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 * "Can you do one thing for me and I swear to God I'll leave you alone... starting over there can you guys do the wave?"
 * From Woodstock '94

 * I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

 * What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

 * I live a pretty normal life at home, go shopping, all that. I don't want that part of my life taken from me.

 * I'm not interested in groupies. I have to say I've never been with a groupie in my entire life.

 * Are you Canadian? Oh, okay, 'cause you're sure as hell acting like one right now.

 * I'm very monogamous.

 * Sometimes it gets kind of ugly because there are some of ignorant people out in the audience.

 * I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

 * Let's face facts, it's a lot harder to be on tour and just live it up when you've got a family.

 * There is a war on terror, which is basically a war on fear. It is playing with our fear.

 * I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

 * If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

 * I'm not gonna sit and try to market myself to anybody. If you feel like getting into this record, then do it. If you don't, then don't.

 * I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

 * All Saints are gonna be there? Tré, you might get laid!

 * We put the fun back in dysfunctional.
 * VH1's Behind the Music

 * “Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.”

 * [Our 'Waiting' video] was a total failure. [MTV] doesn't show any videos anymore. If we had a booty video - if we had, like, McG, with girls shaking their ass in the video -- it would probably get played. Actually, I am just really bitter right now.
 * VH1's Behind the Music

 * "Alright I want everyone on this side of the audience to yell 'rock and roll' and everyone on that side to yell 'SHUT THE FUCK UP'"
 * From Woodstock '94

 * It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.

 * I'm always telling the people in our audience to look out for one another.

 * I am the greatest guitar player in the fucking world. I can play heavy metal goddamnit.

 * Punk rock is dead... and I fucking killed it.

 * Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

 * There will always be problems, but you've got to find solutions.

 * You think your life is tough? Try being a parent!

 * “I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care? If they don't like us fine. We don't play for the people, we play because we have fun doing it.”

 * I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot.

 * I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs, Tom Waits and Springsteen. I always thought it was important to be interested to what happened in the past.

 * If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

 * They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

 * School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect; and nobody's perfect, so why practice?"

 * And my name...is George W. Bush. [pause, fans boo] Actually, my name is Asshole.
 * Live at the National Bowl, Milton Keynes in 2005

 * “We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot.”

 * We don't hurt people. I think we're actually a very friendly band. How many other bands stop shows if they see a kid falling in the pit?

 * I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

 * There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

 * We'd rather have a disappointed audience than an audience that got seriously hurt or even killed.

 * I think the little Bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man."

 * “Having children is a big responsibility and I don't want to make a mess out of it. I don't want my son thinking that I care more for booze than I care for him. If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. You know they might reach it. It's just not good.”

 * I fucking hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, I've always hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fuckin' backwards ass hillbilly shit.

 * B-I-L-L-I-E J-O-E. My real name is Billie Joe. And it's southern, my mom's from Oklahoma and that's how I got the name.

 * Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.

 * It's my fucking life and you know what nobody invited you...so there's the door...see ya!

 * When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, whose tape do you think he's listening to at that time? Think about it.

 * The darkness is coming now, God dammit!

 * My mom was from Oklahoma, hence the name Billie Joe...It's not William Joseph, it's just Billie Joe.

 * They sound like Tré choking on a hair ball.
 * on Slipknot

 * Just about 99% of the population masturbates, while the other 1%, lie about it.

 * What? You can heckle me if you want; it's okay, I won't understand!
 * at a foreign concert in Spain

 * People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

 * “We don't really have a fair system, our social system doesn't work if you're poor in the US you're dirt poor and the distribution of wealth is more than uneven. If you're poor and you get sick you have no health insurance, no financial security, nothing. if that could be changed I wouldn't mind paying more tax, but I mind my taxes being spent on wars!”

 * 'Welcome to Montreal -- fuck you', would be a good sign at your highways.

 * Ah, if someone falls down, please pick him back up, 'cause it doesn't mean that there's a fuckin' camera in your face that you don't have to lookout for each other.

 * Never run in the rain with your socks on.

 * You reach a point in your life where you ask yourself, Is it all I want to do? And then you decide.

 * I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now.

 * “After 30 minutes watching TV you belive you're on drugs. They're perfect in trying to turn you into nothing more than mindless consumers. For example there is a melancholic movie on, and right after they send advertising for mood elevators and the people will but it because we are so conditioned to consume!”

 * Aw, how the fuck are you all doin' tonight?... That's what I fuckin' wanted to hear, goddammit!

 * I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

 * “It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.”

 * I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

 * I actually have less friends now than I ever had.

 * Our passion is our strength.

 * One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

 * Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you.

 * Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

 * Do I want to change the world with music? Well, fuck yeah, I want to change the world to a certain extent, yeah. It needs to be changed....

 * I thought it was kinda lame. The story was great. Totally hilarious. But it was too much. Kinda like turning us into a parody of ourselves.
 * on the story written about the Kerplunk cover The Diary of Laurie L

 * I’m going to point a gun at Tré. Tré is going to point a gun at Mike. Mike is going to point a gun at me.
 * Mike: We’re going to count to 3 and pull the trigger.
 * When asked in 1992 where they would be in 3 years

 * History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

 * Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
 * at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, acceptance speech

 * Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

 * You're the fucking leaders, you have the fucking power. Don't let these bastards dictate the rest of the world, or dictate your fucking life!
 * at Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005 in Berlin, Germany

 * My name is George W Bush. But my friends call me asshole!

 * What has two thumbs, speaks French, and likes blow jobs? Moi!

 * None of your business! First name Billie, last name Joe!

 * I really enjoy what I do for a living. Its a fun thing. Some people think we suck, but I think we're fucking great.

 * It's a proven fact that music can change people.

 * You might grow up with a lot of anger, but what's important is how you educate yourself, what comes out of that anger, how does it apply later on in your life.

 * A lot of bands will say they prefer small shows, but let's be honest, playing stadiums doesn't suck either.

 * Rockers want to be rebels, but they don't want to offend anybody. Well that's no fun! I think America needs to be offended now more than ever.

 * My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it, you know?

 * Hi everyone, sniff. We are Green Day, sniff. I have a, sniff, cold, but you probably won't notice. Sniff.

 * Everybody say "Shut the fuck up" and we'll stop playing. Wait, 1-2-3 -- (crowd responds) Okay, we're gone. Goodbye! (Green Day leaves stage)
 * Woodstock Mudfight

 * This isn't love and peace, this is fucking anarchy!
 * Woodstock Mudfight

 * Let's go shopping!

 * This song's called American Idiot. It's about me.

 * "Look at you fuckin' dirty mother fuckers!"
 * Talking about the fans in the rain at Woodstock'94
 * You think your life is tough? Try being a parent!
 * [on if he believes in heaven] I consider myself an agnostic, so I'm not really sure. I kind of believe that there's something possibly out there. I'm not stubborn enough to cancel that out. I believe there's a higher power somewhere. I just don't know what it is. I really like a lot of Catholic symbolism. Me and Adrienne collect a lot of crucifixes and rosary beads and stuff like that. In our house, we have a lot of candles and stuff like that.
 * [on what he would like to do instead of music] I've done some producing, that I can do. But acting for me, I'm pretty sure I don't know how to do that. I really don't want to go through a process of trying to figure out how to do it. I think as soon as you start acting that realness of you that people love is gone because you're pretending to be something else on screen.
 * [on the media] You know, I've made it a point not to read a thing. From what people have been telling me, everything has been really positive. Hey, it's the kids who are going to buy our records and they're not going to read things written in Entertainment Weekly anyway. Critics never really want to like my band. I think they have this thing up their asses that we are a lesser band now. They feel we weren't the originators of punk rock or we are not cool or whatever. So everything that comes from these people sounds somehow backhanded, like with the Spin piece. For a while, we were a best kept secret and for a long time none of these bigger magazines knew about Look Out Records or for that matter the Berkeley scene in general. At the time, I think that irritated them a bit. To them, if they don't know about it, it obviously wasn't cool enough to begin with.
 * Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
 * A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. They have nothing to say, you know?
 * Adrienne is the only woman I will ever love.
 * I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!
 * In five years, I will be pointing a gun at Tre, Tre will be pointing a gun at Mike and Mike will be pointing a gun at me. We'll count to three and pull the trigger. - Billie Joe Armstrong
 * Billie Joe Armstrong: [turns toward Mike, still sitting on couch & says this as if he were talking to a very attractive woman] 'Wanna have sex and get married?' [long, silent pause] 'Oh... sorry.'
 * Some people use touring as a cure-all for their problems.
 * To do something that you feel in your heart that is great, you have to make a lot of mistakes to get there. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.
 * Music to me is the air that I breathe, it's the blood that runs through my veins that keeps me alive. And without it, I don't know what I'd do.
 * All problems are essentially the same, they just come in different packages.
 * We're all entitled to say something stupid once in a while, even if it's only half true.
 * The problem is, that when you go on tour you miss being at home; but when you finally get home you don't know what to do with yourself because your so used to being on tour, and your stuck in the routine.
 * This isn't a fucking tea party- this is rock and roll!

 * “We've been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.”

 * “Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.”

 * “Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.”

 * “We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f---n' believe in, because this is what it's all about,”

 * "Adrienne is the only woman I will ever love."

 * “Having children is a big responsibility and I don't want to make a mess out of it. I don't want my son thinking that I care more for booze than I care for him. If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. You know they might reach it. It's just not good.”

 * “We don't really have a fair system, our social system doesn't work if you're poor in the US you're dirt poor and the distribution of wealth is more than uneven. If you're poor and you get sick you have no health insurance, no financial security, nothing. if that could be changed I wouldn't mind paying more tax, but I mind my taxes being spent on wars!”

 * "I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."

 * "I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?"
 * "I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music."

 * "I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon."

 * "I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed."

 * "I'm very monogamous."

 * "If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life."

 * "What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it."

 * "There’s supposed to be a curfew at this shithole. We don’t do fucking curfews. We’ll go off when we want"

 * "We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world"

 * "To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit"

 * "Rock bands are such pussies, you know? I honestly think that people are looking for something that's more than just a piece of shit"

 * "The one thing that's always stuck with us is that we're crazy mother fuckers."

 * "I kind of became everyone’s weird uncle. I was drunk all the time wearing a fucking leopard g string."

 * "You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?"

 * "This song's off our album. It's called Kerplunk. It's kind of in line with the shit thing, ya know, it's like you take a dookie and it kerplunks in the toilet."

 * "Yeah I've met members of The Who, and "members" of The Who"

 * "We are not afraid to be entertainers."

 * "The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore."

 * "Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place"

 * "Music is the air that I breathe, it's the blood that pumps through my veins."

 * "And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think, 'What's wrong with that person? What kind of hang-ups does that person have?' Obviously, it's not just the catchy songs, it goes deeper than that."

 * "What do you mean we walked around in girls clothes? We walked around in dresses and they happened to be ours!"

 * "Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin"

 * "Stand the fuck up! This isn't a fucking coldplay show!"

 * "My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that."

 * "I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner"

 * "You have to be forgiven of you're sins now so you can start sinning all night long"

 * "You don't mow another man's lawn!"

 * "...and sometimes I think she may have married the end of the world."

 * "Let's shake some shit up - that's all you can do."

 * "I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself."

 * "Of course, you also want something that'll make one hell of a killer tattoo."

 * "Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem."

 * "It's MISTER American Idiot to you..."

 * "You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun."

 * "You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record."

 * "Yeah fuck me! I wish all of you could fuck me!"

 * "I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade"

 * "Attack your instruments. Don’t let them attack you."

 * "[Our 'Waiting' video] was totally a failure. [MTV] doesn't show any videos anymore. If we had a booty video - if we had, like, McG, with girls shaking their ass in the video -- it would probably get played. Actually, I am just really bitter right now."

 * "Music to me is the air that I breathe, it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive."

 * "If someone falls down please pick them back up. Just because there's not a fuckin' camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to lookout for each other."

 * "One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak."

 * "Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it."

 * "My name is George W. Bush. Actually my name is Asshole."

 * "To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes."

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Hello! I'm currently in high school and thinking about becoming a journalist or writer some day. I listen to a lot of music and like to read books by Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, and Ray Bradbury. I'm especially a fan of Stephen King because he lives in the same state as I do!

Favorite Bands:
A list of my favorite bands (somewhat in order):
 * 1) Radiohead -- Best modern band, no competition
 * 2) The White Stripes -- The saviors of Rock!
 * 3) Weezer -- Simply excellent, they're the reason I started listening to music
 * 4) Led Zeppelin -- Classic, you can't not like them
 * 5) Nirvana -- Only grunge band I enjoy listening to
 * 6) U2 -- Great
 * 7) The Beatles -- Best band of all time. Don't bother trying to prove me wrong
 * 8) Beck -- Very creative, bizarre music
 * 9) Pink Floyd -- An earlier version of Radiohead (especially Dark Side of the Moon)
 * 10) R.E.M. -- Awesome
 * 11) The Strokes -- Don't listen to them much, but I like what I hear on the radio!
 * 12) Jet -- Best Australian band ever!
 * 13) Queen -- Everyone likes Queen
 * 14) Audioslave -- Pretty good

Bands I Hate:

 * 1) GREEN DAY
 * 2) Nickleback
 * 3) Fall Out Boy
 * 4) System of a Down
 * 5) Any scream bands
 * 6) 50 Cent
 * 7) Country music of any kind
 * 8) Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc. (Stop the Pop!)

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Invisible Monsters

Invisible Monsters (1999) by Chuck Palahniuk, An American satirical novelist and freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon.

Quotes

 * Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anyone in the world. We're all such products.

 * What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock-tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
 * Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

 * When it's time to reintroduce me to solid foods, their words again, it's pureed chicken and strained carrots. Baby foods. Everything mashed or pulverized or crushed. You are what you eat.

 * The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

 * Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. (ch3p32)

 * This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate.

 * Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

 * Evie says that beautiful people should never date each other. Together, they just don't generate enough attention. Evie says there's a whole shift in the beauty standard when they're together. You can feel this, Evie says. When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

 * Somewhere in heaven, you're live on a video web site for God to surf.

 * Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

 * When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

 * When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

 * You have to keep recycling yourself.

 * "She has to take a needle and thread and sew herself up" ".. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open"

 * Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.

 * Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

 * The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

 * People just can't stand not knowing something, she says. Especially men can't stand not climbing every mountain, mapping everywhere. Labeling everything. Peeing on every tree and then never calling you back.
 * "Behind a veil, you're the great unknown," she says. "Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."
 * The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

 * Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something.

 * Seth says how your being born makes your parents god. you owe them your life, and they can control you.
 * "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better."

 * "First," Manus says, "your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."

 * "The whole time, growing up," Evie says, "I just thought being a woman would be...not such a disappointment."

 * When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own.
 * This only looks like generosity.

 * Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
 * This only looks like love.

 * Sometimes the best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

 * The nurse brings me the personal classified ads from a newsletter. Sister Katherine peers down her nose and through the glasses to read: Guys seeking slim, adventurous girls for fun and romance. And, yes, it's true, not one single guy specifically excludes hideous mutilated girls with growing medical bills.

 * The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.
 * "There isn't any real you in you," she says. "Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years."

 * "Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort."

 * "The world," Brandy says, "is your cradle and your trap."

 * "And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."

 * "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

 * Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

 * Evie starts telling me about an idea she has for a remake of Cinderella, only instead of the little birds and animals making her a dress, they do cosmetic surgery. Bluebirds give her a facelift. Squirrels give her implants. Snakes, liposuction. Plus, Cinderella starts out as a lonely little boy.

 * "[W]e're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes" Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life."

 * Our real discoveries come from chaos.

same two arms and two legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
 * It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the

 * A sexual reassignment surgery is a miracle for some people, but if you don't want it, it's the ultimate form of self-mutilation.

 * Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

 * When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

 * All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

 * Mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.

 * Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.

 * That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

 * Go figure, but Texans seem to be a lot more comfortable around disastrous house fires than they are around anal sex.

 * The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an opportunity for something better than I ever imagined.

 * The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

 * No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all.

 * You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

 * Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited.

 * Do the things that scare you the most.

 * Make me into anything, but just love me.

 * What I wanted looked more and more like what I'd always been trained to want.

 * When I met you, I envied you. I coveted your face. I thought that face of yours will take more guts than any sex change operation. It will give you bigger discoveries. It will make you stronger than I could ever be.

 * Jump to present time with my folks sitting on lawn chairs at night, and watching these same super-8 movies projected on the white side of the same white house, twenty years later. The house the same, the yard the same, the windows projected in the movies lined up just perfect with the real windows, the movie grass aligned with the real grass, and my movie-projected brother and me being toddlers and running around wild for the camera.

 * Nobody's all-the-way dead yet, but let's just say the clock is ticking.

 * Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

 * "Now," those Plumbago lips say, "You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night." That Brandy queen points a long bony finger at me. "When you understand," Brandy says, "that what your telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be."

 * Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want to whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates.
 * Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

 * You know how you look at ugly hunchback girls, and they are so lucky. Nobody drags them out at night so they can't finish their doctorate thesis papers. They don't get yelled at by fashion photographers if they get infected ingrown bikini hairs. You look at burn victims and think how much time they save not looking in mirrors to check their skin for sun damage.

 * I wanted the everyday reassurance of being mutilated. The way a crippled deformed birth-defected disfigured girl can drive her car with the windows open and not care how the wind makes her hair look, that's the kind of freedom I was after.

 * This makeover would make piercings and tattoos and brandings look so lame, all those little fashion revolts so safe that they themselves only became fashionable. Those little paper tiger attempts to reject looking good that only end up reinforcing it.

 * Him yelling, Give me lust, baby.
 * Flash.
 * Give me malice.
 * Flash.
 * Give me detached existentialist ennui.
 * Flash.
 * Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

 * Haute couture and getting hauter.

 * It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way a gun is power.

 * Anymore, when I see the picture of a twenty-something in the newspaper who was abducted and sodomized and robbed and then killed and here's a front-page picture of her young and smiling, instead of me dwelling on this being a big, sad crime, my gut reaction is, wow, she'd be really hot if she didn't have such a big honker of a nose. My second reaction is I'd better have some good head and shoulder shots handy in case I get, you know, abducted and sodomized to death. My third reaction is, well, at least that cuts down the competition.

 * Give me empathy.
 * Then the flash of the strobe.
 * Give me sympathy.
 * Flash.
 * Give me brutal honesty.
 * Flash.

 * Give me attention.
 * Flash.
 * Give me adoration.
 * Flash.
 * Give me a break.
 * Flash.

What happens here will have more of that fashion magazine feel, a Vogue or Glamour
 * Don't expect this to be the kind of story that goes: and then, and then, and then.

magazine chaos with page numbers on every second or fifth or third page. Perfume cards

falling out, and full-page naked women coming out of nowhere to sell you make-up. Don't look for a contents page, buried magazine-style twenty pages back from the front.

Don't expect to find anything right off. There isn't a real pattern to anything, either. Stories

will start and then, three paragraphs later: Jump to page whatever. Then, jump back.

 * Just remember, the same spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close

you follow the page jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the '''collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.''' '''Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.'''

 * The fashion photographer inside my head, yells:
 * Give me pity.
 * Flash.
 * Give me another chance.
 * Flash.

 * Vogue on location.
 * The fashion photographer inside my head, yelling:
 * Give me wonder, baby.
 * Flash.
 * Give me amazement.
 * Flash.

All that color. A whole shift in the beauty standard so that no one thing really stands out. The total being less than the sum of its parts. All that color all in one place. Except for that name-brand product rainbow, there's nothing else to look at. When I look at people, all I can see is the back of everybody's head. Even if I turn super fast, all I can catch is somebody's ear turning away. And folks are talking to God.
 * Going outside, the world is all color after the white-on-white of the hospital. It's going over the rainbow. I walk up to a supermarket, and shopping feels like a game I haven't played since I was a little girl. Here are all my favorite name-brand products, all those colors, French's Mustard, Rice A Ronni, Top Ramen, everything trying to catch your attention.

 * "When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be."

 * Give me tolerance.
 * Flash.
 * Give me understanding.
 * Flash.

 * And the crowd of shoppers is bailed, leaving just us and the security cameras instead of God watching to catch us when we fuck up.

 * "Birds ate my face."

 * Jump to the week after Manus's last visit, last meaning final, when Evie drops by the hospital. Evie looks at the glossies and talks to God and Jesus Christ.

 * Save the world with some advice from the future.

 * "I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse."

 * "The nun's arrived with the man ad his I.V. stand, a new man with no skin or crushed features or all his teeth bashed out, a man who'd be perfect for me. My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life."

 * She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around of the base of a penis.

 * Don't you think that somehow television makes us God?

 * Ancient aboriginal petroglyphs and junk are just whizzing past

 * All around us, erosion and insects are just chewing up the world, never mind people and pollution. Everything biodegrades with or without you pushing.

 * The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush are just the genitals of a different life form.

 * The future is just wasted on some people.

 * Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another.

 * We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

 * How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?

 * It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under your bed.

 * If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

 * You're safe because you're trapped inside your culture.

 * Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

 * It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love.

 * A Million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.

 * What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.

 * People all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

 * The truth is I was addicted to being beautiful, and that's not something you just walk away from. Being addicted to all that attention, I had to quit cold turkey.

 * I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

 * You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

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Magna Carta

The Magna Carta, Latin for "Great Charter" (literally "Great Paper"), also known as Magna Carta Libertatum, is an English 1215 charter which limited the power of English Monarchs, specifically King John, from absolute rule. Magna Carta was the result of disagreements between Pope Innocent III and King John and his barons over the rights of the king: Magna Carta required the king to renounce certain rights and respect certain legal procedures, and to accept that the will of the king could be bound by law. Magna Carta is widely considered to be the first step in a long historical process leading to the rule of constitutional law.

Quotes

 * Neither we nor our officials will seize any land or rent in payment of a debt, so long as the debtor has movable goods sufficient to discharge the debt.
 * Clause 9.

 * No man shall be forced to perform more service for a knight's 'fee', or other free holding of land, than is due from it.
 * Clause 16.

 * For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.
 * Clause 20.

 * No constable or other royal official shall take corn or other movable goods from any man without immediate payment, unless the seller voluntarily offers postponement of this.
 * Clause 28.

 * No sheriff, royal official, or other person shall take horses or carts for transport from any free man, without his consent.
 * Clause 30.

 * In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it.
 * Clause 38.

 * No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
 * Clause 39.

 * To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.
 * Clause 40.

 * All merchants may enter or leave England unharmed and without fear, and may stay or travel within it, by land or water, for purposes of trade, free from all illegal exactions, in accordance with ancient and lawful customs. This, however, does not apply in time of war to merchants from a country that is at war with us. Any such merchants found in our country at the outbreak of war shall be detained without injury to their persons or property, until we or our chief justice have discovered how our own merchants are being treated in the country at war with us. If our own merchants are safe they shall be safe too.
 * Clause 41.

 * To any man whom we have deprived or dispossessed of lands, castles, liberties, or rights, without the lawful judgement of his equals, we will at once restore these.
 * Clause 52.

 * IT IS ACCORDINGLY OUR WISH AND COMMAND that the English Church shall be free, and that men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions, well and peaceably in their fulness and entirety for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all things and all places for ever.
 * Clause 63.

Quotes about Magna Carta

 * [T]he Charter was demanded by those who complained of the irregular and arbitrary violence of King John, and the restrictions it imposed upon the Crown's action became the corner stone of English freedom. Its provisions, never repealed, though varied and to some extent amplified in subsequent instruments similarly extorted from subsequent monarchs, were solemnly reasserted in the famous declaration by Parliament in 1628 which we call the Petition of Right, and were finally re-enacted in the Bill of Rights of 1689. Thus the Charter of 1215 was the starting-point of the constitutional history of the English race, the first link in a long chain of constitutional instruments which have moulded men's minds and held together free governments not only in England but wherever the English race has gone and the English tongue is spoken.
 * James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, 'Preface', Henry Elliot Malden (ed.), Magna Carta Commemoration Essays (1917), pp. xii-xiii

 * Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
 * Edward Coke, speech to the committee of the Commons (20 May 1628)
 * No Statute whatever (eodem modo constituitur) is ordained by so great Authority as that which Magna Charta has at length acquired, by the express confirmation, from time to time, of so many different Kings and Parliaments: The wisdom of ages has made it venerable, and stamped it with an authority equal to the Constitution itself, of which it is, in reality, a most essential and fundamental part; so that any attempt to repeal it would be treason to the state!
 * Granville Sharp, A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a share in the legislature, which is the Fundamental Principle of the British Constitution of State, page 202 (1775)

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Yoshida Kenkō

Yoshida Kenkō (Japanese: 吉田兼好; 1283? – 1350?) was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness), one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Born Urabe Kaneyoshi (卜部兼好).

Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness)

 * The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi as translated by George Sansom (1911)

 * To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the inkslab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever trifling thoughts pass through my mind, truely this is a queer and crazy thing to do!

 * One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

 * To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare.

 * A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

 * Bishop Köyu said (it seems to me very admirably), 'It is only a person of poor understanding who wishes to arrange things in complete sets. It is incompleteness that is desirable.' In everything regularity is bad. To leave a thing unfinished gives interest, and makes for lengthened life. They say that even in building the [imperial] palace an unfinished place is always left. In the writings of the ancients, inner and outer [Buddhist and non-Buddhist], there are many missing chapters and parts.

 * Even a false imitation of wisdom must be reckoned as wisdom.

 * Why is it so hard to do a thing Now, at the moment when one thinks of it.

 * A bystander... remarked, '...One day of life is weightier than ten thousand pieces of gold. ...It is not because they do not fear death, but because they forget the nearness of death that men do not rejoice in life. One may say that he has grasped the true principle who is unconcerned with the manifestation of life or death.' When he said this people scoffed at him more than ever.

 * Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
 * One of the sayings of the venerable sages, called Ichigon Hödan.

 * If a man strictly observe the rules of his way, and keep a rein on himself, then no matter what way it be, he will be a scholar of renown and be a teacher of multitudes.

 * He is of low understanding who spends a whole life irked by common worldly matters.

 * A man who would be a success the world must first of all be a judge of moods, for untimely speeches will offend the ears and hurt the feelings of others, and so fail in their purpose. He has to beware of such occasions. But falling sick and bearing children and dying — these things take no account of moods. They do not cease because they are untimely. The shifting changes of birth, life, sickness, and death, the real great matters — these are like the surging flow of a fierce torrent, which delays not for an instant but straightway pursues its course. And so, for both priest and layman, there must be no talk of moods in things they must needs accomplish. They must be free from this care and that, they must not let their feet linger.

 * The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.

 * Action and principle are fundamentally the same. If the outstanding appearances do not offend, the inward reality is certain to mature. We should not insist on our unbelief, but honour and respect these things [i.e., religion].

 * The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

 * Ambition never comes to an end.

Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)

 * If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. Consider living creatures- none lives so long a man. The May fly waits not for the evening, the summer cicada knows neither spring nor autumn. What a wonderfully unhurried feeling it is to live even even a single year in perfect serenity.
 * The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.
 * 13
 * It is excellent for a man to be simple in his tastes, to avoid extravagance, to own no possessions, to entertain no craving for worldly success.
 * 18
 * In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.
 * 22
 * What a foolish thing it is to be governed by a desire for fame and profit and to fret away one's whole life without a moment of peace. Great wealth is no guarantee of security. Wealth, in fact, tends to attract calamities and disaster.
 * 38
 * One would like to leave behind a glorious reputation for surpassing wisdom and character, but careful reflection will show that what we mean by love of a glorious reputation is delight in the approbation of others. Neither those who praise nor those who abuse last for long, and the people who have heard their reports are like likely to depart the world as quickly. Before whom then should we feel ashamed? By whom should we wish to be appreciated? Fame, moreover inspires backbiting. It does no good whatsoever to have one's name survive. A craving after fame is next foolish.
 * 38
 * The truly enlightened man has no learning, no virtue, no accomplishments, no fame.
 * 38
 * All is unreality. Nothing is worth discussing, worth desiring.
 * 38
 * Things which seem in poor taste: too many personal effects cluttering up the place where one is sitting; too many brushes in an ink-box; too many Buddhas in a family temple; too many stones and plants in a garden; too many children in a house; too many words on meeting someone; too many meritorious deeds recorded in a petition. Things which are not offensive, no matter how numerous: books in a book cart, rubbish in a rubbish heap.
 * 72
 * There's no escaping it-the world is full of lies. It is safest always to accept what one hears as if it were utterly commonplace and devoid of interest.
 * 73
 * It is popular superstitions uncritically, but to dismiss them as being "most improbable" serves no purpose. In general, the best course is to treat such matters as if they were true, neither giving one's unqualified belief nor doubting or mocking them.
 * 73
 * They flock together like ants, hurry east and west, run north and south. Some are mighty, some humble. Some are aged, some young. They have places to go, houses to return to. At night they sleep, in the morning get up. But what does all this activity mean ? There is no ending to their greed for long life, their grasping for profit.
 * 74
 * I find it insufferable too the way people spread word about the latest novelties and make a fuss over them. I am charmed by the man who remains unaware of such fashions until they have become quite an old story to everyone else.
 * 78

 * There are innumerable instances of things which attach themselves to something else, then waste and destroy it. The body has lice; a house has mice; a country has robbers; inferior men have riches; superior men have benevolence and righteousness; priests have the Buddhist law.
 * 97

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Saw (2004 film)

Saw is a 2004 horror film about two men who wake up in an old bathroom, and they learn a serial killer, who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card, is making them his next victims.
 * Directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell.

Quotes

 * Yes, I'm sick, officer. Sick from the disease eating away at me inside. Sick of people who don't appreciate their blessings. Sick of those who scoff at the suffering of others. I'm sick of it all!
 * Game over!
 * I want to play a game.

Tapes

 * Rise and shine, Adam. You're probably wondering where you are. I'll tell you where you might be. You might be in the room you die in. Up until now you simply sat in the shadows watching others live out their lives. But what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? Now, I see you as a strange mix of someone angry, yet apathetic. But mostly just pathetic. So are you going to watch yourself die today, Adam, or do something about it?
 * Dr. Gordon, this is your wake-up call. Every day of your working life you have given people the news that they're going to die soon. Now, you will be the cause of death. Your aim in this game is to kill Adam. You have until six on the clock to do it. There's a man in the room with you. When there's that much poison in your blood, the only thing left to do -- is shoot yourself. There are ways to win this hidden all around you. Just remember, X marks the spot for the treasure. If you do not kill Adam by six, then Alison and Diana will die, Dr. Gordon... and I'll leave you in this room to rot. Let the game begin. [whispers] Follow your heart.
 * Hello, Paul. You are a perfectly healthy, sane and middle-class male. Yet last month you ran a straight razor across your wrist. Did you cut yourself because you truly wanted to die, or did you just want some attention? Tonight, you'll show me. The irony is that if you want to die you just have to stay where you are, but if you want to live, you'll have to cut yourself again. Find the path through the razor-wire to the door. But hurry. At three o'clock that door will lock, and then, this room becomes your tomb. How much blood will you shed to stay alive, Paul?
 * Hello, Mark. If you are so sick, then why do I have so many photos of you up and about? Let's put your so-called "illness" to the test. Right now, there's a slow acting poison in your veins. The antidote is inside the safe; the combination to the safe is written on the wall. Hurry up and program it in, but watch your step. By the way, that's a flammable substance smeared on your body, so I would be careful with that candle if I were you... or all the people you've burned with your act just might have their revenge.
 * Hello, Amanda. You don't know me, but I know you. I want to play a game. Here's what happens if you lose. The device you are wearing is hooked into your upper and lower jaw. When the timer in the back goes off, your mouth will be permanently ripped open. Think of it like a reverse bear trap. Here, I'll show you. [on videotape, a mannequin's head is destroyed by the device] There is only one key to open the device. It's in the stomach of your dead cell mate. Look around, Amanda. Know that I'm not lying. You better hurry up. Live or die. Make your choice.
 * Congratulations. You are still alive. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore.
 * Hello Mr. Hindle. Or as they called you around the hospital: Zepp. I want you to make a choice. There's a slow-acting poison coursing through your system, which only I have the antidote for. Will you murder a mother and her child to save yourself? Listen carefully, if you will. There are rules.

Dr. Lawrence Gordon

 * He doesn't want us to cut through our chains. He wants us to cut through our feet.
 * [to Adam] I DID NOT CHEAT ON HER!
 * Zep, you perverted little psychopath! I'm going to take great pleasure in seeing you pay for this, you bastard fuck!
 * Fuck this shit!
 * [to Zep] You. You bastard! I'll fucking kill you! You fucking bastard! I'll fucking kill you! You fucking bastard! I'll fucking kill you!

Adam Stanheight

 * Help! Someone help me! Is someone there? Hey! Oh, shit, I'm probably dead.
 * My name is Very Fucking Confused; what's your name?
 * I went to bed in my shithole apartment and woke up in an actual shithole.
 * This is what they do, man. They kidnap you, then drug you and before you know it, you're in a bathtub and your kidneys are on eBay.
 * No solids.
 * Can you hear me in there? I'm having a blast! This is the most fun I've had without lubricant!
 * You say that like you know me.
 * My last girlfriend was a feminist, vegan punk who broke up with me because she thought I was too angry.
 * Face it, Larry, we're both bullshitters. But my camera isn't. It doesn't know how to lie. It only shows you what's put right in front of it.
 * I don't give a crap if you cover yourself in peanut butter and had a fifteen hooker gang bang!
 * [to Lawrence] Don't leave me!

Detective Tapp

 * You know, we arrested a dentist last week who liked to play with kids a bit too much. He lived two blocks from here. The sewer lines run under this neighborhood, Doctor.
 * Sick bastard.
 * I'm gonna kill you, you sick asshole!

Zep Hindle

 * His name's John, Dr. Gordon. He's a very interesting person.
 * Good night, little girl.
 * Cold-hearted bastard.
 * Dr. Gordon's time is up and I've gotta do what I've gotta do and I'm afraid that you're the one who's gonna tell him he failed.
 * I'm gonna kill your husband now, Mrs. Gordon!
 * You're too late.
 * It's the rules!

Others

 * Detective Allison Kerry: Looks like our friend Jigsaw likes to book himself front row seats to his own sick little games.

Dialogue

 * [first lines]
 * Adam Stanheight: Help! Someone, help me! Is someone there? Hey! Oh, shit, I'm probably dead.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: You're not dead.
 * Adam Stanheight: Who's that? Who's that?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: There's no point yelling. I already tried.
 * Adam Stanheight: Turn on the lights!
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Would if I could.
 * Adam Stanheight: What the heck's going on? Where am I?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: I don't know yet.
 * Adam Stanheight: What is that smell?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Oh, wait... Hang on. Think I found something.
 * [the lights turn on]

 * Adam Stanheight: [screaming] HELP! [yanks the chain as hard he can] HELP! Help!
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: No one can hear you.
 * Adam Stanheight: What the fuck is this?!
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Calm down, just calm down. Are you hurt?
 * Adam Stanheight: I don't know. Yeah!
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: What's your name?
 * Adam Stanheight: My name is Very Fucking Confused; what's your name? What's going on here?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: My name is Lawrence Gordon, I'm a doctor. I woke up here, just like you.

 * [Adam is trying to see if someone has taken his kidneys]
 * Adam Stanheight: You see any scars?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: What?
 * Adam Stanheight: This is what they do, man. They kidnap you, then drug you and before you know it, you're in a bathtub and your kidneys are on eBay.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: No one has taken your kidneys.
 * Adam Stanheight: How can you tell from way over there?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Because you'd either be in terrible agony or you'd be dead by now. Trust me.
 * Adam Stanheight: What are you, a surgeon?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Yes.

 * Tape: Rise and shine, Adam. You're probably wondering where you are. I'll tell you where you might be. You might be in the room you die in. Up until now you simply sat in the shadows watching others live out their lives. But what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? Now, I see you as a strange mix of someone angry, yet apathetic. But mostly just pathetic. So are you going to watch yourself die today, Adam, or do something about it?
 * Adam Stanheight: I don't get it.
 * [the tape ends]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Throw me the player.
 * Adam Stanheight: No. You throw me your tape.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Look, we're going to have to work together if we want to get out of here. Now just throw it to me!
 * Adam Stanheight: I'm not gonna risk breaking it. You throw me your tape!
 * [Lawrence tosses his tape to Adam, and Adam puts the tape into the player and presses play]
 * Tape: Dr. Gordon, this is your wake-up call. Every day of your working life you have given people the news that they're going to die soon. Now, you will be the cause of death. Your aim in this game is to kill Adam. You have until six on the clock to do it. There's a man in the room with you. When there's that much poison in your blood, the only thing left to do -- is shoot yourself. There are ways to win this hidden all around you. Just remember, X marks the spot for the treasure. If you do not kill Adam by six, then Alison and Diana will die, Dr. Gordon... and I'll leave you in this room to rot. Let the game begin.
 * [the tape ends]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Give me that. Now.
 * [Adam tosses the tape player to Lawrence, and Lawrence rewinds the tape]
 * Tape: ...then Alison and Diana will die, Dr. Gordon... and I'll leave you in this room to rot.
 * Adam Stanheight: Any idea who that is?
 * Tape: ...Let the game begin.
 * Adam Stanheight: He knows us.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Wait a minute. [rewinds the tape again]
 * Adam Stanheight: What do you think? Probably a joke, right?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Shh, shh. [presses play]
 * Tape: ...Let the game begin.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: [whispers] Listen.
 * Tape: [whispers] Follow your heart.
 * [the tape ends]
 * Adam Stanheight: What the hell does follow your heart mean?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: [points at the toilet] There! Right next to you, on the toilet.
 * [Adam puts his hand down the toilet]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Come on.
 * [Adam takes his hand out of the toilet and cringes]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Anything?
 * Adam Stanheight: No solids.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Take off the lid. Come on.
 * Adam Stanheight: [takes off the toilet lid and pulls out a plastic bag] I really wish I had checked in there first.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: [chuckles] What is it?
 * [Adam rips the plastic bag open, pulls out two hacksaws, and begins trying to saw off the chain]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Hey! Mind passing me the other one?
 * [Adam tosses the other hacksaw to Lawrence, throws the plastic bag in the bathtub and they both try to saw off the chains]
 * Adam Stanheight: [hacksaw breaks] Fuck! Fuck! [smashes broken hacksaw at the pipe and throws it at a mirror]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: He doesn't want us to cut through our chains. He wants us to cut through our feet.

 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: How did you know to turn off the lights?
 * Adam Stanheight: Who cares? It worked.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Yeah, but how did you know?
 * Adam Stanheight: Instinct.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Instinct?
 * Adam Stanheight: Yeah.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: You know what? You're a terrible liar.
 * Adam Stanheight: You say that like you know me.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: What else aren't you telling me?
 * Adam Stanheight: Well, um, let's see. On my sixth birthday, my best friend at the time, Scott Tibbs, stabbed me with a rusty nail. I didn't tell you about that. I didn't tell you that my last girlfriend, who was a feminist vegan punk, broke up with me because she thought I was too angry. Uh, I haven't told you that one of my toenails is slightly-
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Just stop it! You knew to turn off these lights.
 * Adam Stanheight: Whatever.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: I'm dealing with a juvenile.
 * Adam Stanheight: You wanna know?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Yeah!
 * [Adam takes out the picture of Alison and Diana gagged up out of the bathtub]
 * Adam Stanheight: Here it is. [Throws the picture to Lawrence]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Oh God... W...where did you get this?
 * Adam Stanheight: It was in your wallet, behind the photo of your daughter.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: W...why didn't you show me this before?
 * Adam Stanheight: I couldn't. [Lawrence begins to quietly sob] I'm sorry.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THEM YOU BASTARD?!

 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Who are you?
 * Adam Stanheight: You know who I am.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Stop the lies! You're a liar! I need to know the truth!
 * Adam Stanheight: I'm a liar? What did you do last night, Lawrence? Work at a hospital, saving sick children? You told me that after you left your house last night, you went to work at a hospital.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: That's because it's the truth.
 * Adam Stanheight: No. Your wife is right, Larry. You don't recall getting your picture taken in the parking lot? [takes out some pictures and throws them] I can prove that you didn't go anywhere near a hospital last night.

 * Detective David Tapp: At least we'll have the cover of darkness.
 * Detective Steven Sing: So will anybody else.

 * Alison Gordon: How can you go through life pretending you are happy?
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: I am happy.
 * Alison Gordon: That is complete bullshit; I'd rather you break down and tell me you hated me. At least there would be some passion in it.

 * Adam Stanheight: No! Lawrence, please! I'm begging you! Lawrence, it's not me who did this to you!
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: You have to die.
 * Adam Stanheight: No! I want to live!
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: I'm sorry...
 * Adam Stanheight: I want to live!
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: My family... [shoots Adam] There! I've done it! Now show them to me!

 * Zep Hindle: [examining Adam's body] You're too late. [aims a gun at Lawrence]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Why?
 * Zep Hindle: It's the rules.

 * Tape: Hello, Mr. Hindle... or, as they called you around the hospital: Zep. I want you to make a choice. There's a slow-acting poison coursing through your system, to which only I have the antidote for. Will you murder a mother and her child to save yourself?
 * [Flashback]
 * Zep Hindle: Dr. Gordon's time is up.
 * [Present]
 * Tape: Listen carefully, if you will; there are rules.
 * [Flashback]
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: Why?
 * Zep Hindle: It's the rules.
 * [Present]
 * [the corpse in the room stands, peeling off the latex bullet wound cap]
 * Jigsaw: [points to the bathtub] Key to that chain... is in the bathtub.
 * [Flashback]
 * [the key goes down the drain when Adam accidentally unplugs it]
 * Zep Hindle: He's a very interesting person. His name's John.
 * Dr. Lawrence Gordon: He has an inoperable frontal lobe tumor.
 * Jigsaw: I'm sick from the disease eating away at me inside.
 * Detective Allison Kerry: Sounds like our friend Jigsaw.
 * Jigsaw: I'm sick of people who don't appreciate their blessings.
 * Detective Allison Kerry: Looks like our guy likes to book himself front row seats to his own sick little games.
 * Tape: Hello, Mark - Paul - Amanda - Zep - Adam - Dr. Gordon. I want to play a game.
 * [Present]
 * [Adam tries to shoot Jigsaw, only to be given an electric shock that zaps the gun out of his hand]
 * Jigsaw: Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you... Not anymore. [Adam screams] Game over! [shuts the door]
 * Adam Stanheight: [screams] Don't! Don't! No! [screams fade out]

Taglines

 * Every piece has a puzzle.

 * How much blood would you shed to stay alive?

 * Every puzzle has its pieces.

 * Live or die. Make your choice.

 * Dare you see Saw?

 * Oh, yes... there will be blood.

Cast

 * Leigh Whannell - Adam Stanheight
 * Cary Elwes - Dr. Lawrence Gordon
 * Danny Glover - Detective David Tapp
 * Ken Leung - Detective Steven Sing
 * Dina Meyer - Detective Allison Kerry
 * Ned Bellamy - Jeff Ridenhour
 * Mike Butters - Paul Leahy
 * Paul Gutrecht - Mark Rodriguez
 * Michael Emerson - Zep Hindle
 * Monica Potter - Alison Gordon
 * Makenzie Vega - Diana Gordon
 * Shawnee Smith - Amanda Young
 * Tobin Bell - John Kramer/Jigsaw

title: Saw (2004 film)


text:
Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.

 * See also: De remediis utriusque fortunae

Quotes

 * "This age of ours consequently has let fall, bit by bit, some of the richest and sweetest fruits that the tree of knowledge has yielded; has thrown away the results of the vigils and labours of the most illustrious men of genius, things of more value, I am almost tempted to say, than anything else in the whole world."
 * On the Scarcity of Copyists

 * To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer. I have had the expedition in mind for many years; for, as you know, I have lived in this region from infancy, having been cast here by that fate which determines the affairs of men. Consequently the mountain, which is visible from a great distance, was ever before my eyes, and I conceived the plan of some time doing what I have at last accomplished to-day.
 * Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" in Familiar Letters as translated by James Harvey Robinson (1898); the name Mount Ventosum relates to it being a windy mountain.

 * I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. I had well-nigh forgotten where I was and our object in coming; but at last I dismissed my anxieties, which were better suited to other surroundings, and resolved to look about me and see what we had come to see. The sinking sun and the lengthening shadows of the mountain were already warning us that the time was near at hand when we must go. As if suddenly wakened from sleep, I turned about and gazed toward the west. I was unable to discern the summits of the Pyrenees, which form the barrier between France and Spain; not because of any intervening obstacle that I know of but owing simply to the insufficiency of our mortal vision.
 * Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), as translated by James Harvey Robinson (1898)

 * My brother, waiting to hear something of St. Augustine's from my lips, stood attentively by. I call him, and God too, to witness that where I first fixed my eyes it was written: "And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not." I was abashed, and, asking my brother (who was anxious to hear more), not to annoy me, I closed the book, angry with myself that I should still be admiring earthly things who might long ago have learned from even the pagan philosophers that nothing is wonderful but the soul, which, when great itself, finds nothing great outside itself. Then, in truth, I was satisfied that I had seen enough of the mountain; I turned my inward eye upon myself, and from that time not a syllable fell from my lips until we reached the bottom again. Those words had given me occupation enough, for I could not believe that it was by a mere accident that I happened upon them. What I had there read I believed to be addressed to me and to no other, remembering that St. Augustine had once suspected the same thing in his own case, when, on opening the book of the Apostle, as he himself tells us, the first words that he saw there were, "Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."
 * Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), as translated by James Harvey Robinson (1898)

 * Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! When I heard her thus speak, though my fear still clung about me, with trembling voice I made reply in Virgil's words —
 * What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenance.
 * Secretum Meum (1342), as translated in Petrarch's Secret : or, The Soul's Conflict with Passion : Three Dialogues Between Himself and St. Augustine (1911) edited by William Henry Draper

 * Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
 * De remediis utriusque fortunae (1354), Book II

 * Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
 * As quoted in An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations (1808) by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

 * Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
 * As quoted in Notable Thoughts About Women : A Literary Mosaic (1882) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 311

 * To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
 * Epistola ad Posteros [Letter to Posterity] in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 59

 * I certainly will not reject the praise you bestow upon me for having stimulated in many instances, not only in Italy but perhaps beyond its confines also, the pursuit of studies such as ours, which have suffered neglect for so many centuries; I am, indeed, almost the oldest of those among us who are engaged in the cultivation of these subjects. But I cannot accept the conclusion you draw from this, namely, that I should give place to younger minds, and, interrupting the plan of work on which I am engaged, give others an opportunity to write something, if they will, and not seem longer to desire to reserve everything for my own pen. How radically do our opinions differ, although, at bottom, our object is the same! I seem to you to have written everything, or at least a great deal, while to myself I appear to have produced almost nothing.
 * Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio (28 April 1373) as quoted in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 417

