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ITT: We post best quotes ever. Go.

>> No.1272455

bump

>> No.1272454

"OP is a faggot"

- Anonymous

>> No.1272459

"ITT: We post best quotes ever. Go."

- A faggot

>> No.1272463

bump 2

>> No.1272691

"OP Here, disregard this, I suck cock"

>> No.1272714

>>1272691
"That wasn't funny"
-My mind, a few seconds ago, 2010

>> No.1272724

"There have always been people who assumed that the majority of mankind is stupid, but now that we have the internet, we can know that those assumptions were true."

>> No.1272761

Maturity is the state of not wanting to grow up.

>> No.1272770

>>1272691
>>1272459
>>1272454
Oh look! School just got out!

>> No.1272856
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1272856

"Cash rules everything around me."

>> No.1272867

>>1272770
>likes to mindlessly parrot out-of-context quotes so he can recite them later for some hipster cred
>accuses others of being of school-age

>> No.1272869

>>1272856
if you were going to pick a quote from that song it might as well be:

"I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side".

much better.

>> No.1272940

"As an atheist, I have no invisible means of support"

also
"THE GAME"

>> No.1272953

"listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go."
- E. E. Cummings

>> No.1272978

>>1272953
E. E. Cummings!

>> No.1272982

>>1272978
Yes? Yes.

>> No.1272985

>>1272982
E. E. Cummings?

>> No.1272988

"When the facts change, I change my mind"
-Keynes

>> No.1272990

>>1272940

" 'There are no Atheists in foxholes' is not an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."

>> No.1272995

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
-Mark Twain

>> No.1272999

"A man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea."
-Joseph Conrad

>> No.1273000

>>1272990
True. There is no argument against atheism, since it's a decision based on faith.
Though, the statement that there are no atheist in a foxhole was never meant to be an argument against atheism, was it? No. It was simply a person trying to explain that when faced with the reality of death man is likely to wish/hope/call out to a high power in the believe that said high power will save him, either in this life or the next.

>> No.1273011

I think Orwell said something about the atheist in foxholes thing in Homage to Catalonia, but I can't remember and I can't find it, so it could be my imagination.

>> No.1273015

If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat."
- G. K. Chesterton

>> No.1273016

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
-Hunter S. Thompson

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>>1272867
You keep using that word ...

>> No.1273040

>>1273019
You keep using your mom's tits, but we're polite enough not to say anything.

>> No.1273050

In an interview with Mike Tyson:
Interviewer: "It's been said that you've suffered a recent back injury"
Tyson: "That's correct"
Interviewer: "What part of the back?"
Tyson: "(Long Pause)....Spinal..."

>> No.1273065

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov

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>>1273040
>saging with a picture

>> No.1273079

"we prezident now"

>> No.1273081
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1273081

Hey /lit/, I would like to have this beginning butchered. Thank you, here it goes:

Unexpectedly, the prospect of being left alone in the world doesn't come easily to someone who's been alone his entire life.
At first, the abandoned internet imageboard appears to be only malfunctioning. The silence of the neighborhood hides beneath the volume of the speakers and the early hour. Living away from the busier streets makes the ears used to the absence of traffic cacophony. Hours go by, no interest rises.
It sounds incredible, but it could take a whole day to notice the still. It could have taken even longer, had Our Hero stocked up on coke earlier. The evening trip to the shop reveals nothing yet, since it's easy to assume that it just closed early. It's uncommon but not unimaginable not to bump into anyone on the way there, especially if one stares at his feet nervously while he walks. Why are all the cars in their parking spots? Why hasn't anyone turned the lights even though it's dark? Why is the park empty? And most importantly, how to notice all of it while staring at a pair of sneakers traversing the sidewalk?

>> No.1273126

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

>> No.1273129

>>1273126
hardy har har har

>> No.1273132

>>1272459
Hahahahaha. Better version of >>1272454.
For serious though i will post:
"Nobody love me but ma momma and she might be jiving too."
B.B.King. This nigga had the bluuuuuuuuesy blues!

>> No.1273134

"Out of it all, too things stood forth -- Their love and the image of the great sails, tissue-metal wings with which the bodies of people finally fluttered out among the stars."

-- The Lady Who Sailed The Soul, Cordwainer Smith

Best writer ever? Best writer ever.

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1273167

>"Get a sense of humour."
- Roald Dahl, in response to those who criticized that The Witches was unrealistic and unfair to women and practicing witch groups

>> No.1273182
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"My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."
— Tom Waits

>> No.1273187

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
Ozzy Osborne

>> No.1273191

I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something.

- Dostoevsky

>> No.1273198

"The man who lives by the sword, gets shot by the man who doesn't."-Anon.

>> No.1273204

"Any country that would give up a little liberty for a little security, will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin

>> No.1273205

>>1273182
HE SAID THIS IN WRISTCUTTERS..WAT

>> No.1273214

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason.

Mark Twain.

>> No.1273216

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

>> No.1273223

>>1273182

I'm always a little jealous of people who can tell stories.

>> No.1273230

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton

>> No.1273239

>>1273191

Nice one.

>> No.1273253

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde

>> No.1273259

>>1273204
Also, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

>> No.1273262

>>1273204

Everyone always forgets the "essential" bit before liberty and the "temporary" bit before security

They are very important bits and including them will help to make you not come off like a 15 year old libertarian

>> No.1273272

>>1273262
Everyone always "forgets" it because it isn't there.

>> No.1273275 [DELETED] 

The developers do have a timeline for the Zelda games. They just don't release it.

The Zora transformation in Majora's Mask is fucking creepy.

>> No.1273278

>>1273253
moar wilde

>> No.1273284

>>1273272

Herp de derp

>> No.1273305

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
Jim Harrison

>> No.1273325

This is precisely why I love 1984 as much as I do. It is loaded with quotes.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face- forever."

"Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Not to mention those last lines.

I could go on forever

>> No.1273350

"Rules are just guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds"
House

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1273353

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States of America

>> No.1273368

a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
emerson

>> No.1273381

"Reality is a congenital hallucination" - Blaise Cendrars

"Man is sick because he is badly constructed" - Antonin Artaud

"Beauty will be convulsive or it will be not at all" - Andre Breton

"Being dead means very light housekeeping" - Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

>> No.1273391

"I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you... you know I'm just a gangsta I suppose" - Avon Barksdale

>> No.1273403

SI NON CONFECTVS, NON REFICIAT
— Vetinari Family Motto

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
-Voltaire

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard

“Here’s something you should have built – my ass!” -the Scout