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“I think the first glimpse of my true personality was the moment when I realised I could aspire beyond the thin blue film of the sky into the black abyss of space.”
― Victor Pelevin, Omon Ra

“Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.”
― Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That's the real reason we have horror films - they act as shock absorbers - and if they disappeared altogether, I bet you'd see a big leap in the number of serial killers. After all, anyone stupid enough to get the idea of murdering people from a movie could get the same idea from watching the news.”
― Ryu Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“Life amounts to what we experience, not what we consume, but I’m afraid we’ve become a nation of consumers.”
― Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

“Proof of Life (ActionDram 3.1, with a Meg Ryan plug-in) greatly bolsters my opinion that Meg Ryan has no talent other than being just as cute as a little button.”
― Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

“The pace is slower than the Great Boston Molasses Spill of 1919.”
― Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

“For the love of all that is holy and decent, do not see Town & Country. Not at a theater, not on video, not on cable, satellite, or broadcast television. Do not glance at it as it spills out from someone’s portable DVD player.”
― Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

“But one of the amazing and enduring things about cinema is its ability to take a frozen section of a period of time and allow us to recall moods and emotions we had and have no more.”
― Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

“Be white, dress conservatively, and look Republican, and you could disembowel someone in broad daylight and get away with it.”
― Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

“If nothing else, Rocky Horror proves that the line between the scary and the plainly dumb is as old as the horror genre itself.”
― Kevin Murphy, A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

“Ed Wood may not have had the talent of an artist, he may not have had the skills of an artist, but he had the soul of an artist.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“White people committed more crimes in movies in the 40s, because having a black man committing a crime in a film meant you had to hire a black man to play the role, and hiring minorities was a low priority for The Greatest Generation.”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“One thing I like about the 1950s is that kids were hip without any sense of irony about it.  They were dressing in fifties cool-cat clothing with complete sincerity.  Nobody wanted to be“retro”back then. With the Depression still fresh in everybody’s mind, did anyone in the 1950s dress up as the Joad family from The Grapes of Wrath, and go to Dust Bowl-themed parties because they thought it was cool?  Probably not.  In the past, the past was something you wanted to forget about rather than romanticize.  I really miss those days. ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“Films like Daddy-O are here to remind us that millennials have been around since long before the millennium. ”
― Frank Conniff, Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

“However, it is well to remember that nature is neither good nor bad, neither altruistic nor egoistic, and that it operates through the human psyche as well as through crystals and plants and animals with the same inexorable laws.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“It is only man's egoism which wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“I am never angry at anything that is natural—”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“People are so caught up in trying to force their own world onto everybody else’s that they don’t even get the fact that the other person doesn’t care.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases -- bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder -- one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

“Perhaps you think I am haunted by the past. On the contrary, I draw from its proximity and heart. All the lessons I have learned are there.”
― Phil Hogan, A Pleasure and a Calling

“It’s not so much remembering as wondering how I am remembered, even as a phantom, by others.”
― Phil Hogan, A Pleasure and a Calling

“I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.”
― Iris Chang

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon