A long one;

     "In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible. Hence there remains but one thing: to eliminate it.  Any dialogue with the sinner, any question of the irreversibility of his act, only means faltering and failure.  Failure to eliminate evil is itself a defeat. Anything that even remotely risks such defeat is in itself capitulation to evil.  The irreversibility of evil then reaches out to contaminate even the tolerant thought of the hesitant crusader who, doubts the total evil of the enemy he is about to eliminate.

     Such  tolerance is already complicity and guilt, and must be eliminated in its turn.  As soon as it is detected it becomes irreversible.

     Fortitude, then, equals fanaticism.  It grows with unreason.  Reasoning itself is by its very nature tinged with betrayal.

     Conscience does indeed make cowards.  It makes Judases. Conscience must be eliminated."

From Gandhi and the One-Eyed Giant by Thomas Merton (Abbey of Gethsemani  April, 1964,) the introduction to Gandhi on Non-Violence (New Directions, 1965) which Merton also edited.

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed."

- Nicolo Machiavelli

"Well, he fucks like he pitches.  Sorta all over the place." - 'Millie' (Jenny Robertson) from Bull Durham, written and directed by Ron Shelton

"There's nothing like happy women for making happy men, that's what we say." - 'Ariadne' from Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (pg. 331, Bantam Ed.)

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

the fucked-up trollops you go after may dig jerks, i guess

"Oh, Cliff
Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if
You really are a Cliff
When fascists keep trying to push you over it
Are they the lemmings?
Or are you Cliff?
Or are you, Cliff?"

Rick from The Young Ones.

The little bitch
Is awfully sorry
The little bitch
Drinks you up

"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame."

Salman Rushdie from *The Ground Beneath Her Feet*

"He who is good at making excuses, is seldom good for anything else" - Benjamin Franklin

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender" - Vince Lombardi

"I don't think I'm getting more cynical, I've just got more evidence to back up my cynicism" - Frank Zappa

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

I read this which is on my nightstand every morning when I wake up (and say it in my mind with Arnold's accent) -

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women." - Conan the Barbarian

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"If I can't sell it, I'm gonna sit on it.  I'm sure as hell not gonna give it away." - Ruth Brown

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"What keeps a reflective and skeptical man alive?  In large part, I suspect, it is (a) sense of humor.  But in addition there is curiosity.  Human existence is always irrational and often painful, but in the last analysis it remains interesting. One wants to know what is going to happen tomorrow.  Will the lady in the mauve frock be more amiable than she is today?  Such questions keep human beings alive.  If the future were known, every intelligent man would kill himself at once, and the Republic would be peopled wholly by morons.  Perhaps we are really moving toward that consummation now."

                                       H. L. Mencken, from Under the Elms found in A Mencken Chrestomathy

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."

                                                           Eugene Debs

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"A Man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity."

"That it should be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race, to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters."

                    H. L. Mencken from The Feminine Mind (1918, revised 1922), ibid.

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"Violence, no matter how well intended, always rebounds upon itself." - Lao tzu

"Here, in the bare dark face of night / A calm unhurried eye draws sight / - We see in what we think we fear / The cloudings of our thought made clear." - LSV Serious Callers Only a.k.a. Iain M. Banks

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"When a man joins the bureau he takes an oath to uphold certain values. Values that he's sworn to live by." - Cooper

"Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman - a rope over an abyss." - Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzche

GTG Now!

"Thru the darkness of Future Past/ the magician longs to see/ one chants out between two worlds/ Fire, Walk With Me." - One-Armed Man.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I will ride you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! - W.B.Y

"The birth of a man is the birth of sorrow.

The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute.  What bitterness!  He lives for what is always out of reach!  His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present."  from 'Perfect Joy' found in The Way of Chuang tzu (Thomas Merton ed., Shambala)

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu