"It's not the destination, but the journey when walking the witches road."
The Outer Temple of Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak
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"It's not the destination, but the journey when walking the witches road."
The Outer Temple of Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak
'' I awoke trembling and sweating, the sheets soaking wet beneath me as my mind recalled the visions from the nightmare that had ripped me from my sleep. The recollections were sadly all too vivid as I had been fighting them all night, a battle I was destined to lose."
'Redemption' by Wayne Sharrocks
Just finished it on Tuesday. I am absolutely in love.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hyacinth Girl
Some passages out of Extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer that made me laugh, think or otherwise impressed me.
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"I changed the Sahara!" "Which means?" he said. "What? Tell me." "Well, I'm not talking about painting the Mona Lisa or curing cancer. I'm just talking about moving that one grainof sand one millimeter." "Yeah?" "If you hadn't done it, human history would have been one way..." "Uh-huh?" "But you did do it, so...?" I stood in the bed, pointed my fingers at the fake stars, and screamed: "I changed the course of human history!" "That's right." "I changed the universe!" "You did." "I'm God!" "You're an atheist." "I don't exist!" I fell back onto the bed, into his arms, and we cracked up together.
Quote:
But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say. It became difficult to navigate from Something to Something without accidentally walk through Nothing, and when Something - a key, a pen, a pocketwatch - was accidentally left in a Nothing Place, it never could be retrieved, that was an unspoken rule, like nearly all our rules have been.
Dante's Inferno
i love that quote..for some reason it just struck me as brilliant..but then again.. Dante was brilliantQuote:
One must fear only those things that have the power to harm; not other things, for they are not fearful.
"Ever since then I have understood that strength, intelligence, stupidity, beauty, cowardice and weakness are situations and roles which sooner or later hapen to everyone." Claudio Magris, Danube
"My Mother is a fish." As I Lay Dieing - Faulkner
That's an entire chapter...what is that? I loved it though :D , just started reading yesterday and after that chapter I figured I'd reaed enough for one day.
I love that quote. I don't think there are many other quotes capable of saying so much with so few words.Quote:
Originally Posted by TEND
Thank you very much. I was also considering quoting something from the last bit of Darl's chapter previous to it, all about being and not being very interesting. I'm absolutely loving this book, as I've had trouble getting into Faulkner previously, this one really hits home, partly due to characters I can identify with and the unique style it's also a much shorter novel than the others I own. Very good way to start off my Faulkner reading (Although I have read some short stories from my big book :D ).
"....he saw his life down the solemn vista of a forest aisle, and he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never."
Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
"Sorrow comes in so many ways. Two years ago I had no notion of that -- I mean of the unexpected way in which trouble comes, and ties our hands, and makes us silent when we long to speak. I used to despise women a little for not shaping their lives more, and doing better things. I was very fond of doing as I liked, but I have almost given it up," she added, smiling playfully.
--Dorothea Brooke, Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Bag of bones
the more debased and devious we become, the more we cloud the launguage with erudition.
Timothy Findley
"Why do I always begin to feel sad at such moments; explain that mystery; you learned person? I've been thinking all my life that I should be goodness knows how pleased to see you and recalling everything, and here I somehow don't feel pleased at all, although I do love you..."
- Lizaveta Nikolaevna from The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Perhaps a man builds for his future in more ways than one, builds not only toward the body which will be his tomorrow or next year, but toward actions and the subsequent irrevocable courses of resultant action which his weak senses and intellect cannot foresee but which ten or twenty or thirty years from now he will take, will have to take in order to survive the act."-William Faulkner
"The choice we have is not whether to be gay or straight. For the majority of gay people, we are who God made us to be. The real choice is between denial and embracing who we are. The real choice is between living life in the shadows or walking proudly in the light. The real choice is between a slow death or an honest life."
-"Letters from the closet"
"I take this lock of hair as a solemn offering to Dis, and now I free you from your body." With these words she raised her hand and cut the hair, and as she cut, all warmth went out of Dido's body and her life passed into the winds.
Virgil, "The Aeneid"
This novel, "White Noise" by Don DeLillo, has too much gab and banter, yet some is good.
Here's a nice quote: "I wanted to be near the children, watch them sleep. Watching children sleep makes me feel devout, part of a spiritual system. ... If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystical light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep. Girls especially."
Two others:
"Babette and I tell each other everything. I have told everything, such as it was at the time, to each of my wives. There is more to tell, of course, as marriages accumulate. But when I say I believe in complete disclosure I don't mean it cheaply, as anecdotal sport or shallow revelation. It is a form of self-renewal and a gesture of custodial trust."
"Who will die first? She says she wants to die first because she would feel unbearable lonely and sad without me, especially if the children were grown and living elsewhere. She is adamant about this. She sincerely wants to precede me. She discusses the subject with such argumentative force that it's obvious she thinks we have a choice in the matter."
