What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)
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Re: What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations require
You can find magic wherever you look
Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Dr. Seuss
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T S Eliot - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
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Henry David Thoreau - WaldenAs if you could kill time without injurying eternity.
That sentence gave me chills.
Another favorite quote is from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
I suppose I have a thing for dark moments in writing. I first found this is in Edgar Allen Poe's How to Write a Blackwood Article and then again in Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote.We live, as we dream - alone.
After doing some research, although Poe attribute this poem to Miguel Cervantes and Don Quixote, it was actually written by El Comendador Juan Escrivá in his work Cancion.Come quickly, O death! but be sure and don't let me see you coming, lest the pleasure I shall feel at your appearance should unfortunately bring me back to life again.
Which translates to:Ven muerte tan escondida
que no te sienta comigo,
porqu’ el gozo de contigo
no me torne a dar la vida.
Ven como rayo que hiere,
que hasta que ha herido
no se siente su ruydo
por mejor herir do quiere:
assi sea tu venida,
si no, desde aqui me obligo
qu’ el gozo que aure contigo
me dara de nuevo vida.
Sorry for the long post!Come death and be concealed
so that I do not sense you with me,
lest the solace of your presence be
the reason I don’t yield.
Come like a ripping bolt
that up till the time of its slash
one feels no sense of the gash
to render best its jolt:
so be your arrival,
if not, I can only fear
that the joy of your being near
will ensure my survival.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6, Lewis Carroll"But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
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"Kings and conquerors rise and fall and leave nothing but a few crumbling statues in a desert, but a few young men, labouring in a workshop, change the way the world works."
-Terry Pratchett
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This is my favorite one
Emmett Brown, Back to the Future 1, 1985Where we are going we don't need roads
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Oh yes! There are so many beautiful quotes in "Heart of Darkness." Thrilled to see someone else loves one or two in that little big book.ellie_calvin wrote: Another favorite quote is from Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradWe live, as we dream - alone.
My recent favorite would be from John Le Carré's "The Night Manager:"
It is a fancy English way of saying "go ahead and lavish in some risks in life," because tidiness and schedules sure aren't fun.And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has consisted of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in. And that what he needed to do from now on, if there was going to be a now on, was abandon his morbid quest for order and treat himself to a little chaos, on the grounds that while order was demonstrably no substitute for happiness, chaos might open the way to it.
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- from Jane Eyre
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said by Noelle to Jasper in Kit Rocha's Beyond ShameI can survive without you, but it's only that. Surviving. I want to live.
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― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
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What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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.Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained
President Snow, The Hunger Games
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