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[Gouda]

“We’re changing the things that people couldn’t change for decades”

-- Tim Geithner

[dada]

Customs agent: What are you on?

Zappa: I'm on duty.

[MacCruiskeen]

He looks old and it is a sorry sight to see him solitary after so many years, so many days and nights unthinkingly given to that rumour rising at birth and even earlier, What shall I do? What shall I do?, now low, a murmur, now precise as the headwaiter’s And to follow? and often rising to a scream.

- Samuel Beckett, Molloy

[barracuda]

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described."

- Garry Winogrand

[bobdobbs]

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

H.P. Lovecraft
"Pickman's Model"

[AhabsOtherLeg]

He looks old and it is a sorry sight to see him solitary after so many years, so many days and nights unthinkingly given to that rumour rising at birth and even earlier, What shall I do? What shall I do?, now low, a murmur, now precise as the headwaiter’s And to follow? and often rising to a scream.

- Samuel Beckett, Molloy

"You like Beckett's prose? You enjoy Beckett's prose?"

- Martin Amis, speaking to an unimpressed Salman Rushdie.

[MacCruiskeen]

Amis is a bawbag.

- Moi.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Aye. Yur right enough.

- Me

[MacCruiskeen]

"'Running Up That Hill,' a woman's orgasm in 4:58."

- Robert Christgau

[thesmokingpants]

"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
-- Philip K. Dick

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
--S. Dali


It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that seperates ignorance from knowledge
--- Voltaire

[Gouda]

"...even Barack Obama, who descended to earth from Chicago with 10 gilded seraphim holding up his balls, doesn't screw with the corporate money changers."

-- Joe Bageant

[justdrew]

I know a single word that proves our democratic government is capable of committing obscene, gleefully rabid, racist, yahooistic murder, of unarmed men, women, and children. Murders wholly devoid of military common sense. The word is a foreign word, the word is Nagasaki.

- Kurt Vonnegut

[dada]

When Karzai visited a village that was destroyed in the Farah province in May he said he would pay for new marriage celebrations for those who lost their wives.

This was like putting salt on the heart of my people. Now this shameless puppet is running in the presidential elections. His running mates are two war criminals.

This election is a showcase for the US government to deceive people around the world.

If all that happens is that we replace one puppet with another, then we have no hope in these elections.

As we say in Afghanistan, It’s like putting a new saddle on an old donkey.

- Malalai Joya

[chiggerbit]

We did not go to seek them;
they asked for land of us,
because their country was too little
for all the men that were in it.
We told them they might take land where they pleased;
there was enough for them and for us;
that it was good that the same sun should shine upon us both,
and that we would walk as friends in the same path;
and that we would give them of our provisions,
assist them to build, and to labor in their fields.
We have done so; is this not true?
What occasion then had we for Frenchmen?
Before they came did we not live better than we do,
seeing we deprive ourselves of a part of our corn,
our game, and fish, to give to them?
Was it for their guns?
The bows and arrows which we used,
were sufficient to make us live well.
Was it for their white, blue, and red blankets?
We can do well enough with buffalo skins, which are warmer.
In fine, before the arrival of the French,
we lived like men who can be satisfied with what they have;
whereas now we are like slaves

-Natchez chief Tattooed Serpent, with regard to the influence of the French, 1720's, as reported by Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz

[Sweejak]

Kashoggi is like the Forrest Gump of the deep state world.
-- 8bitagent