Write down the 4th Sentence on the 23rd page of the book beside your hand

[RaoulDuke]

"But my mind is wandering".

Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

Not all that earth shattering as it turns out.

[LMK]

"Sighing, her stomach twisted into knots, she followed him into that bar, which, in the style of Spanish taverns, lacked windows, its interior hazy with shifting plains of smoke."

Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos (just picked it up today, thought I put a hold on Mambo Kings, right author, wrong novel).

[Patrick_Bateman]

"Slight and highly strung, a golden Andalusian, as they call it, with black hair shining like satin, an eye that could flash lightning, and long dark lashes, with the distinction of a duchess in every movement that she made, with a poor girl's modesty and an unassuming grace, as sweet and pretty in her ways as a wild deer."

[Dark Muse]

Up you go, Mistress Carey and all of us go up with you.

The Other Boleyn Girl ~ Philippa Gregory

[fetish]

Or, as Ambedkar put it with his ingenious wordplay: "There will be outcasts as long as there are castes." - LIVING IN THE END TIMES - Zizek

[bouquin]

"What about exercises?" he said.

[Delta40]

I handed her the invoice

[Propter W.]

The king consulted with his ministers and concluded that Siddhartha had grown weary of married life and needed diversion.

[kiki1982]

"My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable author, in describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring." (few)

Waverley - Sir Walter Scott.

[AdoreroDio]

Gilgamesh shouted, "By the life of Ninsun my mother and divine Lugulbanda my father, in the country of the Living, in this land I have discovered you dwelling; my weak arms and my small weapons I have brought to this land against you, and now I will enter your house."

-The Norton Anthology of World Literature Beginning to AD 100 (from the story Gilgamesh)

[bouquin]

I apologize for being articulate.

[Tallefred]

He was a verrey parfit practisour.

Geoffrey Chaucer, prologue to The Canterbury Tales.

[Dark Muse]

Just then a heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again in darkness.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

[MadcapLaugher]

He'd say *** instead of butt.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

[LuggageFan]

"Something of this must have eventually permeated his conversation, for Mr. Gingold shifted in his seat, made no comment whatever on Mr. Sharsted's pressing demands and only said, in another of his softly spoken sentences, 'Do have another sherry, Mr. Sharsted.'" - from short story, "Camera Obscura," written by Basil Cooper, in Alfred Hitchcock's anthology Scream Along with Me.

[bouquin]

They went to school in a horse-drawn rickshaw.

[urb]

Already he was thinking of what to do with his new find.


From Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

[strumphyy]

I really like this thread!
'Ah,' he said, 'you are not a dove. You are a wild-cat with open eyes, half dreaming on a bough, in a lonely place, as I have seen her. And I ask myself-What are her memories then?'
D. H. Lawrence, The Ladybird

[Wilde woman]

Who would assent to my babbling as madmen may ill-starred and ill-chosen words?

Apuleius The Golden A s s, Introduction by Jack Lindsay

[sadparadise]

I found 19 of the stubborn, mocking machines in the attic of what used to be their inventor's mansion, which in my time was the home of the College President, about a year after I came to work at Tarkington.
Hocus Pocus by Kut Vonnegut

[qwas]

I know that.

- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

[Aragorn Elessar]

"He was an old animal, the hair around his muzzle nearly all white, and his head crowned by magnificent antlers."

- Magician, by Raymond E. Feist

[fayalso]

"What do you have in your mouth, young man?" said the boys' mother, marking her place with a butter knife.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

[bree]

I was the life and soul of that poxy little shindig - man what a square.

Russell Brand - My Booky Wook

[bouquin]

On the green one-cent stamp in the educators group, just above the picture of the Lamp of Knowledge, was Horace Mann; on the red two-cent, Mark Hopkins; on the purple three-cent, Charles W. Eliot; on the blue four-cent, Frances E. Willard; on the brown ten-cent was Booker T. Washington, the first Negro to appear on an American stamp.

[Rmort]

Lol

"On that day she asked the librarian to recommend a book."

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

[Armel P]

In the book I'm reading, unfortunately the 4th sentence on the 23rd page is only:
I know that.

[Pensive]

"Girls like her were not supposed to have any problems."

- Blue Bloods

[Nick91]

That time he went to Kockums tobaco factory, and there he sat at the tables for two years, first making the cigarr "Les Tres Coronas" for half a year, after that "El Turista" for an entire year and then "Donna Elvira".

From The Road by Harry Martinsson

[WyattGwyon]

This congregation admired the Reverend's bearing up, as they called it, under his suffering (though there were an evilly human few who envied him his Providence) and they had never had the full details of the Spanish affair.

[Delta40]

Beatlemania is like the frenzied dancing and shouting of voodoo worshippers and the howls and bodily writhings of converts among primitive evangelical sects in the southern states of America.

[L.M. The Third]

"My father whom I never knew was an Englishman."

[Robert_Carter]

Two descriptions of a father in a row!

"My father is a bootlegger."

- Herzog, by Saul Bellow

[andave_ya]

"In the first three instances, the distinguishing characteristic of "table," is shape, is retained, and the differentiations are purely a matter of measurement: the range of the shape's measurements is reduced in accordance with the narrower utilitarian function."

-Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand.

It's not all THAT boring....

[bouquin]

I want to hear facts.

[Dark Muse]

The barman nodded to him.

Blood Meridian~Cormac McCarthy

[Wilde woman]

Don't skin your shoulders with those damnable big olive-branches. :hand:

Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Dudley Fitts translation

This makes me want to read it even more!:D

[Patrick_Bateman]

Wines, jars of cider and an almanac for 1808 - the old man

[LuggageFan]

Humans suffering from a conflict of signals aren't the best people to be holding guns, especially when they've just witnessed a natural childbirth, which definitely looked an un-American way of bringing new citizens into the world.

[Lord Macbeth]

Tom heaved a great sigh as she put her foot on the threshold.

-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

[papayahed]

Refer to 1910.399(a)(77) for definition of listed,and 1910.7 for nationally recognized testing laboratory. - 29 CFR 1910

[AdoreroDio]

"'Don't snatch,' said Abajai as he handed her a pottery bowl filled halfway, and a spoon."- Empress by Karen Miller

[Sine_lege]

"I'm not so sure" said the man slowly.

The Castle by Franz Kafka

[<Trinity>]

'He's my son all the same,' she said, smiling.
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster -

[deltakid]

"He argued that everyone needs a secure psychological base from which they can develop."

Understand Psychology (Teach Yourself Series)

[AlfredtheGreat]

--"Now it is all about politics in the paper, he said.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

[RaoulDuke]

"A weird sort of contentment in those days".
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

I was hoping for something much more lecherous :(.

[bouquin]

Funny how we dead never eat - yet still, some of us love to serve food.

[DapperDrake]

"Even though, of course, they are not such very prominent personae and belong to what is called the secondary or even the tertiary category, and even though the chief actions and mainsprings of this epic are not based upon them, and may concern and implicate them but lightly here an there, yet the author is exceedingly fond of being circumstantial in all things, and even though he himself is a native of Russia, he wishes, in this respect, to be as thoroughgoing as any German."

[athomas911]

"Let her come foward." ~Mayor Undersee, The Hunger Games

[Dodo25]

Some fail, a handful endure with their lights a little fogged, but most thrive, and many return to work in some form; work -- the ultimate badge of health.

Saturday - Ian McEwan

[bouquin]

Propped outside Chip's apartment was a clear-plastic umbrella that Chip recognized, with relief, as Julia Vrais's.

[Snowqueen]

The consequence was that the Moriscos were growing richer and richer, and since they wrer exceedingly prolific were increasing in numbers.

Catalina - Somerset Maugham

[nikanamy]

"You're a thought-criminal!"

(:

[inbetween]

All the victimes claimed Plogojowitz had come to their death beds at night and tried to strangle them.

'tis some book 'bout the vampire myth...

[RaoulDuke]

"In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden." - The Picture of Dorian Gray

[remy3x]

His mother kissed him.
James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

[Gregory Samsa]

"But-but-but-let me pull myself together- there is also this vision of him emerging from the bathroom, savagely kneading the back of his neck and sourly swallowing a belch."

Portnoy's Complaint

[Taliesin]

"Agnarr läks Grimniri juurde ning andis talle sarvetäie juua, öeldes, et kuningas teeb halvasti, kui laseb teda piinata, asja ees, teist taga."

Poetic Edda, translation from Icelandic to Estonian by Rein Sepp.

[bouquin]

The boy had bitten her.

[Ane]

We are living not only in the Age of America, but also in the Age of the Novel, at a moment when literature of a country without a first-rate epic verse or a memorable verse tragedy has become the model of half the world.

Leslie Fiedler - Love and Death in the American Novel

[Rmort]

"'Yeah i don't think i'll put it exactly like that but i'll deal with it." -Paper Towns by John Green

AND

"And now all i ask is a good swift ship and a crew of twenty men to speed me through my passage out and back." The Odyssey by Homer

[Sapphire]

I hastened to reply; but I thought of it, after an instant, not opposed to this concession to pursue: "Did she die here?"
Henry James - The turn of the Screw

[prendrelemick]

n before "hard" c, k, q, x = ng (zinc, u'ncle, tank, banquet,minx)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary.

[Pensive]

But I shan't bore you with my studies now - Maya

[bouquin]

I placed my destiny in the hands of this chance encounter, but she passed by like all the others, like the last ones and the next ones, and then I would come down to earth, in a sorrier state than a torn sail drenched by the storm.

[kelby_lake]

This should show that you understand the background issues and theories relating to the project.

(Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education)

[bohn]

"Pity! Why pity me!" Marmeladov suddenly cried out, rising with his hand stretched forth, in decided inspiration, as if he had only been waiting for these words.

[Silas Thorne]

'Thus contact between foreigners and Chinese was carried out in the language of the foreigners (usually a pidgin variety of English), with the compradores acting as translators.'

from 'China's English: A History of English in Chinese Education' by Bob Adamson

[bouquin]

No doubt it was a secret thing.

[kiki1982]

"Add the chicken pieces and the chopped onion."

Making the Most of Chicken, Poultry and Game, John Carrier's Kitchen

(shame of the sentence, he can really write some tasty stuff!)

[Emil Miller]

He gave a faint sigh of satisfaction as he breathed in the pine-scented air of the garden and watched a ship making its way under an azure sky towards the port of Salerno.

A Tangled Web by Emil Miller.

[papayahed]

With gloss on one end, tuberose and incense on the other, this rollerball is a jetsetter's dream.

Sephora Holiday 2010 Catalog

[MikeK]

'Why, look around you: blood is flowing in rivers, and in such a jolly way besides, like champagne.'

- Dostoevsky, 'Notes From underground'

[Greta Kin]

"They got company tonight." Versh said.
- Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury

[LuggageFan]

"Well, then, it must be someone else."

[bohn]

"I'm relying on you, my dear friend," Anna Pavlovna said, also softly, "you'll write to her and tell me comment le pere envisagera la chose. Au revoir." And she left the front hall.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

With gloss on one end, tuberose and incense on the other, this rollerball is a jetsetter's dream.

Sephora Holiday 2010 Catalog

Huh ?
I'm picturing a roller ball pen with incense burning at one end (?)
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"In the case of hyphens, I have regularized among the selections to the extent of inserting them wherever internal divisions appeared in the form of spacing."
Frank Hamilton Cushing - "Zuni -Selected Writings"


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[papayahed]

Huh ?
I'm picturing a roller ball pen with incense burning at one end (?)
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Lip gloss AND perfume in one stick!!

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[hack]

The president quickly put away the dumbbells
and opened the door, saying, "I beg your pardon."
-Tolstoy- Resurrection

[callipygias]

I found his carcass in my bed this morning.

Lost in Cat Brain Land, Cameron Pierce

[weltanschauung]

Uma rede CTS formada por uma indutância L e uma resistência R, tem uma constante de tempo dada por t=L/R. (microeletrônica - sedra/smith, 5 edição)

[jaredalynch]

I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age.

The Magus
John Fowles

[abudabor]

jones--therfore do not be alarmed if you should hear of his having been to me.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice

[hugh1984]

"I'm only going to eat, you to conquer."
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This Earth Of Mankind

[hack]

That my answers are yours? -John Barth-The Floating Opera

[bouquin]

You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?

[kiki1982]

My former book (I know it's agains the rules, but I am addicted to this topic and just HAVE to do it :D):

'Er werde gleich die Ehre haben zu erscheinen!' (Die Marquise von O... und andere Erzählungen, Heinrich von Kleist)

'He would soon have the honour of appearing!' (The Marquis of O... and other stories)

The book I'm reading now (pressie from my father for Christmas):

'Zijn hoofd was zwaar zoals altijd wanneer hij ontwaakte.' (Tussen Twee Paleizen, Nagieb Mahfoez)

'His head was heavy like always when he woke up.' (Palacse Walk, Naguib Mahfouz)

[Lord Macbeth]

"The virtues, then, come neither by nature nor agaisnt nature, but nature gives the capacity for acquiring them, and this is developed by training."

-Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (And I'd actually agree a good deal with that sentiment...)

[LuggageFan]

The path tends west around small mountains, then climbs toward a village in the pass.

[Snowqueen]

"The very picture of him indeed!" cried the mother--and "I should have known her anywhere for his sister!" was repeated by them all, two or three times over.

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

[Emil Miller]

"Thanks but I'm afraid I have a prior engagement on Wednesday," said Jerome. He had never heard of Leader of the Pack but the title and the names of the stars mentioned by Mr Melrose bespoke the usual juvenile drivel that had been coming out of American studios for the past twenty years.

A Tangled Web by Emil Miller

[VanceAttack]

"He was always willing to lend these, and he never asked for them back; similarly, he never returned to its owner a book that he had borrowed."

Taken from Aleksandr Pushkin's The Shot out of The Portable Nineteenth Century Russian Reader.

[Patrick_Bateman]

"Her pride, her freedom, but not freedom's shade"

---- To Hope - John Keats ----

[misterreplicant]

Everything he did and said and even thought was wrong.

Shadow of the Giant - Orson Scott Card

[bouquin]

My father could have worked with them; he could have worked with the landlords' mud, but he chose not to.

[lyni]

'Ye can smell it. What came tae yon?'
The Dragon Charmer - Jan Siegel

[bouquin]

And Five Properties loved to bring treats, cases of chocolate milk and flouncy giant boxes of candy, bricks of ice-cream and layer cakes.

[bohn]

How then could capitalism do so?

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Weber

[Sionn Harrow]

One unifying thread in the Bible is its divine authority :D

~ESV Study Bible

[bree]

I agreed with Papa, even before emancipation, that the West Indies would be irreparably ruined if the Emancipation Bill was passed.

Strange Music - Laura Fish

[Big Dante]

Missionary congregation 100 francs

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

[Snowqueen]

Fanny was too much surprised to do more than repeat her aunt's words, "Going to leave you?"

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

[Big Dante]

"An umpire appeared." - Slaughterhouse 5

One of the longest sentences I have ever seen.

[MystyrMystyry]

Dictionary of Modern History - Penguin paperback (A.W. Palmer)

In the last years of his reign, Alexander encouraged the development of Russia's Far Eastern territories, backing the projects of Witte (q.v.) and authorizing construction of the trans-Siberian Railway (q.v.)

(Alexander III, Tsar of Russia)

[Cailin]

I came through John F. Kennedy Airport in a long necklace and an Afghan coat, carrying a torn copy of Howl.

Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann

[McKagan]

For many years these houses presented first-class plays and were frequented by the aristocracy of the city, but in time, as the character of the street changed and the dives and gangsters made it a byword from coast to coast, they offered blood and thunder thrillers of so distinct a type that they became known as Bowery plays, and could be seen knowhere else.

Phew! From Gangs of New York

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"They sauntered over to the Cabana Club and climbed the two short flights of stairs to the top deck"
Ian Fleming - "Goldfinger"

[simon239]

Going to cheat as I had two, one on top of each other...

Then once again Brendan decided our destiny. - Morality Play, Barry Unsworth

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. - Macbeth at his dissasembled best.

[Ancasta]

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and situation.

Persuasion by Jane Austen

[bouquin]

'Don't look.'

[harper.rb]

"The bleached curl revealed its melanic root; the down turned to prickles on a shaved shin; the mobile moist mouth, no matter how I stuffed it with love, disclosed ignominiously its resemblance to the corresponding part in a treasured portrait of her toadlike dead mama; and presently, instead of a pale little gutter girl, Humbert Humbert had on his hands a large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba."

[Olga4real]

'His mother was inconsolable and practically out of her mind with grief, and the feeling of guilt at being behind a desk while Clive had fallen in battle...'
Pro Bono Publico The Rise and Rise of a Very Liberal Democracy by Emil Miller
I enjoy it so far.

[Emil Miller]

'His mother was inconsolable and practically out of her mind with grief, and the feeling of guilt at being behind a desk while Clive had fallen in battle was hard to bear, but fate had in store for him a chance that would mitigate his remorse and change his life forever.
Pro Bono Publico The Rise and Rise of a Very Liberal Democracy by Emil Miller
I enjoy it so far.

I'm glad you're enjoying it Olga and I look forward to your final verdict.

[Whifflingpin]

"Any how he had a pair of old Pistolls, and he told me that they were a smuglar's once upon a time."

[Armel P]

Unfortunately, the 23rd page of my book doesn't have sentences. If I were to chose an equivalent gathering of words it would be:

Know how it operates--

[bouquin]

The question of our lost opportunity were now always present my mother could not leave it alone my father would sit solid in his chair and quietly rub the belly of his big black cat.

[hazelk]

I hope the hotel has a decent bath.

[Mr. Bungle]

Unfortunately, the 23rd page of my book doesn't have sentences. If I were to chose an equivalent gathering of words it would be:

Know how it operates--
What are you reading? A manual of some sort?


I hope the hotel has a decent bath.
That made me laugh for no good reason whatsoever. :D


Mine is very boring. -> "We haven't had time to make up a slide," she said, "so you will have to hand it round."

[Emil Miller]

"Well, I spent the morning in my office, and in the afternoon I stood in for the director at a meeting with the Deputy Under Secretary. I'm a civil servant and I work for the Foreign Office."

The Fateful Circle by Emil Miller.

[naphelge]

"Old Deacon Gookin was at domestic worship, and the holy words of his prayer were heard through the open window."

[Disagree]

"Maybe it was the beer, but the absence of Cyprian was certainly part of it as well."

[Oread]

"You've just observed that, and everybody makes the same observation as you, and this machine, the guillotine, was invented for that."

Writing a paper on this book right now. I'm here to procrastinate, of course.

[bouquin]

There were cattle cracking through the undergrowth, and the stillness of wild animals - all not to be seen.

[Magga]

"Harry så på ham." - Flaggermusmannen (book title in English: The Bat Man. It is originally a Norwegian book) by Jo Nesbø.

Freely translated: "Harry looked at him."

[ChicagoReader]

"His eyes lay dark and tunneled in a caved and haunted face and a foul stench rose from the wells of his boot tops."

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

.

"ALQUIST: For peace of my soul."

From Karel Čapek's play - R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Gg

[bouquin]

The white quail stretched a wing backward and smoothed down the feathers with her beak.

[Pensive]

"I suppose there's a pleasure in satirizing a failure." - Emily Climbs

[kiki1982]

'Men zocht naar een aanleiding voor zijn treurigheid en mevrouw Favrot, die het spel en de spelers door en door kende, begon tragische tonelen eindigende in zelfmoord te ruiken.'

'A cause for his sadness was looked for and Mme Favrot, who knew the game and its players through and through, started to imagine tragic scenes ending in suicide'

(Monaco, Three Types, Marcellus Emants, 1878)

From a translation I am making, hopefully to some avail :hurray:.

[hazelk]

A spoonful for each drinker and one for the pot.

[iamnobody]

The natural light was enkindled in him.-Les Miserables

[bouquin]

But the slightest word of real bitterness, which he was infallible in distinguishing from pretended anger, seemed to sink into his heart and poison all his enjoyments, till he became sensible that he was entirely forgiven.

[Calidore]

The book right next to me, eh? Okay.

"Pressing the A button with a weapon equipped will attack by firing the gun, swinging the steel pipe, etc."

-- Deadly Premonition instruction manual

[EricW]

If she had lived, John thought, then he would never have been born; his father would never have come North and met his mother.

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

[Pensive]

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Now this is a pretty intriguing sentence! It makes one wonder who the concerned personality might be that has so much influence on the lives of all these people! :)

[Tournesol]

"These financial statements are the responsibility of the company's management."

Auditing and Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach by Messier, Glover, and Prawitt.

- my husband's book. go figure.

[KidGalactic]

"He likes to tell them about fireflies."

[bouquin]

"I will go and look for it," said the other gently.

[Lord Macbeth]

FRANK: (Rising) Mrs. Warren, I cannot give my Vivie up even for your sake.

-"Mrs. Warren's Profession" from "'Man and Superman' and Three Other Plays" by George Bernard Shaw

[shift decimal]

No appointments, no invitations for dinner, no program, no dough.

- From "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller.

[bouquin]

It was this last factor which provided its own solution to the problem of re-settling the migrant populations of the new Earth.

[Pierre Menard]

He will be a somebody in the Administration before long.

[Benvenuti]

Oh dear. ""The position of guides can be adjusted in the image using the Move tool."

From "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Bible" by Lisa DaNae Dayley and Brad Dayley.

I was actually resting my elbow on it and couldn't resist...

[Emil Miller]

The desire not to offend trade union officials took on an almost deferential air, with serious consequences for industrial relations at a time when communist activists were becoming more influential.

Pro Bono Publico by Emil Miller.

[Brock]

The methods of teaching most of the subjects in the curriculum have undergone considerable changes and been vastly improved, during the last decade.

Learning the Teach English in the Secondary School, 3rd edition. by Jon Davison and Jane Dowson (eds)

[bouquin]

Je ne comprends pas.

(Trans. : I don't understand.)

[Antares]

"Pity! Why pity me!" Marmeladov suddenly cried out, rising with his hand stretched forth, in decided inspiration, as if he had only been waiting for these words.

From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

[kennings]

"Then again, some people might not like the identity of Jack the Ripper discovered." - Jack by Eric M. Black

[optimisticnad]

'How did your friend blow the conch?'

Oh dear, trust me to find a line like that.

[kiki1982]

'Puis, le soir, au retour du bureau, il courait au bord de la Seine avec sa cousine Thérèse.'

'Then, in the evening, when he had returned from the office, he ran along the banks of the Seine with his cousin Thérèse.'

Thérèse Raquin - Zola

[Sano]

"Moreover the triangle ABC is half of the parallelogram EBCA; for the diameter AB bisects it."

37th Proposition of Euclid's Elements

[iamnobody]

Last night it was pullulating with women.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

[bouquin]

"Nothing as far as I'm concerned."

[Waldo]

"I was suddenly her focus of the general meaninglessness-not for myself, not for any quality of my large, shaggy body or my sly, unatural mind."

Grendel by John Gardner

[kiki1982]

"An innocent maiden had thus grown up in the belief that the relations between the genial sailor and her mother were the ordinary ones that they had always appeared to be."

The myor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

[G L Wilson]

"It was very kind of you to help me," she said at the door.

Shirley Jackson, "The Daemon Lover"

[Emil Miller]

The two officers exchanged glances, and the next question brought a bemused look to the face of the bereaved man when he was asked to account for his own movements that day.

The Fateful Circle by Emil Miller.

[Kundan]

While blankets were gathered and tombstones bid farewell to, several women would notice the many inconsistencies in the men's responses and ask either new questions or re-formulate the old ones, only more persistently this time.

The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak

[Mariner]

"Bakers have homes, while shepherds sleep out in the open."

-The Alchemist

[Catperson]

"And whatever had been true a generation ago when Catherine of Aragon's daughter had brought back the church to Rome, whatever might be true now of the outlying parts of the realm in this twenty-ninth year of the reign of Elizabeth, the heart and strength of England, the southern and eastern counties, the flourishing seaport towns, and the great city of London itself were Protestant."

- 'The Defeat of the Spanish Armada' by Garrett Mattingly

A bit of a long sentence!

[34maine]

"Now find out my name," she said teasingly; and withdrew.

Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy

[lieasleep]

Still, if things had gone thus far and no farther, force of habit would doubtless have gained the day, as usual.

The Plague by Albert Camus

[Big Dante]

"Coming out he leaned over the bowl and dipped the cup full and they all touched cup edges"

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

[bouquin]

I told you he wouldn't like it!

[Nikhar]

Dementors here, in Little Whinging.

[bouquin]

Catherine's library was select, and its state of dilapidation proved it to have been well used, though not altogether for a legitimate purpose; scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen-and-ink commentary - at least, the appearance of one - covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.

[m2vihand]

In translation:
"I and my wife were keeping vigil almost for the entire night by the side of the little girl."
(In Cold Blood by Truman Capote)

[ChicagoReader]

"He felt that his son was long past the point of being influenced by a father's opinions."

Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton

[Patrick_Bateman]

"His pale eyes had a faraway look, to somewhere beyond life itself."


Bruges-la-Morte - Georges Rodenbach

[David Strugnell]

called Keith Douglas. He was posh. His middle name was Castellaine

the pregnant widow martin amis

[m2vihand]

But there is a factor that can be eliminated almost totally, and this is sodium-chloride (table salt) which is the main cause of high blood pressure.
(Paul C. Bragg and Patricia Bragg: The Miracle of Fasting)

[threecharacters]

Lastly he took the bottle of Echols' potion from his coatpicket and pulled the cork and dipped a twig into the bottle and stuck the twig into the ground a foot from the trap and then put the cork back in the bottle and the bottle in his pocket.

[Ser Nevarc]

"A boy about a year older stood crying and shaking in a corner; he had evidently just had a whipping"


That's Crime and Punishment

[ChicagoReader]

"In 1874, when he was 36, he went off to start a branch office in the newly booming cotton port of Norfolk, Virginia."

The Diary of Jack the Ripper

[Stonebolt]

Does "fourth sentence" include the sentence that the page starts midway through? I'm assuming no. Anyway:

"The present moment holds the key to liberation." The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle. As I mentioned in the philosophy section, it is the most powerful book I've ever read.

[shift decimal]

"I was getting all this on camera and, unwilling to let her upstage us, I quickly sapped her so that she fell onto the table in a heap".

[shift decimal]

Stonebolt - I read The Power of Now last year upon recommendation by my psychologist. It is quite good but to be honest I haven't kept it's ideas at the forefront of my consciousness. I probably do live life more to in the moment now in hindsight and thank this book for being a factor in this really. What are your thoughts?

[Stonebolt]

I don't know, people definitely do have different reactions to it. I think people accept it in different degrees based on their life situation.

[m2vihand]

The flags are usually split to yellow and red parts diagonally, and the 2 flags move independently like the 2 hand of a clock.

[TylerDurden]

"His father was a marshall now: higher than a magistrate." (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce)

"The things pretended and the phrases new." (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)

[Dr.reid_16]

"The wall is not a two-dimensional surface but the high-dimensional phenomenal state-space of human Technicolor phenomenology. The Ego Tunnel: The science of the mind and the myth of the self. - Thomas Metzinger

[bouquin]

His feet are bare, his ankles lovely, as are his wrists.

[Snowqueen]

Our Saviour Himself long ago preached liberty and equality.

War and Peace.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"Not only did they differ strikingly from one another in facial type and body build, but they spoke quite unrelated languages and evolved completely different ways of life"
The RA Expeditions - Thor Heyerdahl

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[iamnobody]

We may profit by their experience without paying the price which it cost them.-The Federalist papers by Hamilton, Madison and Jay

[dwdean]

it was thus that i was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.

frankenstein, mary shelley

[jmnixon95]

"And she opened the door of Fräulein Bürnster's room."

[Delta40]

Here the light clicks across the white and gray

Corruption Poems by Camille Norton

[bouquin]

There were two stools and two lamps at the workbench for the rare times when the son felt like joining his father, cleaning keys, but generally after breakfast the boy spent the rest of the day sitting behind Drummond in an old Naugahyde recliner, laughing to himself and saying prayers, or wandering out to the sidewalk to smoke a cigarette.

[Jeffercake]

She began to go slowly upstairs, with her hand on the bannisters, as if she had left a party, where now this friend that had flashed back her, her voice; had shut the door and gone out and stood alone, a single figure against the appalling night, or rather, to be accurate, against the stare of this matter-of-fact June morning; soft with the glow of rose petals for some, she knew, and felt it, as she paused by the open staircase window which let in blinds flapping, dogs barking, let in, she thought, feeling herself suddenly shrivelled, aged, breastless, the grinding, blowing, flowering of the day, out of doors, out of the window, out of her body and brain which now failed, since Lady Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her.

[Annie Anthrax]

Once, in Texas, I kicked a habit on weed, a pint of paregoric and a few Louis Armstrong records.

(Junky - Burroughs)

[celestialonion]

"Dementors here?"

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- JK Rowling, which I've been seriously neglecting in favor of my computer and must read twenty chapters of in order to finish the series by the premiere.

[Cailin]

Des femmes de son âge, mariées, divorcées, plus jeunes.

[bouquin]

"Laisse-moi seule."

(Trans. - "Leave me alone.")

[iamnobody]

He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it. -Middlemarch by George Eliot

[ally_cat]

"So here I am against my will, and yours, I know that; for no one loves the bearer of bad news."
Antigone, Sophocles

[Bessie11]

the elderly couple pass by,glance at them and notice nothing wrong.

The WINNER STANDS ALONE by Panlo Coelho .

[libernaut]

But I won't say anything.

-demian by hesse

[kiki1982]

'Love me as well as ever, was my sister's.'

Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson.

I got there in the end :D and like it too.

[bouquin]

I didn't say anything.

[young foht]

"You're English ain't better than what any other refugee talks."

"Rosa" in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl

[bouquin]

After all, I spend so much time there, all of this raising another question, namely: who will be the first person to see me dead?

[Mr. Bungle]

"Nineteen fifty-three, the year of the double helix, will come to be seen not only as the end of mystical and obscurantist views of life; Darwinians will see it as the year their subject went finally digital." ~ River Out Of Eden

[lawpark]

"From this point of view, if there is a field of historical studies (as I believe) and not merely a group of several fields, it can be nothing less than the whole body of questions about human cultural development, about human culture in its continuity over time; and here we cannot rule out a potential need to develop relatively dateless generalizations, for instance about what may be possible in cultural change, such generalizations are not simply derivable from any other discipline as such, yet they are necessary for studying what is timelessly important about the dated and placed events of human culture."

The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Volume 1, The Classical Age of Islam. By Marshall G.S. Hodgson

[novelsryou]

Uncle Siegfried had a peculiar sense of humor.

Good Bye To All That

[AjaxAscendant]

"One would guess (but has the subject actually been investigated?) that even so essentially traditionalist an activity as popular institutional religion has found little difficulty in accepting it."

~ On History

[Delta40]

And in his tyme swich a conquerour

[qimissung]

But it is love for which I seek you now! What misery!

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"Arrived now at adolescence I burned for all the satisfactions of hell, and I sank to the animal in a succession of dark lusts: my beauty consumed away, and I stank in Thine eyes, yet was pleasing in my own and anxious to please the eyes of men."

The Confessions of St. Augustine

[Greta Kin]

The drunk just stood there.

[Junglord]

"Nope," Metzger said.

[bouquin]

"What do you know about this Lasker?" Shpringer says.

[Hira]

"Thou lookest tired and hungry: thou'st been treated ill. Come with me."

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain

[bouquin]

On these occasions our two little ones always read for us, and they were regularly served after we had done.

[Tournesol]

"Each movement is designed to scientifically oxygenate, then stretch, then strengthen, and then restretch a particular muscle group."

'The Pilates Pregnancy'
by Mari Winsor with Mark Laska

[Calidore]

"We always hope calamity will not overtake us in this lifetime, rather like children trying to avoid difficult lessons."

Gatherer of Clouds by Sean Russell

[G L Wilson]

"The widow rushed to prepare for battle."
Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

[cl154576]

Moreover, if N is relatively prime to 10 (that is, is not divisible by 2 or 5), then some multiple of N consists entirely of 1s.

The USSR Olympiad Problem Book
D.O. Shklarsky, N.N. Chentzov and I.M. Yaglom

[Panglossian]

"Sick minds identified the notion of a Terra planet with that of another world and this 'Other World' got confused not only with the 'Next World' but with the Real World in us and beyond us."

Ada or Ardor - Nabokov.

[scarjo]

"Well, what the hell, he can shake hands can't he?"

From "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey.

[bouquin]

A breeze flaunting ever so warmly down the Mall through the thin trees, past the bronze heroes, lifted some flag flying in the British breast of Mr. Bowley and he raised his hat as the car turned into the Mall and held it high as the car approached and let the poor mothers of Pimlico press close to him, and stood very upright.

[mississippidave]

"You could say that." Richard Adams "Watership Down"

[bouquin]

"There's no past, present or future outside our own mind."

[Des Essientes]

Against the South wall of the room there was a couch of mother-of-pearl, on which the girls spread an embroidered coverlet and helped the priest to lie down. (From the story A Taoist Priest in the book Taoist Tales edited by Raymond Van Over) The fifth sentence of page 23 is even better though: The priest then pulled the older girl down to share his pillow, and bade the younger one to stand by the couch and scratch him.

[stuntpickle]

"A wagtail, like a blue-gray wind, quickstepped across the sand."

"Sounds" from The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

[submg]

"Why, Richard often wondered, did his mother hate him so?"

From "Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer" by Philip Carlo

[Dare2Write]

"The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell."

From "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.

[bouquin]

Can't you tell them I'm alright, Mr. Gilbert?

[G L Wilson]

"De bes' way is to res' easy en let de ole man take his own way." Huck Finn, Mark Twain

[iamnobody]

If there were any way at all of sheltering from Death's blows-even by crawling under the skin of a calf-I am not the man to recoil from it. -Montaigne's Essays

[outer space]

Just as, before her husband's death, she had confided in her friends about her love affair, so she chatted about it after his death, with the arresting sergeant.

[kinesj]

And did Mister-r Stuart retur-rn next day, as he said in's note?

Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner

[Rigaud]

"To that devout woman, M. Myriel was both her brother and her bishop, her friend in nature and her superior in the Church."

Les Miserables

~Pardon the rather extremem bump. Didn't catch the date till it was too late.

[bouquin]

'We're leaving,' Baba said.

[LizzzyBF]

Is not this your son, my Lord?

Shakespeare's King Lear

[kiki1982]

"Maar eerst moet hij helemaal bedaard zijn."

(Marcellus Emants, Liefdeleven, 1916)

"But first he must be completely calm."

(Marcellus Emants, Living Love Life, 1916) As yet untranslated, but I think he would have liked the title.

[bouquin]

All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.

[JazzJazz]

"...a ballad about the troubles in our native land."

James Joyce - Dubliners

[The Ol' Man]

'How gloomier is the contrast
(Of human nature there!')

Queen Mab - Percy Shelley

[cafolini]

I'll tell you some truth, just one, for today; far more than the truth.

[cyberbob]

Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. - Holy Bible New International Version.

[iamnobody]

He discovered that Duer had enthusiasm fot two composers, called Bach and Beethoven, presumably Germans, and that he himself did not yet comprehend all the ways of the world. -Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

[cafolini]

That is, if mere empty words can prove it, it stands proved--and in this way, without committing himself, he gives the reader a chance to infer that there isn't any extant evidence but words, and that he doesn't take much stock in them.

In Defence of Harriet Shelley, by Mark Twain

[literary-device]

There is a vanilla cake with blue wax candles. - the five people you meet in heaven

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"He was already halfway across the square when they saw him, on a big hard ridden roan horse, man and beast looking as though they had been created out of thin air and set down in the bright summer sabbath sunshine in the middle of a tired foxtrot-face and horse that none of them had ever seen before, name that none of them had ever heard, and origin and purpose which none of them were never to learn." ...and that's one of the shorter sentences!

William Faulkner Absalom; Absalom!

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[Kayaan]

"You have some, Papa"

The Road from Cormac McCarthy

[bouquin]

I knew that losing to a taco bender would ruin my local celebrity.

[Teritus]

"Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge in the face of such difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never faltered for a moment."

A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Drowning Age]

"The problem was to find an economically sounder reason for consuming transport than a mere affection for primroses and landscapes."

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.