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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 530fa0a | La luz, la divinidad, la pose absoluta, donde por la manana, en camas revueltas, en susurros, se te presenta la vida. | James Salter | ||
| a6413bf | As I think of it, there's an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie in my future like a whole season of extravagant meals if only I knew how to arrange it. | James Salter | ||
| b5c85cd | I enjoy a misogynist so long as they have a wicked sense of humor and know, on some level, that they're pigs. This is why I enjoy Philip Roth but not Saul Bellow or James Salter. | Heidi Julavits | ||
| b041f04 | Tus besos me destierran | James Salter | ||
| 9fc77f5 | And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. | James Salter | ||
| 77ab450 | Er komt een tijd dat je alleen bent," schreef Celine lang voordat het hem echt overkwam, "als je aan het eind bent gekomen van alles wat je overkomen kan. Het is het einde van de wereld, zelfs verdriet, je eigen verdriet, geeft geen antwoord meer en je moet op je schreden terugkeren, je weer onder de mensen begeven, het maakt niet uit wie." | James Salter | ||
| 09f52ff | whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist. | James Salter | ||
| 2cc8624 | The dead bring us to life, vivify us, give us scale. We are the unjoined part of them and at their graves we stand at our own. In Ruby Park Cemetery, in the once-famous silver lands of Colorado, the graves are unmarked. There is a single column of marble above a miner's daughter who died at the age of seventeen. The town of Irwin drew thousands of people in the 1870s, some from as far away as England and Scotland. The cemetery is abandoned... | James Salter | ||
| 3a02533 | Gevoel van moed. Groot verlangen verder te leven. | James Salter | ||
| 7740c3f | suddenly felt frightened. He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in a special way, in every detail, roof and wall, in the leaves of trees fluttering faintly before a rain. The world was opening itself, as if to allow, now that life was shortening, one long, passionate look, and all that had been withheld would finally be given. | James Salter | ||
| b1406b3 | The problem is, we only get one chance at this, with no do-overs. Life is an unrepeatable experiment with no control. In his novel about marriage, Light Years, James Salter writes: "For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the pardox."1 A" | Tim Kreider | ||
| 2183ef2 | Of Bryan, it might be said that he was candid about his wife and uncomplaining. He treated her offhandedly, as he might treat bad weather. | James Salter | ||
| 60658cf | Every glance made him need another. | glance infatuation looking love | James Salter | |
| 6a2a081 | But of course, in one sense, Dean never died - his existence is superior to such accidents. One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them. And they become real through our envy, our devotion. It is we who give them their majesty, their power, which ourselves could never possess. And in turn, they give some back. But they are mortal, these heroes, just as we are. They do not last forever. They fade. They vanish. They are surpas.. | hero memory remeberance role-model time | James Salter | |
| 7193a19 | NOVELS Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace. Exley, Frederick. A Fan's Notes. Kohler, Sheila. One Girl. Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Salter, James. Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime. Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Welch, James. The Death of Jim Loney. Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. White, Edmund. The Beautiful Room Is Empty. SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS Bloom, Amy. Come to Me. Cameron, Peter. The Half You Don't Know. Carver, Raymond. Where I'm Calli.. | The New York Writers Workshop | ||
| c76f86e | Traiesc in trecut, ori intr-un viitor care nu va exista niciodata. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 4410a39 | We live in a goal-oriented era. Our media vocabulary is full of hot takes, big ideas, and grand theories of everything. But some time ago I rejected magic in all its forms...In accepting both the chaos of history and the fact of my total end, I was freed to truly consider how i wished to live - specifically, how do I live free in this black body? It is a profound question because America understands itself as God's handwork, but the black b.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 194939c | we're going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage. | Ann Richards | ||
| fe650d5 | Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), who thought that the French Revolution was the dividing line between the past and a 'glorious future', believed there were three outstanding issues in history - the destruction of inequality between nations, the progress of equality within one and the same nation, and the perfecting of mankind. | Peter Watson | ||
| 00bbe3d | Now, first of all this boy lived in a mansion - at least compared to our one-room shack in the swamp. Peter's house wasn't like one of those historic houses that all look alike. Naw, the Grants' house was a mansion fixer-upper. White Lions on black-marble columns greeted you at the front. Then there was a veranda with black-and-white tiles. It had three bedrooms, a guest room and helpers' quarters. Kitchen counters went on for ever, and the.. | Roland Watson-Grant | ||
| b14ab8b | Actually, IBM went through a severe identity crisis. It almost missed the computer opportunity. It became capable of growth only through a palace coup which overthrew Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the company's founder, its chief executive, and for long years the prophet of "data processing." | Peter F. Drucker | ||
| e32a733 | Grief is an ocean where the waves obey their own rhythm, their own tide, where we are just thrown about to stay afloat as best we can. Where there is in fact no guarantee that we will keep our heads above water. | Peter Watson | ||
| 1e65c0e | Carl Jung, in a letter to the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Watson, remarked that the Latin for "alcohol" is spiritus, which is also the word for "soul," and that the abuse of alcohol was fueled by a desire to know God, to transcend daily drudgery for a glimpse of a greater reality." | Peter Bebergal | ||
| 32454eb | Even by the end of the seventeenth century, fifty years before our starting point, there was no shortage of people in Europe who felt that the Christian religion had been gravely discredited. Protestants and Catholics had been killing each other in the hundreds of thousands, or millions, for holding opinions that no one could prove one way or the other. The observations of Kepler and Galileo transformed man's view of the heavens, and the fl.. | Peter Watson | ||
