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Post by Marina on Jun 7, 2011 22:54:47 GMT -5
“When stuff in life gets really rough, I would just die if I was not writing a novel. Once you think it up, it’s like a whole other city with a little door and every time you sit down to write you just open the door and there you are—a wonderful vacation for two hours.”
Lee Smith
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 7, 2011 23:00:18 GMT -5
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." --Oscar Wilde
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Post by Silva on Jun 7, 2011 23:54:48 GMT -5
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril."
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism the world has known."
-Oscar Wilde
"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost."
-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 0:04:15 GMT -5
"Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true."
-Tim O'Brien
"Here, we shop until we are dead, and the difference isn't as decidedly marked as one would think."
-Don DeLillo
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Post by serpentheart on Jun 8, 2011 1:43:13 GMT -5
“I challenge you: To speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.” - Taylor Mali
"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villian!
-Juliet 3.2. VS 79"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
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Umbvix
Young Armadillo
SCHLURP :B
Posts: 64
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Post by Umbvix on Jun 8, 2011 8:07:05 GMT -5
"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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rayyychul
Armadillo
On ne voit bien qu'avec le c?ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Posts: 159
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Post by rayyychul on Jun 8, 2011 10:05:01 GMT -5
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore
"I've learned that life isn't necessarily easy, but it's always worth figuring out. That, if nothing else, has had the most profound effect on my learning that sometimes your circumstances suck, but life doesn't." - Andrew McMahon
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Post by Olive on Jun 8, 2011 10:10:31 GMT -5
There's so many... oh god.
I feel like I might just occasionally pop by here and chuck one in. To start: the first one that came to mind.
"Man muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können." -Nietzsche
One must still have chaos within in order to give birth to a dancing star.
I want that tattooed somewhere, so badly... but the Shakespeare quote will come first.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 8, 2011 11:55:31 GMT -5
Macbeth's Tomorrow speech.
I'm generally pessimistic and cynical about the world (really though, I'm a nice girl and fun to be around. I promise.) and that speech just hits all the right notes.
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Post by Olive on Jun 8, 2011 12:37:48 GMT -5
Oh god, that is a good speech...
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Post by inarikins on Jun 8, 2011 14:25:35 GMT -5
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
-Leonardo da Vinci
Or just anything this man has ever written.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 8, 2011 15:43:55 GMT -5
When I learned about the syllable line having an extra syllable in the word syllable, I giggled out loud in class like the dork I am. I'm not much of a fan of the play, but that speech is tasty.
(Syllable is a fun word to type.)
ADD: Oh, and I love Regan's line in King Lear, when he tells Cornwall to pull out Gloucester's other eye. "One side will mock another; the other too." It's just full of so much...maliciousness.
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 17:50:50 GMT -5
I love the whiskey dick speech from MacBizzle.
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Post by yellehs on Jun 10, 2011 11:35:29 GMT -5
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"---Jean Cocteau
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Post by yellehs on Jun 10, 2011 11:44:34 GMT -5
I’m going, lads, to Sparta, but I still don’t know
What fate may have in store nor what my own mind wants;
Slowly, by what I see and do, I’ll work things out.
Nikos Kazantzakis, “The Odyssey.” III, 576-578
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