Words that were said that I’d like to remember.
“What’s wrong and what’s exactly the matter?”
Bob Dylan, Ballad in Plain D
“How embarrassing… a house full of condiments and no food.”
Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club
“At least she wasn’t boring. And that’s a good thing. I mean, the world’s full of things we can’t explain, and somebody’s got to fill that vacuum. Better to have somebody who isn’t boring than somebody who is. Right?”
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get
When you mess with us”Karma Police, Radiohead
“And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.”
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
1984, George Orwell
“When reality clashes so violently with intuition, people are shaken.”
Marilyn von Savant, from the book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
“How did you go bankrupt?”
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
“A man who understands the weather only in terms of golf is participating in a chronic public insanity that either he or his descendants will be bound to realize as suffering.”
Wendell Berry, Think Small, From the 16th edition of the Whole Earth Catalog, June 1975