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I did not want to go with them.
Alas, I had no choice.
This was made quite clear to me
In threat’ning tones of voice.I protested mightily
And scrambled ‘cross the floor.
But though I grabbed the furniture,
They dragged me out the door.In the car, I screamed and moaned.
I cried my red eyes dry.
The window down, I yelled for help
To people we passed by.Mom and Dad can make the rules
And certain things forbid,
But I can make them wish that they
Had never had a kid.”
Sidecars are for bitches.
You gotta hear this one song. It’ll change your life, I swear.”
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Garden State
Starring:
Zach Braff
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Natalie Portman
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and Peter Sarsgaard
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And featuring:
Ian Holm.
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Andrew, “Who are you?”
Sam, “I’m your new friend Sam.”
Andrew, “This is my life, Dad. This is it. I’ve spent 26 years waiting for something else to start. So, no, I don’t think it’s too much to take on, because it’s everything there is. I see now it’s all of it. You and I are gonna be okay. You know that, right? We may not be as happy as you always dreamed we would be, but for the first time let’s just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are, and that will be better, okay? I think that will be better.”
Doctor, “Mister . . . Andrew Largeman?”
Andrew, “Yes?”
Doctor, “. . . There’s absolutely nothing wrong with you.”
Andrew, “Really?”
Doctor, “Just kidding! How the hell would I know?”
Mark, “Don’t tease me about my hobbies. I don’t tease you about being an asshole.”
Sam, “Wow. That’s pretty damn random of you there, Andrew.”
Andrew, “There’s a handful of normal kid things I kinda missed.”
Sam, “There’s a handful of normal kid things I kinda wish I’d missed.”
Andrew, “You’re a cop, Kenny?”
Kenny, “Yeah, I know!”
Andrew, “. . . Why?”
Kenny, “I don’t know, man. Had nothing better to do.”
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Andrew, “Can you imagine being the guy whose job it is to argue for the right to build a mall on top of a geological phenomenon?”
Mark, “They love their malls here, man.”
Sam, “This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before, and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this –this one thing.”
Andrew, “But Kenny, the last time I saw you, you were doing coke lines off a urinal.”
Sam, “I can tap-dance. . . You wanna see me tap-dance?”
Andrew, “I would love to see you tap-dance.”
Mark, “I’m okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.”
Doctor, “Of course you’re all right. You’re alive.”
Andrew, “Hey Albert.”
Albert, “Yeah?
Andrew, “Good luck exploring the infinite abyss.”
Albert, “Thank you. And, hey –you, too.”
Sam, “If you can’t laugh at yourself, life’s gonna seem a whole lot longer than you like.”
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Mark, “Hey, if you ever need a Kato, you know where to find me.”
Andrew, “Do you lie a lot?”
Sam, “What do you consider a lot?”
Andrew, “Enough for people to call you a liar.”
Sam, “People call me lots of things.”
Andrew, “. . . Is one of them liar?”
Sam, “I could say no, but how would you know I’m not lying?”
Andrew, “I guess I could choose to trust you.”
Sam, “You can do that?”
Andrew, “I can try.”
Andrew, “I don’t want to waste another moment of my life without you in it.”
Sam, “You don’t realize. . . this is good; this doesn’t happen often in your life. We can work this stuff out. I want to help you, you know? We need each other.”
Andrew, “This isn’t a conversation about this being over, it’s –it’s. . . I’m not, like, putting a period at the end of this, you know; I’m putting, like, an ellipsis on it. ‘Cause I’m –I’m –I’m worried that if I don’t figure myself out, if I don’t go, like, land on my own two feet, then I’m just gonna to mess this whole thing up, and this is too important. I gotta go. You changed my life in four days. This is the beginning of something really big. But right now, I gotta go.”
[Gets on plane, is seated and ready to leave . . . gets back off, runs up to Sam who's crying in a telephone booth.]
Sam, “What are you doing?”
Andrew, “Remember that idea I had, about working stuff out on my own, and then finding you once I worked stuff out?”
Sam, “The ellipsis?”
