Category: Quotes

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t make that mistake again. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 4 Falling in love… how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the…

الأمر بسيط جدًا . بعض الناس لا يتظاهرون … كما أفعل أنا . و الآن أستطيع أن أقول فليذهبوا إلى الجحيم . لا يهمنسي سواء أحبوا ذلك أم كرهوه ، و أنا اقول أني لا أكترث إذا لم يعجبهم الأمر ، هذا حق بما فيه الكفاية .. و لكني لا أقول فليذهبوا إلى الجحيم ،…

Did you ever feel, he asked, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using–you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through turbines? Aldous Huxley Brave New World…

But now I think that the rest also was practice. They were giving us a chance to get used to blank time. A Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 What could she have been thinking about? Not much, I guess; not back then, not at the time. She was thinking about how not to think.…

He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Aldous Huxley Brave New World 2 Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes. Sometimes I can’t…

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. Ulysses 2021 History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Ulysses 902 Love loves to love love. Ulysses 510 A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of…