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Only an approximation because I can’t remember the exact source (I know its a Humphrey Bogart flick)
“You ain’t got what she’s got, and what you do have you used to have “

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03-24-2020 , 10:16 AM

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Rebelp

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And from Samuel Beckett
“ I can’t go on. I’ll go on”

Last edited by Rebelp; 03-24-2020 at 10:20 AM. Reason: From “The unnamable” if I remember correctly

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03-24-2020 , 10:21 AM

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More from mr Beckett
I have no bone to pick with graveyards

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03-25-2020 , 10:09 PM

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F1 commentator Murray Walker
“Unless I am very much mistaken ... and I am very much mistaken “

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03-29-2020 , 01:40 PM

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Mulezen

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“Peace comes of communication”
Ezra Pound

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03-29-2020 , 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Phat Mack

This one I'm going to remember.

What with the son Junior down the road reopening his “university” the Falwells are on my mind. The old man was a destructive buffoon the son worse.

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03-29-2020 , 07:31 PM

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That gal's got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that. You got your hands full kid

Wade Garrett

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03-30-2020 , 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mulezen

What with the son Junior down the road reopening his “university” the Falwells are on my mind. The old man was a destructive buffoon the son worse.

I've been following this story for the last several days and just found out it is *not* from The Onion.

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03-30-2020 , 09:22 AM

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^ I quite understand your confusion

“Last week I saw a woman flay’dAnd you will hardly believe how it altered her Person for the worse”
Swift

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03-30-2020 , 04:35 PM

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“Roger Miller Came from a town in Oklahoma so small and so poor ‘that we didn’t have a town drunk, so we had to take turns’”

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03-31-2020 , 07:25 AM

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Dolly Parton grew up so poor that she didn’t know what shoes were till she turned 30

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04-06-2020 , 11:57 PM

#87

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A candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

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04-07-2020 , 09:08 AM

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Mulezen

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“Between the idea and the act...there falls the shadow”
TS Eliot

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04-07-2020 , 09:09 AM

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I'm going to see how many Proverbs from Hell I can recall from memory. Let's start with,

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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04-07-2020 , 09:15 AM

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Laughable false & highly douchey

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My philosophy is: it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

-Anthony Hopkins

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04-07-2020 , 09:15 AM

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And what I consider its corollary:

One never knows what is enough until one knows what is more than enough.

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04-07-2020 , 09:53 AM

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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaf on which to lay her eggs, so the priest chooses the fairest joys on which to lay his curse.

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04-07-2020 , 09:54 AM

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Prisons are made with the brick of law. Brothels are made with the bricks of religion.

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04-07-2020 , 09:55 AM

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One law for both lion and ox is tyranny.

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04-07-2020 , 09:56 AM

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The eagle never flew so low as when he stooped to learn of the crow.

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04-07-2020 , 10:06 AM

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Great, perhaps, but not Rebelpian.

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04-07-2020 , 03:36 PM

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Blake was quite the card. As was Eliot.

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand." --Ezra Pound

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04-07-2020 , 03:39 PM

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"Don't kick against the pricks."--God

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04-07-2020 , 03:57 PM

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“It ain’t love but it ain’t bad” maybe Merle Haggard

Agree heartily with above Pound quote

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04-08-2020 , 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Mulezen

“It ain’t love but it ain’t bad” maybe Merle Haggard

Agree heartily with above Pound quote

I don't remember the exact quote, but someone was complaining to Pound about Eliot being a sort of pretentious snob.

Pound said, "Oh, that's just Eliot. But he doesn't come HERE dressed as Westminster Cathedral."

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