I know what acting is. I understand the concept. Doesn’t matter. I hate Joffrey so much that I hate the fucking actor who plays him. He has some Joffrey in him that’s how he’s so convincing! I say we burn that guy once the show is over, just in case.
The customer who has taken to calling me Disco Tugboat is my favorite customer.
It would be funny if you got into heaven to just keep bringing up the fact that Jesus was a Jew to Jesus. Like ask him about every stereotype.
Hey Jesus, do you like bagels?
When in doubt, read the last paragraph of A Moveable Feast:
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
“Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be “white”— they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and others engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity.”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
“A deepity (a term coined by the daughter of my late friend, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum) is a proposition that seems both important and true – and profound – but that achieves this effect by being ambiguous. On one reading, it is manifestly false, but it would be earth-shaking if it were true; on the other reading, it is true but trivial. The unwary listener picks up the glimmer of truth from the second reading, and the devastating importance from the first reading, and thinks, Wow! That’s a deepity.
Here is an example (better sit down: this is heavy stuff): Love is just a word.”
—Daniel Dennett, Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking
“How to compose a successful critical commentary:
1. Attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly and fairly that your target says: “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
2. List any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3. Mention anything you have learned from your target.
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.”
—Daniel Dennett, Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking
“As we saw in “The Da Vinci Code,” there is no thriller-plot convention, however well worn, that Brown doesn’t like. The hero has amnesia. He is up against a mad scientist with Nietzschean goals. He’s also up against a deadline: in less than twenty-four hours, he has been told, the madman’s black arts will be forcibly practiced upon the world.” — Joan Acocella, Dante in Translation and in Dan Brown’s “Inferno”
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” —
Thoreau.
Adam’s fears include rats and going to the grave with the song still in him.