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2006-12-23 12:40:17 · 10 answers · asked by KAMMIESUE 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"To die would be an awfully big adventure."
-Peter Pan
2006-12-27 07:20:40 · answer #1 · answered by xosportyliciouschica4930x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Antes de que conociera mujer alguna, me lancé la vida al azar...¡Y me la ganó la violencia!
« Before I had ever had knowledge of any woman, I thrust my life at fate, and it was conquered by violence!»
José Eustacio Rivera, La vorágine, «The Vortex».
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Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa se acordó de aquella tarde lejana, cuando su padre le llevó a conocer el hielo.
«Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.»
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Cien años de soledad , «One Hundred Years of Solitude.»
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Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four shots ripped into my groin and I was off on the wildest day of my life!
Max Schulman, Barefoot Boy with Cheek.
I include the Spanish, because it has a magnificent cadence to it.
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2006-12-23 20:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by Richard E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I love and admire you." -- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.-- Pride and Prejudice
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" -- Pride and Prejudice
"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment-as well as the prison." -- Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
2006-12-24 01:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by Miss_Eliza_Bennet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies." - Tom Marvolo Riddle aka Lord Voldermort from Harry Potter and thw Half Blood Prince
2006-12-24 04:05:50 · answer #4 · answered by theallknowingguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my favorite quotes [from James Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (unabridged)] is:
"You can never be wise unless you love reading."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English poet, essayist, dramatist and pioneering lexicographer
2006-12-24 02:18:46 · answer #5 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."- John Galt from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".
2006-12-24 00:36:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why does it have to be follow the spiders? why couldn't it have been follow the butterflies?
Ron Weasley
Harry Potter and the Chamber or Secrets
2006-12-23 20:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by tydygurl10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Frankly Scarlet, I don't give a damn."
-Gone With the Wind
2006-12-23 20:46:54 · answer #8 · answered by GoDetroitTigers! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"You teach best what you most need to learn" ~ From Illusions by Richard Bach
2006-12-23 20:47:05 · answer #9 · answered by flyingrosetb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"They float.....they ALL float.."
-Stephen King's IT, by Pennywise the Clown
"If you build it, he will come,"
-W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe,
2006-12-23 21:01:58 · answer #10 · answered by Lucifer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