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The Absolutely Essential Page of Great Quotes VERSION 2.0
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Philip K. Dick:
“I am a living animal, tied to a dying soul.”
Philip K. Dick
“What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality
to go insane.”
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS
“Let it be said that one of the first symptoms of psychosis is that the person feels
perhaps he is becoming psychotic. It is another Chinese fingertrap. You cannot think
about it without becoming part of it.”
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS
“1) Those who agree with you are insane.
2) Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
Philip K. Dick
“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore,
go along willingly with it.”
Philip K. Dick’s The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox; whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies.”
Philip K. Dick’s VALIS
“If you think this world is bad you should see some of the others.”
Philip K. Dick
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it it doesn’t go away.”
Philip K. Dick
“I mean, after all; you have to consider we’re only made out of dust. That’s admittedly
not much to go on and we shouldn’t forget that. But even considering, I mean it’s a
sort of bad beginning, we’re not doing too bad. So, I personally have faith that even in
this lousy situation we’re faced with we can make it. You get me?”
Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
“And the trouble, he realized, once you get started thinking along these lines, once
you start looking for indications that you are being used, you can find evidence
everywhere. Paranoia.”
Philip K. Dick’s Confessions of a Crap Artist
“For days now he had tormented himself with such notions. And he seemed to be
getting deeper into the circular swamp of pure reasoning. It was his philosophy class
all over again, where debate led not to solution or insight but to further and further
debate. Words begat words. Thoughts begat a feverish preoccupation with thinking,
with logic as such.”
Philip K. Dick’s Confessions of a Crap Artist
Grant Morrison:
“Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can’t
piss upwards on people.”
Grant Morrison
“I had a nervous breakdown to fulfill a neurotic “writer” archetype my educational
system had sold me.”
Grant Morrison’s Invisibles: Series II
“No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.”
Grant Morrison’s Flex Mentallo
“Who needs girls when you’ve got comics?”
Grant Morrison’s Flex Mentallo
“Sometimes I could just scream. Never do though, maybe I should.”
Grant Morrison’s St. Swithin’s Day
“Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.”
Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol
“Stop being frightened. You only see a monster because they want you to see
monsters everywhere. They’ve conditioned you to look for monsters in every shadow,
every coat hung on every door. As long as we keep seeing monsters, we’ll continue to
need protection and that’s how other people get to control our lives.”
Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol
“The only way to stop being bored is to do something interesting. Or criminal. These
days it comes to the same thing. Let’s do it now.”
Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend
“The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning
out robots, that’s all. They get you when your small and vulnerable and they take all
the human parts away, bit by bit, until you’re just a wind-up toy. Turn the key and set
it running. And the toy goes to university, gets a job, settles down with someone
nice…”
Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend
“It’s so horrible to realize you’re just the same as everyone else, isn’t it?”
Grant Morrison’s Invisibles: Series II
"The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way
round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he
gets bored."
Grant Morrison's Invisibles: Series III
“We have to steal back the hallucination, as a rich friend of mine once said.”
Grant Morrison’s Invisibles: Series III
“We’re stuck in a thought, right… we’ve been thinking it so long we’ve forgot… when
you stop thinking it, you see it for what it is… and you can start thinking better
ones…”
Grant Morrison’s Invisibles: Series II
“A bullet in the right place can change the world.”
Grant Morrison’s Invisibles: Series III
"What do people do when they know they're on camera? They ACT! That's why the
world's turning into a science fiction movie. Surveillance makes us all into stars. The
world's a set and the cameras are everywhere as Aliester Crowley wrote in Liber Al,
chapter one!! As confirmed by the Kabbalah!"
Grant Morrison's Invisibles: Series III
“Remember it’s all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.”
Grant Morrison’s Invisibles: Series III
“Don’t think for yourselves! Think for God! Let’s start making that motherfucker’s
decisions for him, huh?…”
Grant Morrison’s And We’re All Police Men
“I joined the army because my father made me feel impotent and vulnerable. My
self-esteem was so low that in order to find any security at all I required the
simultaneous physical empowerment and psychological castration that military
training entails.
I still submit to strong authority figures whom I simultaneously hate, respect, and
cringingly obey, but now I can vent my frustration and envy in a culturally-approved way
against the currently designated opponents of my government’s ideology!
