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fave BSG scene
Gaius Baltar stands in his laboratory, smoking. He steps forward watching other passengers and members of the Fleet pass by in the corridors of the Battlestar Galactica. They pass slowly with deadened, flat expressions.
Baltar: There was an old footbridge ... over the Euclid River. Used to go there when I was a boy. Fish try and swim upstream. They' ( Read more... ) -
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It was not a direct road, and by no means could it be thought of as short. But it always led forward and throughout it's course there was no turning back. -
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It really sucks, feeling like you've got no family. -
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There’s something different at work; it’s changed. There are more transplants from the North office, true, and the nepotism seems poised to exit the stratosphere, yes, but there’s another thing. It can’t easily be explained but it can be felt, the same way dust motes in the sunlight can be felt.
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It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
just as phony as it can be,
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You're only a generous, honourable, well-meaning & selfless individual right up until the time comes that you have to make a decision that benefits yourself. -
read aloud for best results, part 1
I've almost finished reading most of this back catalogue, and to celebrate n firm affirmation of Irvine Welsh's superiority in fiction I'm grabbing a few snippets that inspire me whenever I'm gnashing through one of his books and I'm near my laptop.
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back to you, Ovid
Suppressus dolor suffocat; furit intus in pectore, et vires multiplicare cogitur. -
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It's just that tragedy is tragedy; we don't gain anything by comparing whose is worse. Though I know precisely zero people who will claim that the average white person has experienced more discrimination than the average black person, that doesn't mean that their discrimination doesn't exist, that it doesn't suck, and that we shouldn't be trying to ( Read more... ) -
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I really need to revisit that list of Don'ts.