Andrew, “Yeah, the ellipsis –it’s dumb. It’s dumb. It’s an awful idea. I’m not gonna do it, okay? ‘Cause like you said, this is it. This is life. And I’m in love with you. . . .I think that’s the only thing I’ve ever really been sure of in my entire life! And I’m really messed up right now, and I got a whole lot of stuff I have to work out, but I don’t want to waste any more of my life without you in it. And I think I can do this. I mean, I want to. I have to, right?”
Sam, “Yeah. Yes.”
Andrew, “So, what do we do? –What do we do?”
[They kiss.]
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Garden State Official Soundtrack.
(Click album above to download soundtrack free , via Rapidshare.)
Our love makes stars shoot and suns shine for a better view; our love makes bows rain and moons phase.
“Live life like it will never call your bluff,”
whispers my fiance.
He’s a huge fan of each of these songs;
I decided to post them as available for download,
so anyone else -fan of, or otherwise- can have one, two, or all, for his or her self..
(PC) Right click, “save as”.
(Mac) Control-click, “download linked file”.
Left click only: Floyd’s “Shine..” link, directly above.
(This version of the song I posted -the recording from their album- is, actually,
the full-length nine-parts-put-together 25 minutes and 30 seconds, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”.
Best Pink Floyd song, ever.)
The jealous God, when we profane his fires,
Those restless passions in revenge inspires;
And bids them make mistaken mortals groan,
Who seek in love for aught but love alone.
Should at my feet the world’s great master fall,
Himself, his throne, his world, I’d scorn ‘em all:
Not Caesar’s empress would I deign to prove;
No, make me mistress to the man I love;
If there be yet another name more free,
More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Oh happy state! when souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law:
All then is full, possessing, and possess’d,
No craving void left aching in the breast:
Ev’n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part,
And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
This sure is bliss (if bliss on earth there be)..”
Alexander Pope
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
That hope always triumphs over experience -
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.”
Sir Hugh Walpole
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot,
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Quotes.
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(First lines)
Joel, ”Random thoughts for Valentine’s Day, 2004. . . Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.”
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Clementine,
“Aw, c’mon, live dangerously. Take the leap and assume someone is talking to you in an otherwise empty car.”
“I apply my personality in a paste.”
“I’m just a fucked up girl trying to find her own peace of mind. I’m not perfect.”
“Drink up, young man. It’ll make the whole seduction part less repugnant.”
“I’m a vindictive little bitch, truth be told.”
“You stop listening to what is true, and what is true is constantly changing.”
“Sometimes I don’t think people realize how lonely it is, to be a kid.”
“Joel, hide me in your humiliation!”
“I’m always anxious thinking I’m not living my life to the fullest, y’know? –taking advantage of every possibility? Just making sure that I’m not wasting one second of the little time I have.”
“Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in.”
“You don’t tell me things, Joel. I’m an open book. I tell you everything, every damn, embarrassing thing.”
“I’m fucking crawling out of my skin. I should’ve left you at the flea market.”
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Joel,
“Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.”
“By morning, you’ll be gone.”
“If only I could meet someone new. . . I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished, seeing that I’m incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don’t know.”
“Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?
“I could die right now . . . I’m just exactly where I want to be.”
“I loved you on this day. I love this memory.”
“And the whole thing with the hair? It’s all bullshit. . . .I really like your hair.”
“Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?”
“I thought maybe you were a nut . . . but you were exciting.”
“I think your name is magical.”
“Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny, little rocks.”
“It was so intimate. It was like we were already lovers.”
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Mary,
” ‘Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.’ . . .Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. Found it in my Bartlett’s.”
“That was beautiful to watch, Howard –like a surgeon, or a concert pianist.”
“Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.”"
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Stan,
“You looked happy. Happy with a secret.”
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Conversation;
Howard, “Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but it’s on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss.”
Clementine, “You’re married.”
Joel, “Not yet, not married. No, I’m not married.”
Clementine, “Look, man, I’m telling you right off the bat: I’m high-maintenance, so I’m not gonna tip-toe around your marriage –or whatever it is you’ve got goin’ there. If you wanna be with me, you’re with me.”
Joel, “Okay.”
