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Mahabarata
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My favourite quotation, from Xenocide page 470.
Please tell me yours.

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Goody Scrivener
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A long time ago when the earth was green
And there were more kinds of animals than you'd ever seen
There were cats n rats n elephants, but sure as you're born
The loveliest of all was the Unicorn

-- Shel Silverstein

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Glaphyra the Righteous
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Welcome to Hatrack. [Smile]

(No current favorite quotes, but I like yours and Goody's.)

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amira tharani
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"Merely to live, merely to exist, what sense is there to it? A fly also lives."
- Chaim Potok, The Chosen

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ketchupqueen
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
-Abraham Lincoln

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HesterGray
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I wasn't sure if we were supposed to put our favorite quote, or our favorite quote from Xenocide, or our favorite quote from Xenocide page 470. [Smile]

I like this one.

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death. But because he is the reason I believe in God."

- so begins A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

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skillery
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Valerie:

quote:
I'm not a witch; I'm your wife!

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sndrake
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Here are two personal favorites:

"A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises."
-- Saul Alinsky

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams

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Ramdac99
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"when you drive in reverse, things come from behind!"

-Snatch

[ April 14, 2005, 04:09 PM: Message edited by: Ramdac99 ]

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Jay
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"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."

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narrativium
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quote:
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
-Abraham Lincoln

A rebuttal:

"Walk? That wasn't part of the deal!"
-Homer Simpson

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SteveRogers
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My favorite quote:

"Today must be Thursday," Arthur said to himself sinking lower over his beer, " I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

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Ramdac99
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dontbother@firewall.set [Cool]

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Miro
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My faves.

A choice few:
"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."
-Tolkien

"Check your premises."
-Ayn Rand

"Me no know art, but me know what me like."
-Cookie Monster

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starlooker
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"Thursday? It can't be Thursday. It simply can't. It's too gruesome." Holly Golightly

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," replied the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are real, you don't mind being hurt."

"I don't want to dance!" said the Rabbit. "I'd rather sit still!" But all the while, he was longing to dance.

More later.

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Susie Derkins
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Il faut bien que je supporte deux ou trois chenilles si je veux connaître les papillons.
-Le Petit Prince

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Eaquae Legit
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And so it is men, rejoicing in reason, powerful in speech, possessed of an immortal soul but of mortal limbs; of fickle and fearful mind, of sluggish and vulnerable body, of diverse characters and similar errors, of unrelenting audacity, of unremitting hope, of vain labour and fragile fortune; individually mortal, collectively everlasting as a race, successively mutable through the provision of offspring, speedy in lifespan, slow in wisdom, swift to die, discontent to live -- it is men who inhabit the earth.

--Apuleius, de deo socratis

I love that quote so much, I have no idea why.

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Astaril
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I had a monumental idea, but I didn't like it.
- Samuel Goldwyn

(That's probably not actually my favourite, but it's a good one.)

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Mahabarata
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When winter first begins to bite
and stones crack in the frosty night
when pools are black and trees are bare
´tis evil in the Wild to fare

Tolkien, "Fellowship of the Ring"

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Beanny
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"Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly
fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober."

No need to elaborate.

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