“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
-Kenneth Grahame in “The Wind in the Willows.”
I wish I could add a favourite line of my own…sadly, although I’ve come across so many great lines, I have never managed to write any one down. Actually keeping something like a reading journal would make a good future project for me π
wonderful, and a play I sadly haven’t seen yet. yes, there is something magic, powerful and healing in even the smallest acts of kindness from strangers…
“Ich habe immer versucht
Die Erhabenheit der BΓ€ume
Die Unverwundbarkeit der Steine
Die Vorurteilslosigkeit der FlΓΌsse
Und die Gelassenheit der Tiere
Zu erreichen
Aber es ist mir nicht gelungen.”
* Hanns Dieter HΓΌsch: Den mΓΆchtβ ich sehβn β¦ (S.139). Satire Verlag, KΓΆln 1978.
ISBN 3 88268 005 9
Den Satz, in den ich mich gleich verliebt habe:
“Die FlΓΌgel der Phantasie sind mein bevorzugtes Transportmittel.”
Ulrike Sokul in den Kommentaren zur Buchvorstellung: Ein Garten fΓΌr den Wal von Toon Tellegen.
das habe ich ja erst jetzt gesehen…eine sehr schΓΆne Idee. Ich mache mich auf die Suche nach einem schΓΆnen Satz und komme wieder. Frohe Ostern fΓΌr dich, Dagmar!
“Inzwischen weiΓ sie, dass er recht hatte, sie ist nicht fΓΌr jeden schΓΆn (was soll das auch heiΓen?), aber sie kann (sie weiΓ nicht, warum) fast jedem das GefΓΌhl geben, er sei der einzige, der sieht, wie schΓΆn sie ist.” Ulrike Ulrich “Draussen um diese Zeit”
Ich weiΓ nicht, was Ulrike Ulrich lesen wird, wenn sie in London (hier: 14.5.2016, 7:30 p.m.: European Literature Night @ the RichMix oder hier: 2.6.2016, 5:30 p.m.: Encounter @ the London University mit der Γbersetzerin Marielle Sutherland) lesen wird, aber sie hat noch eine ganze Menge tolle SΓ€tze zu bieten, der hier passt nun gerade so “besonders schΓΆn” π
Danke fΓΌr diesen Satz, bei dem es auch um das SchΓΆnsein geht π Und fΓΌr den Lesungstipp, der Rich Mix ist bei mir um die Ecke, ich werde auf jeden Fall dabei sein.
WΓΌnsche dir eine gute FrΓΌhlingswoche!
Die wΓΌnsche ich dir auch – und wenn du hingehst, kΓΆnntest du Ulrike sehr herzliche GrΓΌΓe ausrichten, falls es sich ergibt … WΓΌrde mich sehr freuen!
Das mache ich liebend gerne und vielleicht hast du ja auch einmal eine Lesung hier π Der DebΓΌtroman einer Freundin von mir hat beim Londoner Verlag Head Of Zeus Unterschlupf gefunden, vielleicht sind sie auch an deinen Werken interessiert?
Das freut mich aber!! Und hier einer von vielen sehr schΓΆnen SΓ€tzen (zwei, um ehrlich zu sein) aus dem Buch, das ich gerade (wieder-)lese, Mrs Dalloway von Virginia Woolf:
She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, far out to the sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Ganz liebe GrΓΌsse in die Nachbarschaft, an diesem sonnwindigen Ostermontag
Ulrike
P.S.: Oh, now I see, VW is already here with a sentence from “To the Lighthouse”.
Stimmt, wir sind ja beide Londoner zur Zeit, habe ich auf deiner Webseite gesehen. Ja, werde auf alle FΓ€lle zu deiner Lesung kommen und freue mich schon drauf!
Danke fΓΌr diesen Virginia Woolf Satz. Jeder er-und ΓΌberlebte Tag zΓ€hlt π
Viele GrΓΌsse,
Dagmar
βWhat really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.β
Of course there are many to choose, but the first one to pop into the mind I shall use:
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.β
I guess that wasn’t one sentence. Here is one sentence that turned my whole experience of what poetry was and could be, the ending of “Stone Creek” by Warren Carrier:
But here, in this motion over stone, into sleep,
I face the coming down, the clear green going deep.
yes, putting it like that, I’d definitely choose dying π
but in terms of Madame Bovary, this in one sentence expresses both, her death wish and her frivolous nature.
Hm. Ein wenig traurig? Als Rezept? Lieber Rom, Paris, new York, London, Madrid, Berlin und noch tausend andere Orte sehen. Dann ist es immer noch Zeit.
I always thought Kafka’s Prague was the city where to die. Yet I was disabused: Vienna has the highest suicide rate, because the narrow streets make the houses appear higher – and thus more attractive to those – who don’t want to live in Paris …
I really like that! That is a great sentence π
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“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
-Kenneth Grahame in “The Wind in the Willows.”
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very nice, thank you π
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Ha ha. Great sentence. Probably because it reflects human nature.
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I very much agree π
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What a phenomenal quote. New life goal: make at least one witty quote that people will look at and think, “Now THERE’s a good string of words.”
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I wish I could add a favourite line of my own…sadly, although I’ve come across so many great lines, I have never managed to write any one down. Actually keeping something like a reading journal would make a good future project for me π
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Like that idea π
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“There is a voice that doesn’t use words” (Rumi)
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the voice of …. π
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Lovely lines
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From Firesign Theater:
I lifted the heavy obsidian door knocker.
“Hey in there! Your door knocker fell off!”
Alternately: from Young Frankenstein:
“What knockers!” (standing at the door of Frankenstein Castle)
Paz
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uplifting π
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Oh yeah, and Shelly’s line:
“It’s alive! It’s alive!”
π
Paz
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βIt’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.β Woody Allen
One thats stuck with me for years!
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I think that’s Woody in a nutshell and a great quote. thanks Kate!
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”, Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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wonderful, and a play I sadly haven’t seen yet. yes, there is something magic, powerful and healing in even the smallest acts of kindness from strangers…
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Blanche’s vulnerability and manipulative personality are so enchanting.
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I’d like to meet her π
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I do have a looong list of my favorite lines. Here is one: βWhat are men to rocks and mountains?β
βJane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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nice one! I guess the answer is, not much and so much more π
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π i like your answer!
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π β€
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From the Desiderata:
“You are a child of the Universe, no less than the trees and stars.”
Paz
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I like this
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A beautiful one. I think that we, humans, are the best of the creation π
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I lived in Paris for several years, and I did “survive”… π
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In Emma’s dramatic mind it was more a question of one or the other π
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“Ich habe immer versucht
Die Erhabenheit der BΓ€ume
Die Unverwundbarkeit der Steine
Die Vorurteilslosigkeit der FlΓΌsse
Und die Gelassenheit der Tiere
Zu erreichen
Aber es ist mir nicht gelungen.”
* Hanns Dieter HΓΌsch: Den mΓΆchtβ ich sehβn β¦ (S.139). Satire Verlag, KΓΆln 1978.
ISBN 3 88268 005 9
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noch ist Zeit π sehr schΓΆn!
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also besser als sterben is Paris schon …
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bist du dir da sicher? π
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doch … ziiiiemlich … π
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Den Satz, in den ich mich gleich verliebt habe:
“Die FlΓΌgel der Phantasie sind mein bevorzugtes Transportmittel.”
Ulrike Sokul in den Kommentaren zur Buchvorstellung: Ein Garten fΓΌr den Wal von Toon Tellegen.
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meine auch! danke fΓΌr den Satz Pauline/Ulrike π
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das habe ich ja erst jetzt gesehen…eine sehr schΓΆne Idee. Ich mache mich auf die Suche nach einem schΓΆnen Satz und komme wieder. Frohe Ostern fΓΌr dich, Dagmar!
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Oh ja, bitte!
Du hast ganz recht, den Satz hab ich erst spΓ€ter hinzugefΓΌgt π
Liebe GrΓΌsse und mach dir einen schΓΆnen Ostermontag!
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“Inzwischen weiΓ sie, dass er recht hatte, sie ist nicht fΓΌr jeden schΓΆn (was soll das auch heiΓen?), aber sie kann (sie weiΓ nicht, warum) fast jedem das GefΓΌhl geben, er sei der einzige, der sieht, wie schΓΆn sie ist.” Ulrike Ulrich “Draussen um diese Zeit”
Ich weiΓ nicht, was Ulrike Ulrich lesen wird, wenn sie in London (hier: 14.5.2016, 7:30 p.m.: European Literature Night @ the RichMix oder hier: 2.6.2016, 5:30 p.m.: Encounter @ the London University mit der Γbersetzerin Marielle Sutherland) lesen wird, aber sie hat noch eine ganze Menge tolle SΓ€tze zu bieten, der hier passt nun gerade so “besonders schΓΆn” π
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Danke fΓΌr diesen Satz, bei dem es auch um das SchΓΆnsein geht π Und fΓΌr den Lesungstipp, der Rich Mix ist bei mir um die Ecke, ich werde auf jeden Fall dabei sein.
WΓΌnsche dir eine gute FrΓΌhlingswoche!
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Die wΓΌnsche ich dir auch – und wenn du hingehst, kΓΆnntest du Ulrike sehr herzliche GrΓΌΓe ausrichten, falls es sich ergibt … WΓΌrde mich sehr freuen!
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Das mache ich liebend gerne und vielleicht hast du ja auch einmal eine Lesung hier π Der DebΓΌtroman einer Freundin von mir hat beim Londoner Verlag Head Of Zeus Unterschlupf gefunden, vielleicht sind sie auch an deinen Werken interessiert?
