Because we are so very literary, here some of our absolute favorite things that other people said. We would have said them too-if only we had thought of it first.
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men—go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families—re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Luc)
Stare, stare in the basin and wander what you’ve missed.
W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening (Luc)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Crack-Up (Luc)
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child (Luc)
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (Luc)
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (Luc)
I like you. You have the boldness of a much younger woman.
Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock (Luc)
At a College Party
Dean: I saw you talking to that guy. What’d you talk about?
Veronica: Jane Austen, but he dissed Pride and Prejudice so I had to throw a beer on him.
Veronica Mars (Luc)