Be like him! Join the army, for God’s sake!”
Grant Morrison’s And We’re All Police Men
Chuck Palahniuk:
“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down,” says Palahniuk. “That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday
we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just
learning this fact,” Tyler said. “So don’t fuck with us.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club
“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit,” Tyler said. “They’re like someone who quits
smoking on his deathbed.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club
“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club
“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters
“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters
“All god does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be
boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters
“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters
“To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don’t want their
lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their
stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just
the big scary unknown.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor
“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“…masochism is a valuable job skill.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“Every woman is just a different kind of problem.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“Listen to me,” I say. I shout, “If I wanted to feel anything, I’d go to a frigging movie!”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“The answer is there is no answer.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“That’s the big goal,” she said. “To find a cure for knowledge.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“Every addiction, she said, was just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“We don’t live in the real world anymore,” she said. “We live in a world of symbols.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke
“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby
“When you think about it from a native plant perspective,” Oyster says, “Johnny Appleseed was a fucking biological terrorist.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”
Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby
Peter Milligan:
“Joseph FELT like a photograph whenever he left his room.”
Peter Milligan’s The Hollow Circus
“Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.”
Peter Milligan’s Skreemer
“It is not necessary to understand, merely to stand under!”
Peter Milligan
“Morality is a luxury we can’t afford out here. There’s no right or wrong, just survival or death.”
Peter Milligan’s Aliens: Sacrifice
“All the years the public lived vicariously through film, now they’re living it. But life isn’t like film. Life’s got too many plot defects… Whom to blame? The auteur, of life?
Who writes these utterly absurd screenplays? God? But God doesn’t exist. If he
does he’s more Goddard than Spielburg… In the film of life you usually have no idea
what’s happening, you don’t much care, and there are painfully long episodes of
tedium… There’s no denouncement in real life. There are no happy endings. There
aren’t even any McGuffins… The real reality of a person’s life is an incoherent
reality… with scenes and characters passing in and out of the story with no
meaning… or a meaning that makes no sense whatsoever.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“All we have, all we are, are cliches.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“I’m not mad. I’m a writer.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“Sometimes I think that if I wasn’t crazy… I’d go crazy…”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“When you’re alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking’s for later, when talking’s all there is that’s left.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and… and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“He smiles as he walks away. Because it’s a good feeling, knowing you can walk away, knowing a little sadness no longer blows your life to pieces.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“So you’re wondering why I want to keep on living? It’s simple. Because it’s all we have.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“It’s always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it’s a long story.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“Even when I’m about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“But my life is sorely lacking in poetry, so…”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“Life’s too short to worry about who you are, it’s much more important to know who you’re with.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“I’m sick of being original. It’s so… it’s so unoriginal.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“The sooner little brats are made and reared in artificial wombs, the happier we’ll all be. We’re never be really free until we finally sever the cord between sex and having babies. Then sex will be like art, done purely for it’s own sake.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“I’ll tell you what happens. The subject is overdosed and overloaded with America, he’s poisoned, diseased, infected by America… He’s got a galloping cancer inside him called America.”
Peter Milligan’s Shade: The Changing Man
“We are not hooligans, sir. We are concerned young pacifists making a symbolic gesture against the continuing celebration of war and the sentimental exploitation of the victims of the capitalist war machine. Now piss off, granddad.”
Peter Milligan’s War Peas
Alan Moore:
“In fact, let us not mince words… the management is terrible! We’ve had a string of
embezzlers, frauds, liars, and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This
is plain fact. But who elected them? It was you! You who appointed these people! You
who gave them the power to make decisions for you! While I’ll admit that anyone can
make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century
seems to me to be nothing short of deliberate. You have encouraged these malicious
incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles. You have accepted
without question their senseless orders. You have allowed them to fill your workplace
with dangerous and unproven machines. All you had to say was “No.” You have no
spine. You have no pride. You are no longer an asset to the company.”
Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta #5
“We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”
Alan Moore’s Watchmen
“I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to pretend it looked like a spreading tree,
shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn’t. It looked more like a dead cat I once found,
the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling
away from the light. But even that is avoiding the real horror. The horror is this: In the
end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is
nothing else.”
Alan Moore’s Watchmen
William S. Burroughs:
“NOTHING IS TRUE. EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED.”
