A Requiem of Rant Quotes
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The release is one day away, I'm sure people have finished the ARCs, and it's inevitable that this thread will appear. I say requiem because that's how I see quotes: like lost souls of a greater whole, a homage to the departed, or a farewell to a book you've enjoyed. Anyway, have at it.
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"Beg pardon, Miss Harvey....."
"I'd enjoy nothing more than diagramming that lovely sentence,
but I'm suffering a chunk of pig iron so beet red it's starting to pain me..."
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:poke: [QUOTE=McMuddle;962563]"Beg pardon, Miss Harvey....."
"I'd enjoy nothing more than diagramming that lovely sentence,
but I'm suffering a chunk of pig iron so beet red it's starting to pain me..."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][B]Bodie Carlyle:[/B] If Rant Casey ever fucked my mom, I didn't never have the balls to ask.[/QUOTE]I fucked your mom Bodie!
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Well, for a first post, I guess that does it.
You don't even need to jump at the first page for quotes. That's the quickest I've smiled when opening a book.
[COLOR=Lime][B][I]For my father,
Fred Leander Palahniuk.
Look up from the sidewalk. Please.[/I][/B][/COLOR]
[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde;963247]Well, for a first post, I guess that does it.
You don't even need to jump at the first page for quotes. That's the quickest I've smiled when opening a book.
[COLOR=Lime][B][I]For my father,
Fred Leander Palahniuk.
Look up from the sidewalk. Please.[/I][/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
is he trying to say his dad was a bum living in the gutter???
I took it to mean that his father walked with his head down, like you might do if you have low self-esteem. He's telling his father he has nothing to be ashamed of, telling him to keep his head up. Maybe I'm off, but that's how I saw it.
[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde;963275]I took it to mean that his father walked with his head down, like you might do if you have low self-esteem. He's telling his father he has nothing to be ashamed of, telling him to keep his head up. Maybe I'm off, but that's how I saw it.[/QUOTE]
i don't know if either one of us is right but i like that description a lot better
[B]Bodie Carlyle: [/B] You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.
Sex Tornado!
(it's not just a college nickname anymore...)
"To fail to embrace my dreams now would be a disgrace so great that sin itself would not be able to find a name for it." - Werner Herzog
“Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”
From the Field Notes of Green Taylor Simms:
Scripture in the Casey household decrees,
"The secret ingedient to anything [I]tastey[/I]
is something that's going to[I] hurt[/I]."
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[B]Logan Elliot ([I] Childhood Friend [/I]):[/B] The only worst part of the Casey house, when you visited, was how his ma used to listen outside the bathroom door. No lie. The first time I was over, I opened the door, and she stood there blocking the way, telling me, "I would appreciate it, upon future visits to this household, if you would urinate from a seated position...
It didn't matter I didn't know the word "urinate"
"I never did know if Rant Casey fucked my mom."
Ephemerality rules the world.
LouAnn Perry: "After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, maybe three times, you'll settle down and marry someone less exciting for the rest of your life."
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[B]Echo Lawrence:[/B] When Shot said "rabies," I thought he'd said "babies." The results came back negative, thank God, but I think I asked for the wrong test.
You blink when you breathe and you breathe when you lie
You blink when you lie
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[COLOR=Lime][B][I]For my father,
Fred Leander Palahniuk.
Look up from the sidewalk. Please.[/I][/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
My immediate response to reading this was the fact that Chuck's Dad was killed out in front of his house, where the ex of his Dad's girlfriend was waiting to kill them. That's where my mind went, a son missing his father. Wishing his father would look up from the sidewalk...
"Pseftis cared for Leonard the way a blacked-out van candyman cared for the souls of eight year olds. "
"I been vaccinated against measels and diphtheria," Rant used to say. "A rattlesnake's just my vaccination against boredom"
I know this is more factual then anything but I found it intresting to no end...
"A landmark study, out of Cal State LA in 1967 and proved a bunch of times since then, it says 55 percent of human communication is based on our body language, how we stand or lead or look each other in the eye. Another 38 percent of our communication comes through our tone of voice, the speed we talk, and how loud. The suprise is, only 7 percent of our message comes through our words." (pg. 66)
"The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you have yesterday" (pg. 18)
I also love "Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there". (pg. 18) ... though I know it's been mentioned.
(Green on faith and toothfairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Clause) "From a man to an amical to a fairy.
