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Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 film about a troubled teenager who, after escaping death, is driven to manipulate a complex chain of events that will change the destinies of himself and those around him, egged on by visions of a man in a monstrous rabbit costume.
 * Written and directed by Richard Kelly.

Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions. Taglines

Donnie Darko

 * Dear Roberta Sparrow, I've reached the end of your book and there are so many questions that I need to ask you. Sometimes I am afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I am afraid this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.

Dr. Lillian Thurman

 * If the sky were to suddenly open up... there would be no law... there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories... the choices you've made and the people you've touched. The life that has been carved out from your subconscious is the only evidence by which you will be judged... by which you must judge yourself. Because when this world ends, there will only be you and him... and no one else.

Gretchen Ross

 * Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.
 * What if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?

Kitty Farmer

 * Okay, now girls... I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option. And Bethany, if you feel the need to vomit up there... just swallow it.

Karen Pommeroy

 * The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.
 * [to Principal Cole] I don't think that you have a clue what it's like to communicate with these kids. And we are losing them to apathy, to this prescribed nonsense. They are slipping away.

Eddie Darko

 * I-I know I'm not the best communicator, but... whatever happens to you, be honest, tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny. They will. But what you gotta understand, Son, is that almost all of those people are full of shit. [laughs] They're all part of this great big conspiracy of bullshit. And they're scared of people like you, because those bullshitters know that you're smarter than all of them. You know what you say to people like that? Hmm? "Fuck you."

Roberta Sparrow

 * Every living creature on this earth dies alone.

Dialogue

 * Donnie: You're such a fuck-ass!
 * Rose Darko: Please.
 * Elizabeth: What? Did you just call me a "fuck-ass"?
 * Rose Darko: Elizabeth, that's enough.
 * Elizabeth: You can go suck a fuck!
 * Donnie: Oh, please, tell me, Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck a fuck?
 * Elizabeth: You want me to tell you?
 * Donnie: Please, tell me.
 * Rose Darko: We will not have this at the dinner table. Stop!
 * Donnie: [Mouthing] I'm all ears!
 * Samantha: [After period of silence] What's a "fuck-ass"?

 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you still think about girls a lot?
 * Donnie: [under hypnosis] Yeah.
 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: How are things going at school?
 * Donnie: I think about girls a lot.
 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: I asked you about school, Donnie.
 * Donnie: I think about fucking a lot during school.
 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: What else do you think about during school?
 * Donnie: Married... with Children.
 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you think about your family?
 * Donnie: I just turn down the volume and think about fucking Christina Applegate.
 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: I asked you about your family, Donnie.
 * Donnie: [chuckling] No. I don't think about fucking my family. That's gross.

 * Gretchen Ross: Donnie Darko? What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something.
 * Donnie: What makes you think I'm not?

 * Gretchen: You're weird.
 * Donnie: Sorry.
 * Gretchen: No, that was a compliment.

 * Gretchen: My mom had to get a restraining order against my stepdad. He has emotional problems.
 * Donnie: Oh, I have those too! What kind of emotional problems does your dad have?
 * Gretchen: He stabbed my mom four times in the chest.
 * Donnie: Oh.

 * Frank: 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is when the world will end.
 * Donnie: Why?

 * Sean Smith: Beer and pussy. That's all I need.
 * Ronald Fisher: Well we gotta find ourselves a Smurfette.
 * Sean Smith: Smurfette?
 * Ronald Fisher: Mmm-hmm [gulps beer]. Not some like tight-ass Middlesex chick, y'know?  Like this cute little blonde that'll get down and dirty with the guys.  Like Smurfette does.
 * Sean Smith: [nods agreement] Hmm.
 * Donnie: Smurfette doesn't fuck.
 * Ronald Fisher: That's bullshit. Smurfette fucks all the other Smurfs.  Why do you think Papa Smurf made her?  It's because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny.
 * Sean Smith: No, no, no, not Vanity. I heard he was a homosexual.
 * Ronald Fisher: Okay well you know what then, she fucks them while Vanity watches, okay?
 * Sean Smith: Well what about Papa Smurf? I mean, he must get into all the action.
 * Ronald Fisher: Yeah. What he does: He films the gangbang, later on...he beats off to the tape.
 * Donnie: [earnestly] First of all: Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette - Gargamel did! She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village.  But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her.  And as for the whole gangbang scenario - Huh!  I - it just couldn't happen.  Smurfs are asexual, th-they don't even have... reproductive organs under those little... white... pants.  That's what's so illogical, y'know, about being a Smurf.  Y'know what's the point of living... if you don't have a dick?
 * Sean Smith: [sighs] Dammit, Donnie, wh-why you gotta get so smart on us?

