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To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. L...

Chuck Palahniuk

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. L...

Chuck Palahniuk

Tags: zen, mind, subconscious, chuck palahniuk

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.~Angel

James Patterson

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.~Angel

James Patterson

Tags: life, reality, james, ride, the, warning, james patterson, lessons of life, maximum, final

Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Tags: distress, nails, bite, danielewski, the familiar, xanther

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very...

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very...

Truman Capote

Tags: life, human, summer, city, description

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Thomas Harris

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Thomas Harris

Tags: god, sleep, humanity, darkness, crying, insanity, hell, punishment, mental illness, horror

Customs, morals—is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe—...

Robert A. Heinlein

Customs, morals—is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe—...

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: moral, taboo, custom

All right, Chris, you've given me a breather. I'm prepared foranything.And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for youhaven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself. I kissed him quickl...

V.C. Andrews

All right, Chris, you've given me a breather. I'm prepared foranything.And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for youhaven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself. I kissed him quickl...

V.C. Andrews

Tags: love, kissing, kiss, loving, stand, awful, thanks, prepared, unloved, kisses

A committee of one gets things done.

Joe Ryan

A committee of one gets things done.

Joe Ryan

Tags: institutions, clubs

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Mark W. Boyer

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Mark W. Boyer

Tags: inspirational, truth, caring, entertainment, performance, boyer, mark boyer

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

Stan Slap

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

Stan Slap

Tags: leadership vs management, leadership development, sales effectiveness, leadership characteristics, leadership traits, business culture, business management training, leadership styles, performance management training, effective leadership

I stare mesmerized at the photothat you have sent, pushing your child on the swing...a precious moment capturedand I am remindedof the distance separating usand how it seems like yesterdaywhen I was s...

Vijaya Gowrisankar

I stare mesmerized at the photothat you have sent, pushing your child on the swing...a precious moment capturedand I am remindedof the distance separating usand how it seems like yesterdaywhen I was s...

Vijaya Gowrisankar

Tags: distance, photo, moment, precious, son, push, yesterday, captured, swing, mother child

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

Douglas Wilson

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

Douglas Wilson

Tags: kindlehighlight

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salva...

John F. Kennedy

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salva...

John F. Kennedy

Tags: happiness, power, science, control, energy, salvation, progress, promise, atom, atomic power

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and...

Barnett Newman

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and...

Barnett Newman

Tags: communication, expression, existentialism, origins, void, the void, aesthetic

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Idries Shah

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Idries Shah

Tags: knowledge, wisdom, awareness, tradition, sufism, sufis, asleep, wakefulness

It's only in Algebra that two negatives make a positive

Charmaine J. Forde

It's only in Algebra that two negatives make a positive

Charmaine J. Forde

Tags: positive, negative, algebra

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

William Burton Pope

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

William Burton Pope

Tags: god, grace, salvation, prevenient grace, arminianism

What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?

Michelle Dennis Evans

What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?

Michelle Dennis Evans

Tags: words, creation, creative, craftsmanship, artisan

Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Tags: attitude, life, strength, truth, living, comfort zone, legacy, weakness, ifeanyi enoch onuoha, habit

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies...

James Oppenheim

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies...

James Oppenheim

Tags: inspirational, men, children, mother, birth, hearts, lives, bread, battle, starve
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