Your favorite novel quotes

[Sam]

Pick your favorite monologue or quote from a novel and post it here.

I would post this in the Arts Discussion board but nobody fucking reads that and because of that, my essay sucks. So suck my dick. <3

"Then, I don't know why, but something inside me snapped. I started yelling at the top of my lungs, and I insulted him and told him not to waste his prayers on me. I grabbed him by the collar of his cassock. I was pouring out on him everything that was in my heart, cries of anger and cries of joy. He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Wheras it looked as if I was the only one who'd come up emptyhanded. But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of the death  I had waiting for me."
The Stranger, Camus

I actually would have liked to post the next two pages as well (which is all part of the same paragraph), but too much typing. I'll type them up if anyone actually wants to see the rest of the rant Meursault goes on, but I have a feeling that nobody cares.

[The artist formally known]

I thought that was from The Stranger just by the first line. It was a pretty good book, the beginning was so awesome. Don't think any other book can have such a good first sentence.

Not my favorite but a great one:

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe."

Anyone know what it's from?

[Sam]

I thought that was from The Stranger just by the first line. It was a pretty good book, the beginning was so awesome. Don't think any other book can have such a good first sentence.

Not my favorite but a great one:

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe."

Anyone know what it's from?

Varieties of the Popular

[The artist formally known]

Varieties of the Popular

What chu talking about?

[Sam]

What chu talking about?

i dunno.

I tried to cheat with google but apparently i failed. ;-;

[Himu]

"Jem, I ain't ever heard of a nigger snowman."

[The artist formally known]

i dunno.

I tried to cheat with google but apparently i failed. ;-;

[spoiler]Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep[/spoiler]

Chuck Palahniuk has some good quotes:

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

His writing is sometimes good, some of the stories are crappy but have some good little bits inside of them. Seems some of his stories are put together only to show off his sometimes great, sometimes awful quotes.

[The artist formally known]

Some more of Chucks that I enjoyed:

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."

And my all time favorite:

"Because nothing is as perfect as you imagine it"

And one not by Chuck Palahniuk:

"Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and loss is too empty to share"

Anyone have a clue? Newer book.

[Gladjaframpf]

I'm not sure what I'd call my "favourite" quote, but here's one I really like from Dune Messiah:

"If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!"


And, because I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and it is quite excellent, here's one of my favourite bits:

"Δv for velocity, delta for change. In space, this is the measure of the change in velocity required to get from one place to another - thus, a measure of the energy required to do it.

Everything is moving already. But to get something from the (moving) surface of the Earth into orbit around it, requires a Δv of ten kilometers per second; to leave Earth's orbit and fly to Mars requires a minimum Δv of 3.6 kilometers per second; and to orbit Mars and land on it requires a Δv of about one kilometer per second. The hardest part is leaving Earth behind, for that is by far the deepest gravity well involved. Climbing up that steep curve of spacetime takes tremendous force, shifting the direction of an enormous inertia.

History too has an inertia. In the four dimensions of spacetime, particles (or events) have directionality; mathematicians, trying to show this, draw what they call "world lines" on graphs. In human affairs, individual world lines form a thick tangle, curling out of the darkness of prehistory and stretching through time: a cable the size of Earth itself, spiraling round the sun on a long curved course. That cable of tangled world lines is history. Seeing where it has been, it is clear where it is going - it is a matter of simple extrapolation. For what kind of Δv would it take to escape histoy, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course?

The hardest part is leaving Earth behind."

Anyone know what it's from?

My memory's a little fuzzy, but I think that must be from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Okay, yeah, you confirmed that while I was writing this.

[The artist formally known]

I'm not sure what I'd call my "favourite" quote, but here's one I really like from Dune Messiah:

"If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!"


And, because I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and it is quite excellent, here's one of my favourite bits:

"Δv for velocity, delta for change. In space, this is the measure of the change in velocity required to get from one place to another - thus, a measure of the energy required to do it.

Everything is moving already. But to get something from the (moving) surface of the Earth into orbit around it, requires a Δv of ten kilometers per second; to leave Earth's orbit and fly to Mars requires a minimum Δv of 3.6 kilometers per second; and to orbit Mars and land on it requires a Δv of about one kilometer per second. The hardest part is leaving Earth behind, for that is by far the deepest gravity well involved. Climbing up that steep curve of spacetime takes tremendous force, shifting the direction of an enormous inertia.

History too has an inertia. In the four dimensions of spacetime, particles (or events) have directionality; mathematicians, trying to show this, draw what they call "world lines" on graphs. In human affairs, individual world lines form a thick tangle, curling out of the darkness of prehistory and stretching through time: a cable the size of Earth itself, spiraling round the sun on a long curved course. That cable of tangled world lines is history. Seeing where it has been, it is clear where it is going - it is a matter of simple extrapolation. For what kind of Δv would it take to escape histoy, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course?

The hardest part is leaving Earth behind."


My memory's a little fuzzy, but I think that must be from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Okay, yeah, you confirmed that while I was writing this.

That is pretty bad ass. I wish to read, at least, the original Dune series.

[Samus Aran]

Part of the reason I love The Catcher in the Rye so much is that I love the way Holden presents everything. He's certainly got his own interesting way of speaking.

"It's no fun to be yellow.  Maybe I'm not all yellow.  I don't know.  I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves."

[Socks]

"The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offense is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual-and, after all, what is an individual?"

Brave New World

[guff]

everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

[Gladjaframpf]

everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

I need to read more Vonnegut. He's on my list, but the list is getting pretty long and I don't spend as much time reading as I used to to.