Tag: quote
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Tick Tock
Somewhere along the line I stopped watching ’24’ (OK, it was about the second-last episode of Season 1, & I can’t even explain why, but I just suddenly realised I was indifferent. How can that be? I used to *love* Crazy Jack & the Homicidal Tendencies. Clearly this is some failing of my own). Anyways,…
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Nietzsche weighs in
Nietzsche sez: “Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!” ‘Course, that crazy, dead bastard also comments: “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also…
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Understandably, I couldn’t resist
OK, I promise to try not to post another overheardnyc entry. In the meantime: User: overheardnyc Date: 2005-02-28 21:56 Subject: When “Go Fuck Yourself” Is Just Not Enough Security: Public http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/000940.html Bible Thwacker: Have you considered turning back to Jesus? Woman: Have you considered licking my clitoris? –Times Square
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What if it is?
And in other ‘fun things you, too, can do’, today I updated my will. It was just an overdue thing — nothing at all to do with all the dying that’s featured in discussions lately. I stumbled across the half-completed will under an overdue water bill (which seemed particularly poignant at the time) & thought,…
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Power!
Having recently read The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford, where snowflakes have a role to play, I liked this exchange from overheardnyc: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/000922.html A mother and daughter catching snowflakes on their tongues. Mother: I caught one, did you catch one? Daughter: Yes! Mother: Mine was too small, it tasted tiny. Daughter: I got…
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Never understanding
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. — Anne Sexton, Wanting to Die http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07050E70 Thankfully, I want most to know ‘why build’. Thief — how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long,…