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“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.” -Stanley Kubrick

“This is not a book that should just be tossed aside — it should be thrown with great force.” ?

What are some of your favorites? I’m partial to a great many — some of mine are:
 
“The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.” -Victor Hugo
 
“No man made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do little.” -Edmund Burke
 
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” -J.K. Rowling by way of Albus Dumbledore
 
“Fas est et ab hoste doceri.” (Right it is to be taught by an enemy/a wise man may seek good counsel even from a foe.) -Ovid

When I was maybe 16 my mother told me that I had the intellect of a 35-year-old and the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. Let’s... adjust it for inflation, in a manner of speaking. Intellect: 40. Emotional maturity: 20. The mean of these two values is 30

For an escort, to speak of one is to speak of the other.

I am sorry if I offended you. Frankly, I’m just a little dumbfounded.
 
This entire contretemps was born of your tacit dubiousness as to whether the boy’s parents were responsible for his death. Whether or not I believe that the boy would have wished his parents to perish with him, as you have now twice asked me, is immaterial. This all began with your questions: “What? Why do you believe the parents are responsible rather than the police?” My answer has not changed:
 

Vanity... Definitely my favorite sin.
 
(Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate)

It just may have caught on...?
 
(Kina hora)

I first watched Milk with a girlfriend of mine. In the scene where Sean Penn first meets James Franco and asks to spend time together, she said, “That’s forward...” I’m like... That’s nothing.
 

I respectfully concede, then.

I suppose I’ve supplanted him, then. I’m the usurping Eve Harrington.

It is I.

When I was maybe 16 my mother told me that I had the intellect of a 35-year-old and the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. Let’s... adjust it for inflation, in a manner of speaking. Intellect: 40. Emotional maturity: 20. The mean of these two values is 30

The Supreme Court adjudicated Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.

You'll be amazed how many Americans aren't aware of that either. Even Jewish folks ignore it. I had to tell the younger members of my family about the racism we Irish Americans suffered and some were in disbelief. We were called the N word, so did Italians, Polish, etc.
 
When President Coolidge said "America must remain American" we was talking about us.
 
The KKK was very powerful in Maine not because of blacks that "needed to be kept in place" but because of Irish Catholics from Boston and specially the fear of Quebecois invading from the north to destroy protestant democracy.
 
Terrorism is not new in our country, Anarchists practiced it in the late XIX and early XX century. Most of them were Jews, Eastern European, and Italians and their communities were instrumental in pointing out the bad apples. Sound familiar!
 
History rimes!

I respectfully concede, then.

Client (who is a professor): You could be my boyfriend.
 
Me: Are you tenured?

I love how the bios of some Grindr guys address a certain subset/group of gays and add “to the front of line.” As if there’s really a line of people waiting to get into their pants.

@E.T.Bass this one should be easy:
 

 
(Give her the damn Oscar already!)

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For ya nasty boys (I think the second one in particular makes quite an impression):
 
https://www.cocktailsandcocktalk.com/2019/10/big-dick-reveal-parties-are-the-celebration-were-choosing-for-2020/

Speaking of fathers and their daughters’ work: I wonder sometimes about The Diary of Anne Frank. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, published it after she died. Some speculate that much of it was fabricated. I myself have trouble finding credible a quote she purportedly composed herself in her diary: “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Perhaps I’m just jaded.
 
I took two classes on the Holocaust. In one of them each member of the class had to do a brief presentation on one Holocaust diary (dozens of them are extant — Anne Frank was not the only Jew who kept one). My particular one was written by a twelve-year-old boy. He lived with his parents and the three swore that when the police came to call, rather than be taken away, they would all immediately ingest cyanide tablets that the father had procured, in the interest of leaving this world on their own terms. The police eventually did come to their home, and the boy took a cyanide tablet immediately as his parents had earlier instructed him to do, as they had all agreed to do. His last words reportedly were: “Daddy, the cyani—“ and then he dropped dead. The police officials were so horrified by this that they just left. The parents survived the Holocaust and had another child. It really annoyed me. I felt great disdain for those parents. What the hell?
 
Side note: He and his parents lived in a “ghetto.” Until those classes I don’t think I was aware of the term originally referring to living quarters for Jews during the Holocaust.

From The House of Yes:

Boy, it’s been a long day.

Not as long as yesterday! Yesterday was 24 hours.

I meant with traveling and all.

It’s no easier staying in one place. Take it from one who knows.

Are you being wise? I think you’re being wise.

I knew it would happen that one day I’d just wake up wise.

One day I woke up stupid.

You did?

It was terrible.

What did you do?

I went back to sleep.

That was wise!

It’s the original interpretation!
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