From toys to candy to money. Thus intrestingly enough transferring the magic of faith and trust from sparkling fairydom to clumsy, tarnished coins." (pg. 62)
Wallace Boyer (Daytimer, Car Salesman)
Nobody's all that original. Any lone wierdo comes from a big nest of wierdos. What's wierd is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Any Warhol makes perfect sense.
pussy psychic
[Dj_iii] 3:00 pm: i'm a motherfuckin graphic designer
that odd word that doesn't make sence in my quote is supposed to say animal...
"a bizarre cultural delusion like Santa Claus can drive half of annual sales. Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy. It's beyond frustrating."
"We won't ever be as young as we is tonight."
"Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you."
Meh.
[QUOTE=essga11;972894]pussy psychic[/QUOTE]
yeah and the [I]boner Benedict Arnold[/I]
You can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark. Once you start the path of revenge, there's no way to stop.
[QUOTE=goldenmean;974924]"a bizarre cultural delusion like Santa Claus can drive half of annual sales. Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy. It's beyond frustrating."
"We won't ever be as young as we is tonight."
"Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you."[/QUOTE]
those are great
I liked this one:
Mary Cane Harvey (Teacher): Money you don't work to earn, you spend very quickly.
(pg54)
Both by echo Lawrence
"Here's a single girl's secret--the reason you eat dinner with a man on a first date is so you know how he's going to fuck you. A slop who gobbles down the meal, never looks at a bite, you know not to crawl into bed with that guy"
"Earlier, when I say I let Rant 'ride in my backseat,' that's not a euphemism"
"This is what church should feel like."
and
“The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday.”
[I]"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"[/I]
-Rant Casey
[I]"Your girlfriend you like so much, she fucks for money. Your little girlfriend is a gaddamn whore."
"Is that true?"
"Is what true?"
"What she said. Are you really my girlfriend?"[/I]
-Tina Something, Rant Casey, and Echo Lawrence
Im bored, and its late so heres a shit-load of quotes...
"Neddy Nelson: Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?" (Page 314)
"Shot Dunyun: You could argue that we constantly change the past, whether or not we actually go back. I close my eyes, and the Rant Casey I picture isn't the real person. The Rant I tell you about is filltered and colored and distorted through me." (313)
"From the Field Notes of Green Taylor Simms: Not to be overly moralistic, but sometimes the death of one person can justify the death of an entire culture." (228)
"Phoebe Truffeau, Ph.D: Among those crippled and killed by syphilis was England's King Henry VIII, as well as France's Charles VIII and Francis I." (190)
"Echo Lawrence: Our first night alone in the Eldorado, all I could think was: Thank God the leather seats are dark burgundy." (184)
"From the Field Notes of Green Taylor Simms: One of the common tenets shared by widely divergent spiritual beliefs is the rule that an individual can only attain true power by 'killing his father.' One possibility is that said rule was not meant metaphorically." (269)
"From the Field Notes of Green Taylor Simms: On a personal note, I deeply resent Mr. Casey casting me as a serial rapist and murderer." (276)
"Echo Lawrence: When Shot said 'rabies,' I thought he'd said 'babies.' The results came back negative, thank God, but I think i asked for the wrong test." (204)
"Neddy Nelson: Did you know that much of Mengele's findings came to the United States as part of Project Paperclip, where the CIA granted pardons and gave new identities to Nazi scientists if they agreed to share Mengele's research?" (243)
"Neddy Nelson: Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term 'depopulate' means?" (245)
"From the Field Notes of Green Taylor Simms: For myself, personally, my reason for participating in Party Crash events is quite simple: I hold my life as precious. I adore my friends and family. I treasure my health and the myriad capabilities of my aged yet healthy body and mind. I consider myself to be enormously gifted with good fortune, but accidents do happen." (170)
"Lowell Richards: Rant Casey wasn't evil." (60)
"Shot Dunyun: What bothered Rant was the fake, bullshit nature of everything." (61)
"Neddy Nelson: How can you say Rant Casey overreacted? How's an intelligent person supposed to react when he discovers he's merely the product of a corrupt and evil system? How do you continue to live after you learn that your every breath, every dollar you pay in taxes, every baby you conceive and love will only perpetuate some evil system? How do you live knowing your every cell and drop of blood are part of the big evil?" (303)
yeah i didnt know exactly what that meant either... but it may have something to do with his dad's death.... i guess only chuck knows that one huh..
Just finished the book and I don't have it with me right now-
But after Dunyun killed his dog he says something like - "It was far from that scene in Old Yeller"
Classic
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami
I think of this quote every time I see my book, so I'll post it here.
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Rant goes, "Really truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody?"
I go, doesn't Rant mean "love"?
And Rant shrugs and says, "Ain't it the same thing?"
"
-P.152
Always insisting that the journey is always a means to some greater end, and the excitement and danger of the journey should be minimalized, Perpetuating the fallacy that a journey itself is of little value.
i forget what page, but i think its chapter 15 -17. ill update later.
[B]
"A good trick to remember a name is you look the person in the eyes long enough to register their color: green or brown or blue: You call that pattern interrupt. It stops you forgetting the way you always would." -pg. 2
"The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday." pg. 4
"Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you." - pg 13
"Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there." - pg. 18
"My life might be little and boring, but at least it's mine." - pg. 73-74
"What if reality is nothing but some disease?" - pg. 215
"What's the longest you ever counted your heartbeat? You ever counted heartbeats up to ten thousand? Twenty thousand? How about 41,234?" - pg. 222
"No matter what happenes, it's always now." - pg. 246
"You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way." - pg. 287
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[QUOTE=McMuddle;962563]"Beg pardon, Miss Harvey....."
"I'd enjoy nothing more than diagramming that lovely sentence,
but I'm suffering a chunk of pig iron so beet red it's starting to pain me..."[/QUOTE]
one of my favorite quotes is this one, i took out part of it to condense it.
enjoy!
I want to ask, you ever wonder why the dominant culture says certain stuff? I mean, really hammers on you that some stuff is absolutely, deadly, impossible? For instance, what science calls the “Grandfather Paradox”? How it works out that you should never, ever even consider time travel, because you might go back in time and kill your own grandfather by accident, let’s say, and then--kah-poof-- you’d not exist? I mean, if you trusted in the government experts, wouldn’t you be careful and never go back in time?
What if this? If somebody went back and reworked the past, how would the rest of us know? Don’t we only know the present reality that we know? What if reality gets reshuffled-- in little, tiny ways-- all the time? Or what if the people in power have already shuffled the past to get on top, and now they’re telling the rest of us not to monkey around with history or we’ll go back and kill our ancient ancestors and every generation after that, and then we’ll never get born.
I mean, could the people who control all the money and politics ever invent a scarier warning? Didn’t these same science experts used to say the earth was flat? Wasn’t it really important we should stay home and be peasants and slaves or we’d fall off the edge? …
All I’m saying is: What if time is not the fragile butterfly wing that science experts keep saying?
What if time is more like a chain-link fence you can’t hardly fuck up?
I mean, even if you fucked it up, even ten hundred times--how would you ever know? Any present moment, any “right now,” we get what we get. You know?
Gosh, I have so many favorites from this book. I apologize if there are repeats.
"From the Field Notes of Green Taylor Simms: ...I came to party crashing because accidents happen. People you love with die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact" (171)
"Wallace Boyer: To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses." (217)
"Shot Dunyun: Boy oh boy, Rant's dad rolls into town certifiably, bona-fide, bat-shit crazy..." (234)
"Shot Dunyun: Rant Casey always used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic.
I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us, we'll react to that moment of danger." (246)
"Neddy Nelson: What if this? If somebody went back and reworked the past, how would the rest of us know? Don't we only know the present reality that we know? What if reality gets reshuffled- in little, tiny ways- all the time?..." (250)
I can't believe no one posted this one yet, it's one of my favorites!
Shot Dunyun: "I can tell you this, Rant Casey will never be one of those old Sharks dragging his ass, hoping for someone kind enough to ram him. No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying."
"You can get plenty of folks telling the same lie if they got a stake in it. You get everybody telling the same lie and it ain't a lie, not no more."
People have said it before, in different ways, but when I read that, it stuck. Just like splat on my brain.
I'm currently reading Rant. Just a few quotes that stuck out,
You're a different human being to everyone you meet.
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
History is, its just a nightmare. Cut off tongues lying everywhere.
I was perched outside in the pouring rain
Trying to make myself a sail
History is, its just a nightmare. Cut off tongues lying everywhere.
Where is this line from in the book, do you recall?
I wasn't really floored with the writing in Rant but I like this line just from the homonym of "Cut off tongues lying," tongues literally laying on the ground/ tongues, even though they're cut out, continuing to lie.
I've always heard "The spoken word is the present, the written word is the past."
that's not a quote from Rant or anything but still...