April 2011
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“All four films released to date, The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Tokyo Drift, and Fast and Furious have pretty standard cops-and-robbers plots that provide the backdrop for thrilling stunts and high-energy car chases. But that is only on the most superficial level. Below the surface, in between the car chases, these films are about conflicts with fathers. More specifically, they are about a certain kind of postmodern male figure who grows-up in the absence of what is known in egghead philosophy circles as the Freudian Concept of Man. According to Freud, the father and father-dominated family are the primary agents of socialization”
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The Fast and the Fatherless | Partial Objects
Awesome overthinking here. But it does fit :)
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“Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and frustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”
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The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Nope, don’t need to smack him, he knows
“You’re trying to fix me,” Denna said crisply as she put away her harp. “You’re trying to buy me. To arrange my life. You want to keep me like I’m your pet. Like I’m your faithful dog.”
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The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Can I smack Kvothe here? Please. I really want to
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There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart.
A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you’re barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free. Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful, and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell and press against the mouth. They live in the heart, and the longer they are kept, the heavier they become.
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it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. Any fool will spit out poison, he says, but we hoard these painful treasures. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.
“Ten hours I spent there, and the only act of creation I accomplished was to magically transform nearly a gallon of coffee into marvelous, aromatic piss.”
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The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
*snicker* I think we all know how that feels
“I wanted to point out that Gibea wasn’t necessarily corrupt. He was pursuing the Amyr’s purpose, the greater good. While his experiments had been horrifying, his work advanced medicine in ways it was almost impossible to comprehend. His work had probably saved ten times that many lives in the hundreds of years since.”
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The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Oh dear, does Kvothe need to learn about the dangers of the “greater good” and the path to hell being paved with good intentions?
“I didn’t often think of my early life in my troupe, back when my parents were alive. I avoided the subject the same way a cripple learns to keep the weight off an injured leg.”
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The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Poor Kvothe :(
“It is man’s nature to dwell on what sits close to his heart.”
—The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
—The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
“Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their own livestock. They died from fevers, falls, or broken bones gone sour. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.”
—The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
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“You meet a girl: shy, unassuming. If you tell her she’s beautiful, she’ll think you’re sweet, but she won’t believe you. She knows that beauty lies in your beholding, and sometimes that’s enough. But there’s a better way. You show her she is beautiful. You make mirrors of your eyes, prayers of your hands against her body. It is hard, very hard, but when she truly believes you..
Suddenly the story she tells herself in her own head changes. She transforms. She isn’t seen as beautiful. She is beautiful, seen.” — The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (via goodbyetocitylights)
Suddenly the story she tells herself in her own head changes. She transforms. She isn’t seen as beautiful. She is beautiful, seen.” — The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (via goodbyetocitylights)
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
—The Name Of The Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 1 by Patrick Rothfuss
“It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”
—The Name Of The Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 1 by Patrick Rothfuss
