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    Thomas Pynchon
    “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
    tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: absurd, bad-reviews, boring, complain, literary-criticism, lotr, opinions, reviews, tolkien
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner: Early Stories
    tags: writing
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  • #5
    “Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: focus, illusion, life, understanding
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Why should things be easy to understand?”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
    tags: epistemology, puzzle, thinking, understanding, universe
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner: Early Stories
    tags: writing
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
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  • #10
    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
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  • #11
    “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: writing
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  • #12
    “Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: humor
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    “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: action, creating, humor, inspirational
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  • #14
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
    And the nursling of the Sky;
    I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
    I change, but I cannot die.
    For after the rain when with never a stain
    The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
    And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
    Build up the blue dome of air,
    I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
    And out of the caverns of rain,
    Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
    I arise and unbuild it again.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
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  • #15
    “People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: television, writing
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  • #16
    “Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: buffy, joss-whedon, passion, season-2, ty-king
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    “Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: buffy-the-vampire-slayer, changes, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-discovery, strength, whistler
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    “The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: determination, hero, heroism, making-amends, persistance, right
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  • #19
    Angel: If nothing we do in this world matters, then the only thing that matters
    “Angel: If nothing we do in this world matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do.”
    ― Tim Minear, Angel: After the Fall, Vol. 1
    tags: anti-nihilism
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  • #20
    “It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: creativity, humour, inspiration, passion
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  • #21
    “The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: hope, inspiration-through-art, strength
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  • #22
    “Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: humour
    50 likes



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