December 2011
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November 2011
3 posts
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
– William Blake
“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road...”
– Richard Le Gallienne
September 2011
11 posts
“He must have been the only person who got any work done in the last 10 years.”
– Michael Moore, upon learning that Osama bin Laden secured his safe house by having no cell or internet access.
“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he...”
– George Orwell
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...”
– Vladimir Nabakov
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical...
“Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence”
– Napoleon
August 2011
5 posts
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first...”
– George Orwell
“No, my queen!
Snow White is still the fairest in the land.
That’s the...”
– The Magic Mirror, Snow White
January 2010
1 post
“If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all...”
– Buckminster Fuller
November 2009
15 posts
3 tags
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is...”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“No…It wasn’t the airplanes.
It was beauty killed the beast.”
– last line in *King Kong*
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The Pornographer's Truth
People who have a nice, healthy connection to their crotch have a better connection between the head and their heart, and in a land of sexually healthy people we’d have less crime, less poverty, less divorce, less drug use-and fewer right-wing Republicans
- Larry Flynt
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“I was born ugly!
Do you know what it is to be an ugly woman?
Do you know...”
– For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
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A Little Birdie Told Me So, Lee Wiley
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“I regret to say that we of the F.B.I.
are powerless to act in cases of...”
– J. Edgar Hoover
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“There is grandeur in this view of life… whilst this planet has gone cycling on...”
– Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
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October 2009
30 posts
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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Like many men, I too have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed.”
– Marlon Brando on The Larry King Show
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“We are all Jerry Springer people. We just haven’t been on the show yet.”
– Marilyn Manson
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“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
– Lin Yutang
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Heavenly Voices
Here’s another question I’ve been pondering — what is all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four people believe in angels. Are you fucking stupid? Has everybody lost their mind? You know what I think it is? I think it’s a massive, collective, psychotic chemical flashback for all the drugs smoked, swallowed, shot, and absorbed rectally by all...
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“Literature is news that stays news.’”
– Ezra Pound
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“It’s an experience beyond words. Those who know can not tell, and those who tell...”
– Joseph Campbell, explaining to Bill Moyers that at some point in life God makes a sudden, palpable appearance.