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jungjedi
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whats your fav line from a book?
#5955251 - 08/11/06 11:04 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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here one from orson scot card "If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty." Wyrms
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: jungjedi]
#5955425 - 08/12/06 12:29 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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what book is that from ans who wrote it?
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"What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?" - Bill Hicks
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jungjedi
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: barfightlard]
#5956110 - 08/12/06 10:55 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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orson scot card-wyrms.he also wrote enders game
i also just found out ian fleming wrote chitty chitty bang bang
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: jungjedi]
#5963031 - 08/14/06 03:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws
till Max said "BE STILL!" and tamed them with a magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all.
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SneezingPenis
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: jungjedi]
#5963144 - 08/14/06 03:36 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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anything ever written by Tom Robbins.....
a few passages.
"The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever."
"Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing."
"Midnight, when the monotonsous tick-tock of diurnal progress is for one throbbing moment replaced by the cool but smokey honk of a saxophone, alternately seductive and threatening. Midnight. The black growth on the clock face that has to be biopsied every twenty-four hours to see whether it is malignant or benign."
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: SneezingPenis]
#5963843 - 08/14/06 07:32 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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now were talking
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: jungjedi]
#5964522 - 08/14/06 10:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Tingaling!"
-------------------- that there, thats not me. i go where i please. im not here. this isnt happening.
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: SneezingPenis]
#5965495 - 08/15/06 09:24 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hell yeah man. Love the Robbins.
"The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict."
"It's a smile a girl could bring home to mother, if she had a mother; a smile a girl could pet like a pony, sip like a lemonade, hum like a popular tune; a smile a girl would feel safe with an a dark alley. "
-------------------- Every mistake, intentional or otherwise, in the above post, is the fault of the reader.
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LOL your avatar's buggin me out.
Edited by Newbie (08/15/06 03:59 PM)
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: jungjedi]
#5967024 - 08/15/06 06:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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it's from All Quiet on the Western Front, but I can't remember it, and I don't have the book
-------------------- channel your inner Larry David
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: demiu5]
#5967522 - 08/15/06 08:32 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not my fav but recently read Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy sooo
"And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men their is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhuasted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games. Let him play for stakes."
than there is the classic:
"Orthodoxy means not thinking- not having to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness" - 1984
-------------------- "And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything."
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: DirtMcgirt]
#5967769 - 08/15/06 09:49 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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ide only have 1 thing to say to that.WELL,IM NOT GONNA LET EM CATCH ME NO.IM NOT GONNA LET THEM CATCH THE MIDNIGHT RIDER
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: demiu5]
#5967777 - 08/15/06 09:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
demius said: it's from All Quiet on the Western Front, but I can't remember it, and I don't have the book
is it the part of the book were they all took off for the day and went to euro-disney?
Edited by jungjedi (08/16/06 12:36 AM)
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: jungjedi]
#5969831 - 08/16/06 03:16 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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There's a lot of bits of books I like, so, hang with me here...
From Fight Club
"My boss, at work, he asked me what I was doing about the hole through my cheek that never heals. When I drink coffee, I told him, I put two fingers over the hole so it won't leak."
"A cathode ray tube can hold 300 volts of passive electrical storage, so use a hefty screwdriver across the main power supply capacitor, first. If you're dead at this point, you didn't use an insulated screwdriver."
"Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?"
From Lullaby
"The third week brings the phantom shadows that circle around and around the dining room walls when everybody is seated at the table. There might be more events after that, but nobody's lasted a fourth week."
From Choke
"If you're going to read this, don't bother. After a couple pages, you won't want to be here. So forget it. Go away. Get out while you're still in one piece. Save yourself"
"Paige steps closer and says, 'Well, I'm still here.' Her black hair is all undone, the little black brain of her bun. Her eyes all swollen and red all around them, she sniffs and shrugs and says. 'I guess that means I'm insane.'"
From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth."
From I am Legend
"Full circle, he thought while the final lethargy crept into his limbs. Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever."
-------------------- The Mad Shroomer said: People are always promising the apocalypse. They never deliver.
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: Wasteland]
#5970305 - 08/16/06 06:04 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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One of my favorites is from alice and wonderland.
It is somewhere along the lines of this...
Alice is at a fork in the road or something and the chesire cat is there.
She asks which path she should take...
The chesire cat says, well that depends on where you want to go..
She says "I don't know"
And he says, well then it doesn't matter..
I think this is so perfect for life, if you have no destination then what you do is of no importance, as long as it's new.
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: jungjedi]
#5974658 - 08/17/06 11:04 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Something along these lines...
A man who cant afford to share his habbits is a man who needs to give them up.
steven king from the dark tower
not my fav line, but its one i can recall on the spot.
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Re: whats your fav line from a book? [Re: moosehead]
#5974685 - 08/17/06 11:15 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I can't remember the quote exactly but from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The part where he talkes about when you stand on top of the hill and with the right eyes you can see the high water mark where the wave broke and finally rolled back out or something like that.
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