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Offline Kerry

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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #120 on: January 18, 2011, 10:48:35 am »

"Beyond them were orchards of peach trees, which flourished in the sandy soil."

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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #121 on: January 23, 2011, 11:46:37 pm »

"He followed me everywhere - and tried to gnaw on anything he could get his teeth around."

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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #122 on: January 24, 2011, 10:02:43 am »
"It was as if he just heard Mountain Girl's question about how was jail."

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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #123 on: January 24, 2011, 10:42:10 am »
"You want to like her, you struggle to, but she is finally too despotic in her intellectual and moral intensity, her endless demonstration of cutting-edge, leather-jacketed righteousness."

The Hours, Michael Cunningham.
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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #124 on: January 24, 2011, 11:42:48 am »
Quote from: Lynne di Licious on January 24, 2011, 10:42:10 am
"You want to like her, you struggle to, but she is finally too despotic in her intellectual and moral intensity, her endless demonstration of cutting-edge, leather-jacketed righteousness."

The Hours, Michael Cunningham.

Oh I love that book! I like the movie too, but the book was excellent. I need to read more of his work.
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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #125 on: January 24, 2011, 12:15:24 pm »
Quote from: shakesthecoffeecan on January 24, 2011, 11:42:48 am
Oh I love that book! I like the movie too, but the book was excellent. I need to read more of his work.

Andrew really liked his latest By Nightfall, though he said it got off to a slow start, if I'm remembering correctly.  At the moment, all copies are checked out of the Boston Public Library.
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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #126 on: January 24, 2011, 12:39:13 pm »
"Pinocchio, after all, got out of that whale situation no problem."

Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw
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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #127 on: January 25, 2011, 01:55:52 pm »

"Early in the course of the organization of this exhibition, it became evident that the prints ought to be treated as the subject of an independent project."

Charles S. Moffett, "Introduction" to The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886
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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #128 on: January 25, 2011, 08:16:13 pm »
 :P

OK, I give up. I've picked up like 10 books and none of them have a sentence worth repeating or that would say something intelligible without its context.
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Re: Okay, try this:
« Reply #129 on: January 29, 2011, 05:28:54 pm »
In that case, you should post in "Favorite Lines from movies and books" instead, friend!
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