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Was he on TV when he said that?
Good one…
‘To give birth to a dancing star, one must have Chaos within oneself’ -Nietzsche
im not sure if he was talking about disco here…
lol @ nietsche disco
Borges quotes:
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much. It is also venturesome to think that of all these illustrious coordinations, one of them — at least in an infinitesimal way — does not resemble the universe a bit more than the others.
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially… I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
such an awesome author, master of the short story
lmfao
Lady Astor: “If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.”
Churchill: “If I were married to you, I’d drink it.”
“Too many sheeps and not enough shepherds. Let’s all sit back and have a long hard think, then make something different! We can all do it, surely?” © Aphex Twin
“One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain” (с) Bob Marley
Live today to the fullest, tomorrow is not promised.
“40-50Hz from those is like a wall falling on you”
someone on the Speakerplans forum, referring to a certain stack of subs
Life is hard, and then you die - Dempsey
from the excellent tv-series Dempsey and Makepeace.
We lost the war on drugs . . . let’s party! - My brothers T-shirt.
Some of my personal favorites -
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery” - Dante Alighieri
“Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself” - Jean Paul Sartre
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” - Isaac Asimov
“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” - Langston Hughes
ok… a friend working at a hotel here in Norway, recently got a rather mindblowing question from an american tourist that stayed at the hotel - which makes up my favourite quote so far this year:
“So… do you have the same problem with icebears here in Norway as we have with the negros back in the New S of A?” - american tourist visiting norway
and he was not kidding, I assure you!
WHAT THE FECK IS UP WITH A QUESTION LIKE THAT?
american renoisers: defend yourselves
“Hell is other people” Jean-Paul Sartre
edit: after reading that Sartre reply, it may look like I was defending the rascist but I was not.
edit: “defend yourselves” should be the American mantra…
edit: …defend yourself from hate groups, toxic dumps, the raping of greedy businessmen, education system, etc.
“Nothing lasts… but nothing is lost.” - William Blake
“You’ve got to be conscious in everything that you do.” - Asian Dub Foundation
“Property is theft.” - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Sow life around you… Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.” - Peter Kropotkin
“If I can’t dance, I want no part of your revolution.” - Emma Goldman
“This machine kills fascists” - slogan written on Woody Guthrie’s guitar
“Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi
“Just sex, drugs and literature.”