August 2011
29 posts
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“Okay.” I coughed quietly. “If you accept that the universe is infinite, then that means there’s an infinite amount of chances for things to happen, right?” […] “Well, if there’s an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen – no matter how small the likelihood.”
“Ah.”
“That means somewhere in space there’s another planet that, by an incredible series of coincidences, developed exactly the same as ours. Right down to the smallest detail.”
“Is there?”
“Definitely. And there’s another which is exactly the same, except that palm tree over there is two feet to the right. And there’s another where the tree is two feet to the left. In fact, there are infinite planets with infinite variations on that tree alone…”
Silence. I wondered if she was asleep. “So how about that?” I prompted.
“Interesting,” she whispered. “In these planets, everything that can happen will happen.” […]
I leaned over and kissed Francoise. She pulled away, or laughed, or shook her head, or closed her eyes and kissed me back. Etienne woke, clasping his mouth in disbelief. Etienne slept. I slept while Francoise kissed Etienne. Light-years above our garbage bag beds and the steady rush of the surf, all these things happened.
” —Alex Garland - The Beach
“And me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it’s not some place you can look for, because it’s not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something, and if you find that moment, it lasts forever”
—Alex Garland - The Beach
“You must find your anger and your outrage and your dissatisfaction lurking somewhere in you…I think if you really love your country and you really love humanity, you’ve got to be pissed about something. It’s like going through the ashes trying to find the ember, it’s in there, and you’ve got to dig down deep inside, find it and extract that jewel of rage and use it for civic good.”
—Henry Rollins
“Anarchism means playing the game of life for all of it’s ups and downs. And not just for a trophy handed out in an afterlife”
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“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
—Benito Mussolini
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed”
—Into The Wild
Gentlemen To Bed! For We Have A Stag Do In The Morning
