Today at Magick Sandwich, we have a mixed bag of quotes for your reading pleasure. If you've spent any time on Twitter, you're probably sick to death of jokers tweeting quote after quote as if by virtual osmosis they are infused with the wisdom of the dead guy who actually spoke the words. Don't even get me started on the Bible-thumping Jesus tweets. Speaking of God:
When I saw this on TV--I wasn't alive when it was made in 1951--that line's flippant irreverence spoke directly to me. It told me there were other subversive people out there, that I wasn't the only one who suspected religion was just bunk. It made me think there must be a place somewhere for a smart ass like me.
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Placidyl: you could watch your father getting gang raped in the middle of the day and still appreciate the weather.
Jeremy describing the drug he's on in What Just Happened
What can I say? This line just tickled me, albeit in the dark recesses of my brain. It's also just about the only good line from the movie, so now you don't have to see it.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens will never know that this quote saved me from returning to a job I had just quit. It had been unmitigated hell but, for the sake of my finances, I thought I should go back and try to deal with it a little longer. I taped this quote to my computer desk at home and its wisdom kept me from going back. Then I got an interview with the nicest guy on earth. He said that anyone who couldn't work for Dr. X had to be a good person and hired me on the spot.
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If everyone else in the world were to mysteriously disappear, I would feel irritated about it only because there would be no one to make me doughnuts. Dexter
, Dearly Devoted Dexter
I can't claim any great epiphany from this. But I was inspired to copy it word-for-word from the book. So here it is.
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These last two quotes are from New Yorkers, some of my favorite people in the world.
Because I don't assume that I'm going to get hurt.
Matthew Modine to New York magazine, on why he doesn't wear a bike helmet In the mid-1980s, I spent my college breaks in New York City. One day, I was shuffling down Fulton to my summer job at the South Street Seaport, looking at my feet and not making eye contact as usual. I happened to look up and there was Matthew Modine. He smiled at me as he walked past. From this talented actor who had just made Birdy I got a smile: open, warm and sincere, not leering or self-conscious. "Matthew Modine smiled at me." It's a simple story but it still makes me happy. So Mr. Modine can rationalize all he wants. He gave me one of my favorite New York moments.
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They say about New York, if you see something strange, you should report it. Well, my feeling is, if you see something normal, you should report it.
Barbara Walsh to New York magazine Amen, sister.
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