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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d7e279 | Do you usually go hiking? This weekend, take a tennis lesson. Do you bowl? Leave that to your buddies this time. Why? Because it will give you conversational fodder for the rest of your life. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 0c38018 | Spend time with people you choose, not just those who choose you. Be choosey in who you pick. But don't wait to be the choosee. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 3ff8792 | At the end of the conversation, look the individual right in the eye. Say his or her name and proceed to curl all ten toes with the Killer Compliment. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 827287e | I'm an old-fashioned copper-I don't believe in breaking the laws of thermodynamics. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 96f7c7d | First law of gossip--there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 7724263 | Anything that can go wrong with armed men in the light can go twice as wrong in the dark. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 20db868 | Have you noticed that about journalists--all they really want to talk about is themselves. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 0ef0ee3 | he had been left so painfully as a child and was terrified that it would happen again. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| a5a4207 | George's father was a bus driver and he was planning to buy him his own bus. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 1fbecc7 | events. First, just after I sat my finals at art college, the boys' breakthrough arrived: after almost two months of agonising, they heard that George Martin wanted them to sign a contract with Parlophone Records. We | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 31a478e | the boys wanted someone they could have a laugh with, someone who shared their irreverent sense of humour. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 1efd08e | When Mo and Ringo parted in 1974 she had been so heartbroken that she got on a motorbike and drove it straight into a brick wall, badly injuring herself. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| cd3bbfc | John's particular talents hadn't gone unnoticed but they weren't his artistic talents. They were his talents for having his fellow students fall about with shocked, uncontrollable laughter at his wicked, disrespectful wit. His ability to disrupt a lecture had to be seen to be believed and John's appearance was even worse than his humour. I think he was the last stronghold of the Teddy Boys - totally aggressive and anti-establishment. My fir.. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 60ec59d | I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, deserves a more critical response. This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind. And it is the mind that must think about all things, including the computer. | digital-culture information-society | Theodore Roszak | |
| 05a5dcd | Dumb as I was about movies at that stage of my life, I had no trouble understanding her response. Vampires. Even I knew that wasn't art, wasn't the least bit like the things we came to The Classic to see: movies about tortured relationships, despair, and the meaninglessness of life--like La Strada, The Bicycle Thief, or The Seventh Seal. Really good movies, as I understood it, made you want to go out and drown yourself. Vampire | Theodore Roszak | ||
| 4c01cd2 | It made him feel like a mom, ineffectual and sexless. | Christopher Bram | ||
| 5d2d1b3 | Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for . There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, "My tits are on fire")." -- | Christopher Bram | ||
| d7e1339 | Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual. | gay-neoghbourhoods writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 0e2b81c | Everybody is Other in Maupin. | gay other writers | Christopher Bram | |
| db92f40 | In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up. | writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 9ad87e1 | Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock). | writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 4a94181 | Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist? | gay writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 4706689 | Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books - it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love. | liberation promiscuity writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 14ccf29 | I hate hating myself. It's boring. But there's nobody else to hate. | Christopher Bram | ||
| fb88cb2 | She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight. | Christopher Bram | ||
| f0515f0 | He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts. | Christopher Bram | ||
| 845ced9 | Throwing himself a party was like rubbing his nose in his failure to connect with people. | Christopher Bram | ||
| e211742 | Not until she stood at her sink, splashing cold water on her face, did she remember her little hippo. What the hell was that about? When did her unconscious get so fucking whimsical? And what fine truth was he going to tell her? | Christopher Bram | ||
| 17b1192 | But that was something, wasn't it? It was good to be needed. It was better than being alone. It even felt good to be used. Being used brought you deep inside the machinery of the world. | Christopher Bram | ||
| c10acfc | quiere vivir algo que se parezca a una experiencia extraordinaria, una batalla, una historia de amor, una aventura limite, un crimen incluso. Cielo o infierno, que importa, pero un gran drama que lo saque de esta vida sin porvenir y que justifique su existencia. Entonces si podria dormir placidamente sobre sus laureles, o sobre sus espinas, sabiendo que ha vivido. | vida | Christopher Bram | |
| 5cf2cf4 | Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels. | short-stories | Christopher Bram | |
| 6e85ba7 | the only truth left is my drunkenness, my sex, and my art. | Christopher Bram | ||
| fe2446e | shake | Christopher Bram | ||
| e2f00c8 | De acuerdo con la leyenda, las marcas desaparecen -dijo de pronto Matt-. Cuando la victima muere, las marcas desaparecen. -Si, lo se -sinio Ben, que le recordaba por el Dracula de Bram Stoker y por los filmes de Hammer que hicieron famoso a Christopher Lee. | christopher-lee dracula referencia vampiros | Stephen King | |
| d6ee3b0 | It's no fun looking down on people if you can't let them know you're above them. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 659cfe1 | There was nothing soft or serene about his appearance, nothing small and dainty. Ross was huge and rough-looking, a walking wall of muscle-rippling, spicy-smelling, rumbling-voiced man. He | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 174b4eb | Correlation does not equal causality. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| cfb493d | She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly killed him. She had no idea how lovable she was. How precious and brave and special. | romance | Sarah Mayberry | |
| e88bc1f | rapidly, | Sarah Mayberry | ||
| b308ad3 | Far, far easier to batten down the hatches and lock the world out than take a chance. | Sarah Mayberry | ||
| 0b617b7 | Sometimes, life just worked out the way it was supposed to. | Sarah Mayberry | ||
| c03fb41 | I don't want you to go anywhere, okay? Just because we disagree on something doesn't mean that I don't still love you. I will always love you, no matter what. | romance swoon-worthy | Sarah Mayberry | |
| 12b8c54 | He would let Violet find her own way and time to tell Elizabeth. In the interim, he would listen and hold her hand and offer his counsel, but he would not push. He understood now how deep her wounds ran, how hard it was for her to trust that she could make mistakes and still deserve love. | romance | Sarah Mayberry | |
| ad60cf2 | tete-a-tit, | Sarah Mayberry |