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“Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?”

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Eric Idle is a British comedian, screenwriter, and musician, born on March 29, 1943. He is best known as a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python and for his distinctive humor style and versatile performance skills. more

“You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.”

Source: Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected

“Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).”

Band Consequence Musical Nine All Time Phenomenon Inches Nails Subculture

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.”

Enough Unique Profit Preserves Existentialism Worthwhile Drains

Book:Nothing's Sacred

Source: Nothing's Sacred

“It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.”

Hard America

Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.”

World Eye Age Distance Spots Reproduction

Book:I'm Not Stiller

Source: I'm Not Stiller

“It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all”

Knows Illusion Recalls

Author:Joni Mitchell

“We didn't love freedom enough.”

Enough Love Freedom

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“All colours are arbitrary.”

Colour Arbitrary

Author:Carl Sagan

“Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”

Heart Tears Guilt Deeds Villain Confession Hideous Guilty Conscience

Book:The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

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