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The First Big Miscellaneous File
"LIVE FAST. LIVE FREE. LIVE FOREVER." _Nightlife_ RPG "There is an awful warmth around my heart like a load of immortality." -Keats "This thing is a man. Look at what you are, and what awaits you. Gaze on this image and learn what your own end will be." -grave epitaph in Greece "It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." -Tom Lehrer, "1968: That Was The Year That Was" "I love a good crucifixion." -me "Fuck cosmic significance!" -Amber C. "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord." -Romans 12:19 "Any society that allows people like Lou Reed and I to become rampant is pretty well lost." -David Bowie "Someone you trust is one of us." -anonymous "Remember: a rabbit will outrun a fox because the rabbit is running for it's life, while the fox is simply running for a meal." -Aurelius [ckobar@dttus.com] KEIN MEHRHEIT FUR DIE MITLEID No Pity For The Majority "Fame is the sun of the dead." -Balzac "One can imagine the myriad of uses for a hand-held iguana maker" -Hobbes the Tiger "Good things come to an end; bad things have to be stopped." -Charles Beauregard, _Anno-Dracula_ This entire opus is dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally only to have their hearts unaesthetically ripped out: base not your joy upon the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away. NO HOPE = NO FEAR -Peter, Type O Negative, _Bloody Kisses_ And every time I run my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it. "You Ought To Know", Alanis Morisette need you dream you find you taste you use you scar you fuck you break you "eraser (polite)", NIN, _further down the spiral_ "All media exists to invest our lives with artifical perceptions and arbitrary values." -Marshall McLuhan, _Understanding Media_ "I went to Burger King in Paris and saw Grace Jones." -Janet R., co-worker "I told you from the start just how this would end./ When I get what I want I may never want it again." -Hole, "Violet" "It has no predators. It's just stupid." -The Maxx "I've studied these people for many months. And while their civilization is quite advanced, they are also intensely stupid." -me, playing D&D "Time to open up a whole new can of whup-ass." -Shadowfist CCG "He wondered how many of them could remember how they came to be - whether they even knew what they had become. Was the world always Hell for Martins? China for Miss Zhao? Would the Titanic sail forever for the Gourmet? Did they ever know?" _The Book of Shadows_ "I can make both nights if I want. I'm that powerful. I can also make a grilled cheese sandwich if I so desired. I'm that powerful. I can make the very sun itself dissapear, as you saw yesterday. I'm that powerful." -Alex K. "How does it start? Beginnings are so important." -Nika "It's an aural treat; it's an aural extravaganza." -Amber C. "It brings new sameness to the word mediocre." -Jack E. "You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree." -Dwight D. Eisenhower "We are all brothers of opposition, and today, brothers of opposition are identified with each other all over the world." -Malcolm X "And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." -John 8:32 "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." -Napoleon "In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message." -Marshall MacLuhan, _Understanding Media_ "In the heart of the rainforest, it was doing what it usually does in rainforests; which is rain; hence the name." -Douglas Adams "Every superhero has a weakness; I might as well have a tasty one." -Ranjani P. "Mankind has long striven to free themselves from the bonds of gravity, to escape the hell-pit they had created for themselves on the planet of dead opportunities, Earth." -Doomtrooper CCG "I wonder if secrey is the late twentieth century's final lust." -Alexandra Johnson "I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. It's all a hero asks for... Go ahead, scoff. Except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. The hero sees value beyond what's possible. That's the _nature_ of a hero. It kills him, of course, ultimately. But it makes the whole struggle of humanity worthwhile." _Grendel_ by John Gardner "War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety. is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill Q: "Why do the 'Bots' arms work sometimes and then they don't work other times?" A: "Because they're puppets, and they're run by lazy, shiftless puppeteers who don't care." _The MST3K Book_ "Japanese pop culture has never had much in common with Western standards of good taste, wholesomeness, or decency. And thank God for that! No one could make a film as outrageous or over the top as _Keko Mask_ if she or he had an ounce of self-consciousness." -WIRED, June 1996 "This is the weather the cuckoo likes, armored division submissive to vernacular the world into gambling birdhouse velocity." -The Coatless Code "I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen." -Christopher Walken "It's either going to be fun and I'll get drunk afterward or I'll lose and get drunk afterward. Either way, it's going to be a great night." -James Cameron, about Oscar night "I do not know the meaning of the word 'fail.' Nothing in hell or heaven can influence me when I know that I am right." -Allan Pinkerton, 1871 "He was dangerous. And yet I was excited, suddenly alive. He talked on, I found myself not listening, merely looking at his mouth, which moved - or so it seemed to me - independent of the words, as if the body of the stranger were a ruse, a disguise for something