transitory quote thread

[satisfied mind]

I say transitory because it never seems popular enough to endure. :darn:


"We are all haunted by the lost perfection of the ego that contained everything (the original mother-child union), and we measure ourselves and our lovers against this standard. We search for a replica in external satisfactions, in food, comfort, sex, or success, but gradually learn, through the process of sublimation, that the best approximation of that lost feeling comes from creative acts that evoke states of being in which self-consciousness is temporarily relinquished."

- Mark Epstein, Thoughts Without a Thinker

parentheses added

[TheEnemy]

I have not joyed an hour since you departed, for public miseries, and for private fears; but this blest meeting has overpaid them all.
-john dryden

[TheEnemy]

It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch

[TheEnemy]

Youth are heated by nature, as drunken men by wine.
- Aristotle

[drumloops]

"A man is not a man without a decent cigar in his mouth."--Fidel Castro

[satisfied mind]

"I like that the point of convergence of liberation theology, Islamic mysticism, and
engaged Buddhism is the sense of love that leads to commitment and involvement
with the world, and not a turning away from the world. A form of wisdom that I strive
for is the ability to know what is needed at a given moment in time. When do I need
to reside in that location of stillness and contemplation, and when do I need to get
up off my ass and do whatever is needed to be done in terms of physical work, or
engagement with others, or confrontation with others? I'm not interested in ranking
one type of action over the other."

- Bell Hooks

[meepmeep]

"Real Cuban Cigars. No Bullshit" -- Mexican guy in Nogales.

[arnold_layne]

"The Sixties seem like a golden age to us because, relative to now, they were. At their heart, the counterculture revolt against acquisitive selfishness - and, in particular, the hippies' unfashionable perception that we can change the world only by changing ourselves - looks in retrospect like a last gasp of the Western soul. Now radically disunited, we live dominated by and addicted to gadgets, our raison d'être and sense of community unfixably broken. While remnants of our once-stable core of religious faith survive, few are very edifying. Till hard drugs are legalised, the old world will retain some moral hold on us; but when they are, as the dictates of vulgar pragmatism predict, the last ties will be cut with our former way of life, far away from us on the other side of the sun-flooded chasm of the Sixties - where, courtesy of scientific technology, The Beatles can still be heard singing their buoyant, poignant, hopeful, love-advocating songs."

Ian MacDonald "Revolution In The Head"

He recently died.

R.I.P.

[the brew]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
"I like that the point of convergence of liberation theology, Islamic mysticism, and
engaged Buddhism is the sense of love that leads to commitment and involvement
with the world, and not a turning away from the world. A form of wisdom that I strive
for is the ability to know what is needed at a given moment in time. When do I need
to reside in that location of stillness and contemplation, and when do I need to get
up off my ass and do whatever is needed to be done in terms of physical work, or
engagement with others, or confrontation with others? I'm not interested in ranking
one type of action over the other."

- Bell Hooks it's actually bell hooks, as in no capitalization.

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by brew
it's actually bell hooks, as in no capitalization.

Thanks. :)

[juxtaposeur]

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments: there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll.

[in a pink dress]

"extracting meaning is like extracting teeth"
ashley chambers

[juxtaposeur]

"The government's response to this suicide was to arrest thousands of Buddhist monks."

some news site, regarding the death of Quang Due?

[kim]

Originally posted by arnold_layne
"The Sixties seem like a golden age to us because, relative to now, they were. At their heart, the counterculture revolt against acquisitive selfishness - and, in particular, the hippies' unfashionable preception that we can change the world only by changing ourselves - looks in retrospect like a last gasp of the Western soul. Now radically disunited, we live dominated by and addicted to gadgets, our raison d'être and sense of community unfixably broken. While remnants of our once-stable core of religious faith survive, few are very edifying. Till hard drugs are legalised, the old world will retain some moral hold on us; but when they are, as the dictates of vulgar pragmatism predict, the last ties will be cut with our former way of life, far away from us on the other side of the sun-flooded chasm of the Sixties - where, courtesy of scientific technology, The Beatles can still be heard singing their buoyant, poignant, hopeful, love-advocating songs."

Ian MacDonald "Revolution In The Head"

He recently died.

R.I.P.

That's beautiful. :cry::love:

R.I.P. indeed.

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by juxtaposeur
"The government's response to this suicide was to arrest thousands of Buddhist monks."

some news site, regarding the death of Quang Due?

Are you familiar with his story? The regime in South Vietnam at the type was very highly oppressive of any religious demonstration and had killed a number of Buddhists, who were simply celebrating the Buddha's birthday, just before Quang's self-immolation in protest of the Vietnam war. The arrests made after his suicide were just a continuation of their oppression. The U.S. then secretly encouraged a coup against the regime with the help of many Buddhists.

[drumloops]

"The truth is such a rare
thing it is delightful to tell it."
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

[juxtaposeur]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
Are you familiar with his story? The regime in South Vietnam at the type was very highly oppressive of any religious demonstration and had killed a number of Buddhists, who were simply celebrating the Buddha's birthday, just before Quang's self-immolation in protest of the Vietnam war. The arrests made after his suicide were just a continuation of their oppression. The U.S. then secretly encouraged a coup against the regime with the help of many Buddhists.

ahh. yeah.. i was skimming some articles about JFK and the 60's in the library today for a project and only managed to read that one sentence, which when taken out of context sounds pretty damn nonsensical. :ok:

[arnold_layne]

Originally posted by Althea
That's beautiful. :cry::love:

R.I.P. indeed.

As a Beatles fan,you have to read "Revolution In The Head".Its hard to get in the US,you might have to order it from amazon.co.uk

But its worth every penny.An astounding analysis of The Beatles work,which,even if you dont agree with it all,still makes you re-listen and find new things in songs you've listened to a thousand times.

[Jacobus]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
I say transitory because it never seems popular enough to endure. :darn:




i tried it once :-o
i looked for it the other day and it no longer exists :cry:

-jacobus

'some things they just change invisibly'

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by Jacobus
i tried it once :-o
i looked for it the other day and it no longer exists :cry:

-jacobus

'some things they just change invisibly'

It's been cast into the Archives. :(

I know I posted this in your thread, but I want to post it again:

From Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:

"Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you for those who are near you are far away, you write, and this shows the space around you is beginning to grow vast. And if what is near you is far away then your vastness is already among the stars and is very great. Be happy about your growth in which you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind. Be confident and calm in front of them. Do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your faith or joy which they would not be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them which does not necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again. When you see them love life in a form that is not your own, and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust."

[rebekah]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
It's been cast into the Archives. :(

I know I posted this in your thread, but I want to post it again:

From Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:


:heart:

one of the greatest books ever written.
i had a copy once. all underlined and notated. all dog-eared and love-worn. but i gave it away to a friend who i thought needed it.

i miss it a lot these days.

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by rebekah
:heart:

one of the greatest books ever written.
i had a copy once. all underlined and notated. all dog-eared and love-worn. but i gave it away to a friend who i thought needed it.

i miss it a lot these days.

:) :heart: It's definitely in my top 3 list of favorite books. Rilke is (or his thoughts/writings are) very special to me.

I gave away a copy to a friend who needed it too. After that I found it on audio tape on ebay and bought it before eventually buying the paperback again.

[Ally]

capitiolism stole my virginity-international noise conspiricy

[meepmeep]

"But I did think on the mounain, "Well" (and passing the little mound where I'd buried the mouse every day as I went to my filthy defecations) "let us keep the mind neutral, let us be like the void"--but as soon as I get bored and come down the mountain I can't for the life of me be anything but enraged, lost, partial, critical, mixed-up, scared, foolish, proud, sneering, shit shit shit---

The candle burns
And when that's done
the wax lies in cold artistic piles
----s about all I know"




--Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
:cool:

[the mello]

dying
is an art, like everything else.
i do it exceptionally well.

i do it so it feels like hell.
i do it so it feels real.
i guess you could say i've a call.

-lady lazurus by syvia plath

[the mello]

i lay myself down on the ground, surrounded by the tall pithy grain stalks and the faint sound of insects, and i held my breath, there experiencing a mood that i have never really been able to shake completely - a mood of darkness and inevitability and fascination - a mood that surely must have been held by most young people since the dawn of time as they have crooked their necks, stared at the heavens, and watched their sky go out.

-generation x by douglas coupland.

[mr. dynamite]

"a little known fact is that im a lover not a fighter, but i can kick some ass too"
--noted philosopher Vin Diesel

[Sarky]

"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."
-Walter Benjamin

"My cat's breath smells like cat food."
-Ralph Wiggum

[rebekah]

Originally posted by Mello
dying
is an art, like everything else.
i do it exceptionally well.

i do it so it feels like hell.
i do it so it feels real.
i guess you could say i've a call.

-lady lazurus by syvia plath

this is so me in highschool
:cry:
it hurts to look back sometimes.

[satisfied mind]

"Then those people are right who say that Heaven and Hell are only states of mind?"

"Hush," said he sternly. "Do not blaspheme. Hell is a state of mind--ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind--is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heaven. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains."

- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

[Cacophony]

"anyone here who thinks i'm complaining or feeling sorry for myself can bite me" - lou barlow (may not be an exact quote, but i like the sentiment, works so well for my posts on the boared)

"if you see me in the arms of a gutter out in the burb's, just say, man, he's getting all the love he deserves." - the man elliott, heatmiser

[Cold Discovery]

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Henry Miller

...but just the same I get a little sick with how PROUD people are with the mind, how they want to ram it through you like a sword, how they want to talk talk talk.

Charles Bukowski

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this bag was like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.


