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Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:43 pm
by iambiguous
Despair
"I look at the world like frost in a windowpane, confused, unseeing, and I wait for a solution which will never come. I see the world through eyes glazed over, searching for relief from the ungodly pain. Fuck the stigma. I just want normalcy.” Scott C. Holstad
Of course, this could never happen to you, right?
"It is not like the Ghost to shout. Or to scream the way he must have for me to have heard him, to scream out of misery and despair and hopelessness.” Holly Black
Obviously not Casper.
"It's not like pain just evaporated, she considered. It needed to go somewhere, and maybe shards of it were still lying dormant inside of her, waiting for a resurrection." Allison Winn Scotch
Count on it.
"I’m sleeping next to no one or no thing except the mirror and the only thing i see in the room is the reflection of the person i despise the most.” Scott C. Holstad
That can't be good.
"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness.” Yukio Mishima
I'll go there if you will.
"The world's whole sap is sunk.” John Donne
Don't look at me.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:45 pm
by iambiguous
Last Tango in Paris
Paul: [[alone at his dead wife's bedside during her wake] sobbing] Rosa...I'm sorry, I...I just - I can't stand it to see these goddamn things on your face!
[peels off her fake eyelashes]
Paul: You never wore make-up...this fucking shit.
[wipes off her lipstick with a flower petal]
Paul: I'm gonna take this off your mouth, this - this lipstick...
[falls over her, sobbing uncontrollably]
Paul: Rosa - oh God! I'm sorry! I - I don't know why you did it! I'd do it too, if I knew how... I just don't know how...I have to... have to find a way...
And he does. Sort of.
And how fucking ironic does that turn out to be?!
Paul: It's me again.
Jeanne: It's over.
Paul: That's right. It's over and then it begins again.
Jeanne: What begins again? I don't understand anything anymore.
Paul: There's nothing to understand. We left the apartment, and now we begin and love all the rest of it.
Jeanne: The rest of it?
Paul: Yeah, listen. I'm 45. I'm a widower. I own a little hotel. It's kind of a dump, but not completely a flop house. Then I used to live on my luck and I got married, and my wife killed herself.
I liked him so much better before. If you get my drift.
[first lines]
Paul: [with his hands over his ears at the overwhelming sound of a passing train] Fucking God!
And he meant it.
At least for a while.
Marcel: [In French, lifting himself on a pole] This is my secret. 30 times every morning.
Paul: [in English, starting to leave] Really, Marcello, I really don't know what she saw in you.
That makes [at least] two of us.
Paul: I'll save the asshole for you.
The rat, remember?
Jeanne: Love is not pop.
Well, not counting Taylor and Travis of course.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:08 pm
by iambiguous
Suicide
“What did it say about me that all of my favorite novels fell somewhere between a love letter and a suicide note?” Sean Norris
Indeed, what would that tell us about anyone?
“And the numerous delays due to vandalism on the tracks or leaves on the line or sun on the line or a body under a train
How very inconsiderate, not to her
To choose to throw yourself in front of a mechanical iron beast weighing thousands of tons and racing at a top speed of one hundred and forty miles per hour?
To choose such a brutal and dramatic finale
Carole knows what drives people to such despair, knows what it’s like to appear normal but to feel herself swaying
Just one leap away
From
The amassed crowds on the platforms who carry enough hope in their hearts to stay alive
Swaying
Just one leap away from
Eternal
Peace” Bernardine Evaristo
I'll add that to my list.
“If her mind had held even the smallest chance of a future, she would have had no reason to tell me anything at all, whether or not it could send her to prison. But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk off the edges of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.” Tana French
Uh, whatever?
“Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide” Jeffrey Eugenides
Any cherries left here?
We can checkout together.
“All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why? I don't know.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky
As though [ultimately] it would matter even if he did know.
“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.” Haruki Murakami
On the other hand, gone is gone.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:10 pm
by iambiguous
The Social Network
Bob: You know, I could swear he was looking at you when he said 'The next Bill Gates could be right in this room'.
Mark Zuckerberg: I... I doubt it.
Bob: I showed up late, I don't even know who the speaker was.
Mark Zuckerberg: It was Bill Gates.
Next up: Jeffrey Epstein.
Gretchen: What was Mr. Zuckerberg's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: What was Dustin Moskovitz's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: What was Sean Parker's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: What was Peter Thiel's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: And what was your ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: .03 percent.
Uh, better than nothing?
You know, in the interim.
Mark Zuckerberg: Ma'am, I know you've done your homework and so you know that money isn't a big part of my life, but at the moment I could buy Mt. Auburn Street, take the Phoenix Club, and turn it into my ping-pong room.
Admittedly, as smartasses go, he may well be one of the best.
Unless, of course, it was all scripted.
Sean Parker: We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!
Shudder to think?
Sean Parker: Drop the "The." Just "Facebook."
On the other hand, Facebook has always struck me as rather unintelligible -- stupid? -- itself. As opposed to, say, MySpace or YouTube?
Erica Albright: [Angry] I'm sorry you are not sufficiently impressed with my education.
Mark Zuckerberg: I'm sorry I don't have a rowboat, so we're even.
Erica Albright: I think we should just be friends.
Mark Zuckerberg: I don't want friends.
Erica Albright: I was just being polite, I have no intention of being friends with you.
I liked her better as Lisbeth Salander myself.
Though, sure, point taken.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:23 am
by iambiguous
Slavoj Žižek
Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
In other words, when he comes down out of the intellectual clouds. Where things can get a bit more complicated.
And so on, and so on...
If only all the way to the grave.
The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Where did the somewhat awkward “pursuit of happiness” come from in this famous opening passage of the US Declaration of Independence? The origin of it is John Locke, who claimed that all men had the natural rights of life, liberty, and property— the latter was replaced by “the pursuit of happiness” during negotiations of the drafting of the Declaration, as a way to negate the black slaves’ right to property.”
Yo, henry! Is that vague enough for you?
I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.
Wink, wink?
See you either in hell or in communism.
Whichever comes first, of course.
Though for some, sure: what's the difference?
Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!”
Trumpworld!
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:24 am
by iambiguous
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Josh Waitzkin: You've lost, you just don't know it yet.
Same here, isn't it?
Bruce: Do you know what it means to have contempt for your opponent?
Josh: No.
Bruce: It means to hate them. You have to hate them Josh, they hate you.
Josh: But I don't hate them.
Bruce: Well you'd better start.
Same here, isn't it?
Josh: Can we go to the dealerships now?
Fred: But the game's not over, yet.
Josh: Yes, it is.
He's not even in the same room!
Bruce Pandolfini: Look deep, Josh. It's there. It's twelve moves away, but it's there. You've got him.
Trick or treat?
Vinnie: What's that?
Josh Waitzkin: Schliemann attack.
Vinnie: Schliemann attack? Where'd you learn that from, a book?
Josh Waitzkin: No, my teacher taught me.
Vinnie: Oh, your teacher. Well, forget it. Play like you used to, from the gut. Get your pawns rolling on the queen's side. Come and get me.
A chess thing.
Fred [after Josh's first lesson]: So were you two talking about chess up there?
Bruce Pandolfini: No, it didn't come up.
No, really.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:29 pm
by iambiguous
Time
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite” Cassandra Clare
Now that's a good point.
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol
Of course, he's only paraphrasing Valerie Solanas.
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” Taylor Swift
Someone explain her to me, please.
“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'” Lao Tzu
Of course, that's ridiculous.
“Time is an illusion.” Albert Einstein
Tell that to the Grim Reaper.
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” George Harrison
Not only that but this: https://youtu.be/oVx_8mj-UyE?si=vHhl7DdIx9C1eMkP
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:31 pm
by iambiguous
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Martin Vanger: [to Mikael] Let me ask you something? Why don't people trust their instincts? They sense something is wrong, someone is walking too close behind them... You knew something was wrong but you came back into the house. Did I force you, did I drag you in? No. All I had to do was offer you a drink. It's hard to believe that the fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain. But you know what? It is. And they always come willingly. And then they sit there. They know it's all over just like you do but somehow they still think they have a chance. Maybe if I say the right thing? Maybe if I'm polite. If I cry, if i beg. And when I see the hope draining from their face like it is from yours right now. I can feel myself getting hard. You know, We're not that different, you and I. We both have urges, satisfying mine requires more towels.
Okay, Mr. Moral Objectivist, set him straight.
Mikael Blomkvist: I want you to help me catch a killer of women.
She's in.
Lisbeth Salander: May I kill him?
Oh yeah.
Henrik Vanger: You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies. The most detestable collection of people that you will ever meet - my family.
He left out the fucking Nazis.
Lisbeth Salander: [to Bjurman] Good. You're alive. You recognize this? I had it with me last time. I set it here, remember? And this snap, you see it? It's not a snap. It's a wide angle fiber-optics lens.
[plays video of Bjurman raping her]
Lisbeth Salander: I thought it was going to be another blow job, which is disgusting enough. But I misjudged just how sick you are. Okay, here's what is going to happen.
[inserts anal plug into Bjurman]
Lisbeth Salander: Pay attention. Look at me!
[tasers Bjurman]
Lisbeth Salander: Once you can sit again, which could be a while, I admit, we're going to go to my bank and tell them that I alone have access to my money. Nod.
Bjurman: [nods yes]
Lisbeth Salander: After that you will never contact me again. Each month you will prepare a report of a meeting that we will never have. In it you'll describe how well I'm doing. How sociable I'm becoming. Then you will negotiate with the court to have my declaration of incompetence lifted. If you fail, this video will spread across the internet like a virus. Nod.
Bjurman: [nods yes]
Lisbeth Salander: And if anything should happen to me. If I get run over by a car. If you run me over with a car. This will upload automatically. Nod that you understand.
Bjurman: [nods yes]
Lisbeth Salander: [picks up Bjurman's pants] Ooh, Gabardine. I'm taking the keys to this apartment because I'll be checking on you. And if I find a girl in here with you, whether she came of her own free will or not.
[Bjurman nods to the video]
Lisbeth Salander: No, not the video. I'll kill you. Do you doubt anything I've said? Do you doubt what's in the reports that have followed me around all my life? What do they say, if you had to sum it up? They say I'm insane.
[Bjurman desperately nods no]
Lisbeth Salander: No, it's okay. You can nod because it's true. I am insane.
Just out of curiosity, was she?
Mikael Blomkvist: Rape, torture, fire, animals, religion. Am I missing anything?
Lisbeth Salander: The names. They're all biblical.
You knew God was going to fit in there somewhere.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:21 pm
by iambiguous
God
“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a God lives in my heart, though all my power waken at His word, though He can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. Thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Religion in a nutshell, let's call it.
“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.” Søren Kierkegaard
Someone run this by Immanuel Cant and Willian Lane Craig.
“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.” John Steinbeck
Or, for that matter, that He doesn't exist.
“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.” Soren Kierkegaard
Think about, indeed.
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.” Margaret Atwood
Not to mention almost everything else.
“Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs:
I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about God. He [Jobs] said, “Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50/50, maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more, and I find myself believing a bit more, maybe it’s because I want to believe in an afterlife, that when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated, somehow it lives on.”
Then he paused for a second and said, “Yea, but sometimes, I think it’s just like an On-Off switch. Click. And you’re gone.” And then he paused again and said, “ And that’s why I don’t like putting On-Off switches on Apple devices.” Walter Isaacson
True story?
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:22 pm
by iambiguous
Network
Howard Beale: You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here, you're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do. Why, whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing, We are the illusion.
Next up: Reality TV! You're on tube!!
Nelson Chaney: All I know is that this violates every canon of respectable broadcasting.
Frank Hackett: We're not a respectable network. We're a whorehouse network, and we have to take whatever we can get.
Nelson Chaney: Well, I don't want any part of it. I don't fancy myself the president of a whorehouse.
Frank Hackett: That's very commendable of you, Nelson. Now sit down. Your indignation is duly recorded; you can always resign tomorrow.
Let's call it the media industrial complex.
Diana Christensen: I'm interested in doing a weekly dramatic series based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. The way I see the series is: Each week we open with an authentic act of political terrorism taken on the spot, in the actual moment. Then we go to the drama behind the opening film footage. That's your job, Ms. Hobbs. You've got to get the Ecumenicals to bring in that film footage for us. The network can't deal with them directly; they are, after all, wanted criminals.
Maybe that explains Osama bin Laden.
Laureen Hobbs: Well Ahmed, you ain't gonna believe this. They gonna make a TV star out of you. Just like Archie Bunker. You gonna be a household word.
Great Ahmed Kahn: What the fuck are you talking about?
We already know, of course.
Howard Beale: [on the air] We all know that the the Arabs control $16 billion of this country. They own a chunk of Fifth Avenue, 20 downtown pieces of Boston, a part of the Port of New Orleans, an industrial park in Salt Lake City, they own big hunks of the Atlanta Hilton, the Arizona Land and Cattle Company, part of a bank of California, the bank... in Detroit, they control Aramco, so, puts them into Exxon, Texaco, and Mobil oil. They're all over New Jersey, Louisville, St. Louis, Missouri. And that's only what we know about. There's a Hell of a lot more we don't know about. Because all of those Arab petrodollars are washed through Switzerland and Canada and the biggest banks in this country. For example, what we don't know about is this CCA deal and all the other CCA deals. Right now, the Arabs have screwed us out of enough American dollars to come right back and with our own money buy General Moters, IBM, ITT, AT&T, DuPont, US Steel, and 20 other American companies. Hell, they already own half of England! So, listen to me. Listen to me, God damn it. The Arabs are simply buying us! There's only one thing that can stop them. You! You! So, I want you to get up now. I want you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the phone. I want you to get up from your chairs, go to the phone and get in your cars, drive into the Western Union offices in town. I want you to send a telegram to the White House... By midnight tonight, I want a million telegrams at the White House. I want them wading, knee-deep in telegrams at the White House. I want you to get up right now and write a telegram to President Ford saying, "I'm as mad as Hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore! I don't want the banks selling my country to the Arabs. I want the CCA deal stopped! Now! I want the CCA deal stopped! Now!"
He's a dead man.
Narrator: By mid-October, "The Howard Beale Show" had settled in at a 42 share, more than equaling all the other network news shows combined. In the Nielsen ratings, "The Howard Beale Show" was listed as the fourth highest rated show of the month, surpassed only by "The Six Million Dollar Man", "All in the Family" and "Phyllis" - a phenomenal state of affairs for a news show - and on October the 15th, Diana Christensen flew to Los Angeles for what the trade calls powwows and confabs with our west coast programming execs and to get production rolling on the shows for the coming season.
He's still a dead man.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:12 pm
by iambiguous
Existentialism
Over time, existentialism gave way to hedonism as I made pleasure into my God. Using pleasure to fill the gap that my empty worldview created. Even though I said I was my own authority and I acted like the world revolved around me, my actions revolved around whatever gave me pleasure. My feelings were the real authority of my life.” Michael J Heil
Or, as I call them, distractions.
“Each scientific turning point evolves into an ontological consideration.” Roger Spitz
Or: “Each philosophical turning point evolves into a teleological consideration.” iambiguous
“But we are always running out of time. There is never enough time. That is the sad predicament of life: To never have enough time. To start dying the second you are born…” Ryan Gelpke
Then one day, well, you know.
"And so, we continue living, going insane, trying to experience whatever ecstasy one can before finally biting the dust.” Ryan Gelpke
And how does that not make sense?
“Fear of death is not wisdom, since no one knows whether death may not be the greater good.” Bertrand Russell
Right.
“So what I think at this point is that I'm aiming too high, that maybe nothing is too much, to begin with. Maybe for now I should just try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.” Lydia Davis
Maybe not?
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:15 pm
by iambiguous
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Juan Antonio: Why not? Life is short. Life is dull. Life is full of pain. And this is a chance for something special.
Pick three:
1] Penelope Cruz
2] Rebecca Hall
3] Scarlett Johansson
Vicky: So, uh, tell me why won't your father publish his poems?
Juan Antonio: Well, because he hates the world and that's his way of getting back at them, to create beautiful works and then to deny them to the public...
Vicky: My god.
Next up: we deny the world our posts.
Juan Antonio: Well, now that the day's almost over, is it reasonable of me to ask you if you'll both join me in my room?
Vicky: Oh, come on, I thought we'd settled that.
Cristina: Vicky's just trying to say that she's engaged to be married, that's all.
