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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Apr 9, 2016 4:16:13 GMT -5
"Wanting to be book is not book."
–Jack Donaghy
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 13, 2016 20:43:36 GMT -5
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Goethe MY WEEK THUS FAR. |
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 18, 2016 13:09:03 GMT -5
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
- Tom Waits
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 18, 2016 17:30:52 GMT -5
I don’t want knowledge, I want certainty
—Bertrand Russell
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 16:49:19 GMT -5
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
—Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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Post by Dellarigg on Apr 19, 2016 16:53:10 GMT -5
Two scared people don't make one brave one, have you noticed?
- Penelope Mortimer, in a letter to Richard Yates.
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 19, 2016 20:33:31 GMT -5
"It’s hard to get a man to believe something when his salary depends on his not believing it."
-Upton Sinclair
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 19, 2016 20:34:42 GMT -5
Once when Confucius's disciple Zai Yu was sleeping in the middle of the day, the Master said: "You can't carve rotten wood, and you can't whitewash a filthy wall. But what's the use of admonishing a person like Zai Yu? I used to listen to what people said and then assume that they would do just what they said they would. But now after listening to someone, I wait and see if what they do is the same as what they said. Zai Yu helped change my thinking on this." "Fuck you, Confucius!" -Zai Yu |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Apr 22, 2016 2:24:31 GMT -5
"Never trust a big butt and a smile. That girl is poison."
–Bel Biv de Voe
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Apr 27, 2016 13:21:53 GMT -5
"The bottom line is that this is a mess that makes Vietnam look good."
–unidentified Iraq veteran
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Apr 27, 2016 13:24:43 GMT -5
"It’s hard to get a man to believe something when his salary depends on his not believing it." -Upton Sinclair "People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution." –Tony Benn |
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Post by Pastafarian on May 3, 2016 8:30:45 GMT -5
"The bottom line is that this is a mess that makes Vietnam look good." –unidentified Iraq veteran "Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together." -Kent Brockman |
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Post by Dellarigg on May 6, 2016 20:31:40 GMT -5
Humanity has its need to dream. And if you do not give humanity the good music, the good pictures, the good books that will set it dreaming right, it will dream the bad dreams that lead to lies and death.
- Rebecca West
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Post by Dellarigg on May 6, 2016 20:34:04 GMT -5
Rock n roll is making a cheerleader want acne scars.
- Chrissie Hynde
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Post by Dellarigg on May 6, 2016 20:48:36 GMT -5
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
- Pascal
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Post by LazBro on May 11, 2016 8:20:05 GMT -5
Hey mods,
Can this thread be reassigned to active duty? Obviously there is still a want for this one, and clicking over to the "Archive" boards more or less only for this thread is boring. Let's put it back on the main thread or TMI or somewhere.
Yes?
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 11:54:34 GMT -5
Hey mods, Can this thread be reassigned to active duty? Obviously there is still a want for this one, and clicking over to the "Archive" boards more or less only for this thread is boring. Let's put it back on the main thread or TMI or somewhere. Yes? I was wondering about that! |
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Post by Dellarigg on May 11, 2016 15:24:54 GMT -5
Hey mods, Can this thread be reassigned to active duty? Obviously there is still a want for this one, and clicking over to the "Archive" boards more or less only for this thread is boring. Let's put it back on the main thread or TMI or somewhere. Yes? I can't quite place where this is from - Oscar Wilde? GB Shaw? |
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Post by LazBro on May 11, 2016 15:26:35 GMT -5
Hey mods, Can this thread be reassigned to active duty? Obviously there is still a want for this one, and clicking over to the "Archive" boards more or less only for this thread is boring. Let's put it back on the main thread or TMI or somewhere. Yes? I can't quite place where this is from - Oscar Wilde? GB Shaw? Samuel Johnson. From his earlier stuff. |
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Post by ayatollahcm on May 29, 2016 14:56:03 GMT -5
Three of my favorites right here, with wildly different lengths:
"Harder edge pop, sometimes with very personal lyrics, coexisting with records that are nothing but fun. Sax solos are replaced by guitar solos, but they still try to do it all in three minutes. It was the moment when pop became rock, straight became hip, innocent became conscious, and then self-conscious. AM radio became FM. Mono became stereo and 2-track recording became 4-track, then 8, then 16, then 24. Before rock split into a dozen subgenres, it was the last of the purity, with truly timeless rock and roll classics being played by thousands of local bands, all sharing the common ground of the thrill of discovery, exploration, and the unprecedented liberation of living out one's fantasies, in addition to, at least temporarily, experiencing the relief of released frustration, confusion, humiliation, pain, and suffering which no teenager can really escape. It might be because of some uncontrollable genetic compulsion by the bands, or an unfulfilled need by the audience, but all I know is, this music we used to call rock and roll and now call garage rock is still being produced. It continues to possess the one profoundly important common quality it had forty years ago: it is cool."- Steve Van Zandt, on the relevance of rock music '65-'68
"The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level." - Chuck Lamar
"When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homie." - Randy Moss
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Post by moimoi on Jun 6, 2016 0:57:18 GMT -5
Ali quotes:
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact; it's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
"I got speed and endurance./You'd better increase your insurance."
“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 1, 2016 16:40:26 GMT -5
'What good was a spell, when it was curses that were needed?'
- LP Hartley, The Go-Between
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jul 18, 2016 13:10:36 GMT -5
"This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love fig newtons."
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Post by SLOW on Jul 21, 2016 2:15:01 GMT -5
[He] had that rare gift of charm, a charisma that enabled him to skate over the pain his failings caused others, and inspired a degree of tolerance, and even forgiveness, in those he hurt.
—John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels
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Post by SLOW on Jul 22, 2016 1:53:46 GMT -5
[He] had that rare gift of charm, a charisma that enabled him to skate over the pain his failings caused others, and inspired a degree of tolerance, and even forgiveness, in those he hurt. —John Connolly, The Wrath of Angelshmmm-- narcissist-- was the character a narc? No. He's a very minor character, only on a page or two. That quote just reminded me of somebody I used to know. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 22, 2016 13:08:41 GMT -5
'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.'
- Orwell
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 22, 2016 13:12:55 GMT -5
'No man would live his life over again, is an old and true saying ... At the same time, there are probably moments in most men's lives, which they would live over the rest of life to regain?'
- Byron
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 22, 2016 13:14:16 GMT -5
'To anyone who knows anything about history, disobedience is man's original virtue.'
- Oscar Wilde
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Post by LazBro on Jul 22, 2016 13:29:47 GMT -5
Dellarigg has done some good work here today. (BTW, I wasn't joking earlier. I'm not a mod, but can we get this bitch back in rotation? This is the only reason I go to archive.)
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Post by ayatollahcm on Aug 2, 2016 4:00:32 GMT -5
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
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