September 2010
105 posts
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person,...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
August 2010
73 posts
“… because truly to enjoy bodily warmth,some small part of you must be...”
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
“A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get...”
– Marlon Brando in a profile of him done by Truman Capote for The New Yorker magazine in 1957 titled, The Duke in his Domain.
“So you think it necessary, then”, said the doctor, “that there...”
– Henry Fielding, Amelia
“Do you smell that? A smell of absinthe? The fat gentleman’s poured some into his...”
– Colette, Claudine in Paris (1901)
“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening,...
“He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
– A.S. Byatt, Possession
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it;...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the...”
– Exodus 9:8–9
“Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had...”
– Jack London, White Fang
“Unhook me with your raw hands, and lick my pulsating nipples until they pout!”
– Bad Medicine, 1985
“Hard is it to die, because our delicate flesh doth shrink back from the worm it...”
– H. Rider Haggard, She
“Since you all like scenarios so much, I’ve got one for you. It’s...”
– The Manhattan Project, 1986
Bauhaus - King Volcano (Burning From the Inside,...
“The whole scene impressed Venters as a wild, austere, and mighty manifestation...”
– Zane Grey. Riders of the Purple Sage
Electric Wizard - Stone Magnet (Electric Wizard,...
“Most of them died instantly, but a few had time to go quietly nuts.”
– The Andromeda Strain, 1971
“A vivid and blinding light flashed from the whirling, inky clouds above. The...”
– Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend...
“Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to...”
– D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
“What do we think? What do we know? What can we prove? I’m so sick of that....”
– And the Band Played On, 1993
“The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed...”
– Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon...”
– Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match Girl
