Man!
It's the first sentence from a early 20th century novel you wrote of yrself kendo!!! on these very metacritic forums...
Hmmmmm???
Yeah, where is that slacker less_success?

I feel like I remember reading this somewhere, but I can't remember. It's kind of generic, so I might be confusing it with something else.

Sorry for staying out of the game for awhile. I had to go out of town for a few days. I haven't known the last couple anyway.

The game gets pretty hard when only three people are playing. It's tough to get something from a book that one of us will have read and remember.

OK, I will put you out of yr misery. It's the first line from "The Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford. I noticed kendocubano mentioned the book somewhere on these forums.
Yes, 3 people, how do we recruit more??

Not me, Ish. Never read that one. Think people at the song tag thread'd be interested in this one? Are book and music people the same people at all?

Do we have another quote, ish?

Righty-o, let's see......

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe"

Through the Looking Glass by Walt Disney...I mean, Lewis Carroll.

The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Ya got me mark f....sounds very modern....mmmm,,,,Bruce Chatwin???

No, it is from an American writer. However, these aren't the words he wrote, since this is a translation.

A translation of an American writer....is English not yr first language??
Well, I'm thoroughly stumped.....Henry Miller ?

"America" is an entire hemisphere.

Mark sort of dropped a big hint with the translation line and I did eventually get to read the book after postponing it for several months, thanks for the recommendation Mark!

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" Gabriel Marquez

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completley foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

On a whim, I am going with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

Sounds like Hunter Thompson, but it's not really witty enough for him....I give up!

It's Harry Franfurt's On Bullshit, not a particularly great book, but funny in the amount of philosophizing he does with regards to the topic of bullshit. I remember reading some of Thompson's work, I found it enjoyable, but much lighter than most of my reading.

The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he's rich!

Wow, you must be reading some heavy works, cause I find Hunter engages in a very serious way with his times.
Anyhoo, I have no idea of yr quote.....some contemporary crime novel???

I don't read much fiction, granted Fear and Loathing... is a great book and Thompson's a great story with a sad ending.

My quote is from Death of a Salesman

Existence is beyond the power of words to define:
Terms may be used but are none of them absolute

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

Welcome Sunsplashed, let me explain the rules to you.

Someone puts up a quote, then someone answers and says what book the quote is from, then the answerer gets the opportunity to post a quote, ans so on...