What do you post here? Your favorite sentences from your own writing, or someone else's with attribution. Context is for losers.
"The only god in this dismal world was the one she was off to kill."
"The sisters trooped down the stairs...The house smelled of garlic, which one of the servants had festooned all over everything, perhaps to mask the smell of the corpse, perhaps as an insult to their mother."
- Maria Devahna Headley
"To him who seeks a reason but cannot abide any hypothesis of a design, whether in the form of Providence or of the Diabolical, there remains only the rationalist's substitute for demonology--statistics."
-Stanisław Lem
It seems I only know how to forget the things that I want to remember.
"I remember thinking the interstates were like veins in a continental body, and that the cars were blood being pumped through them."
Cheating in my own thread, fight me
"I probably should have picked a different place to stop, huh?"
"Nah, genocide is my favorite first date discussion topic."
"That must go over so well with the ladies."
"Oh, like you would not believe. I have a whole mountain of discarded underthings they leave in my apartments."
"Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money, and for a woman. And I didn't get the money, and I didn't get the woman."
-Walter Neff
"He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'"--Malcolm X, during his speech at the founding rally of his Organization of Afro-American Unity, 1964.
"You take me to the hopsital I will cut your ballface off," I mumble, most of the words landing in the right order.
Make America Great Again. D. Trumpovitch
From last week's episode of Welcome To Night Vale, written by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, and Brie Williams: "The prison of your own mind is undergoing budget cuts."
"I will rip the flesh from my face and unleash the skull of torment upon you"
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day." Douglas Adams H2GT2G
Courtesy of a friend, a big black woman with an eyepatch: "Uh, 911, hello? I have an issue. There's a giant black lady outside my house. She is fighting a giant monster made of vegetable soup. She's completely naked except for an eyepatch, and is swinging around a giant emery board. Also-- ...hello? Hello?! Goddammit, every fucking time."
Courtesy of another friend is a dramatic reading of that blurb: https://vocaroo.com/i/s0DitMfauyzX
Enjoy :lulz:
"If I could stick a knife in my heart, suicide right on stage, would it be enough for your teenage lust? Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?"
- Keith Richards / Mick Jagger
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
--Tuco
the grass ain't greener on the other side. it's greener where you water it and people tend to mistake that...
Maybe the real money down the drain was the friends we made along the way.
"Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
—Inventor of the flush toilet
"All identity is complicated, because all identity is false; just a show we put on for ourselves and others."
"Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking I had something to protect."
- Bob Dylan
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
Compromises come about when ideas have sex.
"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."
- Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
"Success has many fathers, but failure is always a bastard."
- Wisdom passed down from of an Old Salt.
"May you live in interesting times."
- Origin is disputed.
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."
- Joseph Heller
"The more laws there are, the more crime there is."
- Lao Tzu
"If at first you don't succeed, lower your expectations."
- Jonathan Tropper
"It's better to be rich and healthy, than poor and sick."
- Wisdom learned from a Philadelphia School of Bible graduate.
"Opportunity knocks, but karma hunts you down."
- Author Unknown