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Vera Brittain quote: "I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp..."
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. Vera Brittain
But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said.'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering towards me, I stepped aside and it crashed head-first into the river - I could hear it threshing about in the darkness. I picked up a big stone - poor brute, I hated to do it but I had to finish it off. It gave just one groan as the stone hit it and then went down. I held the lantern high; I could... Dodie Smith
No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else. George Eliot
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar. Haruki Murakami
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. Neil Gaiman
Haruki Murakami quote: "If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best..."
If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect. Haruki Murakami
Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i. e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet... David Foster Wallace
But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. J. K. Rowling
Everything that's alvie was born, and everything that was born has got to die. There's no getting around it. It's the law of the universe."The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken. Tom Robbins
Larry Brown quote: "I can understand why people jump off bridges."
I can understand why people jump off bridges. Larry Brown
Francis Picabia quote: "Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction -..."
Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia Francis Picabia
Julian Barnes quote: "God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any..."
...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness Julian Barnes
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from..."
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying Georg C. Lichtenberg
Dogbert to Dilbert"My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people." "Then what does it do?" "Why would it need to do anything else? Scott Adams
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Richard Linklater

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