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I'm home, after an adventure that included missing my train and an extremely attractive lawyer named John. C'est bizarre. Last night I went to the club with Jordan and Jarrod. I was molested by a homosexual; another tried to drag me into the bathroom. It was quite entertaining. Other things occurred. I love you.
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Before I left for college, I finished reading East of Eden and, consequently, decided not to bring it along. Unfortunately, I arrived at school and remembered I'd marked all of the quotes that tickled my fancy. So, here are some favourites:
"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years."
"'But you said you did not love our father. How can you have faith in him if you didn't love him?'
'Maybe that's the reason...Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting.'"
"The parents, denying it in themselves, were horrified to find it in their children."
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."
"The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man."
"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual."
"'Couldn't a world be built around accepted truth?'"
"'Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do something his cleverness forbids.'"
"'Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic?'
'I don't know.'
'Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.'"
"'The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in 'Thou shalt,' meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel- 'thou mayest'- that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man.'"
"'There's more beauty in the truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.'"
"'There's no springboard to philanthropy like a bad conscience.'"
"It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing an still not believe it."
"'The poor are forced to dress well.'"
"'I am not profane by accident.'"
"'All great and precious things are lonely.'"
"Everybody had a secret that he had to spread obliquely to keep its identity as a secret."
I know I've posted this one before [it was the only one I remembered], but it's brilliant:
"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."
It's an excellent book; I recommend it to everyone. The ending is perfect.
I'm going to attempt sleep now.
-Jessica
***
Before I left for college, I finished reading East of Eden and, consequently, decided not to bring it along. Unfortunately, I arrived at school and remembered I'd marked all of the quotes that tickled my fancy. So, here are some favourites:
"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years."
"'But you said you did not love our father. How can you have faith in him if you didn't love him?'
'Maybe that's the reason...Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting.'"
"The parents, denying it in themselves, were horrified to find it in their children."
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."
"The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man."
"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual."
"'Couldn't a world be built around accepted truth?'"
"'Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do something his cleverness forbids.'"
"'Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic?'
'I don't know.'
'Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.'"
"'The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in 'Thou shalt,' meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel- 'thou mayest'- that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man.'"
"'There's more beauty in the truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.'"
"'There's no springboard to philanthropy like a bad conscience.'"
"It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing an still not believe it."
"'The poor are forced to dress well.'"
"'I am not profane by accident.'"
"'All great and precious things are lonely.'"
"Everybody had a secret that he had to spread obliquely to keep its identity as a secret."
I know I've posted this one before [it was the only one I remembered], but it's brilliant:
"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."
It's an excellent book; I recommend it to everyone. The ending is perfect.
I'm going to attempt sleep now.
-Jessica