The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1×1

Pilot

Miriam: Who gives a toast at her own wedding? I mean, who does that? Who stands in the middle of a ballroom after three glasses of champagne on a completely empty stomach... and I mean completely empt because fitting into this dress required no solid food for three straight weeks. Who does that?... I do.

Miriam: ...And yes, there is shrimp in the egg rolls.

Rose: I'm just afraid she's not a very pretty girl.
Miriam: Mama, she's a baby.
Rose: I just want her to be happy. It's easier to be happy when you're pretty.

Joel: Going on stage with holes in my shirt like a bum.
Miriam: It's downtown. If you have underwear on, you're overdressed.

Joel: Did you ever think you were supposed to be something, and, uh, and you suddenly realize you're not?
Miriam: Yes. Married.

Joel: Do you know what a dream is?... A dream is what keeps you going in a job you hate.
Miriam: Since when do you hate your job?
Joel: Do you know what I do, Midge?
Miriam: You're the vice president of...
Joel: No, no, no, no. Do you know what I do every day? Day in and day out, what the actual physical machinations of my job are?
Miriam: No.
Joel: Neither do I! I take meetings. I take phone calls. I shuffle paper around, and I have no idea of what the hell I actually do.
Miriam: Maybe if you did, you'd like it more.

Abe: When I agreed to send you to that fancy goyische college, what was the one thing I told you?
Miriam: They'll have terrible deli?
Abe: The important thing I told you.
Miriam: That was about deli, too.
Abe: The other important thing I told you!
Miriam: Don't pick a weak man.
Abe: Ah.

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Miriam: This isn't my fault!
Abe: Of course it's your fault. ... Everything we bring on ourselves is our own fault.

Miriam: This isn't fair.
Abe: Life isn't fair. It's hard and cruel. You have to pick your friends as if there's a war going on. You want a husband who'll take a bullet for you, not one who points to the attic and says "They're up there."

Miriam: You liked him.
Abe: I knew what he was.
Miriam: Why didn't you tell me, then?
Abe: I did tell you!
Miriam: When did you tell me?
Abe: When you first came home with him. That night. I looked at you. I asked, "Is this the choice?" And you said yes.
Miriam: That was telling me?
Abe: I have to spell it out for you?

Miriam: Now I'm just a single, gray-haired ex-con drinking hooch and eating old nuts in someone else's shoes.

Susie: I don't mind being alone. I just do not want to be insignificant. Do you? Don't you want to do something no one else can do? Be remembered as something other than a mother or a housewife or member of the Communist Party?
Miriam: When did I become a member of the Communist Party?
Susie: The minute you took that flyer.

Miriam: Shit. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. It's Yom Kippur. I'm supposed to be fasting, atoning for my sins in the eyes of God.
Susie: So?
Miriam: So I'm eating peanuts.
Susie: You showed your tits to half of Greenwich Village. You think the fucking nuts are what's going to piss Him off?

Lenny Bruce: It's a terrible, terrible job. It should not exist, like cancer and God.

Miriam: But do you love it?... Yeah. He loves it.

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Black 22

Jack Ryan 1×3

Jack Ryan: I understand how a kid with no options, no future gets seduced by extremism, but... how does it happen to somebody like him? I mean, he graduates from the University of Paris Dauphine, with a degree in business, top five percent of his class. Then he gets arrested for assault, just throws it all away. Why?

Captain Sandrine Arnaud: You think a piece of paper changes the way the world sees you? In America, you can still be an African and an American, you can be a Mexican-American, an Italian-American, a Chinese-American. In France, there are no hyphenates. You are either French, or you are not.

Captain Arnaud: How could you be in the CIA, knowing everything your government does?
Jack Ryan: Well, I figure it's better to be on the inside, maybe be able to change something, than be on the outside and not be able to change anything.
Captain Arnaud: What'd you do for them?
Jack Ryan: I'm an analyst.

Captain Arnaud: I think you have everyone fooled. I think you are a wolf. A wolf who plays at being a sheep.

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Beirut (2018)

Mason Skiles: If you wanna understand Lebanon, think of a boardinghouse without a landlord... The only thing the tenants have in common is their talent for betrayal. So these people have been living together, cheek by jowl, 20 centuries. 2,000 years of revenge, blood feuds, vendetta, murder.
    One night there's a storm. Raining like hell. There's a knock at the door. Who is it? It's the Palestinians. They want in. They've been up and down the block. They had doors slammed in their face. They're cold. They're tired. They want in and they want in now.
    So the house is thrown into confusion. Tenants arguing. Some of 'em violently opposed. Some think, "Let 'em in. They'll be gone tomorrow." Some think, "I let them in tonight, then I'll have an ally against my enemy." Some of 'em are terrified if they keep the door shut. So it isn't until after the Palestinians move in that the other people in the house realize the tragedy of the situation. That the Palestinians want nothing more than to just burn down the Israeli house next door... Welcome to Beirut.

