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Formerly "Journal of Fate"


Let Haters Hate
LOL! (Pug Dog)
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I had completely forgotten this bit by Katt Williams, and it's just so awesome I had to transcribe it.

Video link -- very NSFW.

Transcript. Also NSFW. )
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Quote of the Moment
Writer
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To counterbalance yesterday's quote, here's another one:

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu
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Quote of the Moment
Game Design
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

(Seemed very appropriate for not only fiction writers, but gamers as well.)
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Quote of the day
Thinking (House)
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Vista: "You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or allow?"

PC: "Allow."

(I've come to the conclusion that too many people choose "Cancel" instead.)

Quote from User Friendly
Cool (Transformers)
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"Just because the Holy Grail doesn't keep your coffee warm when you drink from it doesn't mean it isn't important."

- User Friendly, January 5, 2007
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[Writing] Quote of the Day
Writer
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"See, writers are just like sharks. Think about it: We're mostly misunderstood and feared by people who aren't immersed in our culture, we love sea bass and, Jaws notwithstanding, we're seldom featured in big-budget films that enjoy commercial success. But, most important, we need to be constantly moving or we die. If you get caught up in the muck of a bad breakup or a dark emotional time period or even a continually rejected manuscript, you can stay there forever."

- Kevin Alexander, Writer's Digest, Vol. 87, No. 1
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Random Quote
Me (Manga)
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One of the most interesting things about being President is that you don't have to explain yourself. To anyone.

- President Richard Adar, "Epiphanies" (Episode 2x13), Battlestar Galactica
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LJ Talk
Sarcasm (MST3K)
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So LiveJournal finally released information on their instant messaging service. The tagline on the front page is fantastic:

LJ Talk. Instant messaging. Instant drama.

(Which is appropriate, because I had just come down from an extremely minor burst of drama. So it was a good laugh.)
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Quote of the Day
Cool (Transformers)
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"In Internet jargon, there is a phenomenon known as "flouncing." The flouncer is never content to simply leave a message board or discussion forum he finds disagreeable; he must conspicuously announce that he is leaving, detail the inadequacies of the other posters, bemoan the cruel treatment he has received, and, likely as not, sneak back to check the reactions to his flounce. Usually these reactions boil down to 'Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.'"

- Poppy Z. Brite (quoted during a flamewar on digg.com)
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Quote
Geeky (iClaudius)
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

- Aristotle
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Writing Quote
Me (Manga)
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"A short story is like having an infatuation, while... a novel is like having a marriage."
- Lan Samantha Chan
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Quote of the Day
Me (Manga)
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"You won't get away with this," he said. But he was just gabbling. It was just a sentence you say when people push you around and get away with it.

- Donald E. Westlake, 361
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Illegal Mexican Wrestlers!
Me (Manga)
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WWE: Illegal Mexican Wrestlers Taking Smackdowns American Wrestlers Don't Want

Example quote:
"The idea that these Mexicans are somehow stealing jobs from American wrestlers is ridiculous,"McMahon said. "After all, someone's got to take these folding chairs to the face." McMahon then picked up a folding chair and whacked Rey Mysterio Jr. in the face.

Quote of the Day
Philosophical (Holmes)
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"Never mistake motion for action."

- Ernest Hemingway
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Quote of the Day
Me (Manga)
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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Quote of the Day
Me (Manga)
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“Love is a friendship set to music.”

- Joseph Campbell

Word of the Day
My Two Cents
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How appropo.
weltschmerz (VELT-shmerts) noun

World weariness; pessimism, apathy, or sadness felt at the difference between physical reality and the ideal state.

[From German Weltschmerz, from Welt (world) + Schmerz (pain).]
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Quote of the Day
Me (Manga)
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From Wired News:

Tony Long, copy chief at Wired News, once killed a man using a paragraph written with nothing but adverbs and semicolons.
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Valentine's Day Quote
Me
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"My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and HE remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. - My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I AM Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."

- Catherine Linton (Emily Bronte), Wuthering Heights
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Culture Warrior
Me (Manga)
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"I like the idea of being a culture warrior. And if I'm going to die for anything, it may as well be for art."

- [info]artbroken

Edit: BONUS QUOTE!

"If I'm lucky, my children will never figure out how much money I've spent in game books, and thus figure out why they need to get some insanely huge student loans for college rather than expecting me to pay for it. If I'm not lucky, those books will probably be the foundation of my funeral pyre, ignited ten minutes before I pass on."

- Reverend Keith, RPG.net
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