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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d984b52 | Before I came to the city I cut off my hair. It was the first of many fatally symbolic gestures. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 07af84b | The right fist rested on the pommel of his plain long sword, which, contrary to the fashion of the time, had no name. Cromis, whose lips were thin and bloodless, was more possessed by the essential qualities of things than by their names; concerned with the reality of Reality, rather than with the names men give it. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 15f5763 | She has never made up her mind between public acclaim--which she sees, rightly or wrongly, as destructive of the true artistic impulse--and obscurity, for which she is not temperamentally fitted. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 11c824c | Mr Ambrayses nodded. "Two explanations are commonly offered for this," he said: | insects viriconium | M. John HarrisonHarrison | |
| 0f74473 | People try to help, but all they have to work with is their theory of you. In the end they're talking to themselves. | M. John Harrison | ||
| e920527 | Some internal process held him rapt. He had begun, perhaps, to map the paths inside himself which led to the Past. This gave him an absentminded air, and an irritable one, as if by our presence we interrupted some private conversation--although had anyone suggested this he would have rejected it angrily. Attempting to live simultaneously in two worlds, he rode moodily ahead and seemed to see nothing--head bowed into rain, blood-red armour p.. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 4562a8f | He was, and always had been, the repository of more fears than hopes. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 78c0525 | went to the White House and got the President out of bed. Carey and President Harrison were said to be old Senate friends, and no one was present at this session to speak for Johnson County. Quickly convinced of the necessity for immediate action, Harrison ordered a telegram send to General John R. Brooke in Omaha shortly after 11:00 P.M.4 At 11:05 P.M. the president wired Governor Barber that "in compliance with your call for the aid of th.. | John W. Davis | ||
| 40173fa | The true detective [...] starts in the center of the maze. Crimes make their way through to him. Never forget: you uncover your heart at the heart of it. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 118a0a7 | At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 611bac2 | He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword. He tried to smash a crystal window with its hilt. The corridor oppressed him. Beyond the windows, the dead brains drifted. He ran on. 'You should have done it,'whispered Birkin Grif in the soft spaces of his skull; and, 'OUROBUNDOS!'giggled the insane door, as he fell through it and in to the desert wind. His cloak cracking.. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 7e75a9f | The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, 'Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. | identity negotiable prison | M. John Harrison | |
| 2880326 | Of course it's bound to cause a great deal of very disagreeable talk. Especially 'round the church! Are you gentlemen Episcopalian? PORTER: No, ma'am. Catholic, Miss Collins. MISS COLLINS: Oh. Well, I suppose you know in England we're known as the English Catholic church. We have direct Apostolic succession through St. Paul who christened the Early Angles--which is what the original English people were called--and established the English br.. | Tennessee Williams | ||
| 6b2c725 | How can we expect that the illiterate and benighted child of want will remain faithful . . . when he in whose breast the lamp of science brightly burns is found derelict? | Paul Collins | ||
| 33ffa25 | William pondered what his next discovery might be. He knew that readers were vexed by the possibility that their Bard might have been Catholic. There is, after all, that suspicious reference to Purgatory by the ghost of Hamlet's father. In an era when anti-Catholic legislation was favorably viewed by many, such papist skullduggery was improper in a national literary hero. And so, on Christmas Day of 1794, William presented his nation with a.. | Paul Collins | ||
| 48adf52 | In 1999, Emily Rosa published her paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was titled "A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch." Unlike Mehmet Oz, Rosa wasn't a cardiovascular surgeon. In fact, she had never graduated from medical school. Or college. Or high school. Or elementary school. When it came time to write her paper, she had asked her mother, a nurse, to help. That's because Emily was only nine years old. Her experimen.. | Paul A. Offit | ||
| 7182f09 | Lord, I'm probably not mature enough to ride a motorcycle. Or vote. Or marry. Or make assumptions about neighbors from an unfamiliar block. I am a petulant child. In the words of Saint Paul, it's time to put away my childish things, like reasonless rage, and enjoy the grace of a random act of kindness. --Mark Collins | Guideposts | ||
| 5a5d469 | First, the ambiguity of the genitive "of/about Jesus Christ" (Iesou Christou) is best left as just that. Commentators disagree on whether this is a subjective or objective genitive. The rich flexibility of the genitive here likely accommodates both the sense of a Gospel about Jesus Christ (so a heading over the book) and the gospel from or by Jesus Christ, that is, the message of the good news about God's kingdom that has come from and thro.. | Jonathan T. Pennington | ||
| 8f32762 | I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover." | Paul Collins | ||
| f6e37be | It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater part of humanity that is the common lot. We may, in fact, divide our fellow-creatures into two branches - those who read books and those who do not. | Paul Collins | ||
