“Mana Toast. This is toast. It refills your mana. That’s it. Nothing more… fuck you! – Well, that was unnecessary.”
andrewparker915 on
“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
―Don DeLillo, White Noise
nine57th on
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
**Song of Solomon** by Toni Morrison
Empty_Oven_9942 on
Anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave
ImpertinentLlama on
TO SAMET VURGUN
I finally made it to your city,
but I was late, Samet,
we couldn’t get together:
I was late by the space of death.
I didn’t want to hear your voice
on tape, Samet—
I can’t look at pictures of the dead
without totally dying.
But the day will come
when I’ll totally separate you from yourself, Samet.
You’ll enter the world of respectable memories.
And I’ll lay flowers on your grave
without tears in my eyes.
Then the day will come
when what happened to you
will happen to me, too, Samet.
– From the collection Poems of Nazim Hikmet
ibfahd on
Fallacy-Free Thinking: Understanding and Avoiding Logical Fallacies by Julian Fontayne. One standout quote that captures its spirit is: Understanding logical fallacies is the first step to thinking clearly and arguing fairly.
BernardFerguson1944 on
“Whereas the big ships’ bulk was their best insurance against heavy seas, destroyer escorts [DEs] lived at nature’s fickle mercy. As the seas went, so went the DEs. In an unpublished 1945 dispatch sent … [by] Ernie Pyle evoked the precarious seaworthiness of the tiny vessels: ‘They are rough and tumble little ships. They roll and they plunge. They buck and they twist. They shudder and they fall through space. They are in the air half the time, under water half the time. Their sailors say they should have flight pay and submarine pay both’” (p. 29, *The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer).
“‘Captain, how often does a little ship like this sink?’
“‘Usually just once.’
“—*The Gismo*, newsletter of the U.S.S. *Samuel B. Roberts* (DE-413), September 30, 1944”
(p. 15, *The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer).
10 Comments
__*Where The Crawdads Sing*__
“I don’t know how to do life without grits.”
The Sunflower Protocol by Andre Soares.
“Now, we let the dead people grieve.”
Dungeon Crawler Carl
“Mana Toast. This is toast. It refills your mana. That’s it. Nothing more… fuck you! – Well, that was unnecessary.”
“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
―Don DeLillo, White Noise
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
**Song of Solomon** by Toni Morrison
Anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave
TO SAMET VURGUN
I finally made it to your city,
but I was late, Samet,
we couldn’t get together:
I was late by the space of death.
I didn’t want to hear your voice
on tape, Samet—
I can’t look at pictures of the dead
without totally dying.
But the day will come
when I’ll totally separate you from yourself, Samet.
You’ll enter the world of respectable memories.
And I’ll lay flowers on your grave
without tears in my eyes.
Then the day will come
when what happened to you
will happen to me, too, Samet.
– From the collection Poems of Nazim Hikmet
Fallacy-Free Thinking: Understanding and Avoiding Logical Fallacies by Julian Fontayne. One standout quote that captures its spirit is: Understanding logical fallacies is the first step to thinking clearly and arguing fairly.
“Whereas the big ships’ bulk was their best insurance against heavy seas, destroyer escorts [DEs] lived at nature’s fickle mercy. As the seas went, so went the DEs. In an unpublished 1945 dispatch sent … [by] Ernie Pyle evoked the precarious seaworthiness of the tiny vessels: ‘They are rough and tumble little ships. They roll and they plunge. They buck and they twist. They shudder and they fall through space. They are in the air half the time, under water half the time. Their sailors say they should have flight pay and submarine pay both’” (p. 29, *The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer).
“‘Captain, how often does a little ship like this sink?’
“‘Usually just once.’
“—*The Gismo*, newsletter of the U.S.S. *Samuel B. Roberts* (DE-413), September 30, 1944”
(p. 15, *The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour* by James D. Hornfischer).
“Thou Mayest”
East Of Eden