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«Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
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«Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with.»
«Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me--so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.»
Author: Audre Lorde
(Activist, Poet, Teacher)
| Keywords:
invaluable, piece of work, separation, stretch
«Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Delicious, disagreeable, element, manifests, piece of work, social activity, startle, startling, subversion, subversions, subversive
«LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
antique, antiques, artistic, brute, diligence, folds, illustration, illustrations, inertia, justly, Laocoon, piece of work, representing, scripture, serpents, that name, The old man
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accordance, arithmetical, certainty, combining, conclusion, consisting, dig, double, limitations, major, minor, minor premise, misunderstanding, obtain, piece of work, posthole, premise, premised, reasoning, seconds, sixty, strict, syllogism, syllogisms, The Art of Reasoning
«There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.»
«Maybe it?s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It?s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I?d like to pin down a few while they are still wet.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Research,
Writing
| Keywords:
Bright Future, colored, colorless, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, notebook, notebooks, ordered, pebbles, piece of work, piece of writing, pin, pin down, pockets, sparkle, sparkling, washed
«What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Animals
| Keywords:
admirable, Angel, Animal World, apprehension, apprehensions, faculty, paragon, paragons, piece of work, The Admirable
«A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aspire, automaton, automatons, clerical, compositions, contemptible, coverings, divinity, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, fleecy, full dress, General A, go-cart, hosiery, pasteboard, piece of work, prig, prigs, wax, wax figure
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