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oliver9184 · 04-29-2010, 02:41 PM

A couple of optimistic and life-assuring quotes:

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Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. Ham and eggs, and after these a pipe -- an old, rank, delicious pipe -- ham and eggs and scenery, a "down grade," a flying coach, a fragrant pipe and a contented heart -- these make happiness. It is what all the ages have struggled for.

(Roughing It, Mark Twain, 1872)

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Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet. In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it puts off enjoying all those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesman and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.

(Letters from America, Alistair Cooke, 1946-1951)

MSD · 05-06-2010, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by oliver9184

American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, 1991

I come upon a juggler in the park and immediately smell a target. But although he is worthy of my wrath, there are too many people around and I keep walking. Although if he were a mime, he would no doubt be dead.

Bale really did a dead-on recreation of Bateman from the book, too bad it was too long and had to many really graphic parts to be fully carried over. If only the director didn't have such a half-assed reason for changing the ending (she "liked the character Jean too much" to let her marry Patrick.)

From Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco:
I met her at a party and acted on impulse. "Excuse me," I said, "but I would like to make love to you."
"You're a filthy male chauvinist pig."
"Forget I said it."
"Never. I'm a filthy feminist."
She was going back to Brazil and I didn't want to lose her. She put me in touch with the University of Rio, where the Italian department was looking for a lecturer. They offered me a two-year contract with an option to renew. I didn't feel at home in Italy andmore, I accepted.
Besides, I told myself, in the New World I wouldn't run into any Templars.

CinnamonGirl · 05-09-2010, 08:17 PM

From Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, by Chuck Klosterman:

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It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box-office star in America, because every straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker.