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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 076d0f8 | The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wet and the sun's coming as yet had not undone the rich matrix of creatures passed in the night before her. Deer and hare and dove and groundvole all richly empaneled on the air for her deli.. | earth-shattering melancholy | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 5f93bed | What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 47b9321 | If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| da0fb7f | I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all. | opportunism truth values | Cormac McCarthy | |
| baf2404 | Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 5c3551a | Each the others world entire. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| ca90847 | How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing. | living | Annie Dillard | |
| cb57e28 | Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 188b00b | What is the past but what we choose to remember? | past | Amy Tan | |
| ef93e49 | Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused. | Amy Tan | ||
| 743a2bb | The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| eb42d42 | Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks. | humourosly-inspirational | Simone Elkeles | |
| e7ac5b4 | For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 60df531 | To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. | face gift handsomeness looks reading talent writing | William Shakespeare | |
| c9344b3 | We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers. | religion | William Shakespeare | |
| c3b76ae | Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 19d4e18 | I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 903dc90 | Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d18ba5f | Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents. | feste fool | William Shakespeare | |
| 4dd4418 | And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4ba20e6 | Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 19a5516 | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 3a75092 | By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. | merchant-of-venice shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| f977ae4 | You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d0b1c64 | What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another? | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| a7b0e20 | Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies | James Patterson | ||
| 9e7f670 | Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too. | James Patterson | ||
| 8ea5085 | I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 732e3bc | Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one." | disreputable-dog lirael sameth smell | Garth Nix | |
| 75a10d1 | If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever. | John McPhee | ||
| 7b6946b | In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew | stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 5cd66a5 | This century will be called 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. . Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer , and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christ.. | atonement biology charles-darwin clergy darwin dogma england evolution fact false fear garden-of-eden genius geology ignorance investigation myth nature origin-of-species original-sin orthodox orthodox-christianity reason science superstition survival-of-the-fittest true | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 1ae41c4 | for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 3e11fd9 | It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 2d6d923 | One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. | politics politics-language totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | |
| 1055fdb | Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. | atticus-finch | Harper Lee | |
| 0eb19c3 | The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful. | faith islam religion | Robert Ferrigno | |
| a6b4fbb | Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves--a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b073c2d | The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest .. | inspiration justice pantheism sword-sentiments writing | William Blake | |
| 1dd23a4 | Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye. | summer | David Mitchell | |
| 8aa32a1 | There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8b2e8ad | One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 3cc9486 | No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| a8489a7 | Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. | Danielle Steel |