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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3993329 | We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. | Ariel Levy | ||
| a98dfa5 | I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a popular little girl. | Ariel Levy | ||
| df2698e | chest--I could hear him denigrating Obama at the top of his lungs, which seemed to make Mary only slightly less uncomfortable than it made me. A few weeks before the trip, she said, when she was in the shower, seething about something he'd done, the words I chose him for you came up on the holy computer screen in her mind. What | Ariel Levy | ||
| 76df19c | She said, "Everything happens for a reason." Technically, that is a statement of fact. The reason I was talking to that woman was that she was friends with David. The reason she was friends with David was that he'd moved to the suburbs, where he didn't know anyone. The reason he didn't know anyone was that his best friends (his real friends) had grown up with him in those same suburbs and vowed never to return, because even though Westchest.. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 77004d2 | In writing you can always change the ending or delete a chapter that isn't working. Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable. | grief memoir | Ariel Levy | |
| 10e8c9b | Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a5717b6 | All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone. | Ariel Levy | ||
| b572441 | It satisfied the edict my mother had issued many times throughout my life: "You have to make your own living; you never want to be dependent on a man." | Ariel Levy | ||
| aefbace | My competent self is doing the talking; my bewildered self is being addressed. | Ariel Levy | ||
| a3e2a0d | I asked if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." | Ariel Levy | ||
| 207db70 | But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right. I | Ariel Levy | ||
| b565527 | Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and--necessarily--that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work. | Ariel Levy | ||
| e7475cb | It's just a place, not another state of being. | travel-as-escape | Ariel Levy | |
| 4d964c3 | We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers, we want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, cosiness and thrills, but we can't have it all. | immaturity | Ariel Levy | |
| bcf7cd3 | New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish "women's work" from real careers." | Ariel Levy | ||
| 232c78f | The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 5253bb8 | I was standing in the shower the other day, picking up my shampoo," she said. "It's called 'Dumb Blonde.' I thought, Thirty years ago you could not have sold this. I think we have lost consciousness of the way our culture demeans women." | Ariel Levy | ||
| 4aed9b1 | I got married a few years later--we all did. As we reached our thirtieth birthdays, my friends and I were like kernels of popcorn exploding in a pot: First one, then another, and pretty soon we were all bursting into matrimony. There were several years of peace, but then the pregnancies started popping. I found this unsettling. | Ariel Levy | ||
| e61012b | There was a corresponding orbit of moods this obligatory food preparation induced in my mother: no-nonsense competence, spunky pride, and seething resentment. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 58c5a07 | People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it. But it has exploded. | Ariel Levy | ||
| ebe82e1 | To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. | Ariel Levy | ||
| ba30fc1 | Writing was the solution to every problem. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 81f3c2d | Objectification is rooted in disrespect, condescending views of the opposite gender, and power struggles. When men realize that they have the capability to fundamentally respect women, and women realize that they have the power to present themselves as empowered, fully capable people, raunch culture may moan its last and final faked orgasm. | patriarchy sexism | Ariel Levy | |
| 5a34864 | We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted. | Ariel Levy | ||
| 081eadc | What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens? | Ann Leckie | ||
| 33c5633 | We have a saying where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness. | Ann Leckie | ||
| 75c0b11 | If you confess your sins, you must confess them to God; we are but his witnesses. | Ann Lee | ||
| acb0250 | Put your hands to work and give your hearts to God. | Ann Lee | ||
