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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 47f018e | Was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was. | Joan Didion | ||
| f952d6a | I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later - because I did not belong there, did not come from there - but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. | Joan Didion | ||
| 068f5b1 | I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month. | Joan Didion | ||
| 51c880e | Some years passed, but I still did not lose that sense of wonder about New York. I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing. | Joan Didion | ||
| 9199998 | The day's events did not turn on cracked crab. And yet it is precisely that fictitious crab that makes me see the afternoon all over again, a home movie run all too often, the father bearing gifts, the child weeping, an exercise in family love and guilt. Or that is what it was to me. Similarly, perhaps it never did snow that August in Vermont; perhaps there never were flurries in the night wind, and maybe no one else felt the ground hardeni.. | Joan Didion | ||
| c5b6cd0 | Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen. | Joan Didion | ||
| 28ca626 | What kind of magpie keeps this notebook? | Joan Didion | ||
| 53db8f6 | I have already lost touch with a couple people I used to be. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7706d47 | I hurt the people I cared about, and insulted those I did not. I cut myself off from the one person who was closer to me than any other. I cried until I was not even aware when I was crying and when I was not, cried in elevators and in taxis and in Chinese laundries, and when I went to the doctor he said only that I seemed to be depressed, and should see a "specialist." He wrote down a psychiatrist's name and address for me, but I did not g.. | Joan Didion | ||
| edd9707 | They come from all over, and they are on the average very young, very earnest, and not very much in touch with the larger scene, less refugees from it than children who do not quite apprehend it. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7ab6f18 | We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of them in the water. | letting-go letting-go-of-the-past | Joan Didion | |
| 770510d | The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people," she said. "The hardest is with one." | Joan Didion | ||
| da377f0 | This is the California where it is possible to live and die without ever eating an artichoke, without ever meeting a Catholic or a Jew. This is the California where it is easy to Dial-A-Devotion, but hard to buy a book. This is the country in which a belief in the literal interpretation of Genesis has slipped imperceptibly into a belief in the literal interpretation of Double Indemnity, the country of the teased hair and the Capris and the .. | Joan Didion | ||
| ff987c6 | Maria did not particularly believe in rewards, only in punishments, swift and personal. | Joan Didion | ||
| a690b5e | I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7e8bafd | I remember wishing that I could afford the house, which cost $ 1,000 a month. "Someday you will," she said lazily. "Someday it all comes." There in the sun on her terrace it seemed easy to believe in someday, but later I had a low-grade afternoon hangover and ran over a black snake on the way to the supermarket and was flooded with inexplicable fear when I heard the checkout clerk explaining to the man ahead of me why she was finally divorc.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 9c74783 | Oh Walter en't been the same man, you know...slow, very slow since he came back. | Adam Thorpe | ||
| 3ce0481 | Did you not think of burying them?" Walter snorted in a quite ordinary way. | Adam Thorpe | ||
| f09e312 | Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan. | Akio Morita | ||
| aa87ed6 | Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes. | Akio Morita | ||
| 858d045 | Through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma. | Johann Georg Hamann | ||
| de02991 | While having a strong character foundation may not sell newspapers, increase TV ratings, or make a person famous, it's essential for building a life that is meaningful and matters. | communication-quotes communication-skills confidence first-impressions integrity motivational-speaker relationship-quotes susan-young trust | Susan C. Young | |
| 8adf83d | I believe people work for satisfaction. | Akio Morita | ||
| 2c5306f | In a mad world, only the mad are sane! | Akira Kurosawa | ||
| b6c3117 | Lie and Lie until you succeed CAUSE IM A NICE GUY. | Akshay Agrawal | ||
| 82830c9 | I call my clients Uncle or Aunty hoping to get a proposal for their daughters." | Akshay Agrawal | ||
| fbaa773 | Does it occur to *you*, Miss Lanyon, that although i have twice been on the verge of it, I have not yet offered for you? Being now safe from interruption, will you do me the honour, ma'am -' | proposal | Georgette Heyer | |
| 56db182 | It was the cut direct, like something out of a Georgette Heyer novel. | Jenn McKinlay | ||
| 9aa6e85 | I find myself at one with Dr Johnson, who declared--did he not?--that one green field was just like another! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| e67c7ce | His face was blue, on his fingersI thought. | Al Alvarez | ||
| 36f49a6 | It was some time before Hero came downstairs, but after about half an hour she put in an appearance, still wearing her silk and gauze ball-dress, but with her jewels discarded and her curls a little ruffled. She came quickly into the room, a look of great distress in her face, and went towards Sherry with her hands held out, and saying impetuously: 'Oh, Sherry, it is so shocking! She has told me the whole, and I never thought anyone could b.. | care compassion-and-kindness hero-wantage | Georgette Heyer | |
| 8c759fe | Vicky had enlivened the Sabbath by coming down to breakfast in abbreviated tennis-shorts, and a sleeveless shirt. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 5d49345 | Sherry was so much relieved to find that Hero had no wish to keep her unfortunate protege permanently in the spare bedroom that he agreed to this plan, even go so far as to hand over, upon demand, a bill to defray the cost of suitable baby clothes for the destitute infant. Hero thanked him warmly and went away to set Ruth's mind at rest, leaving Sherry to congratulate himself on having brushed through the business better than had at one tim.. | hero-and-anthony planning thoughtfulness | Georgette Heyer | |
| 5023b52 | Hero, who had not failed to notice Miss Milborne's roses, and George's haggard appearance, took the earliest opportunity that offered of following him to his retreat. Her tender heart ached for the pain she knew him to be suffering. It was a pain she was not quite a stranger to, and her own susceptibility made it seem the more imperative to offer such comfort as she could to George. She found him sitting moodily on a small sofa, a glass of .. | compassion-and-kindness george-wrotham hero-wantage | Georgette Heyer | |
| efeb300 | I feel devilish,' said Mr Ringwood morosely. He added, with a flicker of spirit: 'At all events I have let my man shave me!' 'Yes,' admitted Ferdy, recalling with a shudder Mr Ringwood's appearance earlier in the day. 'If you had not, Gil, dear old fellow, I couldn't have dined with you. Couldn't have fancied a morsel!' He regarded the Belcher handkerchief with misgiving. 'And, dash it, I'm not sure I shall be able to fancy anything as it i.. | ferdinand-fakenham gilbert-ringwood | Georgette Heyer | |
| 65a1803 | George, who had been standing gripping the back of a chair, demanded in a voice which boded ill for the absent Viscount. 'What has Sherry done to you?' "He has not done anything yet. That is why I had to run away, to prevent him! I could not bear it, I "could" not!' 'By God!' George swore, his brilliant eyes beginning to smolder. 'Only tell me!' Mr Ringwood emerged from his stupefaction at this point. He poured himself out some brandy, toss.. | hero-wantage protectiveness | Georgette Heyer | |
| 49328dd | It may seem famous to you,' retorted Elinor, with some tartness, 'but I can assure you it does not to me! I have not the smallest desire to be married to your odious cousin! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ceb8acc | Ferdy, who had been standing with his mouth open, staring, suddenly rose superbly to the occasion, and offered his arm to Hero with a graceful bow. 'Let me escort you back to the ballroom!' he said. 'Yes, but- Sherry, you must not mind George's kissing me!' said Hero, looking from one to the other in a little dismay. 'Indeed, there was not the least harm in it, was there, George?' 'Dear Kitten,' promptly replied George, bowing with even mor.. | hero-wantage | Georgette Heyer | |
| 50b04c0 | She looked at Damerel. 'Well, my dear friend?' 'Well, my dear delight?' he returned, a glint in his eyes. 'Do you think you will make me unhappy?' 'I don't - but I will offer you on promises!' 'No, pray don't!' she said seriously. 'As soon as one promises not to do something it becomes the one thing avocet all others that one most wishes to do!' She turned her head towards he uncle again. ' You mean to warn me that he may continue to have m.. | change orgies | Georgette Heyer | |
| 48478e2 | Education to true religion is the final task of the new education. | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | ||
| 469a053 | Recollect that we have been acquainted for less than a month! You cannot, cousin, have fallen - formed an attachment in so short a time!' 'Nay, love, don't be so daft!' he expostulated. 'There's no sense in saying I can't do what I *have* done! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2bf0f50 | Have you ever known a person who was highly intelligent, yet their lack of character destroyed your impression of them? Even though they may have been accomplished, articulate, and knowledgeable, their words became impotent and irrelevant. | communication-quotes communication-skills confidence first-impressions integrity motivational-speaker relationship-quotes susan-young trust | Susan C. Young | |
| 6fc3467 | I can tell you how I feel about you night and day. | Al B. Sure! | ||
| ba17232 | Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on. | Al Capone |