American Beauty

[bananafish]

so i'm reading this book on intermarriage in nazi germany, and this quote really made me smile today:
"Love won't change the history of the world, but it will do something much more important: teach us to stand up to history, to ignore its chin-out strut. I don't accept your terms, love says; sorry, you don't impress, and by the way what a silly uniform you're wearing." - Julian Barnes


and my favorite ever, no matter how many times I and everyone else have read it and analyzed it and whatever, it still gives me chills...
"...tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning ---
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." :heart:

[solveig]

it's exactly like when you were young and dreaming of your family's vacation;only when the trip was over, you were left faced with the empty husks of your dreams and the fear that that's what life will mostly be - the husks of your dreams lying around you


richard ford

[solveig]

"then we'll just make it popular, right?"

oh demon alcohol,sad memories i can't recall

[drumloops]

"Actors are cattle." - Alfred Hitchcock

[tiah]

"Do what you can,with what you have,where you are"
Theodore Roosevelt

[solveig]

"it's not like i'm ever going to stop, you know?"

it's not popular
that's my favorite brand of thread

[solveig]

"never loved elvis"
schlesinger

trying to stay up somewhere in her head

[solveig]

we are the people our parents warned us about

[pointyjess]

"Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way; turn."

-Charles De Mar "Better Off Dead"

[winkwildly]

i would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. i would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.
- margaret atwood.

[canustillfeelit]

"children are smarter than any of us--do you know how i know that? i don't know one child with a full time job and children."

-bill hicks

[solveig]

sometimes you just forget who you are.
especially when you're sick of who you are.
Affliction


don't you feel sluggish today?

[solveig]

It's all a goddamn fake. Like Lenin said, look for the person who will benefit. And you will, uh, you know, you'll, uh, ...you know what I'm trying to say


the dude

[lune]

"Je ressentis devant elle ce désir de vivre qui renaît en nous chaque fois que nous prenons de nouveau conscience de la beauté et du bonheur"

Marcel Proust

[lune]

« Nous pouvons à notre choix nous livrer à l’une ou l’autre de deux forces: l’une s’élève de nous mêmes, émane de nos impressions profondes, l’autre nous vient du dehors.
La première porte naturellement avec elle une joie, celle que dégage la vie des créateurs.
L’autre courant, celui qui essaye d’introduire en nous le mouvement dont sont agitées des personnes extérieures, n’est pas accompagné de plaisir ; mais nous pouvons lui en ajouter un, par choc en retour, en une ivresse si factice qu’elle tourne vite à l’ennui, à la tristesse; d’où le visage morne de tant de mondains, et chez eux tant d’états nerveux qui peuvent aller jusqu’au suicide. »


Marcel Proust

[solveig]

ne me laissez pas seul avec les morts comme un soldat sur le front qui ne reçoit pas de lettres
Choisissez-moi parmi eux pour ma grande anxiété et mon grand désir.
Parlez-moi, alors.
Je vous en prie, j'y compte.
h.michaux

[solveig]

This aggression will not stand

[Martijn]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[Martijn]

"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

[Martijn]

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

[solveig]

I do believe, induced by potent circumstances, that thou art mine enemy

[Martijn]

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato

"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins

[solveig]

Harold Robbins is a tiny thinker
- Arthur Schlesinger

[Martijn]

:lol:

[Martijn]

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

[solveig]

I'm the Walrus - Donny

[Martijn]

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
- Yogi Berra

[solveig]

Honesty is such a lovely word
Everyone is so untrue
- Kenny Lay

[Martijn]

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain

[Martijn]

No Sane man will dance."
- Cicero

[solveig]

the flesh is sad, alas, and i've read all the books
- rimbaud, arthur, who should speak french for mullah's sake!

[solveig]

Nixon slammed the phone down
- Harrap's Shorter

[pointyjess]

"I think I can become the kind of person that's worth you staying for. First of all, I'm a man who can cry. Now its true, its usually when I've hurt myself, but its a start. I know there is something that will make you stay, I know it, there's some move I can make, the right word, attitude, plan, but these are all just tricks, these are all just things I could think up and try so let's forgo that. Let's assume that whatever it is, whatever that thing is, that it has happened, that it has occurred and that my hand has already gone down your throat and grabbed your heart and squoze it.

I guess there comes a time in everyone's life when its now or never, its now or never. Let me read to you from this book of poems:
"Oh pointy birds, oh pointy, pointy-"
*window slams shut in steve martin's face*

--LA Story

[solveig]

you should know when it's time to stop, don't you think so?

[satisfied mind]

Everytime I see my thread come back up from the depths I know it's you, Andy. :)

[solveig]

come on, andy has done nothing for you there!
everyone is slaving at this TQT but andy

[drumloops]

That ain't no Andy. D:

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by drumloops
That ain't no Andy. D:

The mysterious style combined with an affinity for hummy made me think it was. I'm still not sure. :)

[solveig]

no andy is gonna bring you up now

[drumloops]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
The mysterious style combined with an affinity for hummy made me think it was. I'm still not sure. :)

Next thing yr going to tell me is that Andy's the Baron. :angry:

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by drumloops
Next thing yr going to tell me is that Andy's the Baron. :angry:

So are you saying you're solveig? :therock:

I'm stickin' to my guns.

[solveig]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by satisfied mind
[B]I say transitory because it never seems popular enough to endure. :darn:


;)

[meepmeep]

Originally posted by solveig
It's all a goddamn fake. Like Lenin said, look for the person who will benefit. And you will, uh, you know, you'll, uh, ...you know what I'm trying to say


the dude

best movie. ever.

