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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #25 on: October 31, 2006, 11:24:25 AM »
this kinda expresses societies indifference...which usually dickens uses angry satire to profuse..

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.



Where is this from Toxy?

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2006, 01:31:01 PM »
What terrifying powers we possess. but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not the cruelty but the arrogance, the sheer hubris, of those who carry only violence and fear into the animal world, as if it needed any more of either.  Their lives entail enough frights and tribulations with the modern fire-makers, now armed with perfected, inescapable weapons, traipsing along for more fun and thrills at their expense, even as so many of them die away.  It is our fellow creatures' lot in the universe, the place assigned them in creation, to be completely at our mercy, the fiercest wolf or tiger defenseless against the most cowardly man.  And to me it has always seemed not only ungenerous and shabby but a kind of supreme snobbery to deal cavalierly with them, as if their little share of the earth's happiness and grief were inconsequential, meaningless beneath a man's attention, trumped by any and all designs he might have on them, however base, irrational, or wicked.

Matthew Scully -  Dominion, the Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy,

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2006, 10:59:32 AM »
i like that....kinda sorta like
 ...Oscar Wilde..

let's quote him.  & Walt Whitman and Woody Allen (see there, I got all generous and gave you all men, from both the white cultures that count (sorry Australia and Canada)



...can't find my Oscar Wilde book.  But today i got the complete works of john donne in hardcover (for free, in a church.  it hurt my back bringing all these books home for like 2-3 miles, but i reckon it was worth it.

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2006, 11:37:26 AM »
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I think that God in creating Man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde - quotations.

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2006, 12:14:11 PM »
How do you google your favourite?  I'm gonna try.  I'm going to have to as all my books are packed up in boxes.


I think the best quote about oscar wilde was that he said everything first?

 That was definitely his best line?

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2006, 12:19:53 PM »
Where is this from Toxy?

toxic, do not read wuthering heights right through till the end.  save a chapter or two.  it gets better.

then you can read it twice when you get older?
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #31 on: November 04, 2006, 07:44:50 AM »
Where is this from Toxy?

Nicholas Nickleby
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #32 on: November 04, 2006, 07:45:31 AM »
toxic, do not read wuthering heights right through till the end.  save a chapter or two.  it gets better.

then you can read it twice when you get older?
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i've read the book about 50ish times...and never past when cathy dies...
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #33 on: November 04, 2006, 07:48:50 AM »
If you have given up your heart for the Tower, Roland, you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast. To be a beast is perhaps bearable, although the man who has become one will surely pay hell's own price in the end, but what if you should gain your object? What if you should, heartless, actually storm the Dark Tower and win it? If there is naught but darkness in your heart, what could you do except degenerate from beast to monster? To gain one's object as a beast would only be bitterly comic, like giving a magnifying glass to an elephaunt. But to gain one's object as a monster...

To pay hell is one thing. But do you want to own it?

He thought of Susan, and of the girl who had once waited for him at the window, thought of the tears he had shed over Cuthbert's lifeless corpse. Oh, then he had loved. Yes. Then.

I do want to love! he cried, but although Eddie was also crying a little now with the woman in the wheelchair, the gunslinger's eyes remained as dry as the desert he had crossed to reach this sunless sea.





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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #35 on: November 15, 2006, 05:58:53 PM »
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #36 on: November 15, 2006, 08:01:02 PM »
Toxic, you've hurt my feelings.  :(  I make a tribute to the classical Grecian sophistication and erudition that you (particularly) and DIVISION share, and you respond so cruelly.  Why?  I just wanted to show how much I appreciate a cool cat like you. 

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #37 on: November 15, 2006, 08:30:24 PM »
"At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows dripped down over my eyelids all at once and covered them with a warm, thick film. My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. All I could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead and, indistinctly, the dazzling spear flying up from the knife in front of me. The scorching blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eyes. That’s when everything began to reel. The sea carried up a thick, fiery breath. It seemed to me as if the sky split open from one end to the other to rain down fire. My whole being tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver. The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I’d been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."   
- Albert Camus  The Stranger


Now THAT was something.



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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #38 on: November 15, 2006, 09:45:48 PM »
Toxic, you've hurt my feelings.  :(  I make a tribute to the classical Grecian sophistication and erudition that you (particularly) and DIVISION share, and you respond so cruelly.  Why?  I just wanted to show how much I appreciate a cool cat like you. 

if ya wana suck my cock bro...just ask..i'll just do a whole buncha coke and pretend you're a chick.. :-\
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2006, 10:22:14 AM »
Is there a difference between a girls mouth and a guys mouth ?

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #40 on: November 16, 2006, 12:14:52 PM »
Is there a difference between a girls mouth and a guys mouth ?

maybe al will offer and i'll find out...
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #41 on: November 16, 2006, 02:36:43 PM »
Is there a difference between a girls mouth and a guys mouth ?

I wouldn't think it's the mouth itself that matters as much as the intentions behind the movement and the face attached.

I'm the type of guy who demands eye contact from a woman when she's giving head.

The visual stimulation is key, so obviously that "mouth" theory is out the window.




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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #42 on: November 17, 2006, 06:40:18 AM »
So if a guy made eye contact with you while he greased your weasel that would be cool ?

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #43 on: November 17, 2006, 06:50:24 AM »
So if a guy made eye contact with you while he greased your weasel that would be cool ?

lol

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #44 on: November 17, 2006, 09:53:56 AM »
So if a guy made eye contact with you while he greased your weasel that would be cool ?

i'd sooo duchoven ya  >:(
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #45 on: November 17, 2006, 09:57:05 AM »
I hope that wouldnt make you break eye contact with Division :D

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #46 on: November 17, 2006, 09:59:49 AM »
I hope that wouldnt make you break eye contact with Division :D


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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #47 on: November 17, 2006, 10:03:47 AM »
Effectively, I have 3 :D

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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #48 on: November 17, 2006, 10:19:25 AM »
Effectively, I have 3 :D

you have a 3???

i'm a foriegner .....me no habla k...

i'm gonna go make piggys in a blankey while ya elaborate k :)
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Re: Most moving passages from books.
« Reply #49 on: November 17, 2006, 10:20:45 AM »
ooooo..i just got that....


..and it gavmie a semi! :)



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