Preserved Topic: Favorite literary quotes.... (Page 1 of 1)

So we've done the movie thing, how about a literary quotes thread. Be sure and list the author and the book so that those of us interested might check out the book....

"...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later
in our lives; they sit undramatically by the
roadside like poor beggars, and we see them
only from the corners of our eyes, if we see
them at all. That idea that they have been
waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses
our minds. Yet they do wait and when we have
passed, they gather up their bundles of memory
and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps
and catching up little by little..."
--Stephen King, Dark Tower series book 4 Wizards and Glass

You would do this right now wouldn't you! Right when we're in the middle of packing... all books are boxed and will be for a while... so No quotes.... wait... wait....

"Look Jane. See Spot run. Run Spot run." from "See Spot Run" Author unknown!

'Ma Gavte la nata!' Umberto Eco, Foucalt's pendul (Damm, I don't know if that's the traslaction to english, I read iy in spanish) That's anyway, Turin's Dialect.

And Krets, I loved the third part of those Books, but i never found the others!!

Really? Just go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble. BN.com Those are some of my favorite books ever and yep, #3 kicked ass. #4 is my fave...

" The days rolled by...or rather, bounced by as the carriage went over many potholes"
- The Fifth Elephant, Terry Prattchet

And I'm gonna shove a TV one in here too:

Look! Four identical castles! Each more identical than the last!"
- Futurama: A Biclops Built For Two

So long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find something that all would believe in and worship; what is essential is that all may be together in it. This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship, they've slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, "Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!" And so it will be to the end of the world, even when gods disappear from the earth; they will fall down before idols just the same.

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, "I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it.

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Introduction to the Book of Job - GK Chesterton

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. It is not pride to wish to do well, or even to look well, according to a real test. It is pride to think that a thing looks ill because it does not look like something characteristic of oneself.

The Common Man - GK Chesterton

*shudders* I feel pompous

Jason

Another thing that I like It

"To my wife, who is a wanderful person, strong when she has to, lovely, smart and writes all my books dedications"

(Or something like that ) I read it in my Electricity book, I don't remember the author (thing that i thought I could never forget in my hole life, amazing)

It doesn't do justice to take snips from truly great books. Here's my favorite
piece of literature of all time.


FOR ONCE, THEN, SOMETHING


Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs

Always wrong to the light, so never seeing

Deeper down in the well than where the water

Gives me back in a shining surface picture

Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike,

Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.

Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,

I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,

Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,

Something more of the depths--and then I lost it.

Water came to rebuke the too clear water,

One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple

Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,

Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?

Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.



Robert Frost

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries."
--Chistopher Morley, "The Haunted Bookshop"

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
-Frank Herbert

"Shout, O children!
Shout, your free!
For God has brought your liberty!" - Quoted from Du Bois "The Souls of Black Folk." although the original author I do not know.



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cheers.jay

When you have stepped through the looking glass you step back at your peril. The mirror may cut you to shreds. - Salman Rushdie


On a side note... don't you just hate it in movies when one character starts "quoting" insanely long passages from some obscure author, which of course relates directly to whatever crisis is unfolding before them, and then always character two will either "finish it", or instantly name the source? I mean come ON! That the most annoying movie cliche ever! Who started this trend? Where are all of these walking, all knowing, constantly quoting literary encyclopedias hiding out? I haven't met one yet!

..promise me maybes and say things you don't mean
let rain fall from concrete coloured skies
no boy, don't speak now you just drive ...

Bic Runga, Drive

OKAY it's not a book ...! i have hardly even SEEN a (literary) book in months! but it's a gorgeous song. if i could remember the rest of the words, i'd post them ALL here ..

SUN
//i'm sure theres a book somewhere under the piles of junk in my room//



p.s. lotiss, i know what you mean! i always feel ssssoooo literarily inadequate when those ridiculous scenes play ... says the girl who quotes Bic Runga instead of literature in a 'favourite literary quotes' forum ...

[This message has been edited by LaSun (edited 10-19-2001).]

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