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Dennis Hopper Waterworld Jeanne Tripplehorn

Blacula Definitely Blacula

I never ever mind when someone jumps in. Sorry I didn't get back in.

Am I right? Am I right? Not trying to steal a turn here: I just figured... Cornicicles OvenYarnheehaw Chronicles of Narnia

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone.

Supergirl Helen Slater The Legend of Billie Jean

I don't know ANY of the quotes, but I'm starting to recognize that voice (and that says a lot about a jou--- I mean, author).

Anna Paquin X-Men Halle Berry

However did you deduce that. First graf is the opening of A Study in Scarlet. The quotes are the first exchange between Holmes and Watson. You're up.

"In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as assistant surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties." ... "How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." "How on earth did you know that?" I asked in astonishment.

Toni Morrison

EVERYTHING ties back to the Dark Tower. :)

"Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons. Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of Kings, perhaps even thousands; when time goes on long enough, not even historians can remember everything."

Dassa Dickens

Dooj gets it. The quotes are all from Les Miserables, the last from the dedication/prologue.

As long as there shall exist, as a consequence of laws and customs, a social damnation artificially creating hells in the midst of civilization, and complicating the destiny which is divine with a fatality which is human; as long as the three problems of the age - the degredation of man by the proletariat, the ruin of woman by hunger, the atrophy of the child by the night - are not solved; as long as in cetain regions social asphyxia shall be possible; in other terms, and from a still more extended point of view, as long as there shall be on the earth ignorance and wretchedness, books of the nature of this one cannot be useless. And just to head it off, it is not Marx or Engels.

Neither Kafka nor Dickens.

Not an American. "The two highest functionaries of the state are the wet nurse and the school teacher." *** "Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory."

Nope.

Here we go... One of my favorite passages of any book ever... "The glance of a woman resembles certain wheels which are apparently gentle but are formidable: you daily pass by their side with impunity, and without suspecting anything, and the moment arrives when you even forget that the thing is there. You come, you go, you dream, you speak, you laugh, and all in a minute you feel yourself caught, and it is all over with you. The wheel holds you, the glance has caught you; it has caugtht, no matter where or how, by some part of your thought which dragged after you, or by some inattention on your part. You are lost, and your whole body will be drawn in; a series of mysterious forces seizes you, and you struggle in vain, for human aid is no longer possible. You pass from cog-wheel to cog-wheel, from agony to agony, from torture to torture -- you and your mind, your fortune, your future and your soul; and according to whether you are in the power of a malevolent soul or of a benevolent heart, you will issue from this frightful machinery either disfigured by shame or transfigured by passion."

I'll get one in a minute

Krakhauser?

Ok by me

Sounds like "Into Thin Air," but I can't remember the author's name. John K something.