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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe6273f | Having someone else in the house, a large, clever, overbearing yet indifferent presence, mitigates loneliness not at all. | Barbara Vine | ||
| 637cc8c | But that's ghastly old Chepstow. Drunk as a lord again!' 'If that's Chepstow he is a lord,' objected Dedham, trying to turn for a better view. 'He's entitled, you might say. | Barbara Cleverly | ||
| 99c5ea2 | The best saints swear fluently. | saints swearing | Barbara Cleverly | |
| ce7a497 | All women become like their mothers. | Barbara Cleverly | ||
| 57c029b | Money closes more than mouths, it closes | Barbara Cleverly | ||
| 18fb3fe | What a country, America. A lunatic asylum, without enough attendants or tranquilizers. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| c108d4c | Give me smart, young, and angry and I'll move the world. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 61ec30a | yourself." "Maybe we should analyze it. Maybe a little discovery is in order." "Maybe a little getting under the covers is in order. Baby?" "Yes?" "Are you going to take off your overcoat? Feels like making it with a flasher." "Good point. Jesus, Pep," he sighed soulfully. "Keep taking off the coat. That's it. Now how about the jacket? There you go. . . ." "Six months ago I was happily married." Pepper rolled her eyes. "Married, okay. Happi.. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 09783ad | Come on, Terry. Forgotten what it's like to be young and angry?" Terry shrugged. "I'm middle-aged and angry. With good Scotch, I can deal with the anger." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| e76b0f3 | So we've gone from 'Don't trust anyone over thirty' to 'Don't drink any Scotch under thirty'? Is this what's become of your revolution? | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 9082341 | No one likes lawyers until you need one, at which point they assume the raiment of knights. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 8a7951b | But why would I give my watch, my precious watch and fob, to a--Russian who-re?" "Two Russian who-res. Perhaps to avoid being beaten to death by two very large Russian pimps." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 71affb6 | The corporal's morale is excellent verging on sublime, sir. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 0a918e2 | The corporal also reads glossy magazines," Cass said. "When not composing Shakespearean-quality media advisories pertaining to our mission here. Sir." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| c3261ac | Oderint dum metuant." "You're going to have to translate that for me. I didn't go to Gratin." "It's Groton. Means 'Let them hate, so long as they fear.' Cato." | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 03ff5cf | The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to know who Christopher Marlowe was. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 772e09d | The corporal was not having sex with the congressman in a minefield. | Christopher Buckley | ||
| 3932f60 | Chi conquista un migliaio dei soliti cuori ha diritto a qualche fama, ma chi sa rimaner assoluto padrone del cuore di una civetta e veramente un eroe. | Washington Irving | ||
| bdf2c30 | spectre, through | Washington Irving | ||
| fba75e2 | phantasms that | Washington Irving | ||
| 0e7f531 | The story-high house of hewn logs is clean and neat, with many rooms," he wrote, "so that one can be alone if one wishes to." The central room featured a massive stone hearth with trophy heads gazing down from the walls and buffalo robes covering the couches. His own chamber held a rubber tub for bathing and rough shelves for his favorite books--"Parkman and Irving and Hawthorne and Cooper and Lowell"--along with a growing assortment of vol.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4792626 | Indignation. Best fuel I know. Never burns out. | Irving Stone The Agony And The Ecstasy | ||
| 43cb459 | There's all the kids at home, and my mother and brother. And the men I pick up. But you live alone anyhow, don't you? It ain't people that count. It's having someone you really like. | Irving Stone | ||
| 481d28e | Wiedzial dawniej, ze mozna zlamac reke lub noge i wyzdrowiec; do tej pory nie wiedzial jednak, ze mozna wyzdrowiec po ataku szalenstwa. | Irving Stone | ||
| 2cf10e4 | Dintotdeauna cititul insemnase pentru el bucuria cea mai mare si mai statornica, si cu atat mai mult il pasiona acum, cand in povestea triumfului sau a infrangerilor, a suferintelor sau a bucuriilor altora gasea o evadare din umbra staruitoare a propriei sale nereusite... in fiecare carte pe care o citea incerca sa descopere telul care ar putea da vietii lui un nou sens. | Irving Stone | ||
| a2bd356 | Viata insasi indreapta spre om o fata goala, nepasatoare, descurajanta, pe care nu se citeste nimic, ca si pe panza asta goala. Dar omul nu se sperie de acest gol, paseste plin de incredere si de curaj, se zbate, cladeste, creeaza, si pana la urma, panza nu va mai ramane goala, ci se acopera cu formele bogate ale vietii. | Irving Stone | ||
| 3826608 | Toata marea literatura are un caracter universal. Altfel piere. | Irving Stone | ||
| 127b3f8 | Stiinta este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile. | Irving Stone | ||
| 50262e2 | Erezia unei generatii este ortodoxia generatiei urmatoare. | Irving Stone | ||
| 97e737c | Nimeni nu poate scapa de suferinta, cel mai bun lucru pe care il putem face e sa nu suferim orbeste. | Irving Stone | ||
| 8865a7d | Liubovta e solta na zhivota; chovek ima nuzhda ot neia, za da podchertae vkusa na sveta. | Irving Stone | ||
| 2cf96a2 | I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself. | Irving Stone | ||
| b9d71e3 | Some minds corrode, and grow inactive, under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginative in the loneliness of confinement. | Washington Irving | ||
| 54fb3c0 | Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. | Bernie Sanders | ||
| 10af113 | His personal fulfillment did not lead him to evolve a cheerful Madonna; on the contrary this Madonna was sad; she had already, through his sculptures, known the Descent. The tranquility of his early bas-relief, when Mary still had her decision to make, could never be recaptured. This young mother was committed; she knew the end of her boy's life. That was why she was reluctant to let him go, this beautiful, husky,healthy boy, his hand clasp.. | Irving Stone | ||
| 71cfe76 | He had come into the autumn of his life: a man had his seasons, even as had the earth. Was the harvesting of autumn less important than the seeding of spring? Each without the other was meaningless. | Irving Stone | ||
| 26cad9f | Toulouse-Lautrec blew in, winded from six flights of stairs, but still as hilarious and ribald as ever. "Vincent," he exclaimed, while shaking hands, "I passed an undertaker on the stairs. Was he looking for you or me?" "For you, Lautrec! He couldn't get any business out of me." "I'll make you a little wager, Vincent. I'll bet your name comes ahead of mine in his little book." "You're on. What's the stake?" "Dinner at the Cafe Athens, and a.. | Irving Stone | ||
| 5067433 | Art destroys the life. | Irving Stone | ||
| ff45f95 | But you can draw people's faces, can't you? I'm sure lots of women here in Etten would like to have their portraits painted. There's a living in that." "Yes, I suppose so. But I'll have to wait until my drawing is right." His mother was breaking eggs into a pan of sour cheese she had strained the day before. She paused with half the shell of an egg in each hand and turned from the stove. "You mean you have to make your drawing right so the .. | Irving Stone | ||
| ef7bc09 | He did not know how much time passed. He got up, ripped the canvas off the frame, threw it into a corner, and put on a new one. He mixed some paints, sat down, and began work. One starts with a hopeless struggle to follow nature, and everything goes wrong; one ends by calmly creating from one's palette, and nature agrees with it and follows. On croit que j'imagine--ce n'est pas vrai--je me souviens. It was just as Pietersen had told him in .. | Irving Stone | ||
| 428a1f1 | Then, in front of the hostile crowd of four hundred, Darrow drew great pleasure from, as Irving Stone vividly put it, "flailing against minds that were as sprung and shut as an iron trap over the broken leg of an animal."89" | Andrew E. Kersten | ||
| 7b50a34 | The most important idea he gleaned from the swift, learned talk was that religion and knowledge could exist side by side, enriching each other. Greece and Rome, before the dawn of Christianity, had built gloriously in the arts, humanities, sciences, philosophy. Then for a thousand years all such wisdom and beauty had been crushed, declared anathema, buried in darkness. Now this little group of men, the sensual Poliziano, the lined Landino, .. | Irving Stone | ||
| c820d8c | It was a pastiche of public library porn from Irving Stone to Philip Roth. | Nell Zink | ||
| 28b08a6 | There is only a God-given number of years in which to work and fulfill yourself. Don't squander them. | Irving Stone |