“We had a great maintenance test pilot on 894 Squadron, Jim Fricker. I went off on a test flight with him off Malta. We did the test and Jim said, ‘OK, let’s see how fast it’ll go’. He pointed us vertically down and we got up to .86 Mach
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“Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
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“Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]”
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“Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
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ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.”
― Alphaville
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
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ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.”
― Alphaville
“There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.”
― Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations
― Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations
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