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Post by wolf on Dec 14, 2019 14:58:48 GMT
"...But what have we done with that love? That simple, almost shrewd love from Dom Thaddeus?
We have forgotten about it, and replaced it with forms in fivefold."
- Thea Beckman, Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (Crusade in Jeans)
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Post by neesy on Dec 14, 2019 18:41:37 GMT
"Your crazy is starting to show," Wally said, keeping his voice calm. "You might want to tuck it back in."
"If there is one thing that I've learned, it's that as you get older, life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the more essential it is not to waste a single bit of it."
from a book called Dead in the Water by Denise Swanson
I like the 1st quote. It is from the same author? Yes the first quote is from the same author and also in the same book, called "Dead in the Water"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 17:32:18 GMT
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
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Post by wolf on Dec 22, 2019 15:32:20 GMT
"I sinned, but i didn't sin every day."
- Tantalus, to Persephone when she showed him mercy and gave him water.
From: The Greek Gods by Evslin, Evslin and Hoops.
......just a quote i've never forgotten and still think of when people are enduring sorrows and are under duress.
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Post by wolf on Dec 22, 2019 15:42:50 GMT
“What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tortures of hell forever? Forever! For all eternity! Not for a year or an age but forever. Try to imagine the awful meaning of this. You have often seen the sand on the seashore. How fine are its tiny grains! And how many of those tiny grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play. Now imagine a mountain of that sand, a million miles high, reaching from the earth to the farthest heavens, and a million miles broad, extending to remotest space, and a million miles in thickness, and imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplied as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean, feathers on birds, scales on fish, hairs on animals, atoms in the vast expanse of air. And imagine that at the end of every million years a little bird came to that mountain and carried away in its beak a tiny grain of that sand. How many millions upon millions of centuries would pass before that bird had carried away even a square foot of that mountain, how many eons upon eons of ages before it had carried away all. Yet at the end of that immense stretch time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended. At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun. And if that mountain rose again after it had been carried all away again grain by grain, and if it so rose and sank as many times as there are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves on the trees, feathers upon birds, scales upon fish, hairs upon animals – at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not even one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time, the mere thought of which makes our very brains reel dizzily, eternity would have scarcely begun.”
-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man ------------------Joyce is GREAT. Friendly query: if these long passages are quotes, then what would be the standard length of an excerpt? |
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Post by doccreed on Dec 22, 2019 17:42:27 GMT
“What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tortures of hell forever? Forever! For all eternity! Not for a year or an age but forever. Try to imagine the awful meaning of this. You have often seen the sand on the seashore. How fine are its tiny grains! And how many of those tiny grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play. Now imagine a mountain of that sand, a million miles high, reaching from the earth to the farthest heavens, and a million miles broad, extending to remotest space, and a million miles in thickness, and imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplied as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean, feathers on birds, scales on fish, hairs on animals, atoms in the vast expanse of air. And imagine that at the end of every million years a little bird came to that mountain and carried away in its beak a tiny grain of that sand. How many millions upon millions of centuries would pass before that bird had carried away even a square foot of that mountain, how many eons upon eons of ages before it had carried away all. Yet at the end of that immense stretch time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended. At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun. And if that mountain rose again after it had been carried all away again grain by grain, and if it so rose and sank as many times as there are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves on the trees, feathers upon birds, scales upon fish, hairs upon animals – at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not even one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time, the mere thought of which makes our very brains reel dizzily, eternity would have scarcely begun.”
-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man ------------------Joyce is GREAT. Friendly query: if these long passages are quotes, then what would be the standard length of an excerpt? |
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Post by wolf on Dec 22, 2019 18:05:05 GMT
A quote can be of any length. Some quotes pack a greater punch when left fully intact; this particular passage goes on for three or four pages but I think I managed to supply the essence. Normally, I have a more discriminating eye and prefer succinct quotes.---------"Good to know!" thanks. I like them all.  |
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Post by doccreed on Dec 22, 2019 18:43:52 GMT
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles |
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Post by neesy on Dec 27, 2019 21:33:33 GMT
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles Hi there Clootie Dumpling! Read any good books lately?
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Post by doccreed on Dec 29, 2019 3:27:12 GMT
This book has been on my radar for a while. Hi there Clootie Dumpling! Read any good books lately?
smilie_new_045
Oh, yes. Reading several at the moment. I'm about four chapters into a Mary Higgins Clark mystery. Light reading but engrossing. I will probably start another Saul Bellow novel, next: Seize The Day. |
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Post by morgan on Dec 29, 2019 4:49:43 GMT
Hi there Clootie Dumpling! Read any good books lately?
Oh, yes. Reading several at the moment. I'm about four chapters into a Mary Higgins Clark mystery. Light reading but engrossing. I will probably start another Saul Bellow novel, next: Seize The Day. |
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Post by doccreed on Dec 29, 2019 5:33:45 GMT
LOL...I think my dumpling's got clooties.
Oh, yes. Reading several at the moment. I'm about four chapters into a Mary Higgins Clark mystery. Light reading but engrossing. I will probably start another Saul Bellow novel, next: Seize The Day.
Let me know which one you choose, if you decide to try her.
BTW: Did you read either of the two I sent you? Definitely read Paper Moon. Hilarious. |
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Post by morgan on Dec 29, 2019 5:57:11 GMT
Which one are you currently reading? I have three or four of her books but haven't read anything by her yet.
Let me know which one you choose, if you decide to try her.
BTW: Did you read either of the two I sent you? Definitely read Paper Moon. Hilarious.
Haven't read either of your books yet. I'm very behind on my TBR pile. Another reading slump.  |
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Post by doccreed on Dec 29, 2019 6:19:05 GMT
Hey, Morgan. It's one of her earlier titles, While My Pretty One Sleeps. I'd recommend her first fifteen books very highly, and a later book called Remember Me. She creates agonizing tension and her better mysteries are well-plotted, but her heroines can be a little too perfect and of a particular social class, which may grate on readers after a while. As one would do with a Koontz book, don't take too seriously, just enjoy the ride.
Let me know which one you choose, if you decide to try her.
BTW: Did you read either of the two I sent you? Definitely read Paper Moon. Hilarious.
Haven't read either of your books yet. I'm very behind on my TBR pile. Another reading slump.
From the titles you mentioned, I have read On the Street Where You Live and I liked it a lot. I know I started I've Heard That Song Before but never finished it. One interesting thing about her books: most are culled from song lyrics or song titles.
Also, be wary of newer MHC books; she has a ghost writer. Technically, she is not a ghost writer because her name is on the cover with Clark. No aspersions to Burke, who is a successful author in her own right, but, to me, a ghost writer seldom achieves replicating another author's style. |
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Post by morgan on Dec 29, 2019 7:02:30 GMT
The books I have by her are: Every Breath You Take, All By Myself Alone, Two Little Girls in Blue, All Dressed in White, On the Street Where You Live and I Heard That Song Before. Opinions?
Haven't read either of your books yet. I'm very behind on my TBR pile. Another reading slump.
From the titles you mentioned, I have read On the Street Where You Live and I liked it a lot. I know I started I've Heard That Song Before but never finished it. One interesting thing about her books: most are culled from song lyrics or song titles.
Also, be wary of newer MHC books; she has a ghost writer. Technically, she is not a ghost writer because her name is on the cover with Clark. No aspersions to Burke, who is a successful author in her own right, but, to me, a ghost writer seldom achieves replicating another author's style. |
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Post by doccreed on Dec 29, 2019 17:36:52 GMT
I know all about reading slumps. Take your time.
From the titles you mentioned, I have read On the Street Where You Live and I liked it a lot. I know I started I've Heard That Song Before but never finished it. One interesting thing about her books: most are culled from song lyrics or song titles.
Also, be wary of newer MHC books; she has a ghost writer. Technically, she is not a ghost writer because her name is on the cover with Clark. No aspersions to Burke, who is a successful author in her own right, but, to me, a ghost writer seldom achieves replicating another author's style.  Exactly. |
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Post by neesy on Dec 29, 2019 19:53:28 GMT
I have one out from the library right now in Large Print
Death of Yesterday by M.C. Beaton
I also have a Margaret Atwood book out in the same format called MaddAddam
Ooops - just realized this is the Book Quotes forum facepalm
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Post by doccreed on Dec 29, 2019 21:11:26 GMT
"Again! It was like the question asked by Tennyson about the flower in the crannied wall. That is, to answer it might involve the history of the universe."
-Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 12:24:06 GMT
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
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Post by doccreed on Dec 30, 2019 18:36:20 GMT
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy |
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