Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[covingtoncat73]

"The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself." ~V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

[kennyc]

"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"
- The Beatles (Paul McCartney)

(one of my favorite lines ever! )

[gmw]

Originally Posted by kennyc

"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"
- The Beatles (Paul McCartney)

(one of my favorite lines ever! )

I like the Moody Blues (Justin Hayward) variation better (from "Question"):

"That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you."

[AlexBell]

'But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labour of others.'

from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy; translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude.

[covingtoncat73]

“Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.”
― Heinrich Heine

[covingtoncat73]

“It was always a bad sign when better-off types drew comparisons between unsightly ghetto populations and some animal or other, most especially those species that we had, reluctantly, to poison periodically. Why didn’t people keep their lame excuses to themselves?"

Alan Moore, Jerusalem

[KenMagee]

Originally Posted by gmw

I like the Moody Blues (Justin Hayward) variation better (from "Question"):

"That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you."

"Never believe anything you hear in a song." Tyrion Lannister

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by kennyc

"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"
- The Beatles (Paul McCartney)

(one of my favorite lines ever! )

Originally Posted by gmw

I like the Moody Blues (Justin Hayward) variation better (from "Question"):

"That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you."

Originally Posted by KenMagee

"Never believe anything you hear in a song." Tyrion Lannister

Indeed, Ken.

"Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer. You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer..." ~Beatles

[Barty]

Originally Posted by kennyc

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
- Clive James

"Movies are life with the dull bits left out."
- Hitchcock

"Cinema is lies at 24 frames per second."
- Godard

[kennyc]

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

[BenG]

You can’t write science fiction well if you haven’t read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven’t read anything else.

― Ursula K. Le Guin, Learning to Write Science Fiction from Virginia Woolf. Published in the Manchester Guardian, April 2011, republished in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenG

You can’t write science fiction well if you haven’t read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven’t read anything else.

― Ursula K. Le Guin, Learning to Write Science Fiction from Virginia Woolf. Published in the Manchester Guardian, April 2011, republished in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books.

[gmw]

Originally Posted by KenMagee

"Never believe anything you hear in a song." Tyrion Lannister

Oh, I don't know, some manage quite astounding accuracy:

And when I see you, I really see you upside down
But my brain knows better, it picks you up and turns you around

-- Death Cab for Cutie (Benjamin Gibbard) "A Lack of Color"

[kennyc]

Johnny's in the Basement
mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
thinkin' 'bout the government
- Bob

[kennyc]

“She always wanted to believe in things.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Happy Birthday Today Kazuo Ishiguro!