You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else. - Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. - Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. - Douglas Adams
Hey, hey, hey. A life. A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come. - Lester Freamon, The Wire
If only half you motherfuckers in the State's Attorney's office didn't want to be judges. Didn't want to be partners in some down-town lawfirm. If half of you had the fucking balls to follow through. You know what would happen? A guy like that would be indighted, tried and convicted. And the rest of them would back up enough so we could push a clean case or two through courthouse. But no! Everybody stays friends! Everybody gets paid! And everybody's got a fucking future! - Jimmy McNulty, The Wire
They want me to stand with them, right? But where the fuck they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when shit goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? - Preston 'Bodie' Broadus, The Wire
Bend too far, and you're already broken. - Cedric Daniels, The Wire
I get tired of people talking about ''bad words'' and ''bad language''. Bullshit! It's the context that makes them good or bad. - George Carlin
A society where anyone can make jokes about anyone else and everyone laughs is a truly tolerant society. Political correctness charged censorship only serves to engender resentment and distance between social groups. - Ben ''Yahtzee'' Croshaw, Zero Punctuation (his 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand review)
Came here from the Summer Wars review. Found nice quotes from my favorite author (Cormac McCarthy) and favorite show (The Wire). Sad that you abandoned this site. We could be friends.
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