"The Irish ollave's chief interest was the refinement of complex poetic truth to exact statement." - Robert Graves, 'The White Goddess'.
"The Irish ollave's chief interest was the refinement of complex poetic truth to exact statement." - Robert Graves, 'The White Goddess'.
He curled his hand round the back of his ear and inclined his head towards each girl to test her voice.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Longman edition:
"Good sir, be patient."
From Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Trying to distract himself from these thoughts, Jim switched on the car radio.
"Be mithfull now, at all your micht" - 'Middle English Poetry.
The street swarmed with boys and girls who played in the middle of the street and when a droshky came by waited until the last possible moment to step aside.
"With the rhythms and symbols of poetry one can get into a reader - open him up and while he is open introduce things on a [sic] intellectual level which he could not or would not receive unless he were opened up," Steinbeck revealed to Columbia University undergraduate Herbert Sturz in 1953.
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Introduction by Robert Demott - where this sentence came from ;))
"First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze."
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
"He felt that he had chosen the one who was in all respects the superior; and a man naturally likes to look forward to having the best."
Middlemarch - George Eliot
"Didn't the pamphlets claim there was elbow room?"
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.
"D'ailleurs, pour la brosse à dents, la sonnette et le bronze de Barbedienne, monsieur est au courant et il vous répondra aussi bien que moi."
My translation attempt: "Besides, regarding the toothbrush, the bell and the Barbedienne bronze, Monsieur is fully informed and can respond to you as well as myself."
Huis Clos/No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The book closest to my hand is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Chance of cardiac arrest; be better, he reflected, if I lived in town where those buildings have a doctor standing by with those electro-spark machines.
Oooo, I have two books beside my hand right now.
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." -- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
The Gospel of Thomas is thought by some to be the lost source document known by scholars as Q, or the Sayings of Jesus, which lies behind Matthew, Mark, Luke, the Synoptic Gospels; it is probably related to that source. -- A Brief History of Secret Societies by David V. Barret
I have a somewhat ecclectic taste in books.
'In fact,' she mused, 'if he'd give himself a closer shave ... by the way, is Hemingway old?'
"My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom."
James Joyce, Dubliners.