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Post by bookaddict on Oct 11, 2006 21:57:33 GMT -5
What are some of our favorite quotes?
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Oct 12, 2006 12:06:22 GMT -5
I have many favorites, depending on my mood "life is a sexually transmitted disease" by R.D.Laing is so cool I printed it on a shirt. I guess that says something about my sense of humor. Dorothy Parker is always great for a quote. Or "we live, as we dream-alone" by Conrad is great. Sad but true. What are yours?
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 12, 2006 16:53:24 GMT -5
i have a whole huge book filled with them...can't pick just one. but, at the moment i just thought of something...this may seem weird, but i know what i want on my gravestone: "to die would be an awfully big adventure" from peter pan
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Isa
Administrator
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Post by Isa on Oct 12, 2006 20:27:15 GMT -5
I've got several as well but I think my favorite one will always remain: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it" (Oscar Wilde).
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 12, 2006 20:51:06 GMT -5
i like that one...it's true
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Post by Dominique on Oct 12, 2006 21:13:09 GMT -5
I've always liked this one from Oscar Wilde:
"When one is in love one begins in deceiving oneself and one ends in deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." -Picture of Dorian Gray
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neh
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Oct 12, 2006 21:29:52 GMT -5
Dom, you have to put down your OTHER fav O.W. quote; the charming one you use on my b'day cards!
I have many a fav quote but one ready at hand would be "We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" which, following Dom's lead, was from the groovy Mr. Wilde
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Post by Dominique on Oct 12, 2006 21:40:11 GMT -5
"A true friend stabs you in the front"
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Paige
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Paige on Oct 12, 2006 23:01:43 GMT -5
ooo! i like that one...
mine is prolly: "It's not who you are inside, it's what you do that defines you."~Rachel-Batman Begins
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 12, 2006 23:12:39 GMT -5
"People tend to drive forward looking through the rearview mirror"
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 13, 2006 11:20:56 GMT -5
I was looking through my quote book and found this "I find it a bit unnerving that doctors would call what they do, practice"
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Oct 13, 2006 11:25:42 GMT -5
;D hilarious!
I like this one by Sam Ewing. "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some donĀ“t turn up at all."
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bethany88
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by bethany88 on Oct 14, 2006 7:12:23 GMT -5
I'm a big science nerd so I'd have to say that my Favorite Qutoe is from Einstein "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
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Post by Dominique on Oct 14, 2006 9:30:14 GMT -5
I think this one is from Mark Twain, but I'm not entirely sure. It was on one of my bookmarks once "Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's to dark to read."
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Oct 14, 2006 9:39:30 GMT -5
Twain was a funny man ;D
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