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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8fcf3e6 | Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 0e42131 | When you think of two things to say, pick your favorite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behavior, and the rule was later modified to one in three. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| ac2fe03 | Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. "I'd come to see the heavens," our father always said. "But the stars were in her eyes," a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love." | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 9f5755b | We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 0f01ea0 | No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn't agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery. | politics | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| 5fff1a4 | The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't. | money | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| bc658d0 | When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 5f65963 | We should get you Linux, too. Nobody uses Windows anymore. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| cd9627a | Scientists have solved the problem of solipsism with a strategy called 'inference to the best explanation'. It's a cheap accommodation, and no one is happy about it, with the possible exception of those alien overlords. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 378d210 | So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's the Emperors's New Clothes gone global. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 92f3cdc | Instead I watched our mother obsessively for signs of breakage. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 0263611 | If she was exposing more skin than usual, that was because it was going to be a hundred-fucking-six degrees. Was she supposed to wear a suit? | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d706709 | Comenzar una novela es como abrir la puerta o un paisaje neblinoso; ves muy poco, pero hueles la tierra y sientes el soplo del viento. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 91b459f | The police moved us on at about six a.m. This is the hour when, for some reason, one begins to be a menace to law and order. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| bca2b49 | Outsiders who see rules and not the love that runs through them are often too ready to label other people as 'prisoners'. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 1ce851f | He went away, bent double with the pains of remorse and regret and the inward biting of a love which had now no means of expression. He remembered now when it was useless how the Abbess had told him that the way was always forward. Nick had needed love, and he ought to have given him what he had to offer, without fears about its imperfection. If he had had more faith he would have done so, not calculating either Nick's faults or his own. Mi.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| e7499ef | I can't sleep. The pills don't work anymore. I'm just saving them up now. It's no good imagining gardens and garden gates, that used to help. Now I lie for hours staring at the ceiling. Human life is a scene of horror. I hope you enjoyed the cheese souffle. Nothing could be more important than that Mozart died a pauper, except that Shakespeare stopped writing. A scene of horror. You'd better go home.' 'But what were you saying?' 'Nothing. W.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| cdf460a | Ego den mporo na katalabo pos einai dunato na einai kaneis kallitekhnes kai na men prospathei sunekhos na ginei teleios. | artist | Iris Murdoch | |
| a757a83 | To na ekphraso mia epithumia s'ena gramma , sukhna ekho ten paraloge aisthese, oti einai isodunamo me ten ekplerose tes. To gramma einai ena phragma, mia anaskhese, ena phulakhto enantion tou kosmou, mia skhedon alanthaste methodos telekateuthunses. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| c6ad075 | Pisteuo pos oi gunaikes, isos asuneideta, metabibazoun stis kores tous ena bathu aisthema tes dikias tous dusareskeias. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| d450981 | Upephera apo ten anesukhia pou ekhoun ekeinoi pou gregora katalabainoun pos den diathetoun te morphose pou tha tous eprepe. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| f138d05 | Ekeine ten epokhe suzetouse na ginei "montelo", alla ap' oso xero ego toulakhiston, den ekane kamia sobare apopeira pros aute ten kateuthunse. Ekeino to opoio egine sto telos, kai khoris kamia idiaitere leptoteta, etan kokota." | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 93b1b34 | Merikes phores arkhizei na mou leei pos me misei, me misei... -Oloi oi pantremenoi to psithurizoun auto o enas ston allo ole ten ora. Aute einai e themeliodes litaneia tou eggamou biou. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 5a24b43 | Noiazomaste gi' auto me to opoio mporoume na tautistoume. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| b49644e | Nomizei pos einai kata kapoio tropo monadike kai diapistonei tora pos den ekhei kanena idiaitero talento. -Auto moiazei kharakteristika me ten anthropine moira. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| cbb5e2f | Einai apaisia na eimai o eautos mou. Den xereis ti einai na xupnas kathe proi kai na xanabriskeis oloklere te phrike tes uparxes sou. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| ff2b65f | Ourliazoume o kathenas khorista, sta khorista kapitonarismena kelia mas. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 710567c | Liudi obychno imeiut o sebe sovershenno iskazhennoe predstavlenie. Po-nastoiashchemu chelovek proiavliaetsia v dolgoi tsepi del, a ne v kratkom perechne samotolkovaniia. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 2185d15 | Akouga te siope tou diamerismatos ste mese tou thorubou tou Londinou. E ora pernouse. Perimena. Ontas sklabos sou, ti allo na kano apo to na perimeno tis ores kai tis eukairies tes diatheses sou; Den ekho polutimo khrono na diatheso, oute uperesies na prosphero mekhri te stigme pou tha mou to zeteseis. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| f4c58b2 | Den einai paraphrosune na sugkentronei kaneis ten prosokhe tou apokleistika s' ena prosopo, na sterei ton upoloipo kosmo ap' opoiadepote semasia, na men ekhei skepseis, aisthemata e uparxe para mono se skhese me to agapemeno prosopo; | Iris Murdoch | ||
| b464931 | Naverno, imenno eta malen'kaia oblast' besspornykh obiazatel'stv, kotorye beret na sebia chelovek, i est' ego spasenie, spasenie ot zverinoi, egotsentricheskoi nochi, nakhodiashcheisia v neposredstvennoi blizosti ot liubogo, samogo tsivilizovannogo iz nas | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 157e21a | My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 1982291 | Les esprits aiment la nuit, qui sait plus qu'une femme donner une ame a toutes choses. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 9e70ce1 | Ten eikhe aute te geloia suntrophikoteta tou mesou anthropou o Arnolnt. Ki aute tha mporouse, isos na einai proterema s' ena gamo. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 40d5b71 | Mou phainetai pantote polu periergo to oti esoun pantremenos. -Ki emena. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 0c11e6c | The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| d93a17a | Instintivamente se sentia identificado con aquellos heroes que comenzaban con H. Homero. Hannibal. Hobbes. Hume. Hamlet. Hitler. Que cuadrilla. Solo su propio nombre parecia algo vacio, una especie de no-nombre, otra causa de resentimiento, irredimible por los reyes. Y, por supuesto, la misma letra H era una no-letra, una simple inhalacion, una nada, una carencia de identidad inconstante que en ruso se convertia en G. Gamlet, Gitler, Genry... | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 8e82de6 | Vives en un estado ilusorio. La conciencia humana comun es un velo ilusorio. Nuestra ilusion principal es el concepto que tenemos de nosotros mismos, de nuestra importancia que no ha de ser violada, de nuestra dignidad que no debe ser escarnecida. De esta ilusion mana todo nuestro resentimiento, todo nuestro deseo de violencia, de vengar las ofensas, de afirmarnos a nosotros mismos. Todos somos escarnecidos, Cristo fue escarnecido, nada pue.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 131d9f6 | Te amo. ?Te sorprende? No se. Amar a alguien es simplemente un hecho. No quiero decir que no hubiera, y que no haya, razones para amarte. Podria hallar miles. Pero en cuanto al pasado, al siempre-haber-sido de este amor, es algo que esta ahi y a duras penas consigo recordar alguna epoca en la que no te amara. Quiero que seas capaz de verme, y como mi amor por ti es una parte esencial de mi (de mi entera, convirtiendome en algo mas que yo mi.. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| bb69c4f | I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important | iris-murdoch philosophy | Iris Murdoch | |
| 9957998 | Pero es que no puedo compartir nada contigo... No puedo compartir tus recuerdos, tu idioma, tu musica, tu trabajo, nada. Soy solo... solo una mujer. --Una mujer. ?Y acaso esto no es serlo todo? --No, no lo es. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 07470ad | Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She | Iris Murdoch | ||
| e70df2d | Como todavia no hablase, dije: --?Podriamos ser felices? Honor dijo: --Esto no tiene nada que ver con la felicidad, nada en absoluto. Era cierto. Acepte la promesa de sus palabras. Dije: --No se si sobrevivire a ello. Honor dijo con una esplendida sonrisa: --!Tienes que correr el riesgo! | Iris Murdoch | ||
| e6100f6 | Comprendo. --Anadi--: Tu me acusaste en una ocasion de decir tonterias. Si yo soy un privilegiado solo por haberte visto abrazando a tu hermano... Seguia callada, sonriendo otra vez. Trate de no devolverle la sonrisa. Dije: --Me dijiste que eras una cabeza cortada. ?Se pueden mantener relaciones humanas con una cabeza cortada? | Iris Murdoch |