The book dialog game - Page 36

issybird · 10-11-2011, 05:03 PM

I'm sorry to have been so dilatory; it was that kind of day.

Here goes:

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

issybird · 10-11-2011, 06:41 PM

This might be more helpful:

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

poohbear_nc · 10-11-2011, 07:04 PM

These are marvelous quotes - with that diction & command of language & irony - I think the author must be British! But alas I don't recall ever reading these words!

[Another tome to add to my TBR list!]

issybird · 10-11-2011, 07:57 PM

British, definitely. This one should serve to identify the author if not the tome:

He whispered, 'Oh God, I have deserted you. Do not desert me.'

poohbear_nc · 10-11-2011, 08:02 PM

That's gotta be Graham Greene - but I don't know the tome!

issybird · 10-11-2011, 08:11 PM

Graham Greene it is. Do you or anyone else care to take a stab at which novel? Otherwise, over to pooh.

issybird · 10-11-2011, 11:59 PM

It's The Heart of the Matter.

Take it away, pooh!

poohbear_nc · 10-12-2011, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

It's The Heart of the Matter.

Take it away, pooh!

Hmmmm .... I have not read this tome - will add to my TBR list [think I have it in a DTB anthology]. No one ever railed against God more eloquently or more emotionally than Greene.

BRB with new quote.

poohbear_nc · 10-12-2011, 08:40 AM

OK - try this:

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”

WT Sharpe · 10-12-2011, 11:23 AM

Neil Gaiman, by any chance?

poohbear_nc · 10-12-2011, 11:56 AM

Nope! Older author.

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude”

WT Sharpe · 10-12-2011, 12:05 PM

Francis Bacon?

Daithi · 10-12-2011, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

OK - try this:

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”

I don't have a clue, but I really like that quote.

WT Sharpe · 10-12-2011, 12:17 PM

H.P. Lovecraft! Right?

poohbear_nc · 10-12-2011, 12:39 PM

Still no .....

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”

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10-11-2011, 05:03 PM	#526
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,346 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	I'm sorry to have been so dilatory; it was that kind of day. Here goes: Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

10-11-2011, 06:41 PM	#527
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,346 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	This might be more helpful: Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

10-11-2011, 07:04 PM	#528
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,673 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	These are marvelous quotes - with that diction & command of language & irony - I think the author must be British! But alas I don't recall ever reading these words! [Another tome to add to my TBR list!]

10-11-2011, 07:57 PM	#529
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,346 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	British, definitely. This one should serve to identify the author if not the tome: He whispered, 'Oh God, I have deserted you. Do not desert me.'

10-11-2011, 08:02 PM	#530
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,673 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	That's gotta be Graham Greene - but I don't know the tome!

10-11-2011, 08:11 PM	#531
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,346 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Graham Greene it is. Do you or anyone else care to take a stab at which novel? Otherwise, over to pooh.

10-11-2011, 11:59 PM	#532
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,346 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	It's The Heart of the Matter. Take it away, pooh!

10-12-2011, 08:40 AM	#534
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,673 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	OK - try this: “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”

10-12-2011, 11:23 AM	#535
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Neil Gaiman, by any chance?

10-12-2011, 11:56 AM	#536
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,673 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Nope! Older author. “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude”

10-12-2011, 12:05 PM	#537
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Francis Bacon?

10-12-2011, 12:17 PM	#539
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	H.P. Lovecraft! Right?

10-12-2011, 12:39 PM	#540
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,673 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Still no ..... “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”