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- #921
- Posted: 08/17/2012 18:08
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| Polythene Pam wrote: |
Gussetivi as Joan Of Arc
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"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth."
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I'm much too big of a pussy to be Joan of Arc, but thanks anyway.
Also, it's gussteivi, how dare you spell my bizarre looking user name wrong!
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alelsupreme
Awful.
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Age: 28
- #922
- Posted: 08/17/2012 18:41
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| Polythene Pam wrote: |
Itsit as Anne Frank
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"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
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I'm not sure just how well this fits... but hell, seeing some of the other options, being an innocent diary writer who inspires one of the best albums of all time is fine with me!
she never actually wrote that quote :p
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- #923
- Posted: 08/17/2012 19:01
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| tekin wrote: | | Has anyone ever done a BEA members as novelists before? |
DO IT!!!
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- #924
- Posted: 08/17/2012 19:04
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| Polythene Pam wrote: | This was going to be "BEA Members as kings, dictators, presidents, spiritual leaders, Philosophers and assorted political figureheads" I have now decided to include pretty much anything. 
anothergreenworld2 as Charles Darwin
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me." |
I absolutely believe in evolution and the beauty of the earth
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- #925
- Posted: 08/17/2012 19:19
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BEA members as Novelists
Part 1 of 3
In Alphabetical Order
19loveless91=Milan Kundera
No love can survive muteness.
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40footwolf=J. R. R. Tolkien
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures
Albummaster=Miguel de Cervantes
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault
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An_outlaw=Marcel Proust
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
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Anothergreenworld2=Margaret Atwood
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
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Applerill=Gabriel García Márquez
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Boogn1sh=Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Bork=Hemingway
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Borve Baunehoj=William Faulkner
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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Btener11= John Barth
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
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CalamityCat= C. S. Lewis
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Captain_Dude=Leo Tolstoy
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
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Cartoken=Gustave Flaubert
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Cellardoor=Albert Camus
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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Charicature=Jorge Luis Borges
Life itself is a quotation.
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Dlggld=Joseph Heller
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
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Eggmen/Walrus/Taxman=Laurence Sterne
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
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ffudnebbuh= Malcolm Lowry
And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.
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- #926
- Posted: 08/17/2012 22:13
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| tekin wrote: | Dlggld=Joseph Heller
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
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Never heard of this lad,i'll put Catch 22 on 'the list'.
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- #927
- Posted: 08/17/2012 22:27
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| Polythene Pam wrote: |
mancsoulsister as Florence Nightingale
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"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
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Oh YAY - another 'nice' matronly old woman to add to my enormous 'mum or mum like' collection...
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HigherThanTheSun
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Location: UK 
- #928
- Posted: 08/17/2012 22:57
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| Polythene Pam wrote: | HigherThanTheSun as Malcolm X
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery" |
Not sure about this pick 
The quote though, yeah that sounds about right.
Great effort  . I've been meaning to do one of these myself but it seems like such hard work...
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Shut up mate you're boring!
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- #929
- Posted: 08/18/2012 01:55
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| mancsoulsister wrote: | Oh YAY - another 'nice' matronly old woman to add to my enormous 'mum or mum like' collection...
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Nice?? Really?? NICE?? Noway.
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- #930
- Posted: 08/18/2012 01:57
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| HigherThanTheSun wrote: | Not sure about this pick
The quote though, yeah that sounds about right.
Great effort . I've been meaning to do one of these myself but it seems like such hard work... |
It's not really what he fought for, Although I can imagine you being radical and proactive in what you believe in. (if necessary)
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