January 2010
117 posts
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“Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable, let’s...”
– Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
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“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted;
But yet a union...”
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing’d...”
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
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“Any woman can weep without tears,” she answered over her shoulder,...”
– The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
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“Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder,...”
– The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
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“War is what happens when language fails.”
– The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
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“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible,...”
– The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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“He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.”
– The Rose of the World, William Butler Yeats
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“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love...”
– When You Are Old, William Butler Yeats
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“All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance...”
– Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”
– Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
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“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...”
– Notebooks, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,...”
– Time Must Have a Stop, Aldous Huxley
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“The trouble with fiction…is that it makes too much sense. Reality never...”
– The Genius and the Goddess, Aldous Huxley
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“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens...”
– Texts and Pretexts, Aldous Huxley
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“There are still a few men who love desperately.”
– J.D. Salinger
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“Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as...”
– A Knight of Doleful Countenance, W.H. Auden
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“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she...”
– Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen
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“All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying...”
– Interlude: West’s Disease, W.H. Auden
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“How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not...”
– The More Loving One, W.H. Auden
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
– The Decay of Lying, Oscar Wilde
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“The many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered...”
– Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and…play consists of...”
– The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
– Emma, Jane Austen
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“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
– The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
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“Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for...”
– Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them...”
– Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think...”
– The Fiery Fountains, Margaret Caroline Anderson
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“Spider: We’re leaving on the warm updraft. This is our moment for setting...”
– Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
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“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
– Peter Pan, J.M Barrie
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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
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“…to be great is to be misunderstood.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside,...”
– Ole-Lukøie, Hans Christian Andersen
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“Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the...”
– The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen
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“Yes, yes,” said the Beast, “my heart is good, but still I am a...”
– Beauty and the Beast, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
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“…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.”
– Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
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“She’s the ornament of her sex.”
– The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens
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“Reserving judgement is a matter of infinite hope.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I’m now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town....”
– Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
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“Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our pleasant earth below...”
– Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
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“…people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
– Notes on Music and Opera, W.H. Auden
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“All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins,...”
– The Poet & The City, W.H. Auden
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
– Alma Mater, Rita Mae Brown
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“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of...”
– Margaret Ogilvy, J.M. Barrie
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“The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
– The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
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“It’s such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do.”
– Emma, Jane Austen