“Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.
I felt dirty and stupid.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis. Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“I wore an elaborate disguise that made me look like a caterer from a rivaling company.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“What was wrong with people these days? Couldn’t a guy have a few beers to drown a personal problem without getting caught up in a makeshift intervention?”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Some of my stuff’s so ugly, a little water damage could only help. Might”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“You’re stuck with yourself for the rest of your life, and now you know, beyond a doubt, that you’re an asshole.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“it sounds like my neighbor is stir-frying hamsters in a large enameled wok.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“what was it they called you? It’s on the tip of my tongue. It was something to do with cats and large amounts of body fat…”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“what tipped me off was the pink nighty I was wearing and the abundance of flowers decorating my room.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Another terrible night. Neighbor was busy with his hamsters again”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“In all these years, I’ve never seen you smile so often. Are you mentally ill?”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“She’s funny and intelligent, well-mannered and clean, and her smile is exceedingly cute. Also, she has big tits.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“stating the cause of death to be completely natural and, if possible, even somewhat pleasant.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“I think it’s better for customer relations if we all commit to wearing matching socks,”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“I’d urge you to stay away from any and all martial arts practitioners for the time being.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“My dad gave her the finger, went down to town hall, and took the name of the person in line ahead of him. He wasn’t aware he’d overheard a last name.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“I gave her the finger and moved along to the waiting area.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Then I wondered, briefly, where one might obtain a prosthetic Adam’s apple, and what its primary use would be.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Reputable companies don’t get their test subjects through ads in gaming magazines,”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“why hadn’t all these women tried to jump me?”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“His gums stopped bleeding and his skin cleared up.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“I must’ve been stone-cold sexy this whole time without even realizing.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Gravity has a slightly stronger hold on me than it does on other people. I’m sure of it. It pulls on me a little harder during the day, and really tugs away at me first thing in the morning. It’s freaky.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“I wasn’t going to have my pressure points fondled unexpectedly.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“Dug up a die and threw it 72 times. Aimed to get as high a total as possible. Tallied the throws knowing I should end up with a number close to 252 (on average the throws should distribute evenly over all six faces, hitting each face about twelve times). Instead of 252, though, I came up with 166. A much lower number, which made my average throw just over 2, instead of the expected 3.5. I was clearly beating the odds, in a bad way.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
“It felt a bit like French kissing an old lady; all the right moves, but in totally the wrong places.”
― Graham Parke, quote from No Hope for Gomez!
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“The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of every moment. That's why I want to know what is this? what is this? what is this? Now, remembering Sax's odd word and his odd religion, John finally understood him; because he was feeling the thisness of the moment like a rock in his hand, and it felt as if his entire life had been lived only to get him to this moment.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“الحرية الايجابية تقوم في النشاط التلقائي للشخصية الكلية المتكاملة.
لقد قلنا ان الحرية السلبية بنفسها تجعل الفرد كائنا منعزلا وتكون علاقته بالعالم بعيدة ولا تقوم على الثقة والتي تكون نفسه ضعيفة مهددة باستمرار. والنشاط التلقائي هو النشاط الذي يستطيع به الانسان ان يقهر رعب الوحدة دون تضحية بتكامل النفس, ففي التحقق التلقائي للنفس يتحد الانسان من جديد بالعالم وبالانسان وبنفسه. والحب هو المركب الشديد لمثل هذه التلقائية, لا الحب بمعنى اذابة النفس في شخص آخر ولا الحب باعتباره تملكا لشخص آخر, بل الحب باعتباره التاكيد التلقائي للآخرين, باعتباره وحدة الفرد والآخرين على اساس الحفاظ على النفس الفردية. وتكمن الصفة الدينامية للحب في هذه القطبية نفسها: انه ينبع من الحاجة الى قهر الانفصال, انه يفضي الى الوحدة والاتحاد - ومع هذا لا نستأصل تلك الفردانية. والعمل هو المركب الآخر, لا العمل بمعنى النشاط الاضطراري للهرب من الوحدة, ولا العمل كعلاقة بالطبيعة التي تكون في جانب منها علاقة تسيد عليها وفي جانب آخر عبادة وعبودية لمنتجات ايدي الانسان, بل العمل كخلق حيث يصبح الانسان متحدا مع الطبيعة في فعل الخلق. وما يصدق على الحب والعمل يصدق على كل فعل تلقائي سواء كان تحقق لذة حسية او مشاركة في الحياة السياسية للجماعة. انه يؤكد لفردية النفس وفي الوقت نفسه يوحّد النفس بالانسان والطبيعة.
والسمة الاساسية الموجودة في الحرية - ميلاد الفردية والم الوحدة والعزلة- تنحل على مستوى اعلى عن طريق الفعل التلقائي للانسان.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“Baby, Heaven doesn't want me yet, and Fuck if Hell can handle me, so you're kinda stuck with me.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Father of all--God!--what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”
― Scarlett Thomas, quote from The End of Mr. Y
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