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06-26-2006, 06:24 PM
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The Novel Quotes Thread!
Just some fun for those of us who engage in the sport of reading.
How to play:
Post a favorite line from a favorite novel, novella or short story and the first person to guess where it comes from gets to post one of their own. If 24 hours elapse without a correct answer, the original poster has to give the answer and gets to post another line. You can give one hint if you deem it necessary.
While I usually read history and science-related books, I occasionally dabble in fiction and I do have my favorite authors.
First up is an easy one:
"For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
Hint: this is an English translation of a French novel.
And no Googling! 
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06-26-2006, 06:45 PM
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Re: The Novel Quotes Thread!
They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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06-26-2006, 09:20 PM
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Re: The Novel Quotes Thread!
Les Miserables??
My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pretty Boy (1993,Carsten Sønder) 3/5, From the Edge of the City (1998,Constantine Giannaris) 3/5, The Holy Child (2001,Stéphane Clavier) 3/5, Boy's Choir (2000,Akira Ogata) 3/5, The Fire That Burns (1997,Christophe Malavoy) 4/5, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,Nicholas Stoller) 3/5, Ong-bak (2003,Prachya Pinkaew) 3/5, I Want to Live! (1958,Robert Wise) 2/5, Nancy Drew (2007,Andrew Fleming) 3/5, But Forever in My Mind (1999,Gabriele Muccino) 3/5, Death at a Funeral (2007,Frank Oz) 3/5, Pumpkinhead (1988,Stan Winston) 4/5, Beach Cafe (2001,Benoît Graffin) 2/5, 15 (2003,Royston Tan) 3/5, Lonely Boy (1962,Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor) 3/5
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06-26-2006, 10:01 PM
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Re: The Novel Quotes Thread!
Nope.
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06-26-2006, 10:05 PM
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Re: The Novel Quotes Thread!
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Well, I thought it'd be easy...
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Yeah, right.
I was blindly guessing it had something to do with Marquis de Sade, a memoir or something, but that's not it. I know what it is now, but only because I cheated.
They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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06-26-2006, 10:45 PM
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Re: The Novel Quotes Thread!
Eh, I just thought it was one of those books most everyone read at time or another - like The Scarlet Letter. Guess not.
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06-27-2006, 12:19 AM
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Re: The Novel Quotes Thread!
The Scarlett Letter is a book?
They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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