William S. Burroughs
“We should exterminate all rational thought.”
William S. Burroughs
“He has discovered the simple and basic Discipline of DE. DO EASY. It is simply to
do everything you do in the easiest and most relaxed manner you can achieve at the
time you do it.”
William S. Burroughs’ Exterminator!
"He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything
done for him."
William S. Burroughs' Exterminator!
Warren Ellis:
“It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.”
Warren Ellis’ Planetary
“There’s one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it’s one word
long----PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small
and weak and cheap and frightened. It’s people that kill every revolution.
Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan
“You’re miserable, edgy and tired. You’re in the perfect mood for journalism.”
Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan
“Yeah. I’m calling your “faith” bullshit. This man needs medical help if he can’t get through his life without something invisible to believe in. Y’know, I wouldn’t mind all this half so much if there was some historical truth in it. This whole concept of “faith”—of believing in something that isn’t fucking there—was invented by a man to cover up the cracks in the “christianity” he cobbled together with the Romans. This whole god thing comes from the days when our brains weren’t as connected up as they are now, and we all hallucinated daily!”
Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan
“Hi. I’m Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I
masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window
into your hair and food. I’m a rich and respected columnist for a major metropolitan
newspaper. I live with two beautiful women in the city’s most expensive and select
community. Being a bastard works.”
Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan
“That’s what a monoculture is. It’s everywhere, and it’s all the same. And it takes up
alien cultures and digests them and shits them out in a homogenous building-block
shape that fits seamlessly into the vast blank wall of the monoculture.
This is the future. This is what we built. This is what we wanted. It must have been.
Because we all had the fucking choice, didn’t we? It is only our money that allows
commercial culture to flower. If we didn’t want to live like this, we could have changed
it any time, by not fucking paying for it.
So lets celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger.”
Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here
Oscar Wilde:
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
Oscar Wilde
“…nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
“Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a
sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
Oscar Wilde
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and
every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that
they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of
meaning, their entire lack of style.”
Oscar Wilde
Nietzsche:
"If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Nietzsche
“Surrounded by the flame of jealousy, one will in the end, like the scorpion, turn one’s
poisonous sting against oneself.”
Nietzsche
“Live at war with your peers and yourselves!”
Nietzsche
“For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of
existence is: to live dangerously!”
Nietzsche
"Woman was God's second mistake."
Nietzsche
“In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.”
Nietzsche
“Whoever cannot bless should learn to curse.”
Nietzsche
“Loneliness can be the escape of the sick; loneliness can also be escape from the sick.”
Nietzsche
“And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster!”
Nietzsche
“There is an old illusion, which is called good and evil.”
Nietzsche
Roger Waters:
“Everybody’s searching for something they say. I’ll get my kicks on the way.”
Pink Floyd’s The Gold It’s In The…
“I’ve got wild staring eyes. I’ve got a strong urge to fly. But I’ve got nowhere to fly to.”
Pink Floyd’s Nobody Home
“I gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused. Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just
being used. Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise. If I don’t
stand my own ground, how can I find my own way out of this maze?”
Pink Floyd’s Dogs
“Who needs information when you’re living in constant fear, just give me confirmation
there’s some way out of here.”
Roger Waters’ Who Needs Information
“What God wants God gets God help us all
God wants peace
God wants war
God wants famine
God wants chain stores.”
Roger Water’s What God Wants, Part 1
Hunter S. Thompson:
“In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile-and the rest of us are fucked
until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from
Losing Completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as
something better than a nation of panicked sheep…but we owe it especially to our
children, who will have to live with our loss and all its long-term consequences.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“…and I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and
happiness, either. But as long as I know there’s a pretty good chance I can get my
hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high
spots.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“True Gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist /photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he’s writing it- or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Only a goddamn lunatic would write a thing like this and then claim it was true.”
Hunter S. Thompson
RADIOHEAD:
“weRe too young to fall asleep
too cynical to speak
we are loosing it can’t you tell?”
Radiohead’s My Iron Lung
“I want to, I want to be someone else or I’ll explode
Floating upon the surface for the birds, the birds, the birds
You want me, well fucking well come and find me
I’ll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches
And nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing”
Radiohead’s Talk Show Host
“A heart thats full up like a landfill.
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won’t heal.
You look so tired_nhappy.
