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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 418b440 | But what we ought to fear is the kind of death that happens in life. It can happen at any time. You're going along, and then, at some point, you congeal. You know, like jelly. You're not fluid anymore. You solidify at a certain point and from then on your life is doomed to be a repetition of what you have done before. | Gail Godwin | ||
| a9140f0 | All beautiful, dangerous idols fall, I thought, if you keep your eye on them long enough. | Gail Godwin | ||
| b4452a4 | Maybe it's because I'm more confident of my own powers now, not so afraid of losing myself, of being molded by other people's needs of me, of being overwhelmed by them, that I can live in those strange, green days again and willingly be that girl. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 511a557 | As long as you can go on creating new roles for yourself, you are not vanquished. | Gail Godwin | ||
| d03ee3c | Other people don't exist when you're not with them. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 8e1a265 | As a teacher, Kurt Vonnegut was easy, magnanimous. He didn't try to make his students into little Kurt Vonneguts. He respected material unlike his own and was startlingly humble about what he did. ("I write with a big black crayon," he would write to me later, "while you're more of an impressionist. I don't think you have it in you to be crude.") In his workshop sessions, things always seemed a little looser, a little kinder, a little funni.. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 64ab1ec | Squashed behind The Cloud of Unknowing we discovered a pocket-size spiral notebook with a day-by-day account of the time Justin had stayed with her and her husband after Tommy's death. The writing was legible though it required effort (this was before she took her calligraphy course), but Justin was ecstatic and asked if he could have the little notebook. "This is my history," he said. Later, after he had deciphered every last word: "Boy, w.. | personal writing | Gail Godwin | |
| c150941 | One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. | Gail Godwin | ||
| cd3939c | Discontent," Father Maturin said, enunciating the word with a strange vigor and looking straight at Elizabeth, "may be God's catapult, His way of saying: 'Go and try yourself now." | Gail Godwin | ||
| 7366756 | People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed | Gail Godwin | ||
| b56f00a | What is memory but another narrative form? | Gail Godwin | ||
| 70d25e2 | May their having each other make more of them both. | partnerships | Gail Godwin | |
| 63bbb6c | The human mind, as we know from personal experience, is a chronic time traveler, but we are repeatedly amazed by its ability to hitch up the body, the body that resides the only place it can-- in present time-- and pull it along like a wagon, with its entire load of sensory equipment, backward or forward into other time zones. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 391611d | During all my worrying about how and when and whether we'd ever get together again, I had neglected to imagine we might slip back together as naturally as a dislocated joint slipping back into place, followed by an ardor more straightforward than either of us had been capable of before. | Gail Godwin | ||
| 1fcbfdc | When someone has enough money, logistics can be worked out in no time. | wealth | Gail Godwin | |
| c10169d | How glibly and thoughtlessly that phrase 'make us grow' slides off our tongues. As if growth were always a happy, shapely matter: leaves unfurling, blossoms opening, hearts and minds joyously stretching toward more light. Whereas the fact of the matter was, when we asked for growth, we were asking for a mess. Exploding tempers, privately nursed little petri dishes of resentments, insecure stumblings into dangerous new places. | Gail Godwin | ||
| bb6df27 | It was more like I saw him coming and knew he was the one. I went out of myself to meet him and then couldn't get back inside without bringing him with me. | Gail Godwin | ||
| adb5bd9 | These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence. | David Macaulay | ||
| 23aec4f | He had a reasonable job as an actuary (whatever that was), | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 7263179 | He didn't know how to speak properly, how to walk properly, how to comb his hair, and she felt embarrassed for him as he shouted about restoring jobs and national honor, about a better and splendid Germany. The mob applauded, shouted. Did people really believe that he wanted what was best for Germany? | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 7b8f484 | Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface of the river after you toss stones into the waves. Only you knew they were there. Unless you told. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| f656e30 | These are thing," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church call sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind." | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 689a591 | Their train speeds through the cities and crosses rivers until it reaches Paris. They leave the station, their arms around each other, and walk to the Jardin des Plantes where the panther paces the length of his cage. The young teacher nods as Hannelore Beier reaches into the cage, and strokes the animal's magnificent neck. The panther arches his back. A curtain lifts from his pupils as the pastor's sister slides aside the bolt that has kep.. | jardin-des-plantes panther rilke | Ursula Hegi | |
