NAME THAT QUOTE: A game, using some of my favorites..
Submitted by jenhowel on Sat, 04/21/2001 - 05:05
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- 1)"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." AS YOU LIKE IT by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ident. BUDDY
- 2)"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ident. BUDDY
- 3)"Inebriate of Air - am I - And Debauchee of Dew - Reeling - thro endless summer days - From inns of Molten Blue" EMILY DICKINSON guessed by Nick Vane
- 4) " 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it." ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by LEWIS CARROLL, ident. bitterms
- 5) "He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere and you rescued him in a goddamn boat, he'd want to know who the guy was that was rowing it before he'd even get in." CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. SALINGER, guessed by AAA
- 6) "In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be."
- 7) "I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind - of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium."
- 8) "Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awakening, till the beam Of an eternity should bring the morrow..." (author only)
- 9) "...prose is earned and poetry given."
- 10) "...it's just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same messages he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged."
- 11)" 'Squalor. I'm extremely interested in sqalor.'"
- 12) "Sing we for love and idleness, Naught else is worth the having." (author only)
- 13) "Yes of course I would like to be fucked five times a day, but I would have to be in love."
- 14) "The whole of a human being, however much he may write or talk, still remains hidden in the space and darkness." (author only nec.)
- 15) " 'The illusion which man has that his will is free is so deeply rooted that I am ready to accept it. I act as though I were a free agent. But when an action is performed it is clear that all the forces of the universe from all eternity conspired to cause it, and nothing I could do could have prevented it. It was inevitable.' "
- 16)"It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like."
Author Comments:
These literary quotes are either a)some of my favorites b)from some of my favorite authors c)from some of my favorite books. I've read them all in their source. Please don't "cheat" in guessing them. Have fun, and enjoy.
#6 is by a woman, #7 was fond of the word "eldritch", #8 died in Baltimore, #9 author only, female, #10 sounds like an instruction manual,
#11 wrote something else on the list, #12 was a controversial figure, #13 is my favorite author, #14 sure tried to write or talk enough to be known, #15 can be found on my list of best books written since 1900, #16 is maybe the only contemporary author on this list!
#1 is As You Like It by good ol' Willie.
#2 is The Tempest, ibid.
A lot of these sound very familiar, and the ones that don't are just good lines anyway. Great list!
You are certainly right, and thank you very much!
4. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll?
15. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole? (I'm just throwing out the most recent book I've read because the line seems so familiar).
I noticed you said not to cheat in guessing them. Because of the syntax, I got a little confused.
Do you mean not to cheat the standard way...as in looking them up on Amazon or something?
Or did you mean not to cheat in guessing them...as in throwing out something relatively random, as I did?
If you meant the former, my guesses were valid. I did not look them up. If you meant the latter, please disregard both my suggestions.
I meant cheat as in looking them up. Who knows if your subconscious gave you a guess you just weren't aware of? Also, you're right on 4, wrong on 15, which I've never actually read. Is it good?
Well, Toole won a Pulitzer Prize for it (post-mortem, mind you), so clearly even the masses believe it has some redeeming qualities. You must be comfortable hating the protagonist, however, as he is utterly revolting. I can't stress that enough.
Okay, you haven't updated this list in a while, but a couple of these quotes are really bothering me. How about some hints on #5 and #15?
# 5 has a character named Phoebe Weatherfield BLANK. I'm not good at hints.
#15 was made into a movie which I'm sure did not capture the book at all, featuring Bette Davis.
5. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Is #10 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn?
Nyet, I'm afraid. I haven't even read that book. Is it good?
It is pretty good, and different. It's basically a dialog between this guy (student) and a gorilla (teacher) with the gorilla trying to make the guy understand how humanity came to be living its current doomed lifestyle. Takes kinda a long view, and has some interesting interpretations of some bible stories along the way/
Of course, now that quote is going to bug me. I'm sure I read it recently, and I haven't read all that much recently.
3 is Ms. Emily Dickinson...
Yay! Finally someone got that one! It's so funny to think of stern-looking Emily Dickinson being inebriate of air, running through open fields. I always picture her up in the attic in Amherst.
yes. for someone so enamored of life, she seemed to do much of her living through books and her brilliant brain. she's my favorite poet. I need to break out her anthology again...