what are you favorite quotes /lit/
i like this one from the great gatsby man its cool
"No telephone message arrived, but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o’clock — until long after there was any one to give it to if it came. I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."
"Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, -when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining- we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is."
"Words build bridges into unexplored regions."
"This too shall pass."
Never take advice. That's the best advice.
>>7844608
that one passage about the vagina farts
>>7844608
That movie was so terrible though.
>>7844608
""yes, good-bye," he said, employing as his last adieu to me the same words with which he had finished the story of his life."
The mind is it's own place, and in itself, it can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
>>7844608
I'll be frank, this is a great quote. Makes Gatsby worth reading.
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Quote becomes more relevant the older you get.
“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.”
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
>>7844608
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Feels. I don't know if it's my absolute favorite, but i've never been able to forget this one
>>7844608
"A screathing jumps across the sky"
—Thomas Pynchon, Gravity Rainbow
https://youtu.be/I4oxrTSRkC0
>>7846412
awful. pseudo-philosophy leaning on wooden dialogue
>>7844711
So does this one, my personal favorite:
"As I went over to say good-by I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. "
"The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