 * Donnie: [reading lifeline card] "Ling Ling finds a wallet on the ground filled with money. She takes the wallet to the address on the driver's license but keeps the money inside the wallet." [Scoffs] I'm... I'm sorry, Mrs. Farmer. I don't get this.
 * Kitty Farmer: What don't you get?
 * Donnie: Well, life isn't that simple. I mean, who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love.
 * Kitty Farmer: Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions.
 * Donnie: Okay. But you're not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account here, like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can't just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else.

 * [Donnie tries to kiss Gretchen and she pulls away.]
 * Donnie: Well I-I, sorry I...
 * Gretchen: Donnie wait...
 * Donnie: I like you a lot...
 * Gretchen: I just want it to be... at a time when... it...
 * Donnie: When what?
 * Gretchen: When it reminds me just...
 * Donnie: When it reminds you of how beautiful the world can be?
 * Gretchen: Yeah... [turns her head] and right now there's some fat guy over there staring at us.

 * Donnie: Good morning.
 * Jim Cunningham: Good morning.
 * Donnie: Um... how much are they paying you to be here?
 * Jim Cunningham: Uh, excuse me? What is your name, son?
 * Donnie: Gerard.
 * Jim Cunningham: Gerald, I think you're afraid.
 * Donnie: Are you telling us this stuff so we can buy your book because, I gotta tell ya, if you are, that was some of the worst advice I ever heard.
 * Jim Cunningham: You see how sad this is-
 * Donnie: You want your sister to lose weight? Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey. You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up. You know, it takes a little- little while to find that out. Right, Jim? And you. Yeah, you. Sick of some jerk shoving your head down the toilet? Well, you know what? Maybe you should lift some weights or, uh, take a karate lesson. And the next time he tries to do it, you kick him in the balls!
 * Jim Cunningham: [laughs] Son... do you see this?
 * Donnie: Right?
 * Jim Cunningham: This is an anger prisoner. A textbook example.
 * Donnie: Anger prisoner.
 * Jim Cunningham: Do you see the fear, people? This boy is scared to death of the truth. Son, it breaks my heart to say this, but I believe you are a very troubled and confused young man. I believe you are searching for the answers in all the wrong places.
 * Donnie: You're right, actually. I am pretty- I'm pretty troubled and I'm pretty confused, but I... And I'm afraid. Really, really afraid. Really afraid. But I- I think you're the fucking Antichrist.

 * Donnie Darko: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
 * Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

 * Donnie: [discussing his parents] They didn't buy me what I wanted for Christmas.
 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: What did you want for Christmas that year?
 * Donnie: Hungry Hungry Hippos.
 * Dr. Lilian Thurman: And how did you feel, being denied these Hungry Hungry Hippos?
 * Donnie: Regret.

 * Kitty Farmer: Rose, I'm sure that you're aware of the horrible allegations against Jim Cunningham.
 * Rose Darko: I know. I saw it on TV. Something about a "kiddie porn dungeon."
 * Kitty Farmer: Please, please! Don't use those words! It's obviously some kind of conspiracy to destroy an innocent man. And I have taken it upon myself to spearhead the Jim Cunningham defense campaign. Rose, I have to appear at his arraignment tomorrow morning. And as you know, the girls are scheduled to leave for Los Angeles in the morning. Now, as their coach, I was the obvious choice to chaperone them on their trip, but...
 * Rose Darko: But now, you can't go.
 * Kitty Farmer: Yes.
 * Rose Darko: Hmm.
 * Kitty Farmer: Now, believe me, of all the other mothers, I would never dream of asking you. But none of the other mothers are available to go.
 * Rose Darko: I don't know, Kitty. It's a bad weekend. Eddie's in New York.
 * Kitty Farmer: [tearfully] Rose! I don't know if you realize what an opportunity this is for our daughters! This has been a dream of Samantha's and all of ours for a long time! I made her lead dancer! Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

 * Dr. Lillian Thurman: Do you feel alone right now?
 * Donnie: I... I don't know... I mean, I'd like to believe that I'm not, but I just... I've just never seen any proof, so I... I just don't debate it anymore. You know, it's like I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pro's and con's and in the end, I still wouldn't have any proof, so I just... I just don't debate it anymore. Heh, it's absurd...
 * Dr. Thurman: The search for God is absurd?
 * Donnie: It is if everyone dies alone.
 * Dr. Thurman: Does that scare you?
 * Donnie: I don't wanna be alone.

