“I was perhaps as intensely naïve to think I could get a job working with the Yankees. But the lesson to me is that with a great deal of persistence and a little bit of common sense, even if the thing you’re chasing may not exist, you can sometimes will it into being.”
― quote from The Moth
“that when we can celebrate and truly own what it is that makes us different, we’re able to find the source of our greatest creative power.”
― quote from The Moth
“There was a nook in the house that contained what they called the Turkish Room, which was for intimate conversation. And when my mother had her sixth birthday, her grandmother led her into the Turkish Room. They were both named Inez. And on that day Big Inez gave Little Inez a plantation all her own. Two thousand acres. Then her little sister came running in and said, “Grandmother, can I have a plantation too?” And Big Inez looked down and said, “Child, your name is Alice. You were named for your Yankee grandmother. Go ask your Yankee grandmother for a plantation.”
― quote from The Moth
“The great storyteller Frank O’Connor defined it best, saying once that every good story should end, in spirit, with the exact same words: “And everything that ever happened to me afterwards, I never felt the same about again.”
― quote from The Moth
“Orwell’s famous lesson, “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
― quote from The Moth
“How could I forget you, Darryl? You called me God.”
― quote from The Moth
“Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, quote from Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
“They argue that the modern world was created by private capital. The subcontinent of India, for instance, was owned by the British East India Company, Indonesia by the Dutch East India Company, our neighbors by the British East Africa Company, and the Congo Free State by a one man corporation. Corporate capital was aided by missionary societies. What private capital did then it can do again; own and reshape the Third World in the image of the West without the slightest blot, blemish, or blotch. NGOs will do what the missionary charities did in the past. The world will no longer be composed of the outmoded twentieth-century divisions of East, West, and a directionless Third. The world will become one corporate globe divided into the incorporating and incorporated...to become the first voluntary corporate colony, the first in a new global order..with NGOs relieving us of social services, the country becomes your real estate.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, quote from Wizard of the Crow
“The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life”
― Alison Croggon, quote from The Singing
“Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Skin Trade
“CAPÍTULO C “TU SERÁS FELIZ, BENTINHO” No quarto, desfazendo a mala e tirando a carta de bacharel de dentro da lata, ia pensando na felicidade e na glória. Via o casamento e a carreira ilustre, enquanto José Dias me ajudava calado e zeloso. Uma fada invisível desceu ali, e me disse em voz igualmente macia e cálida: “Tu serás feliz, Bentinho; tu vais ser feliz.” – E por que não seria feliz? perguntou José Dias, endireitando o tronco e fitando-me. – Você ouviu? – perguntei eu erguendo-me também, espantado. – Ouviu o quê? – Ouviu uma voz que dizia que eu serei feliz? – É boa! Você mesmo é que está dizendo... Ainda agora sou capaz de jurar que a voz era da fada; naturalmente as fadas, expulsas dos contos e dos versos, meteram-se no coração da gente e falam de dentro para fora. Esta, por exemplo, muita vez a ouvi clara e distinta. Há de ser prima das feiticeiras da Escócia: “Tu serás rei, Macbeth!” – “Tu serás feliz, Bentinho!” Ao cabo, é a mesma predição, pela mesma toada universal e eterna.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Dom Casmurro
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