literary quotes, finally
I have too many books that I've read this summer littering my floor. So I shall finally pull out the passages I loved.
reading list:
The Great Influenza - Barry
The Know-it-All - Jacobs
Forsyte Chronicles, Volume 2 (850 pages)- Galsworthy
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Eggers
Fat - Anthology of an Obsession - various authors
The Sun Also Rises (re-read) - Hemingway
A Long Way Down - Hornby
The Speckled Monster - Carrell
How to Be Good - Hornby
If you couldn't tell from this list, I love Nick Hornby and infectious diseases.
From Wisdom, Meredith's little book of quotes in her car:
"Knowledge, love, power; there is the complete life." - Henri Amiel
"One half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying "yes" too quick, and not saying "no" soon enough." - Josh Billings
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." (Proverb)
Forsyte Chronicles:
"Why not be care-free, take anything that came along? Not so much love in the world that one could afford to pass, leaving it unsmelled, unplucked."
"If only life were like The Idiot or The Brothers Karamazov, and everybody went about turning out their inmost hearts at the tops of their voices!.....The world was full of wonderful secrets which everybody kept to themselves without captions or close-ups to give them away!"
"A woman's always after the soul of a man, a child, or a dog. Men are content with wanting bodies."
The Sun Also Rises:
"I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it. You could get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I thought, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had."
reading list:
The Great Influenza - Barry
The Know-it-All - Jacobs
Forsyte Chronicles, Volume 2 (850 pages)- Galsworthy
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Eggers
Fat - Anthology of an Obsession - various authors
The Sun Also Rises (re-read) - Hemingway
A Long Way Down - Hornby
The Speckled Monster - Carrell
How to Be Good - Hornby
If you couldn't tell from this list, I love Nick Hornby and infectious diseases.
From Wisdom, Meredith's little book of quotes in her car:
"Knowledge, love, power; there is the complete life." - Henri Amiel
"One half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying "yes" too quick, and not saying "no" soon enough." - Josh Billings
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." (Proverb)
Forsyte Chronicles:
"Why not be care-free, take anything that came along? Not so much love in the world that one could afford to pass, leaving it unsmelled, unplucked."
"If only life were like The Idiot or The Brothers Karamazov, and everybody went about turning out their inmost hearts at the tops of their voices!.....The world was full of wonderful secrets which everybody kept to themselves without captions or close-ups to give them away!"
"A woman's always after the soul of a man, a child, or a dog. Men are content with wanting bodies."
The Sun Also Rises:
"I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it. You could get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I thought, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had."