[drumloops]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
So are you saying you're solveig? :therock:


Sweet sweet, Jesus. No.

[solveig]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by satisfied mind
[B]So are you saying you're solveig? :therock:

would come as a surprise!!!

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by solveig
"then we'll just make it popular, right?"

I've appreciated your efforts. :)

[solveig]

Originally posted by meepmeep
best movie. ever.

this aggression will not stand!:)

[solveig]

but it's addiction
addiction
addiction
tqt is at my beck and call
tqt is my friend

[satisfied mind]

:-D

[solveig]

:)

[solveig]

do you want me to take my plane and go back to France? - Jacques Chirac, dead president

[satisfied mind]

"We are all one silence, and a diversity of voices."

- Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

[solveig]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by satisfied mind
[B]"We are all one silence, and a diversity of voices."

:)

[solveig]

and this is the part of the record when the engineer said 'if we don't fade this thing out, we're all gonna be arrested"

[solveig]

god forbid


you shall not sink deeper

[­Neurosis Penny]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
I say transitory because it never seems popular enough to endure. :darn:
That's a relief. I was hesitant to enter this thread, what with my search for terse, forgettable lines from any my favorite historical personalities being a total bust. If I had only known that all along that "transitory" was only a reference to the nature of these threads and representative to the size or content of the quotes. I suppose the most confusing thing now is that this thread has failed to live up to its namesake.

Next you'll be telling me that the thread, "Last Movie You Saw, Again" refers not to the number of times you've seen the picture you've chosen to list, but to the constant reinstating of the standard boardroom movie thread.
:rolleyes:

Yes, yes... I know the comma's in place, I'm aware, but I was never any good at grammar.

[solveig]

Originally posted by _NotoriousPenny
I suppose the most confusing thing now is that this thread has failed to live up to its namesake.

I know the comma's in place, I'm aware, but I was never any good at grammar.[/size]

what has he done to wear so many scars?
does he change the course of rivers?
does he pollute the moon and stars?

[Master Misery]

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.--Kierkegaard

[Master Misery]

Originally posted by arnold_layne
"The Sixties seem like a golden age to us because, relative to now, they were. At their heart, the counterculture revolt against acquisitive selfishness - and, in particular, the hippies' unfashionable perception that we can change the world only by changing ourselves - looks in retrospect like a last gasp of the Western soul. Now radically disunited, we live dominated by and addicted to gadgets, our raison d'être and sense of community unfixably broken. While remnants of our once-stable core of religious faith survive, few are very edifying. Till hard drugs are legalised, the old world will retain some moral hold on us; but when they are, as the dictates of vulgar pragmatism predict, the last ties will be cut with our former way of life, far away from us on the other side of the sun-flooded chasm of the Sixties - where, courtesy of scientific technology, The Beatles can still be heard singing their buoyant, poignant, hopeful, love-advocating songs."

Ian MacDonald "Revolution In The Head"

He recently died.

R.I.P.

That is an awesome book, the best one I've ever read about the Beatles.

[solveig]

"the great enigma of human life is not suffering
but affliction"

[solveig]

UP ! UP !

[solveig]

i know it's embarrassing
but it's the q#100
happy 100 tqt


"he lacks the necessary biro"

[satisfied mind]

"It is important to realize when you do not need to know any more, or do any more. But to know when one acts just enough, one needs more (or less) than the reflective and planned knowledge by which one watches one's own acts. He who acts enough, and no more than enough, is also probably less than aware that he has acted. He does not reflect that he has acted just enough."

- Thomas Merton

[Master Misery]

"Suicide is prepared within the silence of the heart, as is a great work of art."--Camus

[meepmeep]

"The hallucinations cannot be counted. That is how it has always been for me: no more faith in history, principles forgotten. I shall be silent on this matter: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times richer than they, like the sea i shall store it up." - Rimbaud

[TheEnemy]

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it."
- Dan Quayle

[solveig]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
"It is important to realize when you do not need to know any more, or do any more. But to know when one acts just enough, one needs more (or less) than the reflective and planned knowledge by which one watches one's own acts. He who acts enough, and no more than enough, is also probably less than aware that he has acted. He does not reflect that he has acted just enough."

- Thomas Merton

I'm sorry!
I didn't mean to continue
but it has not disappeared as predicted
and so it's itching


precious, precious Tommy Merton, I appreciate your delicate turn of phrase when Walter would have just bluntly said
"Shut the fuck up, Donny!"

:confused:

[theflyingVsnake]

Originally posted by TheEnemy
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it."
- Dan Quayle



hello hello!




