What are your favorite quotes from your favorite authors?

This one's mine.

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"They use me like they use the potato in Europe - my flower and fruit (humour and jokes) are picked, my root-bulb (philosophy) is thrown away."

>>9745993
I love how snarky and self reitious the liberal specimen sounds

>>9745993
>when you try to get some good commentary on an author's work from the man himself but he's just interested in cool one-liners for those sweet virtue points

>>9745993
inb4 so it goes

>>9746609
>>9747210
and it isn't like Game of Thrones is a masterpiece of feminism, it's basically porn with dragons in it. to liberals 'strong female characters'= femdom

>>9745993
>virtue signal about how much you respect women
>write all of your female characters as basically masturbatory aids
being a rich liberal really allows you to have the best of both world

>>9747219
>write all of your female characters as basically masturbatory aids
Can you be more wrong than this?

>>9747210
>he's just interested in cool one-liners for those sweet virtue points
what, did you expect the GoT author to have something profound to say?

>>9745993
>this triggers the Schopenhauer fags

>>9747231
>implying game of thrones isn't pure wank material

>>9747245
The TV series is, the books have their fair share of sex scenes, but they're relatively few and far apart given the length of each book.

>>9747231
>pink
>fat
>mast

>the more she drank the more she shat

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/884179939905466368

>>9745993
“Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, that we keep them amused with trifles so that we may more easily remain their masters; they blame us for the faults we attribute to them. What stupidity! And since when is it men who concern themselves with the education of girls? Who is preventing the mothers from raising them as they please? There are no schools for girls—what a tragedy! Would God, there were none for boys! They would be raised more sensibly and more straightforwardly. Is anyone forcing your daughters to waste their time on foolish trifles? Are they forced against their will to spend half their lives on their appearance, following your example? Are you prevented from instructing them, or having them instructed according to your wishes? Is it our fault if they please us when they are beautiful, if their airs and graces seduce us, if the art they learn from you attracts and flatters us, if we like to see them tastefully attired, if we let them display at leisure the weapons with which they subjugate us? Well then, decide to raise them like men; the men will gladly agree; the more women want to resemble them, the less women will govern them, and then men will truly be the masters.”
People truly ought to realize SJWs are a boon to men.

>>9746609
Moron?

>>9745993
>he considers women to be people
Edgy

>>9746609
>self reitious
Holy shit, the irony of the Trumptard acting condescending, like liberals are an inferior species, and then bastardizing "self-righteous."

>>9747281
>People truly ought to realize SJWs are a boon to men.
You assume SJW = equality.
It's just preferential to women. they don't become more like man, they don't compete with men. They have their quotas,special programs, preference in court and whatnot.
They fear true equality.

>>9748254
You speak like someone who has never met a woman in your life.

>>9748395
Not an argument.

>>9748810
Yes, you do not have the evidence to formulate an argument.

>>9748834
>They have their quotas,special programs, preference in court and whatnot.
How is it incorrect?

>>9748840
How would you know any of these things?
First off, provide evidence that what you're saying is true. Now.

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>>9748250
Oh, the double irony! A liberal still so buttmad muh Klumpf won that they gulp down obvious bait like it's their wifes boyfriends semen

>>9748983
Oh, the triple irony! A Trumper still so buttmad muh Klumpf lost the popular vote that they gulp down obvious bait like it's their wifes boyfriends semen

>>9748993
Is that you, Amy Schumer?

>>9745993

What a fat smug piece of shit

>Women are like children, only grown up — Wilkie Collins

Is one of my favorite authorial quotes, especially in the context of his popularity among female readers

>>9749002
Is that you, Amy Schumer?

>>9747231
>Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning.

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>>9748993

LMAO why would any Trump voter be buttmad that a botched vote-rigging resulted in the victory outcome for Trump that most triggers leftshits like yourself? He's president and he's going to be president and leader of the Free world for EIGHT YEARS and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT XDD

>>9748254
>You assume SJW = equality.
Egalitarians in Athens killed Socrates (he thought different), egalitarians in France killed the king (he was born to the wrong caste), egalitarians massacred millions in Soviet Union and World War 2...
SJWs are egalitarians. They just want equality in hell, in the depths they reside in. Everything must suffer, what else?
>You are a white male, and we don't believe you have suffered enough to fulfill our equality quota!
People in hell don't ask to get out, they ask others to go in.

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>>9745993
I'll give you some quotes, OP. These aren't necessarily my favorites, but I like them.

>"The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past." - Jose Luis Borges

>"I grow old ...I grow old ...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." - T.S. Eliot

>"Did we falter when love took us with a gust of great desire? Does the barley bid the wind wait in His course?" - Sappho

>"All that man esteems endures a moment or a day...Whatever flames upon the night, Man's own resinous heart has fed." - W.B. Yeats

>>9749042
This is a joke post, I assume?

>>9749502
I assume.

>google "light treason"
>one of the first suggestions is "light treason trump"
Interesting.

Hm.

>>9749006
>Women are like children, only grown up

So are men. Adults are big babies.

>>9750045
not sure if you are just trolling at this point but goddamn it, you are so blue pilled that you can't be considered a white knight, you're straight a blue knight.

>>9750123
You probably don't even realize that redpilled and bluepilled are references to a children's movie made by "trannies" as you call them.

This.

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>Yo soy de los que creen que el ser humano está condenado de antemano a la derrota, a la derrota sin apelaciones, pero que hay que salir y dar la pelea y darla, además, de la mejor forma posible, de cara y limpiamente, sin pedir cuartel (porque además no te lo darán), e intentar caer como un valiente, y que eso es nuestra victoria.

Sums up his whole work pretty well too

>>9750322
For the uninitiated, I used my superior translation technique to decipher this. Here you go.

>I am one of those who believe that the human being is condemned in advance to defeat, to defeat without appeals, but that we must go out and give the fight and give it, in the best possible way, face and cleanly, without Ask for barracks (because they will not give it to you), and try to fall like a brave, and that is our victory.

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>>9750337
>face and cleanly, without Ask for barracks

>>9750128
>make one great movie
>start transitioning
>movies become trash
like pottery

>>9750350
>Matrix
>great
Get this pleb off /lit/, NOW.

>>9747210
>wants authors to do extended explaination of their works
pseud

>>9750351
>only like what I like please
grow up

>Sometimes, when I listen to these people talking, and still more when I read their books, I get the impression that, to them, the whole Socialist movement is no more than a kind of exciting heresy-hunt — a leaping to and fro of frenzied witch-doctors to the beat of tom-toms and the tune of ‘Fee fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a right-wing deviationist!’ It is because of this kind of thing that it is so much easier to feel yourself a Socialist when you are among working-class people. The working-class Socialist, like the working-class Catholic, ‘s weak on doctrine and can hardly open his mouth without uttering a heresy, but he has the heart of the matter in him. He does grasp the central fact that Socialism means the overthrow of tyranny, and the ‘Marseillaise’, if it were translated for his benefit, would appeal to him more deeply than any learned treatise on dialectical materialism.

>>9750360
Go back to /pol/ with your LARPing and children's memes.

From William Faulkner's interview with the Paris Review's Art of Fiction. I'm not even going to look it up, this is from memory:

"Success is feminine and like a woman. If you cringe before her, she will override you. The way to treat her, then, is to show her the back of your hand. Then she will do the crawling."

He said almost the same thing a time or two in the archives of his lectures/Q&As at Virginia.

I wonder if liberal and progressive people will ever realize that their values are merely temporal chauvinism, and that in 40-50 years, they won't be talking the same way.

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>>9747231
But Martin is an inclusive guy! He writes all the male characters as masturbatory aids, too!

>>9750393
I'm sure people were saying the same thing 50 years ago.

>>9750400
What the fuck? Is he interacting with people on... LiveJournal?

Side note, they did cast a pretty handsome guy as Sandor.

>>9750419
>Is he interacting with people on...
...his blog. Look it up.

>>9750414
Yeah, which is the problem with progressivism tbqh.

Progressives are really just status quo radicals, e.g whatever is outside the status quo in a specific time and space must be good, ethically.

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>>9750400

>>9749088
The Thirty Tyrants were not egalitarians you livid fuck, and Socrates died because of complex political backbiting more than any ideological reason. Read a goddamn book.

>>9748845
>no responses

>>9749088
pure idelogoy

>>9750571
They never respond when they're called out on their bullshit. Typical, really.

>>9750428
Which is clearly hosted via LiveJournal, idiot. I recognize that format.

>>9752312
I RECOGNIZE THAT BULGE!

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

― C.S. Lewis

>>9750400
>dangerous is attractive
So glad women are finally starting to admit this openly

>>9745993
O... M... G. This is SO true. Women really are people!

>>9748993
I know, right. I can't wait until Klompfald Brumpf gets impeached. Then we can finally have a smart, qualified female president!

>>9753818
Face it, there's a new bombshell dropped in the Russia investigation every week. This isn't going to just go away, as much as you want it to. And Trump hasn't accomplished a single thing since he took office. It's brilliant. You elected a complete buffoon that has left the country the same way it was under Obama.

>>9753904
>Face it, there's a new bombshell dropped in the Russia investigation every week
>obummer wasn't born in merica goddangit
>And Trump hasn't accomplished a single thing since he took office
He has, you just don't like what he has done.

>>9754021
>He has, you just don't like what he has done.
What has he done? I'd love to see the list of all those accomplishments, such as...................

>>9754021

So when is he going to imprison Killary like he said he would? When is he going to get the Wall started?

If he can't even imprison his chief rival, how can we believe anything about him?

>>9753904
>defeated isis
>cancelled tpp
>cracked down on opiate peddling crook doctors
>reversed obama's trend of letting in random muslim "refugees" and now the majority of refugees are christians from oppressive islamist states
>got rid of bogus "start up visa" which was just a way for rich chinese to buy legal status

dude has done a lot, it's just you don't notice because the day isis was destroyed the judaic media played up this russia shit to keep it off the front page, i guess they were mad that after the mossad wasted all that time building up daesh trump smashed it in four months

>>9754203
LMAO HOLY SHIT. You really think he "defeated" ISIS just by dropping a bomb on some of them? Are you retarded?

>refugee thing
You know his travel ban still has not gone into effect, right?

>>9754211

did you just miss the fact that the Iraqi army just captured Mosul this week which had served as the capital of the Islamic state?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/world/middleeast/iraq-mosul-celebration.html

And refugees have nothing to do with the "travel ban", they just realize that Christians are more in danger in Islamic dumps that


http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/12/in-first-months-of-trump-presidency-christians-account-for-growing-share-of-u-s-refugee-arrivals/


maybe you should try reading at least "respectable" liberal journalism instead of getting your news from jewish comedy shows

>>9746215
Who the hell eats potato flowers and fruits and throws away the thing that we actually call the potato? The fruits are poisonous, by the way. And Frigyes was European, what the fuck was he taking about?

>>9749236
I already wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. am I old?

>>9746215
>>9754348
I fucking lost it at this

>>9751486
Not him but eh, let's see, my country's first lady was a pedophile and nothing happened.

>>9754402
And you still haven't provided any evidence.

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>>9754211
And his other points, Anon? Are you just going to nitpick one specific thing, like the pseud you are?

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>>9754478

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>>9745993
'On my grave I just want this epitaph: NO'

>>9754402
>>9754423

Does the name Macron ring a bell ?
His wife was his teacher and she started to date him when he was 16.
In France, being a teacher is considered as aggravating circumstances. Nothing happened and she is the first lady of France.
While some politician named DSK was evicted from the last elections because of the muddiest sex offending suspicion case ever seen.

In Florida, most female teachers having affairs with male pupils have low charges against them.

>>9754515
they didn't really date until he graduated, I thought?

>>9754348
When potato was first introduced into agriculture, people didn't really understand which part was supposed to be eaten. (or the myth says so)
It's essentially about how people think of him as the "funny guy" who wrote all those parodies of other writers, even though he wrote other stuff too and not just parodies. He wanted people to look behind the "funny guy" image.

>>9754517
"En mai 1993, dans l'atelier de théâtre qu'elle anime au lycée La Providence, elle remarque Emmanuel Macron, alors âgé de quinze ans et élève de seconde dans la même classe que sa fille Laurence29,30,15,31,3,23. L'année suivante, ils tombent amoureux32,31. "
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Macron

It means he was 15 when they met, and they fell in love the next year. Documented with videos of the couple.

>>9754515
Nice source, I like how you provided evidence and didn't just type up a story.

