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« Reply #150 on: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 10:49:17 » |
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
Celine
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BruceChatwin
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« Reply #151 on: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 10:56:44 » |
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What relation existed between their ages?
16 years before in 1888 when Bloom was of Stephen's present age Stephen was 6. 16 years after in 1920 when Stephen would be of Bloom's present age Bloom would be 54. In 1936 when Bloom would be 70 and Stephen 54 their ages initially in the ratio of 16 to 0 would be as 17 1/2 to 13 1/2, the proportion increasing and the disparity diminishing according as arbitrary future years were added...(redacted here for time)
What events might nullify these calculations?
The cessation of existence of both or either, the inauguration of a new era or calendar, the annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of the human species, inevitable but impredictable.
Joyce, Ulysses
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BruceChatwin
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« Reply #152 on: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 11:06:37 » |
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Thread was getting bogged down in politics so thought I'd spam some literary quotes instead. Lord Acton and Celine have my attitude to politics pretty much covered somewhere between
"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" and
“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
Also, we've had Churchill's put down to Nancy Astor on three separate occasions and his one to Bessie Braddock via different attributations at least twice, so I suppose consensus deems him the winner.
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« Reply #153 on: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 11:16:22 » |
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I saw my favourite quote by Ghandi many moons ago and i was amazed at how incredibly powerfull its effect had on me at the time as a young man growing up with a lot of anger and issues.
The Quote was........an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Simple......i like Ghandi,a remarkable man for his time.
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« Reply #154 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 13:05:16 » |
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Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga? Charles Manson
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It's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care.
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« Reply #155 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 15:21:37 » |
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Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?
 superb translation i've just watched that about 5 times and almost wet myself with laughter |
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Peter Gibbons
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« Reply #156 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 19:09:33 » |
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superb translation i've just watched that about 5 times and almost wet myself with laughter Wish I could take credit for the translation. I did chuckle heartily when I first saw it |
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It's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care.
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« Reply #157 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 19:28:43 » |
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"There she was just awalking down the street singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
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quot;Molten memories splashing down
upon the rooves of Swindon Town"
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« Reply #158 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 19:32:05 » |
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Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Batch, 2013
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Batch
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« Reply #159 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 19:54:22 » |
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Batch, 2013
See also Michel Legrand, and Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, 1968 |
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« Reply #160 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 20:21:17 » |
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"Winners don't wait for chances,they take them."
Muhammad Ali " Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them,
a desire, a dream, a vision."
The wonderful John Arlott on West Indian batsmen Clive Lloyd hitting a four.
"A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick"
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"It's not delusions of grandeur sir,it's intolerance of mediocrity and minimal performances."
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« Reply #161 on: Monday, March 18, 2013, 21:17:50 » |
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Sir Isaac Newton stated: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" Everything you do has consequences, Whether for good or bad.
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #162 on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 01:02:36 » |
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Sir Isaac Newton stated: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" Everything you do has consequences, Whether for good or bad.
Newton's third law of motion doesn't mean that at all. |
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BruceChatwin
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« Reply #163 on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 01:24:26 » |
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Newton's third law of motion doesn't mean that at all.
Doesn't stop it being hijacked by aphoristic self-help authors and repackaged as somehow meaningful for easy consumption by the general public. |
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« Reply #164 on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 01:51:23 » |
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I read something the other day on the lines of
Water to an African tribesman is not what water is to an Inuit fisherman. Something along those lines (it was worded slightly better)
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