Juan Antonio: Great. Then these are her last days of freedom.
Vicky: No. Look, I'm not free. I'm committed. You know what my theory is? And when I drink, I get brutally frank. I think that you're still hurting from the failure of your marriage to Maria Elena, and you're trying to lose yourself in empty sex.
Juan Antonio: Empty sex? Do you have such a low opinion of yourself?
Now that's a zinger.
Cristina: I'll go to your room, but you have to seduce me.
Either that or empty sex.
Cristina: [Looking at a sculpture of Jesus] Are you very religious?
Juan Antonio: No, no, no, no, I'm not. The trick is to enjoy life, accepting it has no meaning whatsoever.
Cristina: No meaning? You don't think that authentic love gives life meaning?
Juan Antonio: Yes, but love is so transient. Isn't it? I was in love with a most incredible woman... and then in the end...
Vicky: Yes?
Juan Antonio: She put a knife into me.
This is, after all, a Woody Allen movie.
Cristina: You got to admire his no bullshit approach.
Vicky: What are you talking about? It's all bullshit!
That's before Vicky falls in love with him.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:55 pm
by iambiguous
Madness
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” Philip K. Dick
Amen.
“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter” Lewis Carroll
In fact, to this day, no one does.
“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.” George Santayana
Like posting here, of course.
“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.” Charles Bukowski
He's only paraphrasing Ecmandu, of course.
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Here, for example: https://knowthyself.forumotion.net/f6-agora
"Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.” Rohinton Mistry
Or, sure, fuck it.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:56 pm
by iambiguous
Awakenings
Dr. Sayer: [in job interview] It was an immense project. I was to extract 1 decagram of myelin from 4 tons of earth worms.
Dr. Sullivan: Really!
Dr. Sayer: Yes. I was on the project for 5 years. I was the only one who believed in it. Everyone else said it couldn't be done.
Dr. Kaufman: It can't.
Dr. Sayer: I know that now. I proved it.
That's true, right?
Margaret: Miriam, there's no easy way to tell you this, so - your husband - he was granted a divorce from you in 1952.
Miriam: Oh, thank God!
Some awakenings being better than others.
Mrs. Lowe: When my son was born healthy, I never asked why. Why was I so lucky? What did I do to deserve this perfect child, this perfect life? But when he got sick, you can bet I asked why! I demanded to know why! Why was this happening?
And now we know it's God's will all the way down.
Dr. Peter Ingham: Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn't be roused. A sleep that in most cases lasted several months. Those who survived, who awoke, seemed fine, as though nothing had happened. Years went by - five, ten, fifteen - before anyone suspected they were not well... they were not. I began to see them in the early 1930's - old people brought in by their children, young people brought in by their parents - all of them complaining they weren't themselves anymore. They'd grown distant, aloof, anti-social, they daydreamed at the dinner table. I referred them to psychiatrists. Before long they were being referred back to me. They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. They could no longer speak in most cases. Families went mad. People who were normal, were now elsewhere.
Dr. Sayer: What's it like to be them? What are they thinking?
Dr. Peter Ingham: They're not. The virus didn't spare the higher faculties.
Dr. Sayer: We know what for a fact?
Dr. Peter Ingham: Yes.
Dr. Sayer: Because?
Dr. Peter Ingham: Because the alternative is unthinkable.
Let's think about it anyway.
Leonard Lowe: "I'm all right, and then everything stops, There's no warning, It's like a light switch going off. It happens that fast. Something has to happen to bring me back. A sound or a touch. And then I can move again, I'm okay again. It's not that it feels bad, It's just that it's nothing. I feel nothing, like I'm dead. Nothing. Gets to be like I'm no a person anymore. Just a collection of tics. Not that I mind them necessarily. Sometimes they make life kind of interesting. Though I'm not sure who's in control, me or them.
Ask me about mine.
Dr. Malcolm Sayer: She borrows the will of the ball.
Does the ball know that?
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:26 pm
by iambiguous
Sara Gruen from Water for Elephants
When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.
As in, "they were never able not to be made for each other?"
When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.” Sara Gruen
Barring acts of God, of course.
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
So, how am I doing so far?
When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?
Never, I'm guessing.
The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.
Go figure?
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
Thank God for Heaven then, right?