Quotes

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i like Francis Bacon's "I'm optimistic, optimistic about nothing" myself.

[Avantster]

Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet

Great quote, perhaps I should start reading some Bellow. I know you've read a few - which would you recommend starting with?

[Faust]

Herzog split my mind in half, Humboldt's Gift shattered the halves, and Mr. Sammler's Planet is finishing the job. The Adventures of Augie March was also great, and Ravelstein was a quick, interesting read - a great swan song from the master of all masters. There are books you read and you think (stupidly, of course) that you might be able to write on that level, and there are books that leave you in complete awe. Bellow does that for me.

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^^^

agreed w/ faust about the latter half of the second last sentence. i've read humboldt's and herzog, guess i will look up sammler to finish the job

[Farkhanyassin]

"To fear death
is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not.
For it is to think one knows what one does not know.
No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be
the greatest blessings of human beings.
And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil."
-Socrates

[swami]

That last Saul Bellow excerpt is brilliant! Thanks

Inspiring me towards the change that is long overdue ...

[swami]

I like my town with a little drop of poison
Nobody knows they're lining up to go insane
I'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter
But I feel much cleaner after it rains

She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison
She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison

Did the devil make the world while god was sleeping
Someone said you'll never get a wish from a bone
Another wrong good-bye and a hundred sailors
That deep blue sky is my home

She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison
She left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison

A rat always knows when he's in with weasels
Here you lose a little every day
I remember when a million was a million
They all have ways to make you pay
They all have ways to make you pay

- Tom Waits

[laika]

Love is a liking for prostitution. There are no
pleasures, not even noble ones, whose origin cannot
be traced to prostitution.

--Baudelaire, from Intimate Journals

[coup de grace]

"i'm concerned that we're sitting here like i'm a responsible adult. i'm pretty sure i stopped growing up in my teens and have been faking ever since."

[interest1]

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

–Gandhi

[thehouseofdis]

One of my favorites-

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Farkhanyassin]

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

Roud

[Faust]

One of my favorites-

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Well, now I know what inspired Diesel's new ad campaign.

[Avantster]

Herzog split my mind in half, Humboldt's Gift shattered the halves, and Mr. Sammler's Planet is finishing the job. The Adventures of Augie March was also great, and Ravelstein was a quick, interesting read - a great swan song from the master of all masters. There are books you read and you think (stupidly, of course) that you might be able to write on that level, and there are books that leave you in complete awe. Bellow does that for me.

Heh, I've ordered a few. Received Herzog in the mail today - getting started tonight!

[Faust]

Cool, I am always very happy to share culture that's dear to me :-). I was not as impressed with Mr. Sammler's Planet at the end - it seemed unfinished in a way, but, Bellow's average book = most authors' masterpiece.