Mason Skiles: As a diplomat in the Middle East, you have to think on your feet. And the more you do it, the better you get at it. When you talk about making deals, the most important thing is to keep talking. As soon as the talking stops, the fighting starts.

Mason Skiles: I wouldn't go back to Beirut if it was the last place on earth...

Mason Skiles: Who lit that fuse?
Bernard Teppler: Well, it's Beirut, Mr. Skiles. Depends who you ask. PLO says it's Amal militia. Amal militia says it's Christian militia. Christian militia says it's the Druze. Druze says it's the Syrian Army. Listen to the radio from Damascus, it's the Israelis making excuses to come across the border. Ask Israel... Ah, for them it's always the PLO.

Bernard Teppler: Welcome to the Green Line. This road divides East and West Beirut now. One of the civil war's charming new landmarks. Muslims to the West. Christians to the East. Not much room for the rest of us, but there you have it.

Mason Skiles: What is it you want me to do?
Gary Ruzak: You're an experienced negotiator. Negotiate.

Mason Skiles: This isn't really my thing, Gaines.
Donald Gaines: Sure it is. It's Texas Hold 'em. Two cards down, and everything else is on the table. Just play the reality. You're a confused 40-year-old widower in the middle of a long winter. You're pretending to give a lecture, but the truth is you don't really know what you're doing or why you came. Reality. Your name appears out of nowhere, and we get real nervous. Reality. We roll you up for a look, and you resent our interest. Reality.

Donald Gaines: You suddenly became really important. Is that a mistake?
Mason Skiles: I don't know. Reality.

Roni Niv: You know what I want, Gary.
Gary Ruzak: Say it.
Roni Niv: Make this the moment. Make Riley the breaking point. "US Embassy staff grabbed off the streets, kidnapped, killed. The monsters have taken over Lebanon. Something needs to be done." Give us the green light. We could clear this place out in a month.

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Sunday Funday

You're the Worst 1×5

Lindsay: Ty is famous. Also, he's a total dog, so he's never gonna want you to meet his gross Polish parents or tell you about his squash games or ask you to shave his butthole.
Gretchen: Tell me you don't shave Paul's butthole.
Lindsay: Marriage is dark, Gretch.

Gretchen: Jimmy, Sunday Funday is not juvenile.
Lindsay: Sunday Funday is about participating in fun activities with friends.
Edgar: Sunday Funday is about squeezing every drop of life out of the weekend... before Monday.
Jimmy: Right, neither of you has a job.
Edgar: You can not have a job and still hate Mondays.

Gretchen: This one.
Jimmy: Genesis... good. Okay, but not until you tell me if you are a Peter Gabriel or a Phil Collins.
Gretchen: They're both good.
Jimmy: What?!
Gretchen: I like them both. What's the big deal?
Jimmy: The big deal is that you cannot like two things which are diametrically opposed.

Lindsay: I can't quite put my finger on what it is I don't like here. I mean, I'm sure at some point, everybody looks at their husband and is like, "That's my future. That's it. And why does it smell like ham all the time?"

Gretchen: Jimmy...
Jimmy: But if one day, right? Eggs forced you to choose between themselves and pancakes, and you chose the soggy, tasteless pancakes, and you never ate eggs again, I'm just saying eggs... eggs would be really sad.

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Wait Until Dark (1967)

Lisa: They should make heroin look like something else. Candy bars, maybe.

Mike Talman: What do we do?
Roat: What you always do, Mr. Talman, lie and cheat and play act.

Roat: They're strange people. They lose dolls.

Roat: Well, she was trespassing, Mike... poaching. Going into the business for herself. Bad news. Things like that go on, and what do you have? Anarchy. No discipline, no sense of order. Bad news.

Susy Hendrix: So can I come over and wait for you in the coffee shop downstairs? Is that all right, Sam?
Sam Hendrix: Sure.
Susy Hendrix: Won't be hard to find me. I'll be the one reading Peter rabbit in braille.

Carlino: Trouble.
Mike Talman: Trouble.

Susy Hendrix: Do I have to be the world's champion blind lady?
Sam Hendrix: Yes!
Susy Hendrix: Then I will be. I'll be whatever you want me to be. Just tell me what you want and then that's what I'll be.
Sam Hendrix: Susy--
Susy Hendrix: I mean it.
Sam Hendrix: I don't want you ever to be anything but Susy, because that's the way I love you.

Carlino: How goes it inside?
Mike Talman: She's something, man. She is really something.

Gloria: Gee, I wish something like this would happen every day...

Gloria: Oh, I'm a girl scout. Wanna buy some cookies?... Sure you don't wanna buy a few boxes? I get points.
Carlino: Buzz off, kid.
Gloria: Well...OK. Guess I better try to make points with someone else.

Mike Talman: You're a good strong lady... Susy Hendrix.
Susy Hendrix: World's champion blind lady.
Mike Talman: Oh, yeah. You're all of that.

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Category 55 Emergency Doomsday Crisis

The Good Place 1×5

Chidi: So, to sum up: Utilitarianism posits that the correct choice is the one that causes the most good or pleasure, and the least pain and suffering.
Eleanor: I like this one. It's simple. Ugh, screw all the other complicated theories, why didn't you start with this one?
Chidi: Ah, but here's the problem. If all that matters is the sum total of "goodness," then you can justify any number of bad actions, like torturing one innocent person to save a hundred, or preemptive war...

Eleanor: So, you want to roll right into another lesson? I am revved up to learn, man. My brain is horny!

Eleanor: So now I'm just some huge burden for you?
Chidi: Yes! Of course you are! I am in paradise! I should be doing paradise things, like rowing out on a lake with a good bottle of wine, reading French poetry...
Eleanor: That's your idea of paradise?

Chidi: No, I am not going to have sex with someone to get them to stop talking to me!
Eleanor: Really? You and I are very different.

Eleanor: The real problem is, that the more you help me, the greater the chance is that I can stay here, and me staying here means you'll never get a real soul mate. I'm basically a Utilitarian nightmare. Every ounce of my happiness leads to a ton of pain for you.

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Piñata

Better Call Saul 4×6

Jimmy: Just go with your gut... "Howards End" all the way down, huh?
Clara: I just love Emma Thompson.
Jimmy: Who doesn't?
Clara: She's so pragmatic.
Jimmy: Yeah, well, fingers crossed.

Jimmy: Many have tried to argue with Kim Wexler. All have failed.

Jimmy: ...And I'll do three.
Kim: Already done.
Jimmy: You know, you're making the rest of us look bad.
Kim: If you wouldn't stop at every cubicle to chat...
Jimmy: It's called being friendly. It's great for morale.
Kim: It is great for wasting time.
Jimmy: That, too.

Jimmy: It's dead, Kim. It's deader than disco.

Kim: You have to do what's best for you.

Mike: We can't just keep 'em alive. We got to keep 'em from climbing the walls.

Jimmy: I have been thinking about criminal law myself lately you know, for when I get my license back... You know, like you said, you know, you're helping people. I'm thinking an office in one of these refurbished bungalows, you know, downtown by the courts, you know, stick around where all the people who need help are.

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Jimmy: Kim, you got to do what's best for you... I can't ask you to wait around for me. And who knows? 10 months, a lot can happen.

Jimmy: You're a shitty lawyer, Howard. But you're a great salesman. So get out there and sell.

Howard: Fuck you, Jimmy!

Jimmy: There you go. Use that.

Mrs. Nguyen: Get-rich-quick schemes never work.

Jimmy: Just watch me!

Jimmy: You got a spot yet?... Piñatas? Are you kidding?... No, no, that could... could work, yeah.

Gus: The merciful thing would have been to kill it... I kept it. It lived for quite some time. I believe... you will wake, Hector.

Mike: Anything within reason.

Jimmy: But, guys, I'm thinking long term. I see a real need in this community for safe, affordable, untraceable phones, and I'm ready to fill it.

Jimmy: So, what's it gonna be... fast or slow? It's gonna hurt like a bitch either way.

Jimmy: You get one warning, and that was it.

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You Can Go Home Now

Mr. Mercedes 2x3

Felix: Is Camden a boy or a girl's name?
Cora: Either. Covers our bases if the kid ever wants to transition.

Felix: Well... I'm not a "president's last name for first name" kind of guy, so Madison and Reagan are out...

Cora: You know these Beijing types... "return on our investment," all that.
Felix: Yeah, well, you tell him, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Cora: No, but modern Shanghai sort of was.

Maggie: It'd be like someone telling you Mother Teresa collected machine guns.

