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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6e9e54c | not just every object but the whole culturally experienced world is an 'achievement' of what he terms 'anonymous' or 'functioning subjectivity'. | Dermot Moran | ||
| 0775d8d | As a Freudian, I'm not supposed to use words like evil; my business is with instinct, memory, and desire. Nevertheless, I've been wondering, lately, whether evil might exist. If it does, I've been thinking, it might be like what Freud called the navel of the dream, the place where all the lines of meaning the analyst has so carefully traced through the patient's life vanish into the unknown. But where the navel of the dream is essentially h.. | evil freudian | Paul La Farge | |
| 51dd7c4 | Still writing tales?" he said. I told him yes and he nodded once, returning his attention to the snake. Very few of the boys I grew up with had finished high school, but they accepted that I was a writer. I was merely doing what other men did--following in my father's footsteps. Sonny was a plumber. The son of a local drunk was the town drunk in two towns. Sons of soldiers joined the army. That I had become a writer was perfectly normal." | Chris Offutt | ||
| ddbd2a4 | The desktop held a patina of hieroglyphs representing years of student boredom--names and initials gouged into the wood, blackened by grime and pencil, shellacked over, then cobwebbed again with another generation's imprint. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 576abc0 | Time piles up like brush. You burn it in the fall and all you remember are the glowing cinders. I got ash heaps everywhere I look. -Old of the Moon | Chris Offutt | ||
| cea306d | Most grandiose gestures are suspect--the couple who renew their vows just before divorce or the politician who publicly swears he's clean, then enters rehab. Building | Chris Offutt | ||
| 755782b | Books offered the promise of a world in which misfits like me could flourish. Within | Chris Offutt | ||
| 33e4c79 | If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found that I have the wrong verb so I'm attempting to cheat and modify the wrong verb by using an adverb. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 7ae31ff | At the time I wasn't even sure what she meant--what does anyone do? We mark time until we die. She was still waiting for an answer. My roommate filled the silence. "He's a writer," he said. "Oh," she said. "What does he write about?" "His dick." She gave me a sharp look and said, "That sounds like pornography." "No," my roommate said. "If he writes about other people's dicks, it's porn. But if it's his own, it's art." | Chris Offutt | ||
| 9756d79 | He left and I wished I could go somewhere and start all over, which is how I've felt all my life. As soon as I get somewhere, I'm ready to leave. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 7ef1d15 | When I couldn't see the land out there, I forgot I wasn't at home. Sometimes I wished it was always night. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 5226e46 | My car contained guns, bundles of cash I'd found hidden about the house, and boxes of vintage pornography. If I got pulled over and searched, I'd probably go to jail. If I had a wreck, money and porn would litter the interstate, mixed with my funeral suit, my grandfather's rifle, a shotgun, three hundred rounds of ammunition, the remnants of my father's ashes, and whatever was left of me. | Chris Offutt | ||
| ad4d7a2 | Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich with mountain culture, didn't provide what I needed--the promise of adventure, a life beyond the perimeter of hills. I often fantasized that I'd been adopted and had mysterious powers such as flying or teleportation. Books offered the promise of a world in which misfits like me could flourish. Within the pages of a .. | memoir science-fiction | Chris Offutt | |
| 2c65fe2 | Vaughn nodded. Lije steaded himself and looked into the woods. "Never could abide no roof." "Ours ain't the best," Vaughn said. "Leaks come spring." Lije pointed at Venus faint above the distant ridge. "only roof-hole I ever did crave." "Evening star ain't a hole." "Then how's that light get through?" | Chris Offutt | ||
| cace325 | The state called it recidivism, but as the old cons said, Baker was doing life on the installment plan. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 7e76afe | I'd forced myself to interact with so much pornography, I no longer regarded my wife in a sexual manner. Each time I tried, my mind filled with images of fetish porn. I could admire her dress, legs and hips, but the response was aesthetic and intellectual, as if studying art I couldn't afford. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 1bf5fa7 | He demanded to know what I could learn from him, since my subject matter of Kentucky was unfathomably different from his--wealthy people on the East Coast. I became angry. Here was one more older man presenting himself as an obstacle. | Chris Offutt | ||
| e8a1099 | And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, 'So you've come to demonstrate that it was all, after all, autobiographical. | Tim Parks | ||
| f968905 | Thandiwe, when they come for you, do not scream. Do not plead. Do not cry, for your cries are but song to them. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| f131326 | You deserved so much more, little flower. You deserved a Wakanda that cherished you." "But this is the Wakanda we have. And while the Midnight Angels breathe, I swear to you... they shall all pay." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 853f704 | Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Victoria Finlay | ||
| af217a0 | The day after I became king, S'yan offered a single piece of wisdom. 'Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.' This was profound. For it meant that the majesty of kings lay in their mystique... not in their might. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| b5be69f | You're very quiet," Benedict said softly. "I was just thinking." "About?" "About what I'd miss-- and what I wouldn't miss-- should my life drastically change." His eyes grew intense. "And do you expect it to drastically change?" She shook her head and tried to keep the sadness out of her voice when she answered, "No." His voice grew so quiet it was almost a whisper. "Do you want it to change?" "Yes," she sighed, before she could stop.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| d29ec1e | Your upbringing must have been the complete opposite of lonely," she said, "with so many brothers and sisters about." "You know who I am," he stated. She nodded. "I didn't at first." He walked over to the balustrade and leaned one hip against it, crossing his arms. "What gave me away?" "It was your brother, actually. You looked so alike--" "Even with our masks?" "Even with your masks," she said with an indulgent smile. "Lady Whistledo.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| c7ff274 | Do you here?" Sophie asked dryly. "No," he said, plopping down into the chair next to her, "although my mother is constantly telling me to make myself right at home." She could think of no witty rejoinder, so she merely "hmmphed" and stuck her nose back in her book. He plunked his feet on the small table in front. "And what are we reading today?" "That question," she said, snapping the book shut but leaving her finger in to mark her p.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 446137e | What are you up to?" she asked. "Why would you think I'm up to anything?" Her lips pursed before she said, "You wouldn't be you if you weren't up to something." He smiled at that. "I do believe that was a compliment." "It wasn't necessarily intended as such." "But nonetheless," he said mildly, "that's how I choose to take it." -Sophie & Benedict" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 8b14b1e | She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of salt on her skin-- she was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her. -Benedict's thoughts about Sophie | benedicts-thoughts-about-sophie sophie swoon | Julia Quinn | |
| 990748e | The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles. | Angus Young | ||
| bf66d4b | I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| e02c8bc | In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| b23f943 | Still, at its heart the Rwandan story is the story of the failure of humanity to heed a call for help from an endangered people. The international community, of which the UN is only a symbol, failed to move beyond self-interest for the sake of Rwanda. While most nations agreed that something should be done they all had an excuses why they should not be the ones to do it. As a result, the UN was denied the political will and material mean to.. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| cba0efd | I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| f01d31a | Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| 5da743a | Still, I did not regret for a moment leaving the bright lights of Manhattan behind in favour of night skies so dark the stars seemed close enough to be street lights. In the recycled cabin air of the long flight back, I physically longed for Rwanda, its rich red earth, the smell of its wood fires and its vibrant humanity. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| 1478ed3 | The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like myself, like my family, with every right and expectation of any human who is a member of our tortured race. I was determined to persevere. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| f4c42a6 | I am still praying for revolution. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| 9720c03 | Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| ecf285c | Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| 1879185 | However, Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general in charge of the UN peacekeepers, refused to obey his orders to leave and remained with a couple hundred soldiers. He was a brave and moral man, but he was also alone in a sea of killers. We heard him often on the radio begging for someone, anyone, to send troops to Rwanda to stop the slaughter, but no one listened to him. Belgium, our country's former colonial ruler, had been the first to pull .. | Immaculée Ilibagiza | ||
| c382fd3 | I am writing graffiti on your body.I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| 94fff36 | I wish he'd told me not just of the power of kings, but of the might of the people. I wish he'd warned me that they, too, have secrets. They, too, have mysteries. They, too, possess a power of their own. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 252126d | Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| 9286dd8 | My country tis of thee,To take swings at each other on talk-show TV. | Ani DiFranco | ||
| 2042df3 | She turned, pasting a brilliant smile on her face. She was going to charm this man until - until - well, until he was charmed. She opened her mouth to slay him with something utterly witty and sophisticated, but before she could form even a sound, he leaned in closer, his eyes warm and dangerous, and said, "I find myself unbearably curious about that smile." She blinked. If she didn't know better, she'd think that he was trying to charm her.. | Julia Quinn |