It's not all this decent; a lot of redundancy and treading water. Something going on though. It's very casual. I don't like casual that much; seems too easy-going. But I'll give it a plug. It does move fast.
Good beach reading if you get to the beach.
Well, I have just finished Sons and Lovers some days ago. Thus, I think I can write a quote from that excellent novel!
Quote:
"I do like her... I do like to talk to her – I never said I didn't. But I don't love her."
Paul, Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
" ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy,and persue with eagerness the phantoms of hope;who expect that age will perform the promises of youth ,and the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow..."
Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas.
"Stately plump Buck Mulligan..."
Best beginning ever.
Lear 1.2
"...Well, then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"
I am now of all humours that haved showed themselves humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one"
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
But, in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.
I am not fond of reflections when they remain mere reflections.
Old-Fashioned Farmers
Nikolai Gogol
(Although it's a short story, I read it as a book and loved it!)
btw, very interesting avatar from you, melancolia! :D
This book is really excellent. It makes you feel you are living with Dr Zewail. He is a charming and lovely character; I love him!Quote:
Success in life may come to anyone at any level in any walk of life, but whatever the degree or the profession, one's success is shaped by the help of a multitude of other people -- a team effort. Recognizing this fact, the haves should help the have-nots.
Dr Ahmed Zewail, Voyage through Time - Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize.
Why, thank you white camellia! :D
To become the spectator of one’s own life, is to escape the suffering of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
"And your idea is worth, this time, quite as much as any of mine..."
Fanny Assingham (great name) from The Golden Bowl speaking to her husband
(my italics)
"The briefest of images can sometimes blossom into the most complex thoughts, particularly when we think about them in the context of the whole poem. The second pun, on 'standing', compares Donne 'standing' to watch his mistress undress with a soldier 'standing' waiting for a battle to begin; but the pun additionally relies on us to link 'standing' with the poet's erect penis." :rolleyes:
Analysing Texts - John Donne - The Complete English Poems
Mr. Sleary in Dickens's Hard Times. "People mutht be amuthed. They can't alwayth be a learning; nor can they alwayth be a working. they an't made for it."
One ship is very much like another, and the sea is always the same.
The Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
It made me laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by melancolia
"Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am you master;-obey!"
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
It is such a strong image I feel. This is the first time the monstar really puts Victor in his place. There is so much to reflect on in the quote. The whole book is amazing.
-Me
"If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics." -Paul Auster, Moon Palace.
"Listen, my friend! I am a sinner and you are a sinner, but someday the sinner will be Brahma again, will someday attain Nirvana, will someday become Buddha. Now this 'someday' is illusion; it is only a comparison. The sinner is not on the way to a Buddha-like state; he is not evolving, although our thinking cannot conceive things otherwise. No, the potential Buddha already exists in the sinner; his future is already there. The potential hidden Buddha must be recognized in him, in you, in everybody. The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carried grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people-eternal life."
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
“A credulous father, and a brother noble,
Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty
My practises ride easy! I see the business.
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.”
- - - King Lear, Act 1 Scene 2.
The bishop, who was sitting near him, touched his hand gently and said: "You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. I tell you, who are a traveller, that you are more at home here than I; whatever is here is yours. What need have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me, I knew it."
The man opened his eyes in astonishment:
"Really? You knew my name?"
"Yes," answered the bishop, "your name is my brother."
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Although I have already finished reading this book, I couldn't help posting this section, which I love:One Hundred Years of Solitude by MarquezQuote:
It was there that the sleight-of-hand lawyers proved that the banana company did not have, never had had, and never would have any workers in its service because they were all hired on a temporary and occasinal basis. So that the fable of the Virginia ham was nonsense, the same as that of the miraculous pills and the Yuletide toilets, and by a decision of the court it was established and set down in solemn decrees that the workers did not exist.
"In the abstract but not in the concrete," Said Ursula. "When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted - oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only not tempted not to." The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement. Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence On the idea of getting married or not.
"With the approach of autumn, a layer of long golden fur grows over their bodies. Golden in the purest sense of the word, with not the least intrusion of another hue. Theirs is a gold that comes into this world as gold and exists in this world as gold. Poised between all heaven and earth, they stand steeped in gold."
Hard-boild Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami
"Ik heb ontdekt dat het niet de zwaartekracht is die alles op de aarde houdt, maar de kleuren, zij hij langzaam maar heel stellig en dwingend. Als de hemel groen was en de aarde blauw, zouden zelfs de stenen naar boven vallen. De bomen zouden ontworteld worden."
From Kort Amerikaans by Jan Wolkers
Translation:
"I found that it's not gravity that keeps things down to earth, but the colours, he said slowly but positive and binding. If the sky would have been green and the earth blue, stones would fall upwards. The trees would get out of the ground."
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta .
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted lines. But in my arms she was always Lolita"
From Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov