While I think of it
Jun. 16th, 2009 03:18 pmThis is the crassest of egotism, but these quotes pleased me for different ways and I wanted to put the one that isn't mine somewhere I could find it again:
"How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks."
Dorothy L Sayers Gaudy Night
I knew there was a reason I liked them :)
( Cut for egotism and because it's a tiny spoiler for my Big Bang )
Yes, yes, I know, I'm not nearly in the same league, but my own writing style has ended up so heavily influence by Sayers (and Pratchett - there's a pairing for you), so it doesn't feel that ridiculous. Egotistical, but not ridiculous ;)
Also, we mustn't forget that:
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
Also Gaudy Night
"How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks."
Dorothy L Sayers Gaudy Night
I knew there was a reason I liked them :)
( Cut for egotism and because it's a tiny spoiler for my Big Bang )
Yes, yes, I know, I'm not nearly in the same league, but my own writing style has ended up so heavily influence by Sayers (and Pratchett - there's a pairing for you), so it doesn't feel that ridiculous. Egotistical, but not ridiculous ;)
Also, we mustn't forget that:
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
Also Gaudy Night