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Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 12:12:43 PM   
Hillwilliam


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Status: offline 		Simple.  what is your favorite, for the moment at least, quote.  Author and name of the book only if you feel like it.

One last night that cracked Me up.

"That's what happens when you let rednecks play with anitmatter"

Author, John Ringo.

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 2:08:51 PM   
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Anne Carson, Kinds Of Water, a poem found in her book Plainwater.

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 2:13:16 PM   
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Dan Brown in The Lost Symbol; first page, his quote.

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 2:18:17 PM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 6:56:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Simple.  what is your favorite, for the moment at least, quote.  Author and name of the book only if you feel like it.

One last night that cracked Me up.

"That's what happens when you let rednecks play with anitmatter"

Author, John Ringo.


LOL! I love that one. I have encountered situations rather like that.
Don't have a quote at the moment but will return with one.

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 7:02:48 PM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 7:04:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: NocturnalStalker

All of American Psycho.  


Oh but to 20 years younger LOVE IT!


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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 7:08:20 PM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 7:15:04 PM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 7:33:37 PM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 8:09:19 PM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 8:31:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		My two favourite are:

"Age can not whither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetite they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies"

and

"All true wealth is biological"


One is by Shakespeare, the other by Lois McMaster Bujold.



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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 8:32:24 PM   
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"Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas."
"I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep."
And of course the famous "Jack, you've debauched my sloth."

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 9:12:16 PM   
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From P.G. Wodehouse.

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/9/2011 10:19:29 PM   
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From Belladonna by Karen Moline

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/12/2011 10:21:40 PM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/13/2011 12:53:11 AM   
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"So I told Chee'ee'la that our reason for existence was to question. I told him that if we were exterminated, we couldn't question. If we couldn't question, we couldn't learn, couldn't find the answers. If existence wasn't learning, there was no point to the universe."

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/13/2011 1:18:12 AM   
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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/13/2011 1:56:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		She felt something turn inside her, as she faced her innermost self and saw—the Truth. She… she had wanted, not love butprotection. She had wanted to be dependant on someone else. For all that she had joined the Queen's Wing, for all that she had taken on responsibilities there—she had wanted, in her heart of hearts, to be told what to do. To be taken care of Had wanted her story to end in some vision of unrealistic harmony, where nothing ever went wrong, where she and—this vague man-shaped image—never quarreled, never differed, never experienced the least little bump in their unending contentment. A storyteller's ending…and they lived happily until the end of their days .
And in that storyteller's tale of a life, she would tend to this image's every want, serving as a faithful priestess, and in turn, being protected and told exactly what to be, what to do, what to think, in return for this fat, stupid, sheeplike contentment.
That was what she had been in love with. Not a man. Not even a dream of a man. And not a woman's dream, but the dream of a child, lost and bereft, wanting only someone who would make her safe.

False and hollow, all of it. She was no longer that child, and safety was always an illusion.

Mercedes Lackey Aerie p416/17

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RE: Favorite book quote - 5/13/2011 3:23:35 AM   
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