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  • nelicquele

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    Inside this greater machine, things are not quite so cut and dried (or cut and pickled) as they have appeared in my experience. Each of us, in our own personal Factory, may believe we have stumbled down one corridor, and that our fate is sealed and certain (dream or nightmare, humdrum or bizarre, good or bad), but a word, a glance, a slip—anything can change that, alter it entirely, and our marble hall becomes a gutter, or our rat-maze a golden path. Our destination is the same in the end, but our journey—part chosen, part determined- is different for us all, and changes even as we live and grow. I thought one door had snicked shut behind me years ago; in fact I was still crawling about the face. Now the door closes, and my journey begins. - The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
    January 21st, 2010 at 07:10pm
  • ella vator.

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    "If you never want anything then you don't have to be disappointed when you don't get it."
    It was from a book from Tami Hoag, I can't think of the title at the moment. It just really stuck out to me, I don't know why. XD
    January 26th, 2010 at 11:37pm
  • Lalonde.

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    From Jaclyn Moriarty's 'Dreaming of Amelia':
    'There's a terrible silence in absence. The absence of a person. All the noise around you, all the clanging, words, rules, an elbow in your windpipe, manic laughter, flushing toilets, heavy feet on staircases, chairs scraping vinyl, all the noise is shadowed with a silence.
    That's what a ghost is.
    The silence of the on you want -
    sounds clash with the silence -
    there's your ghost.
    January 28th, 2010 at 02:27pm
  • justgone

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    *Pokes Siggy, *I stopped and read it a few times I think its amazing.
    February 4th, 2010 at 06:03pm
  • peter quill.

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    "Make-up covers a multitude of sins."
    -Duma Key, Stephen King
    February 6th, 2010 at 03:56pm
  • Necromancer.

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    "I’m a crazy human female, you know I’ll do it."

    -First Drop of Crimson
    February 10th, 2010 at 04:55am
  • OneTruth

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    "The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I can’t do normal work as other people do. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it. I write because I want others, the whole world, to know what sort of life we lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey. I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else. I write because it is a habit, a passion. I write because I am afraid of being forgotten. I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings. I write to be alone. Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at everyone. I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf. I write because it is exciting to turn all life’s beauties and riches into words. I write not to tell a story but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but—as in a dream—can’t quite get to. I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy."

    -Orhan Pamuk
    MY.FEELINGS.EXACTLY. (Except for the Istambul thing, of course)
    February 11th, 2010 at 12:37am
  • Matt Smith

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    Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
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    Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.
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    I can't be punished any more.
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    I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me.
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    Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.


    Opening lines from Samuel Beckett's Endgame. I've had it on my profile for a while and I love it.
    February 13th, 2010 at 07:39pm
  • Haley's Cat

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    How do you make the fonts and things for gouts?
    March 2nd, 2010 at 04:32pm
  • Necromancer.

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    "It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul."

    -Acheron
    March 5th, 2010 at 01:32pm
  • josh ray person

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    "I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?"

    -Stephen King (The Stand)

    "Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
    Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun."

    -William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
    March 6th, 2010 at 05:12am
  • Teenage Dirtbag.

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    "Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.

    "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."


    -City of Bones, Cassandra Clare.
    March 6th, 2010 at 03:10pm
  • emily.

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    Astounded, Jalam acknowledged for the first time how these few milligrammes of a strand of a man were packed with courage and imagination. So that’s what a child was.
    — Toby and the Secrets of the Tree, Timothee de Fombelle.
    March 7th, 2010 at 12:40am
  • TheNight

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    My absolute favorite:

    “They find it quiet tragic. Especially the young ones, I can tell by the way they look at me, as if I have nothing, nothing at all. When the truth is I have everything I’ve ever wanted. The problem is, for a long time I wanted what I thought I was supposed to want.” –A Whole In The Universe.
    March 8th, 2010 at 07:39pm
  • carcinogenic.

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    "They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. I don’t know what them eyes was the windows to and I guess I’d as soon not know. But there is another view of the world out there and other eyes to see it and that’s where this is goin. It has done brought me to a place in my life I would not of thought I’d of come to. Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I don’t want to confront him. I know he’s real. I have seen his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I won’t do it again."

    -No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy In Love
    March 9th, 2010 at 09:33pm
  • Teen Distortion.

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    "Good-by - because I love you. He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand"

    The Awakening, Kate Chopin
    It stuck out when I first read it and it plays in my mind all the time.
    March 27th, 2010 at 11:25pm
  • brand_new

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    "Married people always think love is the answer"
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

    "If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
    George Orwell, 1984

    He likesay, grabs a haud ay us n hugs us. - Yir one ay the best, man. Remember that. That's no drink n drugs talkin, that's me talkin. It;s just thit ye git called aw the poofs under the sun if ye tell others guys how ye feel aboot them if yir no wrecked.... Ah slaps his back, n it's likesay ah want tae tell him the same, but it would sound, likesay, ah wis jist sayin it cause he sais it tae me first. Ah sais it anywey though.
    Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
    April 2nd, 2010 at 04:41pm
  • luxembourg.

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    "I always used to think that Heaven is a place for people who’ve spent their whole life being good, but it isn’t. God is too merciful and kind to make a decision like that. Heaven is simply a place for people who were genuinely unable to be happy on earth. They told me here that people who kill themselves return to live their life all over again, because the fact that they didn’t like it the first time doesn’t mean they won’t fit in the second time. But the ones who really don’t fit in the world wind up here. They each have their own way of getting to Heaven.

    There are pilots who got here by performing a loop at one precise point in the Bermuda Triangle. There are housewives who went through the back of their kitchen cabinets to get here, and mathematicians who found topological distortions in space and had to squeeze through them to get here. So if you’re really unhappy down there, and if all kinds of people are telling you that you’re suffering from severe perceptual disorders, look for your own way of getting here, and when you find it, could you please bring some cards, cause we’re getting pretty tired of the marbles."
    -Etgar Keret, Pipes

    "That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings."
    -Etgar Keret, A Hole In The Wall
    April 4th, 2010 at 09:39am
  • Ursula

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    Anything ever said by Oscar Wilde.

    Enough said :)
    April 5th, 2010 at 02:51am
  • peter quill.

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    I swear the Dark Tower series by Stephen King has like the best quotes ever In Love These are from The Gunslinger In Love

    The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
    -The Gunslinger

    Go then, there are other worlds than these.
    -The Gunslinger

    I don't like people, they fuck me up.
    -The Gunslinger

    “Let the word and the legend go before you. There are those who will carry both.” His eyes flicked over the gunslinger’s shoulder. “Fools, perchance. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark.” He smiled grotesquely. “Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter. Do you take my meaning, gunslinger?”
    -The Gunslinger
    April 5th, 2010 at 03:23am