Growing up homeschooled, I found myself subjected to plenty of book reports and creative writing assignments from my dad. Of these assignments, one I remember in particular was my assignment for the book The Picture Of Dorian Gray. I had to write a story that reflected it and was similar to it, yet different. It was extremely fun for me and I enjoyed both writing the story and reading the book. If you haven't read the book- I highly recommend it. It's a classic and a great story, if you can find the one lying beneath it.
Hell, even if you have read the book before, now may be a good time to revisit it. I always find that I can pull new things from books each time I read them, so maybe you'll gain a new interpretation in doing so. In any case, here are a few of my favorite quotes from that book. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” “To define is to limit.” “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.” “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
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Michelle Armistead
12/7/2016 02:17:36 pm
Hey Maddie,
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