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The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Picture of Dorian Grey
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Re: The Picture of Dorian Grey
Great book. Lord Henry is awesome: "He never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night."
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Your initial impression isn't really wrong, but yeah, one of my favourites 
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Possibly the greatest book ever written.
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Well it is written by Oscar Wilde after all 
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Wilde and Joyce. Proving that Irish people write English better than the English since 1881.
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Oscar Wilde was Irish? I had no idea. I always thought he was EnglishAnimavore wrote:Wilde and Joyce. Proving that Irish people write English better than the English since 1881.
You know, I don't believe I've read anything from Wilde
I should, since he has a reputation for being quite clever.People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
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Which one wrote The Commitments again?Animavore wrote:Wilde and Joyce. Proving that Irish people write English better than the English since 1881.
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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tattuchu wrote:
Oscar Wilde was Irish? I had no idea. I always thought he was English
Full name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, from Dublin no less.
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Roddy Doyle. What about it?Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Which one wrote The Commitments again?Animavore wrote:Wilde and Joyce. Proving that Irish people write English better than the English since 1881.
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He was honorary English!tattuchu wrote:Oscar Wilde was Irish? I had no idea. I always thought he was EnglishAnimavore wrote:Wilde and Joyce. Proving that Irish people write English better than the English since 1881.
You know, I don't believe I've read anything from Wilde
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Yeah. The English have a habit of calling successful Irish people their own.Rum wrote:He was honorary English!tattuchu wrote:Oscar Wilde was Irish? I had no idea. I always thought he was EnglishAnimavore wrote:Wilde and Joyce. Proving that Irish people write English better than the English since 1881.
You know, I don't believe I've read anything from Wilde
Eddie Irvine anyone?
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Don't forget Beckett. Good old Sam.Animavore wrote:Wilde and Joyce. Proving that Irish people write English better than the English since 1881.
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I love this book. I enjoyed reading it over the summer while at work with my hard core religious boss. She kept shooting the book evil looks.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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