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Author Topic: Quotes from books  (Read 1261 times)
Bloody Angel
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« on: March 24, 2007, 02:13:23 AM »
Why not mentioning our favourite quotes from a book?
I love quotes so I'm opening this topic with the first paragraph of Jonathan Carroll's White Apples book. Do I recommend the book? Nope, though this quote sounds very beautiful to me and got me reading it 'til the end.

"Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom."
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2007, 02:07:14 PM »
(It is a beautiful quote.)

 This is from the book I'm currently reading, Skull Session by Daniel Hecht, and I would definitely recommend it.

 
 "Lia left for Dartmouth early on Monday, and Paul spent the entire morning trying to crank out two job applications. A depressing task. How do you account for a checkered employment history, the years you spent being a carpenter and small-time building contractor, a career shift late in life? How do you gussie up your resume so it looks like your life has any internal logic or continuity? How do you write a cover letter that doesn't sound like an apology? Listen, I know this sounds strange, but I can explain everything, really.
  And how do you realistically toot your own horn without sounding like a narcissistic a**hole? I'm thirty-eight, I've got Tourette's, I've never held a job as a teacher, but I've done a lot of research on the brain, I've gained a lot of special-ed experience by working with my own son's behavioral problems, I've got and IQ of 153 and a master's degree, I'm really good, believe me. He'd already sent resumes to every high school within sixty miles and hadn't even drawn an interview."
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Bloody Angel
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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2007, 06:13:55 AM »
"I was bringing the Master as backup.  It was like carrying a thermonuclear device to kill ants.  Overkill has always been a speciality of mine."

Anita Blake from The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2007, 06:14:18 PM »
If I were to have a favorite quote, it would have to be my own which shows as my signature beneath all of my posts. Perhaps this is narcicisstic of me, but I like my own stuff better than most others.
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Bloody Angel
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2007, 04:00:12 AM »
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Bloody Angel
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2007, 09:29:26 AM »
One of my favourite authors ever, Roland Barthes, from A Lover's Discourse "To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little"
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leapetra
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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2007, 06:13:00 AM »
- "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"

    -- (Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum)

In almost every book of Terry Pratchett's I have found some quote or scene I have fallen love with.  Right now that is the qoute that sticks in my head.
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2007, 07:29:12 AM »
Quote from: leapetra on April 01, 2007, 06:13:00 AM
- "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"

    -- (Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum)

In almost every book of Terry Pratchett's I have found some quote or scene I have fallen love with.  Right now that is the qoute that sticks in my head.

I'm afraid the first quote is actually a Friedrich Nietzsche's sentence.
 
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Moloch
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2007, 10:15:53 AM »
BA is right of course.
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leapetra
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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2007, 01:45:12 PM »
I know that, but it's a good example of what Pratchett does with the language.  Many times he takes a familiar quote and come back with a witty response or turns it on it's end.

Earlier he wrote "They stared into the abyss, which didn't stare back."  Which is another Nietzsche quote twisted ie: "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
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Bloody Angel
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« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2007, 01:37:36 AM »
Quote from: leapetra on April 01, 2007, 01:45:12 PM
I know that, but it's a good example of what Pratchett does with the language.  Many times he takes a familiar quote and come back with a witty response or turns it on it's end.

Earlier he wrote "They stared into the abyss, which didn't stare back."  Which is another Nietzsche quote twisted ie: "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

This second quote makes sense (he played with a Nietzsche quote). As far as the first, he didn't play with the language. He just wrote Nietzsche sentence without mentioning the source. That's not playing. I have the feeling many readers will think it's Pratchett's doing.  doh!
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« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2007, 11:20:19 AM »
 "Okay, so maybe I am saying guys are scum. But they're not mean-spirited scum. And few of them -- even when they are out of town on business trips, far from their wives, and have a clear-cut opportunity -- will poop on the floor."

-Dave Barry: Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
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