Bring down the government
They don’t theydon’tspeak for us.”
Radiohead’s No Surprises
“In a city of the future it is difficult to concentrate
Meet the boss, meet the wife
Everybody’s happy, everyone is made for life
In a city of the future it is difficult to find a space
I’m too busy to see you, you’re too busy to wait
But I’m okay, how are you?
Thanks for asking, thanks for asking
But I’m okay, how are you?
I hope you’re okay too”
Radiohead’s Palo Alto
“Once again I’m in trouble with my only friend
She is papering the window panes
She is putting on a smile
Living in a glass house
Once again packed like frozen food and battery hens
Think of all the starving millions
Don’t talk politics and don’t throw stones
Your royal highnesses.”’
Radiohead’s Life in a Glass House
Principia Discordia:
“Convictions cause convicts.”
Principia Discordia
“The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about “it” is in your mind and your
to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and YOU ARE THE ARTIST.”
Principia Discordia
“Reality is the original Rorschach.”
Principia Discordia
“It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs.”
Principia Discordia
Kyle Baker:
“So you see, when it comes to choosing girlfriends, I have to decide whether I want her
to be dumb, demented, or ugly.”
Kyle Baker’s Why I Hate Saturn
“People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.”
Kyle Baker’s Why I Hate Saturn
“The creation of a polite word always signifies a major fucking.”
Kyle Baker’s Why I Hate Saturn
“You can’t live by some utopian vision in a world of assholes.”
Kyle Baker’s Why I Hate Saturn
Aldous Huxley:
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the
overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as
instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against
misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal
overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
Aldous Huxley
Woody Allen:
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. "
Woody Allen
“…and I-I thought of that old joke, you know, this-this-this guy goes to a psychiatrist
and says, “Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken.” And, uh, the doctor
says, “Well, why don’t you turn him in?” And the guy says, “I would, but I need the
eggs.” Well, I guess that’s pretty much how how I feel about relationships. You know,
they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd and… but, uh, I guess we keep goin’
through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.”
Woody Allen’s Annie Hall
Voltaire:
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire
“One owes respect to the living: to the Dead one owes only the truth.”
Voltaire
Denis Johnson:
“But it’s always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.”
Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son
“There were many moments in The Vine like that one- where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn’t be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.”
Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son
The Dalai Lama:
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
The Dalai Lama
“We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.”
The Dalai Lama
“Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.”
The Dalai Lama
Salvidor Dali:
“I’m in a permanent state of intellectual erection.”
Salvidor Dali
“Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions.”
Salvidor Dali
“Take me, I am the drug. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic.”
Salvidor Dali
“What is important is to spread confusion not to eliminate it.”
Salvidor Dali
“Everything leads me to think that, in the near future, reality will be considered exclusively as a mere state of depression and inactivity of the mind.”
Salvidor Dali
“For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.”
Salvidor Dali
PULP:
“A monkey’s built a house on your back.
You can’t get anyone to come in the sack & here comes another panic attack.”
Pulp’s The Fear
“Without you my life has become a hangover without end.
A movie made for TV: bad dialogue, bad acting, no interest.
Too long with no story & no sex.”
Pulp’s TV Movie
“Laid here with the advertising sliding past my eyes like cartoons from other people’s lives. I start to wonder what it takes to be a man. Well I learned to drink & I learned to smoke & I learned to tell a dirty joke. If that’s all there is then there’s no point for me.”
Pulp’s I’m a Man
“…if it all amounts to nothing- it doesn’t matter, these are still our glory days.
Oh my face is unappealing and my thoughts are unoriginal.
I did experiments with substances but all it did was make me ill…
Oh & I could be a genius if I just put my mind to it
& I, I could do anything if only I got around to it.
Oh we were brought up on the Space-Race, now they expect you to clean toilets.
When you have seen how big the world is how can they make do with this?
If you want me I’ll be sleeping in…”
Pulp’s Glory Days
J.D. Salinger:
“The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.”
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
“Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?”
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
“You ought to go to a boys’ school sometime. Try it sometime,” I said. “It’s full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques. The guys that are on the basketball team stick together, the Catholics stick together, the goddam intellectuals stick together, the guys that play bridge stick together. Even the guys that belong to the goddam Book-of-the-Month Club stick together. If you try to have a little intelligent-“
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
Blur:
“So take me home, don't leave me alone
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
R. E. Perot, get gold card soul
My joy of life is on a roll
And we'll all be the same in the end
Cos then you're on your own”
Blur’s On Your Own
The Simpsons:
“Oh well of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.”
