December 2010
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947
“‘My dear child,’ said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of...”
– Charles Dickens
“‘My dear child,’ said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of...”
– Charles Dickens
New Year Wish
May 2011 bring us what we all crave: a boring year full of plenty and contentment!
“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up...”
– Bill Vaughan
“In bed that night, in the darkness, with the illuminated dial of her alarm clock...”
– Alexander McCall Smith
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than...”
– Boris Pasternak
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“This pine tree by the rock
must have its memories too:
after a thousand years,...”
– Izumi Shikibu
“This pine tree by the rock
must have its memories too:
after a thousand years,...”
– Izumi Shikibu
Si Rizal at ang Pilosopiya ng Pagtitiis →
“In bed that night, in the darkness, with the illuminated dial of her alarm clock...”
– Alexander McCall Smith
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than...”
– Boris Pasternak
“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography,...”
– Truman Capote
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness...”
– John Steinbeck
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness...”
– John Steinbeck
“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men’s irrationality,...”
– Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.
“I’ve changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings...”
– Robinson Jeffers
“I’ve changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings...”
– Robinson Jeffers
“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only...”
– Annie Dillard
“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only...”
– Annie Dillard
“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting...”
– Kevin Barry
“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that...”
– Carson McCullers
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I...”
– Umberto Eco
“I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I...”
– Umberto Eco
“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography,...”
– Truman Capote
“I didn’t hold myself back. I gave in completely and went,
went to those...”
– C.P. Cavafy, “I went.”