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Tyler Durden:
Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.

Believers infiltrate the enemy

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Mary Katherine Gallagher:
Oh my God!
Jesus:
Oh my Me! How are you?
Mary Katherine Gallagher:
It's going OK. Are you the Lord?
Jesus:
Well, to you I am. See, technically, you're, like, in this REM sleep state, and I'm a mixture of your mind's images of God, some past authority figures, uh, Skye, and your dad. Basically, your subconcsious came up with me to help you deal. Dig?
Mary Katherine Gallagher:
Yeah... uh, you want a glass of water or something?
Jesus:
No, I'm good. I'm God!
Mary Katherine Gallagher:
Oh. Right.

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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

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The lot of the bride

to be wed before bed

desired until rotten.

The lot of the author

to be read before bed

admired then forgotten.

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Squidward Tentacles:
So you're selling Krabby Patties, eh Plankton?
Plankton:
That's right, Squidward, and there's a free bucket helmet with every purchase. Care for one?
Squidward Tentacles:
No. You may have hoodwinked everyone else in this backwater town, but you can't fool me. I listen to public radio.
Plankton:
And what's that supposed to mean?
Squidward Tentacles:
It means you set up Mr. Krabs. You stole the crown so Neptune would freeze him and you could finally get your stubby paws on the Krabby Patty formula. It was you all along. But you made one fatal mistake. You messed with my paycheck and I'm gonna report you to the highest authority in the land, King Neptune!
Plankton:
We'll see about that, Inspector Looselips. [Plankton laughs and he presses a button on Karen]
Karen the Computer:
Now activating helmet brain-control devices.
Squidward Tentacles:
Huh?

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Agent J:
Sweet dreams, big boy! [jabs the tranquilizer into Jeff, only aggravating him. After a few moments time, J reloads the tranquilizer]
Agent J:
Whoo! Sweet... [is launched forward]
Agent J:
dreeeeeeaaaaaaams...
Agent J:
[crashes through back window of a subway car] ... big boy. Transit authority people! Please move to the forward car, we got a bug in the electrical system! [passengers ignore him]
Agent J:
Yo! People! We got a bug in the electrical system! [Jeff bites off a large portion of the subway car, and the passengers start running to the front]
Agent J:
Yeah, now y'all runnin'! Now y'all- no, no, no, come on, sit down, sit down! It's only a 600 foot worm!

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[Beldar tears open the roof to Ronnie's car]
Ronnie:
H-hi, Mr. Conehead.
Beldar Conehead:
I find you unacceptable!
Ronnie:
Yes, sir.
Beldar Conehead:
If I did not fear incarceration from human authority figures, I would terminate your life functions by applying sufficient pressure to your blunt skull so as to force its collapse!
Ronnie:
Th-thank you.

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Hunter:
Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons we cannot launch our missiles unless both you, and I agree.
Capt. Ramsey:
[shouting over Hunter] COB, what're you waiting for?
Hunter:
This is not a formality sir, this is *expressly* why your command must be repeated. It requires my assent, I *do not* give it and further more, you continue upon this course, and insist upon this launch without confirming this message first...
Capt. Ramsey:
[shouting over Hunter] Son of a bitch. As commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama I order you to place the X-O under arrest under charges of mutiny.
Hunter:
I will act, backed by the rules of precedence...
Capt. Ramsey:
[shouting at COB, over Hunter] I say again, as commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I *order you*...
Hunter:
-authority in command, regulations number 815, to relieve, you, of, command, captain.
Capt. Ramsey:
-to place the X-O under arrest, under charges of mutiny! [Silence all round]
Capt. Ramsey:
COB!
Chief of the Boat:
Captain, please, the X-O is right. We can't launch unless he concurs.
Capt. Ramsey:
[reads EAM] "To the U.S.S. Alabama: Rebel-controlled missiles being fueled. Launch codes compromised, dissidents threaten to launch at continental United States, set defcon 2. Immediately launch ten Trident missile sorties." They're FUELLING THEIR MISSILES! We don't have time to fuck around!
Hunter:
Sir, I think you need time to think this over.
Capt. Ramsey:
*I* DON'T HAVE TO THINK THIS OVER!
Hunter:
[stares at Ramsey, nodding] Captain, I relieve you of your command of this ship. COB, escort the Captain to his state room, I'm assuming command.
Capt. Ramsey:
You're not assuming anything!
Hunter:
CHIEF OF THE BOAT, Captain Ramsey is under arrest, lock him in his state room!
Chief of the Boat:
Captain, please...
Hunter:
NOW, COB!

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Dolores Umbridge:
Pardon me, Professor, but what exactly are you insinuating?
Minerva McGonagall:
I am merely requesting that when it comes to my students you conform to the prescribed disciplinary practices.
Dolores Umbridge:
So silly of me, but it sounds as if you're questioning my authority in my own classroom, Minerva.
Minerva McGonagall:
Not at all, Dolores, merely your medieval methods.
Dolores Umbridge:
I am sorry, dear, but to question my practices is to question the Ministry, and by extension, the Minister himself. I am a tolerant woman, but the one thing I will not stand for is disloyalty.
Minerva McGonagall:
Disloyalty?
Dolores Umbridge:
Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared.

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Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.

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Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.

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I HAVE JUST AS MUCH AUTHORITY AS THE POPE!... its just that fewer people believe that I do.

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Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.

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Noah Vosen:
When we're finished with Daniels, send the asset after her. We find Parsons, we find Bourne.
Pamela Landy:
Noah, what are you doing?
Noah Vosen:
Not now.
Pamela Landy:
I want to know what's going on.
Noah Vosen:
I said not now.
Pamela Landy:
What basis are you continuing this operation on?
Noah Vosen:
The basis that Nicky Parsons has compromised a covert operation. She is up to her neck in this.
Pamela Landy:
This is about Daniels, not Nicky.
Noah Vosen:
She has betrayed us.
Pamela Landy:
You don't know the circumstances, Noah.
Noah Vosen:
She's in league with Jason Bourne, for Christ's sake.
Pamela Landy:
You do not have the authority to kill her.
Noah Vosen:
Oh yes I do! And you had better get on board.
Pamela Landy:
Noah, she's one of us. You start down this path, where does it end?
Noah Vosen:
It ends when we've won.

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Everyone should always have two books with him, one to read and one to write in.

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I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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Uncle Ben:
Well, girls, I'm really not an authority on this.
Holly Hamilton:
What makes today's perfect man perfect? What is it that he says or does that makes him a woman's perfect man?

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Sam Rogers:
We're in the middle of the jungle Jack, at this point your authority is what we say it is.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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Eris:
I have a question? If you don't believe in God then why give any of this a second thought?
Zeus:
Well, I believe in defying authority, and what greater authority is there to defy than God?

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment

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You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

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And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

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I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

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Gandalf:
Authority is not given to you to deny the return of the king, *steward*.
Denethor:
The rule of Gondor is mine! And no other's!

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I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

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My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her

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The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

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Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

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The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

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Demokratie gestattet keine Politik au

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As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

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The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

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It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

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They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

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Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope

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This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period.

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1. Write like you

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I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

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Vincent:
You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible.

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

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The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

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I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.

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The pages are still blank but there is a miraculous feeling of the words there written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

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Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

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When I want to read a novel, I write one.

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That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

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Try to leave out the parts that people skip.

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Write to your heart

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Apostles go into new territory and establish God

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. . . All artists

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...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative

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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

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