Literary Quotes (1 Viewer)

[Seven]

What about Ebonics?

I know that shit..7, do you?

0wn3d....

I'm not bragging, Bürke. I just think that if you're able to comprehend a book in its original language, you should read it in its original language. Translations always change the book, no matter how tiny the adjustments might be.

 

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[Menace]

"Life's not a popularity contest, it's about getting what you want."
-Me

 

[3pac]

i bet i speak the most fluent ebonics of any member on this forum

 

[Gill_juve]

i'm looking to get 'The talented mr Ripley' and 'A clockwork Orange'. Anyone read them??

If anyone enjoys very descriptive books then i would advise 'crime and punishment' by dostoyevsky. Not really my cup of tea as i thought it was hard to read becuase i was losing interest every five seconds.

 

[Gill_juve]

here is a nice quote from animal farm by George Orwell:

'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.'

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

i bet i speak the most fluent ebonics of any member on this forum

i don't know....

dont make me call the jakes on that one

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

I'm not bragging, Bürke. I just think that if you're able to comprehend a book in its original language, you should read it in its original language. Translations always change the book, no matter how tiny the adjustments might be.

Yea, I agree with that.

 

[Henry]

It's not a proverb .

Mark Twain.

he is known for putting it rather succinctly, but it was around before he came along

 

[Seven]

That might be so, but all in all it doesn't really have the characteristics of a proverb anyway.

 

[Seven]

'Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.'

That's one hell of an opener.

 

[Siamak]

“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”

mark twain

 

[Siamak]

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Jules Verne

 

[lgorTudor]

Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it.

unknown Austrian writer

 

[DAiDEViL]

unknown Austrian writer

Might as well read some Martin Luther. Sometimes hard to seperate his work from the unknown austrian writer.

 

[Siamak]

most expensive originals have cheap imitations.

Elfriede Jelinek

 

[Fab Fragment]

Elfriede Jelinek

A couple of years ago, someone presented a fake Juve jersey to my son. Looked pretty good apart from the Barclays EPL insignia on the sleeves.

 

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[DAiDEViL]

And if you don't eat the biggest one first, it'll eat you, and you'll have to win against Portugal.