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| 9e015fd | Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us. | Frank Herbert | ||
| fe6db0b | There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhu.. | emotion humanity inspirational science truth | Raymond Chandler | |
| 0282548 | The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. | Truman Capote | ||
| fa86701 | I've tried that. I've tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find.. | serenity | Truman Capote | |
| 4e02cc1 | If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there? | Douglas Adams | ||
| ea552b2 | There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6d88b53 | It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. (Aragorn talking of Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing) | Éowyn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 80d1581 | I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will. | knowledge-wisdom marius | Anne Rice | |
| f0d8c43 | You want the bad news, or the really bad news? (Eros) Oh, let's see...how about we make my day special, and start with the worst, then work our way up? (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| dd7c82b | He sad enough already because he has to deal with that bitch-goddess with the red hair. (Simi) Simi! (Kat) Well, she is a bitch-goddess. I know you love her, akra-Kat, but facts is fact and she a mean heifer. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 64b9250 | Looking at their son on ultrasound.) He looks like an angel. (Cassandra) I don't know. I think he looks like a frog or something. (Wulf) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2d5f5dc | Oh contraire, mon frere. I'm able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don't even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1f7044b | I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 2565791 | how can a little thing be so annoying? | twilight-saga | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 465ceb0 | For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| 0ee35b6 | Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| fbbcbc7 | We can never cease to be ourselves. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| e07837f | We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 5faec0a | The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length | Robert Frost | ||
| c115ea9 | Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. | Jim Morrison | ||
| 1efb06f | Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing... | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 4da0941 | Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise. | Annie Dillard | ||
| e3ae353 | Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 89be3f5 | She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. | reading | Annie Dillard | |
| a095299 | I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped. | Anne Lamott | ||
| aca3207 | I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster" | jeeves sherlock-holmes wodehouse wooster | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 32f73ba | Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto. | synonyms | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| d8f749d | My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 6834143 | Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'--blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable. | consensus democracy dissent gaza-war hamas iran israel israel-united-states-relations israeli-palestinian-conflict terrorism united-states | Noam Chomsky | |
| 186e999 | He laughs. "Put some clothes on so you don't scare poor Kiara with your morning hard-on." I look down at my shorts. Sure enough, I've got la tengo dura in front of Kiara and Tuck. Shit. I reach out for the first thing I can grab and put it in front of me to shield myself from view. It happens to be one of Kiara's stuffed animals, but I don't have much choice right now. "That's Kiara's Mojo," Tuck says, laughing. "Get it? Mojo?" -- | carlos-fuentes funny kiara kiara-westford perfect-chemistry rules-of-attraction simone-elkeles tuck | Simone Elkeles | |
| 38f8d36 | The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." [ | criticism freedom-of-opinion freedom-of-speech freedom-of-thought immunity liberty sacrosanct-ideas | Salman Rushdie | |
| 38c0982 | She rests her hand on the ruffled costume beside her. "Just answer this one question. My brother never got over you. Did you ever get over him?"I swallow. "There are some people in life that you can't get over." "Good." Calliope stands and gives me a grim smile. "But break Cricket's heart? I'll break your face." | love | Stephanie Perkins | |
| dcd86c5 | You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone, but I've been here this whole time. This whole time. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6dcd79f | Cricket removes his hand. I blink at him, and he cautiously offers his arm. I hesitate. And then I take it. And then we're so close that I smell him. I smell him. His scent is clean like a bar of soap, but with a sweet hint of mechanical oil. We don't speak as he leads me across the street to the bus stop. I press against him. Just a little. His other arm jumps, and he lowers it. But then he raises it again, slowly, and his hand comes t.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 24b0d33 | We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! | Arthur Miller | ||
| 9518015 | Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 44d4e21 | You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job. | shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 983ebd9 | Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath. | William Shakespeare | ||
| cd66e7d | He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. | mettlesome | William Shakespeare | |
| 22c6e0b | And nothing is, but what is not. | shakespeare william | William Shakespeare | |
| fe81f88 | What, you egg? | macbeth | William Shakespeare | |
| 881d699 | One pain is lessened by another's anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. | eye infection pain romeo-and-juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| 8ea7fbe | JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened. | humor jaques names orlando rosalind shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 446daac | No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast. | pity richard-iii shakespeare | William Shakespeare |