| 8df1a0e | went off during Sunday school. Addie Mae Collins's sister, Sarah, had to have an eye removed, and another girl was blinded. In the unrest that followed the bombing, two other African American children died. Sixteen-year-old Johnny Robinson was shot to death by police, and thirteen-year-old Virgil Wade was murdered by two white boys. Although these may be nothing more than names in a book to you now, you must remember that these children wer.. | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 97f8287 | My dinosaurs weren't even in their graves for three hours before someone rolled their rocks away. Maybe it was a lot easier for a bunch of angels to get a million dinosaurs to heaven than it was to get the saver of the whole world there, but I wished they'd given me a couple more hours. | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 33ec822 | When I left her office, I felt like she'd gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut to the jaw, picked me up, brushed me off again, then kicked me in the seat of my pants as she handed me a piece of cake and showed me the door. Being a reporter isn't as easy as it looks. | reporters | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| 5e9e38b | She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| 2d0dd8d | Como en casi todos los temas que me apasionan, no tengo nada particular que decir. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| c1caede | 7] The Shadows Code In the 1930's a mysterious crime-fighter called the Shadow was the hero of a popular pulp magazine and an even more popular radio show. Dressed all in black, the Shadow could glide unseen through the darkness to battle the forces of evil. Stories about the Shadow, written by Maxwell Grant (pseudonym for the Shadow's creator, Walter B. Gibson), often contained curious codes. This cipher, from a novelette called The Chain .. | Martin Gardner | ||
| 71624b8 | XXII | Martin Gardner | ||
| 3541045 | At St. John's College, Annapolis, where Robert Hutchins' educational views have been most successfully practiced, they make, it is true, a great hubbub about science. The school's catalog boasts that more mathematics and laboratory work are required than at any other college, and there is even a pretentious listing of all pieces of apparatus used by the student, down to such items as compass, calipers, and ruler. But so heavy is the emphasi.. | Martin Gardner | ||
| 184d846 | The Polybius Checkerboard Polybius was an ancient Greek writer who first proposed a method of substituting different two-digit numbers for each letter. The alphabet is written inside a 5-by-5 square matrix which has numbered rows and columns: | Martin Gardner | ||
| c99af48 | Reflexione entonces en la cada vez mas complicada relacion entre los hombres y los animales. En las premisas actuales. En los deberes que se tienen que cumplir en estos tiempos. En preceptos que algunos anos atras nos hubieran parecido inimaginables. Por ejemplo, en el hecho de adoptar animales y no comprarlos como era lo habitual. El de esterilizar tanto a las hembras como a los machos. Olvidar por completo mutilarlos inutilmente --orejas.. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| 7032dc3 | En los hospitales los trataban con desprecio. Muchas veces no querian recibirlos. Fue entonces cuando me nacio cierta compasion y comence a recoger a alguna que otra victima. Tal vez de esa manera se fue formando este Moridero que tengo la desgracia de regentar. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| 9a1eed3 | But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her. Remember that! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c60cf51 | love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 500fbb1 | You laugh like a little child, but you think like a martyr. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 50ee460 | What would become of him if the church punished him with her excommunication as the direct consequence of the secular law? There could be no more terrible despair, at least for a Russian criminal, for Russian criminals still have faith. Though, who knows, perhaps then a fearful thing would happen, perhaps the despairing heart of the criminal would lose its faith and then what would become of him? But the church, like a tender, loving mother.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c3100d4 | For sin is sweet; all abuse it, but all men live in it, only others do it on the sly, and I openly. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c8b1f97 | We are not particularly afraid,' said he, 'of all these socialists, anarchists, infidels, and revolutionists; we keep watch on them and know all their goings on. But there are a few peculiar men among them who believe in God and are Christians, but at the same time are socialists. Those are the people we are most afraid of. They are dreadful people! The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 54bfdec | What terrible tragedies people suffer through realism! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6f9ad89 | The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. I've | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 249a61e | Young man, be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, "Lord, have mercy on all who appear before thee today." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d504096 | Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e0ee10c | bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea-.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6933464 | Look how our young people commit suicide, without asking themselves Hamlet's question what there is beyond, without a sign of such a question, as though all that relates to the soul and to what awaits us beyond the grave had long been erased in their minds and buried under the sands. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| faa063d | Suffering is life. | life suffering | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |