Quotes from Books

Although I have already finished reading this book, I couldn't help posting this section, which I love:

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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.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez

"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

I'm currently reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. There's a movie coming soon based on this book, I think.

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Outside of school, the typical American child spends more time watching television than doing any other activity except sleeping

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Porno - Irvine Welsh:

“…more drinks come over and I see their three faces with the blotches on them getting bigger and redder as the alcohol rapidly fires through the system, flashing them like beacons, as the hormones shoot all over the place. Aye, it’s like a Vegas sign which says: C*CK PLEASE.”

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Robin Hobb - Ship of Magic:
"Let me take you back o the cabin," the ever-present whore said from behind his shoulder. He had just been about to tell her to do that. Now, of course, he could not. He'd have to wait until she believed it was his own idea, or until he could think of a good reason why he had to go there. Damn her!

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I love Kennit <3

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Originally Posted by Cecile Volanges to Sophie Carney

How often have we been urged to cultivate a good heart! Yet we are forbidden to follow its dictates where a man is in question

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From Translation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

These lines are from Endymion by John Keats.....which I like most..

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“To Sorrow
I bade good-morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind:
I would deceive her
And so leave her,
But ah! she is so constant and so kind.

“Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,
I sat a weeping: in the whole world wide
There was no one to ask me why I wept,—
And so I kept
Brimming the water-lily cups with tears
Cold as my fears.

“Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,
I sat a weeping: what enamour’d bride,
Cheated by shadowy wooer from the clouds,
But hides and shrouds
Beneath dark palm trees by a river side?

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"Things may not be easy, but they have to be done."

I have already finished this play The White Devil by John Webster but there were some lines I did really like(Act I, scene1)
" Great men sell sheep, thus to be cut in pieces,
When first they have shorn them bare and sold their fleeces"

I have had to convince a number of friends and relatives that the kindest act to the writer is remembering them- and that all art comes from a human being, not out of mysterious thin air.

a letter John Fowles sent a friend, published in Fowles biography

From Walter Scott´s Rob Roy:

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...And the unit of that life for which he had pleaded so strongly, was for ever withdrawn from the sum of human existence.

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I am reading Cousin Bette by Honere de Balzac and For whom the bells toll by Ernest Hemmingway Balzac is one of the greats.