Linux Literature

Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
                -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Gone With The Wind LITE(tm)
        -- by Margaret Mitchell

        A woman only likes men she can't have and the South gets trashed.

Gift of the Magi LITE(tm)
        -- by O. Henry

        A husband and wife forget to register their gift preferences.

The Old Man and the Sea LITE(tm)
        -- by Ernest Hemingway

        An old man goes fishing, but doesn't have much luck.

Diary of a Young Girl LITE(tm)
        -- by Anne Frank

        A young girl hides in an attic but is discovered.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession.
You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy
officials have gone by.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must
have somebody to divide it with.
                -- Mark Twain

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
down-stairs a step at a time.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?  And hain't that a big
enough majority in any town?
                -- Mark Twain, "Huckleberry Finn"

Harp not on that string.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not
advice, it is merely custom.
                -- Mark Twain

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"