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Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put..."
Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Haruki Murakami quote: "My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I..."
My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about. Haruki Murakami
Sue Grafton quote: "When I'm with you, I don't feel self-conscious or like I'm..."
When I'm with you, I don't feel self-conscious or like I'm crippled or ugly. I don't know how you do that, but it's nice. Sue Grafton
Sue Grafton quote: "Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the..."
Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all. Sue Grafton
The promise was void, like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood; void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided, and when the starry blossoms grew side by side with the ripening peach,—impossible to be fulfilled when the golden gates had been passed. George Eliot
Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water. Friedrich Nietzsche
Terry Prachett quote: " . . had decided what to do, which was to smile like the..."
. . . had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth. Terry Prachett
With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints. As often as the driver rested them and brought them to a stand, with a wary “Wo-ho! so-ho- then!” the near leader violently shook his head and everything upon it—like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill. Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a... Charles Dickens
This here’s a re-search laboratory. Re-search means look again, don’t it? Means they’re looking for something they found once and it got away somehow, and now they got to re-search for it? How come they got to build a building like this, with mayonnaise elevators and all, and fill it with all these crazy people? What is it they’re trying to find again? Who lost what? Kurt Vonnegut
I climbed into the honey wagon with my hair uncombed, with May handing me buttered toast and orange juice through the window and Rosaleen sticking in thermoses of water, both of them practically running alongside the truck while August rolled out of the driveway. I felt like the Red Cross springing to action to save the bee queendom. Sue Monk Kidd
She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be. Ursula K. Le Guin
In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious. Carl Sagan
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very hot. Tom Stoppard
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write Prometheus Unbound. The deliberate forger has little chance with his contemporaries and none at all with posterity. Aldous Huxley
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance. Anthony Powell

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