Lu
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Post by Lu on Jun 21, 2007 7:54:28 GMT -5
I wasn't sure where posting this...it's not a favourite quote and for that reason the "Favorite Quotes?" thread wasn't a right place ...so I finally made a new thread. Hope it's ok.
Here's a very reasonable quote from Lesley Castle by Jane Austen: "We might meet at Bath, at Tunbridge, or anywhere else indeed, could we but be at the same place together."It's nothing great but..it's so reasonable.
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Post by Dominique on Jun 21, 2007 8:05:00 GMT -5
Of course it's ok, it's irritating trying to confine things into the specific categories of the threads sometimes.
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Post by Carma on Jun 21, 2007 8:22:37 GMT -5
I have 2 great quotes! from books.. this one is from sense & sensibility, said by, Edward "Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy." and one from Vanity Fair: “The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.” pff, I really should start on some homework!!
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zeldafitzgerald
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jun 21, 2007 20:03:36 GMT -5
great thread idea Lu! most of my favorite quotes are from books. i have a whole journal filled with book quotes, that I constantly update.
"I am one of those people who must wake up at least six times during the night to either pee or eat refrigerated M&Ms." -Augusten Burroughs "Magical Thinking
"She was made of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was of the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard." -Betty Smith "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh the last time how clearly you see everything, as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn't held it tighter when you had it everyday." - Betty Smith "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"Something inside me started to dash about in dithering mazes of panic, as though I had swallowed a tadpole." - Margaret Atwood "The Edible Woman"
"I am not religious but I like God and God likes me." - Tony Kushner "Angels in America"
"There are people we treat wrong, and later, we're prepared to treat other people right." - Curtis Setterfield "Prep"
"Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed." -Jonathan Safran Foer "Everything is Illuminated
"For one whole year I sighed every time I was asked to do anything." -Haven Kimmel "A Girl Named Zippy"
wow, reading through my quote journal is making me want to re-read a lot of my favorite books.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Jun 22, 2007 8:41:55 GMT -5
Here's one from Breakfast at Tiffany's that I always loved "-You know those days when you've got the mean reds? -Same as the blues? -No. No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. You've had that feeling? -Quite often. Some people call it angst."
That is my favourite quote from the movie, which is almost verbatim to this (from the book).
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jul 17, 2007 19:20:16 GMT -5
Found a quote I love in "The God of Small Things" -
It didn't matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.
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Post by my0wheel0life on Jul 19, 2007 2:34:26 GMT -5
My all-time favorite quote from a book is from Richard Bach's ILLUSIONS: THE ADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT MESSIAH
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly"
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Post by tahlia on Jul 22, 2007 20:50:09 GMT -5
from the unabridged journals of sylvia plath (entry number 25)
"How we all need that security! how we need anonther soul to cling to, anonther body to keep us warm. to rest and trust; give your soul in confidence: i need this, i need someone to pour myself into. maybe i need a man. one sure thing, i haven't met him yet"
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Post by Demirel on Jul 27, 2007 8:15:24 GMT -5
I always thought this was a pretty cool quote:
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." from 1984 by George Orwell
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Post by Lu on Jul 28, 2007 4:02:08 GMT -5
I like that one from 1984!
From Swann's Way: "Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisonal arrangements"
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Aug 19, 2007 15:23:00 GMT -5
"Certain persons in the world exist, not as personalities in themselves, but as spots or specks on the personalities of others."
"However foolish be a madman's words, they may yet prove sufficient to sow doubt in the minds of saner individuals."
Both are from Dead Souls
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Post by bluejay765 on Aug 19, 2007 15:32:42 GMT -5
Here's one from Breakfast at Tiffany's that I always loved "-You know those days when you've got the mean reds? -Same as the blues? -No. No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. You've had that feeling? -Quite often. Some people call it angst."
That is my favourite quote from the movie, which is almost verbatim to this (from the book). I love this quote. It's such a wonderful book... Also, Kristie, your second one from Dead Souls was wonderful. I'm just rereading the lines from "The Scarlet Letter" that I've underlined. This is what I've gotten: "He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him the the verge of a disclosure."
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Post by Hazy on Aug 20, 2007 7:49:00 GMT -5
Some quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray:
"Never trust a woman who wears mauve"
"one can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing"
"it is not good for one's morals to witness bad art"
"he lives the poetry that he cannot write"
"if they know nothing of victory, they are at least spaced the knowledge of defeat"
And from Dead Souls:
"I may say that in business matters fat men always prove superior to their leaner brethren"
"despite the fact that the springs and the thread of this romance will not DEPEND upon them, but only touch upon them, and occasionally include them, the author has a passion for circumstantiality, and, like the average Russian, such a desire for accuracy as even a German could not rival. "
"...boarding schools, as we know, hold the three principal subjects which constitute the basis of human virtue to be the French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband's leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other 'surprises.' "
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Aug 24, 2007 16:01:59 GMT -5
"So I'll need you to call Mr. X's office and find out when he could be scheduled to attend." ~The Nanny Diaries
Okay, now this may seem silly to me, but isn't it really a bad sign when you have to "schedule" time with your husband/father? Are there really families like this? Or am I just naive in thinking there aren't?
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Post by Sunflower on Aug 24, 2007 18:38:14 GMT -5
~ The only two great quotes from books that I know by heart now and that it stuck in my head are these. "The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together."-- From Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks.
"Fun is fun, and done is done." --From Riding the Bullet by Stephen King
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