"In life you have to do a lot of things you don’t fucking want to do. Many times, that’s what the fuck life is… one vile fucking task after another."
- Al Swearengen, Deadwood (via everythingtv)
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12 months ago
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"Not a writer!"
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The guys to Peggy, after she turns down a second drink during a work meeting.
(Mad Men)
12 months ago
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"Now, I didn’t actually know any commercial bankers, but a commercial banker was reputed to be just an ordinary American businessman with ordinary American ambitions. He lent a few hundred million dollars each day to South American countries. But really, he meant no harm. He was only doing what he was told by someone higher up in an endless chain of command. A commercial banker wasn’t any more trouble than Dagwood Bumstead. He had a wife, a station wagon, 2.2 children, and a dog that brought him his slippers when he returned home from work at six."
- Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker
1 year ago
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"It’s a job I fell into because I wasn’t strong, and grew to tolerate because I had to, then suddenly couldn’t stand another hour of."
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(Ryan Bingham)
Walter Kirn, Up in The Air
1 year ago
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"Realize, as the long hot days freakishly repeat themselves, one after the other, that whatever I am doing I really think that I ought to be doing something else. It comes from the same feeling family as the one which periodically makes you think that just because you live in central London you should be out at the RSC/Albert Hall/Tower of London/Royal Academy/Madame Tussauds, instead of hanging around in bars enjoying yourself."
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Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’ Diary
(In honor of my totally boring Memorial Day weekend…I always feel like I should do something more fun for a holiday weekend, but I never do.)
1 year ago
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"
“You only took 2 puffs of your last one.”
“That’s cause I don’t really smoke. Yeah, well, last year I started chewing the gum, you know? Because my friend, Donna, she was trying to quit smoking and she found that the gum was soothing to the nerves. So I started chewing it, then I got hooked on the gum and then I got TMJ from the chewing. So this is just to get me off the gum. I’m 10 days off the gum.”
“Sounds like a good plan. Next week you’ll be on heroin.”
"- Buddy and Abby, Bounce
1 year ago
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"Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ‘cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin’, “Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area” ‘cause they don’t give a shit. It won’t be their kid over there, gettin’ shot. Just like it wasn’t them when their number got called, ‘cause they were pullin’ a tour in the National Guard. It’ll be some kid from Southie takin’ shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, ‘cause he’ll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain’t helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they’re takin’ their sweet time bringin’ the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin’ play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain’t too long ‘til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy’s out of work and he can’t afford to drive, so he’s got to walk to the fuckin’ job interviews, which sucks ‘cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin’ him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he’s starvin’, ‘cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they’re servin’ is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I’m holdin’ out for somethin’ better. I figure fuck it, while I’m at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."
- Will Hunting, Good Will Hunting
1 year ago
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“I think I always meant to be a nurse but I veered a few degrees. Like you said you did.”
“What did I tell you I set out to be?”
“A folk guitarist.”
I’m baffled. It’s so specific.
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(Ryan Bingham and Linda)
Walter Kirn, Up in The Air
1 year ago
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"Ortolani: Hey, let me give you a slice of advice. Get yourself a weapon. Anyone tries to fuck with you, take ‘em down.
Beecher: Anything else?
Ortolani: Yeah, don’t smile. Ever."
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Oz
(btw, this is also good advice if you ever get a corporate job. not the weapon part, the smiling part. don’t do it.)
1 year ago
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"I have never seen men on Wall Street in such agreement on an issue as they were on my application. A few actually laughed at my resume. Representatives from several leading firms said that I lacked commercial instincts, an expensive way, I feared, to say that I would spend the rest of my life poor. I’ve always had difficulties making sharp transitions, and this one was the sharpest. I recall that I couldn’t imagine myself wearing a suit. Also, I’d never met a banker with blond hair. All the moneymen I’d ever met were either dark or bald. I was neither. So, you see, I had problems."
- Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker
1 year ago
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"Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man… and give some back."
- Al Swearengen, Deadwood
1 year ago
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"I profess to being a little sketchy about my Wizard of Oz, and Morton digresses into the back story on the tin man, trying to recall how he got such a hard “shell.” All I can think is that I’m glad he didn’t bring the dolls with him, because Starbucks has gotten crowded now and I wouldn’t want it to look like I’m being subjected to some peculiar doll-based form of therapy."
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch
(this quote refers to a meeting with a career counselor of some kind who apparently uses dolls in his “treatment.” It’s from a nonfiction book.)
1 year ago
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"Lady, people aren’t chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard fillings."
- Dr. Cox, Scrubs
1 year ago
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"We were rock climbing in Bryce Canyon. It’s a program. Wilderness Accountability. We ate wild grasses. We chiseled arrowheads.”
“One of those things were you let yourself fall backwards and everyone catches you?”
“Only they don’t catch you. On this one they let you fall. And then they step on you."
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(Ryan and Julie Bingham)
Walter Kirn, Up in The Air
1 year ago
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"Was that your boss?” says Julie.
“That’s never been clear. We use the new, confusing titles here."
- (Ryan Bingham)
Walter Kirn, Up in The Air
Walter Kirn, Up in The Air