You dropped your mail, i put it on your veranda




its okay, i was just passing



:)

[meepmeep]

"...How can the universe be anything but a Womb? And the Womb of God or the Womb of Tathagata, it's two languages not two Gods--And anyway the truth is relative, the world is relative--Everything is relative--Fire is fire and isn't fire--"Don't disturb the sleeping Einstein in his bliss"--So it's only a dream so shut up and enjoy--lake of the mind" -- Jack Kerouac

[riverman]

"looks like I pulled a fast one on the Kelvins"
-my chemistry teacher mr mcclain

[solveig]

"Don't get sore about it"
- H. Caulfield

[meepmeep]

"I feel like a complete imposter, a trespasser. I'm tresspassing here tonight. I expect to be escorted off the premises." -- Morrissey

----------------

"The Smiths provoke...absolute adoration or absolute murderous hatred. There are people out there who would like to disembowel me, just as there are people who would smother me with kisses." -- Morrissey

----------------

"As far as I can tell any fool can have a hit record in America--except me." --Moz

[solveig]

hi. i was just passing by






and the light was on, though it was dim.





and i was wondering, maybe


i could crash your party?


- the flyingVsnake

















:)

[meepmeep]

suppose -- ee cummings

suppose
Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

young death sits in a cafe
smiling, a piece of money held between
his thumb and first finger

(i say "will he buy flowers" to you
and "Death is young
life wears velour trousers
life totters, life has a beard" i

say to you who are silent.--"Do you see
Life? he is there and here,
or that, or this
or nothing or an old man 3 thirds
asleep, on his head
flowers, always crying
to nobody something about les
roses les bluets
yes,
will He buy?
Les belles bottes--oh hear
, pas chères")

and my love slowly answered I think so. But
I think I see someone else

there is a lady, whose name is Afterwards
she is sitting beside young death, is slender;
likes flowers.

[hikat]

one's not half two. It's two are halves of one:

...

[solveig]

stranger by the minute
:(

[hikat]

mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions arty
each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party
...

[solveig]

... but the man put his fingers in his ears and ran on crying

"Life!Life!Eternal life!"

[hikat]

death(having lost)put on his universe
and yawned:it looks like rain
(they've played for timelessness
with chips of when)
...

[solveig]

" and then Solveig said
but this e.e.cummings character
lacks some block letters
and some consistency
it's like it was designed
especially for tqt"

[hikat]

all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again;
but winter's not forever,even snow melts, and if spring should spoil the game, what then?

all history's a winter sport or three:
but were it five,i'd still insist that all history is too small for even me;
for me and you;exceedingly too small.

Swoop(shrill collective myth)into thy grave
merely to toil the scale to shillerness
per every madge and mable dick and dave
-tomorrow is our permanant address

and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further: into now

[solveig]

to that, Solveig gravely nodded
and declared:
" two drifters off to see the world
I'm not so sure the world deserves us"

[meepmeep]

*ponders more cummings*

"we're anything brighter than even the sun
(we're everything greater
than books
might mean)
we're everyanything more than believe
(with a spin
leap
alive we're alive)
we're wonderful one times one"

[solveig]

and then Solveig brightened
for one second and smirked
" e.e.,old stick, happy christmas
i shall give you bigger letters for your name
i'll give you all the letters in my name
and some more
and brackets too
i have no use for them anymore!"

[solveig]

" I WANT MY SPRIZE!"

- Hubert Selby

[solveig]

"While every effort has been made to ensure
optimum sound quality
priority has been given to historic content
and importance."

- Raymond Douglas Davies

[solveig]

" I didn't know it was you"

- Tommy Franks

[solveig]

"oh, by the way, there's a letter for you!"

[meepmeep]

"I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates" -- Melanie

[Master Misery]

Honk!
--Harpo

[solveig]

hmm...things are kinda loosening up

at last

- "I love you guys"
Tommy Franks

[solveig]

"What's for dinner?"

- Charles Ingalls

[satisfied mind]

"Beef"

- National Cattlemen's Beef Association

[solveig]

"no canadian beef, i expect, Caroline?"
- Charles Ingalls

[satisfied mind]

"I'd hazard a guess that some of it has been consumed."

- National Cattlemen's Beef Association

[solveig]

light a fire
fight a liar
what's the difference
in existence?


- the Dharma bums

[solveig]

" mainly overcast"

- Marcel Proust

[solveig]

" i hate the quiet places"

- Candy

[hai soudesu]

"Choice," rumbled a rich deep voice. I saw it belonged to the prison priest. "He has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice."

"There are subtleties," like smiled Dr Brodsky. "We are not concerned with motive, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime--"

"And," chipped in this big well-dressed Minister, "with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons."

"Hear hear," said somebody.

There was a lot of talking and arguing then and I just stood there, brothers, like completely ignored by all these ignorant bastards, so I shouted out:

"Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog?" And that started them off talking real loud and throwing words at me. So I shouted louder still, saying "Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?"

--Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

[solveig]

I would prefer not to
- Bartleby

[hikat]

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by solveig
I would prefer not to
- Bartleby

I love this one, in fact I found myself quoting that line to myself yesterday while I was daydreaming at work. :)

[hai soudesu]

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

[solveig]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
I love this one, in fact I found myself quoting that line to myself yesterday while I was daydreaming at work. :)

:)

" i don't know what's right any longer"
- Ilsa

[solveig]

" Such a terrible mark, Caroni "

- Brother Leon

[satisfied mind]

"Those of the old belief will not be our companions, and the currents of the world flow past far from our islands."

- Hermann Hesse, Wandering

[Master Misery]

"You are saved, Don Benito," cried Captain Delano, more and more astonished and pained; "you are saved; what has cast such a shadow upon you?" --Melville, "Benito Cereno"

[solveig]

" He rests. He has traveled."
- J. J.

[Master Misery]

Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland.

[solveig]

" let them think what they liked,
but i didn't mean to drown myself.
i meant to swim till i sank - but that's not
the same thing"

[solveig]

"Mostly, Prunes and Prism"

- Charles Dickens

[solveig]

" next time, try the train !"

- Southern pacific

[solveig]

" i submit to your consideration that i have no anxiety in connection with the fruit in question"
- elliott smith

[solveig]

" do i dare disturb the universe?"
- Eliot

[hikat]

For a moment, nothing happened.
Then, after a second or so, nothing
continued to happen.

Douglas Adams

[hai soudesu]

Originally posted by hikat
For a moment, nothing happened.
Then, after a second or so, nothing
continued to happen.

Douglas Adams

i love the hitchhiker's guide books. hilarious.

[solveig]

" a similar but somehow less successful story about a writing desk that turns out to be a raven in disguise"

- Jeffrey Cartwright

[solveig]

" a really blatant and intrusive interruption"
- DFW

[drumloops]

"Pero que es esta mierda? -- My mother

[Master Misery]

If you ain't appearing, you're disappearing!--Art Blakey

[solveig]

" there's a word for people like you, Mark. ' Minimal'. You never really react to things. Even art. You hardly ever give me feedback."

[solveig]

welcome to these lines
there is a war on
but i'll try to make you comfortable
- LC

[hikat]

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse

[satisfied mind]

My yearning no longer paints dreamy colors across the veiled distances, my eyes are satisfied with what exists, because they have learned to see. The world has become lovelier than before.

- Hermann Hesse, Wandering.

[hikat]

Hey! What's up with Hermann?
-Doe
(that's me)

[Master Misery]

About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told you about.--Holden

[meepmeep]

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

--Lewis Carroll

[solveig]

"down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?"
- LC

[solveig]

" it is what you fear. i do not fear it.
i have been there."
- SP

[solveig]

" now you folks come on and be happy, god damn it !!!"
- LBJ, november 1967

[satisfied mind]

The air is breathing me.

- thought I had last night

[hai soudesu]

"It was I who first established the difference between excessive masturbation and entering into politics."

[hai soudesu]

"It is like, you know, like getting the biggest slice of cake, of course you know because the cake is new, and you know, it smells really good"

-- Kjartan, Sigur Rós

[solveig]

" every angel is terrifying"

- Rilke

[satisfied mind]

Originally posted by solveig
" every angel is terrifying"

- Rilke

That's from one of his Duino Elegies isn't it? "Beauty is as close to terror as we can well endure." Ain't that the truth.

[solveig]

Originally posted by satisfied mind
That's from one of his Duino Elegies isn't it? "Beauty is as close to terror as we can well endure." Ain't that the truth.

that's from the Duino Elegies, yes

:)

and he speaks the truth, yes

[solveig]

"Fortunately, i know you don't mean that. Not deep down"

- Zooey

[Master Misery]

"And then he goes around smoking his smelly cigars all of the time. I'm so sick of cigar smoke I could just die.--Franny

[Master Misery]

"His cigars are sheer ballast, sweetheart."--Buddy/Zooey

[satisfied mind]

yay :D

[Aidan]

"As virtuous men passe mildly away,
And whisper to their soules, to goe,
Whilst some of their sad friends doe say,
The breath goes now, and some say, no"

John Donne

[hai soudesu]

"I will no longer wait for you at the port, or sing your sailor’s song beneath my breath"

[Master Misery]

Brothers and sisters, you have no mother and father to take care of you. If you will not take care of each other, who else, I ask, will do so?--Buddha

[solveig]

" Second to the right, and straight on till morning!"
- Peter Pan

[solveig]

" Sure. I always drink alone when you go on these trips. I'm getting practice for when you disappear to California for good."

- Emily

[Master Misery]

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.--Rilke

[Master Misery]

Sir, if you don't shut up I'm gonna kick 100 percent of your ass!--Brad

[seven.]

A poet is, before anything else, a peson who is passionately in love with language.
-Auden

[solveig]

"Only what is entirely lost demands to be endlessly named: there is a mania to call the lost thing until it returns."
- G. Gräss

[solveig]

"Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse ! "
- A. Burgess

[solveig]

"Was I, too, insane? It was a difficult admission to make, but I am glad that I made it; later, i came to believe that this admission about oneself may be the only redemption in America. Yes, I was insane. Still, i did not despise my oddness, my deviations, those things which made me, after all, me."