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… ja, das wΓΌrde mir natΓΌrlich auch ziemlich gut gefallen, eine Lesung in London oder eine Γbersetzung … Wir behalten das mal im Auge, ja?!
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ja bitte π
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Das freut mich aber!! Und hier einer von vielen sehr schΓΆnen SΓ€tzen (zwei, um ehrlich zu sein) aus dem Buch, das ich gerade (wieder-)lese, Mrs Dalloway von Virginia Woolf:
She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, far out to the sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Ganz liebe GrΓΌsse in die Nachbarschaft, an diesem sonnwindigen Ostermontag
Ulrike
P.S.: Oh, now I see, VW is already here with a sentence from “To the Lighthouse”.
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Stimmt, wir sind ja beide Londoner zur Zeit, habe ich auf deiner Webseite gesehen. Ja, werde auf alle FΓ€lle zu deiner Lesung kommen und freue mich schon drauf!
Danke fΓΌr diesen Virginia Woolf Satz. Jeder er-und ΓΌberlebte Tag zΓ€hlt π
Viele GrΓΌsse,
Dagmar
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βWhat really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.β
β J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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wonderful and yes it doesn’t happen, mostly because we don’t have that writer’s number π
Happy Easter ! β€
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Happy Easter! xo
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I also love Salinger… β€ I've chosen one of his famous quotes @ my about: π
https://myvirtualplayground.wordpress.com/about/
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thank you Melanie, beautiful Salinger quote. Though I believe in telling everybody (almost) everything, life is too short not to π
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Perfection in these lines. β€οΈ Level Of Insanity. π
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that was the fate the writer had in store for the heroine π
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βΊοΈ
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The lines.. β€
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“Man ging und ging und sang ewiges Gedenken…”
fΓ€llt mir da ein…
Ich glaube, es ist der Beginn von Pasternaks Roman Dr. Schiwago.
Bitte nicht verwechseln mit dem gleichnamigen Kitschfilm…
Ich wΓΌnsche dir ein frohes Osterfest,
liebe MorgengrΓΌΓe vom Lu
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Ein schΓΆner erster Satz. Ich liebe den Kitschfilm aber auch π
schicke dir ganz viele ΓΆsterliche GrΓΌsse an diesem sonn-sonn-sonnigen Karfreitag!!
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Na dann… *g* …er war ja leider viiiiiel erfolgreicher als Pasternaks groΓer Roman…
Liebe FrΓΌhlingsgrΓΌΓe vom Lu und ein besinnliches Ostern, Lu
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ich weiss, was du meinst, weil Leute denken, das Buch ist der Film und bei dem Gedanken dreht sich Boris bestimmt im Grab zweimal um π
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…mindestens tausend mal!!
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*grins*
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*mitgrins*
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I have so many favourites. I love that one you quoted. I felt like living in Paris is a little like dying, in a romantic, bohemian sense.
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I like that…
Happy Easter SB π
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That is definitely a keeper quote.
Of course there are many to choose, but the first one to pop into the mind I shall use:
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.β
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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I guess that wasn’t one sentence. Here is one sentence that turned my whole experience of what poetry was and could be, the ending of “Stone Creek” by Warren Carrier:
But here, in this motion over stone, into sleep,
I face the coming down, the clear green going deep.
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lovely
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This one is beautiful and in the light of her taking her own life even more poignant and sad.
thanks for this!
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“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.”
Illusions by Richard Bach
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I like this one, Paz. May I proudly present mine?
lovely merry Easter to you and your family!
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Let me see now……Die ?……..or live in Paris?……….let me think on that for a while, I’ll get right back with you. Dramatically Confused ; )
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yes, putting it like that, I’d definitely choose dying π
but in terms of Madame Bovary, this in one sentence expresses both, her death wish and her frivolous nature.
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My frivolous (love that word ! ) Nature suggests that I down play her wish of death ! ; )
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how very frivolous of you π
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Springtime and flowers and well written lines are enough to bring out the frivolity of even grumpy old men ! ; )
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*smile*
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Reblogged this on Karen Stephen aka Doc Flamingo and commented:
I think I might like to both live and die in Paris
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a splendid idea π
wishing you a lovely Easter!
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Hm. Ein wenig traurig? Als Rezept? Lieber Rom, Paris, new York, London, Madrid, Berlin und noch tausend andere Orte sehen. Dann ist es immer noch Zeit.
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Du, das hat sich der Gustave so ausgedacht, damals war die Welt noch ein wenig kleiner π
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I always thought Kafka’s Prague was the city where to die. Yet I was disabused: Vienna has the highest suicide rate, because the narrow streets make the houses appear higher – and thus more attractive to those – who don’t want to live in Paris …
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π
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Full of meanings. Nice one.
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I agree π
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