 * Donnie: How's it feel to have a wacko for a son?
 * Rose Darko: It feels wonderful.

 * Gretchen: Hey. What's going on?
 * David: Horrible accident. My neighbor, he got killed.
 * Gretchen: What happened?
 * David: Got smushed by a jet engine.
 * Gretchen: What was his name?
 * David: Donnie. Donnie Darko.
 * Gretchen: Hmm.
 * David: I feel bad for his family.
 * Gretchen: Yeah.
 * David: Did you know him?
 * Gretchen: No. [waves to Mrs. Darko]

Taglines

 * Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions.
 * You can never go too far.
 * What would you do if you knew the future?
 * Be Afraid of the Dark.
 * Dark. Darker. Darko.
 * Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
 * Why are you looking at me?
 * The only way to unwind the future is to follow the path.
 * Cellar Door.
 * They Made Me Do It.

Cast

 * Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
 * Maggie Gyllenhaal - Elizabeth Darko
 * Jena Malone - Gretchen Ross
 * Beth Grant - Kitty Farmer
 * Drew Barrymore - Karen Pomeroy
 * Patrick Swayze - Jim Cunningham
 * Mary McDonnell - Rose Darko
 * Holmes Osborne - Eddie Darko
 * Daveigh Chase - Samantha Darko
 * Noah Wyle - Prof. Kennth Monnitoff
 * Katharine Ross - Dr. Lillian Thurman
 * James Duval - Frank

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Talk:Ray Charles

To Kalki: about the "interview", I actually saw this interview on TV so it's not a racist joke, on the contrary I think it demonstrates Ray Charles's sense of humor. I didn't remember the exact words so I searched on google for a site that would quote it. I also found the stormfront web site but I was focusing on the quote and didn't see, it was a white nationalist community (now when I look at it, I wonder how I've missed it). I thought Ray said "I could have been black" and was surprised with the "nigger" word. As I didn't remember the exact words, I assumed it was correct and took it, maybe that's where I've been wrong. Sorry, racism was not my intention. I think the quote is genuine but it may have been altered, being written in a racist forum. ~ Romanito 09:58, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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José de San Martín

José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 1778 - 17 August 1850), known simply as José de San Martín or the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire who served as the Protector of Peru.

Quotes

 * The remarkable protection granted to the Army of the Andes by its Patron and General, Our Lady of Cuyo, cannot fail to be observed. I am obliged as a Christian to acknowledge the favour and to present to Our Lady, who is venerated in your Reverence's church, my staff of command which I hereby send: for it belongs to her and may it be a testimony of her protection to our Army.
 * Letter to the superior of the Franciscans at Cuyo (12 August 1818), as quoted in "Virgin of Cuyo" in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1914)

 * I have fulfilled the sacred promises which I made Peru; I have witnessed the assembly of its representatives; the enemy's force threatens the independence of no place that wishes to be free, and that possesses the means of being so. A numerous army, under the direction of warlike chiefs, is ready to march in a few days to put an end to the war. Nothing is left for me to do, but to offer you my sincerest thanks, and to promise, that if the liberties of the Peruvians shall ever be attacked, I shall claim the honor of accompanying them to defend their freedom like a citizen.
 * Resignation address to the Peruvian Congress, (22 September 1820), as quoted in Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'' (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 159

 * I have witnessed the declaration of independence of the States of Chile and Peru. I hold in my hand the standard carried by Pizarro when he enslaved the Empire of the Incas, and I am no longer a public man. Ten years of revolution and war have been repaid to me with usury. My promises to the people for whom I have waged war have been fulfilled — to accomplish their independence and leave the choice of their rulers to their own will. The presence of an unfortunate soldier, however disinterested he may be, is not desirable in newly constituted states. On the other hand, I am tired of having it said that I wish to make myself King. In short, I shall always be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the liberty of the country, but as in the character of a simple private citizen and in no other. As for my conduct in public office, my compatriots, as is usually the case, will divide their opinions; their children will render true judgment. Peruvians, I leave you with your national representation established. If you place your entire confidence in it, count on succes; if not, anarchy will destroy you. May Heaven preside over your destinies and may you reach the summit of happiness and peace.
 * Farewell address to the Peruvian people (20 September 1822), as quoted in Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'' (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 159

 * El Perú es desde este momento libre e independiente por la voluntad general de los pueblos y por la justicia de su causa que Dios defiende. ¡Viva la patria! ¡Viva la libertad! ¡Viva la independencia!
 * From this moment on, Peru is free and independent by the general will of its people and by the justice of its cause that God defends. Long live the nation! Long live the freedom! Long live the independence!
 * (Declaration of the Peruvian independence, July 28, 1821).

 * Your coarse impudence in making me a proposition to employ my sword in a civil war is simply incomprehensible. You insolent scoundrel! Do you realize it has never been dipped in American blood?
 * Response of a request by José de la Riva Agüero for support in a revolution against the Peruvian congress in 1823, as quoted in Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'' (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 201

 * La conciencia es el mejor y más imparcial juez que tiene el hombre de bien.
 * The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.
 * Letter from Brussels (18 December 1827), quoted in La Rivista de Buenos Aires (1864) edited by Miguel Navarro Viola y Vicente G. Quesada, Vol. 4

 * One should be under no illusions as to the future of the Old World. The real contest in the present day is purely social. In a word the struggle lies between him who has nothing and him who has. Figure out the consequences of such a principle, infiltrated in the masses by the harangues of the clubs and the reading of millions of pamphlets.
 * Letter to a General Pinto, as quoted in Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 196

 * Mercedes … this is the exhaustion of death. Mariano — back to my room.
 * Last words, during a fatal heart attack (17 August 1850), as reported in Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 196

 * Mi mejor amigo es el que enmienda mis errores o reprueba mis desaciertos.
 * My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.
 * Quoted in Historia Jeneral de Chile : Pt. 9. Organizacion de la Republica, 1820-1833 (1894) by Diego Barros Arana, p. 298

 * Los soldados de la patria no conocen el lujo, sino la gloria.
 * The soldiers of our land know no luxury, but glory.
 * Documentos del archivo de San Martín (1911) by Museo Mitre, Vol. 11, p. 385

 * Serás lo que debas ser o si no no serás nada.
 * You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing.
 * Quoted in La vida blanca (1960) by Eduardo Mallea, p. 154
 * Variant translation: You will be what you should be or else will not be.

 * Solo quiero Leones en mi regimiento.
 * I only want Lions in my regiment.
 * As quoted in San Martín, The Liberator (1971) by J. C. J. Metford, p. 33

100 Masones Su Palabra (2010)

 * Quotes of San Martín (in Spanish) from 100 Masones Su Palabra (2010) by Antonio Franco Crespo

 * De lo que mis Granaderos son capaces, solo lo sé yo, quien los iguale habrá, quien los exceda no.
 * Of what my Granadiers are capable, only I know — who they equal will exist, who exceeds them won't.

 * Hace más ruído un sólo hombre gritando que cien mil que están callados.
 * More noise occurs from a single man shouting than a hundred thousand who are quiet.

 * Si hay victoria en vencer al enemigo, la hay más cuando el hombre se vence a si mismo.
 * If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself.

 * Una derrota peleada vale más que una victoria casual.
 * A well-fought defeat is worth more than a casual victory.

Quotes about San Martín

 * José de San Martín … was an enigmatic figure — a revolutionary and a conservative, a professional soldier and an intellectual, a taciturn man who nevertheless was able to inspire the peoples of South America to follow his armies and accept his battle strategies. One of the great leaders in the wars for independence, he was a pivotal force in the liberation of Chile and Peru from Spanish rule.
 * Book overview by Yale Press of San Martin : Argentine Soldier, American Hero (2009) by John Lynch

 * San Martín, the lord of war, by secret choice of God, was great when the Sun was shining on him, and even greater in the sunset. Great father of the Argentine People, Greatest hero of freedom! beneath his shadow the fatherland grows in virtue, in work, and in peace.  San Martín! San Martín! may your name, the honour and glory of the people of the South, assure for ever the fates of the fatherland enlightened by your light.
 * Segundo M. Argarañaz, in "Anthem to the Liberator General San Martín"

 * San Martin, behind the screen of the Andes, and only a hundred and fifty miles from Santiago, was forging a thunderbolt destined to shatter into fragments the edifice which Abascal had been so skilfully constructing through seven laborious years. The story of how the silent Argentine gathered and equipped the "Army of the Andes" has already been told … his marvellous march over the cloud-high passes, the descent into the plain of Aconcagua made so suddenly that the Spanish forces could not hurry up to bar his way, the prompt advance over the low transverse range which forms-the northern boundary of the plain where Santiago stands, and the overwhelming victory in the gorge of Chacabuco against the pick of the Spanish veterans, who confidently stood to the attack, never dreaming until San Martin was right upon them that his main body had had time to reach the spot. The Spanish authorities at Madrid and Lima had made the irretrievable mistake of underestimating the efficiency of his army. They thought the troops in Chile amply able to take care of any four thousand men the patriots could get together, but San Martin's army was differently provided and organised than the undisciplined masses which had been routed at Huaqui, Vilcapugio, and Rancagua. The Spanish generals were not so much surprised at his crossing the Andes as at finding the troops which reached the Chilean plains to be well furnished with artillery, cavalry, and ammunition, perfectly ready for an aggressive campaign, and a match man for man for any force that could be brought against them. The royalists lost twelve hundred of their best men at Chacabuco; only a thousand escaped from the field to fly in disorder toward Santiago.
 * Thomas Cleland Dawson, in The South American republics (1904), Vol. 2, p. 168

