Quotes
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."
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Úrsula, on the other hand, held a bad memory of that visit, for she had entered the room just as Melquíades had carelessly broken a flask of bichloride of mercury.
"It's the smell of the devil," she said.
"Not at all," Melquíades corrected her. "It has been proven that the devil has sulphuric properties and this is just a little corrosive sublimate."
Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Úrsula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray.
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"José Arcadio felt himself lifted up into the air toward a state of seraphic inspiration, where his heart burst forth with an outpouring of tender obscenities that entered the girl through her ears and came out of her mouth translated into her language."
* * *
Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending to all of them that they leave Macondo, that they forget everything he had taught them about the world and the human heart, that they sh*t on Horace, and that wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.
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"It had never occured to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...."
García Márquez, 100 Years of Solitude
"Such a far away look, as if she's always lived in a garden."
My Fair Lady
"You always love the most unsuitable people."
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
"They say he was born in a barn
And raised in a poker game."
The New Red Green Show
"Shame, shame, to have lived scenes from a woman's magazine."
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"He wish she'd get out of his life again. He wished she were in black and white, a thousandth of an inch thick on a magazine page. He wished he could turn the page and read about baseball or foreign affairs."
Kurt Vonnegut, from Welcome to the Monkey House
"In the majority of instances human beings, even the evil-doers among them, are far more naïve and straightforward than we suppose. And that includes ourselves."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Virtue needs some cheaper thrills."
Bill Watterson's The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book
"Whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?"
Paul Gaugin
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"Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! . . . .
Say, who the heck is Paul Gaugin anyway?"
Calvin's reply to Gaugin's question
"With as many quotes as I can muster
in order to be other than good."
Eve in a poetic plan file
A snippet of dialogue from the movie "Outrageous Fortune":
George Carlin: "Ouch! My head hurts!"
Bette Midler: "Are you okay?"
George Carlin: "No! I'm almost sober!"
"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
Thomas Dryden
"Life is tension."
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"You are a myth."
My door collage
Issue 11:
Introduction
Dance by the Light of the Moon
My Lips Are Shaking
Still Haunts Me
Quotes
Here's the Scene
Whispered Conversation
Someday You Will Find Me
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