“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
November 7, 2015 3:12 PM Subscribe
I prefer this Douglas Adams quote:
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
And from Lewis Carroll:
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
but then, my all-time favorite Terry Pratchett quote probably makes TOO MUCH sense...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:01 PM on November 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
And from Lewis Carroll:
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
but then, my all-time favorite Terry Pratchett quote probably makes TOO MUCH sense...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:01 PM on November 7, 2015 [2 favorites]
Nice, but everything is Better with Sluggo.
posted by rokusan at 5:58 PM on November 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by rokusan at 5:58 PM on November 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted twelve minutes after his birthday ended in France
Aujourd'hui, c'est mon anniversaire. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
posted by Wolof at 6:29 PM on November 7, 2015 [6 favorites]
Aujourd'hui, c'est mon anniversaire. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
posted by Wolof at 6:29 PM on November 7, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted twelve minutes after his birthday ended
(suddenly furious) Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.posted by idiopath at 6:31 PM on November 7, 2015 [3 favorites]
"... sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Why not round it off with pondering breakfast at Milliways?
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:24 PM on November 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Why not round it off with pondering breakfast at Milliways?
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:24 PM on November 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
-- Gerry O'Driscoll, doorman, Abby Road Studios
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:09 PM on November 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
-- Gerry O'Driscoll, doorman, Abby Road Studios
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:09 PM on November 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Man, I love all these quotes! You know what's really "absurd," though: an independent Algeria
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 9:46 PM on November 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 9:46 PM on November 7, 2015 [1 favorite]
Camus was and remains awesome. Thank you!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:51 PM on November 7, 2015
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:51 PM on November 7, 2015
As the idiot defendant at his child pornography trial declared: "Children should be obscene and not absurd."
I apologize profusely.
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:28 PM on November 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
I apologize profusely.
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:28 PM on November 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Some people are paying tribute to Camus in meme form.
posted by idiopath at 5:05 PM on November 8, 2015
posted by idiopath at 5:05 PM on November 8, 2015
I am sorry, "We're all mad here."
The Cheshire Cat
*sigh*
posted by Oyéah at 5:44 PM on November 8, 2015
The Cheshire Cat
*sigh*
posted by Oyéah at 5:44 PM on November 8, 2015
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Une citation de plus : these quotes are great, merci !
posted by fraula at 3:22 PM on November 7, 2015 [2 favorites]