Gustastes Quotes & Sayings

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book ... an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg. — Scarlett Thomas

No form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens. — Alexis De Tocqueville

And the downtrodden found refuge in dilapidation; and were happy there because it was theirs and no one else's; bare of pretences and expectations, this place became a haven of solace and a sanctum for peace. — C.M. Stunich

The other is how I could have loved Cristine so fiercely, who was such a world champion bitch, who even came after me once with a kitchen knife. — Peter Heller

Another name for peace is development. — Pope John Paul II

There was no way to compare the feeling of being forgiven to anything else in this world. — Sarah Bruni

Elias and Laia are each other's countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note. — Sabaa Tahir

Love is the garment of knowledge. — Kenneth Rexroth

Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes can't get to the end story without going through this process ... When a story is up and posted, it's amazing how many people come out of the woodwork to give us additional information ... And readers love it. — Michael Arrington