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If you're wondering about my new "lj-name": Chomp, chomp, chomp.

Long ago, I signed up at Bookcrossing.com - and then left it at that, since it's not really the website for me. I am too possessive of books. If one came to my hands, and I liked a real lot... I probably wouldn't leave it around again. Which is sort of against the point, isn't it. Still, this morning, near the of tha bar where I usually go, I found The Iliad. So I thought, well, why not. It's in prose (obviously enough), which makes me curious, and it should have passed enough time since High School that I should be actyually able to read and enjoy it without cringing. ;P

Anyway, I'm telling you this, because I remembered there was a bookish quotes page, and. Oh, the love. Screw The Iliad, I'll be rereading Comme Un Roman today. (Or maybe not, since I'm currently rereading The Truce, but still. (and - oh sod it, I can't start talking about it here. It would be the longest bracket known to history.))

Some examples:

J. W. Eagan: "Never judge a book by its movie."

Oscar Wilde: "Oh, it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."

Groucho Marx: "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book."

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

Clifton Fadiman: "When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

Francis Bacon: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

Frank L. Visco: "Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary."

Dorothy Parker: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

Russell Lynes: "Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."

Gene Fowler: "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Jorge Luis Borges: "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

Fran Lebowitz: "Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."

Kingsley Amis: "If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing."

Edmund Wilson, critic: "No two persons ever read the same book."

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As for the Fanfictions Quotes Meme, a few hints:

Number 19 has been spammed to death by me. I even have an icon just for her. She's also the same of the Bonus Quote, not that it will be of much help, I'm afraid - that fic dates soooo back. I didn't even have lj, back then. Imagine that. :P

Number 2 and 14 are from the same author.

Same goes for number 7 and 11.

Not to mention 7 and the quote at the end, and please jadis31 play, I'm sure you would guess them. :D

In story number 16, at some point Sirius decides to commit suicide. By asking Snape to go to the ball as his date.

You can imagine how that went.

I HAVE RECCED NUMBER 8 TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. Come on. Think of the ONE C/H story I have recced time and time again. And drawn fanart for. A snitch joke? Anything? No...?

Other quote for number 10:

When he’s got Moony in the most advantageous position for it- pinned stomach-down- he begins to gently pinch them, and is rewarded by a writhing, babbling mess of Moony-shaped humanity.

“Padfoot…cut it out, you imbecile…” he gasps, laughing so hard that his struggles are mostly ineffectual.

“Won’t give in ‘til you say I win,” Sirius replies breathlessly.

Moony lasts a lot longer than he thinks he will- longer than James ever does- but eventually he bursts out, “You win! You win, you heartless bastard!”

Sirius rears back, his arms high up in the air, The Champion, thanking an imaginary audience. He’s accepting ladies’ undergarments and having a medal hung over his neck when Remus catches him round the waist and down he goes.

First phrase of story number 1:

Remus was doing it on purpose. Sirius was sure of it. The first two or three times might've been a coincidence. But it had been a week now, and the intent was clear. Nobody could look so fucking hot while drinking a cup of tea without actually meaning it.

Number 9? Look at my icon.

The results will be posted sometimes late this afternoon (my time) or tomorrow at lunch (still my time. :P). It's all ready, I just have to post it. :D