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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9479733 | He kept his shirt-tail hanging out below the hem of his jacket as a white flag to motorists; over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war. It was safer to take an overseas posting with the British Expeditionary Force. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| e763303 | The South Koreans are better educated than the English. The Swedish are happier. The Germans are more compassionate. The Azerbaijanis are more literate. Brunei has cleaner air. Latvia has faster broadband. Everywhere has a better climate. And yet for some astonishing reason you still act as if you matter. Why is that, do you suppose? Ah, yes, empire. You lost yours over a century ago. The Americans are only just losing theirs and that's not.. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 0de5ad8 | Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 85d6736 | Bryant lurched away from the kerb and out into the traffic without bothering to look or signal. He'd come to anticipate the chorus of horns greeting his entry into the traffic stream, rather as bugles announced the arrival of Caesar. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 88fc61c | The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| a120c32 | I have had my difficulties with the American legal system, and so I feel qualified to talk about it. | Akio Morita | ||
| 6c84abb | War changes that. Crimes start to happen without reason, because people are upset, or angry, or just frustrated. Acts of violence are squalid, casual, mundane. Contrition, misery, fingerprints everywhere, children in tears. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| a6443de | Look at the photographs of Hitler at Nuremberg two years ago, the deadness behind the eyes that denies humanity, just as it betrays the true darkness of the soul.' May | Christopher Fowler | ||
| ebc3fc7 | I'll have you know I keep detailed notes. Mistakes sometimes occur in translation.' 'Why do your notes need translating?' 'I write them in Aramaic. It's a three-thousand-year-old language so I have to make up a lot of words. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 4d6d690 | Pretend you're in the Met. You don't catch them thinking | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 363f846 | Oh, I'm losing my marbles,' said Bryant cheerfully. 'I've gone totally East Ham. One stop short of Barking. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 9d4f6e7 | The city survived in fragments, as though it had been painted on glass and the glass had shattered. He | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 7fc5c93 | You can forgive a lot when a dim day has a happy ending. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 7d8f415 | In the history of the world, no censor has ever been looked back on with respect. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 3930d41 | These hippie writers are selfish and irresponsible. I'll tell you what made our nation the bastion of patrician morality it is today: the ability to be profoundly miserable. It's one of our greatest strengths, to be ranked beside shutting the boozers at ten-thirty and regarding the waterproof mackintosh as an acceptable item of clothing. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| fb3ffcb | Look at the state of you. Get some of those wet clothes off and chuck them on the radiator.' 'Do you always boil a saucepan of sprouts for at least two hours?' Bryant asked. 'What?' said May, thrown. 'No.' 'Good, then you're not my mother.' He struggled out of his overcoat and found that his damp brown sweater had lengthened dramatically. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 8dd645c | Rage, rage"!' shouted Bryant, picking up his walking stick and waving it like a pirate cutlass. '"Rage against the dying of the light"!' 'Has he been at the sherry?' Renfield looked nonplussed. 'No,' said May wearily, 'he's been at the Dylan Thomas. Don't worry, I'll take care of him." | Christopher Fowler | ||
| b89c593 | our imperative to protect life should override all regulations set in place by passing politicians. Everyone needs a place they can call home. It should be as fundamental a right as freedom of speech. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| da0bcfa | Developing your emotional intelligence will allow you to explore new depths of understanding in yourself and others. | communication-skills emotional-intelligence-quotes motivational-speaker preparation-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| aba6ff1 | You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| cd91d89 | The 4-H Lassies met Saturday afternoon with Miss Caroline White at the home of Mrs. Max Granich. Miss Shirley Cole demonstrated sewing on bias binding. Miss Marie Moore gave a demonstration of buffet decoration. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Granich." The above item from the North Adams Transcript of Feb. 15, 1952, suggests a bucolic scene from mid-20th century America, with girls and women gathering at a routine meeting of a youth group.. | Rick Winston | ||
| 5e956b1 | When Patton now showed up on the Mary to welcome them, Sergeant Bill Pajewski punched Corporal Sam McCarthy in the ribs. "Man," he whispered in obvious consternation, "do you see what I see? It's Old Blood and Guts!" McCarthy responded by crossing himself." | Ladislas Farago | ||
| 2de7c2d | My journal entries revealed what mattered to the real me, and the path I needed to take. As I got in touch with my deepest thoughts, feelings, and desires, I began to change my whole way of life. I learned to think with my heart and not just my head. | Mari L. McCarthy | ||
| bb40463 | I'm sorry to say you're stuck with me." "What if I go bald and grow a beard?" "Then I'll kiss your sweet bald head and teach you how to shave." | Marie Force | ||
