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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6307ae7 | Was it cathartic or a form of self-torture? | Jill Mansell | ||
| 02e727f | Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn't summon up the energy to make them. | Jill Mansell | ||
| 3de30a2 | Why do men think they can get away with it? Because they're men. | Jill Mansell | ||
| 6417c45 | Ellie closed her eyes and felt the aching loneliness well up inside her chest. | Jill Mansell | ||
| ae8906c | When it's someone like that, someone important, you never forget them. | Jill Mansell | ||
| 5ca589d | Well that's because I wasn't always like this.' Henrietta paused, examining her knuckles. 'I built a wall around myself. | Jill Mansell | ||
| 260ce06 | This was far worse than that. It was like the moment after you realize someone has taken the pin out of a grenade. Like the quiet but deadly click of a landmine beneath a soldier's boot. | Chris Manby | ||
| 15a0482 | I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested. | friendships relationships trials wisdom | Elise Broach | |
| 8f7bba0 | The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud. James | Elise Broach | ||
| c7578d9 | We'd best find Sal Pavy now, afor some scanderbag pounds him into a pudding and takes all his money." "Some SCANDERBAG?" "Aye. What's wrong wi' that?" Sam shook his head. "How long have you been in London?" "Nearly two years. Why?" "You still sound as though you'd arrived from Yorkshire yesterday." | Gary L. Blackwood | ||
| f35c08a | Sam laughed. "One of these days you're going to forget your lines and have to thribble, and it's going to come out in Yorkshire-ese." He put a hand to his brow, in a parody of the way I played Ophelia in Hamlet. "'Gog's blood! I wis some scanderbag has brast his noble costard wi' a waster!'" He yodeled the last word in imitation of my uncertain voice. I tried to scowl at him, but my features kept wanting to break in to a grin. "You sot! I'.. | Gary L. Blackwood | ||
| 02e7adf | Besides, there are other concerns. Suppose this--What did you call him?" "Falconer." "Suppose this Falconer sells the play to a printer, who publishes it and has it registered. Then the Chamberlain's Men lose all legal right to perform it ourselves." "Oh. I didn't ken." "We generally delay publication as long as possible. Some companies care little for registrations or rights, and to print the play is the same as saying 'Here it is, and wel.. | Gary L. Blackwood | ||
| 86fa12e | At the height of his fame, he would reassure his audience: "You're not alone--give me your hands" [61], and then stretch out his own emaciated arms toward them, coyly allowing the tips of his fingers to graze theirs for an instant, before he withdrew, keeping their tantalizing dream of contact alive while remaining ultimately aloof and alone." | Peter Doggett | ||
| 86b4a0e | It's not the pain that hurts,' she said, 'it's finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole. | Peter Doggett | ||
| 0564ae8 | out...That's why they want the Beatles to go on, so they can get all silly again. But | Peter Doggett | ||
| 1253b89 | The exact identity of those oppressed souls was a matter of subjective opinion. Feminists sought the liberation of women from male dominance and aggression. African-Americans wanted an end to racism and, in many cases, the establishment of their own exclusive homeland. Students in Paris and New York fantasised about the overthrow of the restrictive educational system that, in their view, smothered free thought and expression. Committed Marx.. | Peter Doggett | ||
| 7d98849 | Debemos optar por permanecer en el interior del paraiso del pasado el mayor tiempo posible o volver a nuestro anodino presente en el que, por lo general, las unicas cosas que anhelamos son el fin de semana, nuestro programa de television favorito, un sexo mediocre de vez en cuando, o ir a dormir por la noche? | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 2c737d7 | The Angel of Death was nothing special to look at: it had manifested itself today as a plate of someone's finished meal of bacon and eggs. Egg yolk was smeared across the white plate. Inside this smear were scattered bread crumbs. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| aa2a022 | Wszystko, co w zyciu najlepsze, Bill, to dzielo ludzkich rak: ostrza scyzorykow, chleb, ubrania, kochanie sie... | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 0c86e53 | Lions should be strong but sweet beasts in a Disney cartoon. But they aren't, so when they act like lions you're angry at them for not being the fantasy animals you imagined. Russian bears don't put on top hats and ride unicycles. Or sleep in bed next to Goldilocks. force them to do those stupid things in circuses and films and children's books. Sure, some will be more docile or more ferocious than others, but in the end they will always,.. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 506b4a2 | I am fifty-five years old, and believe God is willing to listen if we speak clearly and to the point. His responses are manifested, not in immediate answers or results, but in dots everywhere around us that need to be connected intelligently. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| c23d421 | Samoe khudshee, chto mozhet sluchit'sia s chelovekom v skazke, - eto prevratit'sia v zveria. No vysochaishaia nagrada dlia zveria - prevratit'sia v cheloveka. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 58ad7cf | Dumaiu, nuzhno byt' pisatelem, kogda v golove stol'ko bezumnykh idei i istorii. A to lopnesh', esli ikh ne zapishesh'. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| b9ba9d2 | Minna Agency errands mostly stuck in Brooklyn, rarely far from Court Street, in fact. Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill together made a crisscrossed game board of Frank Minna's alliances and enmities, and me and Gil Coney and the other Agency Men were the markers -- like Monopoly pieces, I sometimes thought, tin automobiles or terriers (not top hats, surely) -- to be moved around that game board. Here on the Upper East Side we were off our cu.. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 6021b5d | Someone made the point somewhere that we must learn to distinguish between the occult and the religious, between magic and true spirituality. The two do sometimes come together--saints do have magical powers, sure, But they don't exploit these powers, and more important, they consider them only by-products of their real concern, which is spiritual development. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| a322cb2 | When I was younger, I had a girlfriend. She was like a thousand-dollar perfume--unique, gorgeous, but then gone much too soon. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| f636aa5 | Cats are loners that keep us company only when the mood strikes them, | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| e13c0ea | Sometimes happiness is like the sound of a plane overhead. You look up to see it but the plane's not there. No matter where you look you can't find it on the sky, although the sound is still there and growing louder. You get a little frantic searching. At the same time you're thinking, this is stupid. But you keep looking and if you do finally see it, you feel absolved. Most of my life I'd been looking for happiness in the wrong parts of th.. | happiness plane sky | Jonathan Carroll | |
| 051e4e0 | Behind the chain-link fence the skeleton of the structure, floodlit from all sides, looked very much like a rocket ship on its launchpad. The lights, so harsh and intense, refused to admit darkness was behind them, beyond them. But the beams quickly disappeared once they flooded out past the museum and into the Alpine night. You would think so much candlepower could shine well up into the sky, but it can bully the night only so far, which i.. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 6ae18d3 | I did Barbie's dream as a one-off thing, but I found it haunting me; I kept having an image in my head of Martin Tenbones getting killed in real New York. Still, that would've been the end of it...except, by a wild coincidence, a short time later I received a postcard from Jonathan Carroll. He wrote that he'd been following my graphic novel --which was being serialized in magazine at the time--and he was finding a number of very scary si.. | interview jonathan-carroll neil-gaiman radio writing | Hy Bender | |
| a551da8 | Don't ever try to be normal because it's the first symptom of a terminal disease. As soon as you feel the need to be normal coming on, get the antidote. ... Just make sure you're living your life; don't let normal pretend to be you. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 15dd6c2 | I want out of the freak show and into the main tent. | James Kirkwood Jr. | ||
| 51eb9e3 | I felt, if not outright dirty, at least a bit - dusty. | James Kirkwood Jr. | ||
| ee4fdc8 | I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends. | James Kirkwood Jr. | ||
| c614fd6 | Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink. | drink drinking | James Kirkwood Jr. | |
| f889722 | I sat on the concrete stump, collecting snow atop my dome, benumbed and befucked by my colossal overpowering lack of knowledge. | James Kirkwood Jr. | ||
| 9f0304e | ne odin chelovek ne zhivet po-nastoiashchemu, esli on ne otdaet sebia drugim | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 2dae195 | Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence ... --HELEN KELLER | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 20c62e8 | Grief never ends ... But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. --AUTHOR UNKNOWN | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 6ab0705 | It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through. | quiet silence truth virtues | Donna VanLiere | |
| 99b5e32 | Don't ever underestimate who or what He'll use to get something done. But the choice to believe that is always yours to make. | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 3d1c287 | I ignored everybody's input and followed my inward intuition. Don't ever let a loser lead you. | Bethany Kennedy Scanlon | ||
| 00c21ec | CLOTALDO. What then dost thou mean to do? ROSAURA. Kill the Duke. CLOTALDO. A gentle dame, Who no father's name doth know, Can she so much valour show? ROSAURA. Yes. CLOTALDO. What drives thee on? ROSAURA. My fame. CLOTALDO. Think that in the Duke thou'lt see . . . . ROSAURA. Honour all my wrath doth rouse. CLOTALDO. Soon thy king -- Estrella's spouse. ROSAURA. No, by Heaven! it must not be. CLOTALDO. It is madness. ROSAURA. Yes, I see it. .. | feminism | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | |
| 7808810 | ROSAURA: Hipogrifo violento que corriste parejas con el viento, ?donde, rayo sin llama, pajaro sin matiz, pez sin escama, y bruto sin instinto natural, al confuso laberinto de esas desnudas penas te desbocas, te arrastras y despenas? Quedate en este monte, donde tengan los brutos su Faetonte; que yo, sin mas camino que el que me dan las leyes del destino, ciega y desesperada bajare la cabeza enmaranada de este monte eminente, que arruga al .. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca |