Your favorite quote from a book?

pr_capone

Mine is

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D.."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Can anyone name the book???

Kansas District Overbeer

Valis

Hitch Hikers Guide..?

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

LittleToe

"Restaurant at the End of the Universe"?

My favourite may well be:
"Thou" - from James Clavell's "Shogun".
One word, yet so much depth of meaning.

pr_capone

Good guess Valis mang but you failed to post your favorite quote from any book you enjoy!

Kansas District Overbeer

dustyb

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life." i forgot what book that was from, but the first part is what the WTS does =D

Wow, this is one thread I'll contribute a lot to (PR you've seen our library so you know what I'm talking about!). So many books, where to start? Well here's the first quote that popped into my little pea brain:

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

John Steinbeck
East of Eden

pr_capone

Big Tex and Cruzin has more books than most public libraries or Barnes and Nobles could ever hope to stock! lol I was extremely impressed when I saw his entire library. And I have the sneeking suspicion that he has several other books tucked away in other places of his home that I didnt get to see too.

Kansas District Overbeer

ApagaLaLuz

What really knocks me out is a book, when you're all done reading it, you wished the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

People never notice anything

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God

I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoyed the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down. I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples. If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor bastard

Big Tex....... I love the Movie. It's simply wonderful

asleif_dufansdottir

I read this book for the first time when I was a kid...maybe 10 years old, and I knew this was true of me then, and it's still true now.

"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. In other words, I don't improve; in further words, once a bum, always a bum."
--John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley (1962)

talesin

"It was the best of times and the worst of times ..."

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

talesin

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