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Just saw this thread on another board but of course it was overrun with shit posts.

Figured I'd make it here since there seems to be actually intelligent people.

What's /lit/'s favorite quote? Whether it's from a film, novel, play, song, etc.

A personal favorite of mine has always been:

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" - Edgar Allan Poe

Pic somewhat related

>> No.3545755

"There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more."

>> No.3545760

>>3545755

>>>/mu/

>> No.3545765

>>3545760
I thought I'd get away with it if I didn't provide a source.

>> No.3545762

>>3545755

As far as lines from songs go, I've always liked:

"You were right about the stars, each one is a setting sun"

>> No.3546057

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink"-Bukowski

>> No.3546064

"Responsibility's cool, but there's more things in life
Like gettin your dick
Rode all fuckin night"
- Hemingway

>> No.3546072

>>3546064
>>>/mu/

>> No.3546084

Presence. With a double-ass meaning gifts i bestow, with my riff and my flow, but you don't hear me, though. think fast think fast catch me yo because i throw what i know with a resonance, for your trouble-ass fiend in weening yourself off of the back of the shelf. Jackass, crackers, bodystackers, Dick-tooting niggers, masturbating to your triggers. (reily interrupts) Livin to get older, with a chip on your shoulder, except you think you got a grip, because your hip got a holster. Ain't no confessor, so, busta, you better just shut the fuck up. Try to listen and learn. (interrupted) Check that ego. Come off it, I'm the prophet, the professor, I'ma teach you about the worm. Who eventually turned to catch wreck with the neck of a long-time oppressor. And he's runnin from the devil, but the debt is always gaining, and if he's worth being hurt, he's worth bringin pain in. When the sunshine don't work, the good Lord bring the rain in.

>> No.3546097

"headed for the Sammy Davis wing
throw up a black hole at Linens-n-Things on the way
never call it a day
visit Tesla's grave for the ninth time today"
- Hemingway

>> No.3546125

>>3546097
>>3546064
It's Hemmingway, with two m's.

>> No.3546126

Ya dont kno what u got.........til its gone - the rolling stones

>> No.3546128

>>3546126

That's Joni Mitchell.

>> No.3546162

>>3546125
"OUT OF THE BLUE
IN THROUGH THE BACK DOOR
COMIN THROUGH LIKE FUCK WHAT WAS THAT
MAN I DON'T KNOW BUT IT MADE ME FEEL SO HEATED HOW WE CREEP WITHOUT SHOWIN YOU JACK"
- Hemingway

>> No.3546170

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin

>> No.3546251

''Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.''

>> No.3546262
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“The blood of your fathers has turned to water in your veins. Not your lot is it to be strong as they were. Having tasted neither life’s sorrows nor its joy, like a sickling you look at life through a glass. Your skin will shrivel, your muscles grow weak, tedium will devour your flesh destroying desire. Thought will congeal in your skull and horror will stare at you from the mirror. Overcome yourself, overcome yourself. I tremble, I seethe, I clench, I seize the haul.”

>> No.3546276

you read chaos and pain?

>> No.3546282

>>3546276
was directed at
>>3546262

>> No.3546288

>>3546276
yeah brah
only lifting site worth reading imo

>> No.3546370

>>3545748
"everything popular is wrong"

>> No.3546376

"And I'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids..."

>> No.3546380

"Damn good coffee!" -Agent Dale Cooper

>> No.3546426

"You shall love your crooked neighbour with your crooked heart"

>> No.3546449

"Many grains of incense on the same altar. One falls to ash first, another later. No difference."
Marcus aurelius

"she regarded her skin as a scar that had grown over some earlier perfection"
Leonard Cohen

>> No.3546468

>>3546262
beautiful

>> No.3546471

For musical quotes read modest mouse lyrics. They're fucking beautiful poetry.

>> No.3546476

“I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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>>3546471

>> No.3546484
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3546484

>>3546471

>modest mouse lyrics.
>fucking beautiful poetry.

Underage /mu/ poster pls go.

>> No.3546491

>>3546484
>>3546481
The moths beat themselves to death against the light/adding their breeze to the summer night
That's as good as or better than anything else posted in this thread.
Also, my butthurt aside you really don't know any of their lyrics do you? You shouldn't just generalize the fact that you don't like the music and fan base into "oh there's nothing good about them blah fuck you underage fuck"

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3546492

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside that trunk?

>> No.3546501

>>3546491
I own two of their albums. Lyrically they're average. So was that line you posted. But you like it so that's all that matters I guess.

>> No.3546506

>>3546501
I really just want to shout that your wrong and your an idiot but that does nothing.

>> No.3546522

>>3545748
humanity you sick motherfucker -bukowsky
its not my favorite but your quote makeme to remember it

>> No.3546524

>>3546506

>your

/mu/ pls go

>> No.3546531

"I am as mad as he,
If sad and merry madness equal be"
Not my favorite, but from the top of my head.

>> No.3546532

>>3546506
Don't worry, you'll grow out of it.

>> No.3546539
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>>3546471

>> No.3546548

>>3546471
I prefer Owl City. Now there's some lyrics.

>> No.3546555

"The good American is the best in the world, as an individual. But taken collectively, he is a mass product without common sense or guts or dignity." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Today I wrote nothing. Doesn't matter." -Daniil Kharms

>> No.3546565

Runner up goes to

"Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it." ~ Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

A little pleb I'm sure but whatever.

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3546566

>>3546565
Fucking captcha

>> No.3546568

>>3546566
>>>/sci/

>> No.3546572

>>3545748
" That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

>> No.3546573

>>3545760
>>3546072
>>3546568

>> No.3546576

>>3546572
oh,
-IJ
nothing poetic but I liked it.

>> No.3546578

>>3546548
>Not being able to the recognise the high level songwriting skills Lady Gaga uses to incorporate Illuminati themes into her music.

>> No.3546580

>>3546566
Einstein is the most misquoted person in the world.

>> No.3546584

>>3546580
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that it's hard to verify their authenticity"
-Abraham Lincoln

>> No.3546588

>>3546584
Honest Abe was one wise motherfucker.