'"But is an advertising man a gentleman?"
"Well he is certainly very rich and has a magnificent house in Chiswick."'
- George Gissing, New Grub Street
'The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tran-
quil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the
earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky -- seemed
to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.'
- Conrad Heart of Darkness
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Don't know about people's opinion of the Bible as literature, but:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 1:1
The pain of an unanswered question would spoil the morning, perhaps the entire day.
From 'the sacred and profane love machine' by Iris Murdoch
framed in the doorway stood a man resembling an old unberella forgotten at a picnic- Murder at the abbey theatre by Douglas and Hogan
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"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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"heaven looks a lot like the mall."
-from a book by that name
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. "
-Louis Aragon
He married her to save himself from his peculiarities.
Iris Murdoch - the sacred an profane love machine
He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother
Obvious which book it's from!
"There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
"Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came. Soothsayers had prophesied me, newspapers celebrated my arrival, politicos ratified my authenticity."
From "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie.
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Why would world care for me when I don't care for him? - Victor Hugo; The Hunchback of Notre Dame
If there is no God, then everything else is permitted. - Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Brothers Karamazov
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
The beginning the poem Barbara by Jacques Prevert:
Remember Barbara
It rained without cease on Brest that day
And you walked smiling
Radiant joyful streaming
In the rain.
I think I'll never forget it, till the end of my life.
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give it back thats mine.
harry potter and the sorerers stone,letter exeptiance part
I remember some line I read in Don Quixote but I can't remember who said it
and bare with me the weak translation because I read it in Arabic and this is the best my translation skill came with: " The most free hearts are the most hearts to be enslaved by the power of love". It stuck in my mind and I think it is a really good quote.
Call me Ishmael.
"At last I understand why we have waited! This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away!"
"Do not scorn the pity that is the gift of a gently heart, Eowyn!"
"Wish me joy, my liege-lord and healer!"
"I have wished you joy since first I saw you."
"Et Earello Endorenna utulien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!"
Lord of the Rings, one and all!
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
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