“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man who with those words issued a license to misery to millions of underexperienced teenagers and thousands of overeducated middle-aged jackasses.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch up.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“Shakespeare’s lines are a nursery of titles for other, better writers: Pale Fire, Exit Ghost, Infinite Jest, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Sound and the Fury, Unnatural Acts, The Quick and the Dead, Against the Polack, To Be or Not to Be, Band of Brothers, Casual Slaughters. At the very least, I have never named one of my books after his stuff.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
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“I rested my forehead on a grease spot I'd left on the window earlier. The airlines, I thought, must have custodians who clean the windows, or there'd be an inches-thick layer of goo on them from people like me.
That thought was proof positive that I shouldn't be allowed to stay up for more than eighteen hours at a time. I have a bad habit of following every thought to its miserable, pathetic little end when I'm tired. I don't mean to. It's just that my brain and my tongue get unhinged. Though some of my less charitable acquaintances would say this condition didn't require sleep deprivation.”
― C.E. Murphy, quote from Urban Shaman
“I believe in magic. In evil sorceresses who deep down are really beautiful princesses. I believe in immortals who live in a different world than this one, accessible by magical stone wheels.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Crystal Storm
“earth. They will go to their graves unloved and uncherished, a total failure as the woman God called them to be. Wisdom allows us the ability to use our minds and spirits to handle small problems with grace and honor. To those of you who are enduring verbal and physical abuse, we realize that statistically, you are likely to remain with your husband. It is therefore important that you understand how to speak and conduct yourself in a way that will maintain your physical and emotional safety and ultimately win your husband. The Bible”
― Debi Pearl, quote from Created to be His Help Meet
“بإمكانك تصور مشاعري فيما لو تخيلت أنك تشعر بالحر والتعب في حين يسير كل شيء أمامك في الاتجاه المعاكس. ففي كل مرة تحاول فيها عبور الطريق تجد حافلةّ على وشك أن تدهسك. وتشعر كأنّ الكون بأجمعه أصبح معادياً لك. إنّ إحساسك بالطمأنينة يتبدد ويغدو كلّ ما له علاقة بحياتك قابلاً للتدمير والزوال، مايعطيك فكرةً عن المنحى الذي يتّخذه هذا الهجوم، في الماضي، كنت أزعم أنّ هذه الهجمات ماهي إلّا هجمات التشاؤم والإشفاق على الذات، وكنت أجِدُ لي سريعاً أمراً أقلق بشأنه بحيث يبدو الأمر مقبولاً. فجميعنا يقاتل جميعاً في مثل هذه المعارك مئات المرات يومياً، والذين يتحقق لهم النصر التام إنما يحققون ذلك في التخلي عن نزعاتهم السلبية والقلق بشأن الحياة من خلال التفكير وفق مفاهيم الانتصار والأهداف الهامة.”
― Colin Wilson, quote from The Mind Parasites
“VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.”
― quote from One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
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