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I Googled C.S. Lewis/bazookas...nothing.
I reckon he wasn't against 'em, then.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

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Harlan Ellison

The minute people fall in love they become liars.


Up to and including the divorce.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

And which brands?

Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.

Well, sure, you do have to actually meet.

Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

I know that mine did.

Surrounded by madness, surrounded by hunger, surrounded by everything but death, I knew death was our only way out.

It'll either come to this for you or it won't.

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

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Werner Twertzog

I am not the "destroyer of worlds," said Death, I am the liberator of them.


Anyone here know for sure which one?

The last member of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon has died.

Let's move on...

Monday is meaningless when one works every day.

Next up: the weekend.

It is important to place unremovable stickers on premium merchandise.

We'll need examples of course.

The new iPhone will be charged wirelessly by ambient misery, which is considered a major improvement.

Over what, he asked.

First, they came for the Nihilists, and I did nothing.

What would you do? If, for example, here, they came for me?
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Gone but not forgotten...

Jean-Luc Godard

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.


The void itself will take care of that.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

And, from time to time, it's the answer.

It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.

I take them here, for example.
Much to the chagrin of the pinheads.


A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Ah, the "new wave"!

To be immortal and then die.

Not as easy as it doesn't sound.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it.

Nana: The more we talk, the less the words mean.

Nana: Shouldn't love be the only truth?
The Philosopher: For that, love would always have to be true.
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Barbara Ehrenreich

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.


Ah, the worst of all possible worlds.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

Of course, that won't make the bills go away.

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

Or, for that matter, even think about it.

I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

And then on top of that be completely expendable.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

Can it even be measured?

In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him.

Remember when that wasn't an option?!
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Existential Comics

There is nothing more childish than loving those who rule over you.


Let's try to think of something.

So apparently it's respectful to say things like "in memory of the Queen" but it's disrespectful to remember the actual things she did?

Yeah, what about that?

Very funny that people are like, "in Tolkien's legendarium the Elves have various races, such as the Nolder, Vanyar, Teleri, Sindar, Avari, etc. Each have distinct physical appearances, languages, customs, and genealogy. Also they are all English."

Yeah, what about that?

It's funny that it's portrayed as being "edgy" to hate the Queen. My dude, "hating the monarchy" is not exactly a new and exciting idea in 2022, pretty sure people have been doing that for thousands of years at this point.

Anyone here edgier than I am?

Mooooooooommmmm, the communists are being irreverent to the norms of bourgeois society, make them stop!!

Next up: Daaaaaaaaddddddd.

...controversial opinion but fuck the bourgeoisie in particular...

And, sure, why not: in general.
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Margaret Atwood from The Handmaid's Tale

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.


To wit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_r ... traditions

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

That tricky enough for you?

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

Or something in and around that.

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?

It's always rising for me.

I am not your justification for existence.

Unless, of course, you want me to be.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

You know, in case you have to run like hell.
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God

If you think I'm pro-life you've never read the Bible.


You've read it, right?

I aborted My own son when he was 33.

So to speak.

Do not kill in My name. Killing is the last thing I need help with.

God being clever.

Just because someone else is stupid doesn't mean you're not stupid.

Or here: Just because someone else is a pinhead doesn't mean you're not a pinhead.

If you say something dumb and then defend it by saying you have a right to say it, you’ve now said two dumb things.

Ad infinitum for some here.

Most homophobes are secretly gay.
However, most arachnophobes are not secretly spiders.


Wow, that's true, isn't it?!
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David Foster Wallace from Infinite Jest

Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really.


You know, in a free will world.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

Going back to, oh, I don't know, conception?

...morning is the soul's night.

For those who have one especially.

Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?

Not to worry. I'm paranoid enough for both of us.

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves.

Especially when the object is Donald Trump.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately - the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it.

Especially when the something is Donald Trump
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“That’s an applause line.” - Pelosi

https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/nancy-pel ... ing-biden/

-Imp
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The Onion

Owners Freeze As Alexa Begins Moaning Along To Sex


Hell, you'd freeze too, right?

FDA Recalls Thing You Just Ate

Not much that can't be.

Friends So Grateful To Have Morally Perfect Woman Around To Correct Them

That's what we need here, don't we?
Her, perhaps?


Sign Warns Visitors Not To Enter Gorilla Habitat Unless They Are Also Gorilla

Common sense let's call it.

Man Has No Idea What To Do With Good Mood

Unfortunately, he comes here.

Humanity Still Producing New Art As Though Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ Doesn’t Already Exist

You tell me.
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Markus Zusak

Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.


The thin line between them as it were.

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.

And them by me.
Well, in the best of all possible worlds anyway.


The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

Trust me: yours more than mine.

It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.

52 times a year to be exact.

If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.

Of course, that is how it usually happens.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

Unless, of course, they're the wrong books.
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The Onion

Increasingly Anxious Man Worried Order Confirmation Email Never Going To Come


Actually, this is a real thing.

No One Quite Sure Why 8-Year-Old Has Voice Of Lifelong Chain Smoker

Except God, of course.

Study Finds Not Acting Like Total Fucking Moron Most Attractive Quality In Potential Mate

Yo, pinheads!

Finance Whiz Predicts The Dow Will Open At 9:30 A.M. Tomorrow

And, incredibly enough, it did!

Mormon Argues His Faith Has Just As Much Legitimate Sexual Abuse As Any Other Religion

Who can possibly doubt that?

App Knows It’s Gone Next Time Man Needs Space For Photos

Let's root for it.
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Edward Abbey

Not all questions can be answered.


Though very few answers can't be questioned.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

In other words, blah, blah, blah.

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

Next up: the essence of posting here.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

Of course, he's just paraphrasing Joni Mitchell.

If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument.

Would you read it?

Water, water, water... There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount...unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

Who would ever try that?
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The Onion

Stoned Extraterrestrial Stumbles Across Hidden Message After Listening To Golden Record Backwards


That Paul's still dead.

Consumer Entering That Awkward Age Between Target Demographics

Well, we all survived it, right?

3 Dozen Chemical, Emotional Responses Activated By Phrase ‘Pigs In A Blanket’

How many in you? Be honest.

‘Sesame Street’ Introduces First Enigmatic Muppet Who Has Yet To Reveal True Intentions

Let's figure that out.

Realtor Was Not Expecting Such Hard-Hitting Questions About Water Pressure

Who would be?

Woman Who Had Almost Formed Healthy Sense Of Self Rejoins Social Media

Bummer.
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