Oh shit! I just found out some interesting information about you. Apparently, many people are saying that you are in favor of Sharia law. Wow, that's quite an allegation, but since many are saying it, it must be true.

>>9754515
>>9754535
The age of consent is 15 in France, do you really think I believe it's your country when you don't even know that?

>>9754543
Source here >>9754535

>>9754549
There are no videos in that link.

>>9754546
Surbodination doesn't involve age of consent.

>>9754551
Are you retarded ? There are superscript numbers you can click...

>>9754535
>>9754551
check the Wikipedia references. also
>>9754546
is right. it's unusual but not illegal. even if the genders were flipped it would only be creepy to some

>>9754557
Case. Closed.

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>>9750356
What else are you supposed to ask him, the weather forecasting in Nigeria?

Stunted kids like you project themselves into every word they read. The only conclusion thus is that you can never truly read anything.
How does that make you feel? Like a pseud?

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"The worst part is wondering how you'll find the strength tomorrow to go on
doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you'll
find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to
nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder
and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that
every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more
sordid and insecure tomorrows."
Celine - Journey to the end of the night

>>9753904
I'm on your side, kid. I can't wait to Jumpfald Zumpf gets impeached. I knew he was a Russian agent all along. He's like a James Bond villain! I can't wait until we finally have our first female president!

>>9749016
Anybody have that coopypasta of how GRRM writes his books?

>>9750337
>>9750345
"Barracks" should be "quarter," same meaning but it actually makes sense in English.

>>9745993
Well he did pretty well considering
>some women are strong and independent
>most are actually rape fodder and useless

>>9755529
>calls someone kid
>makes a post like this
Pathetic tbqh. It's laughable that you think you'll last four years, much less eight.

>>9745993
I hope to arrive to my death,
late, in love,
and a little drunk
not my favorite author tho.

>>9754222
How deluded are you that you think ISIS will be stopped just because one city was captured? The very article you linked, which you probably didn't read, said that this is far from the end of ISIS. You really are desperate to spin anything as a Trump victory even when it isn't.

And your second article doesn't say a single thing about LESS refugees coming in. There are just as many as there ever were. Again, your article states that over 7,250 Muslims have come into the United States since Trump took office. So great job banning Muslims, clearly we can see how effective that is WHEN SEVEN FUCKING THOUSAND MUSLIM REFUGEES HAVE ENTERED THE UNITED STATES. YOU FUCKING IDIOT.

>>9750400
brb jumping in fire

>>9750400
>mfw Sam is supposed to be GRRM's self-insert

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>Think about how dumb the average person is. Now realize that, mathematically, half of them are dumber than that.

>>9754203
>Defeated ISIS
You've completely ignored the fact that the Obama administration along with other militaries (Kurds etc.) Pulled most of the work. Honestly giving Trump credit for that is like a chef cooking a large meal then a guy shows how with napkins and claims he cooked it all.

Seriously the Trump dick sucking on this site is cancerous

>>9757226
Agreed completely.

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>>9745993

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>But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

>>9757360
I was thinking of posting this but hesitated because it's from a movie.

Still, it is one of the greatest literature-related film quotes out there.

>>9757367
This literally sounds like some shit out of an anime, do people really see this guy as the pinnacle of philosophy?

>>9757226
Though to be fair, the Obama administration helped prop ISIS up until it became inconvenient to continue doing so in 2014

>>9754203
Assad, Hezbollah (and other shiite militias), Russia and Iran defeated ISIS

>>9745993
Hesse, Glasperlenspiel:

"The Master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said, "There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht — I can see they have already begun"

>>9757423
Wheres the evidence of this. I mean tangible evidence not some jpeg posted on /pol/. You don't know what you're talking about just because you've bought into some convinent lies sold to you by your ideological peers

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>>9754499
>haha why have a consistent and coherent ideological framework when you can post pictures of roman busts and call people 'degenerates'

that's fucking genius. coherent ideologies are corrupted and eaten from the inside out all the time.

degenerate

>>9757486
Only seems genius to you because you are a retard.

>>9757493
shut up degenerate

:D

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>>9745993

>>9757498
No, retard.

Looks like I won that little confrontation.

>>9754478
>>9754499
Good job lads, you've saved Western discourse

>>9753904
Donald Jr's meeting is the first and only substantial item.

