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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed7fb41 | I really don't understand them, the capitalists. They delude themselves. We're openly committed to consume them but they give us the means to do it. | James Clavell | ||
| aa9ac65 | Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity's destroying them. Eh? | James Clavell | ||
| fc5249a | Israel was a Stalin-Beria coup of monumental proportions! Who helped it, overt and covert, come into being? Who gave it immediate recognition? We did, and why?" Suslev belched again, "To cement into the guts of Arabia a perpetual cancer that will suppurate and destroy both sides and, along with them, bring down the industrial might of the West. Jew against Mohammedan against Christian." | James Clavell | ||
| 0446dda | Those fanatics'll never live at peace with one another even though they could, easily. They will never bury their differences even if it costs them their stupid lives." He laughed" | James Clavell | ||
| 806ed7a | We in the KGB are like Japanese in that we too agree the only sin is failure. | James Clavell | ||
| 7af3a7e | Without terror how can the few rule the many? | James Clavell | ||
| 5be6a5f | they set out to acquire--steal--our industrial secrets. "Curiously our free-world media fail dismally to point out that all Soviet advances are based originally on one of our stolen inventions or techniques, that without our grain they starve, and without our vast and ever-growing financial assistance and credits to buy our grains and technology they cannot fuel and refuel their whole military-industrial infrastructure which keeps their emp.. | James Clavell | ||
| e421a73 | no man ever willingly marries his mistress. | James Clavell | ||
| f4d9db2 | Do I want to bed her? Sure. So mount a campaign, maneuver her into bed without commitments. Don't play the game of life according to female rules, all's fair in war and war. What's love anyway? It's like Casey said, sex's only a part of it. | James Clavell | ||
| 870ab28 | It hurts and it costs you. It costs you plenty and the attorneys get most, get a good part and they cleverly fan the fire between you for their own goddamn gain. | James Clavell | ||
| 845d1a2 | They're devils who pretend to serve the Church and Christ, but they serve only themselves. They lust for power, power at any cost. They hide behind a net of poverty and piousness, but underneath, they feed like kings and amass fortunes. | James Clavell | ||
| 2509975 | Time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even a rock. | James Clavell | ||
| ac5f9a5 | For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, ? | James Clavell | ||
| 5d15950 | It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world. | James Clavell | ||
| 5dd4808 | I even heard that part of a very large government loan to South Vietnam was expended on a nonexistent airfield that's still impenetrable jungle. | James Clavell | ||
| 268e998 | A new era requires clear thinking about the meaning of honor. | James Clavell | ||
| 25200f6 | a man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show his very special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except himself alone, | James Clavell | ||
| a9bf632 | Power--often military power--was at the origin of these inequities. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 5ebf97a | Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander! | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| a647f6f | Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 8a4e784 | Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. | Aesop | ||
| 36699c7 | More people play soccer than the four of those sports put together, and the World Cup pits all nations against all nations, with almost every country on earth competing during the four years of qualifying that lead to the final tournament. As | James Patterson | ||
| a00f8e7 | Slow and steady wins the race. | Aesop | ||
| c5857a9 | a gutsier move than that one. Boxed inside the fast | James Patterson | ||
| eaee227 | on the | James Patterson | ||
| 960843e | A victorious army wins its victories before seeking battle. | James Patterson | ||
| 38d92e4 | What's worrying is that those in the 1 percent, in attempting to claim for themselves an unjust proportion of the benefits of this system, may be willing to destroy the system itself to hold on to what they have. This | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| df52d09 | The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him. | Aesop | ||
| 4c3a86c | The Aqyn's Song------- I have come from the edge of the world. I have come from the lungs of the wind, With a thing I have seen so awesome Even Dzambul could not sing it. With a fear in my heart so sharp It will cut the strongest of metals. In the ancient tales it is told In a time that is older than Qorqyt, Who took from the wood of Syrghaj The first qobyz, and the first song-- It is told that a land far distant Is the place of the Kirghiz.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 17fa867 | Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the C.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| e25c193 | Got a hardon in my fist, Don't be pissed, Re-enlist-- Snap--to, Slothrop! Jackson, I don't give a fuck, Just give me my "ruptured duck!" Snap--to, Slothrop! No one here can love or comprehend me, They just look for someplace else to send...me... Tap my head and mike my brain, Stick that needle in my vein, Slothrop, snap to!" | military trippy | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 8314e1b | If you see a train this evening, Far away against the sky, Lie down in your wooden blanket, Sleep, and let the train go by. Trains have called us, every midnight, From a thousand miles away, Trains that pass through empty cities, Trains that have no place to stay. No one drives the locomotive, No one tends the staring light, Trains have never needed riders, Trains belong to bitter night. Railway stations stand deserted, Rights-of-way lie cl.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| cf5e82b | Things then did not delay in turning curious. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3d1ef65 | Quello del saltimbanco e un mestiere in via di estinzione" era solito ammettere nei suoi momenti di frivolezza. "I migliori sono passati tutti alla politica." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 6ab64af | C'e questo lungo collegamento a margherita di truffatori e di truffati, di fottitori e di fottuti? E se le cose stanno cosi, io chi e che fotto? | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| e1fb017 | Minaloto - ne dumai! - e otvorena pokana za zloupotreba s vino. | time-passing wine | Thomas Pynchon | |
| cea0bf3 | Inside, I found a middle-aged woman sitting on a stool behind a countertop, absorbed in a Thomas Pynchon novel. | Robin Sloan | ||
| 58e22f0 | Profane si rese conto che stava per vomitare. Le esibizioni di smaccato sentimentalismo gli facevano spesso quel'effetto. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| a595491 | Ainda precisamos de uma centesima quarta pessoa para o bridge", disse, com uma risadinha arida. O bridge, die Brucke, a ponte, era o apelido dado por ele a experiencia em que colaborava com o hospital da localidade para estudar os efeitos do LSD-25, da mescalina, da psilocibina e de outras substancias semelhantes num grande numero de donas de casa das cidades-satelites de Los Angeles. A ponte para dentro. "Quando e que voce vai arranjar um .. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 6a0ed90 | gamers in the house forever | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| ab33a68 | She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop being a fraternity boy as long as he lives. But who still feels he is missing something, and so hangs at the edges of the Whole Sick Crew. If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engenieer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| aa06adf | She taught them all a song. Learned from a para on French leave from the fighting in Algeria: Demain le noir matin, Je fermerai la porte Au nez des annees mortes; J'irai par les chemins. Je mendierai ma vie Sur la terre et sur l'onde, Du vieux au nouveau monde . . . He had been short and built like the island of Malta itself: rock, an inscrutable heart. She'd had only one night with him. Then he was off to the Piraeus. Tomorrow, the bla.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3c8cf40 | The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!' | Aesop | ||
| 6d6bfc2 | One mild and ordinary work-morning in Chicago, Lew happened to find himself on a public conveyance, head and eyes inclined nowhere in particular, when he entered, all too briefly, a condition he had no memory of having sought, which he later came to think of as grace. Despite the sorry history of rapid transit in this city, the corporate neglect and high likelihood of collision, injury, and death, the weekday-morning overture blared along a.. | Thomas Pynchon |