myawrnd, w chwn Twfny z dr byrwn myrwnd w wyrny bhjy mygdhrnd. | Colum McCann | ||
| 99eea42 | He says to us something about being hungry and how he met his wife when he was hungry and then they crossed some border together into Austria and then she died. | Colum McCann | ||
| 5afb2bc | mrsm tdfyn bhmthbh ykhy z shkhShhy zndgy st, mlkhy bry tshkhyS ynkhh ykh nfr chTwr zndgy khrdh st. | Colum McCann | ||
| a592a8e | I know my own heart to be entirely English. | Anne of Great Britain | ||
| 7b3c4f6 | And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough. | world | Colum McCann | |
| c45fd5b | She lasted three months, then passed on a September day when everything seemed split open with sunlight. | mother sun | Colum McCann | |
| af0654a | She was tall, exotic, so very young she seemed to flutter. | woman | Colum McCann | |
| ef66136 | My father had been silent most of the time. He kissed my cheek. He told me that not many people were ordering hand-painted signs anymore, that they were all going neon, but if he had one sign he could put on the world he would say that he was Gloria's father. | Colum McCann | ||
| a02d370 | the way he spoke was magical, but after a while even his voice began to grate and he began to remind me of the colors of the walls in the hotel rooms in which he stayed... | Colum McCann | ||
| 26cc57e | I remember thinking that they went like lovers. They could not survive without each other. It was like they had spent their lives breathing each other's breath. | Colum McCann | ||
| e0f6746 | Besides, I loved the sound of the gallop. On mornings, before the races, I would walk down among the stalls and breathe in all the scents of the hay and the soap and the saddle leather. | Colum McCann |