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[ElectricBlue]

"Hilarity ensues."

Hypoxia

 

[Bramblethorn]

"The wound is the place where the light enters you." - Rumi, later paraphrased by Leonard Cohen.

 

[jehoram]

A long one, forgive me, but one very dear to my heart. From Kurt Vonnegut‘s Slaughterhouse-Five.

Great quote. Kurt Vonnegut was almost as quotable as his hero Mark Twain. Another Vonnegut quote I've taken to heart is "Say what you will about the sweet mystery of unquestioning faith, I find the capacity for it horrifying and absolutely vile."

 

[Handley_Page]

"Wot are a safety catch ?"
(Terry Pratchett; Men at Arms)

 

[Tio_Narratore]

"If I was ever sure of anything, I forgot what it was." -- Tom Paton

 

[Rosa2019]

"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?"--------The internet

The same goes to love.

Does anybody have an answer ?

 

[Handley_Page]

Two plus Two equals Five; for moderately large values of Two.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."

- Charles V

 

[Hypoxia]

"Ooh eee, ooh ah-ah; ting, tang, walla-walla bing bang."
--Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

 

[whowrotethisshit]

“Hey, nit squat! These are written by norms to scare norms. And do you know what the monsters and demons and rancid spirits are? Us, that’s what. You and me. We are the things that come to the norms in nightmares. The thing that lurks in the bell tower and bites out the throats of the choirboys—that’s you, Oly. And the thing in the closet that makes the babies scream in the dark before it sucks their last breath—that’s me. And the rustling in the brush and the strange piping cries that chill the spine on a deserted road at twilight—that’s the twins singing practice scales while they look for berries.
Don't shake your head at me! These books teach me a lot. They don't scare me because they're about me. Turn the page.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

 

[SamScribble]

'A magnum is the perfect size for two gentlemen - when one of the gentlemen is not drinking.' - Winston Churchill

 

[RocketLauncher]

“Hey, nit squat! These are written by norms to scare norms. And do you know what the monsters and demons and rancid spirits are? Us, that’s what. You and me. We are the things that come to the norms in nightmares. The thing that lurks in the bell tower and bites out the throats of the choirboys—that’s you, Oly. And the thing in the closet that makes the babies scream in the dark before it sucks their last breath—that’s me. And the rustling in the brush and the strange piping cries that chill the spine on a deserted road at twilight—that’s the twins singing practice scales while they look for berries.
Don't shake your head at me! These books teach me a lot. They don't scare me because they're about me. Turn the page.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

Love, love, love that book!

Obligatory quote:

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[whowrotethisshit]

Love, love, love that book!

Obligatory quote:

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love that quote


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“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”

“The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.”


―*Gillian Flynn,*Dark Places

 

[RocketLauncher]

I love that quote


....

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”

“The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue.”


―*Gillian Flynn,*Dark Places

Nihilists crack me up.
I used to think Schopenhauer was a right misogynist until i read some more of his works. Day-um he truly is the grandfather of misanthropy. Too funny!

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[whowrotethisshit]

This quote is long but exceptionally good I re-read it all the time.

“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. There is nothing in nature like it. Not in robins or bison or in the banging tails of your hunting dogs and not in blossoms or suckling foal. Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplations - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-carefully. And if you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love. Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges: the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it. How do you know you have graduated? You don't. What you do know is that you are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself which is to say He is interested only in love. Do you understand me? God is not interested in you. He is interested in love and the bliss it brings to those who understand and share the interest. Couples that enter the sacrament of marriage and are not prepared to go the distance or are not willing to get right with the real love of God cannot thrive. They may cleave together like robins or gulls or anything else that mates for life. But if they eschew this mighty course, at the moment when all are judged for the disposition of their eternal lives, their cleaving won't mean a thing. God bless the pure and holy. Amen.”
―*Toni Morrison,*Paradise

 

[PoisonPen33]

"Publish and be damned." - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington