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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1d90b4a | The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me. | Anne Rice | ||
| d275aaf | Gratitude is not a psychological or political panacea, like a secular prosperity gospel, one that denies pain or overlooks injustice, because being grateful does not "fix" anything. Pain, suffering, and injustice--these things are all real. They do not go away. Gratitude, however, invalidates the false narrative that these things are the sum total of human existence, that despair is the last word. Gratitude gives us a new story. It opens ou.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| c46df45 | Indeed, early commentators scarcely attacked Christian doctrines, but they consistently portrayed Christian devotional practices as radical and socially divisive. Christianity had effectively "created a social group that promoted its own laws and its own patterns of behavior."7 These behaviors, at odds with Roman custom, earned Christians the reputation of being revolutionaries and traitors to the good order of the state. Christian defender.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| d9f2369 | Jews, Christians, and Muslims share a creation story from the Bible, found in the early chapters of the book of Genesis. Like many such stories, it begins with sky and earth intertwined in darkness. God first brings forth light, then separates what is above from what is below, thus making oceans, land, and sky. Although some people insist that Genesis 1 is a literal scientific account, it is best understood as what Old Testament scholar Wal.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| f46c20d | The baby, the star, and the wise men: a story of gifts and radical gratitude. Joy to the world! | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 42b9b31 | Grace--gifts given without being earned and with no expectation of return-- | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| e49727c | Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness. --DAVID STEINDL-RAST | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| e1a936a | Mi always thought of him as living in a body one size smaller than his being - part of him always rushing forward beyond the rest of him, leaving part of him behind. [...] Skin-tight, expressionless - and your self made up of dreams and stories - Boy Carlton - Boy Balfour - Boy Hannay. I know all your heroes, my dear one - I gave you the books in which you found them. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 56e61c9 | I've never met--have you?--a truly sophisticated man. World-weary and discreet--of course. But never sophisticated. | sophistication | Timothy Findley | |
| e54160d | So far, you have read of the deaths of 557,017 people - one of whom was killed by a streetcar, one of whom died of bronchitis and one of whom died in a barn with her rabbits. | war | Timothy Findley | |
| 65f38b4 | only one deaf God, who cannot see, remains--claiming all of creation as His own. If people would invest one hundredth of their devotion to this God in the living brothers and sisters amongst whom they stand, we might have a chance of surviving one another. As it is... | Timothy Findley | ||
| 91b0ff7 | You die when you can't be real, Dolly thought. When you can't see who you are and when you cannot see what it. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 4e8b26c | Go, he said; in peace. And sing with the whales. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 1451728 | You die when you can't be real, Dolly thought. When you can't see who you are and when you cannot see what is. | Timothy Findley | ||
| dbe06a1 | The art of presenting oneself, he had once told Sybil, lies in creating an immediate shock which is countered by a slow retreat into custom. People never quite recover from my cravats, but they will never find the equal of my tailor. To be memorable is all, when it comes to dress. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 9aa05bc | The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. | Anne Rice | ||
| 54777e9 | A woman walks by the gate, leading a little boy with a balloon of hunger in his belly and hair bleached by malnutrition. | poverty | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 7f9485d | A certain ambiguity of rhythm is one of the beauties of a poem | Anne Ridler | ||
| a559803 | So Erica felt better in a place like this, separated from the rest of us, where people could live in their minds without feeling bad about it. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 044a152 | My mind disappears behind desperate terror. | fear terror | Mohsin Hamid | |
| ed6a309 | If the choice is between being held up at gunpoint or holding the gun, only a madman would choose to hand over his wallet rather than fill it with someone else's cash. | stealing theft | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 3886bdf | Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 4edaf5a | Every soil does not produce every material. | Anne Robert Jacques Turgot | ||
| 6c86991 | for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e31706c | If one had asked Manucci during his days as a street urchin, as he sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah, Manucci would probably have said that ACs were hot. The first time he saw one jutting out into the street from the wall of a shop in the old city, he walked up to the noisy box and was amazed at the blast of hot air it sent straight into his face. Why do people turn on hot air in the middle of summer? he often.. | air-conditioning lahore | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 64f24bd | Although I proudly admit to being a robber (attaching as I do a certain prestige to my calling), I must make it quite clear, so clear that there is no room for doubt, that I am not a murderer. And while it is true that outlaws of both departments are schooled by the faculty of lawlessness, it is equally true that they are separated by a moral chasm as vast as the difference in syllabi which divides BA candidates from those pursuing a BSc. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| d1c5939 | A little paranoia crawls into my lap, purring loudly. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 0894554 | Not that he isn't horrible to most of the planet, he is. But if Ozi loves you, you know it. You can swim in it, get a tan. Or rest in its shade, if you'd rather. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 0993cfc | I love it when you talk about where you come from," she said, slipping her arm through mine, "you become so alive." | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| df02578 | Hoarse voice, from intimacy's border with asthma: parched beaches, dust whipped by the wind. Very sexy but not much to drink. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| c81ad40 | Power comes from becoming change. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ea41255 | It was a summer of great rumblings in the belly of the earth, of atomic flatulence and geopolitical indigestion, consequences of the consumption of sectarian chickpeas by our famished and increasingly incontinent subcontinent. Clenched beneath the tightened sphincters of test sites and silos, the pressure of superheated gases was registering in spasms on the Richter scale. Lahore was uneasy, and Immodium in short supply. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2a7e937 | and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be. | humanity mortality | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 1d5ba2b | I get in, and she turns the music down. It's Nusrat, remixed and clubby, but damn good as always. | nusrat-fateh-ali-khan | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 23938fb | A raindrop strikes the lawn, sending up a tiny plume of dust. Others follow, a barrage of dusty explosions bursting all around me. The leaves of the banyan tree rebound from their impact. The parrots disappear from sight. In the distance, the clouds seem to reach down to touch the earth. And then a curtain of water falls quietly and shatters across the city with a terrifying roar, drenching me instantly. I hear the hot concrete of the drive.. | monsoon rain | Mohsin Hamid | |
| b3e8b39 | I like its eyes: two black dots, nonreflective light-trappers. Utterly determined eyes, doubt-free, unselfconscious. Frightening eyes if they happen to be looking at you and you're small enough to be dinner. The same eyes a man probably sees on an alligator before it drags him down and shakes the air out of his lungs and leaves him to rot a little in the murk, to be tenderized properly before he becomes a meal. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| dd067e1 | I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers. | tears | Mohsin Hamid | |
| f2f2283 | If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all | opinions tolerance truth | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 4875864 | When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain | life past uncertainty | Mohsin Hamid | |
| d21917e | But in his devotions was ever more devotion, and towards her it seemed there was ever less. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 8df1469 | Le personalita non hanno un unico immutabile colore, come il bianco o il blu, ma sono come schermi illuminati, e le sfumature che proiettiamo dipendono da cio che ci circonda | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 3538640 | E cosi, qualunque fosse la ragione, quella volta la moderazione ebbe la meglio, e l'audacia, perche ci vuole coraggio a non attaccare quando si ha paura | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 9bcdd84 | Da parte sua, Saeed avrebbe voluto poter fare qualcosa per Nadia, poterla proteggere da quel che li aspettava, per quanto, a un certo livello, capisse che amare significa accettare che inevitabilmente un giorno non riuscirai a proteggere quel che hai di piu prezioso. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| afc79c8 | Quando pregava, entrava in contatto coi suoi genitori, con cui altrimenti non avrebbe piu potuto entrare in contatto, ed entrava in contatto con la sensazione che siamo tutti figli che abbiamo perso i nostri genitori, tutti, ogni uomo e donna e ragazzo e ragazza, e noi verremo persi da coloro che verranno dopo di noi e ci ameranno, e questo lutto unisce l'umanita, unisce ogni essere umano, la natura fugace del nostro essere qui, il nostro d.. | Mohsin Hamid |