quote time #1

a few of my favorite quotes.

"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh"- Magus, Chrono trigger.

"I have only one way to live. It doesn't allow for special cases. A coin toss perhaps. In This case to small purpose. Most people don't believe there can be such a person. you can see what a problem that must be for them. How to prevail over that you refuse to acknowledge the existence of. Do you understand? when I came into your life, your life was over. It had a Beginning, a middle and an end. This is the end. You can say things could have been some other way. But what does that mean? they are not some other way. they are this way. You are asking me to second say the world Do you see?"- Anton Chigur, No country for old men.

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."- M. C. Escher.

 "who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade,"- Allen Ginsberg, Howl

"There is no spoon"-Orphan monk, The Matrix

"I am Jack's wasted life"-Narrator, Fight Club

"And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say:  "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all''--
If one, settling a pillow by her head, 

Should say: ``That is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all.'' -T.S. Elliot, Lovesong Of J. Alfred Prufrock

"Freedom is the freedom to say 2 plus 2 equals 4...

To die hating them, that is freedom...

Freedom is slavery"-George Orwell, 1984

""All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.""Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.

"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.

"A semi-circle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at all."- William Golding, Lord of the Flies.

"In this town, you can buy lives with money. Make enough money some day, and you can buy mine." Suigetsu, speed gapher, to a boy after hanging his father.

"No reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke

But you and I, 

we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late"- Bob Dylan, All along the watch tower.

"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. It begins like this: "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." It ends like this: "Poo-tee-weet?""- Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse five.

"I killed you, Mister Anderson, I watched you die... With a certain satisfaction, I might add, and then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mister Anderson. Afterward, I knew the rules, I understood what I was supposed to do but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now here I stand because of you, Mister Anderson, because of you I'm no longer an agent of the system, because of you
I've changed - I'm unplugged - a new man, so to speak, like you, apparently free."-Smith, The Matrix Reloaded