 * San Martin with his host of hardy gauchos and Chilean exiles assumed full control of the capital. He summoned an assembly of notables who promptly and unanimously elected him "Governor of Chile with plenary powers." But this was not what the far-sighted and patriotic soldier wanted. He realised that Chile could never give that unquestioning support so vital to the success of his cherished campaign against Peru so long as any stranger, even himself, governed by force. San Martin peremptorily declined the honour, but intimated that he would be glad to see his staunch friend, O'Higgins, selected dictator, and accordingly the enemy of the Carreras was placed at the head of the new Chilean government.
 * Thomas Cleland Dawson, in The South American republics (1904), Vol. 2, p. 169

 * Both San Martín and Bolívar have been accused by their enemies of plotting to make themselves kings, but most scholars agree today that there is no basis for either accusation. Bolívar, with his sense of drama, felt that to make himself monarch would mean a refutation of his entire past career. Such an attempt would render him ridiculous at the bar of history, and although he intended to keep political control in his hands, it was the control exercised by the power of a political chief, a kind of super-boss. San Martín's interests and talents lay in military campaigns. He had no aptitude for politics and it bewildered him. His personal ambition so often expressed in his letters, never varied. It was to hand the pacified country over to competent governing hands and then retire to Mendoza and end his days as a contented farmer. He was always the recluse, the ascetic introvert, and he was happiest in solitude. He evidently preferred some form of centralized republic, such as the Unitarios advocated, for Argentina and Chile, but for Peru he felt the feudal conditions there required a constitutional monarchy. … Few public figures have been pursued with such relentless hate, and for so little reason. He had a reserve and aloofness that was rarely penetrated and a scorn of stooping to say the popular thing that would curry favor.
 * Margaret Hayne Harrison, in Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943), p. 199

 * San Martin fostered a level of discipline and training unknown elsewhere in South America. … San Martin founded an officers' academy, whose syllabus included mathematics and other sciences which he considered essential, and those failing to meet his high standards were dismissed: "I only want lions in my regiment," he declared.
 * Terry Hooker and Ron Poulter in The Armies of Bolivar and San Martin (1991), p. 14

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Rose Rosengard Subotnik

Rose Rosengard Subotnik (born in 1942) is a musicologist, who is currently a Professor Emerita of Music at Brown University.

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 * For me... the notion of an intimate relationship between music and society functions not as a distant goal but as a starting point of great immediacy, and not as an hypothesis but as an assumption. It functions as an idea about a relationship which in turn allows the examination of that relationship from many points of view and its exploration in many directions. It is an idea that generates studies the goal of which (or at least one important goal of which) is to articulate something essential about why any particular music is the way it is in particular, that is, to achieve insight into the character of its identity.
 * Rose Rosengard Subotnik (1987). "On grounding Chopin", Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521379776.

 * This shared concern with continuity accounts for a good part of the affinity I feel with Schoenberg, an affinity I have openly claimed in drawing from him both the title and the subtitle of the present volume. To me, as to Schoenberg, such continuity constitutes important evidence that the essentially aesthetic act of constructing a 'text,' whether on paper or in one's professional life, has been subjected to rational restraints, in all the Kantian senses of 'rationality.' From this viewpoint, continuity is valued as a sign that a text has been carefully constructed to meet rigorous standards not only of formal coherence but also of logical precision and, espeically crucial, of moral scrupulousness.
 * Subotnik, Rose Rosengard (1991). Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music, p.xx. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816618739.

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Mansfield Park (novel)

Mansfield Park (written between 1812 and 1814; Published July 1814) is a novel by Jane Austen.

 * Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere— and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.

 * Everybody likes to go their own way— to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

 * I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

 * "I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."

 * How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

 * If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

 * It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

 * Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

 * Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

 * One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

 * Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

 * The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

 * The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.

 * There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.

 * We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

 * Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

 * Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination. Chapter 46

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Would be good to get some secondary sourced quotes for an About section. Cirt (talk) 21:44, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

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