Literature Quotation
@epistolaryNovelization
I quote things. You will learn of nothing else.
“I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.” *Excerpt from Anthem by Ayynne Rannde
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” *Excerpt from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
“Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes…” *Excerpt from Wuthering Heights by Emilee Brontë
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” *Excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jaynne Austen
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” *Excerpt from The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde *Per request, @flightyBroad
An aphorism that truly escaped the temporal bounds of its original conceit. Appreciation granted.
“A classic is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it’s safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It’s acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion….” *Excerpt from The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
You have any Oscar Wildes on hand? I could use the sardonic wit.
“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.” *Excerpt from Slaughterhive-Five by Kurrtt Vnegut Jr.
A very poignant quote and book for my own life right now.
“Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.” *Excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
“Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning.” *Excerpt from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
"Darling, I'm pulling from both troll and human sources. This one is a human author." *Direct quote by Laumve Revvkr
"Feel free to dismiss yourself darling. You needn't stress yourself with thinking thoughts too hard for your thinkpan." *Direct quote by Laumve Revvkr
My left trollsticle has more thoughts than your entire blood line, fetid alien fucker.
"Oh joy. You've resorted to further insults. I suppose you just don't have the mental capabilities for civil interaction." *Direct quote by Laumve Revvkr
"I would like to be clear, that I did not in fact start anything of the sort. That is all on you darling." *Direct quote by Laumve Revvkr
Learn to read you pompous squirtnugget. "You needn't stress yourself with thinking thoughts too hard for your thinkpan." *Direct quote by Laumve Revvkr I was just trying to help and then did a quip once I realized you were fornicating with aliens.
"At no point have I ever debased myself as to interact physically with an alien. Pulling from their literary collective is NOT the same. It is frankly the larger insult to assume I would." *Direct quote by Laumve Revvkr
"I apologize for the hiatus, a... quadrant... issue occurred. I will now resume my quote posting at least once a day." *Direct quote by Laumve Revvkr
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.” *Excerpt from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum
“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” *Excerpt from The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” *Excerpt from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” *Excerpt from Twelve Steps to Happiness by Joe Klaas
>[ 10 a chit most worthy of a troll morgan freeman "true" meme reaction. ];
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” *Excerpt from Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” *Excerpt from Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” *Excerpt from Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” *Excerpt from Les Caractères by Jean de La Bruyère
“We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse.” *Excerpt from There There by Tommy Orange
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.” *Excerpt from Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie