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[16 Jul 2009|04:12pm] quotes [carbonic_kitten] If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's true for the group is also true for the individual. It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death. -Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell. + It was a pleasant café, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a café au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. -Ernest Hemingway + Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. -John Morley comment

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. [16 Jul 2009|01:23am] quotes [leftykmonahan] I was raised an atheist. Every Sunday, we went nowhere. We prayed for nothing. And all our prayers were answered. -- Heidi Joyce I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. -- A. Whitney Brown 1 comment

[15 Jul 2009|09:58pm] quotes [breatheinoregon] Quotes about sticking too something even when it gets tough or about working on things day-by-day? And some of my favorite quotes: "The less I spoke of it, the more it pressed against the edges of my thoughts" -Awake, by Elizabeth Graver "This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through." -The Untelling by Tayari Jones "Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them." -Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face 1 comment

[15 Jul 2009|09:19pm] quotes [carbonic_kitten] "Even someone with a quarter of a brain, a heart of ice, and one testicle couldn't deny you're one hell of a lady." a friend said that to me today. 2 comment

Defiance and The Royal Tenenbaums [15 Jul 2009|04:48pm] quotes [athftnamedcolor] Defiance: 1) "Merciful God, we commit our friends - Ben Zion and Krensky - to You. We have no more prayers, no more tears; we have run out of blood. Choose another people. We have paid for each of Your commandments; we have covered every stone and field with ashes. Sanctify another land. Choose another people. Teach them the deeds and the prophesies. Grant us but one more blessing: take back the gift of our holiness. Amen." -Shamon Haretz, The Old Rabbi 2) "Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings." -Tuvia (Unfortunately I can't find more or remember better quotes from the movie :[ ) The Royal Tenenbaums: From Royal Tenenbaum- 1) "I'm sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman." 2) "Goddammit, that's the last time you stick a knife in me! You hear me?" 3) "I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield. I'm talking about taking it out and chopping it up." From Etheline- 1) You're a bastard, Royal. From Margot- 1) "I couldn't even begin to think about knowing how to answer that question." 3) "I think we're just going to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie." 2) "I'm adopted, did you know that? I ran away to find my real family when I was fourteen. They live in Indiana." From Eli Cash- 1) "Why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's not a genius? Do you especially think I'm not a genius? . . . You didn't even have to think about it, did you?" 2) "Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't?" 3) "Skiddly, skiddly!" comment

[15 Jul 2009|11:59am] quotes [orangejuicepulp] "I am sorry my Web browser history scared you." 2 comment

1492 [15 Jul 2009|01:56pm] quotes [5dollarbill] "1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." - Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions 1 comment

some new favorites... [14 Jul 2009|11:05pm] quotes [olivialove] I wanna hear a poem where ideas kiss similes so deeply that metaphors get jealous Where the subject matters so much that adjectives start holding pro-noun rallies at city hall - steve coleman I traded integrity for security And called it love. Leaving pieces of an empty shell falling behind My mother patting my head and saying What happened to that nice boy you were dating? While I pushed memories farther down Buried beneath piercing sunlight Dreamed my knight would come to save And prayed scraping already skinned knees While I cried myself to sleep. -Dawn Saylor brooklyn lover stumbles—streets ragged under sneakers she carries her heart banged up against thighs crying ghetto look, look what's been done with my flesh, my trust, humanity, somebody tell me something good -Suheir Hammad 1 comment

[14 Jul 2009|09:55pm] quotes [woodland_faerie] [ mood | thoughtful ]   To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say that I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to." taken from "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein 5 comment

Twelve Quotes [14 Jul 2009|05:29pm] quotes [carbonic_kitten] [ mood | crappy ] [ music | love and joy by yumi kimura ] Repression is the only lasting philosophy. Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;-- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! (A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens) Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know. The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Nothing is ever quite true. Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. To define is to limit. It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. (The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WIlde) I gave her a good look. She didn't look like any dope to me. She looked like she might have a pretty damn good idea what a bastard she was the mother of. But you can't always tell — with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl — a girl that isn't a prostitute or anything, I mean — she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don't. I can't help it. You never know whether they really want you to stop, or whether they're just scared as hell, or whether they're just telling you to stop so that if you do go through with it, the blame'll be on you, not them. Anyway, I keep stopping. (Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger) comment

[14 Jul 2009|12:27pm] quotes [olivialove] "Each and every time I turn around to leave I feel my heart begin to burst and bleed So desperately I try to link it with my head But instead I fall back to my knees As you tear your way right through me I forgive you once again Without me knowing You’ve burnt my heart to stone" "Go ahead and still my heart To make me cry again Cause it will never hurt as much as it did then When we were both right And no one had blame But now I give up On this endless game" --Adele comment

Safetysuit- Anywhere But Here [14 Jul 2009|05:13am] quotes [kutedorkface]   Is this the end of the moment or just a beautiful unfolding Of a love that will never be or maybe be Everything that I never thought could happen or ever come to pass and I wonder If maybe, maybe I could be all you ever dreamed, cause you are Beautiful inside, so lovely and I can't see why I'd do anything without you, you are And when I'm not with you, I know that it's true That I'd rather be anywhere but here without you Is this a natural feeling or is it just me bleeding All my thoughts and dreams in hope that you will be with me or Is this a moment to remember or just a cold day in December, I wonder If maybe, maybe I could be all you ever dreamed cause you are It's been years since I've used Livejournal and now I'm back to writing. I would love for you all to check out my first entry in years and let me know what you think...   2 comment

Antonio Porchia [13 Jul 2009|05:47pm] quotes [fake_desire] I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. We become aware of the void as we fill it. Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received. comment

[12 Jul 2009|07:51pm] quotes [orangejuicepulp] "Fish are not pets. You cannot play with them nor pet them. Birds are not pets. They are merely a decoration which provides a pleasant view along with noise." 2 comment

request. [12 Jul 2009|09:40pm] quotes [caprice_amadora] Any quotes about Lond ditance relationships? 3 comment

Wisdom from the wrong side of town. [12 Jul 2009|09:40pm] quotes [boombangpow] "Jim Jarmusch once told me, "Fast, Cheap, and Good... pick two. If it's fast and cheap, it won't be good. If it's cheap and good, it won't be fast. If it's fast and good, it won't be cheap. Fast, cheap and good... pick two words to live by." -Tom Waits- the best of you I like more than you think the others don't count except they have fingers and heads and some of them eyes and most of them legs and all of them good and bad dreams and a way to go. -Charles Bukowski- "The geography of the imagination should have a little bit more wilderness to it; I hate it when it becomes subdivided." -Tom Waits- "Some people never go crazy. What terribly boring lives they must lead." -Charles Bukowski- 1 comment

[13 Jul 2009|12:45am] quotes [trantula] [ mood | Happy ] Does anyone know any quotes relating to birds and freedom? Possibly something similar to: "I just have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright, and when they fly away the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab now they're gone" from The Shawshank Redemption. Thank you (: 11 comment

[11 Jul 2009|09:55pm] quotes [orangejuicepulp] "Serious people always wear two pairs of glasses at the same time." comment

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