awesome quotes from books you've read?

[jerome]

saving this thread for when i do encounter an awesome line or two. i read one yesterday but i can't find it all of a sudden!

you guys read any awesome lines lately?

[Dionysus]

He kisses the D.S.'s hand thrusting his fingers into his mouth (the D.S. must feel his toothless gums) complaining he has lost his teeth 'inna thervith.' 'Please Boss Man, I'll wipe your ass, I'll wash out your dirty condoms, I'll polish your shoes with the oil on my nose ...'


It's from an audiobook reading that I have been listing to recently by Burroughs out of Naked Lunch. I crack up everytime I hear that line. I think it's partially the way Burroughs reads it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mabBEY8KoEQ

[jerome]

Dio, that's an awesome quote haha. If I was reading that my eyebrows would shoot up and I'd start laughing at the absurdity of that line.

[Proots]

When Charlie in "Flowers for Algernon" is finally disintegrating and regressing after becoming a genius, he gets drunk one night and starts acting like his "old" self. The way he acted when he was severely mentally handicapped. This causes him to muse :


"As I suspected all along, he was never really gone. Nothing in our minds is ever really gone."

[the_dude]

Posted this in the what are you reading thread yesterday...

I've been re-reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. First read it six or seven years ago and it's still one of my favorite books.

Favorite passage:

the chief of maintenance even gave Steven the key to a disused office on the Supper Club's neglected third floor, an old janitor's storage room that, unbeknownst to management, had been converted to a carpeted, furnished, and fully decorated pleasure pit, complete with a working phone. It was a space suitable for small gatherings, drug deals and empire building. The room was decorated with posters of Latina women penetrating themselves with vegetables, and it had been done up with pilfered carpet remnants and furniture from the adjoining Edison Hotel. As the space was located up a long flight of garbage-strewn back stairs, behind the reeking locker rooms, down a dark, unlit hall where spare china was stored, management never visited - and a young man could be secure in the knowledge that whatever dark business he was conducting, no matter how loud, unruly or felonious, he was unlikely to be disturbed.

[panthrax]

My signature. It's like, "Yeah, fuck you" but in a cooler way. Liber AL vel Legis.

[jerome]

awesome quotes so far guys! enjoying reading them.

[ibm]

I am going to tell you of the ghosts one meets every day in this practical, commercial age. The ghosts that shake hands with you, as it were, in business and social intercourse.
The ghosts that influence your every act, that affect your every thought, and determine your every spoken word. I am going to discover to your notice the ghosts of dead ideas; of lifeless customs; of worn out ethics; of unconsidered codes of morals, and unfollowed rules of conduct-of all the accumulation of false concepts of the ages, which we have named Tradition.