Book Quotes: King And Beyond.
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there is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course.”
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky Out fatal troika dashes on, too...there is nothing new under the sun.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course.”
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky Out fatal troika dashes on, too...there is nothing new under the sun.
“To rule forever," continues the Chinaman, later, "it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People,-- to create thus a Distinction betwixt 'em,-- 'tis the first stroke.-- All else will follow as if predestin'd, unto War and Devastation.”
Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
“the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love, the desire for rest the right to rest, the desire for friendship the right to friendship, the desire to exceed the speed limit the right to exceed the speed limit, the desire for happiness the right to happiness, the desire to publish a book the right to publish a book, the desire to shout in the street in the middle of the night the right to shout in the street.”
Milan Kundera
“..people do need some commandment to rule over them in our century, when god's ten have been virtually forgotten! the whole moral structure of our time rests on the eleventh commandment; and the journalist came to realize that thanks to a mysterious provision of history he is to become its administrator, gaining a power undreamed of by a Hemingway or an Orwell.”
Milan Kundera
Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
“the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love, the desire for rest the right to rest, the desire for friendship the right to friendship, the desire to exceed the speed limit the right to exceed the speed limit, the desire for happiness the right to happiness, the desire to publish a book the right to publish a book, the desire to shout in the street in the middle of the night the right to shout in the street.”
Milan Kundera
“..people do need some commandment to rule over them in our century, when god's ten have been virtually forgotten! the whole moral structure of our time rests on the eleventh commandment; and the journalist came to realize that thanks to a mysterious provision of history he is to become its administrator, gaining a power undreamed of by a Hemingway or an Orwell.”
Milan Kundera
" 'I feel desperate for someone else to see my creation. My mother. I would like to show it to her. Let her see what I have brought to life. Have her be there when my catcher gets to play with the White Sox, as I know he will. What I've brought to life is much more than one tiny bird.'
" 'There is a magic about it,' I say. 'You have to be there to feel the magic.'
" 'What is this magic you keep talking about?'
" 'It's the place and the time. The right place and right time. Iowa is the right place, and the time is right, too- a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place and the universe opens up for a few seconds, or hours, and shows you what is possible.' "
-Shoeless Joe, W.P. Kinsella
" 'There is a magic about it,' I say. 'You have to be there to feel the magic.'
" 'What is this magic you keep talking about?'
" 'It's the place and the time. The right place and right time. Iowa is the right place, and the time is right, too- a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place and the universe opens up for a few seconds, or hours, and shows you what is possible.' "
-Shoeless Joe, W.P. Kinsella
"...and as for the dust bunnies: frig ya!"
Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
Just thought of another one, from Bernard Cornwell, originally in his Arthurian Trilogy but later used in his Alfred series:
Fate is inexorable.
He attributes it to some early Saxondale monk I think.
Fate is inexorable.
He attributes it to some early Saxondale monk I think.
"There are just some kind of men who--who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned how to live in this one."
-Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (reading this again today--lol. I had an unexpected wait, and TKaM is my 'purse book'. It's always with me, because it's highly portable and I can pick it up any time and enjoy the read, even if only a read of a few pages)
-Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (reading this again today--lol. I had an unexpected wait, and TKaM is my 'purse book'. It's always with me, because it's highly portable and I can pick it up any time and enjoy the read, even if only a read of a few pages)
"An immense pressure is on me. I cannot move without dislodging the weight of centuries."
-The Waves, Virginia Woolf
-The Waves, Virginia Woolf
“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.” East of Eden, John Steinbeck
"You're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years." Not Fade Away, Jim Dodge
"You're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years." Not Fade Away, Jim Dodge
Neesy
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A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the Bible. 
--Gold Coast, Elmore Leonard
There's no need for algebra where two and two make five.
--Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
We mistake induction for generation.
--Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, RICHARD FARIÑA
If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.
--Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson
--Gold Coast, Elmore Leonard
There's no need for algebra where two and two make five.
--Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
We mistake induction for generation.
--Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, RICHARD FARIÑA
If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.
--Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson
The pursuit of truth, not facts, is the business of fiction.
--Oakley Hall, Warlock
The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you.
--David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
--Oakley Hall, Warlock
The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you.
--David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"He wanted badly to get away from his family to some place where he could think of its various members with quiet pride and affection, and otherwise not be disturbed by them."
~H.G. Wells, Men Like Gods
This one makes me laugh! I think just about anyone with a family can relate at some point
~H.G. Wells, Men Like Gods
This one makes me laugh! I think just about anyone with a family can relate at some point
“That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Start with the assumption that there is such a thing as evil which can exist without causation.
--Cinnamon Skin, John D MacDonald
--Cinnamon Skin, John D MacDonald
"Imagine a future spacecraft heading off for a distant star. Even travelling at the highest speed allowed by the current state of the art, it would take many centuries to reach it's distant destination. And before it had completed half it's journey it would be overtaken by a faster vessel, the product of a later century's technology. So, it might be said, the original ship should never have bothered to set out. By the same argument, even the second spaceship should not bother to set out, because it's crew is fated to wave to their great - grandchildren as they zoom by in a third"
Arthur C Clarke
Arthur C Clarke
*some people were born just so they could be buried
*she had a grip like an Amish milk maiden
The Devil All the Time~ Donald Ray Pollock
*she had a grip like an Amish milk maiden
The Devil All the Time~ Donald Ray Pollock
" 'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on."
-Hamlet
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on."
-Hamlet
She had a monkey like a butt sander blanketing the high lights of every sanitized kitchen implement this side of Fresno.
--I. Just Madeitup
--I. Just Madeitup
"And left alone to sleep within a shuttered room, with the thick sunlight printed in bars upon the floor, unfathomable loneliness and sadness
crept through him: he saw his life down the solemn vista of a forest aisle, and he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were
forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to
life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in the insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no
matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never."
Look Homeward, Angel- Thomas Wolfe
crept through him: he saw his life down the solemn vista of a forest aisle, and he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were
forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to
life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in the insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no
matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never."
Look Homeward, Angel- Thomas Wolfe