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Favorite quotes?

"Forest fire..." He considered this for a moment, "Those are good words for it."
-Pretties

>> No.1151590

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

I'll admit, I'm not well-read.

>> No.1151593

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." - Ulysses

>> No.1151606

>>1151603
I lol'd

>> No.1151603

"You never sea an old man eating a twix"

>> No.1151607

Anything
- Wilde

>> No.1151620

"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."

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>> No.1151640

"Power, corruption, sex, AIDS, death"
- Mogwai

"Scotland, the land of the brave"
- Some idiot

"This music can put a human in a trance like state, if someone said Mogwai were the stars, i would not object"
- some Scot woman.

>> No.1151667

"This isn't a hotel"
- my mom on only coming home to eat and sleep

>> No.1151686

"mirrors have to think before they reflect"
Jean Cocteau

>> No.1151688

>>1151686
this quote is dumber than anything mogwai has said on /lit/

>> No.1151703

>>1151688
;_;

>> No.1151716

>>1151688
Everything I post is dynamite.

>> No.1151723

"Knowledge is more important than wealth. You have to look after wealth; knowledge looks after you."
~ Imam Ali

>> No.1151734

"Felix is eating a banana and living for the moment."
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.1151761

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

>> No.1151764

“I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.” -- Poe

>> No.1151767

>>1151723

>knowledge
>from an Imam

>> No.1151771

"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever met with an I.Q. of 60"

-Gore Vidal
I would buy a book of just his clever quotes.

>> No.1151788

>>1151771

>bro_fist.jpg
Gore Vidal is awesome

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>>1151771
Who is this spraying the board with Vidal qoutes? I am usually the only one who wants to talk about this man.

>> No.1151796

"For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false." - H.L. Mencken

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>>1151771
>>1151788
>>1151795

Well, now there's three of us

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>>1151801
Well you can all just go rub bellies, you god-damn queers.

>> No.1151809

"The period of Prohibition — called the noble experiment — brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police." - Gore Vidal

>> No.1151813

>>1151807

Now listen to me, you queer. Stop calling us Nazis or we'll sock you in the God-damned jaw, and you'll stay plastered.

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This is now a thread devoted to the genius that is Eugene Luther Gore Vidal.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal

>> No.1151818

>>1151813
You tell em

>> No.1151828
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This is now a Gore Vidal thread

>> No.1151833

"If you want to see the basis of a civilization, don't look at how people eat, look at how people shit." - Slavoj Zizek

>> No.1151837

Has anyone read any of Vidal's novels?

I own a copy of Messiah, but when I stole a second to read the few pages I found it quite difficult. Maybe it's just me

>> No.1151840

>>1151819
I posted it already (in a different thread) but "Words fail Normal Mailer yet again" is just such an awesome quote (Normal Mailer hit Vidal for some reason, and that was Vidal's response)

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>>1151837
I have read nearly everything he has ever published. Messiah is not one of his best. The ideas in it or very interesting though.

>> No.1151851

>>1151840

Shit, was that on the Dick Cavett show? Because I know Mailer was raging hard on that episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8m9vDRe8fw

>> No.1151858

>>1151819
Everyone of these is trully great.

>> No.1151867

>>1151851
He did not hit him on the program.
Here is a video of the actual punch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hki1_z-t4aY

>> No.1151885

>>1151851
>>1151867

He head-butted him after the show I believe.

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>> No.1153324

bump for Vidal

>> No.1153336

>>1153335
you wanna dance nancy boy?

>> No.1153335

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" Modern Warfare 2

>> No.1153341

>>1151606
you get happy from anything involving food. (sorry for the late burn, ive been kinda busy)

>> No.1153342

>>1153336
Ballroom or tango, cutiepie?

>> No.1153344

"Remember, the enemy's gate is down"

>> No.1153346

>>1153342
salsa, sweety

*shakes maracas*

>> No.1153351

'There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist'
-Twain

>> No.1153352

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

Frank Sinatra

>> No.1153360

''There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert A. Heinlein

>> No.1153364

"I thank God for each day, for the sun in the sky, for the love that we share, for my piece of apple pie..." -Madame Blueberry of Veggie Tales

>> No.1153379

>>1153351
And another one by Twain, as I like his quotes.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.