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V. S. Pritchett

Victor Sawdon Pritchett (16 December 1900– 20 March 1997) was a British short story writer, novelist, memoirist and critic.

Quotes

 * Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.
 * As quoted in "V.S. Pritchett Himself" by Paul Theroux in The New York Times (22 May 1977)

 * It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
 * Quoted in "How Did I Do That?" by Deborah Stead, in The New York Times (24 March 1991)

 * Yes, well I had all my serious illnesses in late middle age. And now I'm just stuck, I'm afraid.
 * As quoted in "V.S. Pritchett's Century" (1990) by Martin Amis; later included in Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993) by Martin Amis, p. 265

 * I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
 * As quoted in "V.S. Pritchett's Century" (1990) by Martin Amis; later included in Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993) by Martin Amis, p. 272

London Perceived (1962)

 * Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN 0-15-652970-X

 * The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
 * Ch. 1, p. 14

 * Mass society destroys the things it is told are its inheritance. It is rarely possible to see the Abbey without being surrounded by thousands of tourists from all over the world. Like St. Peter's at Rome, it has been turned into a sinister sort of railway terminal. The aisles are as crowded as the pavements of Oxford Street or the alleys of a large shop, imagination is jostled, awe dispersed, and the mind never at rest. All great things, in our time, can only be seen in fragments, by fragmentary people.
 * Ch. 5, p. 162

Midnight Oil (1971)

 * Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
 * Vol. 2, Ch. 6

 * How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
 * Vol. 2, Ch. 10

On the Edge of the Cliff: Short Stories (1979)

 * Random House, ISBN 0-394-74047-5

 * In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it — but men were different. A man like B — like Alfie, too — never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.
 * "The Worshippers", p. 87

The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers (1979)

 * Random House, ISBN 0-394-74682-1

 * The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
 * "Boris Pasternak: Unsafe Conduct", p. 14

 * Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.
 * "Jean Genet: A Modern Nihilist", p. 102

 * The nineteenth century will colonize; so, in its fantasies, did the nineteenth century soul. When Emma [Bovary] turns spendthrift and buys curtains, carpets and hangings from the draper, the information takes on something from the theme of the novel itself: the material is a symbol of the exotic, and the exotic feeds the Romantic appetite. It will lead to satiety, bankruptcy and eventually to nihilism and the final drive towards death and nothingness.
 * "Gustave Flaubert: The Quotidian", p. 130

 * Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
 * "Jorge Luis Borges: Medallions", p. 178

The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)

 * Random House, ISBN 0-394-74683-X

 * Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
 * "Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25

 * To be identified with the public is the divine gift of the best-sellers in popular Romance and, no doubt, in popular realism. E. M. Forster once spoke of the novelist as sending down a bucket into the unconscious; the author of She installed a suction pump. He drained the whole reservoir of the public's secret desires. Critics speak of the reader suspending unbelief; the best-seller knows better; man is a believing animal.
 * "Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25

 * One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
 * "Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 28

 * On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.
 * "Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 29

 * There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
 * "Rudyard Kipling: A Pre-Raphaelite's Son", p. 36

 * Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
 * "Evelyn Waugh: Club and Country", p. 95

 * Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
 * "Evelyn Waugh: Club and Country", p. 101

 * Great artists are always far-seeing. They easily avoid the big stumbling blocks of fact. They rely on their own simplicity and vision. It is fact-fetichism that has given us those scores and scores of American books on America, the works of sociologists, anthropologists, topical "problem" hunters, working-parties and statisticians, which in the end leave us empty. Henry James succeeds because he rejects information. He was himself the only information he required.
 * "Henry James: Birth of a Hermaphrodite", p. 131

 * Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.
 * "Edmund Wilson: Towards Revolution", p. 141

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An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror-comedy film about two American tourists in England who are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
 * Written and directed by John Landis.

From the director of Animal House... comes a different kind of animal taglines

David Kessler

 * [while transforming] I didn't mean to call you a meatloaf, Jack!

Dr. J. S. Hirsch

 * If the villagers believe that Jack Goodman was killed by a werewolf, why shouldn't David? And then it follows, that if he survived an attack by a werewolf, wouldn't he himself become a werewolf at the next full moon? Oh, I don't mean running about on all fours and howling at the moon; but, in such a deranged state he might harm himself. Perhaps other people.

Dialogue

 * Jack: The Slaughtered Lamb?
 * David: Of course, The Slaughtered Lamb. Why else would they have a severed fox head on a spear as their symbol?
 * Jack: That's a wolf's head.
 * David: Of course, The Slaughtered Lamb. Why else would they have a severed wolf's head on a spear as their symbol?
 * Jack: That's not a spear. It's a pike.
 * David: A severed wolf's head on a pike as their symbol.
 * Jack: David, before we go in there I want you to know that - no matter what happens to us - it's your fault.
 * David: I assume full responsibility.
 * Jack: Okay.
 * David: Shall we?

 * [recalling what they are told in The Slaughtered Lamb]
 * David: Keep off the moors.
 * Jack: And stay on the road.
 * [they look down to see that they have wandered off the road]
 * David: Oops.

 * Jack: I vote we go back to The Slaughtered Lamb.
 * [a howl is heard in the distance]
 * Jack: Did you hear that?
 * David: I heard that.
 * Jack: What was it?
 * David: Could be a lot of things.
 * Jack: Yeah?
 * David: A coyote.
 * Jack: There aren't any coyotes in England.
 * David: The Hound of the Baskervilles.
 * Jack: Pecos Bill.
 * David: Heathcliff.
 * Jack: Heathcliff didn't howl!
 * David: No, but he was on the moors.

 * Dr. Hirsch: Did you get a good look at the man who attacked you?
 * David: I've told you, it wasn't a man. It was an animal. A big wolf or something. A rabid dog.
 * Dr. Hirsch: Yes.
 * David: Look, Dr. Hirsch, I know I've been traumatized, but Jack was torn apart. I saw him. A man can't do that to someone with his bare hands.
 * Dr. Hirsch: You'd be surprised what horrors a man is capable of.
 * David: Did you see Jack?
 * Dr. Hirsch: No. In fact, your wounds were cleaned and dressed before you arrived here.
 * David: Did you talk to the police in East Proctor? Did the cops go to The Slaughtered Lamb?
 * Dr. Hirsch: I really don't know.
 * David: Then why the hell are you so quick to disbelieve me? You yourself said it must have taken incredible strength to tear apart a person like that.
 * Dr. Hirsch: David, please. The police are satisfied. I'm certain that if a monster were out roaming northern England we'd have seen it on the telly.
 * David: You really think I'm crazy, don't you?
 * Dr. Hirsch: Believe me. The Hound of the Baskervilles was an invention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's. And if you'd read the bloody book, you'd find that Holmes discovered your hound of hell a fraud, a fake. [pause] Now really, David. You're far too intelligent to go on this way. When you return to America I want you to seek out a competent psychiatrist or psychologist or something and stop this nonsense. You'll be leaving this hospital in three or four days, please remain sane. At least until you are no longer our responsibility.

 * Jack: Can I have a piece of toast?
 * David: ...Get the fuck outta here, Jack.
 * Jack: Thanks a lot.
 * David: No.. I can't take this... Am I asleep now or awake or what?
 * Jack: I realise I don't look so hot, David... [picks toast] but I though you'd be glad to see me. [beat] David! You're hurting my feelings!
 * David: Hurting your feelings? Has it occurred to you that it might be unsettling to see you rise from the grave to visit me?
 * Jack: Sorry to be upsetting you David, but I had to come. [munch]
 * David: Aren't you supposed to be buried someplace in New York?
 * Jack: Yeah. Your parents came to my funeral. I was surprised at how many people came.
 * David: Why would you be surprised? You were a very well-liked person.
 * Jack: Yeah. I was, wasn't I?
 * David: Well, I liked you.
 * Jack: Debbie Klein cried a lot.
 * David: Oh God, am I asleep now or what?
 * Jack: So.. so you know what she does? She's so grief-stricken she runs to find solace in Mark Levine's bed.
 * David: Mark Levine?
 * Jack: An asshole. Life mocks me even in death.
 * David: I'm going completely crazy....
 * Jack: ...DAVID!!
 * David: What!?
 * Jack: Now, I'm really sorry to be upsetting you, but I have to warn you.
 * David: Warn me?
 * Jack: We were attacked by a werewolf.
 * David: [covers ears] I'm not listening to this!
 * Jack: On the moors. We were attacked by a lycanthrope. A werewolf. [David uncovers ears] I was murdered. An unnatural death. And now I walk the earth in limbo until the werewolf's curse is lifted.
 * David: Shut up!
 * Jack: The wolf's bloodline must be severed. The last remaining werewolf must be destroyed. [beat; points] It's you, David.
 * David: What...?
 * Jack: Please believe me. You'll kill people.
 * David: NURSE!!
 * Jack: Listen to me!
 * David: Nurse..!
 * Jack: The supernatural, the power of darkness — it's all true. The undead surround me. Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring! I'm lonely! Take your life, David. Kill yourself... before you kill others. [David sobs] Please don't cry. [hears nurse coming] Beware the moon, David.

 * David: I'm a werewolf.
 * Alex: A werewolf? [she holds him until he calms] Are you better now?
 * David: I'll let you know the next full moon.

 * Alex: I'll be perfectly honest with you David, I'm not in the habit of bringing home stray, young American men.
 * David: I should hope not.
 * Alex: I find you very attractive - and a little bit sad.

 * David: [sees Jack in bathroom mirror and screams] You're not real!
 * Jack: Ah, don't be a putz David, come here. A nurse huh.?
 * David: [closes door] Shhh, come on. What are you doing here?
 * Jack: I wanted to see you
 * [picks up Mickey mouse figure; high pitched]
 * Jack: Hi, David.
 * David: Put that down! Ok you've seen me now go away.
 * Jack: I'm sorry I'm upsetting you David, but you don't understand what's going on.
 * David: I understand all right, you're one of the undead and I'm a werewolf.
 * Jack: Yes, that's right.
 * David: Get out of here Jack.
 * Jack: Tomorrow night's the full moon, you're gonna change you'll become...
 * David: I know, I know... A monster.
 * Jack: You gotta kill yourself David, before it's too late.
 * David: Are you really dead Jack?
 * Jack: What do you think?
 * David: I think I've lost my mind. I think you're not, I think you're just another part of bad dream.
 * Jack: You've gotta believe me David.
 * David: Believe what?, that tomorrow night under the full moon I'll grow hair and fang's and eat people, bullshit!
 * Jack: Oh goddamnit David please believe me!, you'll kill and make others like me I'm not having a nice time here. You gotta take your own life.
 * David: I will not accept this, go away!
 * Jack: This is not pretend David.
 * David: I will not be threatened by a walking meatloaf.

 * David: Jack was right!
 * Alex: Jack is dead!
 * David: Jack is dead and six people are dead! There's gonna be a full moon tonight, I'm going to the cops!
 * Alex: David, please be rational! Let's go to Dr. Hirsch!
 * David: Yeah, be rational, sure. I'm a werewolf, for Christ's sake!

 * David: Alex, I've lost my mind. I woke up at the zoo! But you know what? I feel terrific!
 * Alex: The zoo?
 * David: Waking up at the zoo, that's not so insane. Having no clothes on? That's insane. What did I do last night, Alex?
 * Alex: Don't you remember?
 * David: I said goodbye to you. I was locked out of the flat. I climbed the wall and came in through the bathroom window. I started to read and then I was naked at the zoo! I guess I am out of my fucking mind.

 * David: [in Trafalgar Square] I want you to arrest me, asshole!
 * Policeman: There's no call for that kind of language.
 * David: Queen Elizabeth is a man! Prince Charles is a faggot! Winston Churchill was full of shit!
 * Policeman: : That's enough.
 * David: No! Let go of me!
 * Alex: David, please!
 * David: Shakespeare's French! Fuck! Shit! Cunt! Shit!
 * Policeman: You keep this up, sir, and I will be forced to arrest you.
 * David: That's what I want you to do, you moron!

 * Jack: I want you to meet some people. David Kessler, this is Gerald Bringsly. Gerald's the man you murdered on the subway. We thought it best for you not to see him, as he's a fresh kill and still pretty messy.
 * Bringsly: [with a slashed, bloodied face] Yes. I do look most unpleasant.
 * David: Why are you doing this to me?
 * Bringsly: This isn't Mr. Goodman's idea. He's your good friend, whereas I am a victim of your carnivorous lunar activities.
 * David: Mr. Bringsly... I'm sorry. I have absolutely no idea what to say to you.
 * Bringsly: You've left my wife a widow, and my children fatherless. And I understand I am to walk the earth in limbo, one of the living dead, until the wolf's bloodline is severed and the curse lifted. You must die, David Kessler.
 * Jack: David, this is Harry Berman and his fiancee Judith Browns.
 * Harry: [bloodied and cheerful] Hello.
 * Judith: [also bloodied and cheerful] Hello!
 * Jack: And these gentlemen are Alf, Ted, and Joseph.
 * Ted: Can't say we're pleased to meet you, Mr. Kessler.
 * David: What shall I do?
 * Jack: Suicide.
 * Harry: You must take your own life.
 * David: That's easy for you to say - you're already dead!
 * Bringsly: No, David. Harry and I and everyone you murder are not dead. The undead.
 * David: Why are you doing this to me?
 * Jack: Because this must be stopped.
 * David: How shall I do it?
 * Judith: Sleeping pills?
 * Alf: Not sure enough!
 * David: I could hang myself.
 * Jack: No. No, if you did it wrong, it could be painful. You'd choke to death.
 * Joseph: So what? Let 'im choke!
 * Jack: Do you mind? The man's a friend of mine.
 * Joseph: Well he ain't no friend to me!
 * Bringsly: Gentlemen, please.
 * Harry: A gun!
 * Alf: I know where you can get a gun.
 * David: Don't I need a silver bullet or something?
 * Jack: [rolling his eyes] Oh, be serious, would you?
 * David: Madness...
 * Harry: No, a gun would be good!
 * Judith: Yes, you just put the gun to your forehead and pull the trigger!
 * Bringsly: If you put it in your mouth, you'd be sure not to miss.
 * David: Thank you, you're all so thoughtful.
 * Alf: A knife.
 * Harry: An electric shock.
 * Judith: A car crash.
 * Bringsly: You could throw yourself in front of a tube.
 * Ted: Drowning!

 * Darts Player: [to David Kessler & Jack Goodman] Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors.

Taglines

 * From the director of Animal House... Comes a different kind of animal.
 * Something different.
 * A masterpiece of terror.

Cast

 * David Naughton — David Kessler
 * Griffin Dunne — Jack Goodman
 * Jenny Agutter — Nurse Alex Price
 * John Woodvine - Dr. J. S. Hirsch
 * Michael Carter - Gerard Bringsley
 * Don McKillop - Inspector Villiers
 * Frank Oz - Mr. Collins
 * Paul Kember - Sergeant McManus
 * Sydney Bromley - Alf
 * Frank Singuineau - Ted
 * Will Leighton - Joseph
 * Geoffrey Burridge - Harry Berman
 * Brenda Cavendish - Judith Browns

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Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote, as you did to Max Planck. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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I contribute mainly on the fr Wikipedia and on the fr Wikiquote. So, if you want to send me a message, I'll receive it faster on these pages than on my :en Talk Page.

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I do not write English very good, so if you find errors in my edits (or even on my User Page ;)), do not hesitate to correct it. Deadhoax ( Talk |  Contr ) 20:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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Please delete my userpage, never been used properly. Lcarsdata (Talk) 06:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete (one implicit), no dissent); discussion about possible changes to the speedy deletion policy should continue at Wikiquote talk:Speedy deletions. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I have speedily deleted User:Lcarsdata as a user requested deletion. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 20:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I have restored the user page and reopened this VFD. Our current speedy deletion policy specifically excludes the speedy deletion of main user pages: "This does not include deletion of the main user or user talk page, which should be nominated through the standard VFD process." —LrdChaos (talk) 21:04, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * We have contradicting policy on this issue. User page says (and has said since it was created early this year) that "you can request that your own user page or talk page be deleted … Just add to the page: ." We've already run afoul of this contradiction once, and have yet to resolve it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I hadn't even noticed User page before; I've made some changes to the "How do I delete my user and user talk pages?" section there to bring it in line with WQ:SD. I chose to edit WQ:USER instead of WQ:SD because WQ:SD is tagged as an official policy, while WQ:USER is not. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd like to press for the reverse, because (A) sysop SD'ing of a user page would be more in line with Wikipedia; (B) it will allow us to implement Right to vanish expeditiously, which we've already failed to do at all in one case so far; and (C) I don't think the community will care about users asking that their own user pages be deleted, so long as there is no administrative need to keep them. WQ:USER already empowers sysops to deny the deletion if it appears to be requested to avoid identification as a disruptive editor, and if we deny it, the user can nominate it on VfD, as has happened in the past. In short, I don't see this as a controversial policy. I believe the problem here is that we're sticking to an unnecessary policy out of inertia, given our overflowing plate of issues. Changing this will help a little. It'll be too late to speedy this particular entry as a result, but I'll tackle this quickly at Wikiquote talk:User page and Wikiquote talk:Speedy deletions. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know of any reason why we shouldn't change the SD policy in this way, I just decided that rather than make a non-substantial change to the SD policy (I feel that removing a specific exclusion qualifies as a change of substance) without any discussion, I'd just update the non-policy "User page" page for consistency. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 16:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah — delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I got so caught up in the discussion about the policy I forgot to actually vote. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per user request. Sorry about an incorrect speedy. I misread the policy page. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Monty Sopp
Another pro wrestler page, with the usual issues: inane, unoriginal, and unsourced. 121a0012 04:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (seven votes to delete (one implicit), one vote to keep (from anon. with zero other contributions)). —LrdChaos (talk) 13:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete unless pithy, original, sourced quotes added. Stuff that any self-important fool might say hardly constitutes "pithy". ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with above. ~ UDScott 13:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 16:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. You guys are so tight on perfection with every quote that gets posted here that at this rate there won't even be a wrestler article on Wikiquote! 209.247.22.151 01:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: If the choice is between articles like this one, and articles that contain original, broadly meaningful, verifiable quotations, I think most WQ editors would accept the loss of wrestler pages as the price we must pay. The lack of verifiable quotations on most if not all of these pages reinforces my growing feeling that most pro wrestlers are simply not notable.  If they were, it would be easy enough to find verifiable sources for their utterances.  121a0012 02:37, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Wanting at least a couple of quotations to be sourced, and wanting a few of them to above the level of snarls and grunts, seems to me to be far from demanding perfection. By the way, "Get it! Got it! Good!" was originally from the Danny Kaye movie The Court Jester --Ubiquity 15:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above comments — lack of sources, lack of notable, original quotations. --Ubiquity 15:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 10:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:4johnny

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Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz (חיים וויץ) on August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor and television personality. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the rock band he co-founded with rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley in the early 1970s.

Quotes

 * We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.
 * Mojo magazine (December 2009), p. 40.

 * Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
 * 19 February, 2010. At "Viva Elvis Cirque du soleil.

 * Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.
 * "Bang Your Head" book

 * I think Prince was heads, hands and feet about all the rest of them, I thought he left (Michael) Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you … but that's what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.
 * About Prince's death. (May 10, 2016)

 * The most important thing in life is to be a selfish asshole. Do what you want, piss off everyone and stop hanging with the guys because they're not going to get you money or sex.

Fresh Air interview (February 4, 2002)

 * Interview by Terry Gross with Gene Simmons on NPR's Fresh Air

 * My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

 * My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

 * The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

 * You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

What I've Learned (July 2002)
Esquire Magazine

 * You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I wasn't crazy about the movie. But you know what? I'm gonna shut up, because the people have spoken. End of story!

 * KISS is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

 * Prostitute yourself. As far as I'm concerned, that's even braver than waiting for the public to catch on.

 * Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey . . . it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

 * People say, "I want to get laid a lot and make lots of money." That's not the right order.

 * A whore, in my estimation, has more credibility than a wife, and I'll tell you why. A wife is supposed to marry you for love. A whore is not there for love, she's there to service you. Now, the difference between them is a whore, before she does her work, will tell you exactly what it is. She'll tell you, "Blow job? This'll cost you seventy-five dollars. This is not love, and after I'm done I never want to see you again." Full disclosure is what they call it in court. A wife will tell you shit. A wife will tell you nothing. She's about to marry you. If you get divorced, she's going to take 50 percent of your gross pretax dollars and try to get more. Now, before you get married, if you dare bring up the notion, "By the way, let's just be completely honest with each other, what happens if we break up?" she will cry and tell you, "That's so unromantic." You know who's more credible? The whore.

 * "You can't buy love with money." Only a poor person says that.

 * You shall not covet thy neighbor's wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that?

 * “I think I know it all, relatively speaking.”

Interview with Radio.com (July 6, 2016)
Interview with Radio.com (July 6, 2016)
 * My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.

 * I’ve known Donald (Trump) for a few decades, and what you can say without argument is that he’s a good father. His kids have turned out really well. There’s nothing bad you can say about that.

 * Like any large organization, there are going to be some bad people. Many people go to church; not every priest is a good guy. But you . Wounded Warrior is an important organization, and all the various vet groups are important because, shamefully, we don’t have an amendment to the Constitution that guarantees if you volunteer to serve your country, and risk life and limb, that you’re even going to get a job, so that you can feed your family. It’s pathetic. ‘Hey, thanks a lot for risking your life, and you’ve been wounded. Good luck out there!’ The men and women of our military may not expect to get rich and famous, but at least give them a job for God’s sake, so they can feed their family!

 * The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.

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 * the link to "In The Beginning Was the Command Line" is broken (http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html) --Jffblndng (talk) 13:04, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of these sections have non-identical separate pages on wikiquote (e.g., Snow Crash that need to be consolidated and/or pointed to on this main page. I am happy to work on it when I can, but any assistance is appreciated.
 * Chapter references should also be added at some point to make it easier to use and to cite check (see wikiquote template for a literary work). tartaruga 17:43, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm making it a point to add chapter references with my contributions, and I'll update other quotes when time allows. Bridgman 20:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * completed chapter reference cleanup for Diamond Age, got them in chrono Bridgman 18:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I occasionally forget to log in before editing. Edits logged to IP addresses beginning 204.9.35 are mine. Bridgman 17:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Snow Crash merged in
Some content from the formerly standalone page Snow Crash has been merged with the "Snow Crash" section of this page, and the separate page turned into a redirect. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Proposed taxonomy for subdividing Baroque Cycle quotes by "books":
What do y'all think about organizing the growing body of quotes from Quicksilver, Confusion and System of the World by the 8 "books" in addition to (or instead of) the 3 "volumes"? The "cycle" has since been published in both forms, so it might serve two purposes to subdivide them thusly: one, it will be familiar to people who read the cycle via individually published "books," while still familiar to those who read it via the "volumes." Second, it breaks up the big wall of text under each "volume" heading. Bridgman 15:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Book 1 - Quicksilver

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 2 - The King of the Vagabonds

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 3 - Odalisque

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 4 - Bonanza

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 5 - The Juncto

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 6 - Solomon's Gold

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 7 - Currency

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 8 - The System of the World

 * quotes
 * chapters

 * Your proposal looks good to me - it would be a nice organization scheme for the quotes. Of course another perhaps even better option would be to have a separate page for the Baroque Cycle, but still incorporate this scheme there and have a pointer to it from the Neal Stephenson page. ~ UDScott 16:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Good call on a separate Baroque Cycle page. Organizing the quotes on the current page under my proposed taxonomy would needlessly create too many levels. e.g. The current first Baroque quote would be located at the bottom of this deep heirarchy: Neal Stephenson > Sourced > Baroque Cycle > Volume 1: Quicksilver > Book 1: Quicksilver
 * And the book-level header would be no larger than boldface body text. Bridgman 16:34, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I would again recommend, as I did above, that the Baroque Cycle be broken out to its own page, with a link to it left on the author's page. ~ UDScott 20:39, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * In fact, I would also recommend splitting out some of Stephenson's other works from this page as well to their own pages. Based on the number of quotes shown here, at least 2 or 3 of the other works probably warrant having their own page. ~ UDScott 20:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I went ahead and moved all the Baroque Cycle quotes to the new The Baroque Cycle page. I wasn't completely sure how to word or format the link that takes you from the Baroque Cycle header/section in Neal Stephenson to the separate page. There may be a template or badge for this type of thing. Bridgman 03:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

