May 2009
23 posts
“Some lawyers just don’t like to be questioned by a woman. It was sexist, plain...”
– Judge Guido Calabresi, Judge Sotomayor’s colleague on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, on suggestions that her tough questioning from the bench suggests a problem with her ‘temperament.’ (nytimes via tpm, via abbyjean, via ayse)
“To hear, one must be silent”
– Ogion of Re Albi, from The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
“What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load,...”
– The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent,...”
– Charles Darwin, via somethingchanged
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Any sufficiently advanced form of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
– Grey’s Corollary
“To throw a book out of serious consideration because it was written for...”
– Ursula K Le Guin, “The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists”, Cheek by Jowl
“And to the reviewers, I want to say, O critic, if you should come upon a...”
– Ursula K Le Guin, “The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists”, Cheek by Jowl
“Until the eighteenth century in Europe, imaginative fiction was fiction. Realism...”
– Ursula K Le Guin, “The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists”, Cheek by Jowl
“To conflate fantasy with immaturity is a rather sizable error. Rational yet...”
– Ursula K Le Guin, “Re-Reading Peter Rabbit”, Cheek by Jowl
“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place...”
– One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
“… always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every...”
– One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
“[They] were linked by a kind of complicity based on real facts that no one...”
– One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
“Apártense, vacas, que la vida es corta”
– One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez. (Translated as ‘Cease, cows, life is short’)
“…he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that...”
– One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do...”
– Steven Weinberg, physicist
“No one can earn a million dollars honestly.”
– William Jennings Bryan. In 1913, a million dollars would be the equivalent of about $21 million in 2009 after adjusting for inflation.
“The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime...”
– Honoré de Balzac, frequently paraphrased as “Behind every great fortune is a great crime.”
“There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends.”
– Peter S Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
“What? What? Will you tell me what? That’s the goddam trouble with you...”
– The Raven from A Fine and Private Place by Peter S Beagle
“I must finish the story…. I must believe that whatever I am saying is important...”
– Peter S Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
“But there must be yelling. There ought to be a good deal of yelling and...”
– Peter S Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
“Yeah the unlimited free enterprise system has “worked” in the sense that a Pinto...”
– via Zifnab 