Time For a Game - Name That Quote!
 

The rules are simple. One person adds a quote from a well known book. It should be a quote that is closely identified with the book. The next person has to name the book the first quote is from and then post a new quote.

Let's start with my signature.

Re: Time For a Game - Name That Quote!
 

What if our guess is incorrect?

Oh well, I'm guessing "Catch-22."

And my quote is this:
"P.S. Sorry I forgot to give you the mayonaise."

Well, crap. I thought my quote was too easy, but nobody has gotten it, and that has put a crashing halt to this great thread and game.

Do you need clues? It's the last line in an American novel written by a psuedo-Beat writer in 1967, who blew off his own head in 1984.

I'll go with Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan.

My quote is:
"Oh god he thought they won't even let me talk. They won't even listen to me any more. All they want is to make a madman out of me so that whenever I tap my messages to them they can say he's only crazy don't pay any attention to him poor fellow he's nuts."

Can no one answer this, or is no one looking? It is obviously Johnyy Got His Gun by Dalton trumbo.

My turn (This is really easy):

"Who is John galt?"

"Atlas Shrugged." I never read it, but I still know the quote.

This new quote should also be pretty easy, too.

"Got no teeth, he's all stiff with rheumatism. He ain't no good to you, Candy. An' he ain't no good to himself. Why'n't you shoot him, Candy?"

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

Here's the new one:

"'What's it going to be then, eh?'"

Some other people have to get involved, here.

Come on! I'll give you a hint. The book my quote is from is also a famous Stanley Kubrick movie.

Well, if nobody else is going to give it a shot, then I'll go for it (without the clue, thank you very much).

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. It's the novel's first sentence, and then in the movie the chaplain speaks the line later in the prison to Alex.

I'll make the next one really, really easy so someone else can get in between myself and firebirdta.

My signature is a pivotal, final sentence from an American novel written in the early 1980's. In addition, I've included three others (including the book's first sentence).

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
"If the Remington SL-3 can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done."
"Whatever happened to the golden ball?"
"The trouble with redheads is ..."

Doesn't anybody else read anything?!? I'll give it a while, then if nobody posts I'll continue.

just saw this thread for the first time and am quite willing to jump in but did not know any of the quotes listed so far.

Great! I know some of these quotes are hard to determine, so I'll try to stick to books I think most people have/should have read.

The last one is Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins.

Here's the new quote (I'm making this really easy in hopes that this great game can continue with more people):

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

Ooh! Ooh! I know!

The Catcher In The Rye

Yep, you did make that easy. Thanks. And now...

"I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!"

What is the Cask of Amontillado by Poe?
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My turn (I like making this real easy):
"WAR IS PEACE / FREEDOM IS SLAVERY / IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."

Come on, people...

that does look very easy, but all I can think of is 1984.

You are correct!!! Make your own post, now.

I haven't heard of any of the books here except 1984 and Catcher in the Rye. I tried reading Catcher, couldn't stand it. Is it really that great? I read tons of Heinlein. Someone quote some Heinlein and I'll tell ya what book :-p

one sec....just realised I have NO BOOKS here at all aside from a first edition print of Crusade in Europe by General Dwight Eisenhower , they are all 400 miles away at my parent's place. Would have used a good Stephen King or Heinlein if I could have.

So I went ahead and used Project Gutenberg and got an classic
===
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious
and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population
and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents,
seafaring men were particularly excited.
===

right from the opening, can post some more (just need one easy name to give it away) as needed.

2000 Leagues Under the Sea

And now a bit more modern, but required reading none the less:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

I don't know, but this thread must stay alive!! Can we get a hint?

The quintessential work of cyber punk...