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Mine was "Have you done all you can?". Looking back it was pretty cringe. What was yours?

>> No.10653135

>>10653125
we don’t do that in smarter countries

>> No.10653143
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10653143

I wasn't in the yearbook or graduation or classes
But I still passed

>> No.10653153
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10653153

>tfw homeschooled

>> No.10653155

mine was "go back to r.eddit".

i graduated in 1997.

>> No.10653157

>>10653135
This. Highschool is this kind of nebulous fucken' end all sacrament to Americans. The rest of the world sees it as just another moment in life that passes in the blink of an eye and does not matter at all.

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>>10653125
We didn’t get one

>> No.10653171
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10653171

>>10653157
If anime is any indication, Japs are more obsessed with high school than Americans are.

>> No.10653204

>>10653135
>>10653157
I didn't do that shit in my high school though and I live in NJ.

>> No.10653256

>>10653125
I had two:
"How strange it is to be anything at all"
-Jeff Mangum
"I was a shaboy, now I'm a shaman"
-Myself

The "joke" one is pretty cringe, but I still like that NMH quote. Wish I had put "Can't believe how strange" rather than just "How strange," but it still works.

>> No.10653266

"'That which was' is the stone he can not move"

pretty autistic tbhq

>> No.10653283

"Work tracks thermodynamic negentropism by dissociating exertion into increasingly intricate functional sequences: from pedals, levers, and vocal commands, through the synchronization of production-line tasks and time-motion programs, to sensory-motor transduction within increasingly complex and self-micromanaged artificial environments, capturing minutely adaptive behaviour for the commodity." - Nick Land

>> No.10653310

>>10653125
mine was

GIVE ME THE THORAZINE OR I WILL FUCKING CUT YOU

>> No.10653349

Carpe diem

>> No.10653352

>>10653125
"i can't believe i ate the whole thing"

>> No.10653360

>>10653125
We didn't have enough room in my yearbook for senior quotes. My graduating class had around 1,000 people.

>> No.10653422

In my school you had to pay extra to do a senior quote.
It was fucking bullshit.

>> No.10653594

Life’s peachy like James and the giant.

>> No.10653613

>>10653125
"That nothing in and of itself is unendurable"-DFW
Half ironic. I still kind of like it

>> No.10653642

>>10653283
H Y P E T S T I T I O N

>> No.10653673
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>>10653125
>“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”- Haruki Murakami
Luckily college stripped me of my angsty teenage phase

>> No.10653677

I actually don't remember, probably something really stupid

>> No.10653691

“Alas,” said the mouse, “the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.”

“You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up.

>> No.10654488

>>10653256
>"I was a shaboy, now I'm a shaman"
Heh, I'm stealing that one.

>> No.10654492

>>10653125
I made up actual nonsense that sort of sounded deep, i hope somebody somewhere read it and thought "wow what a smart guy"

>> No.10654625

"It is not enough that I succeed, others must fail"
(the joke is that I was the failure)

>> No.10655124

>>10653125
the heart of the heart of the matter
Liked it then, baffled by it now

>> No.10655164

>>10653673
I actually think that ones not too bad

>> No.10655799

"You can't never not know nothing" - David Foster Wallace

>> No.10655823

mine was worse, OP.
"Sous les paves, la plage"
(a Situationist slogan used in the Paris 68 protests)

>>10655799
"and but so" - dfw

>>10653673
I like it desu

>> No.10655824

>>10653125
In my school other people submitted description of you and the year book council selected the acceptable ones. Can't remember mine exactly, but it was something like: "Anon is a person who speaks in long sentences. A forerunner of experimental electronic music and an admirer of decadence "

>> No.10655839

"Would you rather have three kids and no money or no kids and three money?"

>> No.10655857

Fitiavana, Tanindrazana, Fandrosoana

>> No.10655864

We didn't do that in my shitty Canadian highschool but I remember my future ambition line read "Firetruck" with zero explanation

>> No.10655878

>>10655864

I still remember my mom and her friends making faces when they read it. But one of my freshman teachers read it aloud and said "Hahaha, I get it anon!" She really liked it apparently.

>> No.10655888
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10655888

>tfw highschool dropout

>> No.10656089

>>10653125
I think I said "I ain't got no quote" or something like that, or maybe it was "quote's are for idiots".

>> No.10656093

>>10655888
Why? Shit's mad easy, home-skizzle bodizzle

>> No.10656102

>>10656093
I was very violent and had anger issues before then, so most of the time I had to go home instead of lashing out at people. Dropped out eventually and have to catch up after, now that I can manage myself.

Beats being in jail or something though I figure.

>> No.10656119

>>10653157
That's because adulthood is hell for us. We're overworked and underpaid, and so we haven't the time, money, or energy for any meaningful leisure activities. It's all downhill after high school (or, if you're lucky, college).

>> No.10656130

>>10656119
>High School
>hell
what? Shit was fun, had some good times with friends. Never did my homework. Played some "sports".

>> No.10656134

>>10656119
my family is rich and im an adult neet living on our cabin property and have quite literally never worked a day in my life

>> No.10656142

>>10656130
Read my post again. I said high school is the best time. It's adulthood that's hell.

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>>10653125
"Your memes... end here."
- Saucy Jack

>> No.10656161

>>10656142
ups, adulthood seems to be what you make of it. My cousin's been in college since Bush was president HAHAHAHAHA that's me laughing just contemplating that statement.

>> No.10656178

>>10656134
70% of families lose their wealth by second generation

http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/

About 90% lose their wealth by third generation

Enjoy squandering your forebearers hard work and amounting to absolutely nothing and dying without a penny

>> No.10656179

>>10653691
Did your school actually allow your quote to be that long? Mine only allowed 2-3 sentences at most.

>> No.10656180

>>10653125
My senior quote
"I'm not gonna run away and I never go back on my word, that is my nindō! My ninja way!" -Naruto Uzamaki, Seventh Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves

>> No.10656327

>>10656180
BELIEVE IT

my quote
>The stars are matter, we are matter, but it doesn’t matter
Coming from captain beefheart of all people. I still appreciate it two years later

>> No.10656346

>>10653171
That's because anime is mainly for high schoolers.

>> No.10656360

>>10653125
People thought I was strange so I used, "It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

>> No.10656789

>>10653125

My school didn't have quotes, thank god

>> No.10656962

>>10654625
"It is not enough that I fail, others must succeed" is one I live by

>> No.10657000

Mine was some shitty jack London Quote

>> No.10657036

Sorry for party rocking...

>> No.10657344

A buddy of mine did "it's really messed up how there's hundreds of Christmas songs, but only one song about the boys being back in town" - Malcolm X

>> No.10657352

>>10657344
huh. didn't know he was the one who coined that

>> No.10657803

I feel like with something like this, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Nothing you say, no matter how poignant it may be to you, will be seen as anything other than superficial and puerile to others. If you make a joke instead, you'll be judged as immature and impertinent. If you leave it blank or write something equivalent to nothing, you're haughty and conceited.

What's the winning move?

>> No.10657873

"Well [high school name] you're an odd fellow, but you steam a good ham"

>> No.10657896

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. . ."

>> No.10657923

I remember not being able to think of anything, so I just said some conspiracy shit like "The moon is flat so they had to hire Kubrick to direct the moon landing" then they didn't even put in in there for some reason. I was the only person that won on of the vote things and didn't have a quote.

>> No.10657941

my school let you write your senior quote in a hallway on the wall. I wrote "please remember me". the building is being torn down next year, so looking back there's a certain irony

>> No.10657976

>>10656360
bit haughty, aren't we

>> No.10658275

>>10657803
Do what I did- a joke that can actually be taken seriously

>> No.10658296

graduating in a few months, was planning to use a dfw quote

any recs?

>> No.10658309

>>10656962
"It is not enough that I fail, others must fail too" Patrician

>> No.10658338

>>10658296
TOO THE LIBRARY AND STEP ON IT

>> No.10658363

>>10653125
I lived in the past because my future is in the present.

Am I smart?

>> No.10658377

"All I know is that I am not a Marxist."
-Karl Marx

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10658404

Hobbies : Being Awesome
Quote : This was the best of times, and the worst of times. In a sitcom like way. But with a less positive message.

>> No.10658413

>>10653125
blank. my schools did not do year books

>> No.10658713

>>10658296
do a sam harris quote

>> No.10659120

>>10656346
N-no!

>> No.10659126

>>10658296
yeah, reported for underage

>> No.10659164

"Please clap."
-Jeb Bush

was mine

>> No.10659173

"Beyond this place of wrath and tears, looms but the horror of the shade"

>> No.10659381

>>10653256
more like soyboy

>> No.10659679

vote republican

>> No.10659690

>>10653153
This, also this picture.

>> No.10659696

>>10653125
>Four years passed, but the day just won't.

>> No.10659708

I put a Dostoevsky quote from the Brothers Karamazov even though I have only read the first few chapters. Am I /lit/ enough?

>> No.10659793

“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”
― Thomas Pynchon

>> No.10659829

>>10653125
School didn’t have em but I might’ve gone with ‘you will grow too quick then you will get over it’.

>> No.10659875

>>10659708
that's about as /lit/ as it gets

>> No.10659946

I'm very white and I quoted Malcolm X

>> No.10660223

>>10659126
i'm 19

>> No.10660724

>>10658296
download a pdf of the phenomenology of spirit, go to a random page, random sentence, and every will know that you were the most intelligent person at your school

>> No.10660754

Lost my shape trying to act casual

>> No.10660970

Mine was a nonsensical sentence in an attempt at absurd humour, strucured like a quote so it would fit in the yearbook.

>> No.10662360
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>>10653125
"I'm a survivor. We're a dying breed."

>> No.10662407

>>10662360
(((LAYFE)))

>> No.10662454

>>10653171
definitely.

>> No.10662616

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

>> No.10662663

>>10658296
But and so and but so