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people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.
- Charles Bukowski
At the moment King Lear's fool's "Fool have ne'er less grace than a year/ For wise men are grown foppish/ And know not how their wits to wear/ Their manners are so appish."
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Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been." -- Arthur Ransome
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And in the next instant he was one of the deadest men that ever lived
Mark Twain
Fleeting silence envelops my past, yet i still walk in a feild of arrogance.
Roland Mirth
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.~Victor Hugo :P
"if i can stop one heart from breaking i shall not live in vain".
this is a famous quote by famous poet emily dickinson
"for arts sake alone i would not face the toil of writing a single sentence"
said G.B.Shaw
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." - Ghandi
"Today's thinker has a great duty: to auscultate civilization." - Victor Hugo
(I LOVE Les Mis!!!!!)
And see my siggy...
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
- Woody Allen
If you haven't got a wastepaper basket full of rejected pages at the end of each day, then what you are writing is probably not worth reading.
W. Somerset Maugham.
"To be or not to be, this is the question!"
This quote is not concerned with literature or literary expression, as it is with general life style, but I my self face this piquent situation, when ever I had to write or I wanna write as I am always short of time, and that is not the only reason for putting this quote here, as I did not think much as it is my first post and I wanna check if it can really be posted or not.......
"To be or not to be, this is the question!"
This quote is not concerned with literature or literary expression, as it is with general life style, but I my self face this piquent situation, when ever I had to write or I wanna write as I am always short of time, and that is not the only reason for putting this quote here, as I did not think much as it is my first post and I wanna check if it can really be posted or not........
My favourite quote is :
"Life is a tale told by an idiot
Full of sound and fury
signifying nothing"
- Macbeth
We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.
W.H.Auden
And yet, what rapture to be loved!
And, Gods, to love - what ecstasy!
Goethe
It takes so little to make a child happy that it is a pity, in a world so full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. - Louisa May Alcott- (Little Men)
This quote is so true, and so sad.
L.M.A. is my favourite Author.
I'd rather say that this is my favourite subject.
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." (Plato)
"To love another person is to see the face of God." (Victor Hugo)
senhor jose looks again at what is written on the card, the handwriting, needles to say, is not his, it's an old-fashioned hand, thirty-six years ago another clerk wrote the words you can read here, the name of the baby girl, the names of her parents and god-parents, the date and hour of her birth, the street and the number of of the apartment where she first saw the light of day and first felt pain, the same beginning as everyone else, the differences, great and small, come later, some of those who are born become entries in encyclopedias, in history books, in biographies, in catalogues, in manuals, in collections of newspaper clippings, the others, roughly speaking, are like a cloud that passes without leaving behind it any trace of its passing, and if rain fell from that cloud, it did not even wet the earth.
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We dare not because it is difficult. Rather, it is difficult because we dare not.
Seneca
But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
- Jack Kerouac (from On the Road)
"imagine being 80 years old and ****ing an 18 year old girl, if theres one way to cheat death, thats it"
bukowski
Not from my favourite writer, Dostoevsky, but from Tolstoy:
"So many memories of the past arise when one tries to recall the features of somebody we love that one sees those features dimly through the memories, as though through tears."
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Jack Kerouac
(well, i dont actually like kerouac, BUT even he had his moments...)
Even if he's not my favourite autor...but I like this sentence by Salinger (from The Catcher In The Rye), I feel more or less the same
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the autor that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it"
My favorite author is Charlotte Bronte. Here are some quotes from her letters to her publishers:
"I would say to the critics: To you I am neither Man nor Woman—I come
before you as an Author only—it is the sole standard by which you have a
right to judge me—the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."
"If I don't have something to say or a different way to say it, then I don't
see the reason of writing at all" (this maybe somewhat differently expressed)
"...nor can I write a book for its moral"
From her books;
"Better to be without logic, than without feelings" (The Professor)
"I have taken notice, monsieur, that people who are only in each other's company for amusement,
never really like each other so well, or esteem each other so highly,
as those who work together, and perhaps suffer together." (The Professor)
"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;
--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood
at God's feet, equal,--as we are!" (Jane Eyre)
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an
independent will, which I now exert to leave you." (Jane Eyre)
"...and the second Mrs. Helstone, inverting the natural order of insect
existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired
butterfly, and crawled the rest of her days a sordid, trampled worm." (Shirley)
"I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me." (Shirley)
"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on
the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us." (Shirley)
"No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being
told to _cultivate_ happiness. What does such advice mean?
Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with
manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven." (Villette)
"Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman,
my mistress, my friend, my all. Her service was my duty--her pain, my
suffering--her relief, my hope--her anger, my punishment--her regard,
my reward. I forgot that there were fields, woods, rivers, seas, an
ever-changing sky outside the steam-dimmed lattice of this sick
chamber; I was almost content to forget it. All within me became
narrowed to my lot." (Villette)
And of course my signature from Villette :)
posted twice sorry!
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell
"I sometimes wonder if we are not all insane, and what we name sanity no more than a collective agreement to behave in the same mad ways."
Charles Palliser, from The Quincunx. Not my favourite author, but I just love the quote.
"I yelled for joy. We passed the bottle. The great blazing stars came out, the far receding sand hills got dim. I felt like an arrow that could shoot out all the way. And suddenly Mississippi Gene turned to me from his crosslegged patient reverie, and opened his mouth, and leaned close, and said, "These plains put me in the mind of Texas." "Are you from Texas?" "No sir, I'm from Green-vell Muzz-sippy" and that was the way he said it." ~ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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Originally Posted by jorgis
Bukowski, yes! :thumbs_up
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
"The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gössers after not having eaten for two days straight, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mild inability to stand up".
Douglas Adams on how and when the idea about the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy first occurred to him.
/Claes
I know the feeling. But I can't say any great ideas came to me, heh.
" ... but he had left his mark on her, a mark that had dulled, but never quite been erased over the years. A mark of caution, if not pain, a fear of getting too close, of believing too much, of holding anyone too dear.." Daniell Steel, Changes
Not my fave author but one a enjoy alot:
'That moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the contraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.' - Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles
I love this quote because I personally feel mentally free and relaxed when the light is fading but its not quite dark. :) (Through the day its too busy and my head can't concentrate very well)
"I believe you are right," he replied, "and yet I have always set her down as a lively girl."
"I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes," said Elinor, "in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid man they really are, and I can hardly tell why or in what deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
"But I thought it was rignt, Elinor," said Marianne, "to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people. I servient to those of our neighbours. This has always been your doctorine, I am sure."
"No, Marianne, never. My doctorine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding. All I have ever attempted to influence has been the behaviour. You must not confound my meaning. I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat our acquaintance in general with greater attention; but when have I advised you to adopt their sentiments or conform to their judgment in serious matters?"
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
Jane Austen
'According to my humble opinion, everything that is not life, is literature... Music has tried to fight that ever since it has existed, it goes up and down, it wants to free itself from the word, out of jealousy I think, but in the end it always prostrates itself anyway.' (José Saramago, The Siege of Lisbon, 1989, the corrector to the writer about literature)
It is an unbelievable arrogant thing to say about your own art, but it is so deeply thought...
'Women all think that they are oracles and sybils and get it finally wrong as the biggest simpleton on whom they look down with quiet and patient mockery.' (José Saramago, same book)
These two about women I found the best:
'Whosoever wants to make a lasting impression on a woman, pose as a rebus and never give the solution.' (Marcellus Emants (Dutch naturalist author), Monaco, Mastazza, 1878)
'A woman kneels for manly superiority, and mysteriousness is a handy tool to either gain it, or give the impression to be it.' (Marcellus Emants, Monaco, Mastazza, 1878)
With Byronic heroes, we think twice... I am a woman, but still I like the two last ones... I guess we shouldn't be so prone to mystery and puzzledness...
I enjoyed reading all your favorite quotes and here is mine. It is a shame I do not have the book in French. I can read a little bit of French.
The toilers of the sea by Victor Hugo(1802 ~ 1885)
"Penetrate into the remote fastnesses where the mountains offer the greatest solitude and the forests the greatest silence; Choose, let us say, Andernach and its surroundings; visit the obscure and impassive Laacher See, so unknown that it is almost mysterious. No tranquility can be found more august than this; universal life is here in all its religious serenity; no disturbances; everywhere the profound order of nature's great disorder; walk with a softened heart in this wilderness; it is as voluptuous as autumn; wander about at random; leave behind you the ruined abbey, lose yourself in the moving peace of the ravines, amid the song of birds and rustle of leaves; drink fresh spring water in your cupped hand; walk, meditate, forget."