Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[BenG]

On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

[KenMagee]

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? Tyrion Lannister - Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin

I wonder if this applies to US - Mexico wall.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by KenMagee

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? Tyrion Lannister - Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin

I wonder if this applies to US - Mexico wall.

Ah, the wisdom of Tyrion. He drinks and he knows things.

[covingtoncat73]

"Y'all gonna make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here. Y'all gonna make me act the fool, up in here, up in here." ~DMX

[AlexBell]

'Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.'

Anton Chekhov

[BenG]

“You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

[covingtoncat73]

"If I had a lot of money, I would buy acres of woods. I would put a wall around them and live there like it was another time."
― from "Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel"

[covingtoncat73]

"And the signs said,
'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.'"

~Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"And the signs said,
'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.'"

~Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

Paul was the writer, but yes they both sang it.
Wonderful Poet. I'm hoping he gets the next Nobel Prize!

Spoiler:

Lyrics
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence

Written by Paul Simon • Copyright © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

[AlexBell]

'He was a literary man all over when with an inspired face he laid a wreath on the coffin of some celebrity, or with a grave and solemn face collected signatures for some address; his passion for making the acquaintance of distinguished literary men, his faculty for finding talent even where it was absent, his perpetual enthusiasm, his pulse that went at one hundred and twenty a minute, his ignorance of life, the genuinely feminine flutter with which he threw himself into concerts and literary evenings for the benefit of destitute students, the way in which he gravitated towards the young -- all this would have created for him the reputation of a writer even if he had not written his articles.'

Anton Chekhov, in 'Excellent People', which is contained in The Duel and Other Stories.

[covingtoncat73]

"... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only 'rights,' the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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[AlexBell]

'So it is in life -- In the search for truth man makes two steps forward and one step back. Suffering, mistakes, and weariness of life thrust them back, but the thirst for truth and stubborn will drive them on and on. And who knows? Perhaps they will reach the real truth at last.'

Anton Chekhov, in 'The Duel', contained in The Duel and Other Stories

[covingtoncat73]

"Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress as white as the moon."
Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell The Wolves I'm Home

[badgoodDeb]

[ no, clandestine would be Mata Hari! ]

[kennyc]

"My whole life has been one of rejection. Women. Dogs. Comic strips."

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

- Charles Schulz (born 11/26/1922)