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2013-06-24 08:55 3879611 Anonymous (images (6).jpg 299x169 6kB)
Let's play a little game /lit/. Guess where the quote comes from! Don't be little cunts, google is not allowed, let's make it fun. I'll start with something easy hmmmm: “Would you be in anyway offended if I said you seem to me to be the visible personification of absolute perfection?”

11 min later 3879639 Anonymous
>>3879611 Irish Blood, English Heart - Morrissey

11 min later 3879641 Anonymous
American Psycho? Warning: I have never read nor viewed American Psycho.

15 min later 3879656 Anonymous
>>3879611 God how I wish I was Wilde - Morrissey

26 min later 3879690 Anonymous
>>3879656 >Wilde Yeaaah it's from The Importance of Being Earnest yay. 'kay have an easier one. >In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. >"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

27 min later 3879692 Anonymous
I think that quote is pretty Wildey OP, because it makes me cringe and think about Stephen Fry. Here is my quote: >How we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

30 min later 3879696 Anonymous
>>3879692 Stephen Fry is just a cheap, talentless rip-off. I fucking hate him. I really feel sorry for you because you associate him with Wilde, that would ruin Wilde's genius for me. You poor thing.

32 min later 3879700 Anonymous
>>3879690 >That Grand Casby

35 min later 3879707 Anonymous
>>3879700 Yeah ok that was fucking easy yay. >Arma virumque cano SOMEONE ELSE GIVE MORE QUOTES COME ON GUISE THIS COULD BE A POTENTIALLY FUN GAME

36 min later 3879711 Anonymous
Sounds fun, I'll post an easy one too. >He fell to earth in the dust like a smooth black polar whose branchy top falls in the low grassland of a mighty marsh to the gleaming axe of some chariot-maker, who leaves it to dry by the banks of a river that he may bend him a rim for a beautiful chariot.

37 min later 3879718 Anonymous
"It walked in the woods."

39 min later 3879727 Anonymous
>>3879718 Stephen King's "It"

44 min later 3879741 Anonymous
>"Greedily she engorged without restraint, >And knew not eating death.''

44 min later 3879742 Anonymous
>>3879727 well, you're half right.

47 min later 3879747 Anonymous
If someone gets this it'll make my day. ''ee um fah um so foo swee too eem oo—'' I swear no troll.

50 min later 3879752 Anonymous
QUOTE > MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

1 hours later 3879772 Anonymous
>>3879747 Chinua Achebe or that guy that wrote trainspotting

1 hours later 3879776 Anonymous
>>3879772 Nice try, but nope. It's not weird Scottish slang or random drunken mumbling or anything like that. It's actually something really beautiful. It only happens once in the book, I mean this is not a thing the author does often.

1 hours later 3879779 Anonymous
Here's a favorite. >"Say 'Nevermore'" >"Fuck you."

1 hours later 3879796 Anonymous
>>3879611 Try this NO ONE WILL GET IT "So. You’ve finally been inside me. I feel like I should be offering you a cigarette."

1 hours later 3879814 Anonymous
>>3879752 Sounds like something Donald Barthelme would write.

1 hours later 3879815 Anonymous
>>3879779 American Gods Neil Gaiman

1 hours later 3879826 Anonymous
>>3879796 Sounds like Dresden Files.

1 hours later 3879870 Anonymous
Is nonfiction allowed? Albert Einstein “This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!”

1 hours later 3879872 Anonymous
>>3879870 Well fuck I forgot to take out his name. Im just gonna leave the thread in shame now.

1 hours later 3879877 Anonymous
'“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”

2 hours later 3879918 Anonymous
>>3879877 infinite jest why did you choose such an obvious quote

2 hours later 3879972 Anonymous
—Money?

2 hours later 3879982 Anonymous
Hard Mode. Even if you google it it won't do you no good. "Kolo?"

2 hours later 3879990 Anonymous
>>3879982 A single word is not a quote.

2 hours later 3879999 Anonymous
>>3879990 Its repeated like CRAZY during the book... so i think it can count in this instant.

2 hours later 3880001 Anonymous
>>3879990 Okay, I'll elaborate: —Money...? in a voice that rustled. —Paper, yes.

2 hours later 3880020 Anonymous
“Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.” Favorite book. Easy mode.

2 hours later 3880035 Anonymous
>>3879747 My left foot?

2 hours later 3880038 Anonymous
>>3880020 Bradbury, but I can't remember the title of the story.

2 hours later 3880049 Anonymous
>>3880038 Wrong.

2 hours later 3880054 Anonymous
>>3880020 Let the right one in.

2 hours later 3880056 Anonymous
>>3880035 Nope. I'm sure a lot of you have read this book.

2 hours later 3880063 Anonymous
>>3880054 Bueno.

2 hours later 3880069 Anonymous
>>3879982 Elantris

2 hours later 3880086 Anonymous
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

2 hours later 3880088 Anonymous
>>3880086 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

2 hours later 3880097 Anonymous
"Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up."

2 hours later 3880107 Anonymous
>>3880097 I know it's Terry Pratchett. I believe it's Thief of Time about the clockmaker.

2 hours later 3880108 Anonymous
hard mode "The illustrations were woodcuts, executed with that crude haste to see the finished product that marks the amateur. True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals."

2 hours later 3880111 Anonymous
>>3880107 >>3880088 correctimundo

2 hours later 3880114 Anonymous
"Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold."

3 hours later 3880194 Anonymous
>The moral sense in mortals is the duty >We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

3 hours later 3880206 Anonymous
Easymode: "I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair."

3 hours later 3880221 Anonymous
>>3880206 Infinite Jest

8 hours later 3881094 Anonymous
>>3880069 >>3879826 Correct

9 hours later 3881101 Anonymous
'Yes, perhaps you're right. That was the happiest time we ever had'

9 hours later 3881126 Anonymous
"The first star hangs between his feet."

25 hours later 3882853 Anonymous
"I am the Queen of Air and Darkness." I know its easy. Just don't want the thread to die.

25 hours later 3882912 Anonymous email
"We should think of the people below us as fellow passengers to the grave, not a differwnt race of creatures bound on other journeys" I'm doing this from memory so it may not be perfect.

25 hours later 3882939 Anonymous
"Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others."

29 hours later 3883341 Anonymous
"she started complaining of pains, said she could not sit, said I had torn something inside her" ALL MY BONERS

29 hours later 3883356 Anonymous
"I'll exquisite day you, if you don't get off that bag."

29 hours later 3883460 Anonymous
>>3883341 >>3880108 Please. Lo.

30 hours later 3883481 Anonymous
"In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense. Sometimes he would pause, remove a volume from the shelves, and hold it for a moment in his large hands, which tingled at the still unfamiliar feel of spine and board and unresisting page. Then he would leaf through the book, reading a paragraph here and there, his stiff fingers careful as they turned the pages, as if in their clumsiness they might tear and destroy what they took such pains to uncover." I've seen this book mentioned more and more frequently on /lit/ as of late.

30 hours later 3883519 Anonymous
>>3883341 Can you guys please suggest some books similar to this? The girls cries how its hurts after they had sex? I have an iron hard erection just thinking of how hard you would have to beat up a vagina to tear something.

30 hours later 3883524 Anonymous
>>3883519 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. There's some crazy sex stuff EXACTLY like what you're talking about involving a party of Americans and some American Indians. You'll love it.

43 hours later 3884492 Anonymous
>>3882853 Mab, Queen of Air and Darkness.... another Dresden Files book... IS that all you people read here? Fantasy?

43 hours later 3884506 Anonymous
>>3884492 I'm pretty sure that's from the Once and Future King, mate.

48 hours later 3885183 Anonymous
>>3884506 Nope its Dresden Files Can't recall which book seeing as i read all 14 one after the other so the stories are mixed up. But i KNOW its from there, from what i remember she said it when someone questioned her authority or something of the like. >>3883460 >>3883341 >>3880108 >being this open about reading pedophilia >shiiggy diggy wiggy

48 hours later 3885219 Anonymous
>>3884506 Its the title of one of the books inside The Once and Future King, but there are no lines that hammy in the book itself.

49 hours later 3885264 Anonymous
>>3884492 people barely discuss fantasy of any kind here thanks to people like you. Jesus get over yourself

49 hours later 3885294 Anonymous
>>3884492 In a world of video games, television and movies. You as a reader should be happy someone else is picking up a book to read be it fantasy or classical, the MAIN point is that they are reading. With your mentality i think i see why people think that you can't read for enjoyment because you plaster them with dry books like Gravity Rainbow and DFW. If the book gets the person interested in reading you should feel joy inside, by reading they are improving their vocabulary hence less stupid shit in social media. Who knows they might pick up some "good" morals from a book they read and stupid being such an entitled elitist pig.

49 hours later 3885319 Anonymous
>>3879972 JR by William Gaddis tell me im smart now

52 hours later 3885667 Anonymous
>>3885183 >reading Lolita as pornography Don't.

52 hours later 3885770 Anonymous
>>3885667 >not getting a weird boner while reading Lolita >not feeling bad about it afterwards >not reading the book a second but only focusing on the parts where sex was implied or described Do.

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