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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 09/02/2010 : 23:06:45
We all have a favorite line that for us is powerful or funny or evocative....
For me, as stressed in Essentials for Writing by Strunk and
White....(my favorite best little book on writing style)...Less
Is More.
But...That is NOT my favorite line that I was going to share...
Here is one of the simplest and most powerful sentences ever put to
page--can it get any shorter or more powerful?! Totally secular for me,
no religious intent here..just a great GREAT line.
Jesus wept.
What's yours? You likely have many, as I do.
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| Allan |
Posted - 16/02/2010 : 18:51:28
bob f...
I sincerely mean this. I hope that we can meet one day. Over the years here on the board, there have been many topics and many responses, but we seem to share a common thread.
You mention Ginsberg. The Howl is truly a remarkable piece of literature. Hats off to you for remembering the true founding fathers of 'our' beloved generation. I've always been blown away with Kerouac...On the Road and Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels especially. Let's not forget William Burroughs. And let's not forget Neal Cassady as well.
I don't have any famous lines from any of them...but they are/were all great, great authors.
Bob f.-you never cease to amaze me.
Allan |
| rocker |
Posted - 16/02/2010 : 14:32:25
good ones!....and I'll pick this one from that famous movie that has a bunch of good lines. ...
Major Strasser:Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
Rick: It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
Heinz: Can you imagine us in London?
Rick: When you get there, ask me!
Captain Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
Major Strasser: How about New York?
Rick: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
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| bob f. |
Posted - 16/02/2010 : 01:13:14
" I saw the best minds of my generation
destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked..."
- Allen Ginsberg. from "HOWL".
...what the world needs now... |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 15/02/2010 : 18:58:03
Memorable first sentences from literature?
In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.
Marley was dead: to begin with.
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| Allan |
Posted - 15/02/2010 : 16:43:55
I know it was a Humphrey Bogart film...Traesure of the Sierra Madre?
"Badges-I don't have to show you no stinkin badges".
And from 'Clockwork Orange'
"A bit of the old in-out, in-out"
And finally (and please no offense intended here)
"You look like a bunch of Kansas City faggots
"Blazing Saddles"
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| bob f. |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 07:11:11
" Inspector Clay is dead...murdered. And SOMEONE is responsible!" - Plan 9 From Outer Space
...what the world needs now... |
| bob f. |
Posted - 10/02/2010 : 07:00:31
"We're gonna need a bigger boat!" - Jaws
"We're not laughing AT you...we're laughing TOWARDS you."
-Homer Simpson
...what the world needs now... |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 09/02/2010 : 23:16:59
PUT THE BUNNY DOWN! "Con Air"
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