| bb3b4b5 | I want to get married someday. I want to stand up in front of all the people I love and make that commitment to someone I can't live without. I want to have a family with her and dogs and a house that's all ours. I want to take vacations with her and see the world together. I want to live and work and play and love with her, every day for the rest of my life. The woman I love, the woman I marry will be treated like a queen because that's ho.. | Marie Force | ||
| 859733c | Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior. | communication-skills emotional-intelligence-quotes motivational-speaker preparation-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| ec342e0 | the differences between U.S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural. | Akio Morita | ||
| 4700e73 | And I should like to know why you talked of us to Mrs Scaling as though you had been our grandfather!' 'I feel like your grandfather,' he replied. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ef9f3ad | Punctuality Plus. When you have scheduled an appointment, or have made a commitment, you have essentially made a promise. Being punctual demonstrates your consideration for others and that you can be depended upon. | branding communication-skills healthy-habits motivational-speaker quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes speaker-susan-young success | Susan C. Young | |
| 101d638 | Oh, one is not always alone you know. I mean so alone that one might go mad. No, there are boats and trains full of people to watch and observe and then, if one ever feels one is really going mad, there is always something to be done about it. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 4f51b2d | Autrement, a la distance ou je suis de vous, de meme qu'a celle ou vous etes les uns des autres, toute existence apparait sans aucune espece de signification, sans aucune raison d'etre d'aucune espece. Chaque existence est un probleme insoluble. Les voisins de palier ranges verticalement dans les immeubles, on se demande comment c'est possible et on fait partie des rangees. Ce qui remplit le temps c'est vraiment de le perdre. Tous ces jeune.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 3e2379d |
Una casa sola no existe asi como asi. A su alrededor se necesita tiempo, gente, historias, < |
Marguerite Duras | ||
| 3dee396 | Nosotros, los del 68, somos enfermos de la esperanza, la esperanza es lo que se confia a las funciones del proletariado. Y a nosotros, ninguna ley, nada, ni nadie ni nada, nos curara de esa esperanza. Quisiera volver a afiliarme al PC. Pero, al mismo tiempo, se que no sera necesario. Tambien quisiera dirigirme a la derecha e insultarla con todas mis fuerzas. El insulto, el insulto es tan fuerte como la escritura. Es una escritura, pero diri.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| fcd7f86 | Si Ter a vecu il a du etre de ce cote de la societe ou l'argent est facile, ou l'idee est courte, ou le mystique du chef tient lieu d'ideologie et justifie le crime. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 2fd11b2 | fbm nWy kntu 'ktb .. twjWb lHdyth `n lktb , whdh m l ytHmWlh lrjl , l ytHmWlwn mr'@an tktb. nWh 'mrun l yuTq blnsb@ l~ lrjl , shqW `l~ ljmy` | الكتب الكتابة الرجال men writing | Marguerite Duras | |
| 95cd13a | Todo escribe a nuestro alrededor, eso es lo que hay que llegar a percibir; todo escribe, la mosca, la mosca escribe, en las paredes, la mosca escribio mucho a la luz de la sala, reflejada por el estanque. La escritura de la mosca podria llenar una pagina entera. Entonces seria una escritura. Desde el momento en que podria ser una escritura, ya lo es. Un dia, quizas, a lo largo de los siglos venideros, se leeria esa escritura, tambien seria .. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 9199a49 | Lo que seguira dominando, y eso nos hace llorar, es el infierno y la injusticia del mundo del trabajo. El infierno de las fabricas, las exacciones del desprecio, de la injusticia de la patronal, de su horror, del horror del regimen capitalista, de toda la desdicha que de el se desprende, del derecho de los ricos a disponer del proletariado y de convertirlo en motivo de su fracaso y nunca de su triunfo. El misterio es por que el proletariado.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| e57558d | Escribir es intentar saber que escribiriamos si escribiesemos -solo lo sabemos despues- antes, es la cuestion mas peligrosa que podemos plantearnos. Pero tambien es la mas habitual. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d8d0f87 | Olhem as areias mortas dos desertos, o corpo morto das criancas: a imortalidade nao passa por ali, ela para e contorna. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 8934a89 | Que e enquanto ela se vive que a vida e imortal, enquanto esta em vida. Que a imortalidade nao e uma questao de mais ou menos tempo, que nao e uma questao de imortalidade, que e questao de outra coisa que permanece ignorada. Que e tao falso dizer que ela nao tem comeco nem fim, como dizer que comeca e acaba com a vida do espirito uma vez que e do espirito que ela participa e da perseguicao do vento. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 59a4609 | Y.A.: Ca sert a quoi, ecrire? M.D.: C'est a la fois se taire et parler. ecrire. Ca veut dore aussi chanter quelquefois. Y.A.: Danser? M.D.: Ca compte aussi. C'est un etat de l'individu, danser. J'ai beaucoup aime danser. Y.A.: Pourquoi? M.D.: Je ne sais pas encore. | reflexión | Marguerite Duras | |
| 3000288 | Devant une certaine fenetre du premier etage, dit-il, il y a un hetre qui est parmi les plus beaux arbres du parc. -- Ma chambre. C'est une grande chambre. Sa bouche a lui fut humide d'avoir bu et elle eut a son tour, dans la douce lumiere, une implacable precision. -- Une chambre calme, dit-on, la meilleure. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 97403bc | Mot cuon sach mo ra, do cung la dem toi... | Marguerite Duras | ||
| aa9ff00 | Nguoi ta khong tim thay noi co don, nguoi ta tao ra no. Noi co don, no tu sinh ra. | Marguerite Duras |