Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Interesting times we live in eh?

Yes, definitely.

[GeoffC]

scary more like !

[WT Sharpe]

.....How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
..........— Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (written 1888, published 1889), Chapter 1: "Maxims and Arrows," No. 33.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
..........— Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (written 1888, published 1889), Chapter 1: "Maxims and Arrows," No. 33.

Some might disagree that bagpipes create actual music.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Some might disagree that bagpipes create actual music.

Yes, the first part of that quote is usually omitted. Probably for good reason!

[GeoffC]

.....i'll have you know .....

[WT Sharpe]

.....[T]he factor of religious orthodoxy still remains of major import in primary orgasmic dysfunction as in almost every form of human sexual inadequacy.
..........— (William Howell) Masters (1915 – 2001) and (Virginia Eshelman) Johnson (1925 - ), human sexuality researchers. Human Sexual Inadequacy (1966).

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Some might disagree that bagpipes create actual music.

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Yes, the first part of that quote is usually omitted. Probably for good reason!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Hippies!





Seriously, that was nice. Nietzsche would be proud.

[WT Sharpe]

.....Trashy novels encouraged me to employ sex as a strategy. But it was ultimately Salinger who made me want to [expletive deleted].
..........— Jillian Lauren, former stripper, former call girl, author (Some Girls: My Life in a Harem). The Paris Review Daily, "Trashy Is as Trashy Does" (September 24, 2010).

The original uncensored quote can be found here (last line in the article).

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Hippies!





Seriously, that was nice. Nietzsche would be proud.

Glad you liked it


Two quotes from the same source (not a book, I'm afraid, but about books):

"I believe the printed word should be forgiven, doesn't matter what it said. Wisdom hotline from the dead back to the living. Key to the larder for your heart and head "
and
"I believe the printed word is more than sacred, beyond the gauge of good and bad."
XTC, Books Are Burning

[WT Sharpe]

.....Somewhat as follows: He is sent to school
.....Little or much, where he imbibes the rule
.....Of safety first and comfort; in his youth
.....He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.
..........— Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950), American poet. The Great Valley (1916), "The Typical American" (page 68).

[Ea]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Some might disagree that bagpipes create actual music.

And some, more.... musically discerning people may disagree with you

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

That was fun! Thanks Am

[Ea]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Trashy novels encouraged me to employ sex as a strategy. But it was ultimately Salinger who made me want to [expletive deleted].
..........— Jillian Lauren, former stripper, former call girl, author (Some Girls: My Life in a Harem). The Paris Review Daily, "Trashy Is as Trashy Does" (September 24, 2010).

The original uncensored quote can be found here (last line in the article).

Great article, thanks for the link. I want to quote this from the article:
I first read Nine Stories and felt the nakedness of being recognized in my loneliness. Desire wasn’t a narrative device with a neat payoff; rather, it was an ocean of longing that unfolded toward an ever-receding horizon. The book got inside me in a way that changed me irrevocably and, conversely, felt like it had been there all along. And that, I imagined, would be what having a lover would feel like.

Very nice!

[WT Sharpe]

.....Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.
..........— George Washington Carver (Circa 1864 – 1943), American scientist, botanist, educator, inventor. Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 107.