In English
INTO THE WILD
“The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong.
Now, I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here.
And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong.
To measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”
“The core of man’s spirit comes from new experiences.”
“Happiness only real when shared”
FIGHT CLUB
Tyler Durden: I want you to do me a favor.
Narrator: Yeah, sure…
Tyler Durden: I want you to hit me as hard as you can.
Narrator: What?… in the face?
Tyler Durden: Surprise me.
Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.
Tyler Durden: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Narrator: If I did have a tumor, I’d name it Marla.
Narrator: Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They’re single-serving friends.
Tyler Durden: [to club owner] Ahhh… okay, okay, okay, I got it, I got it, I got it. Shit, I lost it. [Club owner punches Tyler in the face]
Narrator: You met me at a very strange time in my life.
Narrator: I am Jack’s smirking revenge.
Narrator: I am Jack’s cold sweat.
Narrator: I am Jack’s wasted life.
Narrator: I am Jack’s inflamed sense of rejection.
Narrator: I am Jack’s broken heart.
Trite ones:
Tyler Durden: Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let… lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
Tyler Durden: You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Narrator: This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.
Tyler Durden: It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.
Tyler Durden: Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
Narrator: If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
MAGNOLIA
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I have so much love to give, I just don’t know where to put it.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I’m sick and I’m in love.
Thurston Howell: You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: That’s right. That’s the first time you’ve been right. I confuse the two and I don’t care.
Phil Parma: Do you know that every other word you use is either ’shit’, ‘fuck’, ‘balls’ or ‘cocksucker’?
Earl Partridge: Could you do me a personal favor?
Phil Parma: Go fuck myself?
Earl Partridge: You got it.
Gwenovier: What are you doing?
Frank T.J. Mackey: I’m quietly judging you.
Jimmy Gator: The book says, “We might be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.”
Thurston Howell: It’s dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Frank T.J. Mackey: [Frank is speaking to followers at his seminar] Men are shit. What? Men… are… *shit*. What, isn’t that what they say? Because we do bad things, don’t we? We do horrible, heineous, *heinous*, terrible things. Things that no woman would ever do. No, women, they don’t lie. No, women don’t cheat. Women don’t *manipulate* us. But you see what I’m getting at. You see what society does? Little boys, it’s, “Wow, womaaaan!” We are taught to apologize. I am sorry. I am so sorry, baby. I am so sorry. What is it that we need? Is it their pussies? Their love? Mommy wouldn’t let me play soccer… and Daddy, he hit me, so that’s who I am, that’s why I do what I do? Fucking bullshit. I will not apologize for who I am. I will not apologize for what I need. I will not apologize for what I *want*!
THE SHINING
Dick Hallorann: Some places are like people: some shine and some don’t.
Lloyd: Women. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
Jack Torrance: Words of wisdom, Lloyd, my man. Words of wisdom
Jack Torrance: Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you’re breaking my concentration. You’re distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. You understand?
Wendy Torrance: Yeah.
Jack Torrance: Now, we’re going to make a new rule. When you come in here and you hear me typing
[types]
Jack Torrance: or whether you DON’T hear me typing, or whatever the FUCK you hear me doing; when I’m in here, it means that I am working, THAT means don’t come in. Now, do you think you can handle that?
Wendy Torrance: Yeah.
Jack Torrance: Good. Now why don’t you start right now and get the fuck out of here? Hmm?
Wendy Torrance: [crying] Stay away from me.
Jack Torrance: Why?
Wendy Torrance: I just wanna get back to my room!
Jack Torrance: Why?
Wendy Torrance: Well, I’m very confused, and I just need time to think things over!
Jack Torrance: You’ve had your whole FUCKING LIFE to think things over, what’s a few more minutes gonna do you now?
Wendy Torrance: I’m gonna go now.
Jack Torrance: Wendy?
Wendy Torrance: Yes?
Jack Torrance: You got a big surprise coming to you. You’re not going anywhere.
Jack Torrance: [typed] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Dick Hallorann: You got to stay regular to stay happy.
In Polish
By otworzyć komuś oczy potrzeba niekiedy całego życia. By ujrzeć – wystarczy błysk chwili.
Kamizelka – Bolesław Prus
“Człowiek miewa w życiu takie chwile, że lubi otaczać się przedmiotami, które przypominają smutek.”
