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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f098a84 | the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7ad66a5 | he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips...her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. | love lust | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 41534e1 | The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1d7c637 | the day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole | inspirational | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 68fd604 | They glared at her the way any intelligent persons ought to glare when what they need is a smoke, a bite, a cup of coffee, a piece of ass, or a good fast-paced story, and all they're getting is philosophy. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3031a71 | People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement, for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection. But when we avoid certain conversations, and never fully learn how the other person feels about all of the issues, we sometimes end up making assumptions that not only perpetuate but deepen misunderstandings, and that can generate resentment." | conflict courage disagreement understanding vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| d070e5e | We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others. | growth shame | Brené Brown | |
| a76c4b1 | If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 61c553c | And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. | Howard Zinn | ||
| ef5b956 | I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible. | fear ignorance pg-323 | R. Scott Bakker | |
| a753bde | You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally. "It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion... | Tamora Pierce | ||
| f74b71c | For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one. | friendship | Christopher Hitchens | |
| e548175 | she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 023afcb | O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the innermost citadel of hallowed Troy, was made to stay grievously about the coasts of men, the sport of their customs, good and bad, while his heart, through all the sea-faring, ached with an agony to redeem himself and bring his company safe home. Vain hope - for them. The fools! Their own witlessness cast them aside... | creativity prayer | Steven Pressfield | |
| 5e42fd4 | I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger. | Andy Warhol | ||
| 310b7ef | The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. | dreams future hope | Carl Sagan | |
| 6e146f5 | A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things: -45 litres of water -Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen -Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches -Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap -Enough iron to make a two inch nail -Enough carbon for 9,000 pencil points -A spoonful of magnesium I weigh more than 70 kilograms. And I remember a TV series called Cosmos. Carl Sagan would walk around on a set that was meant to loo.. | science | Erlend Loe | |
| fb239ea | Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used. | Carl Sagan | ||
| f94ca73 | At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true dimensions of even the Milky Way Galaxy, they took steps that ensured that their descendants would be unable to see the stars at all. For a million years humans had grown up with a personal daily knowledge of the vault of heaven. In the last few thousand years they began building and emigrating.. | human-development science space | Carl Sagan | |
| fe4d831 | I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| 41875f3 | He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 4b718b0 | No wind favors he who has no destined port. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 3c85da9 | There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance) | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 60279dc | Any instructions?" Carpenter said. "Yeah," Shane said. "Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don't like. I'm getting tired of this shi*." "Somebody needs a hug," Carpenter said. "Humor," Shane said. "Har." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| b34afa0 | Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the universe in the first place, is still around to oversee and influence the subsequent fate of his initial creation. In many theistic belief systems, the deity is intimately involved in human affairs. He answers prayers; forgives or punishes sins; intervenes in the world by performing miracles; frets a.. | pantheist theist | Richard Dawkins | |
| 1f9f5d0 | She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1a5063f | You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that." -- | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c923cde | But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| ecbf168 | The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the.. | moral morality survival survival-instinct | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 3dea1d9 | Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993. However, it certainly appears that the main thing the Internet has accomplished is the normalization of amateur pornography. There is no justification for the amount of naked people on the World Wide Web, many of whom are clearly (clearly!) doing so for non-monetary reasons. Where were these .. | internet porn sex technology women | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 1ecfc5e | All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| b9cb7fd | There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since." | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 86fd3bc | S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I'm making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she's given me pain. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| bf9463a | Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| a9072de | Well, well, well," Santa said once the elf had retreated. "Come and sit on my lap, little boy." This Santa's beard was real, and so was his hair. He wasn't fucking around. "I'm not really a little boy," I pointed out. "Get on my lap, then, big boy." I walked up to him. There wasn't much lap under his belly. And even though he tried to disguise it, as I went up there, I swear he adjusted his crotch. "Ho ho ho!" he chortled. I sat gingerly on.. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| e991d50 | Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. | imagination | J.R. Ward | |
| b746c6e | As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose. After all, there was a reason why and were seperated by so little and sounded one like the other. Bearing witness to her, he heard her and was there for her because that was all you could do during a fall apart. But God, it pained him to see how she suffered. | john john-matthew lover-mine xhex | J.R. Ward | |
| 7ef8e1e | Knock her dead, my man." "Oh no." Xcor shook his head."That shan't be necessary. This one I like." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3b3b654 | Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room." | love sacrifice | J.R. Ward | |
| 168eb47 | I don't need to tell you not to fuck my buddy. Right." The surgeon looked around his little-glass-bottle-and-needle routine. "I'm not thinking of sex at the moment, thank you very much. But if I was, it sure as shit wouldn't be with him. So instead of worrying about who I'm tapping, how'd you like to do us all a favor and have a shower. You stink." | manny | J.R. Ward | |
| 0bab6e7 | We're here and we prey on you | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 436d4b4 | The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 5658852 | To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. | opening-lines | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 16e19b9 | Goodness me, the clock has struck- Alackday, and fuck my luck. | Kurt Vonnegut |