Okay, I am starting this thread for two reasons: to be able to list some good quotes from books and to try to open up some people's minds.
Alright, here I want people to list quotes from books that they like and/or think are intelligent and breed thought. Try to not list things everybody has heard, unless you have a new take on the quote. Put things that you want to spread around, things that people should hear.
My first quote is from Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs:
"It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido . . ."
Dissect, list your own quote, have fun, and think!

"aim for the moon cuz even if you miss you'll have reached the stars!"



my friend wrote that one in my leavers book!!!

"It is a curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income fals below a certain level."
-George Orwell, "Down and Out in Paris and London"


Everyone who has not read this book needs to go out and do so. It is exceptional.

My brother has that book, I believe (I know he used to, but I'm not sure he still has it). I should check it out. Hmm, either that or Junky by Burroughs.
Wow, someone brought my thread back! Yay!
People love to shower pity onto the poor. Don't do that. Instead, offer help as someone on their same level. We are all human beings, not income levels.
My quote is right below me, in my sig.
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" - Carlo Marx
I love the book it is from, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and I love Carlo Marx. Ginsberg, gotta love him.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth, Falling From Fire

a few of my fave shakespeare quotes!:


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."

--From As You Like It (II, vii, 139-143)

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

--From Hamlet (III, iii, 100-103)

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."

--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

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"All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold."

-- From The Merchant of Venice (II, vii)

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"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

--From A Midsummer Night's Dream (III, ii, 115)


and finally from henry V:

"Men of few words are the best men" . - (Act III, Scene II).


so i will leave it there for now!!!

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.

it was something like that, in "The Salmon of Doubt" i think by Douglas Adams, he's got lots of great mind expanding thoughts. the crazy ships and stuff in the hitchhiker's ultimate guide to the galaxy didn't make sense to me when i was 15 and read it the first time but now that i'm older and more educated, they actually are sorta like, "oh yeah i can see that". very neat. And if you have never read "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy", you MUST read it because there's a part where a fish is used to prove god's existence, and i won't ruin it from there cuz it's really funny and thought provoking, it goes a different direction though.

P.S. great topic shaggyjebus

happiness is simply good helth and a bad memory.

and "i am become death, the destoyer of worlds"

"before ya give someone a piece of your mind make sure ya can get by with whats left."


i dunno who said it but i like it lol

Life is not a path heading toward the grave in a pretty well preserved body, no, its skidding up thuroughly worn and totally used up loudly proclaiming "Woha! what a ride!"

Hehe i like that one lol

yeah i like that one too, i can use it to justify oh so many of my actions...haha

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content. But the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true." -Edgar Allen Poe

"If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding." - ADG

I think ADG refers to Arlo Guthrie, but I'm not sure.

"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!"
-The Hobbit

In the famous words of Dr. Phil McGraw, "You can't change what you won't acknowledge."