For the Lady Reads

A conversation between Evelina and Lord Merton:

Lord Merton: 'Whoever she is, I wish she would mind her own affairs: I don't know what the devil a woman lives for after thirty: she is only in other folks way. Shall you be at the assembly?'

Evelina: 'I believe not, my Lord.'

Lord Merton: 'No!--why then how in the world can you contrive to pass your time?'

Mrs. Selwyn (the slighted 30+): 'In a manner that your Lordship will think very extraordinary, for the young Lady reads.'

[Burn!]

-Frances Burney, Evelina

(P.S. The most entertaining 18th century novel I've read so far)

"It doesn't say blessed are those who are obnoxious for my name. It says blessed are you when you are persecuted for my name's sake." 

-Keith Green about Christianity 

On the Road by Kerouac

I'm currently reading Jack Kerouac's On the Road and it's brilliant, lovely, vulgar, upbeat, and chock full of big words, a clear representation of the Beat Generation and great quotes. I'll be posting them for a little while now while I read it, I'm sure. The quotes, that is.

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk--real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious. 

--Jack Kerouac, On the Road 

The Mad Ones

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

-J.M. Barrie