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"When all's said and done, Civilization is just straight lines and bonnie white paint." -The Various Flavors of Coffee, Anthony Capella
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02-26-2020, 03:51 PM | #3962 |
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From "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia Book 2)" by C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes -
"But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet." |
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02-28-2020, 09:07 AM | #3963 |
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“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.
Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.” ― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here |
02-28-2020, 02:47 PM | #3964 |
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"That's the worst of doing anything with boys. You're all such swaggering, bullying idiots..." ~The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis
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"I can see that figure now -- pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby."
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Life is short and life isn’t fair. You’ve got to grab it and own it before it owns you. And I might as well kick somebody in the huevos if I have to, right?
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" Nothing is more vain than dying for love. You have to live. And a living Lorenzo is worth more than a Romeo on the ground ".
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From "The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)" by Donna Tartt -
"And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say to you, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgently as if I were standing in the room with you. That life—whatever else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch." |
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Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that the listener has.
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"The Bible could not imagine a scenario in which God reprents of having created Homo sapiens, wipes this sinful ape off the face of the earth, and then spends eternity enjoying the antics of ostriches, kangaroos and panda bears."
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A couple of quotes from: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil (2016)
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"You must stay drink on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury
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03-26-2020, 10:52 PM | #3975 |
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From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman -
"“None of this matters. The world is burning,” says Loki. “The mortals are dead. Midgard is destroyed. I have won.” “I can see further than you can, Loki. I can see all the way to the world-tree,” Heimdall will tell him with his last breath. “Surtr’s fire cannot touch the world-tree, and two people have hidden themselves safely in the trunk of Yggdrasil. The woman is called Life, the man is called Life’s Yearning. Their descendants will populate the earth. It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.”" Last edited by covingtoncat73; 04-05-2020 at 09:51 AM. |
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