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"America is that away, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now."~from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"
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06-13-2012, 12:42 PM | #1862 |
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"F*** reality, baby. Let's go save the universe." ~From The Magician King by Lev Grossman
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06-16-2012, 02:18 AM | #1863 |
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Dickens's gift is how spontaneously he can render a situation both sympathetic and hilarious - and charged with his fierce indignation, with what Johnson calls his "furious exposure of social evils." Yet Dickens's greatest risk-taking, as a writer, has little to do with his social morality. What he is most unafraid of is sentimentality - of anger, of passion, of emotionally and psychologically revealing himself; he is not self-protective; he is never careful. In the present, post-modernist praise of the craft of writing - of the subtle, of the exquisite - we may have refined the very heart out of the novel. Dickens would have had more fun with today's literary elitists and minimalists than he had with Mr Pumblechook and Mrs Jellyby. He was the king of the novel in that century which produced models of the form.
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Lady Presenter: Well, that's the end of the film. Now, here's the meaning of life. [Receives an envelope]
Lady Presenter: Thank you, Brigitte. [Opens envelope, reads what's inside] Lady Presenter: M-hmm. Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. And, finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy, which, it seems, is the only way, these days, to get the jaded, video-sated public off their f***ing arses and back in the sodding cinema. Family entertainment? Bollocks. What they want is filth: people doing things to each other with chainsaws during tupperware parties, babysitters being stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates, vigilante groups strangling chickens, armed bands of theatre critics exterminating mutant goats. Where's the fun in pictures? Oh, well, there we are. Here's the theme music. Goodnight. ~From Monty Python's Meaning of Life |
06-20-2012, 06:45 AM | #1865 |
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A few recently added to my quotes file:
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. - Saul Bellow 6/10/1915. I never change, I simply become more myself. - Joyce Carol Oates Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. - Allen Ginsberg We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. - Robert Fulghum |
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“Sometimes we all need a lesson in keeping quiet. Hard as it is, sometimes we need to hold back.”
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Something I ran across from Carl Sagan:
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"Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
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"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." ~T.S. Elliot
“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune’s all we are.” – Grant Morrison |
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“You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”
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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
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"The things that matter don't necessarily make sense." Russell Hoban, TURTLE DIARY.
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