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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57a82dc | Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than any real thing. But this time who could say? This time might be the golden one at last | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| cec9f96 | The rounded slopes, Phyllis said, indicated ancient water as clearly as the grain in petrified wood indicated the original tree. By the way she spoke Nadia understood that this was another of her disagreements with Ann; Phyllis believed in the long wet past model, Ann in the short wet past. Or something like that. Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 3866fb1 | They published their papers, and shouted and waved their arms, and a few canny and deeply thoughtful sci-fi writers wrote up lurid accounts of such an eventuality, and the rest of civilization went on torching the planet like a Burning Man pyromasterpiece | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| f74874d | Buddhism spreads by people converting out of their own wish for peace and right action. But power condenses around those willing to use force. | peace power religion war | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| c5009d6 | Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's a constant pressure, pushing toward pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call viriditas, and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see. ... And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. W.. | cosmos life nature patterns viriditas | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 2cd7baa | She recalled hearing how after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, they had built prison camps faster than medical facilities. They had expected riots and so had put people of color in jail preemptively. But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 4688725 | Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 417b38b | To hope without hope, which would be wise, is impossible. --MARCEL PROUST, Les Plaisirs et les Jours | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 13dfdd9 | Therefore, simple syllogism: human language is futile and stupid. Meaning furthermore that human narratives are futile and stupid. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 41373e4 | Frank recalled a fire from his youth: two climber gals slightly buzzed had come bombing into Camp Four around midnight and hauled him away from a dying fire, insisting that he join them in a midnight swim in the Merced River, and who could say no to that. Though it was shocking cold water and pitch black to boot, more a good idea than a comfortable reality, swimming with two naked California women in the Yosemite night. But then when they g.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 0880dbf | The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims, with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 79574bc | minors. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| ef0b290 | Reality is mathematical, as long as you understand that uncertainty and contingency can be mathematically described, without them becoming any more certain. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 51e4c0d | and Miss Dietrich smiled and nodded at this and said that a girl in search of a husband should squeeze apple seeds between her fingers: if any struck the ceiling, she was sure to be happy in her quest, for apples were the fruit of love. | love | David Guterson | |
| 5311648 | He stood and walked to her. Beside her a bucket stood on the sand, filled with the little silver fish from the previous night. She gestured at the bucket, offering him some of the fish, and he saw that her hand was a thick mass of shiny dark brown, her fingers long tubes of lighter hollow brown, with bulbs at their ends. Like tubes of seaweed. And her coat was a brown frond of kelp, and her face a wrinkled brown bulb, popped by the slit of .. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 062cc69 | many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 2054f4f | It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it | emotion feelings love sadness | David Guterson | |
| 7e6bb06 | He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in the pretence that everything was ordinary, but in fact to service his end-game ruse. He was going over the mountains, he'd said, to hunt for quail in willow canyons, he had no particular canyons in mind, he intended to return on Thursday evening, though possibly, if the hunting was good, he would return on Friday or Saturday. The lie was open-e.. | David Guterson | ||
| f262576 | The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself. | gratefulness life | David Guterson | |
| 640b42f | People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids. | David Guterson | ||
| fd08e94 | Tourists reminded him of other places and elicited in him a prodding doubt that living here was what he wanted. | David Guterson | ||
| d1bd4d2 | The Magistrate hasn't said a word this whole time. He just stands there like a mantis, all insect patience and killer instincts. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 38f6dcc | In his popular novel Microserfs, Douglas Coupland quipped, "I think all tech people are slightly autistic." | Steve Silberman | ||
| b25b876 | There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| d1d1854 | Is it equitable that 99, rather 999, should suffer for the Extravagance or Grandeur of one, especially when it is considered that men frequently owe their Wealth to the impoverishment of their Neighbors? | Howard Zinn | ||
| 15546a6 | As a rule, in pictorial photography a long-focus lens will on the whole be most satisfactory. | Alfred Horsley Hinton | ||
| 912f0de | Ne znaiu, khotel li ia voobshche kogdanibud' slavy kak takovoi. Eto vsio ravno chto khotet' byt' inzhenerom bol'she, chem khotet' chto-to skonstruirovat', idi khotet' byt' pisatelem bol'she, chem khotet' pisat'. Slava - poobochnyi effekt, a ne veshch' v sebe. V prottivnom sluchae eto prosto samovozvelichivanie. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 66966ac | Ot vazhnykh del libo ochen' skoro v tosku vpdaesh', libo natalkivaesh'sia na uimu trudnostei - vsio zavisit ot togo, kakuiu doliu otvetstvennosti na sebia vzvalish'. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 5f7cf64 | I'll never forget that day." It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.)" | Howard Zinn | ||
| c676037 | There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States. And | Howard Zinn | ||
| 3d04619 | I have no desire to see through my own eyes anymore. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| cf629ad | If they come upon one who still has not seen it and they speak to him of fire, he does not know what they mean. So they, in turn, fall back upon telling him what fire is like. As they do so, they know from their own experience that what they are telling him is not the truth, but only a part of it. They know that this man will never know reality from their words, though all the words in the world are theirs to use. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 338c6dc | Why is it that you had to say goodbye in your special way? You slashed the tires on my car. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 01d767f | It's a valid reason for every drink, and a new tattoo is a new reason to think. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 341c718 | That self-pity shit is just too hard to resist. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 0f25ef5 | If assholes could fly, this place would be busier than O'Hare. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| dde31cf | The terror here was palpable. | Suki Kim | ||
| 40bdd6b | And the secret is," I lowered my voice, as at a poetry reading, "he was right! It is vanity, it is pride! It is the hubris of rationalism to always attack the prophet, the mystic, the god. It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." | Roger Zelazny | ||
| dab62d1 | I loved him like a brother - which is to say, not at all. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| c4e616f | But it is written that it is better to burn one city than to curse the darkness. | light | Roger Zelazny | |
| 546bf91 | A little something like this is way too big to miss. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 1c37289 | I'll drink this beer and write in fear of a song everybody hates. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 26e4f34 | For many years, Lord, or ever I came to Carce, I fared up and down the world, and I am acquainted with objects of terror as a child with his toys. | E R Eddison | ||
| d59e3a5 | Aku bisa terima kalau penyesalan itu timbul setelah aku gagal. | Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata |