... you are cursed when you realize true things, because then you can't act with the full confidence of dumbness anymore. (from Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, winner of The Man Booker Prize 2003).
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... you are cursed when you realize true things, because then you can't act with the full confidence of dumbness anymore. (from Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, winner of The Man Booker Prize 2003).
World is really strangely managed; something happy becomes unhappy if you're looking at it too long.
Gogol - Dead Souls
some of my favorites from Middlemarch (Eliot)... the first in the list made me lol
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Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become
like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry--the mother
too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy--
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Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness."
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"I mean that he ought not to put such questions until he has done
something worthy, instead of saying that he could do it."
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That evening he seemed to be talking widely for the sake of resisting any personal bearing.
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1st Gent. Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too.
2d Gent. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses,
Or catch your carp with subtle argument. All force is twain in one: cause is not cause
Unless effect be there; and action's self Must needs contain a passive. So command
Exists but with obedience."
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In marriage, the certainty, "She will never love me much," is easier to bear than the fear, "I shall love her no more."
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I just downloaded The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge by Conan Doyle. I haven't read any Sherlock Holmes in ages, and this is one I haven't read before. :)
Quote:
"I suppose, Watson, we must look upon you as a man of letters,"
said he. "How do you define the word 'grotesque'?"
"Strange--remarkable," I suggested.
He shook his head at my definition.
"There is surely something more than that," said he; "some
underlying suggestion of the tragic and the terrible. If you
cast your mind back to some of those narratives with which you
have afflicted a long-suffering public, you will recognize how
often the grotesque has deepened into the criminal.
In the name of irony!
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great quote, although this is the quote the book you are reading thread. Which of Emerson's works are you currently reading? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cows
Yes, my appologies, it fit too well.
I wrapped up Emerson's Self-Relience yesterday. Here's a quote:
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature."
Well since I just finished reading Jane Eyre...I thought it only fitting that I read Wide Sargasso Sea next........I'm quite excited to begin!! :D
oopss...sorry...i posted on the wrong thread!!!
“I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.” - "Edward Rochester" (Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys)
"twist the neck of the swan" as the Mexican poet said, is to write from my heart and not have anyone notice my tears
Memories of My Melancholy Whores- Gabriel G. Marquez
You orchestrate happiness ... you work at it. You don't catch it as it hurls towards you like a football.
---- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
"It was day time because the daylight was coming into the room"
my translation, from Uma casa na Escuridão by José Luís Peixoto
Slaughterhouse - 5 by VonnegutQuote:
"How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."