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"Don't even get me started on this running joke about the fucking crofters of Shetland Isle. This is the least illustrative example of a microcosm of social values to ever be printed onto paper." — Feb 14, 2026 11:22AM
"Don't even get me started on this running joke about the fucking crofters of Shetland Isle. This is the least illustrative example of a microcosm of social values to ever be printed onto paper." — Feb 14, 2026 11:22AM
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"Slowly going to blow my brains out with how little I'm getting out of this book, and I mean that in both intellectual stimulation and entertainment. Unlike Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, there is no attempt to draw conclusions from what is written - allegedly left to the reader.
But the broad strokes conclusion I'm reaching is that philosophy is just science that is now proven wrong and left as a joke for the reader." — Jun 10, 2025 10:05AM
"Slowly going to blow my brains out with how little I'm getting out of this book, and I mean that in both intellectual stimulation and entertainment. Unlike Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, there is no attempt to draw conclusions from what is written - allegedly left to the reader.
But the broad strokes conclusion I'm reaching is that philosophy is just science that is now proven wrong and left as a joke for the reader." — Jun 10, 2025 10:05AM
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"Just read Ellison's review of the original Star Wars, and it's fun to think how on-the-nose he was about most of his observations. It being a western, dressed up in the guise of science fiction, about its influences in Flash Gordon; the works. What was most entertaining about his review was "the dispensers of mass information" all proclaiming in unison that "entertainment is back", like it's year of our lord 2025." — Sep 23, 2025 03:26AM
"Just read Ellison's review of the original Star Wars, and it's fun to think how on-the-nose he was about most of his observations. It being a western, dressed up in the guise of science fiction, about its influences in Flash Gordon; the works. What was most entertaining about his review was "the dispensers of mass information" all proclaiming in unison that "entertainment is back", like it's year of our lord 2025." — Sep 23, 2025 03:26AM
“a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In their utterly contemptible pseudo-morality they ignore the contents and madly attack individual words.”
― Roadside Picnic
― Roadside Picnic
“All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. ”
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“Much worse is to be paralyzed by fear of failure. Society tends to evaluate us based solely on visible results. At times, I even sense an air of intolerance toward failure. No one wants to be branded as a failure. We hear adults belittle kids, saying they have no talent and so should give up and face reality, or that they'll fail no matter what, so they might as well not even try. Who wouldn't second-guess themselves if told something like that?”
― The Will to Keep Winning
― The Will to Keep Winning
“intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts.”
― Roadside Picnic
― Roadside Picnic
“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.”
― Hitchcock/Truffaut
― Hitchcock/Truffaut
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