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Monday, December 05, 2005

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OK I know the question you've all been asking... "What did happen to all that hair?" No? OK, "Where the fcuk have you been for weeks...?"... Ah, that will be it...

Well the truth, apart from 10 days of 'Oral Misery' which I'm not even going to start recanting for fear of upsetting all you dentophobics out there, it seems that at present 'Time' is just against me, "People find life entirely too time-consuming" and in my case this is down to work...

But I'm not going to harp on about the last weeks... Instead I find myself pondering tonight a question asked me today by a friend... The question arrived via email, had nothing in the Body, but in the subject line it just asked 'Favourite Quote?'

As one with a limited intellect I do tend to use other people material quite considerably... Or to Quote D Sayers "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought", so all my friend was asking was, who's material and which statement do I like best?

Umm...

The retort... One already prominent on the right had side of my BLOG...

"I know most of you have been where I am tonight: the crash site of unrequited love..." - Northern Exposure...

Yes your right, Northern Exposure, only the best television program ever to be aired... A program so blissfully adorned with magical writing it is almost spiritual...

Obliviously though, because said friend was female, this wasn't actually the answer she was seeking, infact she wanted a far shorter snappy quote. [I mean how could I of been so stupid to miss interrupt the question 'Favourite Quote?'... Doh :-/]

So anyhow, after a few email interactions determining what inevitably was too long, too short or not happy enough etc. etc. I went from the Northern Exposure Ode to 'Fcuk Off', which I think you'll agree is far shorter, snappy and profound ;-)

But as I was driving home it got me thinking... What is the Quote to end all quotes? I mean, what quote can you use in defence against those pretentious people that just use clever quotation answers for everything? And was this the quote my friend was seeking all along?

So then, here you have it then... The Mother of all Quotes... [I've built it up a bit now, and it's not that good, but hey... ;-) ]

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Mr.Wilde

Check Mate... :-)

Ciao 4 Now
Confused from Chichester

I BLOG (Occasionally) There4 I Am

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Anonymous said...: F*ck off! That got my attention. heehee I love quotes, but my mind has come to a blank at this moment. So "screw you"! heehee Welcome Back!; 10:22 pm
gemmak said...: ......sorry, was just picking myself up off the floor, the surprise and shock of finding you back in residence overcame me momentarily......; 10:39 pm
Anonymous said...: A certain friend of yours uses and collects quotations. You may have heard a few. "As sharp as a tennis ball". "As good looking as the north end of a southbound horse" all collected during business meetings. He has some intellectual ones as well.; 8:53 am
Anonymous said...: "tell me the time...not how the watch works"

"We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."

Ring any bells...lets make a do!; 5:17 pm
Fletch said...: Tw: Hiya Babe... "Now Piss the Fcuk off"... ;-) Sorry thought we were exchanging expletives ;-)

Gem: Hah Bloody Hah ;-)

Anon1: Is there an Ironing ones Ear Quote in there? ;-)

Anon2: RU A Time Traveler then? ;-); 5:34 pm
Anonymous said...: Humans are in fact always travelling in time — in a linear fashion, from the present to the immediate future, inexorably, until death; 4:55 pm
Anonymous said...: 'We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are gaxing in the shops'.; 8:59 am

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"I know why you're here. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer...."

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D: "Where is everybody, Hol?"
H: "They're dead, Dave."
D: "Who is?"
H: "Everybody, Dave."
D: "What, Captain Hollister?"
H: "Everybody's dead, Dave."
D: "What, Todhunter?"
H: "Everybody's dead, Dave."
D: "What, Selby?"
H: "They're all dead. Everybody's dead, Dave."
D: "Petersen isn't, is he?"
H: "Everybody is dead, Dave."
D: "Not Chen?"
H: "Gordon Bennett! Yes! Chen, everybody. Everybody's dead, Dave"
D: "Rimmer?"
H: "He's dead, Dave. Everybody's dead. Everybody is dead, Dave!"
D: "Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?"
H: "I wish I'd never let him out in the first place."

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"I know most of you have been where I am tonight: the crash site of unrequited love. You've asked yourself, how did I get here? What was it about--was it her smile, Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle? The poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart?...."

"That's an age-old question; it's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night. Hey, you said it best, Will: "Love looks not with eyes but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind." Yeah....."

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"Well one day I was at home threatening the kids when I looks out through the hole in the wall and sees this tank pull up and out gets one of Dinsdale's boys, so he comes in nice and friendly and says Dinsdale wants to have a word with me, so he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's place and Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and two film producers and a man they called 'Kierkegaard', who just sat there biting the heads of whippets and Dinsdale says 'I hear you've been a naughty boy Clement' and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out and I tell him my name's not Clement and then... he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor..."

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"If u hold back anything Ill kill ya. If u bend the truth or I think your bending the truth, Ill kill ya. If u forget anything Ill kill ya. In fact ur gonna have to work very hard to stay alive. Now do u understand everything Ive said? Because if u dont, Ill kill ya...."

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"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. "

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The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

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Love comes when manipulation stops. When you think more about the other person than about his or her reaction to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Monday, December 05, 2005

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