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Discussion: Your Favorite Book and Movie Quotes
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Your Favorite Book and Movie Quotes
Hi guys and Girls
I just wondered if any of you would like to trade and share your favorite movie and book quotes.
I'll start with some of mine from Colleen McCullough "The Thorn Birds" It was a (edit) bookthat was made into a television 3 part series about 20 some years ago.
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“There is a legend about a bird which sings only once in it's life, more beautifully than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves it's nest, it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, it impales it's breast on the longest, sharpest thorn. But as it is dying, it rises above it's own agony to outsing the Lark and the Nightingale. The Thornbird pays it's life for that one song, and the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles, as it's best is brought only at the cost of great pain; Driven to the thorn with no knowledge of the dying to come. But when we press the thorn to our breast, we know, we understand.... and still, we do it." ~ Colleen McCullough”*
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“Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.”
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“There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. ”
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“The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.”
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“You still think love can save us. It’s more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With hate, you just keep hitting. You hit until they stop hitting back. With love… They never stop.”*
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anyone else want to share some of their favorites?
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(while looking at a sandwich) "I get pimples just looking at it."
(Courtney from Jawbreaker)
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(while looking at a sandwich) "I get pimples just looking at it."
(Courtney from Jawbreaker)
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That sounds like me but ive never seen the movie. Ill have to check it out
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Originally posted by Atonement
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
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Originally posted by Atonement
“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
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Ian McEwan has such a way with words.
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Gone Girl:
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"I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing mattered, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel real again.
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Cloud Atlas:
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude:
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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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A Clash of Kings:
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"I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid."
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The Deathly Hallows:
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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
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Atonement:
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It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
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Animal Farm:
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Ian McEwan has such a way with words.
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What kind of psychic teas?
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BLACK SWAN
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"I think anybody who fall in love is a freak. It's a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity"
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Silence Of The Lambs
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It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
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You're a virgin who can't drive- Clueless
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Originally posted by from George Orwell's 1984
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength |
I am realizing the accuracies of these statements as I grow older. 
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