>>9757501
relyl made me thijnk

>>9757753
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bombshell-new-report-claims-russian-lawyer-actually-did-bring-clinton-dirt-docs-to-trump-jr-meeting/

>>9757753
So you admit it's substantial.

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>>9757501

Noice. - Michael Rosen

>>9747218
If you casually watched a few episodes of the show I could see how you would come that conclusion. Daenerys especially has some cringy moments. (But femdom though?)

If you read the books though or even gave the show a chance I can't imagine how you reduced every female character arc to porn and dragons. (Seriously. Femdom?)

The feminism in the story is rooted in the depth and humanity of the female characters. Its pretty hard to deny that George's female POV's are well done.

Even people who complain about asoiaf being "problematic" complain about glorification of sexual violence or misogyny from sympathetic characters, not the women themselves.

Basically wtf are you talking about?

>>9757226

>Honestly giving Trump credit for that is like a chef cooking a large meal then a guy shows how with napkins and claims he cooked it all.

Sort of like how Obama took credit for killing Bin Laden even though the Bush administration did all the work and took all the blame for enhanced interrogation?

>>9758757
Even though she was a bitch to Jon Snow I liked Catelyn's chapters a lot and could really see where she was coming from. I imagine she just comes off as annoying in the show without a look into her mind.

Honestly that's a problem that comes up all the time when they adapt books to a visual medium. Unless they have the balls to toss in some narration, it's hard to fully appreciate a character.

>>9758768
>even though the Bush administration did all the work
Proof?

>>9757159
Not by a lot. The distribution is tight, the vast majority of people have an IQ between 90 and 110.

>>9758757
Reddit go home pls

>>9758981
Great job contributing nothing to the discourse.

>>9758768
Obama admin killed Osama three years after being elected, so they clearly did some ground work and logistics. Claiming Trump beat ISIS in 6 months is a far cry from Osama. Whataboutism my dude, whataboutism

>>9759141

I'm not your dude you condescending shit

>>9759163
>get BTFO
>deflect
Nice job, dude. MAGA!

>>9753774
This was never in doubt

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>I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.

Chesterton has a lot of these but what he said in Celts and Celtophiles is pretty useful when /pol/ escapes its containment board

>Rome conquered nations, but Ireland has conquered races. The Norman has gone there and become Irish, the Scotchman has gone there and become Irish, the Spaniard has gone there and become Irish, even the bitter soldier of Cromwell has gone there and become Irish. Ireland, which did not exist even politically, has been stronger than all the races that existed scientifically. The purest Germanic blood, the purest Norman blood, the purest blood of the passionate Scotch patriot, has not been so attractive as a nation without a flag. Ireland, unrecognized and oppressed, has easily absorbed races, as such trifles are easily absorbed. She has easily disposed of physical science, as such superstitions are easily disposed of. Nationality in its weakness has been stronger than ethnology in its strength. Five triumphant races have been absorbed, have been defeated by a defeated nationality.

>>9753715
this is a great one too

>>9753774
>finally starting to admit
>Date: 2009

Those were more innocent times

William Hazlitt:

>So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy; but wanting that have wanted everything.

>>9745993
THE MORE SHE DRANK
THE MORE SHE SHAT

>>9759496
I like this guy

>>9759749
BEANS, BEANS, THE MUSICAL FRUIT

BIG FAT FELLOWS - James Joyce

"She's a slut." - Jeremy Renner.

"Weren't we looking at pig pussies the other day?"

- Oscar Wilde

>It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

>Nothing personnel, kid. *teleports behind you*
Thomas Pynchon.

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>>9758046
>explaining your jokes
>explaining jokes that a 12 year old could understand

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>>9748250

>>9762984
It actually goes on for quite a few tweets more, too. I just didn't feel like screencapping all the tweets.

>>9747281
This is fucking stupid.

"The woman's wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly."

"Anything written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once both judge and party."

>>9749006
What a stupid quote. Every adult is a "baby but grown up"

>>9763021
Some never grow up, like most of the posters on /lit/.

>>9748250
>Trumptard
I lick my screen to savour the bitter taste

>>9745993
that is Joss Whedon quote

>>9763425
I'm glad my post compels you to damage your computer screen.
>savour
And you're not even American so why do you care?

