Grab the Nearest Book...

"They don't say cure." Fight Club

 

"In 1966, when I was nine, black power had permeated every element of my neighborhood in St. Albans, Queens."

The Color of Water, by James McBride

 

"Fuck, they're so great, man, I just love 'em." ~Janis Joplin

Janis written and edited by David Dalton

 

"you'd better run on to your appointment," he said

ray bradbury, fahrenheit 451.

 

Crime and Punishment: "And that consumptive and excited face with the last flickering light of the candle-end playing upon it made a sickening impression."

 

"It annoyed dad when I put on this vacant look when he talked, desperately batting off his clever words or simply letting them pass cleanly through me."

Isabel and Rocco - Anna Stothard.

 

Vanity Fair, Willaim Makepeace Thackray :"No, never, upon my word," said the head under the neck-cloth, shaking very much-"that is yes- what abominably cold weather, Miss;"- and herewith he fell to poking the fire with all his might, although it was the middle of June.

 

8. Where can black capture some white stones?

An Easy Introduction to Go by H. Otake and S. Futakuchi

 

"I'm sure The Beatles were copying what we were doing, just as we were copying what we were hearing down the corridor." Says Peter Jenner, of the band's proximity during that epochal summer


Another Brick in The Wall: The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd song-Cliff Jones

 

Some people claim that jimmy morrison was seen in rough soldier barsalong route 1,near fort belvoir,that featured black r&b bands,but this appears to be more legend than established fact.

 

"If, for the sake of easing his back, he brought the table lid at a sharp angle twords his chin, and wrote there like a man using the steep roof of a dutch house for a desk"

- Bartleby the Scrivener, Melville

(the rest of the story is just as pointless)

 

"But I did".Harman was eating corn on the cob. " I only did a reconaissance---
just, as Hannah says, a hundered miles in and then back to the North American coast ...........

ILLIUM Dan Simmons

 

"Beyond them, indistant in the dimness, loomed the stone coffins of previous family members, some richly carved and bearing statues of those interred within."

Secret Sacrament, by Sherryl Jordan.

 

Word, Exel, and PowerPoint documents.

('Microsoft Office for Mac') - a fine piece of literature

 

If you had been there you would have participated in the creation of a new mandate for science.

 

...

 

"More recent assimilation theories have been more explicit about (1) the nature of the host society and culture to which migrant ethnic groups must adopt and (2) the various types, levels, and degrees of assimilation that can develop."

 

Meh, it's in Dutch, I'll have to translate it

"The short silence that followed on this, was interrupted by little Giry's whispering voice."

< The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

 

"he was benign, and wonderfully diligent, and most patient in adversity, and had been proved to be such many times."

the canterbury tales
by geoffrey chaucer

 

"After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bes, which had infested the gorges of Ollivolles, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in the mountains."

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo