"imagine being 80 years old and ****ing an 18 year old girl, if theres one way to cheat death, thats it"
bukowski
"imagine being 80 years old and ****ing an 18 year old girl, if theres one way to cheat death, thats it"
bukowski
Not from my favourite writer, Dostoevsky, but from Tolstoy:
"So many memories of the past arise when one tries to recall the features of somebody we love that one sees those features dimly through the memories, as though through tears."
"Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw." David Mitchell
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Jack Kerouac
(well, i dont actually like kerouac, BUT even he had his moments...)
Even if he's not my favourite autor...but I like this sentence by Salinger (from The Catcher In The Rye), I feel more or less the same
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the autor that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it"
Quel che l'uom vede,
Amor gli fa invisibile,
e l'invisibile
fa vedere Amor...
Ludovico Ariosto
My favorite author is Charlotte Bronte. Here are some quotes from her letters to her publishers:
"I would say to the critics: To you I am neither Man nor Woman—I come
before you as an Author only—it is the sole standard by which you have a
right to judge me—the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."
"If I don't have something to say or a different way to say it, then I don't
see the reason of writing at all" (this maybe somewhat differently expressed)
"...nor can I write a book for its moral"
From her books;
"Better to be without logic, than without feelings" (The Professor)
"I have taken notice, monsieur, that people who are only in each other's company for amusement,
never really like each other so well, or esteem each other so highly,
as those who work together, and perhaps suffer together." (The Professor)
"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;
--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood
at God's feet, equal,--as we are!" (Jane Eyre)
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an
independent will, which I now exert to leave you." (Jane Eyre)
"...and the second Mrs. Helstone, inverting the natural order of insect
existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired
butterfly, and crawled the rest of her days a sordid, trampled worm." (Shirley)
"I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me." (Shirley)
"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on
the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us." (Shirley)
"No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being
told to _cultivate_ happiness. What does such advice mean?
Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with
manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven." (Villette)
"Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman,
my mistress, my friend, my all. Her service was my duty--her pain, my
suffering--her relief, my hope--her anger, my punishment--her regard,
my reward. I forgot that there were fields, woods, rivers, seas, an
ever-changing sky outside the steam-dimmed lattice of this sick
chamber; I was almost content to forget it. All within me became
narrowed to my lot." (Villette)
And of course my signature from Villette
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not match the expectation." - Charlotte Bronte (Villette)
posted twice sorry!
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not match the expectation." - Charlotte Bronte (Villette)
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell
Everyone knows what's in room 101.
Everything becomes irrelevant, when the sky tears open.
"Hey Kevin." "What?" "Theres a ditch there." "Sh*t!"
"I sometimes wonder if we are not all insane, and what we name sanity no more than a collective agreement to behave in the same mad ways."
Charles Palliser, from The Quincunx. Not my favourite author, but I just love the quote.
"I yelled for joy. We passed the bottle. The great blazing stars came out, the far receding sand hills got dim. I felt like an arrow that could shoot out all the way. And suddenly Mississippi Gene turned to me from his crosslegged patient reverie, and opened his mouth, and leaned close, and said, "These plains put me in the mind of Texas." "Are you from Texas?" "No sir, I'm from Green-vell Muzz-sippy" and that was the way he said it." ~ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
"He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll
Originally Posted by jorgis
Bukowski, yes!
"He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gössers after not having eaten for two days straight, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mild inability to stand up".
Douglas Adams on how and when the idea about the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy first occurred to him.
/Claes
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I know the feeling. But I can't say any great ideas came to me, heh.
" ... but he had left his mark on her, a mark that had dulled, but never quite been erased over the years. A mark of caution, if not pain, a fear of getting too close, of believing too much, of holding anyone too dear.." Daniell Steel, Changes
Not my fave author but one a enjoy alot:
'That moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the contraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.' - Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles
I love this quote because I personally feel mentally free and relaxed when the light is fading but its not quite dark.
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