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 May 21, 2007 15:37:42 GMT -5
Which movie is that quote from, the Jack Sparrow one? I don't remember it, but I suppose it could be a translation difference if you watched the movie in Norwegian
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Maggie!
First piece published in the school’s newspaper
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Post by Maggie! on May 21, 2007 19:00:59 GMT -5
"I've never been a millioniare, but I know I'd be just darling at it." Dorothy Parker
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Lu
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Post by Lu on May 22, 2007 4:12:31 GMT -5
You can mistrust me less than you can mistrust him, trust me.- Jack Sparrow I like Pirates of The Caribbean! I can't wait to see the third movie (though I didn't like the second one), it's coming out in cinema tomorrow.
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ingridpingrid
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Post by ingridpingrid on May 22, 2007 13:22:39 GMT -5
Which movie is that quote from, the Jack Sparrow one? I don't remember it, but I suppose it could be a translation difference if you watched the movie in Norwegian hehe... i didn't watch it in norwegian...
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Lu
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Post by Lu on May 25, 2007 13:13:54 GMT -5
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Gandhi
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amandine
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by amandine on May 25, 2007 14:22:16 GMT -5
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
Jack Kerouac
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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 May 25, 2007 14:35:41 GMT -5
These are all from Reading Lolita in Tehran. Since they're just quotes, I've posted ones from reading further than the discussion is because they don't do any harm alone.
"Americans have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future." p109
"The dream is not about money, but what he imagines he can become. It is not a comment on American as a materialistic country but as an idealistic one, one that has turned money into a means of retrieving a dream." p142
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?" quoting Henry James p247
"It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one." p249
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Post by Hanna on May 28, 2007 17:19:59 GMT -5
"Early to bed and you'll wish you were dead. Bed before eleven, nuts before seven." Dorothy Parker
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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 May 30, 2007 17:00:38 GMT -5
"Whoever fights monsters should see that in the process he does not become a monster." ~Nietzsche p180
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jun 2, 2007 14:40:41 GMT -5
I just heard this line in the movie The History Boys, and I loved it. One of the professors, Hector, says it:
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken 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 Jun 5, 2007 16:04:59 GMT -5
"In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance...Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself." ~Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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Post by Dominique on Jun 18, 2007 6:28:43 GMT -5
"I loved Maggie Tulliver, Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary and I understood them as I understood none of the people around me." -- I Think Of You by Ahdaf Soueif
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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 Jun 18, 2007 7:25:58 GMT -5
*i'm being quite serious with these quotes - i adore them* "When the rabbit of chaos is pursued by the ferret of disorder through the fields of anarchy, it id time to hang your pants on the hook of darkness - whether they're clean or not" "The drummer who is without sticks has no backbeat" "The headless chicken can only know where he has been - he can not see where he is going. DO NOT BE THAT CHICKEN" all said by Roger Moore in "The Spicegirls Movie"
I'll choose some more somber, mature quotes to put up soon, but i just love random, wordy rants!
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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 Jun 18, 2007 11:17:30 GMT -5
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." "Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself." ~both Dumbledore in HP1
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