Favorite quotes from literature.

[ananirvana]

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[max-greece]

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Probably my favorite poem of all time - along with Kipling's "if"

[Clueless Morgan]

I love me some Poe:

Opening paragraphs of The Cask of Amontillado

The thousand injuries of Fortunado I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult I vowed
revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.
At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was
resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when
the avenger overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to
him who as done the wrong.

It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunado cause to doubt my good-will. I
continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought
of his immolation.

[Rev. Rye]

"Harry locked his mother in the closet."
__________Hubert Selby, Jr., Requiem For a Dream

Interesting thing: my mother was a huge fan of Jane Austen and liked putting Jane Austen Quotes on everything. In retaliation, I attempted to put a copy of this sentence on the door of the linen closet. She was not amused. Nevermind the fact that the linen closet not only has no lock, but it's too small for anyone to fit in, much less my mother.

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”
_________________Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'All kings is mostly rapscallions.'

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

- Mark Twain

And James Joyce can suck it. There has been a Jewish community (a small one, to be sure) in Ireland for over a thousand years.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

There has been a Jewish community (a small one, to be sure) in Ireland for over a thousand years.

Boru

Of course. Wherever there are people, there are Jews.
So Saith Michael Chabon. I'm pretty sure it's from the Yiddish Policeman's Union, but I'm not sure.

[Clueless Morgan]

"Harry locked his mother in the closet."
__________Hubert Selby, Jr., Requiem For a Dream

Interesting thing: my mother was a huge fan of Jane Austen and liked putting Jane Austen Quotes on everything. In retaliation, I attempted to put a copy of this sentence on the door of the linen closet. She was not amused.

That's a shame; that would be kind of hilarious, especially if your name is Harry.

[Rev. Rye]

That's a shame; that would be kind of hilarious, especially if your name is Harry.

And it's not.

[FlyingNarwhal]

... I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less. I compare her to one of those raging rivers, which when in flood overflows the plains, sweeping away trees and buildings, bearing away the soil from place to place; everything flies before it, all yield to its violence, without being able in any way to withstand it; and yet, though its nature be such, it does not follow therefore that men, when the weather becomes fair, shall not make provision, both with defences and barriers, in such a manner that, rising again, the waters may pass away by canal, and their force be neither so unrestrained nor so dangerous. So it happens with fortune, who shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.

-Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince

[Lemonvariable72]

Dr. Warren Vidic: Anyone can write a book and they can put whatever they want on its pages. Anything. Used to be we thought the world was flat.

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