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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 254bd51 | That which interest me above all else,' he wrote,'is the caligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of the grass. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 5560beb | And, in return, when I get sick, you can come out and look after me when the others get fed up of me. That's what we are all for. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 9e119ef | all my life when I have seen more than two men together I have seen foolishness and I have seen cruelty, but it is foolishness that I have noticed first. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 9ec5138 | people shouting that if he could heal the sick and make the crippled walk and the blind see, then he could raise the dead. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| b40c1a4 | She loved them, each of them, and found the differences between the four brothers intriguing, but sometimes she found the pleasure of being alone after a lunch or a supper with them greater than the pleasure of the meal itself. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 310d5b5 | But that will be the beginning." "Of what?" I asked. "Of a new life for the world," | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 49ddb45 | She tried to think of Tony now as a loving and comforting presence, but she saw instead someone she was allied with whether she liked it or not, someone who was, she thought, unlikely to allow her to forget the nature of the alliance and his need for her to return. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 44212cd | For each day, she thought, she needed a whole other day to contemplate what had happened and store it away, get it out of her system so that it did not keep her awake at night or fill her dreams with flashes of what had actually happened and other flashes that had nothing to do with anything familiar, but were full of rushes of colour or crowds of people, everything frenzied and fast. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| f83cb5b | And she saw all three of them--Tony, Jim, her mother--as figures whom she could only damage, as innocent people surrounded by light and clarity, and circling around them was herself, dark, uncertain. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 89d1b01 | He was the boy I had given birth to and he was more defenceless now than he had been then. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 503732e | Trollope and Balzac, Zola and Dickens would, he felt, have become bitter old preachers, or mad hairy schoolmasters had they been born in New England and condemned to live amongst its people. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 0396870 | his legs where the bones had been broken, | Colm Tóibín | ||
| bd7c651 | By day the old area of Barcelona is bustling, full of shouting, hammering, drilling and shutters being pulled up and down. You listen out for sounds. If you want a replacement gas cylinder you wait for the sound of the delivery man hitting a cylinder with a piece of metal in the street. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 574225d | I have been acquainted with the smell of death. The sickly, sugary smell that wafted in the wind towards the rooms in this palace. It is easy now for me to feel peaceful and content. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| ecd29d5 | Her two visitors are clearly some of the apostles, the men who wrote the New Testament; others, such as Miriam or her "cousin" Marcus, are invented." | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 41d11dd | It had been easier to present a self in full possession of pride and confidence. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 9228f18 | I don't go in for change. It is not one of my subjects. I have always taken the view that noticing change is a mistake. I notice what is directly in front of me. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 4543e2b | There was a time, I know, when I felt rage and I felt sorrow. But now I have lost what leads up to rage and sorrow. Maybe the only reason I wander in these spaces has to do with some other feeling, or what is left of it. Maybe that feeling is love. There is someone whom I love still, or have loved and protected, but I cannot be sure of that. No name will come. Some words come, but not the words I want, which are the names. If I can say the .. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 357f63d | Mankind," Henry found himself saying, "is a very large business." | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 5c62e25 | Here in this cemetery, which they began to stroll around once more, the state of not-knowing and not-feeling which belonged to the dead seemed to him closer to resolved happiness than he had ever imagined possible. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| aac27ac | He turned and looked at Henry. "Did you always know that you would write all these books?" "I know the next sentence," Henry said, "and often the next story and I take notes for novels." | Colm Tóibín | ||
| e658c76 | Would a promise not be the same?" "If you can promise, then you can easily do this," he said." -- | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 9c24fb5 | We live in a strange time,' Electra said. 'A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but there are times when we don't. Their power is waning. Soon, it will be a different world. It will be ruled by the light of day. Soon it will be a world barely worth inhabiting. You should feel lucky that you were touched by the old world, that in that house it brushed you with its wings. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| d91e909 | Truck driver gets his truck stuck under an overpass, with Engvall watching. | Bill Engvall | ||
| af304d3 | Adam sat back and scoured his recent memory. | Warren Ellis | ||
| ce37c89 | It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon. | Warren Ellis | ||
| a8ca568 | I don't want to kill her. But then I don't want to shit and eat. But in the order to live I have to do it. | Warren Ellis | ||
| d143b75 | And if you don't believe me or even Charley, remember that Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of our time, has opined that all investors would be better off if their portfolio contained a diversified group of index funds. | Charles D. Ellis | ||
| c30630a | Most institutional and individual investors will find the best way to own common stock is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results [after fees and expenses] delivered by the great majority of investment professionals."1 --Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway" | Charles D. Ellis | ||
| e766d4d | There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you drink when you're dead? | mystery | Warren Ellis | |
| bd8139a | Supermodernism. the fact that we don't build places just to live in anymore. We build places to go through. To wait in. To be transient [. . .] Supermodern spaces. Places to go through. And now look at this bloody city [Los Angeles]. Two hundred thousand fucking miles of road. Not even a city. A dozen towns stitched together by motorways. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 518b370 | Murder increases happiness. | Warren Ellis | ||
| d72aa08 | Fuck you . . . you fucking body-dysmorphia porn-addict trust-fund-baby compulsive-masturbation motherfucker. | super-hero | Warren Ellis | |
| 7fc4af9 | Okay," I said. "Let's do something really goddamn stupid." | Warren Ellis | ||
| b128709 | There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 6dd69b3 | Religion lives not in dogma, but utterly within the virtues of love and self-sacrifice. Without those, there is no future I can bear to stand, nor hope for the continuance of God's creation. It is not blasphemy to say that the work of Jesus the redeemer was and is to break the chains of the realms of darkness. And set free the creature from the power of sin. | religion salvation | Warren Ellis | |
| a071e9c | We use the language of magic and ghosts and ritual to parse science and technology because science and technology always was, and still is, a process of magic and ghosts and ritual. Same thing. The mistakes we made were in consigning that language to the storage room of things we think we've grown out of - in thinking we were somehow better than it -- and in leaving its scattered remains to the illusionists and hucksters who no self-respect.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| e743855 | In the world of haunted machines we're determined to bring on, we need alchemists. People with feet in both worlds. People prepared to consider a world of ghosts and spirits with presence and agency. People like the cunning-folk, equipped to translate the high code of that world for the rest of us dung-stained villagers. People who know their history - which means also knowing their folklore, because that's where the lessons are. Magic | Warren Ellis | ||
| 54b7779 | Post-modernism, which has probably lasted longer than modernism, is the process of interrogating the aesthetic discourse. Disrupting the narrative. Modernism says that things can be right. Post-modernism says that nothing can be right. So if you ever wonder why nothing new ever seems to happen any more, find a post-modernist and beat the shit out of then. Wyndham | Warren Ellis | ||
| c9a486d | ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it'd seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun. | noir-style surprising violent | Warren Ellis | |
| 04d485f | Lots of cops married nurses, Tallow knew. Nurses understood the life: murderous shiftwork, long stretches of boredom, sudden adrenaline spikes, blood everywhere. Tallow almost smiled as he followed his wincing partner into the apartment building. He made sure the door closed as silently as possible, and only then did he draw his firearm. | noir-style slice-of-life | Warren Ellis | |
| e3716e0 | IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building's stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory. | noir noir-style ptsd violence | Warren Ellis | |
| aef78bf | Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction. I | Warren Ellis | ||
| 2369765 | We say, 'I see what you mean,' it's the metaphor for clarity. But sometimes I wish people could see the pictures in my head, instead of my having to describe them with words. Words are clumsy. I wish I could communicate in pictures. | Warren Ellis |