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Monstrous Books => New Publications & Authors => Topic started by: Bloody Angel on March 24, 2007, 01:13:23 AM
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Why not mentioning our favourite quotes from a book?
I love quotes so I'm opening this topic with the first paragraph of Jonathan Carroll's White Apples book. Do I recommend the book? Nope, though this quote sounds very beautiful to me and got me reading it 'til the end.
"Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom."
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"I was bringing the Master as backup. It was like carrying a thermonuclear device to kill ants. Overkill has always been a speciality of mine."
Anita Blake from The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
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If I were to have a favorite quote, it would have to be my own which shows as my signature beneath all of my posts. Perhaps this is narcicisstic of me, but I like my own stuff better than most others.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of my favourite authors ever, Roland Barthes, from A Lover's Discourse "To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little"
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- "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
-- (Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum)
In almost every book of Terry Pratchett's I have found some quote or scene I have fallen love with. Right now that is the qoute that sticks in my head.
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- "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
-- (Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum)
In almost every book of Terry Pratchett's I have found some quote or scene I have fallen love with. Right now that is the qoute that sticks in my head.
I'm afraid the first quote is actually a Friedrich Nietzsche's sentence.
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BA is right of course.
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I know that, but it's a good example of what Pratchett does with the language. Many times he takes a familiar quote and come back with a witty response or turns it on it's end.
Earlier he wrote "They stared into the abyss, which didn't stare back." Which is another Nietzsche quote twisted ie: "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
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I know that, but it's a good example of what Pratchett does with the language. Many times he takes a familiar quote and come back with a witty response or turns it on it's end.
Earlier he wrote "They stared into the abyss, which didn't stare back." Which is another Nietzsche quote twisted ie: "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
This second quote makes sense (he played with a Nietzsche quote). As far as the first, he didn't play with the language. He just wrote Nietzsche sentence without mentioning the source. That's not playing. I have the feeling many readers will think it's Pratchett's doing. :doh:
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I know of no one who doesn't love this one:
"The leading thief glared at the solid stone that had swallowed Mort, and then threw down his knife. 'Well, ----me,' he said. 'A ----ing wizard. I HATE ----ing wizards!' 'You shouldn't ---- them, then,' muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes. "
- Terry Pratchett, "Mort: A Discworld Novel"
An this one is absolutely hilarious:
"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look."
- Terry Pratchett , “Small Gods”
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"A Dove, she is not, she is more like the hawk" - Milosh, The Ravening by Dawn Thompson.
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I know of no one who doesn't love this one:
"The leading thief glared at the solid stone that had swallowed Mort, and then threw down his knife. 'Well, ----me,' he said. 'A ----ing wizard. I HATE ----ing wizards!' 'You shouldn't ---- them, then,' muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes. "
- Terry Pratchett, "Mort: A Discworld Novel"
An this one is absolutely hilarious:
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
- Terry Pratchett , “Small Gods”
Ok, I'm going to a bookstore to find Terry Pratchett.
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"...Jesus. That's horrible. I know it is. But I can't help it. When I see someone looking I can't help but think "That's right, lady."
-Me... from My Book of Secrets
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It's been so long since I've read a book that I'm not sure I could anymore. *<:)
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"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
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"Eat me"
The Book of Life
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“Historically, people have done senseless and evil things in attempts to stop problems or ill effects on them that came from sources they were ignorant about.”
“The cause for aging and death in human types must be using the brain in manners inconsistent with reality. The reality of nature is whatever it is; perhaps believing it is something other than what it is, is deadly.”
“Sin is to believe something is real, when it is not and never can be real.”
“I noticed the plants and animals had to interact with the realities of nature to survive. Those organisms died if they could not function within nature’s reality. So, it makes sense to me that, when human beings make-believe nature’s reality, they die.”
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Carason, please modify your post and identify the books you recived those quotes from.
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Those are from Alien Witness.
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"Murderer? Well, that's a harsh word. I prefer to think of myself as a mortality technician." -The book that I'm writing, which hasn't been published yet so I can't reveal the title.