| 725965a | The Dream is the same habit that endangers the planet, the same habit that sees our bodies stowed away in prisons and ghettos. I saw these ghettos driving back from Dr. Jones's home. They were the same ghettos I had seen in Chicago all those years ago, the same ghettos where my mother was raised, where my father was raised. Through the windshield I saw the mark of these ghettos--the abundance of beauty shops, churches, liquor stores, and cr.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d6141b6 | The discipline of history is particularly important in this context because while science has had a direct impact on how historians write, and what they write about, history has itself been evolving. One of the great debates in historiography is over how events move forward. One school of thought has it that 'great men' are mostly what matter, that the decisions of people in power can bring about significant shifts in world events and menta.. | Peter Watson | ||
| 4d778aa | Genetic evidence, of individuals across the world, alive now, shows that all non-African people are descended from one small group that must have passed through the Arabian peninsula. | Peter Watson | ||
| 4a4d867 | Computable Numbers' into practice.21 This was | Peter Watson | ||
| 8415789 | Tom Watson, though, held his team and himself to a different standard. As he explained to his men in 1930 at the outset of the Depression, "No man deserves any special credit for being an average man. It is the men who are striving to be above the average who are the men who build business--they are the men who build nations." This belief applied to every person, including himself as the person holding the title of the CEO, because a policy.. | Peter Greulich | ||
| f42765d | Computers already have enough power to outperform people in activities we used to think of as distinctively human. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Jeopardy!'s best-ever contestant, Ken Jennings, succumbed to IBM's Watson in 2011. And Google's self-driving cars are already on California roads today. Dale Earnhardt Jr. needn't feel threatened by them, but the Guardian worries (on behalf of the millions o.. | Peter Thiel | ||
| 868a9e7 | We must always set the right kind of example all the way along the line as to character and good manners. Then you can teach the men anything, because they are with you, they will listen to you. They are not trying to show off or be smart. They get right down to business. "Men of Character and Courtesy" Thomas J. Watson Sr. January 23-25, 1933" | Peter Greulich | ||
| 330e2a8 | You are not coming into an organization that has been built. We are just building it. You are not coming into a business that has succeeded. We are merely succeeding a little more each year. "Advice to Young Men Entering Business" Thomas J. Watson Sr. October 29, 1930" | Peter Greulich | ||
| f575598 | At that moment, Ingrid remembered 'The Five Orange Pips' and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after. | sherlock-holmes | Peter Abrahams | |
| ec5e693 | At its most simple, the notion underlying The Great Chain of Being, as identified in the first instance by Plato, is that the universe is essentially a rational place, in which all organisms are linked in a great chain, not on one scale of low to high (for Plato could see that even 'lowly' creatures were perfectly 'adapted', as we would say, to their niches in the scheme of things) but that there was in general terms a hierarchy which range.. | Peter Watson | ||
| 6113d69 | He adored talking about the rich.... But his real wealth was literary. He had read many thousands of books. He said that history was a nightmare during which he was trying to get a good night's rest. Insomnia made him more learned. | Peter Watson | ||
| a5e8a0d | In some ways this was Goethe's greatest achievement: the search for the serial relationships in nature, emphasizing border experiences, the junctures where "the real joints of nature" are located, is most likely to reveal the process of change, development, organizing principles. This is also why it needed individuals who were both poet and scientist, who could combine "imagination, observation and thought in the act of language." | Peter Watson | ||
| 3219ad8 | has profoundly modified the whole trend of modern civilisation, imposing her thought, her standards, her literary forms, her imagery, her visions and dreams wherever she is known. But Germany is the supreme example of her triumphant spiritual tyranny. The Germans have imitated the Greeks more slavishly: they have been obsessed by them more utterly... | Peter Watson | ||
| 901abbb | for entrepreneurs interested in building Watson-backed business, Cane was stunned by how easy it was to work with IBM. "They provided so much support and guidance," he explains, "that we were able to build our entire Watson-powered prototype in two weeks." | Peter H. Diamandis | ||
| dd9207f | Cardinal Bellarmino, whom we shall meet in Chapter 25 as the leader of the Catholic Church's resistance to Copernicus, also said: 'God wills that man should in some measure know him through his creatures, and because no single created thing could fitly represent the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied creatures, and bestowed on each a certain degree of goodness and perfection, that from these we might form some idea of the goo.. | Peter Watson | ||
| 1439ca9 | Like any mother, Beth knew that taking a small child anywhere required the level of preparation for going on safari, or a canoe trip up the Amazon. | Jan McDonald | ||
| 4d650fb | Facing the couple, Cardinal Fitzroy said, "My dear friends, you have come together in this place so that the Lord may seal and strengthen your love in the presence of the Church's minister and this gathering of friends. Christ abundantly blesses this love. Since it is your intention to enter into marriage, join your hands, and declare your consent. Byron, do you take Jean to be your wife, to be true to her in good times and bad, to love and.. | Joseph Flynn | ||
| 24ee66f | Mikhailovsky | Joseph Frank | ||
| 6f403cd | Facing the couple, Cardinal Fitzroy said, "My dear friends, you have come together in this place so that the Lord may seal and strengthen your love in the presence of the Church's minister and this gathering of friends. Christ abundantly blesses this love. Since it is your intention to enter into marriage, join your hands, and declare your consent. Byron, do you take Jean to be your wife, to be true to her in good times and bad, to love and.. | Joseph Flynn | ||
| badf1a1 | on Dekens' face. "Possibly." -- | Joseph Flynn |