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    That's it! Favorite book quotes! If you have one, please share!

    Mine are:

    “Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

    “But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.”
    ― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

    "In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again." — Lewis Carroll

    It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies but just as much to stand up to your friends. - Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter And the Philosopher's Stone

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    "Stand and be true"
    and

    Long days and pleasant nights
    - The Dark Tower Series (Stephen King)

    "If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness"
    - Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

    "Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos . . . but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange county fair/Polish carnival madness is going on up in this space."
    - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson)

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    “Only those who take leisurely what the people of the world are busy about can be busy about what the people of the world take leisurely.”

    Chang Ch'ao, from Dr Lin Yutang's "The Importance of Living"
    Cheers, David



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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    About half the text from Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.

    Loads of lines from Shakespeare too, but especially Hamlet.
    "I am but mad North by North-West, when the wind is Southerly. I know a hawk from a handsaw".

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    Just off the top of my head/lightweight, so to speak - "I believe that one defines oneself by re-invention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone." Henry Rollins, Do I Come Here Often?


    Beyond that, be it literary or less highbrow, not quotes so much, as most 'favourites' are more likely to be chunks/chapters/works rather than lines (also mind instantly goes a blank when asked stuff like this - on any subject).

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    i know its a steve jobs quote but i like the one that is

    "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
    "

    in the walter isacsons book

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
    Ann Rule

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    One of my favourites is probably familiar to anyone who's ordered a book from Wordery before, and comes from Haruki Murakami's, Norwegian Wood. "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    "...it worried even those, that knew him just about enough to hate him." R. Markovic, "Lajkovac Railroad"

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    Re: Favourite book quotes!!

    It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting - Paulo Coelho.

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