Homer Simpson
“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems!”
Homer Simpson
Terry Gilliam:
“I need a war around me to survive.”
Terry Gilliam
“You’ve got to be clever or ridiculous.”
Terry Gilliam
“We’re all in this together.”
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil
“There’s no right. No wrong. There’s only popular opinion.”
Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys
Trey Parker:
“There’s a time and place for everything and its called college.”
Chef, South Park
Miscellaneous:
“Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction; therefore, it
destroys freedom.”
Albert Camus’ The Rebel
“I do not regret the things I’ve done only those I did not do.”
Edger Allen Poe
“…in a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve.”
Adlai Stevenson
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry
about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live wisely and earnestly for the
present.”
The Teaching of Buddha
“I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference!”
Jack Kerouac
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
Bob Dylan
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you
get what you need.”
The Rolling Stones
“Ah’m talkin tae him aboot love, n Rents says that love doesnae exist, it’s like religion,
n likesay the state wants ye tae believe in that kinday crap so’s they kin control ye, n
fuck yir heid up…”
Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled
they cannot become conscious.”
George Orwell’s 1984
“Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav’n.”
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
“Well It’s a brand new day and I’m walkin’ around old town.
I feel cool as shit ‘cause I got no thoughts keepin’ me down.
I’m thinkin’ blah de blah blab blah to your trip.
‘Cause I must have a door in the back of my…back of my head.”
The Dandy Warhol’s Solid
“The more you drive, the less intelligent you get.”
Alex Cox’s Repo Man
“I you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.”
David Brower
”My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.”
(Muhammad Ali)
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Dr. Johnson
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
William Shakespeare’s King Henry VI
“Alcohol, Hashish, Prussic acid, Strychnine are weak dilutions. The Surest poison is
time.”
Emerson
“Just be careful, Zoyd. ‘Cause soon they’re gonna be coming after everything, not just
drugs, but beer, cigarettes, sugar, salt, fat, you name it, anything that could remotely
please any of your senses, because they need to control all that. And they will.”
“Fat Police?”
“Perfume Police. Tube Police. Music Police. Good Healthy Shit Police. Best to
renounce it all now, get a head start.”
Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland
“The masque of patriotism may be worn to conceal the foulest designs against the liberties of a people.”
Benjamin Franklin Bache
“I shop therefore I am.”
Barbara Kruger
"The way to make money is to start your own religion."
L. Ron Hubbard
“When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.”
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"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. "
Gore Vidal
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. "
Al Capone
"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
Oppenheimer
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. "
Carl Jung
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”
Mae West
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for
his. "
General George Patton
"In the end, everything is a gag. "
Charlie Chaplin
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "
Albert Einstein
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable,
must be the truth."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will
find a way around the laws."
Plato
“The conspiracy theory of society… comes from abandoning god and then asking: “Who is in his place””
Karl Popper
“Going to Disney World to drop acid and goof on Mickey isn’t revolutionary; going to Disney World in full knowledge of how ridiculous and evil it all is and still having a great innocent time, in some almost unconscious, even psychotic way, is something else altogether. This is what de Certeau describes as “the art of being in-between,” and this is the only path of true freedom in today’s culture. Let us, then, be in-between. Let us revel in Baywatch, Joe Camel, Wired magazine, and even glossy books about the society of spectacle, but let’s never succumb to the glamorous allure of these things.”
Editorial, Hermenaut #10: Popular Culture, 1995
“Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift.”
Noam Chomsky
“Machines wear out. Cars rust. People die. But what lives on are the brands.”
Hector Liang, The Chairman of United Biscuits
“That’s the problem with you readers, you know all the plots.”
Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard
“Funny how gentle people get to you once you’re dead.”
Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard
"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred"
Henry Rollins
"All that's necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do the wrong thing."
Lawrence Block, "The Evil Men Do"
“Music’s never loud enough. You should stick your head in a speaker. Louder, louder, louder. Do it, Frankie, do it. Oh, how. Oh do it, do it.”
Lou Reed
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