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9eef3e1 Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being. Rebecca Solnit
68ebe02 A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. humor David Sedaris
624cd0e Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly Cornelia Funke
0961167 I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. Jack Kerouac
cd38150 I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. Jack Kerouac
516e162 I've got to think that that was unethical," Joshua said. "Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed." "How is it like a mustard seed?" "You don't know, do you? Doesn't seem at all like a mustard seed, does it? Now you see how we all feel when you liken things unto a mustard seed? Huh?" mustard-seeds Christopher Moore
836fafc But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age." "I thought you liked redheads." "I do. What's your point?" moore redheads Christopher Moore
256b3af Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus. Christopher Moore
67cc34f The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him. José Saramago
ffd54e9 I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing. blake fiction hunter micah paranormal romance vampire Laurell K. Hamilton
bdcea00 Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- Sam Harris
0802998 You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. others privacy secrets Don DeLillo
c68bce6 But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.' 'What sort of tools?' 'More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A la.. freedom george-dorn hagbard-celine oppression rights Robert Anton Wilson
16e5f31 An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown Richard Bach
a1a93c6 There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay. Kevin Brockmeier
5352d35 You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please. MaryJanice Davidson
6ce65a5 I meant I'm not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it. Kim Harrison
49aa0f2 Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doo.. Joan Didion
4e1ef22 It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to mak.. self-image self-reflection Joan Didion
aeb911b It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something t.. Ayn Rand
e0b392c A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. Ayn Rand
ebcf592 I'm gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That's my motto. party H.G. Bissinger
b1e2036 Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'--I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry n' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why, I'll be there. John Steinbeck
cbf2a37 Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together... Arthur Golden
472eeca A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having. Nora Roberts
d05adb7 Love is a private thing. The world does not need to know. Dan Brown
0e39765 The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it - that's how we learn. Rick Warren
d899942 No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't. Sarah Mlynowski
5ace253 Quien ha dicho que solo pueden hacernos sufrir los malvados? maldad sufrimiento sufrir vida Ernesto Sabato
fc274e6 The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war. John Eldredge
1534fe2 the violin -- that most human of all instruments... louisa-may-alcott violin Louisa May Alcott
54dcebb It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. little-men louisa-may-alcott Louisa May Alcott
11c1b47 we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people... louisa-may-alcott twins Louisa May Alcott
cc0dcd9 He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart. Charles Dickens
3b258f3 REMEMBER HOW STRONG WE ARE IN OUR HAPPINESS, AND HOW WEAK HE IS IN IS MISERY! Charles Dickens
11bc078 New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. Charles Dickens
6442ef4 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. humor manners philip-marlowe put-downs raymond-chandler Raymond Chandler
1b5219d The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness. Ted Dekker
ce3097f On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide--it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese--the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope. suicide Jeffrey Eugenides
cc49d46 When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It.. Jeffrey Eugenides
7b693e4 What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. Douglas Adams
ca95366 Help means ruin and saving means slaying. J.R.R. Tolkien
2f7a358 It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time. Clayton M. Christensen
8ff4f02 What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature... That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. living perception Tom Wolfe