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cryowizardI have watched "Love Song for Bobby Long" many times and love it more with every pass. What is it about self-destructive guilt-ridden intellectuals with a heart of gold that attracts me so much?
Literature is a side subject in the film. Besides other things, main characters -- John Travolta's Bobby Long (ex-English professor) and Gabriel Macht's Lawson Pines (his ex-TA) engage in a competition: one says a quote and the other must guess the author. This goes on throughout the film so there is plenty of quotes. Enough in fact to have prompted me to collect them, so here they are.
He'd make a lovely corpse.
(Charles Dickens)
We cannot tear out a single page of our lives but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
(George Sand)
We die only once, and for such a long time.
(Mollier)
You must work as if you were going to live a hundred years, and pray as if you were going to die tomorrow.
(Ben Franklin)
Never fight fair with a stranger.
(Arthur Miller)
Friend by enemy I call you out.
You with a bad coin in your socket,
You my friend there with a winning air
Who palmed the lie on me when you looked
Brassily at my shyest secret,
<...>
And my whole heart under your hammer,
<...>
That though I loved them for their faults
As much as for their good,
My friends were enemies on stilts
With their heads in a cunning cloud.
(Dylan Thomas)
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
(Robert Frost)
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
(T. S. Eliot)
Literature is a side subject in the film. Besides other things, main characters -- John Travolta's Bobby Long (ex-English professor) and Gabriel Macht's Lawson Pines (his ex-TA) engage in a competition: one says a quote and the other must guess the author. This goes on throughout the film so there is plenty of quotes. Enough in fact to have prompted me to collect them, so here they are.
He'd make a lovely corpse.
(Charles Dickens)
We cannot tear out a single page of our lives but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
(George Sand)
We die only once, and for such a long time.
(Mollier)
You must work as if you were going to live a hundred years, and pray as if you were going to die tomorrow.
(Ben Franklin)
Never fight fair with a stranger.
(Arthur Miller)
Friend by enemy I call you out.
You with a bad coin in your socket,
You my friend there with a winning air
Who palmed the lie on me when you looked
Brassily at my shyest secret,
<...>
And my whole heart under your hammer,
<...>
That though I loved them for their faults
As much as for their good,
My friends were enemies on stilts
With their heads in a cunning cloud.
(Dylan Thomas)
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
(Robert Frost)
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
(T. S. Eliot)
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Date: 2007-10-23 12:10 pm (UTC)AS
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