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I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
1917
2007-12-23
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Everything you say now sounds like it was ghostwritten
New Amsterdam
2007-12-28
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The semiotics of the Villa bespeak a turning in, a denial of the bright void beyond the hull
Neuromancer
1984
0000-00-00
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And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties?
All Tomorrow's Parties
1967
2008-01-03
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Hell, they ain't even old timey!
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001
2008-01-03
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If only life were easy it would be so much fun
Arthur
1969
2008-01-03
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I hope they finally fixed your automobile
This Flight Tonight
1970
2008-01-03
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I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley or Keats
'Cause it's all been said before
Every Picture Tells A Story
1971
2008-01-04
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Some sweet day I'll stand beside my king
Thunder On the Mountain
2006
2008-01-04
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She's listening in to the Venus line
She's picking out names
I hope none of them are mine
Green Shirt
1979
2008-01-08
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Lost time is not found again
Odds and Ends
1975
2008-01-10
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If it's information you want you can get it from the police
Summer Days
2006
2008-01-10
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Human beings weren't meant to sit in little cubicles, starring at computer screens all day
Office Space
1999
2008-01-14
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Only trust can inspire soggy lungs to breathe fire
December
2002
2008-02-21
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My interest level is dropping
No Compassion
1977
2008-02-25
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Think of me and try not to laugh
You Wear It Well
1972
2008-02-25
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Hello private callers, IDs blocked
Spiders (Kidsmoke)
2004
2008-03-03
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There's nothing there. No information left of any kind
Crosseyed and Painless
1980
2008-03-11
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Crossing guards start traffic jams
Soccer moms drive minivans
The Senator's Daughter
1999
2008-04-11
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And they're saving their labor for insane reading
Cindy Tells Me
1974
2008-04-18
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I'm looking in on the good life
I might be doomed never to find
New Slang (When You Notice the Stripes)
2001
2008-05-07
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Don't want to learn about etiquette from glossy magazines
All I Want Is You
1975
2008-05-16
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Whole damn state's goin' apey
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
2008-05-23
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She had Lord Masham on one side of her and on the other the accomplished Mr. Mulliner, editor of the new high-class lively evening paper which was expected to meet a want felt in circles increasingly conscious that Conservatism must be made amusing, and unconvinced when assured by those of another political colour that it was already amusing enough.
The Lesson of the Master
1888
2008-06-04
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Guess it's information that I lack
I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
1977
2008-07-02
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Facts are useful in emergencies
Crosseyed and Painless
1980
2008-08-05
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It's a death that's worse than fate
Senior Service
1979
2008-08-05
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I'm tired of traveling
I want to be somewhere
The Big Country
1978
2008-08-15
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You make him sound like frozen food
His love will last forever
I Hope You're Happy Now
1986
2008-08-18
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Some civil servants are just like my loved ones
Don't Worry About the Government
1977
2008-08-18
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I'm like a trash can holding all the information
Salute The Solution
2008
2008-09-04
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Did someone call me schnorer?
Animal Crackers
1930
2008-09-12
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Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick
Sugar Baby
2001
2008-09-29
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My mule is sick My horse is blind
Ain't Talkin'
2006
2008-10-13
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Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Macbeth, Act II, Scene iii
1606
2008-10-14
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If you see a box of pine
With a name that looks like mine
Just say I drowned in a barrel of wine
When I got to the border
When I Get to the Border
1974
2008-10-25
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A floodtide of screaming fiends and assassins and thieves and hirsute buggers pours forth into the universe, tipping it slightly on its galactic axes. The stars go rolling down the void like redhot marbles. These simmering sinners with their cloaks smoking carry the Logos itself from the tabernacle and bear it through the streets while the absolute prebarbaric mathematick of the western world howls them down and shrouds their ragged biblical forms in oblivion.
Suttree
1979
2008-11-14
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As we staggered into land
With all the waiters eatin' sandwiches
And tried to mooch a towel from the hoi polloi
Jug Band Music
1966
2008-11-21
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I was thinking about what I friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie
After the Gold Rush
1970
2008-12-03
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I waltzed through the wilderness with nothing but a compass and canteen
Transport Is Arranged
1997
2009-04-21
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Simply put I want to grow old
Dying does not meet my expectations
We Are Underused
1997
2009-06-26
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The drowsy blond carouses on the avenue
Out of Reaches
2008
2009-08-13
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There's a swagger in my walk
A grade 'A' in my report
I'm the salmon who made it upstream
Last Time Forever
2001
2009-08-26
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I said "I'm so happy I could die"
She said "Drop dead" and left with another guy
The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
1977
2009-10-22
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The actress is always breaking things
Date With Ikea
1997
2009-11-20
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We are forms of all the things we love
Good Monsters
2006
2009-12-02
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Well I can't wait 'til I move to the city
'Til I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas
New Frontier
1982
2009-12-15
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And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken
When The Ship Comes In
1964
2009-12-21
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If you got a head for figures then you better count me out
Beaten to the Punch
1980
2010-01-15
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Amazement seized all of them, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, 'We have seen strange things today.'
Luke 5:26
50
2010-06-08
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He - I don't know how to say it - he isn't hearty-like
Victory, Chapter 10
1914
2010-06-17
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Horseplay and disease's killin me by degrees
While the law looks the other way
Where Are You Tonight?
1978
2010-11-15
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There's a tangled thread inside my head
With nothing on either end
My Mirror Speaks
2009
2010-11-30
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They rode out through the rabble past great cones of slag and tailings. The people watched them go. Some of the men stood hand in hand like lovers and a small child led forth a blind man on a string to a place of vantage.
Blood Meridian
1985
2010-11-30
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"The experience, the experience. Haven't you learned?"
Profane didn't have to think long. "No," he said, "offhand I'd say I haven't learned a goddamn thing."
Brenda, to Benny Profane, in V.
1963
2011-02-07
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From amidst them forth he passed,
Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained
Superior, nor of violence feared aught
And with retorted scorn his back he turned
On those proud towers, to swift destruction doomed
Paradise Lost Book V
1667
2011-02-07
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There’s too many people, too many to recall
Cold Irons Bound
1997
2011-05-04
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I cannot even do one sit-up.
Sit-ups are so bourgeoisie.
No One Is (As I Are Be)
2011
2011-12-15
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A floodtide of screaming fiends and assassins and thieves and hirsute buggers pours forth into the universe, tipping it slightly on its galactic axes. The stars go rolling down the void like redhot marbles. These simmering sinners with their cloaks smoking carry the Logos itself from the tabernacle and bear it through the streets while the absolute prebarbaric mathematick of the western world howls them down and shrouds their ragged biblical forms in oblivion.
- Cormac McCarthy