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26SidedCube

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  1. The beats were great at saying things. And then actualizing them. William S. Burroughs: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." "Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing." "The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits." "Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." "A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." "In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die or boredom." "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape." "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." "A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering." "Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing." "The only possible ETHIC is to do what one wants to do." Jack Kerouac: "I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." "...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness..." "Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken." "Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time." "No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength." "Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow." "What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?" "Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, estabilished-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road. All of it inside endless and beginningless emptiness. Pitiful forms of ignorance." "Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" "What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." "Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little to know what utterances and cries are for in this dark sad earth, with your terrors in a world so malign and inhospitable, and all the insults from heaven ramming down to crowd your head with anger, pain, disgrace, worst of all the crapulous poverty in and out of every splintered door of days, if someone could have said to you then, and made you perceive, "Fear life, but don't die; you're alone, everybody's alone. Oh Cody Pomeray, you can't win, you can't lose, all is ephemeral, all is hurt." "We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move." "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." "-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I’d roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity."
  2. That's the problem with really entertaining crackheads and junkies- they've got no shelf-life.
  3. Huxley/Camus/Celine grab-bag: Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. -Aldous Huxley. Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -Albert Camus. A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. -Huxley. Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself. -Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. -Camus. Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. -Huxley. The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. -Celine. A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. -Huxley. The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -Camus. At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. -Camus. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. -Camus. All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. -Huxley. The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. -Camus. Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. -Huxley. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. -Camus.
  4. To prevent a hangover, drink as much water as you did alcohol before passing the fuck out. At least that's what every professor/science teacher I've ever had has told me.
  5. I mean... I guess I don't study the guy's work, but, at a glance, I think that it does.
  6. Yeah, I could be late on this one. I just saw it on someone's myspace and thought 'Reas?', then I scrolled down and saw what it was all about, so naturally I had to force it on ya'll.
  7. Re: Paris Hilton Is Getting Out Of Jail I've decided that, after this post, I will never use this bird's name again, or involve myself in any conversation about her. That's how you get rid of these people. Simple.
  8. ...and forced him to illustrate sex-education booklets. Go on and marinate.
  9. It's 2007, Frito-Lay and we're talking artifically-flavored junk food. I really wouldn't put it past them.
  10. I made a thread about this before. I think I wiped with newspaper, and compared it to cleaning a Kool-Aide spill with a Trapper Keeper.
  11. I can't wait until all foods are named in a similar fashion. "Can we stop and hit up the Wendy's spot? My stomach's rumbling, f'real. I'd kill for a fucking F9-16CL..."
  12. That picture looks like you hit the 'prt-scrn' button on a shitty webcam porn from 1996. I'm gonna jump on the bullshit wagon until another picture is posted.
  13. Even though the food is sludge, you can't really fuck with A&W's rootbeer floats.
  14. "SOMEONE SMASHED MY WINDSHIELD..." You can only use it once, but it's golden in a bind.
  15. ^Getting good grades is Pavlov. Some of the most inept motherfuckers I've ever known pulled 4.0's.
  16. Re: I just rented pan's labyrinth I liked the fact that it was more violent than I thought it would be. And that they had a fucking monster with eyes in his hands that ate children and shit. I guess I don't have very good taste in movies, because all of that shit combined made it awesome for me.
  17. Re: I want to see you, yet again You know, it's almost like true douchebaggery is, like, a matter of... ...conduct?
  18. Aww, shucks, Theo. You'd better right-click-save before the swelling goes down!
  19. I've been both for prolonged periods of time, and I think I've found a nice balance between veg and meat-eater. Lately (for the past 8+ months) I've been on this 'I just don't like cheap meat' kick. It's not that I don't like meat, or that I view eating it as some sort of philosophical debbacle that needs careful consideration, it's that I can't afford to eat the meat I like on a regular basis. So I eat two or three nice cuts of steak every month, and that's as much red meat as I'll eat. *I'm also HEAVILY active for 2-5 hours per day (skating, lifting, odd landscaping jobs), and I rarely get fatigued - so anyone who says you need a constant intake of the red stuff to feel healthy is on some nonsense.
  20. Looking at those first few pictures makes me hate neon lighting.
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