| 6c62d21 | Only a few people in Burgdorf had read Mein Kampf, and many thought that all this talk about Rssenreinheit-purity of the race-was ludicrous and impossible to enforce. Yet the long training in obedience to elders, government, and church made it difficult-even for those who considered the views of the Nazis dishonorable-to give voice to their misgivings. And so they kept hushed, yielding to each new indignity while they waited for the Nazis a.. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| fca5fe8 | Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi | Irmgard A. Hunt | ||
| 0fe1b52 | It was the kind of silence that fills you with light and makes you believe you can do anything you want. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 9400510 | Data are to statistics what a good offensive is to a star quarterback. | statistics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 104f058 | Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart. | jealousy-quotes jealousy-quotes-love-quote | Stewart Stafford | |
| 1a94a2f | Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak. | dreaming dreams rest sleep | Stewart Stafford | |
| 4c87b50 | Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility. | Stewart Stafford | ||
| 939152e | All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night! | nighttime vampire-series vampires | Stewart Stafford | |
| dd12a2d | The Phantastic Phantasms by Stewart Stafford Halloween Henry sitting on top of a pumpkin he made Eyes are ablaze Morbid Melissa breastfeeding strychnine to all of the babes Her smile never fades Don't you see that darkness creeping? It's a nightmare without sleeping Trick-or-Treat Trevor knocking on doors with no head to display It's his headless way Emmet The Clownface Haunting the grounds of an old children's school He's nobody's ghoul On.. | all-hallows-eve dark-humour halloween halloween-beasts halloween-creatures halloween-poem halloween-poems phantasm samhain | Stewart Stafford | |
| 334381d | Almost Myself On a twilight road, I met a young man with my face. A denizen of some distant dust devil in drifter denim. We stood and eyed each other, then, with a look of mutual disdain, we parted. | doppelgänger drifter hitchhiking poem poems-on-life poetry supernatural-mystery twilight twin-soul | Stewart Stafford | |
| 31d5b55 | Os maiores riscos nunca sao aqueles que voce pode ver e mensurar, mas aqueles que voce nao pode ver e, portanto, jamais podera mensurar. Aqueles que parecem tao distantes, fora das fronteiras da probabilidade normal, que voce nao consegue nem imaginar que possam acontecer na sua vida - mesmo que, e claro, acontecam, com mais frequencia do que voce se da conta. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 7164935 | THE | Charles Wheelan | ||
| db1ce77 | Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs--meaning they have minimal say over what tasks are performed or how those tasks are carried out--have a significantly higher mortality rate than other workers in the civil service with more decision-making authority. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 5b7be9c | our ability to analyze data has grown far more sophisticated than our thinking about what we ought to do with the results. You | Charles Wheelan | ||
| d1a1fb8 | Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8" | Charles Wheelan | ||
| f674642 | Statistical inference is really just the marriage of two concepts that we've already discussed: data and probability (with a little help from the central limit theorem). | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 0ad42a7 | For all of these reasons, a shocking amount of expert research turns out to be wrong. John Ioannidis, a Greek doctor and epidemiologist, examined forty-nine studies published in three prominent medical journals.8 Each study had been cited in the medical literature at least a thousand times. Yet roughly one-third of the research was subsequently refuted by later work. (For example, some of the studies he examined promoted estrogen replacemen.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| fecee98 | A statistical anomaly does not prove wrongdoing. Delma Kinney, a fifty-year-old Atlanta man, won $1 million in an instant lottery in 2008 and then another $1 million in an instant game in 2011. The probability of that happening to the same person is somewhere in the range of 1 in 25 trillion. | statistics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 6d83974 | The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income."4" | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 24daa07 | But it's not perfect. The GPA does not reflect the difficulty of the courses that different students may have taken. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 387aa70 | A study in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that every $1 increase in the price of gasoline is associated with an additional 1,500 motorcycle deaths annually.10 | Charles Wheelan |