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Post by cryurchin on Feb 15, 2006 18:20:04 GMT
just thought i'd have a crack at something literary on here...well literaryish  i'd like people to discribe their outlook on life in three quotes. i'll start this idea off: "Not all who wander are lost" - tolkien. "I may not agree with what you say, but i'll fight to the death for your right to say it" - attributed to voltaire. "Champagne for my real friends; real pain for my sham friends" - edward norton in spike lee's 25th hour get going people |
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Post by will2nothing on Feb 17, 2006 16:27:18 GMT
I feel quite exposed here (and  ), but how about these: “We are only the idea we have of ourselves” (Edmond Jabès, From the Desert to the Book) “I just want something I can never have” (Nine Inch Nails) And, finally, not so much a quote as a short poem: “A RUMBLING: truth Itself has appeared Among humankind In the very thick of their Flurrying metaphors” (Paul Celan) Don't know what this says about me, but I may get psychoanalysed until the cows return to their default locations. It might also be interesting to sum yourself up in five verbs (only infinitive form allowed)...not that I am going to try and attempt that. |
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Post by Rose on Feb 17, 2006 20:31:00 GMT
'I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.' (though, really, the whole poem. ) 'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven' W B Yeats
"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life" Henry David Thoreau, c/o The Dead Poets Society
"He said, "It's all in your head"
And I said, "So's everything'" but he didn't get it" Paper Bag, by Fiona Apple
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I'm not sure how accurately these represent me, but they were the best ones I could think of at the time of writing...
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Post by Gabriel on Feb 17, 2006 20:56:11 GMT
"You can learn more about someone in an hour of play than in a whole year of conversation" - Plato
"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up." - Hunter S. Thompson
Edit: I also love "Some may never live, but the crazy never die"
And finally a section from The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton:
Gregory struck out with his stick at the lamp‑post, and then at the tree. “About this and this,” he cried; “about order and anarchy. There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself—there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold.”
“All the same,” replied Syme patiently, “just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.”
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Post by cryurchin on Feb 18, 2006 2:23:06 GMT
glad people are into this thread; some lovely quotes coming nice to see will loving the nine inch nails, they appeal to the closet 14 year old goth in all of us and are still fookin' amazing ;D as for the five verb things...what's a verb? tee hee xx |
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Post by lyrical on Feb 19, 2006 20:22:15 GMT
Hmm, this is an interesting thread...
Ok, these are just some I thought of right now, so they might not be perfect, but...
"There is nothing I know, except this lifetime's one moment and wishing will just leave me empty" Bright Eyes
"You've got to be able to laugh at yourself, or life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you'd like" (something like that, anyway) Sam, Garden State
"If they ask you to believe it, question whether it's true. If they ask you to achieve, is it for them or for you?" Saul Williams
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i'd like people to discribe their outlook on life in three quotes.
), but how about these:
