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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1646abb | And messengers must have come running to Don Jorge, telling him the service was on the point of beginning, and he must have waved them away with a grave gesture of a long white hand, while in his mind the distant sound of chanting, the jingle of the silver bit of his roan horse stamping nervously where he was tied to a twined Moorish column, memories of cavalcades filing with braying of trumpets and flutter of crimson damask into conquered .. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 21dc1a8 | Passing through every wall are electronic beams that create a shadow play of desire staged by the puppeteers of globalized commerce, who fund their advertising each year with more than a hundred dollars spent for this planet's every man, woman, child. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 886af30 | I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a4867e8 | Can one who hates right govern?" Job 34:13," | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4e4db7b | it. But when a man's words are taken from him and poisoned, it's the same as poisoning the man. He could not speak, for how his own tongue would be fouled. Words were his all. I felt I'd witnessed a murder, just as he'd seen his friend murdered in Mexico. Only this time they left the body living. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 957f456 | If it came to pass that Thatcher should shake hands with President Grant, as Polly predicted, he would still be a man who viewed life from the bottom of the ditch, not the top. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 60a3669 | In America, millions of dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters every year become the food for our food (twice as many such animals are euthanized as are adopted). | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| cfec8f7 | The Camera Eye (38) sealed signed and delivered all over Tours you can smell lindens in bloom it's hot my uniform sticks the OD chafes me under the chin only four days ago AWOL crawling under the freight cars at the station of St. Pierre-des-Corps waiting in the buvette for the MP on guard to look away from the door so's I could slink out with a cigarette (and my heart) in my mouth then in a tiny box of a hotel room changing the date on tha.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 1641222 | The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 994c6af | That is Baroja's world: dismal, ironic, the streets of towns where industrial life sits heavy on the neck of a race as little adapted to it as any in Europe. | John Dos Passos | ||
| fce8eea | The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 251e3cb | a nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other. | John Dos Passos | ||
| e21d05b | I hear that God has a really bad haircut. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6980405 | One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8753bb2 | because it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. Pay attention to your dreams: when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7821e8c | With that one little booklet put back in place, it came as a different story. Because of that burrow through rock and water--lacuna, he called it. This time I read with a different heart, understanding the hero would still be standing at journey's end. Or at least, live or die, he'd known of a chance and aimed to take it. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 316003b | If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6a45f5f | wlys blkhbz wHdh yHy lnsn! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| cf21aec | bshr fln tkhwD m`rk@ lHy@ l'khyr@ wHydan . | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0337f86 | Not fighting is as good as treason, isn't it? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| fa9b1bc | The shaykh interrupted him, saying, "Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for the sake of encouragement, son of Abd al-Jawad" | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 15625c0 | w'y m's@ fy 'n tndmj nshw@ lqlb wljsd fy aly@ l`d@ lmnZm@ l`ql@ lbrd@ lmtkrr@ lqtl@ llsh`wr wljd@ k'nh rw'y@ rwHny@ rfyq@ tjsdt fy Sl@ lfZy@ trddh ldhkr@ bl w`y !!! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| c1b88d3 | qn` dy'man mn "wTnyth" bl`Tf@ wlmshrk@ lwjdny@ dwn lqdm `l~ `ml yGyr wjh lHy@ ldhy ans lyh fl yrD~ `nh bdyl, ldhlk lm ydr lh bkhld 'n ynDm l~ ljn@ mn ljn lHzb lwTny `l~ shd@ t`lqh bmbdy'h, wl Ht~ 'n yjshm nfsh `n shhwd jtm` mn jtm`th, 'lys fy dhlk hdr lwqth "lthmyn"? lys lwTn fy Hj@ lyh `l~ Hyn ytlhf hw kl dqyq@ mnh lynfqh fy 'srth 'w tjrth 'w `l~ lkhSwS fy lhwh byn l'Hbb wlkhlWn?! lykn dhn wqth khlS lHyth, wllwTn m ysh mn qlbh w`wTfh, bl m.. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 0d6e93b | The country's literary and intellectual luminaries were marginalized in the same way. Naguib Mahfouz's23 novels were no longer serialized in Al-Ahram. Tawfik Al-Hakeem's last two novels were published in Paris and Beirut, but not in Cairo. Ihsan Abdel Kodous, Egypt's foremost romance novelist, was branded a 'pornographer', and some of his publishers took it upon themselves to change the endings of some of his novels (without his knowledge) .. | Tarek Osman | ||
| 848603c | l 'ryd 'n 'fkr'w 'n 'sh`r 'w 'n 'tHrk, kl shy ytmzq wymwt, fkhTr ly `l~ sbyl l'ml 'nny s'jd ldhlk sbb `Dwy. | novel philosophy | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 8dc6e52 | La dicha completa es algo que paso. Hay algo que echamos de menos cada vez que estamos a solas con nosotros mismos, pero eso no regresa. Se nos aparece desde el pasado con un palido recuerdo, como esa luz suave que se filtra a traves de la mirilla de la puerta. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d88ee3e | A person who has forgotten his sorrows can be forced to confront them once more when someone with the best intentions favors him with a word of comfort. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 894cda4 | Hrfysh 'm wjh l yhm, stdrk lhn@ dy'man mn ytqblh! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f2132bc | tSwr 'n 'bq~ Ht~ 'shhd zwl dnyy. ydhhb lns rjlan wns, w'bq~ Gryban wsT Grb, 'fr mn mkn l~ mkn, 'byt mTrdan 'bdyan, 'jn , 'tmn~ lmwt ... -tHfZ `l~ shbbk l~ l'bd? wtnjb 'bn wtfr mnhm, wkl jyl t`d nfsk lHy@ jdyd@, wkl jyl tbky lzwj@ wl'bn, wttjns bjnsy@ lGrb@ l'bdy@, l yrbTk b'Hd htmm 'w fkr 'w `Tf@ ... | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| d130ac1 | Luxor attack in 1997 in which Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya killed fifty-eight tourists and four Egyptians outside a pharaonic temple. In the same year, an ambush near the Egyptian museum in downtown Cairo by the group took the lives of nine tourists. In 1995, eighteen Greek tourists had been killed close to the Pyramids. But the violence was not only directed at the 'infidel Westerners' (though they, and the tourism industry, were especially prized.. | Tarek Osman | ||
| d4f82cc | Well, my stars, the thing was like the Bible--look hard enough in its pages, and you'll find what you seek. Love your neighbor, or slay him with the jawbone of an ass. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 04cd6ad | Aprendi que: - o homem pode ser enganado pela ilusao e pensar que ela e verdade, e que a unica salvacao para nos e quando estamos em terra firme. Para diferenciar ilusao e verdade, temos de usar quantos sentidos e inteligencias Deus nos deu; - nao se pode dormir quando a vigilia e necessaria, e que enquanto ha vida, nao ha motivo para desespero; - a comida e alimento quando ingerida com moderacao, mas um perigo quando ingerida por gulodice.. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 06345c0 | hl khlt lbld mn rjl kf llHkm ? = qD~ lqnwn b'n yrshH lmwjwd l n ytjshm l`n f~ lbHth `n lmTlwb | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 895d11f | Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk, set in Cairo, a | Frances Mayes | ||
| dd2cb05 | Now I find the stack of chapters I called Under Magnolia. Why, after many years, even open these flowered folders? Dare alla luce, the Tuscans say at the birth of a baby, to give to the light. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 1a0d5db | Birds of the Western Front Your mess-tin cover's lost. Kestrels hover above the shelling. They don't turn a feather when hunting-ground explodes in yellow earth, flickering star-shells and flares from the Revelation of St John. You look away from artillery lobbing roar and suck and snap against one corner of a thicket to the partridge of the war zone making its nest in shattered clods. History floods into subsoil to be blown apart. You cl.. | war western-front | Ruth Padel | |
| f911783 | And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties." | Frances Mayes | ||
| c411c69 | Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 9021de7 | In France the concept of la belle famille - in-laws - is broader than that in the UK where the term brother-in-law is limited to my wife's brother or my sister's husband. Seen from a French point of view, my beau-frere - brother-in-law - also includes my wife's sister's husband, while my wife's brother's wife is my belle-soeur - sister-in-law. Having more brothers- and sisters-in-law than you would otherwise have may well strike you as a gr.. | Charles Timoney | ||
| f0fae64 | in AD 732, when the king of the Franks, Charles Martel, otherwise known as 'Charles the Hammer', and a coalition of troops under his leadership, defeated an Umayyad invading army near Poitiers in France. While there is disagreement as to the size of this invading army, world history may have turned out very differently indeed had it not been defeated. | Christopher Lascelles | ||
| acb84c3 | We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. | Winston S. Churchill | ||
| 25de150 | Andi pauses. "So you're saying that the person who asked about moving to France may be the person who wrote the angry letter and hates us." "Yes." Andi pauses again. "And you're saying that this person may be locked inside our school library right now." "Yes." "OK. I was just trying to get everything straight." | Meg Kimball | ||
| b731519 | Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b5c1beb | To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story... | Barbara Kingsolver |