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Mélanie Berliet

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6,037 quotes curated by Mélanie Berliet:

“How could the apartment have seemed so permanent and solid-looking when it was only a stage set, waiting to be struck and carried away by movers in uniform?”
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Tagged: moving, Things Change
“You’d be surprised, what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You’re the one who has to watch for the open door.”
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Step by Step, One Foot In Front of Another
“Had anyone ever felt so lonely?”
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Alone, Sad
“So much of photography is about what you don't shoot.”
— Jesse Herzog
Tagged: Photography, Quote of the Moment
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”
— John Steinbeck, The Winter Of Our Discontent
Tagged: Dreams, Fear, Life
“If the only people left on Earth was a pair of identical twins, they'd still find a way to play Crips and Bloods.”
— Jim Goad
Tagged: Violence, History of Violence, Divisiveness, US vs. Them
“You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.”
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
Tagged: Weather, Disguised Beauty, Grey Skies, Quote of the Moment
“My only sin, and it's an enormous one, is that my conscience does not accuse me of anything.”
— Lenny Belardo, The Young Pope, The Young Pope Season 1: The Young Pope
Tagged: Sin, Mistakes, Confessions
“For scholars looking for a particular edition of Leaves of Grass, say, it doesn't do a lot of good just to enter "I contain multitudes" in the search box and hope for the best. Ditto for someone who wants to look at early-19th century French editions of Le Contrat Social, or to linguists, historians or literary scholars trying to trace the development of words or constructions: Can we observe the way happiness replaced felicity in the seventeenth century, as Keith Thomas suggests? When did "the United States are" start to lose ground to "the United States is"? How did the use of propaganda rise and fall by decade over the course of the twentieth century? And so on for all the questions that have made Google Books such an exciting prospect for all of us wordinistas and wordastri. But to answer those questions you need good metadata. And Google's are a train wreck: a mish-mash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.”
— Geoff Nunberg, Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck
Tagged: Metadata Metadata, Without the Metadata You Can't Query
“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”
— Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
Tagged: Dreams, Self-Discovery, Identity & Self, Quote of the Moment