[contrabandturtlekitty]

“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

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I've started reading H.P. Lovecraft recently. I quite like this passage from the end of "The Festival."

Spoiler Alert, sort of. It is the last paragraph.

I dare quote only one paragraph, put into such English as I can make from the awkward Low Latin.

“The nethermost caverns,” wrote the mad Arab, “are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific. Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.”

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Arise!

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.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

(You, too, Suze!)

That is an offensive comma.

Here, have some mana-like wisdom from the hallowed Father of Deconstructivism himself.

“Let us begin again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has always been conceived and signified under that name—or that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can “what has always been conceived and signified under that name” be considered fundamentally homogeneous, univocal, or nonconflictual?) To take other examples: what historical and strategic function should henceforth be assigned to the quotation marks, whether visible or invisible, which transform this into a “book,” or which still make the deconstruction of philosophy into a “philosophical discourse”?”

-Le Jacques Le Derrida Le Magnifique Le

All praise the metalanguage. There is no metalanguage.

Sorrynotsorry.

#TranscendentalMetaphysicsOfPresencesSon

[Quiet Man Cometh]

You sure that wasn't pulled from the post-modern essay generator?

[Suzerain of Sheol]

TFW you realize the po-mo generator is just Derrida quotes.

#JustDerridaQuotes

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

"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?

[SparX]

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....

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

"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?

Not even close. Get that insipid, barely-veiled religious-derivative optimism out of here. Lovecraft wins by default. :P

[Alistair Fawkes]

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.

[Lawtan]

“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.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Suzerain of Sheol

Not even close. Get that insipid, barely-veiled religious-derivative optimism out of here. Lovecraft wins by default. :P

I was more thinking of which idea is preferable, or more interesting. Death of death by ascendancy or death of death by...I'm not really sure.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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)

[bluebird]

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

When the bread was finished, the tired little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me eat the bread ?"
"I will," barked the lazy dog .
"I will," purred the sleepy cat .
"I will," quacked the noisy yellow duck .

"No!" said the little red hen. "I will." And the little red hen ate the bread all by herself.

[Espy]

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.