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The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

Cormac McCarthy

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

Cormac McCarthy

Tags: change, power, time, authority, convention, infirmity, constraints

The life of the cook was a life of adventure, looting, pillaging and rock-and-rolling through life with a carefree disregard for all conventional morality. It looked pretty damn good to me on the othe...

Anthony Bourdain

The life of the cook was a life of adventure, looting, pillaging and rock-and-rolling through life with a carefree disregard for all conventional morality. It looked pretty damn good to me on the othe...

Anthony Bourdain

Tags: food, cooking, kitchen, cook, food writing, cook s life

The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe...

Beth Revis

The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe...

Beth Revis

Tags: death, stars, dead, lost, universe, sky, galaxy, gone, elder, burst

Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.

Kelley Armstrong

Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.

Kelley Armstrong

Tags: intelligence, chandler, stereotype, gabriel, brawn over brains

So. I see where you're going—bus number 27 to a crossroads near Delphi. Look, I did not want, at any point, on any level, to kill my own father and sleep with my own mother. It's true that I wanted to...

Julian Barnes

So. I see where you're going—bus number 27 to a crossroads near Delphi. Look, I did not want, at any point, on any level, to kill my own father and sleep with my own mother. It's true that I wanted to...

Julian Barnes

Tags: humor, psychology, clever, oedipus, julian barnes, the only story, oedipal

No she jerked back, stared up at him.Her eyes were like thunderclouds. He'd never seen them like that. Shock and fear filled them. Her face was paper white. Her body shuddering.Don't you leave me! She...

Lora Leigh

No she jerked back, stared up at him.Her eyes were like thunderclouds. He'd never seen them like that. Shock and fear filled them. Her face was paper white. Her body shuddering.Don't you leave me! She...

Lora Leigh

Tags: leaving, broken hearted, lora leigh, impossible love, sabella, nathan malone, noah blake

No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed to almost vanish when seen edge on. There was a faint blue s...

George R.R. Martin

No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed to almost vanish when seen edge on. There was a faint blue s...

George R.R. Martin

Tags: cool, imagery, description, descriptive, the other

Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo

Lynsay Sands

Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo

Lynsay Sands

Tags: nicholas

Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo

Paulo Coelho

Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo

Paulo Coelho

Tags: life, risk it, risks, the alchemist

Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr, I said.Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in...

Jim Butcher

Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr, I said.Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in...

Jim Butcher

Tags: humor, harry dresden, mouse, molly carpenter, karrin murphy, thomas raith, leanansidhe, sanya

Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà vederne il novantanove per cento sarà un libro.

Ray Bradbury

Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà vederne il novantanove per cento sarà un libro.

Ray Bradbury

Tags: books, italiano, libri, fahrenheit 451, citazioni, letteratura

Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the führer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The führer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather....

Anthony Doerr

Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the führer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The führer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather....

Anthony Doerr

Tags: wwii, ww2, anthony doerr

Knjige su samo jedna vrsta spremišta za mnogo toga za šta smo strahovali da bismo mogli da zaboravimo. Nema u njima uopšte ničeg magičnog. Magija je samo u onome što knjige kazuju, u tome kako zašivaj...

Ray Bradbury

Knjige su samo jedna vrsta spremišta za mnogo toga za šta smo strahovali da bismo mogli da zaboravimo. Nema u njima uopšte ničeg magičnog. Magija je samo u onome što knjige kazuju, u tome kako zašivaj...

Ray Bradbury

Tags: fahrenheit 451

Interviewer: Didn't want to believe?Druyan:

Ann Druyan

Interviewer: Didn't want to believe?Druyan:

Ann Druyan

Tags: knowledge, science, truth, atheism, belief, carl sagan, astronomy, sagan

In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half, hidden by the cr...

Philip Pullman

In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half, hidden by the cr...

Philip Pullman

Tags: imagery, setting, beautiful imagery, beautiful scenery, valley of rhododendrons

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.

Robin Hobb

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.

Robin Hobb

Tags: love, courtship, chance, joke, like, cat, pursue, glorious, remind, reminiscence

I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.

Ernest Cline

I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.

Ernest Cline

Tags: threat, prevent, explosion, wade, ernest cline, ready player one, ioi, rp1, rpo, wade watts

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in...

Robert A. Heinlein

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in...

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: god, society, human, naked, man, personality, innocence, grace, work ethic, shame

Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck.They say 'LB,' Carlos. The initials for Latin...

Simone Elkeles

Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck.They say 'LB,' Carlos. The initials for Latin...

Simone Elkeles

Tags: brittany, perfect chemistry, alex, carlos, fuentes, carlos fuentes, rules of attraction, simone elkeles

But she saw nothing in my eyes—she stared at me as though I had made a long journey on a white charger all the way to her prison house.

James Baldwin

But she saw nothing in my eyes—she stared at me as though I had made a long journey on a white charger all the way to her prison house.

James Baldwin

Tags: simile, james baldwin, miscommunication, romantic relationship, knight in shining armor, giovanni s room
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