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Topic: more quotable quotes |
grant
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posted November 30, 1999 02:58 PM
  
Just got this one in one of the comics Ganesha sent me. I'd actually
read it before, but it seemed even better this time.
It's from a book on hiking.
"Man, with all his knowledge and his pride, needs to know
sometimes nothing and feel nothing, but that he is a marvelous atom
in a marvelous world." -- Frederick Harrison
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[wisp]
Initiate |
posted December 01, 1999 04:50 AM
I like how Vonnegut describes 'it':
In the beginning and in the
end was Nothingness. Nothingness implied the possiblity of
somethingness. it is impossible to make something from nothing.
Therefore, Nothingness could only *imply* Somethingness. That
implication is the Universe. We are wisps of that implication.
or how Russell Edson phrased 'it', "teetering bulbs of dread and
dream"
i'm not really sure why i chose the term 'it'- nor do i fully
understand why i thought this was an appropriate reply to the
previous post. Ah well.
the fuses have been lit!
d.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 08:45 AM
"The theory of space and time is a cultural artifact made possible
by the invention of graph paper."
Jacque Vallee
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 01, 1999 09:37 AM
Grant: I sent you a book on HIKING?!! Christ, I must be losing
it...
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grant
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 02:46 PM
Don't sweat it, sir. It was in one of the Concretes. Brilliant bit.
I'd actually read that story in one of the collected issues, but
the horror stuff at then end was all new.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 07:56 PM
Favourite quote is from Aubrey's Brief Lives,which is sort of a
Who's Who of the 17th Century (ish), and is from the entry on Carlo
Fantom, a Croatian mercenary who fought for both Cromwell and King
Charles I. Fantom is quoted thus: "I care not for your cause, I come
to fight for your halfe-crowne and your handsome woemen. My father
was a Roman Catholiq and so was my grandfather. I have fought for
the Christians against the Turkes, and for the Turkes against the
Christians" (sic).
I also love Gnossos Pappadopoulis's refrain
from Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me: "I
am invisible... and exempt. Immunity has been granted to me, for I
do not lose my cool," which is pretty fucking ace.
I asked if
anyone else had read the book over in the Oratory, but either no-one
has or they were put off by my over-long and over-enthusiastic
ramblings. Check it out.
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grant
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 08:37 PM
It's been recommended to me before; it's on my list.
Unfortunately (for my employers) I just discovered GK Chesterton,
thanks to the Pokey knockoff celebrated in the Oratory. A coworker
asked who he was, so I started digging up bios and quotes.
Here are two, one of which would look great on the masthead of
the bomb:
>>
All centralized systems mean the rule of the few; and
industrial machinery is the most centralized of all systems. If the
modern American really wants to know what his fathers meant by
democracy, he will never learn it from a Ford car. He must make the
supreme and awful sacrifice. He must get out and walk.
>>
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing
in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of
which man is mas-ter, but the truths of semblances of truth which
have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because
it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are
throwing bombs.
>>
and one extra:
>>
The
madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man
who has lost everything except his reason.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 01, 1999 09:42 PM
I live and breathe by an obscure Russian proverb:
'Love is not a potato; you cannot throw it out the
window.'
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grant
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posted December 02, 1999 02:24 PM
In times of trouble, I often repeat a sage Irish proverb I learned
off a Berlitz Irish tape: "The windy day is not the day for
scallops."
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 06:39 PM
I know it sounds like overinflated ego, but here are a few I made up
myself, using G.K. Chesterton's inversion technique:
The future is epilogue. (The past is prologue)
The chains have nothing to lose but their workers.
Opium is the religion of the masses.
It simply comes down to this: Pagans are right, and Christians
are wrong. (Song of Roland: "Chretiens sont droit, et Paiens sont
faux" [please correct my spelling, etc.--haven't read that one in
decades).
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 06:50 PM
"The swine who stole my dog doesnt know what he did to me!"
Adolh
Hitler , 1922
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 12:07 AM
Check out the film Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivyan Stanshall
and starring Trevor Howard for some of the best quotable lines in
movies:
"I never met a man I didn't mutilate."
"If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on
drink."
"Afterlife, aftershave, never believed in any of it."
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 12:17 AM
"I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters." - Simon
LeBon
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with
the
law." - David Dinkins, New York City Mayor.
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important
part of your life." - Brooke Shields, during an interview to become
spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.
"I liked that one line of the poem you read. I forget what it
was." - Erik Mattheis, to Henry Rollins.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 12:36 AM
Shit, I read this in something just today and I can't remember
where, but some woman was sitting next to some guy in America and
she said to him: "My friends have bet me that I can't get three
words out of you tonight."
His reply: "You lose."
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 12:38 AM
Groucho: "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a
member."
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 01:16 AM
Groucho as President of Freedonia in Duck Soup: "If any form of
pleasure be exhibited/ Report to me and it will be
prohibited."
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70sman
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posted December 03, 1999 08:45 AM
"exams: when the foolish ask questions which the wise cannot
answer."
Oscar Wilde
"When in doubt - fuck it! When not in doubt , get in
doubt!"
Malyclpse the younger
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Cochese
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 10:24 AM
"If music be the food of love, put that piano in batter"
-Gilbert
the alien
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Naraoia
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posted December 03, 1999 06:25 PM
"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly" --G.K. Chesterton
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King Mob
Operative |
posted December 04, 1999 10:11 PM
ìItís only after youíve lost everything that youíre free to do
anything.î
Chuck Palahniukís ìFight Clubî
ìDemocracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on
lunch.î----------------------?
ìIn fact, let us not mince wordsÖ the management is terrible!
Weíve 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 Iíll 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 ìNo.î You have no spine. You have no pride. You are no longer an
asset to the company.î
V speaking to the citizens of Britain,
Alan Mooreís ìV For Vendetta #5î
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 10:39 AM
"I feel like a pig shat in my head" - Withnail, describing the
mother of all hangovers.
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70sman
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posted December 05, 1999 12:53 PM
I will refrain from quoting the entire script of the above movie ,
and will simply say:
"A coward Withnail , you are. An expert on
bulls you are not!"
Marwood.
"£1?? You can shove it up your arse and fuck off while you're
doing it!"
Withnail
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 01:37 PM
"As a youth I used to weep in butcher's shops" - Montague
Withnail.
Go on, 70sman, the whole script!
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sleazenation
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 01:46 PM
"Right you Fucker, I'm going to do the washing up!"
(This could
very easily become the 'Withnail and I' page)
I also like that line in the third man when Harry is talking
about all the wars that have occured in italy (paraphrase alert)'but
they had poetry they had da vinci and the renaisance in switzerlan
they had 2000 years of brotherly love and what have they invented?
the coocoo clock.'
but back to withnail and I
" we are millionaires, bring us the finest wines know to
humanity!"
[This message has been edited by sleazenation (edited December
05, 1999).]
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Imp0zz!bL
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 01:50 PM
How about 'Nothing's Imp0zz!bL' (Sorry, i couldn't help
myself)
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 04:17 PM
You get fucked and then you learn.
Can't remember who said that,
but it's so true...
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 07:27 PM
Once said to a friend of mine by a burned out old punk: "Win or
lose, have some booze."
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floodcountry
Initiate |
posted December 06, 1999 04:04 AM
Here's a few quotes that make me happy in the loins:
"The more you know the brain, the more it homicides"-from
"The Bloat" by The Melvins
"Be careful about reading health books. You might die of
misprint."-Mark Twain
Here are several others all from
AN AUTHENTIC APPETITE
IS SERVICED BY AN INAUTHENTIC DIET, a diatribe accompanying the
Huggy Bear album Weaponry Listens To Love:
"We as irregular young people have to gob up phleghm on a
refusal. On occasion. On an M.C.
On and On"
"Young social climbers this week following numerous disasters
all declared they were in the mood for "it" "
and lastly...
"This week so we don't be thick we ditched establishments and
institutions of cool/uncool. Following butchery of relentless
interrogation we knew if we didn't want it."
that last one is raw.
Here's one more, this quote said to a room of people at a Keg
party at my house by my friend Mike ArchDeacon of Madness as he
stumbled wasted into the room and landed on my kitchen table:
"It's like...Uaarghblkaawwwhh...Have sex with
me...BEER!!!"
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g.e.humans inc
Initiate |
posted December 06, 1999 06:30 AM
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
time is a tree (this life a
leaf)
i am for you and you for me
just so long and long enough
can't recall the author, but it's the words that count
right?
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 08:55 AM
"Accident blackspot? Accident blackspot!? These arent accidents!
They're throwing themselves into the road gladly! Throwing
themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness!Throw
yourself into the road darling , you havent got a
chance!!"
--Withnail , again.
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sleazenation
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 11:25 AM
"scrubbers!"
-withnail yet again
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 03:39 PM
"I assure you I'm not drunk, officer, I've only had a few ales." -
who else?
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 09:43 PM
"'I fuck arses'. Who fucks arses? Maybe he fucks arses. Maybe he
wrote this in some moment of drunken sincerity." - Marwood
"Monty you terrible cunt" - Withnail
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sleazenation
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 10:25 PM
Marwood- "we must leave we are in terrible danger, I've been called
a ponse."
withnail- "what fucker said that?"
Homophobe- "I
called him a ponse and now i'm calling you a ponse. Ponse!"
[this
last part is paraphrased from memory]Withnail "Ah... whatever
problem you have with my fri..uh associate i suggest you go outside
and finish it"
and from an entirely different moment
"just imagine the size
of his balls!" Withnail
This IS the withnail and I thread!
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 10:44 PM
Okay, at risk of being a complete idiot, what is Withnail and
I?
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 11:49 PM
If we're doing song lyrics:
"I know all the saddest people/most of them are dead now..." The
Magnetic Fields
"Nobody's straight one hundred per cent/every soldier and
sailor's potentially bent" Momus
"I guess the truth is nothing special but elusive anyway..."
Shriekback
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[wisp]
Initiate |
posted December 07, 1999 04:14 AM
ohh, we like shriekback.
'like torches in the aeon flow, even suns flicker and die..'
--Covenant
'i think it's all lovely hallucination, but i love it sorta'
-Kerouac
'searching for an inheritance, undefiled, incorruptible and
fadeth not away'- J. Bunyan
'here come the dreams that are split at the seams, better sew the
sides, better get them dry-cleaned...' -pwei
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 06:19 PM
And you thought I was lying about the script.
Here are some
choice extracts.
I really pity those who havent seen Withnail
& I.
DANNY:.. the coal man went into court wearing a kaftan and a
bell. this doesnt go down at all well. They can handle the kaftan
but they cant handle the bell. So theres this judge sitting there in
a cape like fucking batman with this really rather far out hat.."
WITHNAIL: A wig?
DANNY: No man , this was more like a long white hat.."
*********************
WITHNAIL: Why has my head gone numb?
I MUST HAVE BOOZE!
I
*DEMAND* TO HAVE SOME BOOZE!
[he lunges towards the mantlepiece and grabs a can of lighter
fluid]
MARWOOD: I wouldn't drink that if I were you.
WITHNAIL: Why not?
MARWOOD:Because I dont advise it. Even the wankers on the site
wouldn't drink that. Its worse than meths!
WITHNAIL: Nonsense. This is a far superier drink to meths. The
wankers dont drink it because they cant afford it!
[he throws his head back and pours the petrol down his throat]
WITHNAIL: Have we got anymore?
[Marwood shakes his head]
WITHNAIL: Liar! Whats in your toolbox?
MARWOOD: We have nothing! Sit down!
WITHNAIL: Liar! You've got anti-freeze!
MARWOOD: You bloody fool! You should never mix your
drinks!
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 07, 1999 07:20 PM
I suspect it's completely pointless my asking this, but...
Am I the only person who didn't actually like Withnail & I?
Is it just my irrational hatred of Richard E Grant's
face/voice/existence or what?
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Loz
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 07:53 PM
Ganesha, you must work past your hatred of Richard E. Grant for
beyond it is an incredible story, partly based on life. Two
unemployed/unemployable actors live in unbearable squalor at the
arse-end of the Sixties, Withnail and 'I' (or Marwood, though he is
never named). They prevail upon Withnails Uncle Monty to spend a
week at his cottage in the country. After going through various
misadventures they are joined by Monty. Withnail, always one to talk
big then cower when things go wrong, persuades Monty that Marwood
is, like him, a toilet trader. Monty tries to seduce him, then
finally, enters his room at night to have his way with him, "even if
it must be by burglary!" Marwood narrowly avoids this fate by
persuading him that it is Withnail who is gay, and cannot face it.
Dejected, Monty leaves and the next day they return to London as
Marwood discovers he's got a part in a play in Manchester. Once back
home Marwood packs and leaves, Withnail accompanying him through the
park to the train station swigging from a large bottle of wine, but
eventually Marwood tells him he doesn't want Withnail to walk with
him any further and goes on alone.
Bugger. Why can I never
describe films without making them sound like a three hour film
about turds? It is very funny, full of amazing one liners and the
acting by the three main characters Withnail (Grant), Marwood
(McGann) and Monty (Richard Griffiths) is excellent. Danny the Drug
Dealer is also superb, and should have you in stiches.
For me
though, despite all the comedy, my favourite scene is those last
ones in the park when, all alone, Withnail quotes the 'paragon of
animals' soliloquy from Hamlet.
During the Withnail weekend Bruce
Robinson, the writer, said that his work was about victims, and that
the film starts off with the victim being Marwood, but ends up with
it being Withnail, and it's true.
And, as everyone else has...
"We want the finest wines available to humanity! We want them
here and now!"
"Are you the farmer?"
"Of course he's the fucking farmer
Withnail!"
"We've gone on holiday by mistake!"
"All hairdressers are employed by the government..."
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