Clementine, “Too many guys think I’m a ‘concept’, or I ‘complete them’, or I’m ‘gonna make them alive’. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours.”
Clementine, “I had you pegged, didn’t I?”
Joel, “You had the whole human race pegged.”
Clementine, “Hmm. Probably.”
Joel, “I still thought you were gonna save my life. . .even after that.”
Clementine, “Oh . . .I know.”
Joel, “It would be different, if we could just give it another go-round.”
Clementine, “Remember me –try your best. Maybe we can.”
Carrie, “Rob, give it a rest.”
Rob, “Carrie, I am making a birdhouse.”
Clementine, “That’s sweet, but try.”
Joel, “No.”
Clementine, “Let’s move into this neighbourhood!”
Joel, “I do sorta live with someone though.”
Clementine, “Male, or female?”
Joel, “What? Female –female.”
Clementine, “At least I’m not barking up the wrong tree!”
Clementine, “I kinda sorta wrecked your car.”
Joel, “You’re driving drunk. It’s pathetic.”
Clementine, “I was a little tipsy. Don’t call me pathetic.”
Joel, “Well, it is pathetic –and it’s fucking irresponsible. You could’ve killed somebody. I don’t know, maybe you did kill somebody; should we turn on the news and see? –should I check the grille to see if there’s children or small animals?”
Clementine, “Hmm. . . ‘Clementine the tangerine’.”
Joel, “Juicy –an’ seedless.”
Clementine, “I like that.”
Clementine, “Nice?”
Joel, “I had the best fucking night of my entire fucking life last night!”
Joel, “It’s been suggested.”
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(Last lines)
Clementine, “Okay.”
Joel, “Okay.”
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- Jim Carrey ….. Joel
- Kate Winslet ….. Clementine
- Kirsten Dunst ….. Mary
- Mark Ruffalo ….. Stan
- Elijah Wood ….. Patrick
- Tom Wilkinson ….. Dr. Howard Mierzwiak
- Jane Adams ….. Carrie
- David Cross ….. Rob
Where the one-lining contributors stepped in with,
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln
“Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.” Elbert Hubbard
“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.” Thomas Lanier
“Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.” African Proverb
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” Betty Smith
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” Sara Teasdale
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” Leo Aikman
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” William James
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.” -François de la Rochefoucauld
“Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams -that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period, I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.” Edgar Allan Poe
“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.” Mignon McLaughlin
“Post-adolescent dissatisfaction is universal enough that the desire to get the hell out of town will always be understood.” Jeff Klingman
“Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.” Destin Figuier
As for films, Good Will Hunting found room for a few words,
“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
“Most people never get to see how brilliant they can be. They don’t find teachers that believe in them.”
“Say I’m working at the NSA and somebody puts a code on my desk that no one else can break -maybe I take a shot at it; maybe I break it, and I’m real happy with myself because I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location to some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding; 1500 people that I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are saying, “Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area” because they don’t give a shit -won’t be their kid over there getting shot; just like it wasn’t them when their number got called, ’cause they were off doing their tour in the National Guard. Maybe some kid from Southie over there, taking shrapnel in the ass -he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country where he just got back from, and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, ’cause he’ll work for 15 cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies use the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices -a cute little ancillary benefit for them- but it ain’t helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They’re taking their sweet time bringing the oil back; maybe they took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes drinking martinis and playing slalom with the icebergs -it ain’t too long before he hits one, spills the oil, and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now, my buddy’s out of work; he can’t afford to drive, so he’s walking to the fucking job interviews -which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. And, meanwhile, he’s starvin’ because every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they’re serving is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I’m holding out for something better. I figure: Fuck it -while I’m at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to a sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe, and join the national guard? I could be elected president.”
As (Robert) Frost suggested,
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
“Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can’t; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.”
“Take what is given, and make it over your way.”
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”
So (Nicholas) Sparks speculated,
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I’ll be seeing you.”
“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we’re together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. “
“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
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Duly, (Fyodor) Dostoyevsky declared,
“The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
“Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.”
“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
And aloud wondered (Oscar) Wilde,
“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.“
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.“
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.“
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.“
“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
Liz
