The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Snarf Zagyg]

“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”
- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

When a certain stage of responsibility and awareness has been reached by a young banker he is taken to a room lined with family portraits in the middle of which is an ornate gilded toilet. Here he comes every day to defecate surrounded by the family portraits until he realizes that money is s*. And what does the money machine eat to s* it out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity. There was a time when the machine ate in moderation from a plentiful larder and what it ate was replaced. Now the machine is eating faster.

Flannery O'Connor's issue wasn't that she was dark; it was that she was sugar-coating reality.

 

[dragoner]

Flannery O'Connor's issue wasn't that she was dark; it was that she was sugar-coating reality.

She's dark like a southern gothic fingerprint on the rose colored lenses looking to the post ww2 era. I think I remember another quote by her: "You can't be any poorer than dead."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

She's dark like a southern gothic fingerprint on the rose colored lenses looking to the post ww2 era. I think I remember another quote by her: "You can't be any poorer than dead."

Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.

We are young.
Heartache to heartache we stand.
No promises, no demands.

 

[payn]

“That man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.” - Judge Holden

Cormac McCarthy from the un-filmable Blood Meridian

 

[dragoner]

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."
-Blood Meridian

Another quote about truth.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."
-Blood Meridian

Another quote about truth.

He felt a killing hate for the stupid, ordinary, disapproving people who kept him from doing what he wanted to do. "Someday I am going to have things just like I want," he said to himself. "And if any moralizing son of a bitch gives me any static, they will fish him out of the river."

That is the truth; we just gussy up falsehoods around it to make ourselves feel better. #mywayisthetrueway

 

[CleverNickName]

"Now that's entertainment!"
-Vlaad the Impaler, c. 1475, possibly referring to gnomes

 

[payn]

"Well the truth is usually just an excuse for lack of an imagination"
-Elam Garak

 

[Ryujin]

"That's entertainment!" - Caligula

 

[payn]

When you need a Hawaiian pizza; who you gonna call?