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| 9f4c277 | Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being. | funhouse girl love | John Barth | |
| f93af85 | Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One, two; why, then 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him? The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now?--What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'that, my lord, no more o'that: you mar all with this starting. Here's the.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4906317 | Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. | as-you-like-it nature plays poetry | William Shakespeare | |
| e889ac2 | This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit. | plays poetry viola wise | William Shakespeare | |
| 8c33279 | When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. | woe | William Shakespeare | |
| a1b3e5d | I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist. | William Shakespeare | ||
| e9f8425 | She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subje.. | Henry James | ||
| e05fa76 | I dream about reaching across the backseat and touching his hand. Just one hand. It closes slowly, tightly around mine, and the sensation of his skin against mine is . I've never felt anything like it before. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 3a820df | I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f226408 | Go on till you come to the end; then stop. | begin beginning end go-on hearts king stop wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| f18ba10 | What are you doing in there, waxing your mustache?" Iggy yelled, pounding on the bathroom door. I yanked the door open and pushed him backward hard, making him stagger. "I don't have a mustache, you idiot!" Iggy giggled and put his arms up to protect himself in case I punched him. "And you know what?" I added. "You don't have one either. Well, maybe in a couple years. You can always hope." I left him in the hallway, anxiously fingering his .. | James Patterson | ||
| 0d88ca3 | Iggy nodded. "I'm bummed we couldn't use Big Boy," he said. "But I don't want to waste it. We have to actually see them first. I mean, you do." "Maybe tomorrow," the Gasman said encouragingly. "We'll go see what havoc we've wreaked." "Wrought." | James Patterson | ||
| fe82fbb | We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go." (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day." | James Patterson | ||
| 3278743 | Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe. | James Patterson | ||
| 26b4be7 | Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. | James Patterson | ||
| 59165e3 | There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on . But if the above whipped your mind into a frenzy, here's something even more interesting: Fang started a blog. Not that he's self-absorbed or trendy or anything. Nope, not him. | James Patterson | ||
| 632bf99 | Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? | children parents | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 20f0b19 | You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it." | oprah | Oprah Winfrey | |
| 236ec45 | But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shad.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 765bfe9 | To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0268881 | Among all the other nights upon nights, the girl had spent that one on the boat....when it happened, the burst of Chopin.... There wasn't a breath of wind and the music spread all over the dark boat, like a heavenly injunction whose import was unknown, like an order from God whose meaning was inscrutable. And the girl started up as if to go and kill herself in her turn, throw herself in her turn into the sea, and afterwards, she wept becaus.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| cd4c555 | Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination. | life | Jess Walter | |
| 22acd81 | My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all the knowledge the book presupposed. I was very far indeed from imagining that often the author did not possess it himself, but had extracted it from other books, as and when he needed it. This foolish conviction forced me to stop every moment, and to rush incessantly from one book to another; sometimes before coming to the tenth pag.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| f388450 | If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae." -- | rayleigh sky | Philip C. Plait | |
| c021b32 | Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now. | endings goodbyes growing-up relationships understanding | Emily Giffin | |
| 7ef7ff4 | I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors. | relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| 07628cd | Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? | foolishness futility humanity intelligence knowledge learning mankind stupidity wisdom | H. Rider Haggard | |
| ec50dc4 | Without contraries there is no progression. | William Blake | ||
| 1ce7160 | Opposition is true Friendship. | William Blake | ||
| b803b77 | Quant a moi, maintenant, j'ai ferme mon ame. Je ne dis plus a personne ce que je crois, ce que je pense et ce que j'aime. Me sachant condamne a l'horrible solitude, je regarde les choses, sans jamais emettre mon avis. Que m'importent les opinions, les querelles, les plaisirs, les croyances ! Ne pouvant rien partager avec personne, je me suis desinteresse de tout. Ma pensee, invisible, demeure inexploree. J'ai des phrases banales pour repond.. | Guy de Maupassant | ||
| ceefcae | Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father. | fathers-and-daughters love trust | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 307575a | There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| f7a34d1 | I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. If you know there is a nap to come later in the day, .. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 7eb03d0 | The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| de0d4a1 | Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8152950 | A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, an.. | learning the-chronicles-of-prydain wisdom | Lloyd Alexander | |
| eeba637 | The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are | John Perkins | ||
| d4d091f | I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive. You can close your eyes and there will be a light snow falling in New York, and seconds later you are sunning upon a rock i.. | Colum McCann | ||
| e2357a1 | Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. | god heaven light | Colum McCann | |
| 27b012f | To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race. | ethics racism | Peter Singer | |
| 3c4454b | There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go... | travelers wanderlust | Danielle Steel | |
| 3e535f0 | Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me. | relationship | Danielle Steel | |
| 0a587d7 | You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs. | cunts females women | Henry Miller | |
| 9dca82b | Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. | Henry Miller |