| "It’s like my luck" He said
"to spend my last hours on earth with an ass." (Enoch Soames
to Beerbohm) |
Enoch Soames By Max Beerbohm |
| "Odd and uncanny it seemed to me that he
Soames, in the flesh, in the waterproof cape, was at this moment living
in the last decade of the next century, pouring over books not yet
written, and seeing and seen by men not yet born" |
Enoch Soames By Max Beerbohm |
|
"This
isn't a war between good and evil. The democratic nations aren't purely
good. We are morally ambiguous and complex, badly shaven but
interesting, like a Denholm Elliot or James Mason character. But it is a
war between those who aspire to be good and those who would drag the
world back into unending barbarism." |
Stiffen
the Sinews and Summon the Blood
By Michael Kelly
www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/war.htm |
|
" ‘And if you want me the whole night’ she read the answer
in his eyes and mentally thumbed a price chart—‘then you must pay me
ten francs’". |
Moulin Rouge
By Pierre La Mure |
| "In reading this faithful account of my
adventures, one may notice more than once how little it costs me, at the
end of my life, to acknowledge the mediocrity of the role I have played
in this world" |
Amorous Initiation By O.V. de L. Milosz
Translated by Belle N. Burke
|
|
" ‘Ten francs!’ She spat the words at him. "Shows how
much you know about dresses! What d’you know about dresses? In a dress
it’s the material that counts. Feel that material.’ She pressed
herself against him. ‘Feel it! See if you can get it for ten francs!’" |
Moulin Rouge
By Pierre La Mure |
| "I did my best; I had read and reread a
book with the unintentionally biblical title KnowYourOwn Daughter…" |
Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov |
|
"I had regarded Ararat as a work on its own; but on the
very last page, when the storyteller Rozanov goes to his study at
midnight to work, it seemed to open out; and seemed also to invite me,
the author, into the fiction." |
Memories and Hallucinations
A Memoir By D.M. Thomas
|
|
"The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was correct when he
characterized life in our times as being ‘condemned to freedom’." |
Why Be Good?
Byron L Sherwin, PhD. |
|
"But this time Andrew was drawn to a book with only one problem
and no solution. The book was The last problem by Eric Temple
Bell." |
Fermat’s Enigma
By Simon Singh |
|
" ‘It looked so simple, and yet all the great mathematicians
in history couldn’t solve it. Here was a problem that I, a ten year old,
could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it
go. I had to solve it.’ Andrew Wiles." |
Fermat’s Enigma
By Simon Singh |
| "If
Kevin Kilroy had one ambition in the world, it was to work for the Happy
House Dishwasher Service Corporation. They seemed like his kind of
people: lazy, incompetent fuck-ups who didn't care who knew it." |
Kilroy
Was Here
By Michael Kelly
http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/ch1.htm |
|
"A copy of the Australian Vogue was smuggled to Valida by
one of the more westernized nurses. Valida kept it hidden beneath his
mattress, as the fundamentalists did not approve of the pictures." |
Expats
By Christopher Dickey |
|
"Perhaps the world was a wound, and now the cold lay over it,
coagulating its waters like blood under air, forming a crust." |
In The Deep Midwinter
By Robert Clark |
|
"But he never knew that it really was his own bunny, come back
to look at the child who had first helped him to be real." |
Velveteen Rabbit
By Margery Williams |
|
"If you have a simple question and need an answer fast…." |
Getting started with Microsoft Frontpage 2000 By Microsoft corp. |
|
"I was a mean official. I was rude, and found pleasure in it.
After all, I took no bribes, and so I had to recompense myself at least
by this." |
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| "When the affair was all settled he
would ask his wife and intimate friends a riddle: ‘what is the
difference between me and a chemist?’ Answer: ‘A chemist makes
solutions which do not make anyone happy, but I made a dissolution
and made three people happy’…" |
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy |
| "Now and then he thought of the future
with panic; he had been a fool to spend so much money on Mildred; but he
knew that if it were to come again he would act the same way." |
Of Human Bondage By Somerset Maugham |
| " ‘You’ve been shot.’ I heard
someone say it. All I could remember was four tomatoes—three of them
motionless and one still rolling…" |
The Insult
By Rupert Thomson |
| "The epidemic was in El Ga’a and she
had been exposed to it…But Port could not have been suffering from
meningitis: he had been cold since Ain Korfa…" (Webmaster’s
Note: It is dawning on her that her husband doesn’t have meningitis.
But she doesn’t yet realize that he has contracted syphilis from a
prostitute.) |
The Sheltering Sky
By Paul Bowles |
| “But as with most slums its cheapness attracted
respectable men to live and work in Lambeth too and by all accounts
George Merrett was one of them” |
The Professor and the Madman By Winchester |
| “They said it meant Abel; so strong was Hester
Pryne, with a woman’s strength.” |
The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel
Hawthorne
|
|
“One unforgettable morning, standing to the sled
just before dawn, it became impossible to discern if it was truly
morning or afternoon—it had all blended in exhaustion, and confusion
dominated until only a look at the compass showed the sun was in the
East and proved it was morning.”
(It's about Alaska dog-sled racing)
|
Winterdance
By Gary Paulsen |
| “For those who doubt it—this is a love
story.” |
Damage
By Josephine Hart |
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