April 2010
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The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
She was filled with a strange wild unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love. Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it. Its like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, but it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can’t imagine how you...
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“Those are the most interesting ones - the stories that we never tell anyone.”
– Zach, Desperate Housewives, 1.05
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“Being coy is a strategy best employed by virgins at their first dance. For women...”
– Mrs Huber, Desperate Housewives, 1.04
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“Move over refrigerators - here’s what’s cool.”
– Murray, Flight of the Conchords, 2.08
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Flight of the Conchords, 2.08
Dave: You guys seem a little cooler than usual today. Usually you wear clothes from the '70s.
Jemaine: They're not from the '70s, they're from New Zealand.
Dave: Uh, isn't that the same thing?
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once....”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the...”
– Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
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“Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it’s nothing more than a lot of new age...”
– Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People
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24 Hour Party People
Roger Ames: Tony, you're fucking mad.
Tony Wilson: Well, that is a point of view.
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“Well, this is goodbye. I mean, we obviously have nothing in common. I’m a...”
– Martin Hannett, 24 Hour Party People
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“# I have protected myself from ever having to sell out by having nothing to sell...”
– Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People
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“I don’t want to say too much, don’t want to spoil it. I’ll...”
– Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People
The Hamish & Andy Show, Wednesday 7th April 2010
Hamish: You know who I look to in times like this for inspiration?
Andy: Me?
Hamish: No. I look to you if I'm ever entering a beauty pageant.