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favorite quote from the movie or the book?

posted 16 years ago by shutterbug_iconium
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"There is patience in the Earth to allow us to go into her, and dig, and hurt with tunnels and shafts, and if we put back desh we have turn from her and so make good what we have weakened, she is content to let us bleed her. But when we take, and leave her weak where have taken, she has soreness, and anger that we should be so cruel to her and so thoughtless of her comfort. So she waits for us, and finding us, bears down, and bearing down, makes us a part of her, flesh of her flash, with our clay in place of the clap we thoughtlessly have shoveled away."
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By prayer, my son, he said." Not mumbling,, or shouting or wallowing like a hog in religious sentiments. Prayer is only another name for good, clean direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid."

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[–] karana_geldar 16 years ago

It has to be when Huw is sitting in the mind when his father is dying, how he remembers when they used to walk together. I cried when I read that!

Obi-Wan is my hero!

[–] shutterbug_iconium 16 years ago

yeah that was about his father's death...

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[–] aciolino 16 years ago

There are so many extraordinary passages that are gems literary writing.

I remember a passage in the book where Huw speaks eloquently and passionatly of music and the beauty of singing voices. Another is his description of sex.

From the film, I recall, from the opening narrative, "Can I believe my friends all gone when their voices are still a glory in my ears? No. I will stand to say "No," and "No" again, for they remain a living truth within my mind."

Of course that whole passage is beautiful. Hell, the whole damn film is beautiful.

[–] IronBallsM 16 years ago

Yes, that whole passage is beyond beautiful.

"There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember."

Amazing.

[–] hachmom-1 15 years ago

Everything I know i learned from my father and i never found anything he told me to be untrue or without merit......

and the whole "men like my father cannot die" speech at the end

It is not our abilities that make us who we are...it is our choices

[–] iheartjacksparrow 15 years ago

I always cry when Mrs. Morgan starts the "He came to me just now ..." speech. And at the "How green was my valley then."