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""You can replace forests with plantations. You can also arrange Beethoven's Ninth for solo kazoo. A suburban backyard has more diversity than a tree farm!"" — Jun 13, 2026 10:07AM
""You can replace forests with plantations. You can also arrange Beethoven's Ninth for solo kazoo. A suburban backyard has more diversity than a tree farm!"" — Jun 13, 2026 10:07AM
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""For the first time, as opposed to just sucking at everything and getting nothing from life except hate and failure, suddenly I'm getting positive reinforcement from something I'm doing. We all were."
-Tommy Stinson" — Jun 06, 2026 07:18AM
""For the first time, as opposed to just sucking at everything and getting nothing from life except hate and failure, suddenly I'm getting positive reinforcement from something I'm doing. We all were."
-Tommy Stinson" — Jun 06, 2026 07:18AM
At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that being alive is a crock of shit.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.”
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“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel.”
― After Dark
― After Dark
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