WQ-linking incidental words
In 2014, a number of common words were WQ-linked (intrawiki linked?) to WQ pages devoted to those words. Sounds great, in practice, but if we're going to link the word "people" in a quote, it should link to a page (WQ or WP) about the specific people (or their defined traits) referenced in the quote, e.g. Luddites, cosplayers, Turks, left-handed people, pie-sitters, trainspotters, etc. The link probably should not go to a page comprised solely of quotes containing the word "people." So I removed most of them. In one case, the term "science fiction" was broken up and linked to the science page and the fiction page. Instead of removing the links, I fused them to link to the science fiction quotes page. And then I copied that Stephenson quote to that general science fiction page, since there were no Stephenson quotes on it yet. Other examples of words that were individually WQ-linked were "light," "necessary," and "awareness," which were not related to the context of the quotes. I did leave links to "future" and "endings" unmolested, as they were central to the quotes. Had there been a page devoted to quotes from Neal Stephenson's bad endings, I would have redirected the "endings" link to that page. Thank-you for listening to my Ted Talk Bridgman (talk) 15:29, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Quotations about Lamina1
Hello,

I found the following quotation on page five in the actual whitepaper published by Lamina1 V1.1 a couple of days ago:

"Inexorable economic forces drive investors to pay artists as little as possible while steering their creative output in the directions that involve the least financial risk."

So far I am not sure whether this quotation could yet be safed in the collection because it´s to new and probably nowhere cited yet. There isn´t even a article about Lamina1. Maybe it´s to soon. In any case I have archived the whitepaper on the wayback.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220930190700/https://www.lamina1.com/docs/Lamina1_Whitepaper_1.1.pdf Yeti-Hunter (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Quotations out of "Atmosphaera Incognita"
Hello,

I have one copy of this short novel sitting in my book shelf and could contribute but I am unsure whether this is ok. Yeti-Hunter (talk) 19:43, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

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Shirley Jackson

Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known for her works of horror and mystery. Over her writing career, which spanned more than two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and over 200 short stories.

Quotes

 * Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.
 * Regarding her story The Lottery, in the San Francisco Chronicle (22 July 1948)

 * Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?
 * The Bird's Nest (1954)

 * Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
 * Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Harcraft's Twentieth Century Authors (1954)

 * One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by strangers. I had never fully realized this before, although I had of course in my imagination dwelt lovingly upon the thought of the millions and millions of people who were going to be uplifted and enriched and delighted by the stories I wrote. It had simply never occurred to me that these the millions and millions of people might be so far from being uplifted that they would sit down and write me letters I was downright scared to open; of the three-hundred-odd letters that I received that summer I can count only thirteen that spoke kindly to me, and they were mostly from friends. Even my mother scolded me: "Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker," she wrote sternly; "it does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?"
 * Lecture (1960); printed in her collection, Come Along with Me (1968)

The Lottery (1948)

 * Originally published in The New Yorker (28 June 1948)

 * The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play.

 * Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here. Every year, after the lottery, Mr. Summers began talking again about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done. The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained.

 * Old Man Warner snorted. "Pack of crazy fools", he said. "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery," he added petulantly.

"Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools."
 * "Some places have already quit lotteries." Mrs. Adams said.

 * Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd.

 * Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.

 * "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

 * No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
 * Ch. 1

 * No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.
 * Ch. 2

 * Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.
 * Dr. Montague

 * This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)

 * My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often tthought that with any luck at all I could have born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.
 * Opening paragraph.

About Shirley Jackson

 * In alphabetical order by author or source.

 * The tension between socially acceptable housewifery and creative ambition is certainly easy to find in Jackson’s life, but it’s rather harder to locate in her fiction. There’s no question that, in her books, the house is a deeply ambiguous symbol—a place of warmth and security and also one of imprisonment and catastrophe. But the evil that lurks in Jackson’s fair-seeming homes is not housework; it’s other people—husbands, neighbors, mothers, hellbent on squashing and consuming those they profess to care for. And what keeps women inside these ghastly places is not societal pressure, or a patriarchal jailer, but the demon in their own minds. In this sense, Jackson’s work is less an anticipation of second-wave feminism than a conversation with her female forebears in the gothic tradition. Her stories take the figure of the imprisoned "madwoman," as found in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" or Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and make her the warder of her own jail.
 * Zoë Heller "The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson" The New Yorker (10 October 2016)

 * My mother was a writer. That's what she did. She loved nothing more than writing, though she certainly also loved her children, cooking, friends, cats, music, and playing bridge. I can picture her sitting on her beloved red kitchen stool, spiced meatballs simmering on the stove, making a shopping list — with scribbled asides of insight into or warnings for her characters in whatever novel she was working on.
 * Laurence Jackson Hyman,

 * ("Stanley Hyman did a tribute to his late wife Shirley Jackson and noted how surprised people were that the author of disturbing and grim fiction should be a wife and mother and an apparently happy one.") UKLG: Being a wife and mother is supposed to be a consuming occupation, therefore you couldn't do anything else. And then the fact that Shirley Jackson wrote the kind of books she did. I suppose people think: I wonder if she strangled her children.
 * 1988 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin

 * As the subtitles of Jackson’s biographies echo each other—demons, haunted—so both biographies present a near-identical portrait of her as daughter, wife, mother, writer: these roles inextricably knotted together through Jackson’s adult life, often to the point of near-unbearable pressure and stress. Jackson’s patrician, socially conscious, and woundingly censorious mother, Geraldine Bugbee, was the great-great-granddaughter of a wealthy San Francisco architect; clearly the model for the nightmare mother-figures in Jackson’s fiction, particularly the embittered invalid-mother of Hill House, Geraldine persisted in criticizing and belittling Jackson long after she had acquired national renown as a writer.
 * Joyce Carol Oates "Shirley Jackson in Love & Death" The New York Review of Books (27 October 2016)
 * The biographies mentioned are Ruth Franklin Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright, 2016) and Judy Oppenheimer Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988).

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Colin Farrell

Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is an Irish actor.

Quotes

 * Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
 * (2008-10-11, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross)

 * I created an environment for myself and a way of living for myself that on the outside seemed incredibly gregarious and vivacious and it was just... I don't believe I have any chemical pre-disposition towards depression but let's just call it, I was suffering from a spiritual malady I suppose, for years, and I just indulged that and it was sweet. Because at times to be in pain, if it's self-perpetuated, at times, can be sweet. You can feel very alive when you're in pain. And I also know that from another perspective when somebody who I love in my life has passed away, there is something incredibly internally vivacious about feeling pain and mourning and even if it's as egocentric and self-indulgent as mourning for yourself or pitying for yourself and that sort of stuff. So I'm glad I'm out of that cycle of my life, and I'm very lucky that way.
 * (2008-10-11, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross)

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Maging Sino Ka Man

Maging Sino Ka Man is a soap opera shown on ABS-CBN on weekdays. It stars John Lloyd Cruz, Bea Alonzo, Anne Curtis and Sam Milby.

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 * Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: What are you trying to imply, that I don't know my business? Of course I know that. You have a very interesting presentation, Ms. Magsaysay, but it is incomplete. Ang kompanya natin ay para sa mga retirees. Sa mga nakapag-ipon na gusto mag-cruise. Now, do you have a presentation on that?
 * Celine Magsaysay: Sorry, ma'am, but...
 * Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: ...Hindi mo naisip 'yon. Sa kompanya ko, gusto ko advance mag-isip ang mga tauhan ko. Step one pa lang ang nakalatag, ready na ang step ten! Now, the next time you present, be sure you're well prepared. Jaime, in my office, now!

 * Celine Magsaysay: Hindi naman mahirap para ako ang piliin mo 'di ba?
 * Jaime Roxas Berenguer: I never... said... that I love you.

 * Celine Magsaysay: You are such a loser JB!

 * Celine Magsaysay: Yes, I am a slut, but I am the best slut in town!

 * Celine Magsaysay: What are you doing at a slut's house!

 * Celine Magsaysay: I want to strangle you and watch as your eyes pop out of their sockets...

All i need for you to do is take one step forward...

 * Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: What did you do to my son?
 * Celine Magsaysay: The question is: what is he doing to himself.
 * Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: Manang-mana ka talaga sa nanay mo. Hindi alam kung sa'n lulugar. You know the way out. Get... out!

(Celine gets out of the house and gets in her car.)
 * Celine Magsaysay: Bitch!

 * Bus Conductor: Sa'n ho kayo pupunta?
 * Jackie Madrigal: I'm going home...

 * Celine Magsaysay(to Brian Antonio): Take me away from here...

 * Imelda Magsaysay: Kamusta na ang babaeng iniwan sa dance floor?
 * Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: At kamusta naman ang babaeng kung sinu-sino ang kasayaw sa dance floor?

 * Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: I have had enough weak men in my life and I don't want another one for a son!

 * Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: I'm starting to like that Celine guy. Her ways are unconventional and she seems to be getting the work done.

 * Jaime Roxas Berenguer: She (Celine) is good for the company.
 * Corazon Roxas Vda. De Berenguer: Good for the company? Or good for you? (slams a brown envelope containing stolen shots of Jaime and Celine at the resort.)

 * Jaime Roxas Berenguer: I didn't know you can sing.
 * Celine Magsaysay: I didn't know you can't sing.

 * Imelda Magsaysay: (laughs) So funny, that woman! She wears funny costumes! Anong akala niya sa mundo, Cartoon Network?

 * Jackie Madrigal: (after hearing other people insult Celine, her cousin) Sa susunod na marinig ko pa kayo pinag-uusapan ng masama ang pinsan ko, magbalot-balot na kayo dahil kayang-kaya ko kayong paalisin sa society circle. Now you three bitches... leave this place, now!

 * Jackie Madrigal: Ang gusto ko sabihin mo na ayaw mo, na ayaw mo ako mapunta kay JB dahil gusto mo ako, dahil mahal mo ako, dahil ako mahal kita, Eli! Mahal kita.

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Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 in New York City – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and pragmatist.

Quotes

 * On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit with other sentences which are doing so.
 * Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism (1982)

 * My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an ambition of transcendence."
 * Introduction to Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume I (1991).

 * As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for.  But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments.  It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change – that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.
 * Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).

 * Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
 * Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).

 * Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.
 * "John Searle on Realism and Relativism." Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).

 * … our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious terms, this is the Feuerbachian thesis that God is just a projection of the best, and sometimes the worst, of humanity. In philosophical terms, it is the thesis that anything that talk of objectivity can do to make our practices intelligible can be done equally well by talk of intersubjectivity.
 * "John Searle on Realism and Relativism." Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).

 * Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful – namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant’s question “What is man?” and to substitute the question “What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?”
 * "Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality." Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).

 * If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
 * "Richard Rorty Interviewed by Gideon Lewis-Kraus." The Believer, June 2003.

 * Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.
 * "Philosophical Convictions."  The Nation, June 14, 2004.

 * Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual’s tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community—for example, another country or historical period. … It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.
 * “Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism,” Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (Cambridge: 1991), p. 197

 * To abjure the notion of the “truly human” is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
 * Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), p. 35

 * Kripke tries to sober us up by denying that meaning determines reference. Rather, we name things by confronting them and baptising them, not by creating them out of a list of qualities. Names are not, pace Russell, shorthand for such lists. They are not abbreviations for descriptions, but (in Kripke’s coinage) ‘rigid designators’ – that is, they would name the same things in any possible world, including worlds in which their bearers did not have the properties we, in this world, use to identify them.
 * Kripke versus Kant. Lrb.com, september 1980.

 * [A]nything can be made to look good or bad by being redescribed.
 * Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), p. 73

 * I think of the course of human history as a long, swelling, increasingly polyphonic poem - a poem that leads up to nothing save itself. When the species is extinct, "human nature's total message" will not be a set of propositions, but a set of vocabularies - the more, and the more various, the better.
 * Response to Hartshorne in 'Rorty and Pragmatism, The Philosopher Responds to his Critics', p. 33

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979)

 * Almost as soon as I began to study philosophy, I was impressed by the way in which philosophical problems appeared, disappeared, or changed shape, as a result of new assumptions or vocabularies.
 * Preface
 * From Richard McKeon and Robert Brumsbaugh I learned to view the history of philosophy as a series, not of alternative solutions to the same problems, but of quite different sets of problems. From Rudolph Carnap and Carl Hempel I learned how pseudo-problems could be revealed as such by restarting them in the formal mode of speech. From Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss I learned how they could be so revealed by being translated into Whiteheadian or Hegelian terms.
 * Preface

"The priority of democracy to philosophy"
in Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (Cambridge: 1991)

 * Citizens of a Jeffersonian democracy can be as religious or irreligious as they please as long as they are not “fanatical.” That is, they must abandon or modify opinion on matters of ultimate importance, the opinions that may hitherto have given sense and point to their lives, if these opinions entail public actions that cannot be justified to most of their fellow citizens.

 * When the individual finds in her conscience beliefs that are relevant to public policy but incapable of the defense on the basis of beliefs common to her fellow citizens, she must sacrifice her conscience on the altar of public expediency.

 * Contemporary intellectuals have given up the Enlightenment assumption that religion, myth, and tradition can be opposed to something ahistorical, something common to all human beings qua human.

 * Rather, we heirs of Enlightenment think of enemies of liberal democracy like Nietzsche or Loyola as, to use Rawls’s word, “mad.” We do so because there is no way to see them as fellow citizens of our constitutional democracy, people whose life plans might, given ingenuity and good will, be fitted in with those of other citizens. They are crazy because the limits of sanity are set by what we can take seriously. This, in turn, is determined by our upbringing, our historical situation.

 * It is no more evident that democratic institutions are to be measured by the sort of person they create than that they are to be measured against divine commands. … Even if the typical character types of liberal democracies are bland, calculating, petty, and unheroic, the prevalence of such people may be a reasonable price to pay for political freedom.

 * The encouragement of light-mindedness about traditional philosophical topics serves the same purposes as does the encouragement of light-mindedness about traditional theological topics. Like the rise of large market economies, the increase in literacy, the proliferation of artistic genres, and the insouciant pluralism of contemporary culture, such philosophical superficiality and light-mindedness helps along the disenchantment of the world. It helps make the world’s inhabitants more pragmatic, more tolerant, more liberal, more receptive to the appeal of instrumental rationality.

Quotes about Richard Rorty

 * About the utility of the argument I have little doubt, convinced as I am that nothing will resist the growing corporatization of the world save for a very broad coalition of anticorporatization folks on the left, all the way from the mealiest-mouthed of liberals to the stark-ravingest of Marxists. But I have grave doubts about whether Rorty’s “two lefts” analysis of the contemporary scene will further the creation of that coalition: unless we can see the politics of redistribution and the politics of recognition as the double helix of leftist thought — and we should think especially here of issues such as immigration, disability, reproduction and motherhood, and criminal justice, where cultural politics and public policy are woven as tightly as any strand of DNA — no amnesty program for the sectarians of the past will suffice to remedy the two-left sectarianism of the present. The value of Achieving Our Country, then, does not lie in its accuracy about the past and present state of the left; it lies, instead, in its willingness to throw down gauntlets for the formation of a future left that can think beyond the impasses with which Achieving Our Country would leave us.
 * Michael Bérubé, "The Lefts before 11 September", published in Rhetorical Occasions (2006)

 * "Language is not an image of reality", assures Mr. Rorty, a pragmatist and anti-Platonic philosopher. Should we interpret this sentence in the sense Mr. Rorty calls 'Platonic', that is, as a denial of an attribute to one substance? It would be contradictory: a language that is not an image of reality cannot give us a real image of its relations with reality. Therefore, the sentence must be interpreted pragmatically: it does not affirm anything about language, but only indicates the intention to use it in a certain way. The main thesis of Mr. Rorty's thought is a declaration of intentions. The sentence "language is not an image of reality" rigorously means this and nothing else: "I, Richard Rorty, am firmly decided to not use language as an image of reality." It is the sort of unanswerable argument: an expression of someone's will cannot be logically refuted. Therefore, there is nothing to debate: keeping the limits of decency and law, Mr. Rorty can use language as he may wish. The problem appears when he begins to try to make us use language exactly like him. He states that language is not a representation of reality, but rather a set of tools invented by man in order to accomplish his desires. But this is a false alternative. A man may well desire to use this tool to represent reality. It seems that Plato desired precisely this. But Mr. Rorty denies that men have other desires than seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. That some declare to desire something else must be very painful to him, for, on the contrary, there would be no pragmatically valid explanation for the effort he puts in changing the conversation. Given the impossibility to deny that these people exist, the pragmatist will perhaps say that those who look for representing reality are moved by the desire to avoid pain as much as those who prefer to create fantasies; but this objection will have shown precisely that these are not things which exclude each other. The Rortyan alternative is false in its own terms.
 * Olavo de Carvalho, O Imbecil Coletivo ("The Collective Imbecile"), 5th ed., pp. 60-67. Transl. by Pedro Sette Câmara

 * I think philosophy is both more important and less important than Rorty does. It is not a pedestal on which we rest (or have rested until Rorty). Yet the illusions that philosophy spins are illusions that belong to die nature of human life itself, and that need to be illuminated. Just saying "That's a pseudo-issue" is not of itself therapeutic; it is an aggressive form of the metaphysical disease itself.
 * Hilary Putnam, "Realism with a Human Face" (1987)

 * Galileo claimed to have discovered, by astronomical observation through a telescope, that Copernicus was right that the earth revolved around the sun. [Cardinal] Bellarmine claimed that he could not be right because his view ran counter to the Bible. Rorty says, astoundingly, that Bellarmine's argument was just as good as Galileo's. It is just that the rhetoric of "science" had not at that time been formed as part of the culture of Europe. We have now accepted the rhetoric of "science," he writes, but it is not more objective or rational than Cardinal Bellarmine's explicitly dogmatic Catholic views. According to Rorty, there is no fact of the matter about who was right because there are no absolute facts about what justifies what. Bellarmine and Galileo, in his view, just had different epistemic systems.
 * John Searle, "Why Should You Believe It?", The New York Review of Books, 24 September 2009

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Fukuzawa Yukichi

Fukuzawa Yukichi (福澤 諭吉 Yukichi Fukuzawa; 10 January 1835 – 3 February 1901) was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, entrepreneur and political theorist whose ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the period known as the Meiji Era.

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 * It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.
 * Gakumon no Susume [An Encouragement of Learning] (1872–1876).

 * Each individual man and each individual country, according to the principles of natural reason, is free from bondage. Consequently, if there is some threat that might infringe upon a country’s freedom, then that country should not hesitate even to take up arms against all the countries of the world.
 * Gakumon no Susume [An Encouragement of Learning] (1872–1876).

 * In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane... It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since what produces man’s well-being and refinement is knowledge and virtue, civilization ultimately means the progress of man’s knowledge and virtue.
 * Bunmeiron no Gairyaku [An Outline of a Theory of civilization] (1875).

 * Moreover, the argument for national polity, for Christianity, and for Confucianism... are also insufficient to bolster people’s hearts. What, then, will? I say there is one thing: namely, to establish our goal and advance toward civilization... The way in which to preserve this independence cannot be sought anywhere except in civilization.
 * Bunmeiron no Gairyaku [An Outline of a Theory of civilization] (1875).

 * Robbery and murder are the worst of human crimes; but in the West there are robbers and murderers. There are those who form cliques to vie for the reins of power and who, when deprived of that power, decry the injustice of it all. Even worse, international diplomacy is really based on the art of deception. Surveying the situation as a whole, all we can say is that there is a general prevalence of good over bad, but we can hardly call the situation perfect. When, several thousand years hence, the levels of knowledge and virtue of the peoples of the world will have made great progress (to the point of becoming utopian), the present condition of the nations of the West will surely seem a pitifully primitive stage. Seen in this light, civilization is an open-ended process. We cannot be satisfied with the present level of attainment of the West.
 * Bunmeiron no Gairyaku [An Outline of a Theory of Civilization] (1875).

 * Once the wind of Western civilization blows to the East, every blade of grass and every tree in the East follow what the Western wind brings... We do not have time to wait for the enlightenment of our neighbors so that we can work together toward the development of Asia. It is better for us to leave the ranks of Asian nations and cast our lot with civilized nations of the West... We should deal with them exactly as the Westerners do.
 * "Datsu-a-ron" [On departure from Asia], Jiji Shimpo (1885-03-16).

 * Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.
 * From Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women (1988), trans. Kiyooka Eiichi.

The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1897)

 * Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.
 * Ch. X.

 * I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.
 * Ch. XI.

 * To recount the history of assassination since the beginning of our foreign intercourse — in the beginning, people simply hated the foreigners because all foreigners were "impure" men who should not be permitted to tread the sacred soil of Japan... As I have said before, I felt my life in greatest danger during the twelve or thirteen years around the period of the [Meiji] Restoration.
 * Ch. XI.

 * The world is large.
 * Ch. XV.

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Broken Flowers

Broken Flowers is a 2005 comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray as a man who receives an anonymous letter telling him he has a 19-year-old son. He then undertakes a journey to see his old girlfriends to try and determine which one might have sent him the letter.
 * Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Sometimes life brings some strange surprises. taglines

Don Johnston

 * I'm a stalker in a Taurus.
 * [to Lolita] That was quite an outfit you weren't wearing earlier.

Winston

 * You are the Don Juan.

Others

 * Sherry: I'm like your mistress, except you're not even married.

 * Penny: So, what the fuck do you want, Donnie?

Dialogue

 * Rita: Daddy, you're not supposed to be smoking.
 * Winston: Oh, no, no. This is just some assorted herbs, some cheeba.
 * Don Johnston: Let me see that
 * [takes a drag of cigarette]
 * Don Johnston: Yep, it's just cannabis sativa.

 * Don Johnston: Wanna get a drink?
 * Carmen: No, I don't drink.
 * Don Johnston: Later, get something to eat?
 * Carmen: I don't... eat.

 * Sun Green: So, what's your name?
 * Don Johnston: Don Johnston.
 * Sun Green: Really? Don Johnson?
 * Don Johnston': No, not Johnson. Johnston, with "t".

 * Don Johnston: Did I give you that necklace?
 * Dora: No.
 * Don Johnston: I should have.

 * The Kid: So, as just a guy who gave another guy a sandwich, you have any philosophical tips or anything, for a guy on a-kind of- road trip?
 * Don Johnston: You asking me?
 * The Kid: Yeah.
 * Don Johnston: Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

 * [after he gets punched]
 * Sun Green: Are you OK?
 * Don Johnston: It was just a minor misunderstanding.

 * The Kid: What happened to your eye?
 * Don Johnston: I, uh .., I ran into somebody. Somebody's fist.

 * Don Johnston: Hold on a second. Wait. I know you think that I'm your father, don't you?
 * The Kid: What?
 * Don Johnston: Just tell me. You can talk to me, chief.
 * The Kid: Man, you're fucked up!
 * Don Johnston: Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait!

Taglines

 * Sometimes life brings some strange surprises.

Cast

 * Bill Murray — Don Johnston
 * Jeffrey Wright – Winston
 * Sharon Stone – Laura Daniels Miller
 * Frances Conroy – Dora Anderson
 * Christopher McDonald – Ron Anderson
 * Jessica Lange – Dr. Carmen Markowski
 * Tilda Swinton – Penny
 * Julie Delphy – Sherry
 * Alexis Dziena – Lolita Miller
 * Chloë Sevigny – Carmen's Assistant
 * Pell James – Sun Green
 * Mark Webber – The Kid

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Alarine. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Alarine~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:41, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Alarine~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:John palumbo

Welcome
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title: User talk:John palumbo


text:
User talk:Lassic81~enwikiquote

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote.
 * To ask for help or to talk with another editor, visit our Village pump.
 * To browse Wikiquote, take a look at our browsing start page.
 * To sign with a date, write four tildes (~~) and save.
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 * Be bold.

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Lassic81. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Lassic81~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:29, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:51, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Lassic81~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Mavelie~enwikiquote

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote.
 * To ask for help or to talk with another editor, visit our Village pump.
 * To browse Wikiquote, take a look at our browsing start page.
 * To sign with a date, write four tildes (~~) and save.
 * Before creating new articles, consult our guide. You may practice how to edit a page at Sandbox.
 * Be bold.

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Mavelie. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Mavelie~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Mavelie~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Chuckler~enwikiquote

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote.
 * To ask for help or to talk with another editor, visit our Village pump.
 * To browse Wikiquote, take a look at our browsing start page.
 * To sign with a date, write four tildes (~~) and save.
 * Before creating new articles, consult our guide. You may practice how to edit a page at Sandbox.
 * Be bold.

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Chuckler. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Chuckler~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:44, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Chuckler~enwikiquote