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"Anne Frank had it easy" comrade Snarky says, "she didn't have to tour for her book".

That one gave me a giggle.



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One that sticks out in my mind, that made me laugh:

"Guys have listened to worse shit, trying to get a piece of ass."



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[i]For prep, the whole week before we talk, I surf the Internet. I download files from the former Soviet Union. Here's a different kind of child star: Russian schoolboys without pubic hair, sucking off old men. Czech girls still waiting for their first period, getting butt-fucked by monkeys. I save all these files to one thin computer disk.[/i]

That gave me a nice little laugh.

Here's another great one:

[i]The same way World War II gave us the ballpoint pen, the space program had proved the human soul was immortal. What everybody called the Earth was just a processing station that all souls had to pass through. A step in some kind of refining process. Like the cracking tower used to turn crude oil into gasoline or kerosene. As soon as human souls had been refined on Earth, then we would all incarnate on the planet Venus.[/i]



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"Tha thon-atha-bith!"



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[QUOTE=Nohero]"Anne Frank had it easy" comrade Snarky says, "she didn't have to tour for her book".

That one gave me a giggle.[/QUOTE]
I just finished Haunted and agree - this awful Anne Frank made me groan and laugh at the same time.



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gee, what a surprise nothing comes to mind. it's almost as if haunted SUCKED or something.



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It was a disappointing book overall, but it wasn't without good lines.

One that stuck with me was 'It's been fourteen weeks since I had that head cold, and you still have not kissed me.'

The 'Punch Drunk' story has some tasty lines, too. '...you never want to go into a charter place saying you only plan to fly the plane one way—talk about your red flags.' Also, 'As a fundraiser, our first idea was "Five Bucks to Punch a Mime."'



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I think Mr Whittier said this, and if it's not even from Haunted, I'm really sorry. (I have quotes written down from all over the place, but I didn't label the books they're from.)

“Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us- the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse- why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.â€



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I liked many of the quotes like "Publicity is the new privacy" or somehting like that. "[i][x][/i] is the new anti[x]"

But this passage is catchy: "It's really not a matter of right and wrong," Mr. Whittier would say.
Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality.
You can never set off to do the wrong thing.
You can never say the wrong thing.
In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act.
Mr. Whittier says, "Even if you were to tell yourself, 'Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way...from a dirty boot.' Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot."
Because you can never do nothing wrong. You are always right.
Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot.
"No matter how stupid your idea," Mr. Whittier would say, "you're doomed to be right because it's yours."



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To save us all,
please, tell someone.
To create real peace on earth.
Let us all be -
Haunted



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Quotes.

"This is just what human beings do--turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat."
-Exodus
Oh and I also like this one

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
-Proof



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This may be a little off, but I'm not going to go back through the book and find the corret quote...

"As human beings, our first commandment is: Something has to happen."

"We put wars against having wars."

There's plenty more. All and all, a great novel.



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"I lost my virginiry,"comrade Snarky says "through my ear"
(too real sometimes)



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“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people."



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[QUOTE=the midas touch;815140]I liked many of the quotes like "Publicity is the new privacy" or somehting like that. "[i][x][/i] is the new anti[x]"

But this passage is catchy: "It's really not a matter of right and wrong," Mr. Whittier would say.
Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality.
You can never set off to do the wrong thing.
You can never say the wrong thing.
In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act.
Mr. Whittier says, "Even if you were to tell yourself, 'Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way...from a dirty boot.' Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot."
Because you can never do nothing wrong. You are always right.
Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot.
"No matter how stupid your idea," Mr. Whittier would say, "you're doomed to be right because it's yours."[/QUOTE]
THANK YOU I was trying to find this quote quickly for a paper! without having to reread the novel in one night.



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What is the context and story

What is the context and story of the quote that goes

"It's been fourteen weeks since I had that head cold and you still have not kissed me."
Anyone?



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"If I told you what it tasted like, you would never eat calamari again."



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"The difference between how people see themselves and how they really look is enough to kill most people."
-Mrs. Clark



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[QUOTE][I]How sweet! You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me. [/I][/QUOTE]

-Chuck Palahniuk



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"are you saying that the aliens can actually...smell color?"



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"That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark whin he sais ah wis deid.Ah'm no deid;ah jist dinnae gie a fuck.It's no fir me tae sort every cunt's problems oot"---------GOD [The Acid House]



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Page 7. From Whittier:

"The people you're sneaking away from, they don't want you to be enlightened. They want to know what to expect. You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time."



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"The trouble is, even the French don't have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure.  Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.  Some deeds are too low to even get a name.  Too low to even get talked about."

 

"In the dark rooms behind rooms, the Matchmaker and the Missing Link are dead in the Italian Renaissance lounge.  In the subbasement below the basement, Mr. Whittier and Comrade Snarky and Lady Baglady and the Duke of Vandals are rotting-dead.  In their dressing rooms, backstage, are Miss America and Mrs Clark.  All of their cells digesting each other into runny yellow protein.  The bacteria in thier guts and lungs going wild with bloat."

 

"Our ears and toes and fingers fed to the cat.  Cora Reynolds fed to Miss America.  Miss America and her child fed to us.  That food chain, complete."



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"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find
them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious,
I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally
responsible for everything I do." - Professor Bernardo de la Paz

"TANSTAAFL" - Robert A. Heinlein



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it's supposed to be quotes from Haunted.

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nathaniel parker wrote:

it's supposed to be quotes from Haunted.

 

Wait.  You mean that Heinlein didn't write Haunted?  Well, shit.  In that case, I can't remember any specific quotes.  But after I read it, I did go around for a little while "shouting" out my friends' sins, ala Olsen Read.



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bigshrimpn wrote:

[QUOTE][I]How sweet! You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me. [/I][/QUOTE]

-Chuck Palahniuk

That's friggin' brilliant! Why have I not heard that before?