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Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band, formed by guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy. They have been known to write philosophical lyrics.

Dramamine

 * Travelling swallowing Dramamine Feeling spaced breathing out Listerine.
 * I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell you That you killed the better part of me.
 * If you could just milk it for everything, I'd said what I'd said, and you know what I mean, But I still can't focus on anything.
 * We kiss on the mouth, but still cough down our sleeves.
 * Look at your face, like you killed in a dream, Truth is, you figured out everything, I think I know my geography pretty damn well.

Breakthrough

 * He said the groom's down on me, Because he ate the rice, It was well intentioned, but bad advice, Hell yeah
 * Let it break through, oh, let it break through (repeated line).
 * Open the curtain, And let in some sky. It's almost half past 2 AM; you can tell by the light. Open your window, and let in the atmosphere!
 * I was inverted, I mean converted, I mean I don't understand.

Custom Concern

 * message read on the bathroom wall, said "I don't feel at all like I fall," and we're losing all touch, losing all touch building a desert
 * The custom concern for the people, build up monuments and steeples to wear out our highs.
 * I get up just about noon, My head sends a message for me to reach for my shoes and then walk, Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta have a job.
 * Goes through the parking lot fields Didn't see no signs that they will yield and then thought, "This'll never end, this'll never end, this'll never stop."

Might

 * I might, and you might, but neither of us do, though, and neither of us will. Yesterday night I broke every bone in my jaw. Thought so hard it's the last thing I ever thought.

Lounge

 * He don't remember. How it got there. It had a number Written on his forearm. It spelled disaster.

Beach Side Property

 * "Wow!" said the broken Californian down on the beach that used to be by the beach
 * Ground sure don't like the way it's treated, so now it's moving back to the sea
 * A memo left on the forehead of God, Sent sealed and signed by the saints who sang this song: "We're going union like they say. We'll buy the congregation. Then one day, you'll find us sitting in your chairs with big ideas of stocks and shares."

Ionizes and Atomizes

 * She ionizes and atomizes, then turns to sunlight
 * Fluorescent light bulbs will make an absence of dark, but the light just ain't there still
 * And she said: "I am feeling empty. The real lights can make you heavy, but never ever really empty. Fluorescent lights will always equal empty."

Head South

 * A surf rock band From the land of plenty Surf rock bands With no surf, just pine trees
 * Struck by being ashamed of your old space, just wanting that mean heat.
 * You bleached your hair, and you pawned your skis, and then you sold out for the shade of the palm tree scene.

Dog Paddle

 * I can't swim so I dog paddle (repeated line).
 * What you say and what you want again You can't get it because you don't get it, no.

Novocain Stain

 * TV stained my memories. Yeah, I don't think or choose.
 * Remember through sounds. Remember through smells. Remember through colors. Remember through towns. With fear and fascination on what was here and what's replacing them now.
 * Interchanges, plazas, and malls, and crowded chain restaurants.
 * More housing developments go up named after the things they replace. So welcome to Minnow Brook, and welcome to Shady Space. Well it all seems a little abrupt. No, I don't like this change of pace.

Tundra/Desert

 * Every sick fickle fucker, childhood's what makes you.
 * Every planned occupation: Surefire disappointment up ahead. Until they treat you like desert See mirages of friendship
 * I don't feel, and it feels fine (repeated line).
 * Here's the soon-to-be anchor. Build bridges to nothing; you'll get nowhere.
 * Get too creative ordering our drinks, and mine stinks, mine stinks.
 * Every kind-hearted banker—I don't think there is one.
 * Every winning opinion—I wish I had one.
 * Every child star wonders if they have a future up ahead.
 * Every governor's mother knows that their bread is buttered by Sam.
 * And what about science? They find more proof that lets you make your own decision.

Ohio
P.S. There's a lot going on underneath:
 * Truly sorry—I see clearly Calmly crashing—I pace faster than anyone Hinges rusting—they swing louder than anything Truly lonely—this place is flatter than it seems.
 * I'm upset, and I leave the door open wide. Our hearts are used up, cracked and dry. Pulled the scabs off of regrets. We haven't learned read our conscience yet.
 * One hand clapping—awake but napping.
 * Rows of lights to illuminate lines; why don't they turn them off to let us see night?
 * Dropped off a note that said "I'm giving this note back.

there's roots, there's pipes, and there's drainage leaks."

Exit Does Not Exist
Take an exit
 * Does not exist

I hear voices insinuating,

feeding me lyrics to this song that I am saying.

Sunlight 7:20 PM, early September,

standing looking at a photograph

that you do not remember

being taken. You look out of breath, and me like I am faking.

As a matter of fact, I don't recall this photo being taken!

You don't even actually exist, so I just started shaking!

Does not exist

Take an exit

Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
I tied myself, and tied myself too tight.
 * Oh noose
 * Looking kind of anxious in your cross-armed stance,

like a bad-tempered prom queen at a homecoming dance,

and I claim I'm not excited with my life anymore,

so I blame this town, this job, these friends.

The truth is it's myself.

I'm trying to understand myself,

and pinpoint who I am.

When I finally get it figured out,

I've changed the whole damn plan.
 * Talking shit about a pretty sunset Blanketing opinions that I'll probably regret soon
 * Changed my mind so much I can't even trust it My mind changed me so much I can't even trust myself.

Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds
He said that I was right, you're right, I knew that I was
 * And I said, "You shouldn't make facts out of opinions"
 * I'd hate to see anybody fail,

but I'd like to see you fail seeing me fail, though.
 * I'm not sure who I am, but I know who I've been.
 * I said you can't make everybody happy; you said you would like at least make yourself happy, though,

Space Travel Is Boring
it was second-class, but what's to lose?
 * Won herself a pass to some far off moon:
 * Looking out her window, she could more than assume

that you can't see air or time.
 * She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place.

They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face.

She still got plenty lonely, but that's just the case with time.
 * She started hearing voices sometime in June;

she knew she could go crazy, but didn't think that soon.
 * Now she doesn't feel lonely, but she'd just as soon try.
 * Man shot to the moon:

I bought a paperback, and want to go real soon.

I'm shot to the moon.

Been there a half an hour; I want to come home soon.

Teeth Like God's Shoeshine

 * From the top of the ocean, Yeah! From the bottom of the sky, Goddamn! Well I get claustrophobic, I can! You know that I can.
 * Go to the grocery store, buy some new friends And find out the beginning, the end, and the best of it Do you need a lot of what you got to survive?
 * Oh, if you could compact your conscience Oh, and you might Oh, if you could bottle and sell it you might've done Oh, and you might Oh, if you could compact your conscience and sell it Save it for another time You know you might have to use it
 * Here's the man with teeth like God's shoeshine He sparkles Shimmers Shines Let's all have another orange julius Thick syrup standing in lines The malls are the soon to be ghost towns Well so long, farewell, goodbye
 * You can be ashamed to be so proud of what you've done, but not no one, not now, not ever anyone.

Heart Cooks Brain

 * Inland from Vancouver Shore, The ravens and the seagulls push each other inward and outward.
 * I'm on my way to God don't know or even care.
 * In this life that we call home The years go fast and the days go so slow
 * I'm trying to get my head clear I push things out through my mouth i get refilled through my ears.
 * We tore one down and erected another there The match of the century: Absence Versus Thin Air
 * My brain's the cliff and my heart's the bitter buffalo.
 * My brain's the weak heart and my heart's the long stairs.
 * My brain's the burger and my heart's the coal.

Convenient Parking

 * Waiting to bleed onto the big streets, That bleed out onto the highways, And off to other cities built to store and sell these rocks.
 * Convenient Parking (is way back, way back).

Lounge (Closing Time)

 * She was going with a cinematographer, Everyone knew he was really a pornographer
 * You are so hot, I would like to steal your digits.
 * We are so caught up with things, We should pull each others triggers.
 * I've got a girlfriend out of the city, I know I like her, I think she is pretty.
 * I'm on the road to God don't know, My brain's the burger, and my heart is the charcoal.

Jesus Christ Was an Only Child

 * Well Jesus Christ was an only child, He went down to the river, and he drank and smiled.
 * And his dad was oh-so mad, Should have insured that planet, before it crashed.
 * Working real hard to make internet cash Work your fingers to the bone sitting on your ass
 * I know now what I knew then, But I didn't know then, what I know now.
 * You should hide your kids, While the dogs run wild.
 * And his dad was oh-so mad, Should have killed that little fucker, before he even had it.

Doin' The Cockroach

 * You move your mouth You shake your tongue You vibrate my eardrums off You're saying words But you know I ain't listening
 * I was in heaven, I was in hell, Believe in neither, But fear them as well!
 * You're walking down the street Your face Your lips Your hips Your eyes They meet You're not hungry though
 * This one's a doctor, This one's a lawyer, This one's a cash thief, Taking your money!
 * Another rider, He was a talker, Talking 'bout TV, Please Shut Up!
 * This one's a crazer, Daydreaming disaster, The origin of junk food, Rutting through garbage!
 * Tasty but worthless Dogs eat their own shit
 * Doin' the Cockroach, yeah!
 * One year, Twenty years, Forty years, Fifty years, down the road in your life, You'll look in the mirror and say: "My parents are still alive."
 * Oh my mind is all made up, So I have to sleep in it.

Cowboy Dan

 * Everytime you think you're walking you're just moving the ground Everytime you think you're talking you're just moving your mouth Everytime you think you're looking you're just looking...down
 * He drove to the desert, fired his rifle in the sky And said, "God if I have to die then you will have to die."
 * Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene He goes to the reservation drinks and gets mean I didn't move to the city, the city moved to me And I want out desperately
 * Cowboy Dan's a major player in the Cowboy scene, He goes to the reservation, drinks and gets mean, He's gonna start a war.
 * He hops into his pickup, puts the pedal to the floor, And says: "I got mine, but I want more!"
 * Can't do it, even if your sober, Can't get that engine turned over!
 * Standing in the tall grass, Thinking nothing, You know we need oxygen to breath.

Trailer Trash

 * Eating snowflakes with plastic forks, And a paper plate of course: You think of everything.
 * And it's been a long time which agrees with this watch of mine and I guess that I missed you and I'm sorry if I dissed you.
 * God damn, I hope I can pass high school means nothing
 * Short love, with a long divorce, And a couple of kids of course, They don't mean anything.
 * Taking heartache with hard work, God damn I am such a jerk, I can't do anything.
 * And I shout that your all fakes, And you should have seen the look on your face. And I guess that's what it takes, When comparing your bellyaches.

Out of Gas

 * I had a drink the other day Opinions were like kittens I was giving them away

Long Distance Drunk

 * Hang it up now or never, Hang it up again.
 * Doesn't seem like anything your saying or doing or doing, Is making any sense.
 * (8 a.m in the morning, and someone calls you on the telephone) Long Distance Drunk (You want to be by your self and all alone) Long Distance Drunk

Shit Luck

 * This plane is definitely crashing
 * This boat is obviously sinking
 * This building's totally burning down
 * And my heart is slowly drying up

Trucker's Atlas

 * I don't feel and it feels great
 * I'm going to Colorado to unload my head. I'm going to New York City and that's in New York, friends.

Polar Opposites

 * Polar Opposites don't push away, It's the same on the weekends, as the rest of the days.
 * And I know I should go but I will probably stay, And that's all you can do about somethings.
 * I'm trying, I'm trying to, Drink away the part of the day, that I cannot sleep away.
 * These vibrations oil its teeth, Primer grey is the color, when your done dying.

Bankrupt On Selling

 * Well, I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words, And I'll talk real loud, Goddamn right, I'll be heard. You'll remember that guy who said all those big words he must've Learned in college.
 * Well, all the apostles, they're sittin' in swings Saying, "I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings And some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era."
 * And all of the angels, they'd sell of your soul, For a set of new wings, and anything gold, They remember the people the loved, their old friends, And I've seen through them all, Seen through most everything.
 * All the people you knew, were the actors.

Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice, Alright

 * Well, all's not well, But I'm told that it'll all be quite nice You'll be drowned in boots like mafia But your feet'll still float like Christ Well, I'll be damned, They were right. I'm drowning upside down My feet afloat like Christ
 * God takes care of himself, and you of you.
 * Well some guy comes in lookin' a bit like everyone I ever seen he moves just like crisco disco breath 100% Listerine, And he says looking at someone else but directing everything to me "Anytime anyone gets on their knees and prays, Well, it makes my telephone ring!" Well, I'll be damned. He said, "You were right, no one's running this whole thing."

Paper Thin Walls

 * It's been agreed the whole world stinks, so no one's taking showers anymore.

 * Everyones a voyuerist They're watching me watch them watch me right now.

I Came As a Rat

 * I came as ice, I came as a whore I came as advice that came too short I came as gold, I came as crap I came clean and I came as a Rat

 * I came as a call, I came as flat I came too soon so I came back I came as flowers, I came as nice I came as dirt and I came as its price

 * It takes a long time, but God dies too, But not before he'll stick it to you. I don't know, but I been told You never die and you never grow old.

Alone down There

 * You can't see anything well. You ask me what size it is, not what I sell.

 * The Devil's apprentice, he gave me some credit. He fed me a line and I'll probably regret it.

A Different City

 * I wanna remember to remember to forget you forgot me.

 * They gave me a receipt that said I didn't buy nothing.

Lives

 * If I had a nickel, For every damn dime, I'd have half the time, Do you mind?

 * My Hell comes from inside, Comes from inside myself. Why... fight... this?

 * Everyone is afraid of their own lives. If you could be anything you want, I'd bet You'd be disappointed. Am I right?

 * It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember we're alive for the first time. It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember we're alive for the last time. It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember to live before you die. It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember that our lives are such a short time. It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember when it takes such a long time . It's hard to remember...

 * If you knew everything they thought, I bet that you'd wish that they'd just shut up.

 * God is a woman, and my mom she is a witch. I...like...this.

Perfect Disguise

 * 'Cause you cocked your head to shoot me down, And I don't give a damn about you or this town No more.

 * 'You need me to fall down so you can climb up, Some fool ass ladder, well good luck I hope, I hope there is something better up there

3rd Planet

 * The 3rd Planet is sure that they're being watched By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped And when you get to the promised land, You're gonna shake that eye's hand.

 * Your heart felt good It was drippin' pitch and made of wood

 * And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me Outside naked, shiverin' looking blue, from the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon

 * And a third had just been found, Another ocean on the planet, given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, And how.

 * The Universe is shaped exactly like the earth If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were

What People Are Made Of

 * By then it was too late and you wound up on an island of shells and bones that bodies had left.

 * And the one thing you taught me about human beings was this: They ain't made of nothin' but water and shit!

The Stars Are Projecters
The stars are projectors, yeah Projectin' our minds down to this planet Earth Everyone wants a double feature They wanna be their own damn teacher, and how All the stars are projectors, yeah

 * God is a woman and a woman is An animal that animal's man, and that's you

It's built on findin' the easier ways through
 * Well right wing, left wing, chicken wing!

Was there a need for creation? That was hidden in a math equation And that's this: WHERE DO CIRCLES BEGIN?

Wild Pack of Family Dogs

 * A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard one day My father got his gun, shot it up, they ran away ok

 * A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard And as my own dog ran away with them, I didn't say much of anything at all

 * A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard As my little sister played, the dogs took her away And I guess she was eaten up ok, yeah she was eaten up ok

 * My dad he quit his job today, well I guess he was fired but that's ok

Life Like Weeds

 * ...And in the places you go you'll see the place where you're from I could have told you all that i loved you ...And in the faces you meet, you'll see the place where you'll die I could have told you all that i loved you ...And on the day that you die, you'll see the people you met I could have told you all that i loved you ...And in the faces you see, you'll see just who you've been

 * All this talking all the time and the air fills up, up, up Until there's nothing left to breathe Up until there's nothing left to speak Up into the better parts of space

Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
I'm gonna' hit you on the face, I'm gonna' punch you in your glasses. Oh no! I just got a message that said "Yeah, hell is freezin' over." I Got a phone call from the Lord sayin', "Hey boy get a sweater. Right now." So we're drinkin', drinkin', drinkin', drinkin', coca-coca-cola I can feel it rollin' right on down, oh right on down my throat
 * We're goin' down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes

 * Does anybody know a way that a body could get away?

Our hearts pump dust and our hairs all grey
 * I'm wearin' myself a t-shirt that says "The world is my ashtray"

Black Cadillacs

 * I didn't die and I ain't complainin', I ain't blamin' you. I didn't know that the words you said to me meant more to me than they ever could you.

 * We named our children after towns that we've never been to

 * I got the time, I got the hours, I got the days, I got the weeks. I could say to myself I've got the words but I can't speak.

 * It's true, we named our children after towns, that we've never been to, and it's true that the clouds just hung around, like black cadillacs outside the funeral, and we were laughing at the stars, while our feet clung tight to the ground, so pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns

Blame it on the Tetons

 * All them eager actors gladly taking credit for the lines created by the people tucked away from sight is just a window from the room we're bound to.

 * If you find a way out, oh, would you just let me know how.

 * Oh we mumble loudly, wear our shame so proudly. Wore our blank expressions, trying to look interesting.

 * Blame it on the web but the spider's your problem now.

 * Language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in. Great for solving problems, after it creates a problem.

 * Everyone's an ocean drowning with no one really to show how. They might get a little better air if they turned themselves into a cloud.

Bukowski

 * Well all that icing and all that cake, I can't make it to your wedding, but I'm sure I'll be at your wake. You were talk, talk, talk, talkin' in circles that day, When you get to the point make sure that I'm still awake, okay?

 * If God controls the land and disease Keeps a watchful eye on me, If he's really so damn almighty, Well, my problem is I can't see Well, who would wanna be... Who would wanna be such a control freak?

 * If God takes life he's an Indian Giver.

 * Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all. Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all. Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall. But one time out of ten, everything is perfect for us all. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall. Here we go...

Bury Me With it

 * We were shootin' at a mound of dirt. Well nothing was broken, nothing was hurt. But I probably really should have been at work.

 * Well fads they come and fads they go and God I love that rock and roll Well, the point was fast, but it was too blunt to miss. Life handed us a paycheck and we said, "we worked harder than this!"

 * We are humming birds who've lost the plot and we will not move... And there's good news for people who love bad news.

 * We were aimin' for the moon, we were shootin' for the stars But the kids were just shootin' at the buses and the cars! So don't drink the water, Don't you breath the air, And if it's gotten to that point then i have to declare PLEASE, Bury Me With It

Float On

 * I backed my car into a cop car the other day, Well he just drove on, sometimes life's okay. I ran my mouth off a bit too much, but what can I say, Well you just laughed it off, it was all okay.

 * All right all ready we'll all float on, we'll all float on

 * All right all ready we'll all float on, we'll all float okay

The Good Times Are Killing Me

 * Got dirt, got air, got water and I know you can carry on.

 * Jaws clenched tight, we talked all night long -- but what the hell did we say?

 * Fed up with all that LSD; need more sleep than coke or methamphetamines.

The World At Large

 * If the world's at large, why should I remain?

 * Went to the porch, to have a thought Got to the door and again I couldn't stop

 * Well uh-uh baby, I ain't got no plan We'll float on maybe would you understand? Gonna float on maybe would you undersand? Well float on maybe would you understand?

I like the autumn but this place is getting old.
 * The days get shorter and the nights get cold.

I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.
 * The days get longer and the nights smell green.

 * I like songs about drifters- books about the same. They both seem to make me feel a little less insane

 * I know that starting over's not what life's about. But my thoughts were so loud i couldn't hear my mouth.

The View

 * If life's not beautiful without the pain, Well, I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again. Well, as life gets longer, Awful feels softer. Well, it feels pretty soft to me. And if it takes shit to make bliss, then i feel pretty blissfully.

The Ocean Breathes Salty

 * The more we move ahead, the more we're stuck in rewind. Well, I don't mind, I don't mind, How the Hell could I mind?

 * Well that is that and this is this. You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get. You get away from me. You get away from me. Collected my belongings and I left the jail. Well, thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell. I had to think a while. I had to think a while.

Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed, when the ocean met the sky. You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye. When the earth folded in on itself. And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath." You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?
 * Well that is that and this is this.

 * You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?

Satin In A Coffin

 * Now the blow's been softened Since we are our own damn coffins. Well, everybody's talkin' 'bout their short list, And everybody's talkin' 'bout death! You were layin' on the carpet Like you're satin in a coffin. You said, "Do you believe what you're sayin'?" "Yeah, right now, but not that often." Are you dead or are you sleepin'? Are you dead or are you sleepin'? Are you dead or are you sleepin'? God, I sure hope you are dead.

This Devil's Workday

 * I could buy myself a reason,I could sell myself a job, I could hang myself for treason, oh i am my own dear god Ah-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha

 * Gonna take this sack of puppies, Gonna set it out to freeze Gonna climb around on all fours 'til all the blood falls out my knees.

 * Well let's take this potted plant, To the woods and set it free I'm gonna tell the owners, Just how nice that was of me.

March Into The Sea

 * If food needed pleasing you'd suck all the seasoning off.

 * Bang your head like a gong cause you call it all wrong Move Your Tongue! Klang Klang, Klang Klang, Klang KLAAA-AAAAANG!

 * Drag me out of the sea and then teach me to breath Give me forced health 'til i wish death on myself Give me forced health 'til i wish death on myself Ah-ha-ha, Ah-boners

 * Treat me like disease, like the rats and fleas!

Dashboard

 * Well it woulda' been, coulda' been worse than you would ever know. Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still have the radio.

 * Well, you told me about nowhere well it sounds like someplace I'd like to go.

 * Well, the windshield was broken but I love the fresh air you know.

 * I heard the world don't like us, it'll shake us just like we were a co-o-o-o-old.

 * We've yet to crash, but we shall might as well enjoy it.

 * I just wanted to catch the last laugh of the show.

Even needs have needs Tiny giants made of tinier giants
 * Hard wired to conceive so much we had to stow it

 * The car was on blocks, but i was already where i want.

Fire It Up

 * Have a drink, you've had enough.

Grabbed a book and read the cover.
 * Oh we ate all of the oranges off the navels of our lovers

Like trying to hide the daylight from the sun
 * It honestly was beautifully done

Like trying to save an ice cube from the cold
 * It honestly was beautifully bold

Florida
Wasn't far enough
 * Far enough, far enough

 * It was always worth it, that's the part I seem to hide.

Parting Of The Sensory

 * This fit like clothes made out of wasps. Oh, fuck it, I guess I lost

 * Some day you will die and somehow something's going to steal your carbon.

 * A life long walk to the same exact spot.

 * We placed our chips in all the right spots, but still lost.

 * Someday something will die and somehow you'll figure out how often you will die.

Missed The Boat
Saying, "Yes, this is a fine promotion."
 * Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell.

Than the sound of life's sweet bells
 * We've listened more to life's end gong

So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
 * All our favorites were playing

 * We finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat.

 * Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam.

I assume as much for other people.
 * Oh, and I know this of myself,

Fly Trapped In A Jar
So not a single one of us will ever leave town, here we go sir!
 * Well I hadn't noticed but the people really noticed that they didn't really want us around,

They were laid for fifteen yards, Well two feet above each of our heads was a fly trapped in a jar.
 * Our bodies were laid out,

Little Motel
and I know that I don't want to be out to drift.
 * We treat mishaps like sinking ships

and they both tell me that we're better than this.
 * Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips

and I'm very sorry.
 * I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips

Landed directly on our broke down little car before then we had made a wish That we would be missed If one another just did not exist
 * It rained and its over a shooting star

 * That's what we're waiting for, aren't we?

Spitting Venom
Well looking what direction and waiting for a train and thought over, it's all over.
 * Well we went downtown and we sat in the rain

 * So we carried all the groceries in while hauling out the trash.

 * Hold on to what you need We've got a knack for Fucked up History

 * I don't know who kept track, I didn't know there was a score But it looks like you're the winner,I ain't gonna play no more Its over...Game Over!

 * It takes more then one person to decide what's fair.

 * Cheer up baby, it wasn't always quite so bad for every bit of venom that came out the antidote was had

Interstate 8
Wind up anger with an endless view of the ground's colorful patchwork How have you been?
 * You go out like a riptide You know that a ball has no sides you're an angel with an amber halo black hair and the Devil's pitchfork

 * I'm on a road shaped like a figure eight I'm going nowhere but I'm guaranteed to be late

Baby Blue Sedan

 * And it's hard to be a human And it's harder as anything else. And I'm lonesome when you're around. And I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself.
 * Henry, you dance like a wooden indian.

Never Ending Math Equation

 * Oh my god, I've got to, got to, got to, got to move on. Where do you move when what you're movin' from, Is yourself?

 * The universe works on a math equation that never even ever really even ends in the end...

 * And the plants and the animals eat each other.

Other People's Lives

 * Well, I'm fed up and I need to go Out of existence or just down the road Forever.

 * Other People's Lives seem more interestin' 'cause they ain't mine.
 * Out of Gas, Out of road, out of car, out of everything at last.

All Nite Diner

 * The sign said triple-x, but they were talkin' 'bout root-beer.

 * This is what he said, "When I have sex, I'm always thinkin' 'bout the pavement So I can avoid premature ejaculation." I got up remembering to thank him Better things to do, so I'll start drinkin' now

Life of Arctic Sounds

 * I wrote my name on the sun! Hey, alright, I might be goddamned. A life of arctic sounds. Hey, alright, I might be goddamned. All the sad comedians... Hey, alright, I might be goddamned.

Workin' on Leavin' the Livin
In heaven everything's alright In heaven everything is fine

Workin' on livin' I'm workin' on leavin' I'm workin' on leavin' the livin'

I loved you more than ever you loved more than anything loved everything more than anything

I'm workin' on drinkin' I'm workin' on drivin' I'm workin' on drivin' my drinks Workin' on livin' I'm workin' on leavin' I'm workin' on leavin' the livin'

In heaven everything's alright In heaven everything is fine

Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative)
I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight I haven't hung out with anyone and if I did, I'd have nothin to say
 * I didn't go to work for a month

Four Fingered Fisherman

 * It's weeds pulling weeds and you're blaming yourself OK, we're all indifferent in our own way.

Think long

 * Sit and think for a while and you'll realize that you just still die. If you're not thinking at all I'm not sure why you're alive.

Worms Vs. Birds

 * You can see that we don't have to get along. Self-pity me, so pitiful You can see that birds and worms do not agree.

Point A to Point B

 * Point A to point B, Oh I know lots of points with no points in between for me so lonely but never alone I know I'm at my house but i wish that I was at home.

Here It Comes
Here it comes
 * Make a point to make no sense Here it comes Speak about the future in the past tense

You're the Good Things

 * You're the icing On the cake On the table At my wake.

Willful Suspension of Disbelief

 * You could keep diggin' down and down A thousand graves down, Without turnin' 'round or findin' Hell You find you're diggin' up again.
 * Every will, every will, every will oh every will is a suspension of disbelief.

3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters

 * It looked like we were photographed At gunpoint, so I had to laugh.
 * I don't know, but I've been told; You'll never die and you'll never grow old.
 * I guessed you guessed that I'd catch hell, I guessed you guessed that I'd catch hell, I just caught a cold but now I'm feeling well. Aha.
 * You said 'I hope you'll live forever', 'Don't you wish that on me' You said 'Don't be clever.' Aha.

Night On The Sun

 * Well, there's one thing to know about this town, It's 500 miles underground. and that's alright.

 * Well, there's one thing to know about this town, Not a person doesn't want me underground. and that's alright.

 * You're hopelessly hopeless, I hope so, for you.

 * Eat my own blood and get filled up on it.

 * There's one thing thing to now about this Earth, we're just here to make more dirt

Guilty Cocker Spaniels

 * The truth is stopped and the skyline rose, Exchanging comfort for more fashionable clothes

 * Guilty cocker spaniels eating table scraps, Well we rolled over, how our master clapped It felt so good, we wanted more of that

 * Blame me so blameless, Can we find a way to blame our way out

Autumn Beds

 * As sure as clocks are bleeding time, We'll show up early just to wait in line

 * As sure as lead sinks we're the same, We're just more laundry that they need to hang

 * We won't be sleeping, We won't be sleeping, We won't be sleeping, We won't be sleeping, We Won't be sleeping in our Autumn Beds

History Sticks To Your Feet
At the movies, eyes iced over Walking sideways, through the gutters And you realize that the floor sticks to your feet like history Don't you look at me like life don't hold you any mystery Bag of splinters boiling over, on your back expose your belly Optimism doesn't change the facts, just what you're gonna see

Like it was stated that we're walking salt and coal Plants solidify sunshine; how this started, I don't know Causing feet and entire chain shoe stores The sun's diary pulled up from deep canary holes And when we read it, our skin, it becomes warm

At the movies, eyes iced over Walking sideways, through the gutters And you realize that the floor sticks to your feet, your history I'm gonna slap that look off your face like life don't hold you no mystery All those red marks on our shoulders Self back patting, homemade trophies Well the past only exists as tiny bricks we burn to release all its memories I've had enough with rolling boulders, I want more moss on me

Clocks to splinters but time goes forward And when them tree drop leaves your feet collect their memories I guess all us snakes find our tails pretty damn tasty!!

I heard you mention we're walking salt and coal Plants solidify sunshine; how this started, I don't know Causing feet and entire chain shoe stores The sun's diary pulled up from deep canary holes And when we read it, our skin, it becomes warm

At the movies, eyes iced over Walking sideways, through the gutters And you realize that the floor sticks to your feet, your history I'm gonna knock that look off your face like life don't hold you no mystery.

The Whale Song

 * I guess i am a scout, So i should find a way out So everyone could find a way out

 * They Keep us in, to pull us out, I'm rising up, wish i was sinking down.

 * I know i was a scout, I Should've found a way out, so everyone could find a way out

 * instead of seeing a neighbor out, god i wish i would've found a way out, It's the last time we were happy ever happy

Perpetual Motion Machine

 * We all try harder as the days run out

 * With your teeth to your lips and your hair to the ground, Well you hear the fish and they're making this sound

Satellite Skin

 * Well how the heck did you think you could beat them at the same time that you're tryin to be them?

 * Just to tell you i could not have seen through the gist of those unhappy happy accidents.

King Rat

 * Even Crooks have to pay the rent.

 * We took all that we could carry but we tried to carry more.

 * We choked on street tap water Well, gonna have to try the real thing

 * We laughed about payin' rent cause the county jails, they're free

 * I went down like a rag doll rage, Child
 * [...] I went down like a rag doll, kicked by a child

 * Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again I hardly knew, i should use my feet again

I've Got It All (Most)

 * I can't hear you, I can't hear you talk about your dreams involving me. And I don't believe, I don't believe that they are any sort of prophecy at all.

 * Tell your gods I want to speak to their fathers.

 * I've got it all... most.

 * How consistent. How can some so consistently mess up as much as every instance. How can someone inconsistent mess up so consistently.

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Phantom Lady (film)

Phantom Lady is a 1944 film noir about a beautiful secretary who risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.
 * Directed by Robert Siodmak. Written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld, based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich.

The most talked about mystery in ten years!taglines

Jack Marlow

 * What a place. I can feel the rats in the wall.

Dialogue

 * Cliff Milburn: You and I are going to have fun tonight, Jeannie! You like jive?
 * Carol Richman: You bet! I'm a hep kitten!

 * [Carol 'Kansas' Richman listens to a message left on a dictaphone machine]
 * Scott Henderson: Hello, Kansas. Renew my membership to the Architects and Engineers Association and call Mason and Follett, the contractors, and make an appointment with them for tomorrow morning.
 * [Carol begins to hang up the dictaphone's sound tube]
 * Scott Henderson: Uh, uh, uh, don't hang up. You know you're having dinner with me tonight, and tomorrow night, and the next night, and then every night.
 * [dictaphone skips and repeats end of message]
 * Scott Henderson: ... every night... every night... every night.

Taglines

 * The most talked about mystery in ten years!
 * IT'S UNIQUE...suspense...mystery...drama!
 * A STORY THAT HAS THRILLED MILLIONS!

Cast

 * Franchot Tone - Jack Marlow
 * Ella Raines - Carol "Kansas" Richman
 * Alan Curtis - Scott Henderson
 * Aurora Miranda - Estela Monteiro (as Aurora)
 * Thomas Gomez - Inspector Burgess
 * Fay Helm - Ann Terry
 * Elisha Cook, Jr. - Cliff Milburn
 * Andrew Tombes - Bartender (Mac)
 * Regis Toomey - Detective (Chewing Gum)
 * Joseph Crehan - Detective (Tom)
 * Virginia Brissac - Dr. Chase
 * Milburn Stone - voice of District Attorney
 * Doris Lloyd - Kettisha

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George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer.

Quotes

 * Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
 * George Raft explaining how he spent a $10 million fortune.
 * Quoted in Mardy Grothe, Viva la repartee: clever comebacks and witty retorts from history's great wits and wordsmiths (2005), page 83

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, DCMG (born Angelina Jolie Voight on 4 June 1975) is an American film actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She is the daughter of Jon Voight.

2006

 * These problems do not disappear just because we do not hear about them. There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us about the top stories we do hear. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves.... What is the problem? Where is it? How can we help to solve it?
 * Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador (2006)

 * It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.
 * "UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt make holiday visit to Colombian refugees in Costa Rica" (25 December 2006)

2007

 * I was horrified by the attacks against her, [but] Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born. In that country, there isn't really a legal framework for adopting. Personally, I prefer to stay on the side of the law.
 * "Jolie shocked by Madonna attacks" Reuters report, via CNN.com (8 January 2007)

 * I was a member of a group called the Kissy Girls. I was very sexual in kindergarten. I created a game where I would kiss the boys and give them cooties. Then we would make out and we would take our clothes off. I got in a lot of trouble!
 * 19 April 2007 interview with Irish Examiner

 * “Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add to the person you become.”

 *

 * “If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.”

 *

 * “Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.”

 *

 * If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.

 *

 * "Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."

 *

 * You’d think, ‘What if I make a mistake today, I’ll regret it’. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

 *

 * Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

 *

 * "The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop,"

 *

 * “It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict… There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex — everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children.”

 *

 * "Every day we chose who we are by how we define ourselves."

 *

 * "It's not going to accomplish anything to cry."

 *

 * "Figure out who you are separate from your family and the man or woman you're in a relationship with, Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else."

 *

 * . “I’ve realized that being happy is a choice.  You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy.”

 *

 * We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

 *

 * “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.”

 *

 * “Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.”

 *

 * We want to help young people to identify who or what is blocking them from accessing their human rights, and how to try to overcome that. The message to young people is, no one has the right to harm you, to silence you.

 *

 * "Know Your Rights And Claim Them"
 *
 * I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause
 * https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/angelina_jolie_167244
 * “My body reacts very strongly to stress
 * she said, as shel
 * “Brad will continue to respond in court as he has consistently done,” she added.
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-divorce-bells-palsy-b2466173.html

About Angelina Jolie

 * Since her appointment as a Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina has more than fulfilled my expectations. She has proven to be a close partner and a genuine colleague in our efforts to find solutions for the world’s refugees. Above all, she has helped to make the tragedy of refugees real to everyone who will listen. Angelina’s interest in helping refugees, her personal generosity, and her truly compassionate spirit are an inspiration to us all.
 * Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador, Foreward (2006)

 * … an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.
 * Ann Hornaday, "Action figure: Angelina Jolie is out to prove she's an actress worth her 'Salt'", page 2, WashingtonPost.com, July 22, 2010

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, journalist and activist. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.
 * See also:
 * Love in the Time of Cholera
 * One Hundred Years of Solitude

Quotes

 * ...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ...
 * translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa

 * Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
 * Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), trans. Gregory Rabassa [Ballantine, 1984, ISBN 0-345-31002-0], p. 47

 * Since the appearance of visible life on Earth, 380 million years had to elapse in order for a butterfly to learn how to fly; 180 million years to create a rose with no other commitment than to be beautiful; and four geological eras in order for us human beings to be able to sing better than birds, and to be able to die from love. It is not honorable for the human talent, in the golden age of science, to have conceived the way for such an ancient and colossal process to return to the nothingness from which it came through the simple act of pushing a button.
 * Speaking of nuclear weapons in “The Cataclysm of Damocles” (1986)

On a day like today, my master William Faulkner said, "I decline to accept the end of man." I would fall unworthy of standing in this place that was his, if I were not fully aware that the colossal tragedy he refused to recognize thirty-two years ago is now, for the first time since the beginning of humanity, nothing more than a simple scientific possiblity. Faced with this awesome reality that must have seemed a mere utopia through all of human time, we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia. A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth.
 * The most prosperous countries have succeeded in accumulating powers of destruction such as to annihilate, a hundred times over, not only all the human beings that have existed to this day, but also the totality of all living beings that have ever drawn breath on this planet of misfortune.
 * Nobel lecture (8 December 1982)

The Paris Review interview (1981)

 * The Art of Fiction, #69: Interview with Peter H. Stone in The Paris Review, Issue 82 (Winter 1981); later published in The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Sixth Series (Viking/Penguin, 1984, ISBN 0-140-07736-7

 * It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
 * p. 322

 * In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
 * p. 322

García Márquez: That's a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will probably believe you.
 * Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have picked up from journalism?
 * p. 324

 * Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
 * p. 325

 * I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
 * p. 336

 * A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. I don't really like to say this because it never sounds sincere, but I would really have liked for my books to have been published after my death, so I wouldn't have to go through all this business of fame and being a great writer. In my case, the only advantage to fame is that I have been able to give it a political use. Otherwise, it is quite uncomfortable. The problem is that you're famous for twenty-four hours a day, and you can't say, "Okay, I won't be famous until tomorrow," or press a button and say, "I won't be famous here or now."
 * p. 337

 * I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
 * p. 338

 * I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.
 * p. 339

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

 * Vivir para contarla as translated by Edith Grossman (2004), Vintage International. ISBN 1-4000-3454-X

 * Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

 * Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...

 * Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.

 * Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you.

 * Children's lies are signs of great talent.

 * But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor.

 * It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so well and loved each other so much.

 * From the time they turned one they were tossed from the balconies of the kitchens, first with life preserves so they would lose their fear of the water, and then without life preservers so they would lose their respect for death.

 * "There are no two men in this world more similar than you and him," she told me. "And that's the worst thing for having a conversation."

 * … no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.

 * … nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.

 * … my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.

 * Because for you, quitting smoking would be like killing someone you love.

 * Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

 * I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.

 * … for an instant I thought about stopping the cab to say goodbye, but I preferred not to defy again a destiny as uncertain and persistent as mine.

Quotes about Gabriel García Márquez

 * For the majority of readers, Latin American fantastic literature operates under the tutelage of the great masters: Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez. However, although few are acquainted with their works, many women began experimenting with this genre well before their male counterparts and were the true precursors of the form, though their names remained on the shelves of oblivion, without the recognition that they deserved. María Luisa Bombal, for example, wrote the fantastic nouvelle, House of Mist (1937) before the famous Ficciones (1944) of Borges, and the Mexican, Elena Garro, wrote Remembrance of Things to Come (1962) before the publication of García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967).
 * Marjorie Agosín "Reflections on the Fantastic" Translated from the Spanish by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman. In Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Women Writers of Argentina and Chile (1992)

 * I had already read One-hundred Years of Solitude when I was in college, probably because that was when it was translated into English. I sent a copy in Spanish to my parents, saying, “Look this is just like our family stories!” And they said, “Yes, this is like our story-telling tradition.”
 * Kathleen Alcalá Interview (2021)

 * I belong to the first generation of Latin American writers brought up reading other Latin American writers. Before my time the work of Latin American writers was not well distributed, even on our continent. In Chile it was very hard to read other writers from Latin America. My greatest influences have been all the great writers of the Latin American Boom in literature: García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Borges, Paz, Rulfo, Amado, etc.
 * Isabel Allende Interview

 * One of the first people I read was García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude when I was about nineteen or eighteen. And Julio Cortázar. I read all of Jorge Amado. I can tell you I read everybody and everything. And they would drive me nuts! But I was compelled to it. I was driven to the mechanics of what they were doing.
 * Ana Castillo 1991 interview in Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers edited by Hector A. Torres (2007)

 * (When did you notice this change with publishers-when they finally started publishing Latinos?) JOC: I think it was a couple of years after Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize and the so-called Latino boom began. All of a sudden people said, "Hey, these guys may have something important to say."
 * Judith Ortiz Cofer, interview (2000) in A Poet's Truth: Conversations with Latino/Latina Poets

 * Puerto Rico, like all the countries of the Caribbean, is a nation where fantastic reality, the world of magic, is ever present. There are various sects of white magic, such as Santeria. It is a reality that is very palpable in our environment, and this is why there are no great differences between fantasy and reality. This is also true in the work of writers like García Márquez, whom I consider a Caribbean writer because Aracataca, which is the setting for the imaginary Macondo, is in the Caribbean. All Caribbean writers have this in common.
 * Rosario Ferré Interviews with Latin American Writers by Gazarian Gautier (1988)

 * Such a lovely man.
 * Nadine Gordimer Interview (2004)

 * They thought Gabriel García Márquez's would be the way, because of his richness, because his work can be multilayer. He can use the Indian past and the Catholic-Spanish heritage. Keep it all. You don't have to cut that out, cut this out.
 * 1989 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)

 * Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Gabriel García Márquez. They’ve all been major influences on my work.
 * Erika Sánchez interview (2022)

 * In One Hundred Years of Solitude,/Márquez wrote that we are birthed/by our mothers only once, but life obligates/us to give birth/to ourselves over and over.
 * Erika Sánchez in the poem "Amá"

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Duke Nukem 3D quotes
It is NOT "excessive quotes"! It is COMPLETE quotes. If you DON'T UNDERSTAND that people add it anyway - that is your problem. I add it with sound file references for proof that is a really quote from DN3D and not for any other game (i.e. you can listen sound file by yourself). So, your action of revert this article is vandalism. Because people like you Wiki is so poor. I won't add quotes anymore - if you want to restore it - DO IT BY YOURSELF! --Angry_User 26 April 2007

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Hi, thank you for your participation for maintainance work. As for re-tagging of delete, my recommendation is listing them on WQ:VFD for routine deletion rather than simple re-tagging. Even the result seem the same, in the latter case you can make it sure that your judgement matchs the community consensus. If someone who don't know those themes closely finds your reversions, he might fail to think you are involved into an edit war. It might be not a good reputation for you in my opinion. Thanks. --Aphaia 1 July 2005 09:26 (UTC)
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Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was a British actor, comedian and musician. He first came to attention in the revue Beyond the Fringe.

Quotes

 * It seems that a lot of people, who haven’t known of me as a pianist, think I’ve just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what’s happened now.
 * Interview in Crescendo (London, July and August 1966), as reproduced on the Jazz Professional website

 * Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.
 * Interview, The Independent (14 October 1995).
 * Bennett, Cook and Miller were the other members of the Beyond the Fringe team.

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Talk:Reinhold Niebuhr

Whoever wrote this webpage - why don't you correct Mr. Niebuhr's name. It is twice written incorrectly - his name is spelled:

N I E B U H R

thanks

 * Thank you for your notice. I fixed two typographical errors, and hope all is right now. By the way, you can edit and fix them also, because everyone can edit this site; it belonged to the things you can change ;-)

 * Cheers and hope your visit again, --Aphaia 20:33, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The first version of the Serenity Prayer set forth here, the so-called "long version," is described here as dating from c. 1942. That is a completely unfounded dating. The "long version" is much later and has nothing to do with Niebuhr. It is also completely wrong to describe this as the "original" version. Fred Shapiro has documented the Serenity Prayer back to 1933, with none of the early versions having anything like the extra text of the "long version."

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Richard Menta

Richard Menta, Columnist. Author of the MentaNet News

Quotes from the MP3 Newswire

 * As the largest grassroots effort in the history of the world, file trading is essentially the average person's way of saying we don't agree with the status quo.
 * Source RIAA and MPAA sue Morpheus, Grokster and KaZaa - 10/03/2001
 * The world is filled with millions of 17, 19 and 21 year olds with the necessary programming skills, no day job yet, and a passion to create. Think of the Internet as the great egalitarian environment where multi-billion dollar conglomerates are regularly out-maneuvered by the efforts of individuals.
 * Source MP3: You Can't Catch Me - 6/16/2000
 * When the motto for the year 2001 is "Innovation Followed by Litigation" you know who the biggest winners are - the lawyers.
 * Source MP3 2001 in Review: The Winners - 12/31/2001
 * Source - The phrase "Innovation Followed by Litigation" was coined in the May 2001 MP3 Newswire article MusicNet and Duet: downloads expire after 30 days
 * When someone asks me where MP3 Newswire stands with regards to file trading (or piracy as some try to call it) I tell them that we support the growth of this notion of an online music industry. One that uses technology to bring us more music, broadening our pallettes while leveraging the Net to reduce distribution costs. The music can be paid for like CDs and tape or it can be free to its audience and supported by advertising like radio and MTV are. Whatever the model, the point is online music easily can and does supplement what we already purchase in the stores.
 * Source Three Lawsuits and a Funeral - 11/30/2001
 * The flaw of target marketing is that it assumes people are indifferent to variety. Suburban white boys won't listen to Rap because supposedly they can't relate to urban black youths hopping around to all beat and no melody. What we get is music segregation on the airwaves and the record racks.
 * Source Three Lawsuits and a Funeral - 11/30/2001
 * What seems to most balance out the major music labels resistance to the MP3 explosion is the fact that their own artists are ahead of the curve.
 * Source They Might Be Giants release First MP3 Only Album - 1999
 * The image of rock and roll since Elvis has ranged from teen rebellion to challenging of the status quo. It represented freedom in the 60's, but lately it represents corporate hegemony, the opposite of what hippies envisioned at Woodstock. The RIAA to many consumers today symbolizes oppression, oppression of both artist and consumer.
 * Source The RIAA Settles Fast With 12-year-old Trader - 9/10/2003
 * A more reasonable definition of an iPod Killer is not some proverbial portable that comes from the heavens and slays Apple's player in the electronic stores. Instead it is a player that itself can define proprietary standards that achieve market critical mass. Achieve this and now it is Apple that is forced to adopt (or be cut out) of a standard they themselves did not create.
 * Source Sony PSP As Personal Media Player - Review - 5/14/2005
 * DRM goes beyond protecting tracks from being traded online. It is used to lock consumers to proprietary technology. It is used to control supply and push higher prices. It is used to undermine practices we have long defined as fair use so they can be shifted to fee-based.
 * Source DRM is Like Paying for Ice - 6/25/2006
 * When you buy a song file what you are buying is not a stamped product, but permission. Permission to copy a track from a sanctioned vendor. But it is just as easy if not easier from people to copy from one another. Who needs a middle man unless they offer an added value and do it at a motivating price point?
 * Source Record Industry Digital Growth Doomed by Mechanical Rates - 10/05/2008

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Talk:Clarence Darrow

A pair of quotes for your collection the latter is from The Writers Almanac, the former's source I don't recall.

"To think is to differ." Clarence Darrow

"I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." Clarence Darrow

Charlie Wright

 * Thank you Carlie, I would like you to know you could edit the article too. I hope you would bolder in your coming visit. Thanks. --Aphaia 01:22, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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 * Even if you do learn to speak correct English, to whom are you going to speak it?

 * I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

 * I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

 * I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

 * If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

 * If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

 * Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

 * No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

 * Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

 * The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

 * The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

 * The trouble with law is lawyers.

 * There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

 * To think is to differ.

 * True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

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Talk:G. K. Chesterton

Tentative Sources
If basicincome.com is to be believed, the quote "you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." is from Daily News 25 Feb 1905
 * 68.21.181.103 01:53, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Worth Adding?
Wonder if this is worth adding.

"A thoroughly strong man swinging a sledge-hammer can tap the top of an eggshell. A weaker man swinging a sledge-hammer will break the table which it stands into pieces. Also, if he is a very weak man, he will be proud of broken the table, and call himself a strong man dowered with the destructive power of an Imperial race…"

G. K. Chesterton -from Robert Louis Stevenson (1902)
 * It would be; if we could find it in Robert Louis Stevenson. I cannot here. It does have a Chestertonian ring to it, though.--2001:A61:260C:C01:55F9:F847:E5EE:A32F 15:34, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Am I Allowed to Add/Worth Adding?
I stumbled upon some recordings of G.K. Chesterton himself, and I was wondering if I'm allowed to put them up. They can be found on Youtube. Moreover, if I am allowed to put them up, are they even worth putting up? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJjtJrvo87I

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 * 'Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture.'

 * The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

 * The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
 * Superior version, from Magic: A Fantastic Comedy:
 * I object to a quarrel because it always interrupts an argument. 205.225.192.66 22:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Images
These do not belong into an encyclopedia. They have NO INFORMATIONAL VALUE. Please remove.
 * It's a tradition of Wikiquote to include a collection of illustrations on the pages. Personally, I think that's a great idea, as it looks beautiful. 89.77.170.202 22:45, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Chesterton's quotes are, at the very least, provocative of thought, even in angry reply. I would think that that would be of great value to those who can handle the challenge of the examined life.

"Fairy tales" quotation
''What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.''

This is sourced to Tremendous Trifles; I don't own this book myself to check its correctness, but the same source is given for the quotation in Martin Gardner's Annotated Father Brown.

Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

This is given no source other than the nebulous "As quoted in Coraline (2004) by Neil Gaiman, epigraph." Unless someone can provide a source for Chesterton having written these words, I suspect this is simply Gaiman abbreviating the above quotation. 91.107.149.14 22:40, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

 * The first quote is correct, and may be found on page 130 of the 1910 edition in essay XVII, "The Red Angel". (There are several online editions of Tremendous Trifles, e.g. Project Gutenberg and Wikisource.) The earliest source I can find for the second is the attribution by Gaiman, so I share your skepticism. The attribution has been repeated fairly widely since then (even in introductions to reprints of Chesterton's works!) so I moved and annotated it as a "variant." ~ Ningauble 14:02, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

 * FWIW, Neil Gaiman addressed this on his blog. He did indeed misquote Chesterson: http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/42909304300/my-moms-a-librarian-and-planning-to-put-literary

Some additional source information
For the the following quote:

 * Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
 * Daily News, 18th February 1905

I would like to offer additional sourcing as follows -

 * as cited in G.K. Chesterton: the apostle of common sense (2003), Dale Ahlquist, Ignatius Press, p. 181 (Chapter XVI – Conclusion: Chesterton For Today) : ISBN 0898708575, 9780898708578
 * and as cited in Things Past (reprint,1979), Malcolm Muggeridge, Morrow, p. 148 : ISBN 0688034454, 9780688034450

Given the length of the main page, & near-identical source information for other quotes, I felt that the Discussion page might be a better place for the above info. CononOfSamos (talk) 16:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

The first "misattributed" quotation actually does exist: "An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to shut; they were made to open only in order to shut.” (Appears in an essay in Illustrated London News from October 10, 1908, p. 196 of his Collected Works, vol. 28, ISBN 0898701384)

Where Should I be?
Chesterton once famously sent his wife a telegram which said "am in East Norwich. Where should I be?" Include?76.64.23.104 19:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * This certainly does belong into his wikipedia article. As for quotes, I'd say: only if either it appears in a book authored by Chesterton, in an anthology of quotes of Chesterton, or, possibly, if this wikiquote article would have an "attributed quotes" section.--2001:A61:260C:C01:55F9:F847:E5EE:A32F 15:37, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Source of Quote
What is the source of the following: "Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles." I've heard it before, but I can't seem to come up with anything that sources it. It sounds like the kind of thing Chesterton would say, but I want to make sure it's legit.

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The Reptile Room

A Series of Unfortunate Events Book the Second: The Reptile Room (1999) by Lemony Snicket

Quotes
(in the dedication) For Beatrice--My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not. Page 132

Lemony Snicket: (narrating) When someone is a little bit wrong — say, when a waiter puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk — it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if someone is surpassingly wrong — say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order--you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your mouth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

Lemony Snicket: (narrating) When you were very small, perhaps someone read to you the insipid story — the word insipid here means not worth reading to someone — of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. A very dull boy, you may remember, cried Wolf! when there was no wolf, and the gullible villagers ran to rescue him only to find the whole thing was a joke. Then he cried Wolf! when it wasn't a joke, and the villagers didn't come running, and the boy was eaten and the story, thank goodness, was over. The story's moral, of course, ought to be Never live somewhere where wolves are running around loose, but whoever read you the story probably told you that the moral was not to lie. This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie. For example, it was perfectly appropriate, after Violet left the Reptile Room, for Sunny to crawl over to the cage that held the Incredibly Deadly Viper, unlatch the cage, and begin screaming as loudly as she could even though nothing was really wrong. There is another story concerning wolves that somebody has probably read to you, which is just as absurd. I am talking about Little Red Riding Hood, an extremely unpleasant little girl who, like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, insisted on intruding on the territory of dangerous animals. You will recall that the wolf, after being treated very rudely by Little Red Riding Hood, ate the little girl's grandmother and put on her clothing as a disguise. It is this aspect of the story that is the most ridiculous, because one would think that even a girl as dim-witted as Little Red Riding hood could tell in an instant the difference between her grandmother and a wolf dressed in a nightgown and fuzzy slippers. If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake. This is why as Sunny began to scream, Violet and Klaus could tell immediately tell that her scream was absolutely fake.

Lemony Snicket: (narrating) We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Lemony Snicket: (narrating) It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

Sunny Baudelaire: Aha!

Klaus Baudelaire: You know very well that I was not careless with that lamp.

Count Olaf (as Stephano): Is that clear enough for you? Now get in the damn jeep.

Mr Poe : No no no, that won't work! Uncle Monty can't drive, he's dead!

Count Olaf (as Stephano): BLASTED FURNACES OF HELL!

Mr Poe : Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

Mr Poe: It bit her! It bit her! It bited her! Calm down! Get moving! Call an ambulance! Call the police! Call a scientist! Call my wife! This is terrible! This is awful! This is ghastly! This is phantasmagorical!

Violet: If only Uncle Monty knew what we know, and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn’t know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn’t know what we know.

Klaus: I know.

Violet: I know you know, but what we don’t know is what Count Olaf—I mean Stephano—is really up to.

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A Series of Unfortunate Events (series)

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

On this page, you can choose a story to find the memorable quotes.

1. The Bad Beginning 2. The Reptile Room 3. The Wide Window 4. The Miserable Mill 5. The Austere Academy 6. The Ersatz Elevator 7. The Vile Village 8. The Hostile Hospital 9. The Carnivorous Carnival 10. The Slippery Slope 11. The Grim Grotto 12. The Penultimate Peril 13. The End Companion books: - Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography - The Beatrice Letters

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- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Les Désastreuses Aventures des orphelins Baudelaire Talihsiz Serüvenler Dizisi

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Talk:Arthur C. Clark

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Talk:LSD

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 * LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
 * Terence Mckenna

 * I didn't go looking for LSD, it came looking for me; it decided to ring my doorbell, to make its presence known... the world needs it now more than ever.
 * Dr. Albert Hofmann (15 January 2006) at age 100

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Stanley Kubrick. --Antiquary 18:38, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * "If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject you can create the consoling illusion it has been mastered."

 * "I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."

 * "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

 * "I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other, as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself."

 * "Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life."

 * "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

 * "How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001."

 * "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."

 * "I ought not to be regarded as a once happy man who has been bitten in the jugular and compelled to assume the misanthropy of a vampire." - on the complaint that his films were emotionally cold.

 * "Call it enlightened cowardice, if you like. Actually, over the years I discovered that I just didn't enjoy flying, and I became aware of compromised safety margins in commercial aviation that are never mentioned in airline advertising. So I decided I'd rather travel by sea, and take my chances with the icebergs [...] I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time but, I suppose, if I had to I would. Perhaps it's a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot's licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes."

 * "I believe Bergman, De Sica, and Fellini are the only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By this I mean they don't just sit and wait for a good story to come along and then make it. They have a point of view which is expressed over and over and over again in their films, and they themselves write or have original material written for them."

 * "Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car."

 * "Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

 * "The danger connected with any multi-faceted problem is that you might pay too much attention to some of the problems to the detriment of others, but I am very conscious of this and I make sure I don't do that."

 * "A director with a camera is as free and unrestricted as an author with a pen."

I've seen many of these quotes in interviews with Kubrick. I know that sources for some of them can be found here http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/ if someone wants to take the time to check. 50.54.224.72

Quotes about Stanley Kubrick (unsourced)

 * "We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?"
 * Paul Thomas Anderson

 * "I admire Kubrick greatly. He is often accused of being a prodigious technician and rigid intellectual, which people say makes his films very cold. I don't agree. I think that "Barry Lyndon" or "A Clockwork Orange" are the most perfect marriages of personality and subject. But in fact, "Full Metal Jacket" is even more so. It looked at rigidity and brutality with an almost clinical eye. It is, for me, a singular film about the military, about war and its consequences. The famous scenes, like the induction with R Lee Ermey where he renames the soldiers and reshapes them into sub-human maggots, had a particular impact on me. Also the suicide scene with Vincent D'Onofrio in the bathroom. And the sniper set-piece at the end. Those are absolutely virtuoso pieces of filmmaking."
 * Guillermo Del Toro

 * "I remember going with a great sense of anticipation to each new Stanley Kubrick film and thinking, "Can he pull it off and amaze me again?" And he always did. The lesson I learned from Kubrick was, never do the same thing twice."
 * James Cameron

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 cult film about three go-go dancers who embark on a spree of kidnapping and murder in the California desert.
 * Directed by Russ Meyer. Written by Russ Meyer and Jack Moran.

 Go-Go For a Wild Ride With the ACTION GIRLS!taglines

Billie

 * I'm of legal age for whiskey, voting and loving. Now the next election is two years away, and my love life ain't getting much better, so how about some of that one-hundred-percent!

 * You really should be AM and FM. You one-band broads are a drag!

 * Oh, you're cute... like a velvet glove cast in iron.

Rosie

 * Alright, you wash... now I'm gonna spin-a-dry you!

 * We don't like anything soft. Everything we do is hard.

Varla

 * I never try anything. I just do it. And I don't beat clocks, just people. Wanna try me?

 * She is The Money!

 * [to Rosie as she fumbles with a lighter] Easy baby, you're almost a fire hazard.

Kirk

 * [to Varla] You're a beautiful animal... and I'm weak, and I want you.

Narrator

 * Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence, the word and the act. While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises, its favorite mantle still remains... sex. Violence devours all it touches, its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled. Yet violence doesn't only destroy, it creates and molds as well. Let's examine closely then this dangerously evil creation, this new breed encased and contained within the supple skin of woman. The softness is there, the unmistakable smell of female, the surface shiny and silken, the body yielding yet wanton. But a word of caution: handle with care and don't drop your guard. This rapacious new breed prowls both alone and in packs, operating at any level, any time, anywhere, and with anybody. Who are they? One might be your secretary, your doctor's receptionist... or a dancer in a go-go club!

The Old Man

 * You girls a bunch of nudists, or are you just short of clothes?
 * Women! They let 'em vote, smoke and drive – even put 'em in pants! And what happens? A Democrat for president! A bunch of smoke up your chimney! Russian roulette on the highways! Can't even tell brother from sister, unless you meet 'em up close.

Dialogue

 * Gas Station Attendant: [staring at Varla's chest as he pumps gas] Just passing through, huh? Boy, that motor's sure hot! You gals really must have been moving on these little machines. Yessir, the thrill of the open road. New places, new people, new sights of interest. Now that's what I believe in, seeing America first!
 * Varla: You won't find it down there, Columbus!

 * Kirk: You are a very sick girl!
 * Varla: I was healthy enough a half hour ago or do people look different to you if they are not horizontal?

 * Tommy: Been running some timing trials?
 * Varla: We KNOW how fast WE can go. You can time that heap with an hour-glass.
 * Linda: Someone mention my figure?

 * Tommy: What's the point?
 * Varla: The point is of no return, and you've reached it!

 * The Old Man: Honey, you - uh - what you eat seems to settle in the right places. But then you look to me like a girl with a big appetite for everything.
 * Varla: I try to think big!

 * [From the climatic finale]:
 * Linda: I killed her – like she was an animal! Like she was nothing!
 * Kirk: She was nothing – nothing human!

About the movie

 * The best movie ever made, and possibly better than any movie that will ever be made.
 * John Waters

Taglines

 * Go-Go For a Wild Ride With the ACTION GIRLS!

 * Russ Meyer's ode to the violence in women

 * Superwomen! Belted, buckled and booted!

Cast

 * Tura Satana - Varla
 * Haji - Rosie
 * Lori Williams - Billie
 * Susan Bernard - Linda
 * Stuart Lancaster - the Old Man
 * Paul Trinka - Kirk
 * Dennis Busch - the Vegetable
 * Ray Barlow - Tommy
 * Mickey Foxx - the Gas Station Attendant
 * John Furlong - the Narrator

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 cult film about three girls who come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
 * Directed by Russ Meyer. Written by Roger Ebert.

This time... they've really gonetaglines

Kelly MacNamara

 * In a scene like this you get a contact-high!

 * When does ANY party start? When you get there!

 * Come on, man. I doubt if you'd recognize a hippie. I'm a capitalist, baby. I work for my living, not suck off somebody else.

Ronnie Barzell

 * [showing Kelly around the party] Observe in yon quiet corner: an island of tranquility in a sea of revelry. The languid Roxanne finds beauty, that delicate pinch of feminine spice, with which she oftens flavors her interludes. Ah, look there, Lance Rocke! Greek god and part-time actor. See how well he performs? His is a special talent. The golden hair, the bedroom eyes, the firm young body. These are the tools with which he plies his trade. All are available for a price...

 * [stumbling upon a couple having sex at his party] Glad to see my audience in such happy dalliance. Pray, let them joust in peace!

 * And you, the infamous Ashley St. Ives, high priestess of carnality, what thou think of our fair minstrels?

 * Ere this night does wane, you will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!

 * For I am Superwoman, and you have spurned her!

Casey Anderson

 * There's juice freaks, and pill freaks, and then everybody's a freak! What you need is grass or a downer or something.

Ashley St. Ives

 * You're a groovy boy. I'd like to strap you on sometime.

 * Step into my web said the spider, etcetera.

Other

 * Porter Hall: She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male, and the other two, well the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there... and furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes... reefers.

 * Petronella Danforth: Don't bogart the joint!

 * Harris Allsworth: I want it, I need it, I love it when a beautiful woman licks between my toes.

 * Randy Black : No baby, no. Not now. Just leave it. That's the trouble with people today. All uptight about tomorrow, hanging on to yesterday. It's no good, no good at all. There's only one time that counts - now, right now. If you don't live for now, why, you might as well just roll over and take the full count.

Dialogue

 * Ronnie Barzell: This is my happening and it freaks me out!
 * Casey Anderson: There's juice freaks, and pill freaks, and then everybody's a freak! What you need is grass or a downer or something.

 * Partygoer 1: You're a moonchild.
 * Partygoer 2: And you're a bitch!

 * Lance Rocke: The chick's been sleepin' with me, you got it?
 * Ronnie Barzell: Knowing you, I'm sure she has. Have you run an audit on her books yet? Or are you still... screwing on faith?

 * Porter Hall: Now as your legal advisor, I wish you'd let me handle this in my own discreet way.
 * Susan Lake: I've already seen a display of your discretion. It's reminiscent of a meat axe!

 * Ashley St. Ives: Like Sigmund Freud said, take away the guilt and who'd ever wanna get laid?
 * Harris Allsworth: Then why don't ya lay Sigmund Freud?

Cast

 * Dolly Read - Kelly MacNamara
 * Cynthia Myers - Casey Anderson
 * Marcia McBroom - Petronella Danforth
 * John LaZar - Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell
 * Michael Blodgett - Lance Rocke
 * David Gurian - Harris Allsworth
 * Edy Williams - Ashley St. Ives
 * Erica Gavin - Roxanne
 * Phyllis Davis - Susan Lake
 * Harrison Page - Emerson Thorne
 * Duncan McLeod - Porter Hall
 * James Iglehart - Randy Black
 * Charles Napier - Baxter Wolfe
 * Henry Rowland - Otto

Taglines

 * This time... they've really gone.

 * The closer they get to the top - the nearer they get to the bottom.

 * This is not a sequel. There has never been anything like it.

 * The world is fill of them, the super-octane girls who are old at twenty. If they get to be twenty.

 * The first of shock rock.

title: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls