Alan Gandy

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

About Friedrich Nietzsche

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Lester Burnham: [narrating] I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn’t a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time… Read the rest of this entry »

Mike (The One-Armed Man): Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds: “Fire Walk With Me”.

About Twin Peaks

The Motorcycle Boy: If you’re going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go.

Benny: Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you’re young, you’re a kid, you got time, you got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years, a couple of years there… it doesn’t matter. You know. The older you get you say, “Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty-five summers left.” Think about it. Thirty-five summers.

Father: Every now and then, a person comes along, has a different view of the world than does the usual person. It doesn’t make them crazy. I mean… an acute perception, man… that doesn’t, that doesn’t make you crazy.
Rusty James: Could you talk normal?
Father: However sometimes… it can drive you crazy, acute perception.
Rusty James: I wish you’d talk normal ’cause I don’t understand half the garbage you’re saying. You know? You know what I mean?
Father: No, your mother… is not crazy. And neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother crazy. He’s merely miscast in a play. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river… with the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and findin’ nothin’ that he wants to do. I mean nothing.

About Rumble Fish

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

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