infinitely more terrible." _Grendel_ by John Gardner "Hey now, despite an otherwise bad (understatement) record, I would have to say that the Nazis had some damn good fashion sense." -Scott Craig from r.g.m.wh "The BBC is like a big sausage machine - it doesn't matter what you put in one end, you get _Dr. Who_ out of the other." -Neil Gaiman, book signing, 6-24-97 "Look, if you've got something constructive to add to the conversation, please do so. Otherwise, kindly take your childish remarks back to alt.local.village.idiot where you/they obviously belong." -Jonas Whitespore, from r.g.m.wh "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, to hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -H. L. Mencken "That's the trouble with armor. It won't protect you from what you are." -the Masao, _Armor_ by John Steakley "...Censorship is extremely personal and perverse. People like to think that it's about issues and morality, but it's not. It's about what an individual with power finds terrifying." -David Cronenberg, on _Crash_ "Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world." -La Rochefoucauld, _Maxims_ "You are, so to speak, the brute existence by which they learn to define themselves." -The Dragon, _Grendel_ by John Gardner "The fox knows many things - the hedgehog one _big_ one." -Archilochus, 650 BC "The tree of liberty will grow only when watered by the blood of tyrants." -Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, 1792 "Nothing in this act or any other law... shall be construed to require the disclosure of the organization or any function of the National Security Agency, or any information with respect to the activities thereof, or of the names, titles, salaries, or number of persons employed by such agency." Section 6 of Public Law 86-36 (1959) (The only law ever to be passed pertaining to the NSA.) "...[Matthew McConaughey] has proven in film after film that he can't act and won't try, just as he proven on multiple magazine covers that he's not handsome, whatever the spindly old female editors want us to believe." -Arion Berger on _Amistad_, City Paper, 12-12-97 "Do you see me? Do you know me? Kill us if you want, kill us if you can, we are yours to use no more." -The One King at Ipkur-Kish, _Chronopia_ "Evil is a misunderstood concept. We are only servants whose will exceeds your morality." -Alan Ford "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean." -Maya Angelou "Having such strong opinions about something so fundamentally nerdy is the coredom of being a nerd, since once you've got those opinions and are shamelessly proud of expressing them, you might as well wear your Seaquest t-shirts in public and write Earth 2 fan fiction." "Kilgore Trout," WWWF Ground Zero http://wwwfights.com/ "One evil deed missed is a loss for all eternity." _Grendel_ by John Gardner "They say goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine, / And the little plastic castle is a suprise every time..." -Ani Difranco, "Little Plastic Castle" "Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyhow." -Elbert Hubbard "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." -Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_ "It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail." -Gore Vidal "You are missing the point. Unfortunately, you are by all appearances incapable of conceiving the point." -Jon, from my old D&D group "There is no protection from what you want." -Jack Crow, _Armor_ by John Steakley "That's on the Web, you ding-dong!" -Kristen Parker "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens." -Carl Gustav Jung "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi "Now you know how _they_ feel when they see _you._" -The Dragon, _Grendel_ by John Gardner "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." _The Gunslinger_, Stephen King "Kids need nightmares. It builds character." -Harry Knowles, _Ain't It Cool News_ "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon "John Carter took me to Mars, I never came back." -Ray Bradbury, DragonCon '98 "Can no one imagine an incompetent Legend?" -Jack Crow, _Armor_ by John Steakley "You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind." -Darwin P. Kingsley "The trenchcoat is a symbol. Long, like the list of my enemies. Black, like the coal-hard depths of my soul. Pretentious, like the poetry on my web page." -Eric T. "All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when ever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you: digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed." -Frith, _Watership Down_ "_Starman_ is just getting more and more formalized, like some demented noh play about superheroes." -Bryant Durrell "We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "And you walk inside, and 70 miles of one kind of cable and 70 miles of another kind all add up to this Terry Gilliam vision of the telephone company of the 1950s." -Russell Carpenter, Cinematographer, _Titanic_ "Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking." -J.C. Watts "By and large Victorian England was a tremendously virile and very terrible affair. If we strip away the gadgets and fashions, Victorian England was not unlike the United States today. There was the same unblinking worship of independence and of hard cash; there was the same belief in institutions -- patriotism, democracy, individualism, organized religion, philanthropy, sexual morality, the family, capitalism and progress; the same overwhelming self-confidence, with its concomitant -- a novel and adventurous architecture. And, at the core, was the same tiny abscess -- the nagging guilt as to the inherent contradiction between the morality and the system." -Robert Furneaux Jordan "...[The government's biggest error is] saying that to portray something is to endorse it. If that were true, there could be no satire, no subtlety, no humor - art would be impossible." -David Cronenberg, on _Crash_ "I just wish once I can watch a Disney animated film made after 1990, that doesn't feature, a hero that doesn't belong, a love story, a wisecracking sidekick with a big celebrity voice, absent minded little fathers, and a villain that dies by falling." -Harry Knowles, AICN "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -Leo Tolstoy "Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever." -The Adventures of Baron Munchausen "In my heart I prefer to be a Jedi, but, sadly, my job makes me a Sith Lord." -Producer Rick McCallum "The world has made of me what it would, and I make no excuse for myself. I have followed the dictates of my heart, even when such courses were patently unwise..." -Mata Hari, _The Bloody Red Baron,_ Kim Newman "You were right about everything in my life - except for you, of course." -a dear friend of mine "...Memories may last for years but names are just for souvenirs..." -The Sisters of Mercy, "Some Kind of Stranger" "To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life." -Paula P. Brownlee "You bought a mask, I put it on, you never thought to ask me if I wear it when you're gone." -The Sisters of Mercy, "When You Don't See Me" "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." -Jane Austen "The best of prophets of the future is the past." -Lord Byron "Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth." -Albert Einstein "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Always." -Gandhi "As these emotions started to get the best of me, I thought to myself, 'It's okay to cry. The Duke would be crying if he was watching this! If it's alright with the Duke, then it sure as hell alright for the Mighty One!' After that logic came about, I let the tears flow like Niagra. They weren't no pussy-boy tears either, they were man tears! There the same kind of tears a man would shed while watching _The Dirty Dozen_ or _Die Hard._ If your Father cries, then it's okay for you to cry, damnit!" -Hallenbeck, AICN master spy "On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time." -George Orwell "I wouldn't be so judgmental if you weren't such a sick freak." _Goats_, www.goats.com "Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets." -Paul Tournier "Only enemies tell the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught up in the web of honor." _The Gunslinger_ by Stephen King "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people tries to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." -George Bernhard Shaw "A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares." -Elbert Hubbard "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." -Hector Berlioz "We looked like a cross between Robert Smith and Bette Midler." -Alex K. "The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more." -Woody Allen "[Calling today's machines 'user friendly' because of its endless choices of fonts and screen patterns] is tantamount to dressing a chimpanzee in a green hospital gown and earnestly parading it as a surgeon." -Dr. Michael Dertouzos MIT Computer Laboratory "And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it." _Moby Dick_ "The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." -Mata Hari "Our censure should be reserved for those who would close all doors but one. The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it." -Gordon W. Allport "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender" -Winston Churchill "In all truth, we are a group of weird, weird people. And, I hate the fact that they pick on us." -Frank Miller "If I ran into Tori Spelling on a college campus, I'd probably freak out. Why won't she leave me alone? It's over between us!" -Weird Al Yankovic "I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live." -Bettie Page "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." -Winston Churchill "Sever the line to the guilty past, to the ones who brought us nothing. Spoke of futures brave and proud and brought only hate and war. Lined the roads with hollow praise. Marked the land with paper statues. Shadows fell on their futile ways and then there was nothing more. -VNV Nation, "Solitary" "Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title." -Virginia Wolf "Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other." -Oscar Ameringer "After the bugbears it was all downhill." -Jen R. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell "Doing what we please is not freedom, is not liberty; rather, it is the abuse of true liberty and freedom." -Cardinal Hayes "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." -Douglas Adams "Women like silent men. They think they're listening." -Marcel Archard "TO BOUNCE SLINKY UP AND DOWN: Hold a few coils tightly in one hand, allowing rest of Slinky to hang down. Now in a bouncing motion, move hand slowly up and down." -Slinky instructions "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -Arthur Ashe "In SuperBowl VII, The Miami Dolphins had one mission: find Larry Brown and punish him." -John Facenda, the long-time voice of NFL Films "One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." -Antonio Porchia "I hope I never get so old I get religious." -Ingmar Bergman "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." -David Russell "I like people with big