Brunella
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Brunella on Aug 24, 2007 20:17:30 GMT -5
I choose the most truthful so far, from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: "All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".
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Post by Pilleriin on Aug 26, 2007 13:09:01 GMT -5
"Jeunesse ne dure qu'un moment" ( It was tranlated in Estonian so I'm trying to tranlate it into English and I'm think it's like that: "Yought lasts only a moment") by W.Somerset Maugham.
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Post by Carma on Aug 27, 2007 10:38:09 GMT -5
"I read a bit of Pride and Prejudice, but it was very old-fashioned. I think Jane Austen should write something a bit more modern". in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (part of the from minor to major) I think it's really funny!
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Aug 27, 2007 12:21:37 GMT -5
"I read a bit of Pride and Prejudice, but it was very old-fashioned. I think Jane Austen should write something a bit more modern ;D Too funny!!
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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 Sept 6, 2007 12:28:06 GMT -5
Here are some passages I liked from Dreaming in Cuban:
"I think about how the New Guinea islanders didn't connect sex with pregnancy. They believed that children children float on logs in heaven until the spirits of pregnant women claim them." p31
"Painting is its own language. Translations just confuse it, dilute it, like words going from Spanish to English." p58 (earlier this character had remarked on how English can't ever sound as romantic as any other language)
"We can see and understand everything just as well alive as dead, only when we're alive we don't have the time, or the peace of mind, or the inclination to see and understand what we could. We're too busy rushing to our graves." p193-4
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Post by Dominique on Sept 7, 2007 19:28:46 GMT -5
"She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentances and moments, as if awaking from a sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams." The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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Cacciato Kid
First poem written for Mother’s Day
"Okay, that's not called a trick; that's called a felony."
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Post by Cacciato Kid on Sept 9, 2007 13:58:16 GMT -5
" To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must know the rules and abide by them. She could do that. She had been doing it all the months, in the writing of her letters to him. There had been rules to be learned in that matter, and the first of them was the hardest: never say to him what you want him to say to you. Never tell him how sadly you miss him, how it grows no better, how each day without him is sharper than the day before. Set down for him the gay happenings about you, bright little anecdotes, not invented, necessarily, but attractively embellished. Do not bedevil him with the pinings of your faithful heart because he is your husband, your man, your love. For you are writing to none of these. You are writing to a solider." ~from "The Lovely Leave," by Dorothy Parker_*_-*-_*_-*-_*_ " Its easy to be the bad guy when nobody expects anything more. Its easy just to stand still, and watch, and pretend that everything they see on the surface of you is everything that lies beneath the skin. Its easy to wonder, and to want answers, and to grow content with the knowledge that you'll never have them, or need them, because everybody already knows exactly what to think of you." ~from Heckle, by Eiri Sullivan<--that's me!
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Sept 10, 2007 20:10:35 GMT -5
;D good one, Kristie!
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Sept 11, 2007 7:28:56 GMT -5
yeah, very good! I also like the one from The English Patient.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Sept 25, 2007 4:07:11 GMT -5
A quote from the back cover of So Many Books, So Little Time:
When things go right, I read. When they go wrong, I read more.
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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 1, 2007 14:39:21 GMT -5
"True love can never be made up for with any ordinary, run-of-the-mill love."
"All kinds of people exist everywhere: this variety is a natural feature of humankind and we can't deny it."
Both from Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
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Post by Hanna on Oct 9, 2007 12:16:53 GMT -5
Here's a couple from Vanity Fair: "Of what else have young ladies to think, but husbands?"
"Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of history?"
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Post by Carma on Oct 9, 2007 12:54:06 GMT -5
yeah they are.. vanity fair has great quotes..
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