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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 63affe6 | Despite the mountain of gold that has been built downtown, Los Angeles remains vulnerable to the same explosive convergence of street anger, poverty, environmental crisis, and capital flight that made the early 1990s its worth crisis period since the early Depression. | los-angeles strife | Mike Davis | |
| 1a024fa | I get to the back of the house, I damn near tear the door off the hinges. It isn't an act of fury, fury isn't part of it anymore. It's more deliberate than fury yet more instinctive than deliberation. | Steve Erickson | ||
| f4b86ac | You keep looking around for who's in fucking charge, and there's just nobody like that at all. The cops just ride their horses back and forth through the park, up and down Fifth Avenue. Who the hell's angry on Fifth Avenue, that's what I want to know. | Steve Erickson | ||
| f587bea | He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by the sudden ripple of the string as it dances slowly groundward. | Steve Erickson | ||
| ac370d1 | When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen - that in fact dimension was an illusion. Everything was a flat surface and the pinpoints of light, whether from a candle on the shelf or a gaslamp above the street, were punctures in that surface - gashes made by somebody behind the screen. He realized then that beyond everythin.. | impressions light reality shadows truth | Steve Erickson | |
| d26d121 | In the dark, in no starlight at all, the blocks hurtled invisibly by, ejected into the night air; he heard them break but he believed it was only the echoes of broken windows, not even his broken windows but someone else's in some other city, people all over the night searching madly for those who transmitted the vague and unpersuasive frequency of destiny, not even this night but some other night that came before, from which the sound of b.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| f51ed04 | The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are. | Steve Erickson | ||
| c38899a | Qualunque sia il caso, lei e sparita dalla mia vita. E il prezzo che ho dovuto pagare per aver flirtato romanticamente con l'apocalisse. Sono stato cosi sciocco da credere di poter giocare con il caos, mentre era il caos a giocare con me. | steve erickson | ||
| 6731664 | I struck down his evil no matter what name it took for itself, no matter that it called itself history or revolution, America or the son of God, no matter that it called itself righteous, a righteousness that presumed the license to bind the free word and thought, that presumed the wisdom to timetable the birth of a soul, that presumed the morality that offers its children up to the plague rather than teach them the language of love. A thou.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| ac65c5c | Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning. | Steve Erickson | ||
| bf60604 | Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 9125dbb | As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate. | Steve Erickson | ||
| efc439a | It's not the meek who are inheriting the earth, Jason, it's the corruptors | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 1b71096 | There was too little space for their own--and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2ad1ed8 | Two people were not one, | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 07794e4 | Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it. I wouldn't have five minutes. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 75eb5b5 | The greatest true spy story in American history. . . . The spies . . . seem to have stepped from the pages of Robert Ludlum rather than a history book. . . . Anyone who wants to know how a handful of dedicated American patriots managed to defeat the greatest empire on earth needs to read this book." --Arthur" | Brian Kilmeade | ||
| 7504529 | warmed by the cold sea around him. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 5420267 | The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh." Robert Ludlum" | Young | ||
| d53c3b9 | For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 0b87c7d | One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| a089095 | du Lac? | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 6a44d55 | REST IS THE BEST WEAPON..BATTLES WON AND LOST" ((page 209 )) JACKAL CHALLENGING BOURNE : " Paris, Jason Bourne! Paris if you dare! Or shall it be a minor university in Maine. Dr,Webb? ((page 276))... | Robert Ludlum | ||
| d84742e | utilitarian office | Douglas Corleone | ||
| 5955b80 | he'd long ago accepted the fact that berlin more than suspected him. in a way it was his protection; he'd by no means won every roll of the dice. if the enemy killed him, someone else would take his place. the enemy would have to start all over again. he was a known commodity... accept an existing devil. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 8003ad7 | Did not the Christians incessantly talk about walking into the arms of Christ for the causes of Christ, calling for wars in his name? | Robert Ludlum | ||
| c0dc1ff | As she watched him, Mrs. Gates was once again struck by the painful realization that there were ... things ... about her husband she would never understand. Gaps in his life she could never fill, leaps in his thinking she could not comprehend. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| ad82101 | he was a child of eight, in the aftermath of his first kill. The first taste of blood was always the sharpest, but, for him, the blood didn't matter as much as it did | Eric Van Lustbader | ||
| c4454df | Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men, | Robert Ludlum | ||
| da4f0c5 | will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all | Robert Ludlum | ||
| f0f202b | A corruption of intentions. | intention | Robert Ludlum | |
| f075821 | Whenever you're in a stress situation yourself--and there's time, of course--do exactly as you would do when you project yourself into one you're observing. Let your mind fall free, let whatever thoughts and images that surface come cleanly. Try not to exercise any mental discipline. Be a sponge; concentrate on everything and nothing. Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2f923e4 | I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more. | remember | Robert Ludlum | |
| 72dbb34 | He was a relieved man; he was an angry man. | relieve | Robert Ludlum | |
| 79f21c5 | If a stress situation results in injury, be aware of the fact that the damage may be as much psychological as physical. You may have a very real revulsion to pain and bodily harm. Don't take risks, but if there's time, give yourself a chance to adjust. Don't panic.... | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2cb402e | It's an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn't change, not one like this. Yet an offhand remark over a glass of whiskey in a postpresidential conversation, or an egotistical phrase in a memoir, can blow that same strategy right to hell. There isn't a day that we don't worry about those men who have survi.. | politics presidents | Robert Ludlum | |
| 0c3719e | Well, no programmer could direct Karpov's initiative as a whole. The best ones are like idiot savants: they know their stuff backward and forward, but that's all they're good for. They couldn't direct themselves out of a paper bag." She pursed her lips. "So again, I have to ask, who is running the operation now?" | Eric Van Lustbader | ||
| d4feed0 | odd-looking, rotund prelate was a marvelous raconteur, | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 67f2711 | Someone had lit a kerosene lamp. By the inconstant light of its flickering flame, they stared at him out of emaciated faces with overlarge eyes, their bodies pale beneath tattered clothes. Once again Bourne's heart was rent. He wanted to save them all, but to save two he needed to leave the others behind. He'd never make it out with all of them in tow. | Eric Van Lustbader | ||
| 3df57a8 | without preamble. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 47c1abe | Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| d9b73ec | followed - even now at this moment.' The one-time beggar | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 68476c6 | abrupt | Robert Ludlum | ||
| ae298ba | Operations, room five, in twenty minutes. | Robert Ludlum |