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“My eyes, I cannot bear
What most I long to see;
And what I long to hear,
That most I dread.” OedipusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Show me the man whose happiness was anything more than illusion
Followed by disillusion.” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Born thus, I ask to be no other man
Than that I am, and will know who I am.” OedipusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear?
Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown.
Best live as best we may, from day to day.” JocastaSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Pride breeds the Tyrant; swollen with ill-found booty,
From castled height Pride tumbles to the pit,
All footing lost…” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“On me is the curse that none but I have laid.” Oedipus
Speaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…Time will teach
The truth of this; for time alone can prove
The honest man; one day proclaims the sinner.” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Cast out an honest friend, and you cast out
Your life, your dearest treasure…” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…To slur a good man’s name
With baseless slander is one crime – another
Is rashly to mistake bad men for good.” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.” Teiresias
Speaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“King though you are, one right –
To answer – makes us equal; and I claim it.” TeiresiasSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit,
To be wise is to suffer…” TeiresiasSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…experience of trials past gives strength
to present counsel….” PriestSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A lover’s a liar,
To himself he lies.
The truthful are loveless,
Like oysters their eyes!Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As Bokonon tells us, “It is never a mistake to say good-bye.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Maturity, the way I understand it,” he told me, “is knowing what your limitations are.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The highest possible form of treason,” said Minton, “is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. Claire tried to make the point that American foreign policy should recognize hate rather than imagine love.”
“I guess Americans are hated a lot of places.”
“People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty.”Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Pretty?” he echoed. “Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings and not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!