Gaijin Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer - Sun Zhu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince noir rock n roll star Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 there are two kinds of people in life elmoor .smart and pleasant ,i used to be smart ,i recommend pleasant -james stewart harvey , never ever bloody anything ever .ive lived my life by that rule -rik mayall ,mr jolly lives next door . never let it be said that your anal attention to detail didnt pay results -loki ,dogma . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiphip Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 “You can tell a lot about a country which refers to the Royal Mint and the National Debt.” William Cobbett Cheers 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbear Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Gotta let the pie work Young K MIB3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Rather pertinent given the rising trend in banning books (particularly in the USA) “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cursed Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Maybe a cliche but there’s something beautiful in the prose "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." -Roy Batty, 'Blade Runner 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQ710 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 ...first you must learn how to smile as you kill · If you want to be like the folks on the hill! John Lennon - Working Class Hero Please don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them. Jackson Browne - These Days 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) I've said it before but one of my favourite pieces of prose, and certainly my favourite opening paragraph, has to be from Shirley Jackson's majestic The Haunting of Hill House (for my money the best 'haunted house' story ever written). Gives me goosebumps every time I read it “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” E2A Some schools in America have banned her brilliantly dark short story The Lottery Edited April 5, 2022 by Boojum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cursed Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 In a time of universal deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell (Mis-attributed) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Personunknown Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) On 02/03/2022 at 6:24 PM, woody2shoes said: Fight wars not war - Crass, probably Penny Rimbaud but it was years ago and it's not easy to find out. Think its Fight war not wars Atb, Destroy power not people Edited April 5, 2022 by Personunknown 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v12xjs Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Daubed on a wall I went past once: Life is like a shit butty The less bread you got, the more shit you got to eat 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepe Ramon Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 "If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?" Tuco Ramirez. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2shoes Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 15 hours ago, Personunknown said: On 02/03/2022 at 6:24 PM, woody2shoes said: Fight wars not war - Crass, probably Penny Rimbaud but it was years ago and it's not easy to find out. Think its Fight war not wars Atb, Destroy power not people Edited 15 hours ago by Personunknown It was a typo, I'm cringing now I've looked at it again. @Boojum picked up on it too. I'm sorry. 'Shaved Women, collaborators' Penny Rimbaud's book 'Shibboleth' is an interesting read. 'Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity' source unknown, scrawled on my teenage bedroom wall by an old mate, now missing presumed dead. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiphip Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 "You fall off that wall and break your leg, don't come running to me" - Every welsh mother. Cheers 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cursed Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Good old welshisms 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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