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| 9b65ac5 | You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?" I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, "It's the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky." Al's mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. "Very true," she said as she eased back into the cushions. With a soft click of his teeth, Al's mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and h.. | clever al newt demons insanity | Kim Harrison | |
| f17a2e1 | Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building--as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago--and lands on a bystander in the street below. Now, make the burning building be Europe, and the luckless man underneath be the Palestinian Arabs. Is this a historical injustice? Has the man below been made a victim, with infinite cause of complaint and indefinite.. | injustice history analogies jaffa jeff-goldberg crusades victims washington israeli-palestinian-conflict europe arabs colonialism israel jews palestine palestinians | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fac727d | I never wanted anyone else, T.J. I just wanted what was best for you." "You are what's best for me," he said, cradling my head in his arms, his legs intertwined with mine. "I'm not going anywhere, Anna. This is right where I want to be." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| a6a8fac | It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equalit.. | youth | Trevanian | |
| a64464a | No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| e0ff43f | I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. | travel | Evelyn Waugh | |
| 7629d46 | Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 0c86a4f | Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| cb91090 | we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 5a6b3b4 | Es comun que en las noches de insomnio sea teoricamente mas decidido que durante el dia, en los hechos. | Ernesto Sábato | ||
| a56e349 | I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| c6e2900 | Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments ... The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like.. | jesus religion god satanism separation-of-church-and-state satan mohammed constitution zealots | Carl Sagan | |
| e9e8ce1 | But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. | Carl Sagan | ||
| e1ca8a6 | We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open | supernatural | T.S. Eliot | |
| de94b16 | The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it. | Bram Stoker | ||
| e10643d | Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purp.. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| b3ba7b3 | There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. | Toni Morrison | ||
| b6eb43a | Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small creature is alive and looks for adventure. Here's the drainpipe--a long tunnel going up toward some light. The spider doesn't even think about it--just goes. Disaster befalls it--rain, flood, powerful foces. And the spider is knocked down and out beyond where it started. Does the spider say, "To .. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 534fb4f | I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealisti.. | christmas children | Robert Fulghum | |
| bec4cfb | Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten. | school | Robert Fulghum | |
| 95c7e19 | Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| f2e5e0c | To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare, senor. That's rare and valuable." -- Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories " | valuable rare | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 1607e2a | So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 94c9355 | The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream. | sita | Christopher Pike | |
| 197793c | I am a vampire, and that is the truth. | opening-lines vampire | Christopher Pike | |
| cb70f7e | We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths. | living | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 4df6231 | Leaning down onto his arms, he prowled up the bed to her body, his eyes fixated on her secret skin as if he'd never seen anything like it. When he got in range, wide hands smoothed their way up the insides of her thighs, opening them even farther. But then he frowned and looked up at her. "Wait, I'm supposed to kiss you on the mouth first, aren't I? I mean, males start at the top and work their way down, don't they?" What and odd question.... | J.R. Ward | ||
| ccf8fd4 | Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 8c73f5e | I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread... | J.R. Ward | ||
| 756a18a | Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been." -- | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| e56c926 | Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British queen-- All fit together In the same machine. Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice-- So many different people In the same device. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 7850a46 | Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. | W. E. B. Du Bois | ||
| f90d934 | It's ironic that as scientists that don't believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god. | humor | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| a81b34a | The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess. | grief romanticizing-dead-people | John Green | |
| e575fc4 | The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. | John Green | ||
| 126b10e | Merit: "I am yours until you ban bacon, or otherwise as long as I can put up with you." | Chloe Neill | ||
| fd25d44 | Give me something to go on, here. What kind of black magic are we talking? Elphaba,Wicked Witch of the West-type stuff or Slytherin-type stuff? | slytherin merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 280a42a | I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f2f0021 | I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0639879 | The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f547d17 | If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt." | humor randomness | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| a38e890 | Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur | post-modern post-modernism values-in-life modernity values | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 29d8053 | Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 1291508 | Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the qu icksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. | Martin Luther King Jr. |