>>9763443
Every other civilized nation in the world has been going liberal so all they can do is live vicariously through Trump until he, too, is inevitably ousted.

>>9762585
>Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you

From the same guy. RIP.

>>9757432
And those rebel groups are largely dependent on co-operation with American and other NATO countries' air weapons. The typical rebel engagement involves storming ISIS positions, smashing the weak points and then digging in to wait for air support from whoever they are in communication with to kill hardpoints.

Don't have a favourite authors so here's a random assortment from my quotebook.

>Don't begrudge yourself the taste of knowledge in order to deny someone else applause as a teacher. - The Better Part of Discretion, Baltasar Gracián

>To learn by suffering is the equation of Justice; the Future is known when it comes, let it go till then. To know in advance is to sorrow in advance. The facts will appear with the shining of the dawn. - Agamemnon, Aeschylus

>I cannot hate you as a compensation for not loving you, even by special request. -Letter to John Archer, Laura Riding

>Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. - Job 14:1

Job is ripe with quotes if you're looking for them.

>>9764881
Did they call it Job because the guy who wrote it didn't have one?

>They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

>The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

>The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of money for me and made my reputation, such as it is. One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in.

"Yes
YES"
- Nael

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence

Kafka

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Adolf Hitler

>>9763013
Women don't have self-awareness and don't know what they actually want.

"Women cut their own wings and then blame men for not knowing how to fly."

"Anything written about women by women should be suspect, for women don't know what they want, and are necessarily biased in talking about themselves."

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“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”

>>9768884
been reading this. fucking great.

"You either die a failure or deny you're a failure and live long enough to see yourself fail again." - Hillary Clinton

>>9768926
You're an idiot.

>>9754351
you would seem old before your time by annoying affectation. your spine is good, stop slouching.

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>>9745993

"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
- Ronald Reagan

>>9753715
Can you imagine if this asshole encountered a modem day manchild?

Pushing 40, lives with his parents, mastuerbates to slice of life anime, etc

>>9770574
Hillary lost the election, sweetie. Give it up.

it has to be sarcasm right? its a stupid question

>well of course i write women different, they are people not a robot

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"When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger."

>>9771164
But are they Protestant? That's the important thing.

>>9771229
No, you fucking idiot. Stop posting politics shit on /lit/.

"Brap" - James Joyce's wife

>>9747241
Anyone who seriously reads Schopenhauer disregards his essay On Women.

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O.W.: I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

H.J.: I’ve never understood why. Have you met him?

O.W.: Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.

H.J.: He’s not arrogant; he’s shy.

O.W.: He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.

>>9774055
Orson Welles on Woody Allen

>>9758757
Chill, bitch

The women are well objectified in his works and used well as chess-pieces and for nudity.

>>9774055
wtf I love Woody Allen now

>>9774440
Shut the fuck up.

>>9749502

Yes, but it is also 100% factually accurate, so

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>>9748845
>>9750571
>>9751486

you're denying that welfare and affirmative action programs exist? I though /lit/erati were supposed to be smart...

>>9757753

It is actually the least substantial of a very long list of insubstantial "Red Scare" claims by die Lügenpresse

>>9754059

pic related

>>9756969

Obabo let in 40,000 over the first 6 months of 2016, 7,250 is literally less than 40,000

>>9756958
>Predicted that le Drumpf would never win the election with blithe and blind confidence
>Predicts that le Drumpf will be impeached with complete lack of self-awareness

Shouldn't you be working for CNN?

>>9759604

And yet, a homosexual hindu conquered Eire. Really boils my potatoes

>>9763021
>what is a manchild

Look in the mirror :^)

>>9771289

Underrated

>>9776019
Not in any way. Please stop taking jokes seriously.

>>9776074
The prediction was that Drumpf would lose the popular vote. Which he did. What nobody expected was that he would barely squeak out a win through the electoral vote.

>The collapse highlighted a harsh reality for Senate Republicans: While they freely assailed the health law when Mr. Obama occupied the White House, they could not come up with a workable plan to unwind it that would keep both moderate Republicans and conservatives on board. It was an enormous embarrassment for a party that rode electoral waves to control first the House, then the Senate and then the White House, but has not been able to deliver a major legislative victory.

