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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 74db059 | I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book." -- | translation zola | Paula Fox | |
| 8be4a8c | Google billionaire lesbian, you'll find it right away," she said." | Giselle Fox | ||
| 13acec7 | Do you still want me to call you Cleopatra?" I whispered softly with a smirk. She suppressed a laugh. "No!" She looked at me with serious eyes and I could see that she wasn't quite ready to tell me her secret. "It's okay," I said, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." | quotes-for-lovers | Giselle Fox | |
| 7e6c98d | Victim status can buy special privileges and gives the green light to brand opposing views or even mild criticism as tantamount to hate speech. So | Claire Fox | ||
| e336189 | What also makes victimhood an attractive currency today is that it can gain sympathy, as though it is itself an achievement. And | Claire Fox | ||
| 75adbe3 | She slapped my shoulder playfully. "I've created a monster," she said, then she nestled into the chair and rested her head on my shoulder, "an adorable, sexy monster." | quotes-for-lovers | Giselle Fox | |
| 163184d | complaining about trolls is increasingly deployed as a weapon in gaining further sympathy as a Victim with a capital 'V': 'Being trolled by strangers on the net gives you the chance to show how hard things are for you, how right you were, and how noble and magnanimous you are in sharing your suffering with the world.' How | Claire Fox | ||
| 0d37c30 | 1555 - Burning of Protestant martyr, clergyman and Biblical editor, John Rogers, at Smithfield. Rogers was the first England Protestant burned in Mary I's reign after being condemned as a heretic. Rogers refused the chance of a last minute pardon if he recanted, and died bravely. His wife and eleven children, one being newborn and at the breast, attended his burning. Martyrologist John Foxe recorded that Rogers "constantly and cheerfully to.. | Claire Ridgway | ||
| d1302ad | We are not so different, you and I," she said as if she was inside my thoughts. "We are flesh," she ran her finger down the center of my chest and circled around my breasts, "and bone," her hand traced a path down my abdomen and over the crest of my hip and down my thigh, "fire," her hand swept up my body and pressed against my beating heart, "and water," her hand trailed down and between my legs..." | quotes-for-lovers | Giselle Fox | |
| e42ed8c | I looked around the tiny bathroom, at the three of us crammed in. A billionaire, a movie star, and a small town girl. It was some sick lesbian twist on Gilligan's Island. I would have laughed but none of it was funny. | Giselle Fox | ||
| e80b7f0 | Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen? | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| d4ad9b3 | We call them feelings because we feel them. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| f20705d | Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both." | Lawrence Block | ||
| a400566 | The Players are gentlemen," he'd intoned, "pretending to be actors. The Lambs are actors, pretending to be gentlemen. And the Friars--the Friars are neither, pretending to be both." -- | Lawrence Block | ||
| 6bc2da4 | I went into the bathroom and caught sight of my reflection in the mirror over the sink. All my years looked back at me, and I could feel their weight, pressing down on my shoulders. I ran the shower hot and stood under it for a long time... | Lawrence Block | ||
| 7b0cce4 | Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the streetcorners. You'd have thought they had existed previously in spore form, springing miraculously to life when a drop of water touched them. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 0d5cb92 | You don't sleep. You're thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is | Lawrence Block | ||
| a8d99d9 | When I decided in my mid-fifties to return to a hobby I'd abandoned twenty years earlier, I didn't know what sort of a collector I'd be. As a boy I'd started out collecting everything, then narrowed my focus to British Empire--specifically, to the Scott Specialty Album for Great Britain, British Europe, and British Oceania. In my mid-twenties I'd begun collecting Benelux as well, and in my mid-thirties, when my first marriage ended, I sold .. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 94b22e6 | out of the trembling pearly edges of the sky there swam slowly a high cluster of reddish basalt blocks, carved into the vague semblance (like a face in the fire) of a sphinx tortured by thirst; and there, gibbering in the dark shade of a rock, the little party waited to conduct them to the Sheik's tents -- four tall lean men, made of brown paper, whose voices cracked at the edges of meaning with thirst, and whose laughter was like fury unle.. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 319dd93 | And was there anything on earth as dangerous as getting everything you ever wanted? As | Lawrence Block | ||
| 1170d1c | Kogda ne znaesh', kto tvoi vragi, prikhoditsia nenavidet' druzei. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 2603c89 | I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You | Lawrence Block | ||
| 979aba9 | Oh, I don't believe in anything. I especially don't believe in astrology. Know why?" "Why?" "Because I'm a Saggitarius, and every Sagittarius knows astrology is a lot of hooey." | Lawrence Block | ||
| 943bfa3 | Because our perceptions and judgments are determined by our own attitudes and values, people's evaluations of police officers and police work in their communities normally have very little to do with the performance standards within the department. I have listened to harsh, critical comments made about "cops" and been struck by how little most people know about the realities of policing. Denial of the harsh, violent, or dangerous aspects of.. | Lawrence N. Blum | ||
| 765ee5b | Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth. | Lawrence Block | ||
| f20850a | If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 74c0ae7 | Halfway home I stopped at a deli and had soup and a sandwich and coffee. There was a bizarre story in the Post. Two neighbors in Queens had been arguing for months because of a dog that barked in its owner's absence. The previous night, the owner was walking the dog when the animal relieved itself on a tree in front of the neighbor's house. The neighbor happened to be watching and shot at the dog from an upstairs window with a bow and arrow.. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 0b9c65f | Christianity would be powerless to block this trend because it exists only in the realm of the spirit--"like a vision in a pure ideal world." Islam, on the other hand, is "a complete system" with laws, social codes, economic rules, and its own method of government. Only Islam offered a formula for creating a just and godly society. Thus the real struggle would eventually show itself: It was not a battle between capitalism and communism; it .. | Lawrence Wright | ||
| d2427ca | Bessie was News, Leaders, and Gossip; Enid was Features, Make-up and general Sub. Whenever they were at a loss for copy they would mercilessly pillage ancient copies of Punch or Home Chat. An occasional hole in the copy was filled with a ghoulish smudge - local block-making had clearly indicated that somewhere a poker-work fanatic had gone quietly out of his mind. In this way the Central Balkan Herald was made up every morning and then deli.. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 1ffeb94 | I heard the pitter patter of little old feet. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 114662e | For my own part, I'd never live with anyone, male of female. I have trouble enough living with myself. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 027c53c | Wasn't it Will Rogers who said he never met a man he didn't like?" "Whoever it was, I'd say he didn't get out much." | Lawrence Block | ||
| d0fc02b | Be careful... What the dude said, ain't it? ... One lived in the woods and didn't pay his taxes. Musta been before Lyme disease, when you could still get by with that shit. You know the dude I talkin' about. Said to watch out for jobs you got to dress up for." "Thoreau." "Yeah, that's him." | jobs poetry thoreau | Lawrence Block | |
| 925aab7 | attract attention. And if they did get out a cry, | Lawrence Block | ||
| b389f58 | Nobody'd believe a story like yours except a dyke who shaves dogs. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 146957f | The Turks have dreary jails. | Lawrence Block | ||
| c72bbd1 | that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor. | Lawrence Block | ||
| d46124a | When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 89cf58a | Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the same--a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 609fca7 | Maybe we swore we would never be harsh with our children the way others were harsh with us. Then, just when they need us most - when they act up and misbehave and call us names and son on - we get angry and punish them, or feel hurt and block them out. We momentarily forget how fragile our little ones are, just as they forget about cooperation or sharing or calming down and following the rules. | parent-feelings parenting punishment tantrums | Lawrence J. Cohen | |
| 561221d | Keller sat in his hotel room with his purchases on the desk in front of him, pleased with what he'd acquired and the bargain prices he'd paid, but a little bit anxious at having spent so much money. He had dinner again that night with McEwell, and confided some of what he was feeling. "I know what you mean," McEwell said, "and I've been there myself. I remember the first time I paid over a thousand dollars for a single stamp." "It's a miles.. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 6cda7d3 | So where does the human error come in? Well, sometimes I buy a stamp and mount it in my album without troubling to log it in my catalog. And later I find it offered on somebody else's list, and see that it's one I don't have, and buy it again. And then when I go to mount the new copy in my album, there's one already there. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 501bd2e | 36.80. So all I have to do is wait and acquire each stamp as it becomes available, right? Well, yes, at least in theory. But what happens, more often than not, is that a stamp I need is grouped in a single lot with one or more other stamps that I don't need. I need French India #39, cataloging 90C/, and it might well be offered in tandem with #38 ($2.40) or #40 ($1.40). Or both of them. Or the lot on offer might consist of #74 ($1.10), #75 .. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 529f73e | philately is far and away the area of my life where I spend the most time and effort making genuinely inconsequential decisions. | Lawrence Block |