Saturday, October 16, 2004

Name that Book

Here are a few of my favorite quotes. Can you name the books?

1. They should know what lurks between those sesame seed buns.
2. We are awfully lucky to be here - and "we" I mean every living thing.
3. "But he can't be a Hindu, a Christian and a Muslim. It's impossible. He must choose."
4. Along the way, the little horse and the men who rehabilitated him captured the American imagination.
5. That day, thanks to her stubbornness, I switched from practical-but-attractive to pure tango, and not just in my underwear.
6. Behold the greatest cover-up in human history. Not only was Jesus Christ married, but He was a father.
7. I did it perfectly. After all these years. The old lift-and-dive trap.
8. "Is your last name your first name backwards?"
9. The class met on Tuesdays. No books were required.
10. "A Nimbus Two Thousand!" Ron moaned enviously. "I've never even touched one."
11. "The wags used to say...the death of a single white American equalled five Israelis, fifty Bosnian Muslims, or fifty thousand Africans."
12. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.
13. We need our president to restore September 11 to its rightful place on the calender - as the day after September 10 and before September 12.
14. Better that than sitting in a jail cell for teaching that asshole a lesson about defensive driving.
15. Instead of "think globally, act locally," the mantra of Greens should be "think ethically, act politically."
16. The honest middle, where much of the nation lives, can't find a place to hear a genuine discussion.
17. Do we have the will and foresight to make decisions for the sake of descendants we will never know?
18. As a group or "reading class" are we developing "an increasingly rare form of cultural capital" or "an increasingly arcane hobby."

Answers: Fast Food Nation, A Short History About Nearly Everything, Life of Pi, Seabiscuit, The Kindness of Strangers, Da Vinci Code, Kite Runner, Holes, Tuesdays with Morrie, Harry Potter, Zanzibar Chest, End of Faith, Longitudes and Attitudes, Hillbilly Elegy, Getting to Green, Muzzled. Countdown, The Shallows

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