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Topic·The little things✕clear

Personal journal

I write about little things because the big ones are like abysses.

1934

★ 1.2

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

There's no point to any of this. It's all just a...a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know...a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter becomes a cackle. And I sit back, and I...I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.

Reality Bites · 1994

★ 1.9

The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings." That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and superficial.

2003

★ 1.9

Do not overlook the little joys!

1905

★ 1.9

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.

Gwendolyn Brooks

1949

★ 1.9

Novel · Coming of age story

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield · 1850

★ 2.3

The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Improvisatore · 1828

★ 3.5

I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 3.6

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Case of Identity · 1891

★ 3.7

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Middlemarch · 1872

★ 3.8

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 5.1

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things.

Rodgers and Hammerstein

1959

★ 5.2

The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of Love.

William Wordsworth

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey · 1798

★ 5.3