eyes. I like people who look like they would be in an asylum movie. They have to have interesting faces." -Tim Burton "Strength does not come from physical capacity. Strength comes from an indomitble will." -Gandhi "Molon labe." [Come get them.] -Leonidas, at Thermopylae, in reply to Xerxes' request for the Spartans to surrender their spears "There's no dignity in the Snuggle Bear." -Reese D. "The world is like a book, and those that never leave home read but one page." -St. Augustine "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." -Mark Twain "Ok, wait a minute. Clearly, the goal [of Doom] is to kick some demonic butt. Isn't this what Jesus is going to do when the End comes? Aren't we emulating Jesus? I mean, come on. What are you going to do when The End comes and Jesus hands you a rail gun? You: What is this? Jesus: It is a rail gun. Let's go defeat Satan. You: But I don't know how to use one. Jesus: I gave you Quake, what else do you want?" -the Cackling Klaknak "Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work." -Clive Barker "That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast." -anonymous "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." -H. H. Munro (Saki) "Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity." -Martin Luther King, Jr. in nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut "Don't get me started on Trix." -Ellisa E. "However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner... sulking and nausea." -Tom K. Ryan "We are, each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." -anonymous "A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an impudent core of effete snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals." -Spiro Agnew, 1970 denouncing student political movements "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." -Dorothy Parker "The Ten Commandments should be posted in all courtrooms. And the U.S. Constitution should be glued onto Jesus' chest in every church in America." _The Onion,_ www.theonion.com "A man must seek pleasure that originates and ends in himself." -Herman Hesse "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." -Sir Thomas Browne "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." -Aldous Huxley "Wait - Variable rate loan? Wouldn't I rather put a bullet in my head?" -Scott, my old Dungeonmaster "I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country, and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." -E.M. Forster "Children should neither be seen nor heard from -- ever again." -W. C. Fields "I could do with a little more dignity and maturity in our operations, because those are the things we're fighting for. But first of all we've got to fight, and fighting is necessarily undignified and immature." -Kurt Vonnegut "Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes." -James A. Froude "Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected." _Slaughterhouse Five_, Kurt Vonnegut "A Memorial Day without grilled beef is like an Arbor Day." -Dave I. "A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life." -Elbert Green Hubbard "Never underestimate the dark power of breakfast cereals." "And never, ever, let the enemy eat your breakfast." -Anders Sandberg and Timothy Toner "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." -Oliver North "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." -Albert Einstein "That's nothing. Now let a real man show you what a desperate cry for help in a brutal and uncaring world *really* sounds like." -Dayv "Danger!" B. "All my life I've wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific." -Jane Wagner "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out." _I Claudius_ "So maybe enthusiasm for the commercial viability of the internet is waning. But I defy you to find a better medium in which to have tea with Hello Kitty." _The Onion,_ www.theonion.com "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." Job 42:6 "They have this myth that they are the cool guys and the cool guys always win over the suits. But the fact is that they are half-socialized, post-adolescents with serious ethical and moral boundary problems." -Mike Godwin of the EFF AP newswire 4/2/96 "If you outlaw ping, only outlaws will have ping." -Shawn McMahon, NANOG Mailing list "He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the Earth." -George Bernard Shaw "My brother need not be idolized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. Be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." -Edward Kennedy, eulogizing Robert Kennedy "We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash." -Kurt Vonnegut "Irish folktales scare the shit out of me." -Pavement "I run good but I'm hard to start, and the brakes are bad so I'm hard to stop." -Morphine, "All Your Way" "They say that time heals all wounds, and that's true with, say, a gash on the neck. But with past relationships, all time does is help to idealize the imperfect memories of the ex, and to a single man, idealized memories are like kryptonite." -Curt Ramwell "They gave you life, the least you can do is provide tech support." -http://truemeaningoflife.com "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'" -Paula Poundstone "Forgive, but never forget." -John F. Kennedy "It's amazing what you'll scan when you're bored and alone." -Dayv B. "Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative." -Henry Kissinger "Damn, I'm creaming this asshole." -Nate A. "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven." -John Milton, _Paradise Lost_
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