Your favorite quotations and extracts

[basketweaver]

Whenever I run into a great quotation or passage, I open up a folder in my Evernote and paste it in. It's really enjoyable to go back and read over the quotations I've accumulated over the years. So post your favorite ones here. I would really be interested in seeing what you guys have. Pretentious quotes and dumb jokes are both equally welcome itt:

"Now listen to me, please: On a winter day, when you were a lycée student, it was snowing, and you were lost in thought. You could hear God inside you, and you were trying to forget him. You could see that the world was one, but you thought that if you could close your eyes to this vision, you could be more unhappy and also more intelligent. And you were right. Only people who are very intelligent and very unhappy can write good poems. So you heroically undertook to endure the pains of faithlessness, just to be able to write good poems. But you didn't realize then that when you lost that voice inside you, you'd end up all alone in the empty universe."
Orhan Pamuk

"You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is -- particularly the artist -- particularly myself!"
Hermann Hesse

"Shame on me for changing. Shame on you for staying the same."
Jhene Aiko

"I'm the last survivor of a dead culture, and I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead."
Richard Stallman

"I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world. Even without your participation, all the warriors gathered here will die. Therefore arise, Arjuna; conquer your enemies and enjoy the glory of sovereignty. I have already slain all these warriors; you will only be my instrument."
Vyasa

"There are some sights that you can only see at the top. I just want to show you a place only the talented can go."
Masaaki Yuasa

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?"
Friedrich Nietzsche

"You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in."
John von Neumann

"How do I know that the dead do not regret their previous longing for life? One who dreams of drinking wine may in the morning weep; one who dreams weeping may in the morning go out to hunt. During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense!"
Zhuangzi

[ExBerian]

"Foreverial tied up fat sparky enjoying himself, loving the half he has been fattened, fully complete permanently delitzed and fully wrapped up, tied up, rope mummified, all foreverially tied up all over his fully delitized head to his fully delitized feet." - Ghandi

[Bamyasi]

I'm really bad at remembering quotes for things unless something triggers recall but I'll try. I have to say though, this:

"There are some sights that you can only see at the top. I just want to show you a place only the talented can go."
Masaaki Yuasa

Has to be one of the most arrogant things I've heard from a director. You could easily replace "talented" with "financed."

[BluPhoenix]

"If only dad would fix the air conditioner in the poolhouse; how could he be so cruelhouse?"
--Carlton "No E" Beaenkes

[basketweaver]

I'm really bad at remembering quotes for things unless something triggers recall but I'll try. I have to say though, this:

"There are some sights that you can only see at the top. I just want to show you a place only the talented can go."
Masaaki Yuasa

Has to be one of the most arrogant things I've heard from a director. You could easily replace "talented" with "financed."

it's a quotation from a character in an anime, spoking to another character. would be pretty funny if he meant that HE was trying to show you something though lol

[Bamyasi]

Oh fuck wait.

That was from Ping Pong wasn't it? Whoops.

I couldn't really imagine Yuasa saying that, though it would obviously fit.

Here's one from my pomo husbando:

If you say 'I love you' then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of breakup and infidelity.

[crackers]

Bradley Biggs: [Amicably] "There's a tradition here in London: Flash the cabbie your tits? Well, you get a free ride."

[Mandy May proceeds to pull up her top, and show her bra to the driver]

Mandy May: [Coquettishly] "Okay, I've done as you asked you cheeky bugger. Get your meter off"

Bradley Biggs: [Teasingly] "Never said what it was a free ride of, doll. Turns out it's my big, fat, greasy cock, ha ha ha"

[basketweaver]

Bradley Biggs: [Amicably] "There's a tradition here in London: Flash the cabbie your tits? Well, you get a free ride."

[Mandy May proceeds to pull up her top, and show her bra to the driver]

Mandy May: [Coquettishly] "Okay, I've done as you asked you cheeky bugger. Get your meter off"

Bradley Biggs: [Teasingly] "Never said what it was a free ride of, doll. Turns out it's my big, fat, greasy cock, ha ha ha"

LMAO

[ProtoChaud]

Oh fuck wait.

That was from Ping Pong wasn't it? Whoops.

I couldn't really imagine Yuasa saying that, though it would obviously fit.

Here's one from my pomo husbando:

If you say 'I love you' then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of breakup and infidelity.

Am I the only one who read that as 'porno husbando'?

[michaell]

In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry.   

[michaell]

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform other people who try to reform me. and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill em. My motto is, Rob em all, Rape em all and Kill em all. I am very truly yours signed Cooper John II Carl Panzram [sic]

[zwimmy]

" S U C C "

[Azai]

"Do you think I came out the pussy drawing Mozart?"
- Arin Hanson

[Philip K Dick]

"Do you think I came out the pussy drawing Mozart?"
- Arin Hanson

"videogames!"
-erin hansen

[SrsSam77]

"If I ate you out would you enjoy it?"

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLAj9iIfQk

[Bamyasi]

Am I the only one who read that as 'porno husbando'?

Yes.

[crackers]

"If I ate you out would you enjoy it?"

[michaell]

"If I ate you out would you enjoy it?"

[Gladius]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYX_zhlTDr8

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