Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Animal Farm, pg 133

" All animals are equal
but some animals are more equal than others"

--George Orwell, Animal Farm, pg 133

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Twelfth Night, II.III. 111-112

"Dost thou think, because thou are virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

-Twelfth Night, II.III, 111-112

Twelfth Night, II. III. 47-52

"What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come and kiss me, sweet-and-twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure."

--Twelfth Night, II. III,.47-52, William Shakespeare

Thursday, March 31, 2011

No Place For You, My love

"Whatever people like to think, situations (if not scenes) were usually three-way--there was somebody else always. The one who didn't--couldn't--understand the two made the formidable third."

No Place for You, My Love, Eudora Welty

No Place For You, My love

"Like people in love, they had a supertition about themselves almost as soon as they came out on the floor, and dared not think the words 'happy' or 'unhappy', which might strike them, one or the other, like lightning."

-No place for you, my love. Eudora Welty

Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Orchard Keeper, pg 246

"They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust. "

--Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, pg 246
The final paragraph of the novel.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Othello, III.III. 261-263

"Though her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'ld whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune."

--William Shakespeare, Othello, act 3, scene 3, line 261-263