>The reaction on Wall Street was muted. Stocks spent most of the day lower as shares of health insurers declined, and the dollar, which has steadily lost ground for most of the year, slipped further.

This quote is pretty good.

>>9776074
>dat pic
Careful with that, some of the retards out there actually believe this kind of stuff.

>>9776235
>>9776240

letting women use the internet was a mistake

>>9776274
the same mistake as letting them vote

>>9776074
>lowest unemployment since the recession from which he did nothing to help the country recover
wew

>>9776274
>>9776277
Get better comebacks.

>>9776296
It's not a comeback. It's a lamentation.

>>9776358
An off-topic and off-base lamentation. You'll get what's coming to you someday. Perhaps you already have.

>>9776603
It's only somewhat off-topic. You can clearly tell when a woman is trying to make a point, which they seem to think means "regurgitate the default opinion every base woman is supposed to have".

>>9776609
You don't know anything about women.

>>9776074
>And yet, a homosexual hindu conquered Eire.
Congratulations, you completely misunderstood the point of that paragraph. You should be proud of yourself.

Is it normal that I can't foresee any improvement in the current socio-political climate, and that I am sure liberals will only continue to be spiral downward into the depths of depravity and hatred against which they always have spoken while conservatives will become extremists just to prove their point? Is it really not obvious enough that the right answer lies somewhere in the middle? Why can't anyone see that their own views are subjective, no matter how right they may feel to them?

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>>9777092
>Is it really not obvious enough that the right answer lies somewhere in the middle?
No it isn't. If you really do believe in the existence of truth, then you need to take a firm stand, even if that makes you feel uncomfortable. If you don't believe in the existence of truth then you're already in the depths of depravity and hatred.

>>9777113
You might have a pic saved up for any argument presented on an issue, but it doesn't place you above the issue. Stop being childish and really try to think for yourself. You do realize that all media you consume is trying to manipulate you, right? Does that not bother you? I used to be a hardcore liberal due to public school and media indoctrination, then I swung the other way and overcompensated. This election made it clear that both sides are perverted versions of the ideas of some dead men. Change is necessary, not fence-sitting or abdication.

>>9777129
Taking a stand is fine, but pledging yourself to a movement that is constantly becoming more extreme, left or right, is too convenient. It's intellectual and moral laziness.

>>9777092
>Is it really not obvious enough that the right answer lies somewhere in the middle?

United States politics for the past 30-40 years has been "somewhere in the middle". Look where we are now -- we are here because we took the banal middle road. Sorry, but the next few phases of American politics will be extreme. Let's hope too many people don't get hurt.

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A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international.

>>9777141
That may be so, I don't necessarily disagree. I just regret that we aren't smart enough to avoid the extremism. The other two who have responded to me have talked about how taking a hardline stance is so great. I can't help but feel that people like that wear their political beliefs as a fashion statement. The right virtue signals just as much as the left, only the virtues are different. Everyone wants to join an angry mob now, and the worst part is that if you don't join one, both mobs want to fuck you up.

>>9776292
>billionaire American corporate head did nothing to help recover from the recession
Lmao

>>9777139
Yes, the truth is usually simple and brutal. What did you expect? An existentialist arthouse movie? Sorry anon, life don't work that way.

>>9777178
You watch too much anime.

>>9777186
>complete non-sequitur that doesn't address the point
As expected of a pseud.

>>9753715

god damn T.S. Eliot BTFO god damn

>>9777196
I won't waste my time on this. I won't change anyone's mind, and I never expected to. I just hope everything cools down and the conflict we see now results in something better for all of us. Even for you, because I don't hate you.

>>9774055
Welles was probably just mad that Allen wasn't a fat fuck.

>>9777207
How dare you. Get back here on the moral indignation carousel.

>>9758757
here we see a redditor justifying his investment in slop, via enshrining shitty escapist pop media as a diverse and progressive masterpiece of feminism.

>>9758914
Bin Laden died back in 2005. and 9/11 was an inside job anyways

>>9758757
The books arent feminist, the show has turned feminist in the last few years, to an absurd degree.

2011 Game of Thrones added tits and sex to the script
2017 Game of Thrones adds fashionable, badly written gender bending

>>9754348
that's the point people flocked to the stupid bullshit and not the actually significant portions of his work you cro-magnon

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>>9777488
middle class american 'progressives' have completely done away with politics, substituting them with neurotic self righteous consumption of mass market pop culture brands ie. Harry Potter, comic books, beyonce, game of thrones. You people are responsible for some of the greatest insults to Art in human history. Think of the musical Hamilton, or of the inspirational racism themed oscar bait we see at the academy awards every year . These works exist solely to massage the viewer's ego. There's nothing wrong with enjoying trash, but the eternal middlebrow will never own up his love for trash, he needs to be constantly reassured the product is 'woke' and 'good for him', as if by consuming it he was somehow 'empowering' thousands of PoCWoCs. The empowered pulp heroine, pop star or 'badass' WoC CEO is nothing but a gender inverted incarnation of the archetypal fascist leader, recreated for the consumption of the managerial class.See Hillary's whole campaign, beyonce's links to the military industrial complex. However, as Trump shows, the unwashed masses still like their fascism straight. The middlebrow will scoff at them and retreat into the adolescent make believe world of prestige tv.

>>9758772
>Even though she was a bitch to Jon Snow I liked Catelyn's chapters a lot and could really see where she was coming from.
well, of course it makes sense, she was basically reverse-cucked if that's even a thing

>>9754351
Do you dare to eat a peach?

>>9776074

market confidence and employment arent really things you attribute to the government, but since fucking morons attributed it to every moron beforehand, its a metric

>>9776240
>the prediction was that Trump would lose the vote that doesnt actually matter or determine who wins
wew

>>9753904
>bombshell
>not a single court hearing yet
>not a single thing being reported is actually illegal

>>9778062
>They did not meet with the Russians at all. Nothing happened.
>oh shit they did meet with the russians better change the narrative
>C-collusion is not illegal guys!
t. Fox News

>>9777574
It's literally still just cucking, not "reverse" anything. The female version of a cuckold is called a cuckquean. Side note, you can tell someone is an idiot if they say "cuckqueen."

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>>9757148
my thought exactly

>>9778206
i'm a leftist and I think the Trump Russia narrative is bullshit. Democrats can't admit the system is broken and criminal by its very nature, their people in Sillicon Valley, Wall Street and the pentagon won't let them get away with that. So they blame Trump personally or those devious oriental Russians. Because America is Already Great, amirite? Americans of all colours and creeds, including 'moderate republicans' should rally around the banner of Reaganite patriotism and nonideological civic decency. THE SLAV is a boogeyman for libs just as THE JEW is for /pol/.

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>>9759748

>>9759748
>>9778565

Can I get that last sentence in English, please? It's definitely missing at least one word

>>9778516
America IS fine. Make America Great Again is a stupid slogan because it manufactures an issue that isn't there.

Anyway, there's already evidence of the Russia thing. You can claim it's a tactic for the left to discredit Trump, but you can't say it's bullshit. There's no doubt that it actually happened.

>>9780124
The russia thing is the democrats version of birtherism, the repulicans started the birther shit in 2008 to distract from the fact that mccain was born in panama, and now the democrats are attacking trump on russia to distract from the fact that hillary sold the american uranium stock to russia after they donated to the clinton foundation and had bill do a 500,000 dollar speech, in politics you can bet whatever someone is getting attacked for is actually what the opponent has done, classic tactic, attack your opponent on your weak point and they will be so busy defending themselves they can never attack you on it, if it's not in machiavelli it should be

I have little, I want for nothing. All my treasure lies in Minerva's Tower."
Robert Burton

>>9778222
Wittol may be the word loooked for, everyone here uses the word cuck when they mean wittol usually.

>>9780138
And yet Trump refuses to say a single negative thing about Russia or Putin, a man who literally has dissenters killed. Doesn't matter what the Democrats did because they're not the ones in power, Trump is, and here he is acting all buddy-buddy with this guy that he has no reason not to be tough on. Anyway it's funny that you mention that political tactic when Trump does that kind of thing all the time with his "fake news" narrative. Listen, I'm not calling Hillary a good candidate and that's why I didn't vote for her, and I obviously don't expect a Democrat to magically replace Trump. But he's a despicable sack of shit and he deserves to be removed from office. Give me literally ANY Republican over him.

>>9780179
>>9780179
>Trump refuses to attack a nuclear super power were currently in a proxy way with

>would rather have ted cruz