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If true love shows up on your doorstep and you drive it away, that’s on you. Not the job or anything else.
TV: The Middleman
You mustn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
You read about love in books and you think you know what it’s all about, and then it happens to you and you realize you hadn’t understood anything about it at all up to that point.
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
Short story: “A Girl I Knew”, Good Housekeeping 126, Feb 1948
Barack calls it my ‘Star Trek’ belt. He doesn’t understand fashion … He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies. You know one of the genius moves of the Founders was not writing the Bill of Rights on the back window of a dusty van.
TV: The Daily Show: 22 Jan 2009
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
Book: V for Vendetta
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.”
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Movie: Fight Club
Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot. Who calls you back when you hang up on him. Who’ll lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep… Wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you’re in sweats. Who holds your hand in front of his friends. Who thinks you’re just as pretty without makeup. One who’s constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have you… The one who turns to his friends and says ‘That’s her.’
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
The future is predetermined by the character of those who shape it.
TV: Stargate: Atlantis, episode 4x08 “The Seer”
I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. Do I believe the world’s still there? Is it still out there?… Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I’m no different.
Movie: memento
My goal as a writer is for the player to want to see the cutscenes. Earn your audience. Forcing people to sit through your glorified fanfic is the gaming equivalent of date rape.
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It is funny how people will talk of the sky falling. It really can’t fall, but at one point, people thought it could. The truth is the sky just is, and what matters is what lies under it.
A hug can turn your day around. It’s like an emotional Heimlich when someone puts their arms around you, and they give you a squeeze, and all your fear and anxiety comes shooting out your mouth in a big wet wad and you can breathe again.
TV: Pushing Daisies
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
Video game: Half Life 2
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself.
Manuscript Note, c.1882
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!
Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=955
There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.
The world you are brought up in has the seeming of reality; it can take decades to unlearn. “Growing up” means in part finding out what’s behind the false assumptions and misrepresentations of everyday life
Society dissolves as people discover their individuality. The trick is to create a society that honors both the community and the individual without placing one at a disadvantage to the other. America comes close, doing it through mere anarchy, which is how it should be done, to ride as close to the cusp of totally flying to pieces as you can. I love America. The fact that it tolerates me, doesn’t bug me, indicates that it’s a great, great system.
Book: Tripping by Charles Hayes, page 446
We’re all miracles. You know why? Because as humans, everyday we go about our business, and all that time, we know, we all know, that the things we love, the people we love at any time can all be taken away. We live knowing that, and we keep going anyway.
Movie: Little Children
Wise men say time is a river. I say time is a river of shit. And as you paddle down it, in your little canoe, your paddle gets smaller and smaller.
I think we have to go to the young people, right from the very beginning. The whole structure of how we learn about science has been warped and is getting more warped by the testing requirements that are put in place now because science is being taught as a set of facts instead of being portrayed as a process or a trajectory, and the trajectory is what really matters. Knowledge is plastic and is always evolving, and ideas mature and take on different shapes. The only way that you are going to distinguish between an immature idea and a mature idea is if you have a better understanding of how science works. So that is why I focused that book on young people. Kids are the only chunk of society left that is open to new ways of thinking. The more I learned over the years, the more rigid and entrenched people get the older they are, in terms of the way they feel the world works.
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernable difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore
I tore these out of your symbol and they turned into paper.
TV: Firefly
I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If there is no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. ‘Cause that’s all there is. What we do, now, today. …If there is no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.
TV: Angel
What would you do if you were stuck in the elevator with the president, just you and him?
Would you scream? Would you laugh? Would you offer him gum? Would you say things to make him your friend?
What would you do if you were stuck for ten hours? Would you listen? Ask questions? And how?
What would it be that you’d say to the president? And why aren’t you saying it now?
Would you scream? Would you laugh? Would you offer him gum? Would you say things to make him your friend?
What would you do if you were stuck for ten hours? Would you listen? Ask questions? And how?
What would it be that you’d say to the president? And why aren’t you saying it now?
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
As long as there’s such a thing as time, everybody’s damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
Book: Kafka on the Shore
I believe that when the wisdom of the masses becomes the tyranny of the mob, it reflects rather poorly on all of us.
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
I don’t mean to diss on cake. I’ve had some good cakey creations in my time here, but even the most spectacular rum-doused pineapple upside down cake or flourless chocolate creation feels at times an uphill battle with the fact that cake, deep down inside, wishes to remain dry. Cookies, on the other hand, desire balance - crisp exteriors, supple interiors, and each and every one of their ingredients gets to make a stand-up, rah-rah appearance in the final flavor. Plus, they keep for almost a week.
Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.
Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of—until you find out you’ve got it. Once you realize you’re ignorant, if you don’t do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
There’s too much beauty to quit.
Movie: Stay
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
If you don’t wanna run out of ideas the best thing to do is not to execute them. You can tell yourself that you don’t have the time or resources to do ‘em right. Then they stay around in your head like brain crack. No matter how bad things get, at least you have those good ideas that you’ll get to later.
Some people get addicted to that brain crack. And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed. And they imagine it on a beautiful platter with glitter and rose petals. And everyone’s clapping for them. But the bummer is most ideas kinda suck when you do ‘em. And no matter how much you plan you still have to do something for the first time. And you’re almost guaranteed the first time you do something it’ll blow. But somebody who does something bad three times still has three times the experience of that other person who’s still dreaming of all the applause.
Some people get addicted to that brain crack. And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed. And they imagine it on a beautiful platter with glitter and rose petals. And everyone’s clapping for them. But the bummer is most ideas kinda suck when you do ‘em. And no matter how much you plan you still have to do something for the first time. And you’re almost guaranteed the first time you do something it’ll blow. But somebody who does something bad three times still has three times the experience of that other person who’s still dreaming of all the applause.
I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on what womb you come from.
TV: C-SPAN 2 6/28/06
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
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