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Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

Tags: leadership, linguistics, motivation, rhetoric, word choice

Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how a food is produced, a concession to the reality that mo...

Michael Pollan

Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how a food is produced, a concession to the reality that mo...

Michael Pollan

Tags: food industry, organic

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to...

Francesca Lia Block

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to...

Francesca Lia Block

Tags: animal cruelty, animal kindness, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, dog, dogs, pounds

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

Richard Llewellyn

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

Richard Llewellyn

Tags: discretion, maturity, this tournament, zeal

You want to know what I'm afraid of? All right, I'll tell you. I'm afraid of men - yes, I'm very much afraid of men. And I'm even more afraid of women. And I'm very much afraid of the whole bloody hum...

Jean Rhys

You want to know what I'm afraid of? All right, I'll tell you. I'm afraid of men - yes, I'm very much afraid of men. And I'm even more afraid of women. And I'm very much afraid of the whole bloody hum...

Jean Rhys

Tags: cruel, cruelty, fear, guts, hate, horrible, horror, human race, humanity, hyenas

Why be an ostrich?

Margaret Mitchell

Why be an ostrich?

Margaret Mitchell

Tags: rhett butler, rhett butler to scarlett

Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s no harm in saying you’re an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently....

Jesse Ventura

Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s no harm in saying you’re an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently....

Jesse Ventura

Tags: atheism, atheist, belief, carlin, charles darwin, company, darwin, einstein, george carlin, golden rule

Y la normalidad de la vida retome su curso, dejando las víctimas tras de sí, según es uso y costumbre.

Jose Saramago

Y la normalidad de la vida retome su curso, dejando las víctimas tras de sí, según es uso y costumbre.

Jose Saramago

Tags: la vida, saramago

¡Oh noche! ¡Oh refrescantes tinieblas! ¡Sois para mí señal de fiesta interior, sois liberación de una angustia! ¡En la soledad de las llanuras, en los laberintos pedregosos de una capital, centelleo d...

Charles Baudelaire

¡Oh noche! ¡Oh refrescantes tinieblas! ¡Sois para mí señal de fiesta interior, sois liberación de una angustia! ¡En la soledad de las llanuras, en los laberintos pedregosos de una capital, centelleo d...

Charles Baudelaire

Tags: noche, oscuridad, poesia, tinieblas

أنت تسافر ولكنك لم تترك منزلك بعد ما دمنا معاً، وستظل على هذه الحال؛ فإلى جانبك شخص يعرفك، وهذا يمنعك حساً زائفاً من الألفة. آن الأوان لتتابع وحدك، وقد تجد الوحدة ثقيلة الوطأة وتفوق الاحتمال، ولكن سيز...

باولو كويلو

أنت تسافر ولكنك لم تترك منزلك بعد ما دمنا معاً، وستظل على هذه الحال؛ فإلى جانبك شخص يعرفك، وهذا يمنعك حساً زائفاً من الألفة. آن الأوان لتتابع وحدك، وقد تجد الوحدة ثقيلة الوطأة وتفوق الاحتمال، ولكن سيز...

باولو كويلو

Tags: paulo coelho

You’re a queer?That’s exactly what I am. I didn’t choose to be.After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck’s shoulders.Well, what the hell, he said. At least you’re not a Republican.

Ken Follett

You’re a queer?That’s exactly what I am. I didn’t choose to be.After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck’s shoulders.Well, what the hell, he said. At least you’re not a Republican.

Ken Follett

Tags: winter of the world, woody dewar

[Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really.(Would you like fries with that?Shut up and stop killing whales!Thank you. Drive through, pl...

Christopher Moore

[Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really.(Would you like fries with that?Shut up and stop killing whales!Thank you. Drive through, pl...

Christopher Moore

Tags: fluke

A single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conver...

Terri Apter

A single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conver...

Terri Apter

Tags: anger, attack, domination, emotional abuse, parents, relationships, spouses

If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall be to all enemies. It is only right, then, that I should wield the sword, misery. Misery and T...

Christopher Paolini

If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall be to all enemies. It is only right, then, that I should wield the sword, misery. Misery and T...

Christopher Paolini

Tags: eldest, misery, morzan, murtagh, zar roc

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems...

Sarah Vowell

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems...

Sarah Vowell

Tags: kerouac, poetry, writing

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana ar...

James Lee Burke

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana ar...

James Lee Burke

Tags: louisiana, politics

I am trying really hard not to use the word 'fabulous' right now.

Stephanie Perkins

I am trying really hard not to use the word 'fabulous' right now.

Stephanie Perkins

Tags: lola and the boy next door

Hay gente que pregunta: ¿Por qué usar la palabra feminista? ¿Por qué no decir simplemente que crees en los derechos humanos o algo parecido?. Pues porque no sería honesto. Está claro que el feminismo...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hay gente que pregunta: ¿Por qué usar la palabra feminista? ¿Por qué no decir simplemente que crees en los derechos humanos o algo parecido?. Pues porque no sería honesto. Está claro que el feminismo...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tags: derechos humanos, feminismo, human rights, women s rights

Hay que estar siempre ebrio. Nada más: ése es todo el asunto. Para no sentir el horrible peso del Tiempo que os fatiga la espalda y os inclina hacia la tierra, tenéis que embriagaros sin tregua. Pero,...

Charles Baudelaire

Hay que estar siempre ebrio. Nada más: ése es todo el asunto. Para no sentir el horrible peso del Tiempo que os fatiga la espalda y os inclina hacia la tierra, tenéis que embriagaros sin tregua. Pero,...

Charles Baudelaire

Tags: embriagar, spleen, tedio, tiempo

He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he’d read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn’t h...

Celeste Bradley

He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he’d read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn’t h...

Celeste Bradley

Tags: regency romance, royal four, sexy book, spy
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