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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”-G.K.Chesterton its a quote not out of a book sadly but i wish it was in one x3
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I've started reading H.P. Lovecraft recently. I quite like this passage from the end of "The Festival."
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No really, I miss this thread. Re-read a lot of it last night. Must make up for some accidental repetition. (You, too, Suze!) From the book I'm currently reading: "He'd do alright as long as he didn't have to pick up a pen. The skinny little implements made him nervous. If he walked into a room, he knew where pens and pencils hid in drawers or behind cupboard doors. A bit of charcoal from the fire didn't bother him unless someone had made a mark with the black lump. And a paintbrush was just a paintbrush unless someone strayed from merely whitewashing walls and wrote on the faded siding." - Donita K. Paul One Realm Beyond Not necessarily "great literature" but as someone who is almost never without a pen, I find this passage fascinating. |
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Here, have some mana-like wisdom from the hallowed Father of Deconstructivism himself. Quote:
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You sure that wasn't pulled from the post-modern essay generator?
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TFW you realize the po-mo generator is just Derrida quotes.
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I'd have to know who Derrida is, but I see your point. I have run myself into a circle, it would seem.
I'd put a quote down but all I have within reach at my library and information technology textbooks and Memories of Ice, and nothing immediately comes to mind from there. |
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die." - John Donne vs. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death my die." - H. P. Lovecraft. Who wins? |
I'm not sure if it is my favorite, but it is the most often remembered quote....
“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Thanks Freshman lit class.... |
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All these deep-thinking fancy literature and philosophy quotes; full of high-fantasy and dark things. Here I come with my plebian Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
"Elementary, my dear Watson." Fun Fact: Sherlock never said that line in any of those stories. Not once. But it's so famous. |
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
~The Alchemist ...there was a better quote, about matter, time, the Sun, Wind, and World...and one that essentially made the pursuit of science a sort of spiritual journey across generations. But I can't find it at this time. |
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Not really a favourite quote but this one strikes me as being particularly poignant to the times:
"I'm often asked why I never spoke up. Why I didn't try to get Dahmer help. You have to remember, this was 1976. You never "narced" on a classmate. It simply wasn't done. Besides, my friends and I, we were just clueless small-town kids wrapped up in our own lives. And none of us had a hint about what was really going on in his head. A better question is... Where were the damn adults?" - My Friend Dahmer, Backderf (graphic novel) |
wow this thread is almost 8 years old
i'm trying to remember my favorite quotes from actual books but all i can remember are memes and web junk heLp ok i remember one [excerpt] in the very back recesses of my mind |
Oh. Oh wow. I didn’t even realize I made this thread until I went back to the first page. I thought this was a Quiet thread :|
Haven’t read much lately, unfortunately. |
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