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List added by tartan_skirt on 28 August 2008 05:31
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 41  6.7 "...I shambled after as I've beeing doing after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, made to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" p. 11
"But no matter, the road is life." p. 199 "You don't die enough to cry." p. 201 "Something would come of it yet. There's always a little more, a little further - it never ends." p. 227 tartan_skirt's rating:
 
24 8.9 "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." p. 30
"Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." p. 84 "You're only a rebel from the waist downwards." p. 163 "Confession is not betrayal. What you say doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal." p. 173 tartan_skirt's rating:
 
27 8.3 "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." p. 90
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"Maggie was incessantly tossing her head to keep the dark heavy locks out of her gleaming black eyes-an action which gave her very much the air of a small pony." p. 9
"When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window." p. 18 "We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side, and swallowing much grief on the other." p. 33 "...a ripe scholar doubtless, when first appointed; but all ripeness beneath the sun has a further stage less esteemed in the market." p. 156 "War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for a want of a "public"." p.163 tartan_skirt's rating:
"Let the storm wash the plates." p. 40 Final line of Strawberries, a poem by Edwin Morgan.
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Polonius: Do you know me, my lord?
Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. p. 121 Act II, scene ii, lines 187-8 Hamlet: To be, or not to be - that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, OR to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep - No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a sonsummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love. the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a wearly life, But that the dread of something after daeth - The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns - puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er eith the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. - Soft you now! The fair Ophelia. - Nymph, in the orisons Be all my sins rememb'red. p. 169-71 Act III, scene i, lines 63-97 tartan_skirt's rating:
 
107 8.6 "Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." Chapter 10
"There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that provides the difficulties." 
"...psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind." p. 185
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15 8 "Women have the power of creation in them; men have to fantasise about it, create Creation itself, just to compensate; ovary envy." p. 235
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87 8.6 "Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men." p. 87
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"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and death. In between we do what we can to forget." p. 84
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." p. 12 tartan_skirt's rating:
1 9 "Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but theseoppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it." p. 69
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"...the experience of dialogue is one of the finest things that university education in the humanities has to offer. It can give feelings of wholeness, concentration, and deep connection with another person. The concept of dialogue can also be a paradigm for other activities; it is not so much an idea as an experience that can be charged with emotion and the feeling of discovery." p. 49
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"...the basic fact that 'reality' is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average 'reality' perceived by the communal eye." p. 106
"Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences." p. 208 "My notes and self are petering out." p. 235 tartan_skirt's rating:
27 8.5 "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." p. 1
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1 8 "I remembered then, as I approached Seventh Street, which seemed oddly, anachronistically populated, an article I had read once in a medical journal, Morbidity and Mortality, about cell suicide. Apparently, every cell in the human body is innately programmed to destroy itself unless it receives signals to stay alive from neighbouring cells, through a process known as outside-in signal transduction. If a cell is invaded by a virus, the cell kills itself, preventing the virus from spreading. The hands of the human embryo begin as webbed, spadelike flippers until cell death sculpts individual fingers. If an injured cell kills itself, its damaged contents do not spill out and inflame neighbouring tissue. When cancer cells proliferate unchecked, as white corpuscles do in leukemia, they kill their hosts. Suicide, then, was an intelligent, inevitable, honourable cellular act, prevented only when a cell's neighbouring partner cells intercept and tell the cell not to do it. Scientists had separated individual cells from their neighbours, supplying each cell with all the nutrients it needed for survival. Each cell in isolation killed itself within a day or two. In contrast, if the cell's neighbours were added to the dish, the cells survived. Isolated from its life enhancing partner cells, a solitary cell is programmed to a default suicide setting and will dispatch itself quickly if it ends up somewhere it isn't supposed to be, like a petri dish or a rough neighbourhood." p. 243
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17 8.4 "Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and weather; and about direction too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys." p. 56
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