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Post Number:#151  Postby Connie_88 » 02 Mar 2012, 07:20

'We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' ~ Oscar Wilde (my fave, I actually have a mug with this quote on it :D )

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'Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings'. ~ Victor Hugo
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Post Number:#152  Postby nadiamoqaddas » 04 Mar 2012, 09:36

yea.. I also read some of Oscar Wilde's book. Among them I read Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
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Post Number:#153  Postby Connie_88 » 04 Mar 2012, 09:56

The only Wilde I have read is The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I wasn't really sure what to make of it, there were parts that were really good but it wasn't an easy book to get into and it didn't hold my interest the whole time.
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Post Number:#154  Postby Bighuey » 04 Mar 2012, 09:58

Ive read some of Wilde's stuff, Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost. He was a great writer. I read one story by him years ago, I dont remember the name of it or even the plot, but it was a very sad story something about a little kid dying or sick or something like that. There were rooftops involved, I dont remember how. I would like to find that story. If anyone has a clue what it is I would sure like to hear it.
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Post Number:#155  Postby Maud Fitch » 18 Mar 2012, 01:33

Oscar Wilde only wrote a handful of novels, Bighuey, the rest are mostly short stories in collections and anthologies.
Perhaps it could be one of these, The Devoted Friend, The Happy Prince, The Star-Child, The Young King?

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"Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts" Foster Meharny Russell
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Post Number:#156  Postby Bighuey » 18 Mar 2012, 08:40

Maud Fitch wrote:Oscar Wilde only wrote a handful of novels, Bighuey, the rest are mostly short stories in collections and anthologies.
Perhaps it could be one of these, The Devoted Friend, The Happy Prince, The Star-Child, The Young King?

My quote is--

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking” by Jerry Seinfield.


Maud, it could have been the Happy Prince. That has a familiar ring to it. Ill check it out. Thanks.

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Post Number:#157  Postby bookgator » 23 Mar 2012, 02:19

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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Post Number:#158  Postby KindleMEsoftly41512 » 05 Apr 2012, 13:02

"I prefer not to." / Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
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Post Number:#159  Postby Bighuey » 05 Apr 2012, 19:15

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Post Number:#160  Postby dindindin » 09 Apr 2012, 19:28

"Alot of people who ain't sayin' aint, aint eatin' ." Will Rogers
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Post Number:#161  Postby KindleMEsoftly41512 » 11 Apr 2012, 18:25

"Men who come out here should have no entrails" Josef Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
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Post Number:#162  Postby Fran » 20 Apr 2012, 17:11

A clergyman was attempting to get a deathbed conversion from the French philosopher Voltaire & he put the question to him "Do you renounce Satan"?
Voltaire replied .... "Now,my good man, this is no time for making enemies"
.......... I just love that one
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Post Number:#163  Postby Deanna19 » 06 May 2012, 16:30

"Dallas: I was crazy, you know that, Pony? I was crazy for wanting Johnny to stay out of trouble. If he was smart, like me, he wouldn't be in this mess. If he was smart like me, he wouldn't have ran into that church man. You better wise up Pony. You better wise up man. You get TOUGH like me and you don't get hurt! You watch out for yourself, and nothing can touch you man!"-The Outsiders
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Post Number:#164  Postby Bighuey » 06 May 2012, 19:31

I read one the other day, Im not sure if this is the exact wording but its a good one.

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Post Number:#165  Postby VampirePoe » 06 May 2012, 22:17

"If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long."
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