The Sun Over Breda - Auturo Perez Reverte
"Colonels always arrive midmorning," he said, and from his cold, gray-green eyes it was impossible to know whether he was speaking seriously or in jest. "Which is why we ourselves must get up so early."
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The Sun Over Breda - Auturo Perez Reverte
"Colonels always arrive midmorning," he said, and from his cold, gray-green eyes it was impossible to know whether he was speaking seriously or in jest. "Which is why we ourselves must get up so early."
From A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.
'But you know I've felt low for weeks now... bloody low...how about some brandy?'
'Yes, why not? After all there are other things in life besides women and pigs.'
A Room With A View ~ E. M. Forster
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"The Garden of Eden," pursued Mr. Emerson, still descending, "which you place in the past, is really yet to come. We shall enter it when we no longer despise our bodies."
Mr. Bebe disclamied placing the Garden of Eden anywhere.
"In this-not in other things-we men are ahead. We despise our bodies less than women do. But not until we are comrades shall we enter the garden."
From King Lear by William Shakespeare:
"Might I but live to see thee in my touch,/I'd say I had eyes again."
"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones:/Had I your tongue and eyes, I'd use them so/That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone for ever!"
"Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty/According to my bond; no more nor less."
A Room With a View ~ E.M. Forster
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"There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light," he continued in measured tones. "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; becasue the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do very much harm-yes choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."
" ' Oh. Brown. Yes. Tall, young. Dark complected; women folks calls him handsome, a right smart do, i hear tell. A big hand for laughing and frolicking and playing jokes on folks. But I...' His voice ceases, He cannot look at her, feeling her steady, sober gaze upon his face.
' Joe Brown ' she says, ' Has he got a little white scar right here by his mouth? '
And he cannot look at her, and he sits there on the stacked lumber when it is too late, and he could have bitten his tongue in two. "
Any guesses?
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m.foucault- history of sexuality
'This is what is called speaking... When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die.'
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'But we have so much to be thankful for. Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night.'
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'... to what extent would people tolerate blasphemies if they gave them amusement? The answer is obvious, isn't it? To any extent.'
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But the present is no less dark than the past, and its mystery is equal to anything the future might hold. Such is the way of the world: one step at a time, one word and then the next.
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Every life is inexplicable ... No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge - none of that tells us very much.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
"Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."
"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way is was and will be. That way and not some other way."
"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life by C.S. Lewis
"And with that plunge back into my own past there arose at once, almost like heartbreak, the memory of Joy itself, the knowledge that I had once had what I now lacked for years, that I was returning at last from exile and desert lands to my own country; and the distance of the Twilight of the Gods and the distance of my own past Joy, both unattainable, flowed together into a single, unendurable sense of desire and loss, which suddenly became one with the loss of the experience, which, as I now stared round that dusty schoolroom like a man recovering from unconsciousness, had already vanished, had eluded me at the very moment when I could first say It is. And at once I knew (with fatal knowledge) that to "have it again" was the supreme and only important object of desire."
"All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be.'"
"A fear that guarded the road to Faerie was one I could face. No one is a coward at all points."
"To kill a mocingbird" ~ Harper Lee
"...Atticus,he was real nice..."
"To kill a mockingbird" ~ Harper Lee
"...Atticus,he was real nice..."
His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover,tucking it around me.
"Most people are,Scout,when you finally see them."
Mine is a Thesaurus so it's too hard to pick a quote.
Cat
Paradise Lost ~ Milton
Quote:
O shame to men! Devil with Devil damn'd
firm conrod holds, men only disagree
of creatures rational, though under hope
of heavenly Grace: and God procliaming peace,
yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife
among themselves, and levy cruel wars,
wasting the Earth, each other to destroy:
as it (which might induct us to accord)
man had not hellish foes enow besides,
that day and night for his distruction wait.
Don't read your thesaurus. It's a story with no end. Every word finds a new one. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat_Brenners
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
"All this is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
I was the thrall of Beauty that rejoices
From peak snow-diademed to regal star;
Yet to mine aerie ever pierced the voices,
The pregnant voices of the Things That Are,
The Here, the Now, the vast Forlorn around us;
The gold-delirium, the ferine strife;
The lusts that lure us on, the hates that hound us;
Our red rags in the patch-work quilt of Life.
Robert W. Service
If the cult of the head had survived into Jesus' time among the Nazarites, and members of this sect continued the ritual removal and embalming of heads 'touched by the hand of God', then (as the leader of the sect, and as acknowledged Messiah) it is logical to assume that Jesus' own head would have been taken after his death and kept as a relic.
Keith Laidler The Divine Deception
" Most people depend heavily on their sense of touch. In fact, their whole structure of responses to reality is organized around their touch. They may doubt their eyes and ears, but when they touch something they know it's real. And it is not an accident that we describe the deepest parts of ourselves - our emotions - in terms of the sense of touch. Sad tales touch our feelings. Bad situations irritate us or hurt us. This is an inevitable result of the fact that we are biological organisms...
You must fight and change this orientation. You're intelligent creatures - each of you has a brain. Use it. Use it to recognize danger.
Use it to train yourself to stay alive. "
Behold the monster with the pointed tail,
Who cleaves the hills, and breaketh walls and weapons,
Behold him who infecteth all the world.
Dante Alighieri, The Inferno
Canto XVII, lines 1-3
'Admirable! And then there is the Press. We must ring up the Flint and Denbigh Herald and get them to send a photographer. That means whisky.
Will you see to that Philbrick? I remember at one of our sports I omitted to offer whisky to the Press, and the result was a most unfortunate photograph.
Boys do get into such indelicate positions during the obstacle race, don't they?
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
«Droll thing life is- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of unextinguishable regrets.» - Heart Of Darkness
"It doesn't matter what they say about me, and it doesn't matter what they say about you. Some people are set apart from everyone else, Cassie. But whatever they say about you, they can never truly hurt you...be true to youself"
The Unwanted by John Saul
Being interesting has been replaced with being identifiable.
My grandpa always said that asking questions is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"She is singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!"
-Erik, Phantom of the Opera
The Moon and Sixpence by Maugham:
"I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed."
Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face.
O.Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Zoran Zivkovic, Line On The Palm (from: Steps Through The Mist)
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I carefully examined the client at my door. This is extremely important in my work. A person's outward appearance says a lot about his future. Or rather, about what he would like to hear about his future.
Marriage...a dead state carried over into and existing still among the living like two shadows chained together with the show of a chain.
William Faulkner, Light in August
'But soon we shall die ... and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.'
Abe North was talking to her about his moral code: 'Of course I've got one,' he insisted,'--a man can't live without a moral code. Mine is that I'm against the burning of witches. Whenever they burn a witch I get all hot under the collar.'
Michener's Fires of Spring hit me like a ton of bricks. It is an extraordinary book that I strongly recommend. Here is a quote for your consideration:
tell yourself the truth ... you'll be miles ahead of those who live on dreams
This is from Phantom of the Opera. The original novel which I am almost done reading for the 6th or 7th time.
"Three weeks later, the Epoque published this advertisement: Erik is dead."
P.G.7.
"Hold on tight, I'll pull you in. Don't let go. Pull with your eyes while I pull with my hands. In a few seconds you'll be aboard and we'll be together."
I love that line.
Currently reading the Merchant of Venice, so:
"To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we shall resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
Sigh... I'd love to play Shylock on the stage...
I'm reading Don DeLillo and I love how he writes so i've got a bunch. but one is:
"The dust powdered the hood and windshield and the sun seemed nearly upon them, burning down so squarely and vastly he wanted to laugh in ****face fear."
and
"He imagined the sound waves passing over the land and lapping forward in time, over weeks and months, cross-country, eventually becoming the gentlest sort of rockabye rhythm in a small safe room where a mother nurses a baby and a man stands with his arm over his head, a research fellow, not in fear of shattered plaster and flying glass but only to draw down the shade-- the sky is going dark, and a tangy savor drifts from the kitchen, and there is music in the house."
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly-deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and to madness.
I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increase enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
- William S. Burroughs, Junky