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He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.

Margaret Atwood

He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.

Margaret Atwood

Tags: cleverness, margaret atwood

Hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HI...

David Rakoff

Hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HI...

David Rakoff

Tags: artists, humor, rent, wilde, writers, writing

Give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories,...

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories,...

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the freedom to provide and protect for black women, to be benevolen p...

Bell Hooks

Enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the freedom to provide and protect for black women, to be benevolen p...

Bell Hooks

Tags: patriarchy

Ella se iba desprendiendo de mi abrazo, y su espíritu, cada vez más etéreo, ya no me pesaba como antes. A los cinco días ella dio sus primeros pasos por los alrededores, mientras yo dormitaba, pero no...

Isabel Allende

Ella se iba desprendiendo de mi abrazo, y su espíritu, cada vez más etéreo, ya no me pesaba como antes. A los cinco días ella dio sus primeros pasos por los alrededores, mientras yo dormitaba, pero no...

Isabel Allende

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward)

Edith Wharton

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward)

Edith Wharton

Tags: countryside, rural, rural life

But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

Jack Kerouac

But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

Jack Kerouac

Tags: travel, wanderlust

A minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is quite imaginary...Just ask yourselves: what would this particula...

Christopher Isherwood

A minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is quite imaginary...Just ask yourselves: what would this particula...

Christopher Isherwood

Tags: minority, persecution, threat

[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughter...

Melissa Kantor

[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughter...

Melissa Kantor

Tags: clothing, fathers

When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those mom...

Naomi Wolf

When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those mom...

Naomi Wolf

What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and su...

Gregory Maguire

What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and su...

Gregory Maguire

Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer.

Doris Lessing

Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer.

Doris Lessing

The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of o...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of o...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tags: broad mindedness

May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around y...

Betty Smith

May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around y...

Betty Smith

Tags: saving

I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Tags: elitism, english, funny, graduate school, intellects, language, long words, pomposity, university

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

Anthony Burgess

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

Anthony Burgess

Tags: useless

I blink back the threat of tears, swiped at my nose and narrowed my eyes. Listen to me, you two bags of monkey shit, I yelled. I am not in a good mood. My car keeps stalling. The day before yesterday...

Janet Evanovich

I blink back the threat of tears, swiped at my nose and narrowed my eyes. Listen to me, you two bags of monkey shit, I yelled. I am not in a good mood. My car keeps stalling. The day before yesterday...

Janet Evanovich

Tags: stephanie plum

Gravity might just be the manifestation of other forces---not a force itself, but the peripheral result of something else...So if gravity were an emergent force, It would mean that gravity isn't the c...

Chuck Klosterman

Gravity might just be the manifestation of other forces---not a force itself, but the peripheral result of something else...So if gravity were an emergent force, It would mean that gravity isn't the c...

Chuck Klosterman

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, a...

Ernest Becker

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, a...

Ernest Becker

Tags: erich fromm, erich seligmann fromm, fromm, worth

At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody. Shoot, I said, startled out of my misery, you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whol...

S.E. Hinton

At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody. Shoot, I said, startled out of my misery, you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whol...

S.E. Hinton

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