This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)

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Re: Favorite quotes

Raven Nightshade wrote:

"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." --Rev. Jesse Jackson

"You have entered the fabulous door to the north.  There is an elf with super shoes in front of you."

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#52 | Back to Top06-18-2007 09:18:15 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

satyreyes wrote:

Who knew Assyrians were so hung, though?  Gonna make the Israelites jealous...

Not so, overly long penises are "shameful!"


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#53 | Back to Top06-18-2007 11:20:13 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Ragnarok wrote:

satyreyes wrote:

Who knew Assyrians were so hung, though?  Gonna make the Israelites jealous...

Not so, overly long penises are "shameful!"

You're kidding.  Really?  Wow.  According to whom?

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#54 | Back to Top06-18-2007 11:40:51 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Hebrew folklore, I believe.


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#55 | Back to Top06-18-2007 11:46:59 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

dollface wrote:

Hebrew folklore, I believe.

Wow.  Good thing I'm not Hebrew.

Everything good has to be bad, doesn't it?  emot-redface

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#56 | Back to Top06-18-2007 11:52:51 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Baby, some of us don't want it any other way. cool


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#57 | Back to Top06-19-2007 12:16:02 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

satyreyes wrote:

Raven Nightshade wrote:

"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." --Rev. Jesse Jackson

"You have entered the fabulous door to the north.  There is an elf with super shoes in front of you."

I think I love you.

And here's an actual contribution: "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire


Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source.

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#58 | Back to Top06-19-2007 05:35:28 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Oooh, Shattered, I see your Voltaire and raise you one: "The best way to be a bore is to say everything."


Also, I adore these cynical poetic snippets!
Telegram Sent After a Much Publicized Pregnancy
Dear Mary, we all knew you had it in you!

Dorothy Parker 1893-1967 wrote:

Resume
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Roumania

Unfortunate Coincidence
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying--
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.

Tennyson wrote:

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but, when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone.

Yeats wrote:

Coat
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools who caught it,
Wore it out in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.

He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven (aka, my favorite lines ever written)
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.


1. The innocent and the beautiful
    Have no enemy but time.
2. Too long a sacrifice
    Can make a stone of the heart.


Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. / You forget some things, don't you? / Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

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#59 | Back to Top06-19-2007 05:59:11 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Frosty wrote:

Dorothy Parker 1893-1967 wrote:

Resume
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

I had never read it, but it reminds me of something I can't find right now emot-gonk Nevermind.

He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven (aka, my favorite lines ever written)
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

etc-loveetc-loveetc-love

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#60 | Back to Top06-19-2007 06:30:03 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Hehe, more Dorothy Parker!

Dorothy Parker wrote:

“Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.”

“I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host”

“If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.”

Jill Sobule wrote:

"William Faulkner drunk and depressed
Dorothy Parker mean, drunk and depressed
And that guy in Seven Years in Tibet turned out to be a nazi"

Hmm, when I first heard that last lyric, I heard "Dorothy Parker, meet drunk and depressed." I like that one better.


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#61 | Back to Top06-19-2007 10:27:19 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Stormcrow wrote:

“I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host”

That is SO awesome! I swear I'm going to stand up and read that at the next AA meeting!!! emot-biggrin

Elizabeath Barret Browning wrote:

cool cool cool
"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, sir, I say.
Colours seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day.

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Deep hearted man, express
Grief for they dead in silence like to death;
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe,
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it the marble eyelids are not wet--
If it could weep, it could arise and go

Straightaway I was 'ware
So weeping, how a mystic shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair
And a voice said in mastery while I strove...
"Guess who now holds thee?" --
"Death", I said, but there
The silver answer rang..."Not Death, but Love." etc-love

Sexy! On a more pleasant note:

Richard Lovelace wrote:

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free;
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

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#62 | Back to Top06-19-2007 10:42:51 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Woo, we're helping along Frosty! Quotes are good for many things. Actually, quotes can be life changing. I abide my life by several things, and sometimes, quotes wander in.

It displeases me that I don't know where I heard this, nor who said it, but I still love it;

Someone wrote:

Tomorrow is meaningless if you don't live through today.

Being the pansy that I am, I got all choked up several, several times today while listening to Placebo. I've always loved this song, Sleeping With Ghosts.

Placebo wrote:

This one world vision
Turns us into compromise
What good's religion
When it's each other we despise?

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#63 | Back to Top06-20-2007 05:25:43 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Frosty wrote:

Elizabeath Barret Browning wrote:

cool cool cool
Sonnets from the Portuguese

Glad to know I'm not the only one who likes these Sonnets!!! etc-loveetc-loveetc-love
Here they're not really well known... emot-frown

Then I will look for my favourite emot-keke
Edit: looks like I can't find anything today emot-gonk
But I found some Emily Dickinson!

Emily Dickinson wrote:

Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.

[Ummm... may I say I prefer the translation? Is that heresy? emot-tongue]

Another one:

Federico García Lorca wrote:

The Dawn, from A Poet in New York

Light is buried under chains and noises
in impudent challenge of rootless science.
Throught the suburbs there are people who vacillate sleepless,
as though just delivered from a shipwreck of blood.

That's surrealism at its best etc-love

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#64 | Back to Top06-20-2007 10:32:12 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Asfalolh wrote:

Emily Dickinson wrote:

Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.

[Ummm... may I say I prefer the translation? Is that heresy? emot-tongue]

What does it sound like translated?

Adam & Eve came up in the Gripes thread and reminded me:

Joan Osborne wrote:

Eve took the Fruit,
Eve bit the Fruit,
The juice ran down her chin.
Babies that put
Things in their mouths
Ain't never heard of sin.


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#65 | Back to Top06-21-2007 06:34:43 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

e.e. cummings was a dirty old man. emot-dance

i like my body when it is with your
   body. It is so quite a new thing.
   Muscles better and nerves more.
   i like your body. i like what it does,
   i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
   of your body and its bones, and the trembling
   -firm-smooth ness and which i will
   again and again and again
   kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
   i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
   of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
   over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big Love-crumbs,

   and possibly i like the thrill

   of under me you quite so new

A good friend of mine got me interested in his poetry when she sent me "somewhere I have never travelled" telling me that whenever she read it, all she could think about was me. It has one of my favorite single lines in any piece of poetry.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility

Gives me chills.

Also, Stormcrow, I loves me some Joan Osborne.

I dreamed about Ray Charles last night
He took me flying in the air
Showed my own spider webs
Said, "Honey, you had best take care.
The world is made of spider webs
The threads are stuck to me and you
Be careful what you're wishing for
'Cause when you gain you just might lose

And because I'm a cynic at heart.

Something Positive wrote:

You always struck me as the sort to sell a friend for thirty pieces of silver if you weren't so lazy.

Something Positive wrote:

An Angel: Lord, I know you like watching shit happen to that guy, but, you see, there's this war about to happen, and the prayers are really backing up
God: Shhh! You're gonna make me miss the look of complete horrific realization and that's the best part!

Something Positive wrote:

I used to think every day I woke up and didn't gargle a few rounds from a revolver was a victory, but little 'golden' moments like this make me wonder, 'A victory for who?'

Something Positive wrote:

Y'know, it's not that God assfucks me every chance he gets that pisses me off so much as that annoying laughter of his I constantly hear in the back of my mind.

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And the glances you took, took hold of you and demanded that you stay
And sunk in their teeth, bit your heart and released
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#66 | Back to Top06-21-2007 06:47:06 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

morosemocha wrote:

Also, Stormcrow, I loves me some Joan Osborne.

If you haven't seen Standing in the Shadows of Motown, you should ASAP. Joan gives some amazing performances on it.emot-keke


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#67 | Back to Top06-21-2007 07:11:22 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

morosemocha wrote:

e.e. cummings was a dirty old man. emot-dance

i like my body when it is with your
   body. It is so quite a new thing.
   Muscles better and nerves more.
   i like your body. i like what it does,
   i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
   of your body and its bones, and the trembling
   -firm-smooth ness and which i will
   again and again and again
   kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
   i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
   of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
   over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big Love-crumbs,

   and possibly i like the thrill

   of under me you quite so new

Oh, I had forgotten about this one!!!
It was the prologue to a beautiful fanfic I read once (RemusxSirius, in case you wondered).
etc-loveetc-loveetc-love

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#68 | Back to Top06-21-2007 11:42:19 AM

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Re: Favorite quotes

morosemocha wrote:

S*P quotey goodness!

I love Something Positive!  In fact, it was the webcomic that got me hooked on webcomics.  I hope you don't mind if I horn in on your turf a little:

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#69 | Back to Top06-21-2007 03:53:24 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm."”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."”

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.”

And his final note before his death in 11th of January, 2007:

Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

"I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd."

Really, he has too many great quotes for me to choose from. These are some of the most memorable.

Hail Eris! All hail Discordia! Hail Bob!


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#70 | Back to Top06-22-2007 05:00:49 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Today, I am inspired by the wit of Jim Steinman (he wrote all of Meat Loaf's more popular songs):

It's a never-ending attack,
Everything's a lie and that's a fact.
Life is a lemon and I want my money back!

I don't remember if it was a telecaster or a stratocaster, but I do remember that it had a heart of chrome and a voice like a horny angel!

(I love this shit!)

I like my music like I like my life: Everything louder than everything else!

If you're only killing time then it'll kill you right back.

EDIT: I can't believe I fucked that up. It should read "Everything louder than everything else", not "anything else". I mean, not only did I fuck it up, I fucked it up in a profound way that rendered it totally stupid. It's not like I even hit the wrong key, I must have actually been thinking that.emot-redfaceemot-mad

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#71 | Back to Top06-22-2007 05:25:55 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

I like my music like I like my life: Everything louder than anything else!

that reminds me of one of my favorite Eddie Izzard gems:

I like my women like I like my coffee -COVERED IN BEEEEEEES!


The first time you looked at her curves you were hooked
And the glances you took, took hold of you and demanded that you stay
And sunk in their teeth, bit your heart and released
Such a charge that you need another touch, another taste, another fix

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#72 | Back to Top06-23-2007 11:32:03 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

This evening, I would like to share with you some words from Tom Waits: (The views expressed may not be the views of Stormcrow. I just like the way he says things.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man,
All the good in the world you can fit inside a thimble and still have room for you and me.
Misery's the river of the world...

A rat always knows when he's in with weasels.

The face forgives the mirror,
The worm forgives the plow,
The question begs the answer,
Can you forgive me somehow?

Did you hear the news about Edward?
On the back of his head he had another face
Was it a woman's face or a young girl?
They said to remove it would kill him
So poor Edward was doomed
The face could laugh and cry
It was his devil twin
And at night she spoke to him
Things heard only in hell

There are a few things I never could believe
A woman when she weeps
A merchant when he swears
A thief who says he'll pay
A lawyer when he cares
A snake when he is sleeping
A drunkard when he prays
I don't believe you go to heaven
When you're good
Everything goes to hell, anyway...

Pleasant dreams...emot-wink


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#73 | Back to Top06-24-2007 04:14:46 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Haven't found these yet while skimming through so I thought I'd share.

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool - shun him.    
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child - teach him.    
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep - wake him.    
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man - follow him.

-Chinese proverb

(that used to be on the door of our french room in school, I literally memorized it. Thinking about it now, I probably move between child and asleep.)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

-Ghandi

So Anthy, Shiori and I are not happy then. No??

(That quote is on the wall in my college)

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#74 | Back to Top06-24-2007 04:23:15 PM

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Re: Favorite quotes

Well Coco, I'm sorry to hear that you're not happy, but I confess I'm not exactly shocked about Shiori and Anthy.emot-wink

For that matter, you could add...everyone else from SKU to the list, except for Utena, sometimes. Maybe Wakaba, sometimes....Mari? I'm not sure, but I think that's all for the happy SKU-folk.school-devil

This'll piss some folks off, but by that definition, it's possible that Tokiko is happy.

For the record, I don't suppose I'm happy either by that definition, but somehow it doesn't bother me.school-devilschool-devilschool-devil


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#75 | Back to Top06-24-2007 04:44:22 PM

Coco Melancholy
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Re: Favorite quotes

Nah. Not Mari, she's totally doing that whole I'll bully you because I like you thing, kids do at that age. She's as fucked up as the rest of them. I see a budding sarcastic when she reaches the age of the rest of the cast.

Really?? Tokiko? Oh yea, yea probably. Though for someone who should be happy, she seemed pretty miserable when she turned up ag-oh....oh wait, oh, oh yes, the whole Mikage, robot, thingie, right, okay, cool.



Has someone already said this one, because it is sooooo me:

"You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood"

"What mood is that?"

"Last-minute panic.” O.O




This sounds like something I would say:

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

My sister just had a baby boy yesterday. Funny I came across this.



I was just having a conversation with Shiroi and this slipped out:

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”

Notice how hard I am trying NOT to write any Merphy's laws.....trying....trying so hard emot-mad

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