 * You, my friend, by a strange confusion of arguments, try to dissuade me from continuing my chosen work by urging, on the one hand, the hopelessness of bringing my task to completion, and by dwelling, on the other, upon the glory which I have already acquired. Then, after asserting that I have filled the world with my writings, you ask me if I expect to equal the number of volumes written by Origen or Augustine. No one, it seems to me, can hope to equal Augustine. Who, nowadays, could hope to equal one who, in my judgment, was the greatest in an age fertile in great minds? As for Origen, you know that I am wont to value quality rather than quantity, and I should prefer to have produced a very few irreproachable works rather than numberless volumes such as those of Origen, which are filled with grave and intolerable errors.
 * Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio (28 April 1373) as quoted in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 418

 * Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live. I know my own powers. I am not fitted for other kinds of work, but my reading and writing, which you would have me discontinue, are easy tasks, nay, they are a delightful rest, and relieve the burden of heavier anxieties. There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away — sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come. I believe I speak but the strict truth when I claim that as there is none among earthly delights more noble than literature, so there is none so lasting, none gentler, or more faithful; there is none which accompanies its possessor through the vicissitudes of life at so small a cost of effort or anxiety.
 * Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio (28 April 1373) as quoted in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 426

 * Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest.
 * As quoted in "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 75

 * How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
 * As quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) by Rhoda Thomas Tripp

 * It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
 * As quoted in The Renaissance : Essays in Interpretation (1982) by André Chastel, p 107

 * It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
 * De vita solitaria (1346) as quoted in Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology (2003) by Madalyn Aslan

 * Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
 * As quoted in The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes (2005) by Wendy Toliver. p. 446

 * Five enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
 * De vita solitaria (1346) as quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 144

Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353)

 * Full text in Italian. English translations are taken from Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics (1976) ed. and trans. by Robert M. Durling ISBN 0674663489, unless otherwise stated.

To Laura in Life

di quei sospiri ond'io nudriva 'l core in sul mio primo giovenile errore quand'era in parte altr'uom da quel ch'i' sono.''
 * ''Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
 * You who hear in scattered rhymes the sound of those sighs with which I nourished my heart during my first youthful error, when I was in part another man from what I am now.
 * Canzone 1, opening lines

e 'l pentersi, e 'l conoscer chiaramente che quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno.''
 * ''Et del mio vaneggiar vergogna è 'l frutto,
 * And of my raving, shame is the fruit, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever pleases in the world is a brief dream.
 * Canzone 1, st. 4

 * Ché i be' vostr'occhi, donna, mi legaro.
 * For your lovely eyes, Lady, bound me.
 * Canzone 3, line 4

 * Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
 * "Canzone 11 [c. 1327]", as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968), p. 163

 * Tempo da travagliare è quanto è 'l giorno.
 * The time to labor is while it is day.
 * Canzone 22, line 3

cercar non so ch'Amor non venga sempre ragionando con meco, et io co llui.''
 * ''Ma pur sí aspre vie né sí selvagge
 * But still I cannot seek paths so harsh or so savage that Love does not always come along discoursing with me and I with him.
 * Canzone 35, st. 4

irreverente a tanta et a tal madre!''
 * ''Ahi nova gente oltra misura altera,
 * Ah new people, haughty beyond measure, irreverent to so great a mother!
 * Canzone 53, st. 6

 * Per fama huom s'innamora.
 * One falls in love through fame.
 * Canzone 53, st. 8

huom beato chiamar non si convene.''
 * ''Inanzi al dí de l'ultima partita
 * Before the day of his last departure no man is to be called happy.
 * Canzone 56, st. 4

 * Da'duo begli occhi che legato m'ànno.
 * [From] two lovely eyes that have bound me.
 * Canzone 61, line 4

et l'ingegno paventa a l'alta impresa, né di lui né di lei molto mi fido.''
 * ''Perché la vita è breve,
 * Because life is short and my wit is afraid of the high undertaking, in neither do I have much confidence.
 * Canzone 71, st. 1

che 'l serpente tra' fiori et l'erba giace; et s'alcuna sua vista agli occhi piace, è per lassar piú l'animo invescato.''
 * ''Questa vita terrena è quasi un prato,
 * This mortal life is like a meadow where the serpent lies among the flowers and grass, and if anything we see there pleases our eyes, the result is to enlime our souls more deeply.
 * Canzone 99, st. 2

anzi l'extremo dí queta già mai, seguite i pochi, et non la volgar gente.''
 * ''Voi dunque, se cercate aver la mente
 * You, therefore, if you seek ever to have quiet minds before the last day, follow the few and not the crowd.
 * Canzone 99, st. 3

ben la vittoriosa sua ventura.''
 * ''Vinse Hanibàl, et non seppe usar poi
 * Hannibal was victorious, but he did not know later how to make good use of his victorious fortune.
 * Canzone 103, lines 1–2

da ll lungo andar, ma 'l nostro studio è quello dche fa per fama gli uomini immortali.''
 * ''Pandolfo mio, quest'opere son frali
 * My Pandolfo, those works are frail in the long run, but our study is the one that makes men immortal through fame.
 * Canzone 104, st. 4

 * Amor regge suo imperio senza spada.
 * Love governs his empire without a sword.
 * Canzone 105, st. 1

 * Intendami chi pò, ch'i' m'intend'io.
 * Understand me who can, for I understand myself.
 * Canzone 105, st. 2

 * Proverbio "ama chi t'ama" è fatto antico.
 * The proverb "Love him who loves you" is an ancient fact.
 * Canzone 105, st. 3

 * Per bene star si scende molte miglia.
 * One goes many miles to be at ease.
 * Canzone 105, st. 4

 * Tal par gran meraviglia, et poi si sprezza.
 * A thing seems a great marvel but then is despised.
 * Canzone 105, st. 4

 * Una chiusa bellezza è piú soave.
 * Hidden beauty is sweetest.
 * Canzone 105, st. 4

 * Né del vulgo mi cal, né di Fortuna.
 * Nor do I care about the mob or about Fortune.
 * Canzone 114, st. 3

anzi che 'l vezzo.''
 * ''Vero è 'l proverbio, ch'altri cangia il pelo
 * True is the proverb, one's hair will change before one's habits.
 * Canzone 122, st. 2

 * Le bionde treccie sopra il collo sciolte.
 * The blond tresses loosened on her neck.
 * Canzone 127, line 77

non per odio d'altrui, né per disprezzo.''
 * ''Io parlo per ver dire,
 * I am speaking to tell the truth, not from hatred or scorn of anyone.
 * Canzone 128, st. 4

Ma s'egli è amor, perdio, che cosa et quale? Se bona, onde l'effecto aspro mortale? Se ria, onde sí dolce ogni tormento?
 * ''S'amor non è, che dunque è quel ch'io sento?
 * If it is not love, what then is it that I feel? But if it is love, before God, what kind of thing is it? If it is good, whence comes this bitter mortal effect? If it is evil, why is each torment so sweet?
 * Canzone 132, st. 1

e temo, et spero; et ardo, et son un ghiaccio.''
 * ''Pace non trovo, et non ò da far guerra;
 * Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.
 * Canzone 134, lines 1–2

 * To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
 * "Canzone 137", as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968), p. 163

 * Ché bel fin fa chi ben amando more.
 * For he makes a good end who dies loving well.
 * Canzone 140, last line

 * Sarò qual fui, vivrò com'io son visso.
 * I shall be what I have been, shall live as I have lived.
 * Canzone 145, st. 4

 * Sol se stessa, et nulla altra, simiglia.
 * Resembles herself and no other.
 * Canzone 160, line 4

da tutti gli altri.''
 * ''Pien d'un vago penser che me desvia
 * Full of a yearning thought that makes me stray away from all others.
 * Canzone 169, lines 1–2

 * Un bel morir tutta la vita honora.
 * A good death does honor to a whole life.
 * Canzone 207 (c. 1348), st. 5

d'abbracciar l'ombre et seguir l'aura estiva, nuoto per mar che non à fondo o riva, solco onde, e 'n rena fondo, et scrivo in vento.''
 * ''Beato in sogno et di languir contento,
 * Blessed in sleep and satisfied to languish, to embrace shadows, and to pursue the summer breeze, I swim through a sea that has no floor or shore, I plow the waves and found my house on sand and write on the wind.
 * Canzone 212, st. 1

parente de la morte, e 'l cor sottragge a quel dolce penser che 'n vita il tene.''
 * ''Il sonno è veramente, qual uom dice,
 * Sleep is truly, as they say, akin to death, and relieves the heart of the sweet care that keeps it in life.
 * Canzone 226, st. 3

 * Le città son nemiche, amici i boschi.
 * Cities are hateful to me, friendly the woods.
 * Canzone 237, st. 5

 * Nulla al mondo è che non possano i versi.
 * There is nothing in the world that cannot be done by verses.
 * Canzone 239, st. 5

noia t'è, se non quanto il bel thesoro di castità par ch'ella adorni et fregi.''
 * ''L'alta beltà ch'al mondo non à pare
 * Your high beauty, which has no equal in the world, is painful to you except insofar as it seems to adorn and set off your lovely treasure of chastity.
 * Canzone 263, st. 4

To Laura in Death
cerco del viver mio novo consiglio, et veggio 'l meglio, et al peggior m'appiglio.''
 * ''Co la morte a lato
 * With Death at my side I seek new counsel for my life, and I see the better but I lay hold on the worse.
 * Canzone 264, st. 8

pregando, amando, talor non si smova, né sí freddo voler, che non si scalde.''
 * ''Non è sí duro cor che, lagrimando,
 * There is no heart so hard that by weeping, praying, loving, it may not at some time be moved, nor will so cold that it cannot be warmed.
 * Canzone 265, st. 4

 * Ché 'ncontra 'l ciel non val difesa humana.
 * For no human defense avails against Heaven.
 * Canzone 270, st. 6

 * La vita fugge, et non s'arresta una hora.
 * Life flees and does not stop an hour.
 * Canzone 272, line 1

veramente la voglia cieca e 'ngorda, veramente fallace è la speranza.''
 * ''Veramente siam noi polvere et ombra,
 * Truly, we are dust and shadow; truly, desire is blind and greedy; truly, hope deceives.
 * Canzone 294, st. 4

et gli augelletti et i pesci e i fiori et l'erba, tutti inseme pregando ch'i' sempre ami. Ma tu, ben nata, che dal ciel mi chiami, per la memoria di tua morte acerba preghi ch'i' sprezzi 'l mondo e i suoi dolci hami.''
 * ''L'acque parlan d'amore, et l'òra e i rami
 * The waters speak of love and the breeze and the branches and the little birds and the fish and the flowers and the grass, all together begging me always to love. But you, born in a happy hour, who call me from Heaven: by the memory of your untimely death you beg me to scorn the world and its sweet hooks.
 * Canzone 280, st. 3–4

et compie' mia giornata inanzi sera.''
 * ''I' so' colei che ti die' tanta guerra,
 * I am she who gave you so much war and completed my day before evening.
 * Canzone 302, st. 2

sua ventura à ciascun dal dí che nasce.'' our destiny is with us from our birth.
 * ''Cosí nel mondo
 * And so on earth
 * Canzone 303, st. 4 (tr. Mark Musa)

 * O che lieve è inganar chi s'assecura!
 * Oh how easy it is to deceive one who is confident!
 * Canzone 311, st. 3

di': Muor' mentre se' lieto, ché morte al tempo è non duol, ma refugio; et chi ben pò morir, non cerchi indugio.'' say: 'Die while you're happy, since early death is no grief, but a refuge: and he who can die well, should not delay.'
 * ''Canzon, s'uom trovi in suo amor viver queto,
 * Song, if you find a man at peace with love,
 * Canzone 331, st. 6 (tr. A. S. Kline)

ché legno vecchio mai non róse tarlo.''
 * ''Ei sa che 'l vero parlo:
 * He knows that I am speaking the truth, for no worm ever gnawed old wood.
 * Canzone 360, st. 5

 * Obedir a Natura in tutto è il meglio.
 * To obey Nature in all is best.
 * Canzone 361, st. 2

Quotes about Petrarch

He would have written sonnets all his life?
 * Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 3 (1821), stanza 8

 * Petrarch was the final blossom and perfection of the Troubadours.
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, remark in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, Vol. I (1836), p. 83

And faithful Petrarch gloriously crowned.
 * Lovely Laura in her light green dress,
 * John Keats, last lines of the sonnet "Keen, fitful gusts..." (October/November 1816), published in The Complete Works of John Keats, ed. by H. B. Forman, Vol. I (1817), p. 45

 * Francesco Petrarca, the mirror of our century, after completing a vast array of volumes, on reaching his seventy-first year, closed his last day in his library. He was found leaning over a book as if sleeping, so that his death was not at first suspected by his household.
 * Manzini de la Motta (1 July 1388) as quoted in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 428

 * The reason for this contrast between the French and the Italian mediaeval literature is not far to seek. Allegory is a characteristically mediaeval form; and in Italy the Middle Ages began so late and the Renaissance came so early that that country never had the opportunity to fall completely under the spell that held France from the time of the Roman de la Rose till the end of the fifteenth century. Thus Petrarch, in spite of the fact that he wrote perhaps more pure allegory than any other Italian, was at the same time an enthusiast for the New Learning.
 * William Allan Neilson, The Origins and Sources of the Court of Love (1899)

 * Petrarch, a character on whom I never think but with love, formed his mind entirely in Solitude, and there rendered himself capable of transacting the most important political affairs. Petrarch was, doubtless, sometimes what persons frequently become in Solitude, satirical, peevish and choleric. He has, in particular, been reproached with great severities, on account of his lively pictures of the manners of his age, and especially his description of the infamous vices practised at Avignon, during the pontificate of the sixth Clement. But Petrarch possessed a profound knowledge of the human heart, and extraordinary address in working upon the passions and directing them as he pleased. The Abbé de Sade, the best historian of his life, says, that he is scarcely known, but as the tender and elegant poet, who loved with ardor and sung in the most impassioned strains the charms of his mistress; and that nothing more is known of his character. Even authors are ignorant of the obligations which literature owes him; that he rescued it from the barbarism beneath which it had so long been buried; that he saved the best works of the ancient writers from dust and destruction, and that all these treasures would have been lost to us, if he had not sought and procured correct copies of them.
 * Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, in An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations (1808)

 * It is not perhaps, generally known, that he first revived the study of the Belles Lettres in Europe; that he purified the taste of the age; that he himself thought and wrote like a citizen of ancient and independent Rome; that he extirpated numerous prejudices, and paved the way to further improvements, in the circle of human knowledge; that to the hour of his death, he continued to exercise his distinguished talents, and in each successive work always surpassed the preceding. Still less is it known, that Petrarch was an able statesman; that the greatest sovereigns of his age confided to him the most difficult negotiations, and consulted him on their most important concerns; that in the fourteenth century, he possessed a higher reputation, credit and influence, than any man of learning of the present day; that three popes, an emperor, a king of France, a sovereign of Naples, a crowd of cardinals, the greatest princes, and most illustrious lords of Italy, courted his friendship, and desired his company; that, as a statesman, an ambassador and minister they employed him in the most intricate affairs of those times; that, in return, he was not backward in telling them the most unpleasant truths; that Solitude alone supplied him with all this power; that none was better acquainted with its advantages, Cherished them with such fondness, or extolled them with such energy, and at length, preferred leisure and liberty to every other consideration. He appeared, a long time, enervated by love, to which he had devoted the prime of his life, but he suddenly abandoned the soft and effeminate tone, in which he sighed at the feet of his Laura. He then addressed himself, with manly boldness, to kings, emperors, and popes, and always with that confidence which splendid talents and high reputation inspire.
 * Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, in An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations (1808)

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