| aeadc1d | Be diligent with your hands, for godliness does not lead to idleness. | Ann Lee | ||
| 171a2d2 | Pero el conocimiento no te protege. La vida desprecia el conocimiento, lo obliga a esperar sentado en la antesala, a esperar fuera. Pasion, energia, mentiras: eso es lo que la vida admira. No obstante, todo es soportable si la humanidad entera observa. Lo demuestran los martires. Vivimos dentro de la atencion ajena. Nos volvemos hacia ella como flores hacia el sol. No hay una vida completa. Hay solo fragmentos. Hemos nacido para no tener na.. | James Salter | ||
| d24c031 | Lines that seemed unconnected gradually becomes part of a confession that had at its center rooms in the burning heat of August, where something has taken place, clearly sexual, but it is also the vacant streets of rural Texas, roads, forgotten friends, the slap of hands of rifle slings and forked pennants limp at parades. There are condoms, sun-faded cars, soiled menus with misspellings, a kind of pyre on which he had laid his life. That w.. | James Salter | ||
| b206478 | I am going to describe her life from the inside outward, from its core, the house as well, rooms in which life was gathered, rooms in which the morning sunlight, the floors spread with Oriental rugs that had been her mother-in-law's, apricot, rough and tan, rugs which though worn seemed to drink the sun, to collect its warmth; books, potpourris, cushions in colors of Matisse, objects glistening like evidence, many which might had they been .. | James Salter | ||
| 2bfa834 | He knew all the constellations. He had seen them rise in darkness over heartbreaking coasts. | James Salter | ||
| ad09a6f | The need to fear such things was ended | James Salter | ||
| 0067f8d | A veces uno es consciente de cuando estan produciendose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas." James Salter, Quemar los dias" | David Nicholls | ||
| 3da9ca9 | Gertrude Stein, when asked why she wrote, replied 'For praise..' Lorca said he wrote to be loved. Faulkner said a writer wrote for glory. I may at times have written for those reasons, it's hard to know. Overall I write because I see the world in a certain way that no dialogue or series of them can begin to describe, that no book can fully render, though the greatest books thrill in their attempt. | James Salter | ||
| 7d4e8e9 | There were other houses that always brought images of an orderly life, kitchens with plain sideboards, old windows, the comforts of marriage in their common form, which at times surpassed everything--breakfast in the morning, conversations, late hours, and nothing that suggested excess or decay. | James Salter | ||
| eaba8a7 | You ought not to cross your children unnecessarily, for it makes them ill-natured. | Ann Lee | ||
| e574f8d | Dingen die je geschreven hebt, rijpen niet met je mee, zo lijkt me althans. De waarheid ervan kan bepaald zijn door de tijd, maar er bestaat niet zoiets als bij de tijd zijn wanneer de tijd voorbij is. Boeken blijven bestaan buiten de tijd om of ze houden op te bestaan. Dat is zoals het gaat in de literatuur. Boeken markeren een periode of een plaats, en geleidelijk worden ze die tijd en plaats'. | James Salter | ||
| c408aa8 | Mentre sedevano vicini o mangiavano o camminavano, lui condivideva liberamente con lei i suoi pensieri e le sue idee sulla vita, la storia, l'arte. Le parlava di ogni cosa. Sapeva che lei non si interessava a quegli argomenti, pero capiva e col tempo avrebbe imparato. Lui non l'amava soltanto per quello che era, ma per quello che poteva essere, e l'idea che potesse essere diversa non gli passava per la testa, oppure non gliene importava. Pe.. | James Salter | ||
| 377ee57 | I cannot think of it without sadness. I think of the day-long, intimate hours in her apartment with the same record playing over and over, phrases from it like some sort of oath I will know til the day I die. | James Salter | ||
| 1e3dc22 | at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old man in seventies, heard her and disagreed. His hair was white. His voice that the faint shrillness of age. "No, everything I've ever learned,", he said, "has come from books. I'd be in the darkness without them." | James Salter | ||
| 69f26fe | Vamos alla, arriesguemos nuestras vidas. Porque si tienen algun valor, es precisamente que no tienen ninguno. | James Salter | ||
| 801f6f4 | Los poetas, los escritores, los sabios y las voces de su tiempo, forman un coro, el himno que comparten es el mismo: los grandes y pequenos se unen, lo hermoso vive, lo demas muere, y todo es absurdo excepto el honor, el amor y lo poco que el corazon conoce. | James Salter |