- Exley, A Fan's Notes

[satisfied mind]

My beloved tqt...you were not lost to the Great Deletion. Thank heavens. :D

[solveig]

"What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you"
- Flaubert

[solveig]

"Youth culture killed my dogma"
- Jeff Gomez

[solveig]

" That's an oxymoron. Same category as 'living poet' or 'french rock star'. "
- DC

[solveig]

Originally posted by drumloops
Sweet sweet, Jesus. No.


happy 200 tqt

[solveig]

" you are without a doubt the most tactless person i've ever known in my life !"
- Franny

[kgarland]

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

--T.S. Eliot

[solveig]

" bye bye love
bye bye happiness "
- the Everly Brothers

[satisfied mind]

Smite upon that thick cloud of unknowing
with a sharp dart of longing love.
Come what may, do not give up.

- unknown

[hikat]

"The history of chowder is lost in mystery."
-Martha Stewart

She actually said that. I heard her. Don't like chowder anyway.

[hai soudesu]

If you are not certain of exactly when sleep you procure,
How then can you be certain of your first waking breath?

Have any seen times before birth
With absolute clairvoyance, save
Pictures developed hung above the hearth?

Thomas Barrett Chapman III

[solveig]

Originally posted by hikat
"The history of chowder is lost in mystery."
-Martha Stewart

She actually said that. I heard her. Don't like chowder anyway.

:-D

[solveig]

" We know that in each day, we laugh and we are serious. We do both in the same day, every day. But in our art, we expect clear distinction between the two. We expect a movie to be a comedy or a drama . We expect writing to be serious writing or humorous writing . But we don't label our days Serious Days or Humorous Days. We know that each day contains endless nuances - if written would contain dozens of disparate passages, funny ones, sad ones, poignant ones, brutal ones, the terrifying and the cuddly. But we are loathe to allow this in art."
- D. Eggers

[solveig]

" nothing matters but the quality of the affection
- in the end -
that has carved the trace in the mind."
e. pound

[solveig]

" speak english! i don't know the meaning of half those long words and, what's more, i don't believe you do either!"
- the Eaglet

[meepmeep]

"Bob didn't come on to me at all. He talked to me about my lyrics, which was even more terrifying. I just about fainted."

---Jewel talking about Bob Dylan.

[solveig]

" genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances."
jean-paul sartre

[solveig]

" the deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it has"

- the Talmud

[solveig]

" as for this little lady, the best thing i can wish her is a little misfortune"
WM Thackeray

[solveig]

" I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own"
- Mc Leod

[solveig]

" I GUESS I'LL NEVER GET TO GO TO SAWYER DEPOT!"

- Owen Meany

[meepmeep]

"down another rung, with poison on your tongue, and cement in your lungs"

[solveig]

" I like working on it. It reminds me of what's important."
T. Joad
:)

[hai soudesu]

"The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. However, this is not a tragic situation, in my opinion. The happiest day of my life was many years ago when I was seventeen. I was on my way for lunch to meet my mother, who was going out on the street for the first time after a long illness, and I was feeling ecstatically happy when suddenly, as I was coming in to the Avenue Victor Hugo, which is a street in Paris, I bumped into a chap without any nose. I ask you to please consider that factor, in fact I beg you. It is quite pregnant with meaning."

De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, JD Salinger.

Also, my sub teacher today Mr Batt (by far the single most awesome teacher in the history of teaching :yes: ) said:

"Daoism is the belief that a juxtaposition of opposites is necessary for higher understanding. On the black chalkboard I write with white chalk so that you can see what I have to tell you. And in that simple example, you can see how you reach a higher understanding."

He goes off on these random rants regardless of what class he's supposed to be teaching, it's really awesome. :D

[hikat]

What does a man do before enlightenment?
Chop wood and carry water.
What does a man do after enlightenment?
Chop wood and carry water.

zen proverb

[meepmeep]

"I don't know what he's going on about. But it's a beaut." -- Ian McCulloch on Bob Dylan's 'Love Minus Zero / No Limit'

[solveig]

" Words are my wrenches, words my hammer and nails. Words are my fists, my liquor, my food. With my words, i will protect you. I will save you as you have saved me."
Dale Peck

[solveig]

" I don't see this dark fearful thing you seem to see in David Letterman."
- Rudy

[solveig]

" When you're an American, there's an ocean between yourself and your ancestral home."
R. Moody

[solveig]

" I think we can all agree that it would be nice to have this situation firmly in control so that we can go home. Right? So let's go ahead over these technical issues one more time!"
Stanford Warren

[solveig]

" loneliness like a parking space, like a foreign tongue, like an absent dream"
H. Raitliffe

[solveig]

" One could do worse than be a swinger of birches"
R. Frost

[solveig]

" Imagine marrying anybody in that heat!"
F.Scott Fitzgerald

[solveig]

" I mean
this is prose
not poetry
but i want
to be sincere."
J.Kerouac

[solveig]

" Is it logical you'd be walking around entirely orphaned now?"
Kabir

[solveig]

" Beyond a certain point there is no return.
This point is to be reached."
F.K.

[solveig]

" What is your opinion of a society that considers ' Turkey in the Straw ' to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?"

Ignatius J. Reilly

[solveig]

"This is a fine mess!"
Scarlett O'Hara

[solveig]

" When the mind swings by a grass-blade
an ant's forefoot shall save you."
ezra pound

[solveig]

"You ask the secret.
It has just one name:
again."
Miroslav Holub

[lune]

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you ... Nobody.. too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise ... you know!

How dreary to be Somebody!
How public .. like a Frog ...
To tell one's name ... the livelong June ...
To an admiring Bog!


Emily Dickinson

[lune]

Always I knew that it could not last
(Gathering clouds, and the snowflakes flying),
Now it is part of the golden past
(Darkening skies, and the night-wind sighing)
It is but cowardice to pretend.
Cover with ashes our love's cold crater
Always I've known that it had to end
Sooner or later.

Always I knew it would come like this
(Pattering rain, and the grasses springing),
Sweeter to you is a new love's kiss
(Flickering sunshine, and young birds singing).
Gone are the raptures that once we knew,
Now you are finding a new joy greater
Well, I'll be doing the same thing, too,
Sooner or later.

Dorothy Parker - Nocturne

[solveig]

" Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage."
Zooey

[solveig]

" In spite of everything, Russ isn't radical enough to be a true criminal. Basically, he is an astronaut."
- Chapman Dorset

[bananafish]

'hell is a small group discussion'
- my roman history professor

[hikat]

Waking life is a dream controlled.
George Santayana

[solveig]

" Patrick, this is my Christmas party. Besides, the elves are going to sing 'O Tannenbaum' any minute now."
Bret Easton Ellis

[solveig]

" Ah, yes, there was a future in the insane asylum. No winter spent there could be a total loss."
R. Brautigan

[lune]

"Rock'n'roll"

breat easton ellis

[solveig]

" Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dylan Thomas

[solveig]

" Do you think I will grow into a Freak?"
Frankie Addams

[solveig]

" Edna, do you know this pan is burning up?"
Ray Carver

[solveig]

" That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the ole foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace."
- Zooey

[solveig]

" Tout enfonce, rien ne libère.
Le suicidé renaît à une nouvelle souffrance."
Henri Michaux

[arnold_layne]

"I've met the man in the street and he's a cunt"

Sid Vicious

[arnold_layne]

"O bhikshus!

Do not grieve!

Even if I were to live in the world for as long as a kalpa, our coming together would have to end. You should know that all things in the world are impermanent; coming together inevitably means parting. Do not be troubled, for this is the nature of life. Diligently practicing right effort, you must seek liberation immediately. Within the light of wisdom, destroy the darkness of ignorance. Nothing is secure. Everything in this life is precarious. Always wholeheartedly seek the way of liberation. All things in the world, whether moving or non-moving, are characterized by disappearance and instability.

Stop now!
Do not speak!
Time is passing.
I am about to cross over.
This is my final teaching"

Buddha's last words.

[hai soudesu]

Originally posted by solveig
" That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the ole foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace."
- Zooey

that is by far my favorite quote from that book. :D

[hai soudesu]

Her new friends in California tell her to "trust the universe," but Grace sees nothing trustworthy about the universe; it's full of exploding stars.

--Barbara Kingsolver, Fault Lines

[mulac]

"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. Thats's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world"

Octave Mirbeau

from "the torture garden"

[arnold_layne]

Originally posted by mulac
"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. Thats's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world"

Octave Mirbeau

from "the torture garden"

I smell a Manics fan.You know,at the height of my obsession with "The Holy Bible" I read "The Torture Garden".That paragraph is the most interesting part of it.It took every bit of strength I had to finish that awful book.I learned a very valuable lesson then.....Richey found the best quotes so I didnt have to read crap books.

Almost everything I read as a result of my Manics obsession was some horribly grey,life negating horse manure of the kind that students hold dear to their hearts.Be warned.

[arnold_layne]

"When you confer spiritual authority to another person, you must realise that you are allowing them to pick your pocket and sell you your own watch."

Alan Watts

[meepmeep]

"I need some love...some intelligence...some money...and some sex." --Iggy Pop

[satisfied mind]

"If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed."

- John Muir

[mulac]

Originally posted by arnold_layne
I smell a Manics fan.You know,at the height of my obsession with "The Holy Bible" I read "The Torture Garden".That paragraph is the most interesting part of it.It took every bit of strength I had to finish that awful book.I learned a very valuable lesson then.....Richey found the best quotes so I didnt have to read crap books.

Almost everything I read as a result of my Manics obsession was some horribly grey,life negating horse manure of the kind that students hold dear to their hearts.Be warned.

tell me about it. i read that quote on the holy bible when it came out.

i was 14 and thought it was the best thing in the world. looking back on it, you can obviousley see it has been translated and isn't as good as i once thought

not a patch on most of the others on here


i read that book up until that paragraph but was forced to stop there because it is one of the worst books ever written

i like the holy bible and bought the 2 albums before it and kinda went off them
haven't listened to them for a while

i may go and do that now

[solveig]

so many people!

[solveig]

" In those days, when the Beatles were depressed, we had this little chant. I would yell out 'Where are we going fellows?'. They would say 'To the top, Johnny!' in pseudo-american voices."

John Lennon

[solveig]

" Well, this was always destined to be the year of behaving strangely."
M. Amis