December 2009
69 posts
Everything is more complicated than you think.
You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce.
And they say there is no fate, but there is: it’s what...
“The very word ‘war’, therefore, has become misleading. It would...”
– George Orwell
“You see weird things driving… I’ve never understood log trucks....”
– Brian Regan
“Well, I passed lather, but I failed rinse… and then I failed repeat,...”
– Luanne, King of The Hill. I don’t care if it’s a crap show. I loved Luanne. R.I.P Brittany Murphy. :(
“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to...”
– Ophelia, Hamlet
“So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much...”
– Lee Child, Die Trying
“Honor doesn’t count for shit when you’re looking at a dead little...”
– Brian Moreland, Taps
“Orson Welles est une manière de géant au regard enfantin, un abre bourré...”
– Jean Cocteau
I was excited to quote Edward VIII -- the king who...
… but it turns out he only said one thing about love, and pretty well everything else that spilled out of him was a vile, racist remark. Enjoy the collection here!
“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future,...”
– Eric Rücker Eddison, A Fish Dinner in Memison
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is...”
– James Nicoll
“fluorescent lights engage
black birds frying on a wire
same birds that...”
– Neko Case, Things That Scare Me
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he...”
– D. Elton Trueblood
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
– T. S. Eliot, Gerontion
“Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you...”
– Philip K. Dick