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"Be not afraid. The Island is full of noises." Shakespeare The
Tempest
"Oh brave new world that has such people in it." Shakespeare
The Tempest
In xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. -- The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner
I cannot live without my life; I cannot die without my soul --
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
"Haunt me then!" Wuthering Heights
"We are such stuff as dreams are made of and our lives are
rounded in a dream." Midsummer night's dream
"Death, the sound was reverbeated --everlasting farewells! and
again, and yet again reverberated --everlasting farewells Thomas De
Quincey Confessions of an Opium Eater
"I dreamed a dream tonight"
"And so did I."
"Well, what was yours?"
"That dreamers often lie."
"In bed asleep, while they do dream things true." Romeo and
Juliet Shakespeare"
"Would you like to play a game?" Wargames
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane"
Superman
"To the Batcave!" Batman
"I see dead people." Signs
"He whose name must not be spoken" Harry Potter and the
sorcerer's stone
Their maxim is, that among People of Quality a Wife should be
always a reasonable and agreeable Companion, because she cannot always be young.
-- Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift
Poor Nations are hungry, and rich
Nations are proud; and Pride and Hunger will ever be at
variance.-- Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift
A belief
in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the
hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from
behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded
rumor. Aldous Huxley
"History is bunk.": Aldous
Huxley Brave New World
"Christianity without tears—
that’s what soma is." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"But I don’t want comfort. I
want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I
want sin." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"You’ve got to choose between
happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art."
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
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