January 2012
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“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (via bookmania)
September 2011
5 posts
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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Page 415
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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Page 415
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“‘Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Samuel, page 309
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“There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is a dreadful beauty.”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Lee’s father, page 360
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“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing -...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Lee, page 304
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“But ‘Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Lee, page 303
August 2011
19 posts
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“Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, but he did not...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Page 292
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“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Lee, page 268
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“The ways of sin are curious,” Samuel observed. “I guess if a man had...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Page 268
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“At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions:...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Page 132
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“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden.
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“When a child first catches adults out - when it first walks into his grave...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Pages 19-20
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“When June came the grasses headed out and turned brown, and the hills turned a...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Page 5.
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“Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more...”
– Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Page 4
Love of California.
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“The lesson of the thing is very plain. Don’t envy men because they seem to...”
– Euripides’ The Heracleidae. Attendant, lines 863-866
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“…in this world the lucky person passes for a genius.”
– Euripides’ The Heracleidae. Iolaus, lines 747-748
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“The brave have found no finer prize than leaving life the way it should be done.”
– Euripides’ The Heracleidae. Macaria, lines 533-534
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“There is nothing better for a boy than to have had a good and noble father and...”
– Euripides’ The Heracleidae. Iolaus, lines 397-399
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“We’ve seen now for the first time what it is to be well-born, yet in...”
– Euripides’ The Heracleidae. Chorus, lines 232-235.
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“That would be sacrilegious, rejecting people who demand our help.”
– Euripides’ The Heracleidae. Chorus, lines 107-108
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“For years I’ve known that anyone who’s just is born to serve his...”
– Euripides’ The Heracleidae. Iolaus, lines 1-5
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“There is no sorrow above the loss of a native land.”
– Euripedes’ The Medea. Medea, lines 651-652
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“There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.”
– Euripides’ The Medea. Medea, line 618
February 2011
15 posts
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“O God, you have given to mortals a sure method of telling the gold that is pure...”
– Euripides’ The Medea. Medea, lines 516-519
This made me laugh.
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“A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, is easier to deal with than...”
– Euripides’ The Medea. Creon, lines 319-321
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“Many are the forms of what is unknown. Much that the gods achieve is surprise....”
– Euripides’ Alcestis. Chorus, lines 1159-1163 (closing lines)
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“Look at the man, disgracefully alive, who dared not die, but like a coward gave...”
– Euripides’ Alcestis. Admetus, lines 955-957
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“Chance comes. It is hard to wrestle against it. There is no limit to set on your...”
– Euripides’ Alcestis. Chorus, lines 889-894
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“Fortune is dark; she moves, but we canot see the way nor can we pin her down by...”
– Euripides’ Alcestis. Heracles, lines 785-789
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“Your natural right is to find your own happiness or unhappiness.”
– Euripides’ Alcestis. Pheres, lines 685-686
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“Those who could afford to buy a late death would buy it then.”
– Euripides’ Alcestis. Death, line 59
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“Holiness does not die with the men that die. Whether they die or live, it cannot...”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Heracles, lines 1447-1448
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“Why should one feel ashamed to do good to another?”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Neoptolemus, line 1383
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“Well, know this much, that the princes of the army, the lying heralds of the...”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Philoctetes, lines 1307-1309
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“You are not bad yourself; by bad men’s teaching you came to practice your...”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Philoctetes, lines 971-972
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“But now he will end fortunate. He has fallen in with the son of good men. He...”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Chorus, lines 719-720
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“Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Philoctetes, lines 502-503
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“To such as you and your nobility, meanness is shameful, decency honorable.”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Philoctetes, lines 475-476
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“Dead, too. In one short sentence I can tell you this. War never takes a bad man...”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Neoptolemus, lines 435-438
January 2011
41 posts
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“Now as I go forth to the test, I see that everywhere among the race of men it is...”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Odysseus, lines 97-99
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“Still, my lord, I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”
– Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Neoptolemus, lines 95-97
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“Deliver yourself, knowing this: life on base terms, for the nobly born, is base.”
– Sophocles’ Electra. Electra, lines 987-989
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“The hate you feel for me and what you do compel me against my will to act as I...”
– Sophocles’ Electra. Electra to Clytemnestra (her mother), lines 619-621
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“Do you not see from what acts of yours you suffer as you do? To destruction...”
– Sophocles’ Electra. Chorus, lines 214-220
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“You have seen a terrible death and agonies, many and strange, and there is...”
– Sophocles’ The Women of Trachis. Hyllus, lines 1276-1278
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“You should not let all expectation of good be worn away. Nothing painless has...”
– Sophocles’ The Women of Trachis. Chorus, lines 125-131
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“What men have seen they know; but what shall come hereafter no man before the...”
– Sophocles’ Ajax. Chorus, lines 1417-1420 (ending lines)
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“What men have seen they know; but what shall come hereafter no man before the...”
– Sophocles’ Ajax. Chorus, lines 1417-1420 (ending lines)