Seize everything.
Buddy Wakefield - We Were Emergencies
“You call 911, ha ha/Tell ‘em I’m having a fantastic time”
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Posts tagged “killer lines”
“ And you have been all right
And I have been filmed being ridiculous
[…]
On this occasion, there are a couple of things that we know that we learned from fact magazine
One, the king wears a king hat and lives in a king house
Two, your time will come, but tonight is our night, so you should give us all of your drugs
Three, we have a black president and you do not, so shut up,
because you don’t know shit about where I’m from that you didn’t get from your TV
[…]
With me being wired
And you being tired
There’s advantages to each ”
LCD Soundsystem - Pow Pow
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The New Inquiry: The Art of Memoir (1)
…
Whatever I feel is felt (against my will) so that I can write that I felt it. Whatever I think is promptly put into words, mixed with images that undo it, cast into rhythms that are something else altogether. From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I. I plumbed myself and dropped the plumb; I spend my life wondering if I’m deep or not, with no remaining plumb except my gaze that shows me— blackly vivid in the mirror at the bottom of the well— my own face that observes me observing it.
(Source: thenewinquiry)
(Spoilers abound in the video, but this killer line comes around the 9:30 mark)
Dowager Countess of Grantham: You are quite wonderful, the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming.
Lady Crawley: I take that as a compliment.
Dowager Countess of Grantham: I must have said it wrong.
Lord Grantham: “I thought you didn’t like him?”
the Dowager Countess: “So what, I have plenty of friends I don’t like.”
“Well, you want Mary to marry one of them?”
“Why do you always have to pretend to be nicer than the rest of us?”
“Perhaps because I am.”
“Then pity your wife: who’s fortune must go to this odd young man who talks of weekends and jobs”
