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05-20-2017 , 08:49 PM

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Kintamayama

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There are no survivors on this earth!
-Carlos Castaneda (Don Juan)

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05-20-2017 , 09:04 PM

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Putin3000

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05-20-2017 , 09:09 PM

#28

W0X0F

sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 5,830

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

- The Aeneid

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05-21-2017 , 03:26 AM

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Diogenes of Sinope

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Translation from W0X0F's text for those who do not speak Latin (keep in mind, Latin is a language that is not spoken in order; thus, it may sound a little like Yoda):

Shorn my balls are up the rectum of your dead aunt they go.

Hope this helps.

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05-21-2017 , 03:41 AM

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Diogenes of Sinope

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Given the current state of the world, I grow increasingly fond of the following by William Butler Yeats:

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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05-21-2017 , 04:00 AM

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iillllii

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Faulkner is so much better than every other writer who ever lived (save only for Dostoevsky I reckon) that you can grab anything he ever wrote, flip to a random page and own a thread like this. I tried it with the nearest thing on my bookshelf, Wild Palms, and I liked "My trouble is, every time I tell either the truth or a lie I seem to have to sell myself on the idea first."

Hemingway, on the other hand, wasn't very good.

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05-21-2017 , 08:56 AM

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DrChesspain

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“So some people got free furniture, and some people got bubonic plague"

Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut

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05-21-2017 , 10:07 AM

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kioshk

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This is aids.

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05-21-2017 , 10:23 AM

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A_C_Slater

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"He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used." -- Faulkner on Hemingway

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use." -- Hemingway in response

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05-21-2017 , 12:57 PM

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ninetynine99

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Originally Posted by kioshk

This is aids.

Good one. Citation required tho.

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05-21-2017 , 02:05 PM

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redbuck

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"Reacher said nothing"
Lee Child

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05-23-2017 , 05:11 AM

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Louis Cyphre

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

Spoiler:

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05-23-2017 , 05:21 AM

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Mr.mmmKay

Drugs are bad...

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Originally Posted by ninetynine99

Good one. Citation required tho.

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Originally Posted by kioshk

This is aids.

-Einstein

fixed

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