EarthboundStarblind
female, 26 |
Reverse Psychologist
's Ländle / Germany
member since 07.12.2009
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"Generally mad, bad and dangerous to know. Except when inebriated.", Lord Byron on ES, Pisa, 1821
"Begob! And you are telling me that she's not the famous loud, dirty and boozy sister Dylan was referring to? Well, she could still drink him under the table, anytime!", Flann O'Brien on ES, The Irish Times, 1965
"Sláinte!", The Plain People of Ireland
"She likes to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three she's under the... pffffft... You know what? Pour me another one, dear, will you...", Dorothy Parker on ES, NY, 1953
"I assure you, Uncle Monty, that Marwood is not the least bit interested in her! Now, will you give me those cottage keys or not?", Withnail on ES, London, 1969
"Whoever claims to remember ES has not really known her.", Falco on ES, Vienna, 1987
"The pathetic merch-bitch stole her nick from me, you know. And no, I don't think that 30 euros for a tour shirt is 'a bloody rip-off'!", David Sylvian on ES, Offenbach, 2007
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"As to letters, my case is peculiar. I write such things exactly as easily and as rapidly as I would utter the same topics in conversation; indeed, epistolary expression is with me largely replacing conversation, as my condition of nervous prostration becomes more and more acute. I cannot bear to talk much now, and am becoming as silent as the Spectator himself! My loquacity extends itself on paper."
H.P. Lovecraft to Rheinhart Kleiner, 23 December 1917
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"Usually, writers will do anything to avoid writing. For instance, the previous sentence was written at one o’clock this afternoon. It is now a quarter to four. I have spent the past two hours and forty-five minutes sorting my neckties by width, looking up the word “paisly” in three dictionaries, attempting to find the town of that name on The New York Times Atlas of the World map of Scotland, sorting my reference books by width, trying to get the bookcase to stop wobbling by stuffing a matchbook cover under its corner, dialing the telephone number on the matchbook cover to see if I should take computer courses at night, looking at the computer ads in the newspaper and deciding to buy a computer because writing seems to be so difficult on my old Remington, reading an interesting article on sorghum farming in Uruguay that was in the newspaper next to the computer ads, cutting that and other interesting articles out of the newspaper, sorting—by width—all the interesting articles I’ve cut out of newspapers recently, fastening them neatly together with paper clips and making a very attractive paper clip necklace and bracelet set, which I will present to my girlfriend as soon as she comes home from the three-hour low-impact aerobic workout that I made her go to so I could have some time alone to write.”
— P. J. O’Rourke
The Wit and Wisdom of P. J. O’Rourke
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"Ha ha, look! This country is called U-r-gay!"
Homer Simpson of Springfield |
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