Holly: You're trying to gain dominion over me by proffering a vulgar visual.

Holly: I hear your arguments. Okay? I do. And when you put them that... colorfully, I see that they are deeply felt. That being said... I am an equal partner.

Bill: Wheels up.
Holly: What?
Bill: Start the fucking car!

Lou: On a scale of 1 to 10, being stabbed by Brady Hartsfield is like a 600,000, and my boo-hoo childhood complaints come in at about a 3.

Holly: I feel quite incompetent.
Bill: No reason for you to feel that way. How can you know what you don't know?

Bill: So, uh... So is this. Old times.
Donna: No. No. Old times would be you carrying the toxic cloud of a failed case into the house and refusing to talk about it. And then drinking right through dinner.

Donna: What kind of nurse is she?
Bill: One of Brady Hartsfield's.

Donna: Just walk away... Stay away from Brady Hartsfield. Just choose the sun.

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Who Is America? #1.5

Rick Sherman: It's a tragedy when someone gets stabbed, but the good thing is I was there to record it. And so, in a way, they've given their life to art.

Rick Sherman: Jake said that deejays gets BJs. What's a BJ?

Rick Sherman: I'm a bit nervous 'cause I ain't been around many dolly birds. My mom always said, you know, "You're so ugly that you'd just go out and start robbing." And then, once I got caught, she said, "Luckily, you're so ugly that no one's actually gonna ever touch your posterior." But the joke's on her 'cause I actually got sodomized almost every day.

Corey Lewandowski: You don't have to agree with people. You have to respect them, and you can't be attacking them.
Billy Wayne Ruddock: Exactly, you can't be-- you can't be attacking honest, fascist people who just want to express their right to start a genocide. That is their right.
Corey Lewandowski: Look, I don't know about that, but what I do know is this-- If the law says that people can do a peaceful protest, they should be allowed to do that.

Billy Wayne Ruddock: Listen, I do not hate Jews. I am not an anti-yosemite. In fact, some of my very good friends hate Jews.

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Gio Monaldo: They are the founders of RapGenius.
Mahbod Moghadam: I kid you not, Jesus came down and he told us, "What's up." And he told us that this is gonna be the biggest site.

Gio Monaldo: Do something like a black guy. Really black guy now. The face-- black guy... This face. You gotta mean business.

Brigadier Erran Morad: Have you ever been in a terrorist attack?... I have been in 14, and I have started three.

Brigadier Erran Morad: What do you do to relax?!
Dan Roberts: Read a book!
Brigadier Erran Morad: What kind of book you find most relaxing?!
Dan Roberts: Tom Clancy!
Brigadier Erran Morad: Why is it so interesting?!
Dan Roberts: Getting inside the characters!

Brigadier Erran Morad: This baby didn't have the bomb... Please do not put the wrong baby in the trash can.

Brigadier Erran Morad: In the Mossad-- I mean, not in the Mossad. We prefer to remove the bomb and put that away and save the baby if we can.

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French Connection

Jack Ryan 1×2

Nate Singer: You may recognize Dr. Ryan from this evening's installment of "jihadi theater."

Jack Ryan: I was just following the money, sir.

Cathy Mueller: He said you're one of the smartest guys he's ever met... But you're too good for your own good.
Jack Ryan: Is that even a thing? What does that mean?
Cathy Mueller: Uh... moralistic, self-righteous.

Cathy Mueller: Propediem te videbo.
Jack Ryan: Yeah...
Cathy Mueller: See you soon.
Jack Ryan: I knew that one.

Cathy Mueller: You should try yoga. For your back.

James Greer: Rain Man, my office.

Jack Ryan: You stole it?
James Greer: No, I-I borrowed it. Sometimes you have to break a few rules just to get the job done.

Kamal: ...have 'em. As a reminder. You may have taken a break from Him, but Allah is with you always. Never forget that, brother.

James Greer: How's it going?
Jack Ryan: Other than the fact that accurately guessing an eight-digit passcode was about ten to the eighth power, which is one in 100 million, I'm great.

Jack Ryan: Every password is personal to the person who creates it...

Jack Ryan: Garth, huh?
Matice: Yeah... like Brooks. I pick a different name every trip. It's fun.

Matice: Doc, do me a favor, all right? Watch your muzzle awareness, okay? I don't want you getting all excited and shooting me in the tail end. I got kids that think I'm an astronaut. Kind of hard to explain how I got shot in the ass in space.

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Грег Иган — Город Перестановок (3/3)

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&  – Мы воспринимаем один и тот же способ организации набора событий – мы в нём живём. Но почему этот способ должен быть уникальным? Нет никаких причин считать, будто найденная нами структура – единственный осмысленный способ упорядочить пыль. С нами должны сосуществовать миллиарды других вселенных, созданных из того же материала, но организованного иначе. Если я способен воспринимать события, разнесённые на тысячи километров и сотни секунд, как соседствующие и одновременные, значит, возможны миры и создания, состоящие из того, что мы считаем точками пространства-времени, разбросанными по всей галактике, по всей вселенной. Мы – одно из решений гигантской космической анаграммы, но смешно было бы считать, что это решение единственное.

&  И всё-таки он не мог выбросить из головы судьбу Копии, которую выключили и больше не запустили. Обычная человеческая смерть – это одно: являясь частью большого полотна, этот процесс имеет смысл. Однако для Копии, которую просто взяли и остановили, с её собственной внутренней точки зрения, исчезновение необъяснимо – просто край, предел, на котором структура неожиданно обрывается.

&  – Сколько нужно слоёв притворства, чтобы тебе надоело и ты сказал: «Чёрт, да мне без разницы»?

&  – Ты не видишь в этом иронию?... Транслюди получают удовольствие, стимулируя копии нервных путей, отвечавших когда-то за воспроизводство вида. Из всех возможностей мы цепляемся именно за эту.

&  Пиранделло как-то сказал, что невозможно испытать настоящее чувство, глядя в зеркало.

&  ...Ведь нельзя жить на проценты с безумия и при этом считать, что тебе гарантированы обычные рамки цивилизованного поведения.

&  Копии, как и похороны, делаются для тех, кто остался жив.

&  Даже наихудший сценарий бесконечен.

&  Бессмертие не имело бы смысла, окажись они пойманы в «машине» с конечным числом возможных состояний: за ограниченное время Пир исчерпал бы весь список своих возможностей. Смысл вечной жизни придавала лишь перспектива бесконечного роста.

&  – Ты всегда можешь выбрать удовольствие от пребывания здесь. Незачем терпеть неудовлетворённость.

&  – Нельзя превратиться в Народ Солипсистов. Это ерунда. Пустая риторика из старой пьесы. Это будет значить лишь... умереть. Люди, созданные программами, без тебя не будут уже тобой ни в каком смысле.
     – Они будут счастливы, верно? Время от времени? По собственным странным причинам?
     – Да, но...
     – Это всё, что я есть теперь. Всё, что меня определяет. Так что, когда они будут счастливы – они будут мной.

  ... Мгновение спустя глаза у неё начали слезиться от вони.”

Henry Deaver

Castle Rock 1×9

Matthew Deaver: People say, "It wasn't me! It was this place." And the thing is... they're right.

The Kid: Continuity. It's hard work. We don't notice we're doing it, but we are placing events in sequence so that our lives make sense. When continuity is interrupted, everything starts to slide. Higher-order functions become challenging. Reason and judgment erode. Can't manage finances, drive a car, planning and problem-solving gone. And ultimately, confusion with time and space... That is the story of Alzheimer's disease.

The Kid: Your sister seems about the same.
Molly: Yeah, I guess the lucky ones change. The unlucky ones cheat on their husbands at a middle school math conference and end up couch surfing at their sister's house for a year.

Matthew Deaver: Well, we know just who that is, don't we? Who gives you what you wish when you need it most, with just a string or three attached.

Matthew Deaver: As long as that devil walks the streets of Castle Rock, tragedy after tragedy will pile up and men will turn on their own. Blood will run in the streets until he is back in a cage.

The Kid: You believe me, don't you?

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Quite a Ride

Better Call Saul 4×5

Saul Goodman: Okay, when the cops come talk to you... and they will... what are you gonna tell them?
Francesca: "Talk to my attorney."

Saul Goodman: And where are you gonna be November 12th at 3:00 p.m.?
Francesca: I'll be there, but if it doesn't ring at 3:00 on the dot, I'm gone.
Saul Goodman: Don't worry. It's gonna ring.

Saul Goodman: Well, I guess, uh... that's it. Quite a ride, huh?

Saul Goodman: I need a new dust filter for my Hoover Max Extract Pressure Pro, model 60. Can you help me with that?

Saul Goodman: How hot? Red hot... I know where that is. I'll be there.

Jimmy: So, uh, say you got a cash-based business.
Customer: Like... a contracting business?
Jimmy: Contracting. Could be. Could be. Maybe you don't report every single penny. I mean, who does, right? How are you doing that business? On the phone. How are you scheduling appointments? On the phone. How are you arranging payments? On the phone. And who's listening?... That's right. They know every lick and tittle. So, you're living your life free and easy, and then one day, at a time of their choosing... bam! they bring the hammer down to Chinatown.
Customer: Jesus.
Jimmy: Jesus is right.

Jimmy: I'm telling you, these guys don't fool around. And they will clean your bones faster than a school of piranhas.

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Jimmy: I'll tell you what I do. I practice something we call information hygiene. Can't be traced. Can't be tracked. That'll keep you clean as a whistle. What they don't know can't hurt you, especially if you use it only once per. You know, that's kind of key.
Customer: "Once per"? Once per what?
Jimmy: Once per week, once per day, once per call... I mean, depends on the nature of your situation.

Customer: How much are they?
Jimmy: They're cheaper than an audit, guaranteed.

Mike: So, 56 feet down with no blasting, working nights only, you're saying seven months, max?

Kim: I want six months probation, time served, no jail.
Bill: And I want to win the lottery and breed labradoodles.

Jimmy: Hey, look. "Doctor Zhivago" is about to start. Lots of attractive men in the snow. That's your favorite genre.

Jimmy: Keep the rubber side down!

Gus: So, it's impossible?
Ziegler: Dangerous, difficult, and very, very expensive... not quite impossible.
Gus: Gustavo Fring.

Howard: You ever have insomnia?
Jimmy: Not really.
Howard: Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Jimmy: I have some plans.
PPD Supervisor: Okay.... Such as...
Jimmy: Until then, I'll show up here every second Monday of the month like clockwork. I'm gonna keep my job at the cellphone store, and in 9 months and 24 days, I will get my law license back. My partner and I will get a new office. It'll be like it was, but bigger and better. Everything will be better. I'm gonna have more clients. I'm gonna win more cases. I'm gonna be a damn good lawyer, and people are gonna know about it.
PPD Supervisor: Okay. So... lawyer.
Jimmy: Yeah. Lawyer.

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Грег Иган — Город Перестановок (2/3)

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&  – Начнёшь искать безопасности, кончишь тем, что угодишь под контроль потребностей прежнего мира.

&  Всякая память – кража.

&  Откуда у него берётся это чувство самого себя?
     Непрерывность. Последовательность. Мысль, следующая за мыслью и создающая связный узор.
     Но откуда берётся связность?
     У человека или у Копии, обрабатываемой обычным путём, физика, лежащая в основе как мозга, так и компьютера, служит гарантией того, что состояние ума в каждый момент времени непосредственно влияет на следующее состояние. Непрерывность – простейшее порождение причин и следствий, когда то, что ты думаешь в момент А воздействует на то, что ты думаешь в момент Б, а оно – на твои же мысли в момент В… Но когда его субъективное время было перемешано, поток причин и следствий внутри компьютера не имел никакого отношения к потоку его восприятия. И как второе могло зависеть от первого? Когда программа выдавала его жизнь в порядке ГБВДА, а он по-прежнему проживал её как АБВГД, было очевидно, что порядок – всё, а причина и следствие не имеют значения. Восприятие с тем же успехом могло возникать случайным образом.

&  Бэббидж разработал свою «Аналитическую машину», не имея реальных шансов, что она будет построена при его жизни. Энтузиасты космических путешествий проектировали межзвёздные корабли вплоть до последнего болта и гайки с 1960-х годов. Апологеты терраформирования не прекращают исследования, стремясь приблизить к реальности свои проекты, хотя воплощения в жизнь те не увидят ещё лет сто, а то и больше. Зачем? В качестве подспорья для мысленных экспериментов. Набросков доказательств.

&  Пиру (как он звался теперь по собственному выбору) не хватало терпения, чтобы сносить ностальгию или сентиментальность; если какая-то часть личности его раздражала, он тут же её вычёркивал. Некоторые качества, по-видимому, сгинули навсегда: целая орда мелких проявлений зависти и тщеславия, крошечных опасений, бессмысленных пристрастий, склонность к неоправданной депрессии и чувству вины. Другие то появлялись, то исчезали. Пир приобрёл, удалил и восстановил множество разных талантов, предрасположенностей и побуждений: жажду знаний, любовь к искусству, стремление к интересным переживаниям. За несколько субъективных дней он мог превратиться из аскетичного исследователя шумерской мифологии в гедониста-гурмана, занятого лишь приготовлением и потреблением роскошных виртуальных пиршеств, а потом – в приученного к самодисциплине адепта карате школы Сётокан.
     Ядро личности осталось: некоторые ценности, ряд эмоциональных реакций, кое-какие эстетические пристрастия пережили все эти превращения в неприкосновенности. Как и желание выжить.
     Однажды Пир задался вопросом: «Достаточно ли этого – мизерное ядрышко постоянных характеристик да непрерывная нитка памяти? Достиг Дэвид Хоторн, зовущийся теперь иначе, бессмертия, за которое некогда заплатил, или он давно умер в процессе преображений?»
     Ответа не было. Самое бо́льшее, что он мог сказать: «В каждый момент времени существовал кто-то, знающий – или верящий, – что он некогда был Дэвидом Хоторном».

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The Ricks Must Be Crazy

Rick and Morty 2x6

Morty: I-I'm pretty jealous.
Rick: Don't be, Morty. There's pros and cons to every alternate timeline. Fun facts about this one-- It's got giant, telepathic spiders, 119/118, and the best ice cream in the multiverse!

Rick: “Quantum carburetor“? Jesus, Morty. You can't just add a s-- sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something.

Morty: I thought we were inside your car battery, Rick! T-T-This is like a whole p-planet or something.
Rick: Thanks, Morty. I'm pretty proud of this bad boy. Check it out. I put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet developed intelligent life. I then introduced that life to the wonders of electricity, which they now generate on a global scale. And, you know, some of it goes to power my engine and charge my phone and stuff.
Morty: You have a whole planet making your power for you? That's slavery.
Rick: It's society. They work for each other, Morty. They pay each other. They buy houses. They get married and make children that replace them when they get too old to make power.
Morty: That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.
Rick: Ooh-lala, someone's gonna get laid in college.

Rick: Morty, you gotta flip them off. I told them it means "peace among worlds." How hilarious is that?

Rick: I would love to see it.
Chris: Fuck You.
Rick: What did you say to me?!
Chris: "Fuck You." Y-You told me it means "much obliged."
Rick: Oh. Right. Uh, b-blow me.
Chris: No, no, no. Blow me.

Rick's Computer: Keep Summer safe.

Zeep: Wait a minute. Did you create my universe? Is my universe a miniverse?!
Rick: Microverse!
Kyle: Uh, teenyverse.

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Kyle: Are they not really aliens?
Morty: Nah, they're just a couple of crazy, wacky scientists, you know?
Kyle: So he made a universe... and that guy is from that universe. And that guy made a universe. And that's the universe where I was born. Where my father died. Where I couldn't make time for his funeral because I was working on my universe.
Morty: Science, huh? Ain't it a thing.

Zeep: I crafted the guy that created the planet you're standing on!
Rick: Yeah, and I made the stars that became the carbon in your mother's ovaries!
Zeep: I didn't ask to be born!

Rick's Computer: My function is to keep Summer safe, not keep Summer being, like, totally stoked about, like, the general vibe and stuff. That's you. That's how you talk.

Morty: We have no leaders. We follow only the will of the forest.
Rick: Ooh. Wow. Gaaaaay.
Zeep: That is pretty gay.

Morty: You have to get us the fuck outta here. These people are backwards savages. They eat every third baby because they think it makes fruit grow bigger. Everyone's gross, and they all smell like piss all the time. I m-- I m-- I miss my family. I miss my laptop.

Zeep: I guess you're an okay proto recombinator.
Rick: I've certainly seen worse ionic cell dioxination.
Zeep: If this works, drinks are on me.
Rick: If drinks are on you, you're gonna need a second mortgage on that tower. I'm an alcoholic.
Zeep: Opium addict.

Morty: You guys are the fucking worst! Your gods are a lie! Fuck you, fuck nature, and fuck trees!

Zeep: I'll be back in a sec.
Rick: You know how long a second can take in a microverse?

Rick: Hey. Zeep. Happy Ricksgiving, biiiiiitch.

Rick: You quit school, but you still got some learning to do...

Rick: Class dismissed.

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The Geek Interpreter

Elementary 6×19

Holmes: Justice is like an orgasm. It can never come too late.

Holmes: Watson, wake up.

Watson: Who is this stranger in my bedroom with your face strapped to his face?

Watson: I thought you were working on a cold case with Athena.
Holmes: I was. We finished.
Athena: Hi, Joan.
Holmes: With her help, I solved the 1926 case of Fitzroy McPherson, a scientist found dead in his apartment in Sheepshead Bay.

Watson: I'm confused. What part of the crime scene did you need Athena to reenact?
Holmes: We didn't reenact anything. We just had sex. I was having trouble jogging my memory, and I needed a potent distraction. Athena provided one.

Watson: I'm sorry, people pay you to sleep in your car?
Eli: Yeah, it's called AwayKay Mobile. It's part of the app. You know, like you'd rent out an apartment for the night, only this is a lot cheaper.

Holmes: I think, on some level, he likes having his affections set on the unattainable. It's safer. As long as he loves someone that he can't have, then he never has to put himself at risk.

Holmes: Look, if you... if you need to disrobe, feel free. You're in a safe place. Just-just mind the furniture.
Harlan: No, I only get naked for math. This, this... this is the opposite of math.

Harlan: Cut me a little bit of slack. You know, me and social cues are like... relativity and quantum mechanics.

Holmes: If you're thinking of hugging me again, don't do that.

Watson: Falling in love with someone is not supposed to be the same experience every time. Someone else will be someone else.

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Грег Иган — Город Перестановок

avva:

Примерно десять лет назад мне попались книги нескольких авторов, которые стали для меня – теперь я понимаю – лучшими из лучших в современной литературе, и повлияли на меня, заставили меня думать и чувствовать, больше других книг:
     * Грег Игэн (твердая фантастика, особенно "Город перестановок" и рассказы)

Карантин << (Субъективная космология — 1)

Субъективная космология — 2

  “Пол Дарэм открыл глаза и заморгал – в комнате было неожиданно светло, – затем лениво вытянул руку, чтобы ладонь оказалась в пятне солнечного света на краю кровати. ...

&  Он предвидел свои чувства, именно так всё запланировал. Как бы паршиво он себя ни чувствовал, это лишь этап в предсказуемой последовательности реакций: паника – раскаяние – анализ – смирение.
     Два этапа из четырёх пройдены – уже неплохо.

&  Куда ни бросишь взгляд (пусть и только там), симуляция была совершенно убедительной; это делал сам Пол, освещая её прожектором своего внимания. Иллюзорные световые лучи воссоздавались через возбуждение отдельных палочек и колбочек в симулированной сетчатке Пола, проецируясь на виртуальное окружение и точно определяя объём необходимых вычислений: множество деталей в центре поля зрения, куда меньше – на периферии. Объекты, находящиеся за пределами видимости, не «исчезали» полностью, если могли повлиять на освещение соседних предметов, хотя Пол знал, что вычисления такого рода редко идут дальше грубых приближений первого порядка: «Сад радостей земных» Босха превращается в простой серый прямоугольник со средней отражательной способностью, ведь, когда Пол поворачивается к нему спиной, любая детализация становится пустой тратой ресурсов. Любая часть комнаты в каждый момент имела ровно такое разрешение, какое требовалось, чтобы ввести его в заблуждение – ни больше ни меньше.
     Пол знал эту технологию не первый десяток лет. Но совсем иное дело самому её ощущать. Приходилось подавлять желание резко обернуться в тщетной попытке опередить процесс; какой-то миг это было почти невыносимо – просто знать,что происходит на краю поля зрения. Тот факт, что вид комнаты оставался безупречным, делал только хуже, превращая раздражение в параноидную фиксацию: как быстро ни поворачивай голову, тебе никогда, даже мельком, не увидеть, что происходит вокруг.

&  Эволюция – ходьба наугад по минному полю, а не заранее заданная траектория вперёд и вверх, к «совершенству».

&  Пять лет назад она проработала бы всю ночь, и на следующий день ей не грозило бы ничего, кроме приступа зевоты. Сейчас она чувствовала себя так, словно её сшиб поезд, и знала, что останется разбитой несколько дней. «Тридцать один – это старость, старость, старость».

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Jack Ryan 1×1

Pilot

James Greer: Your turn, Lance Armstrong.

Jack Ryan: Well, one of the difficulties in cobbling together intel is dealing with two databases that aren't meant to talk to one another. That's why I've actually written a custom SQL query--

Jack Ryan: Don't you think there are people on the seventh floor that would have loved this opportunity 20 years ago the first time they heard the name "bin Laden"?

Jack Ryan: 9/11 cost half a million dollars. If he is real, what do you think he can do with 20 times that amount of money?

Joe Mueller: You know the problem with this self-righteous Boy Scout routine? Is that one day you're gonna wake up... and realize that you've been lying to yourself about not wanting all of this. And you know what? By then, it's gonna be too late.

Jack Ryan: State Department. I run, uh, supply chain logistics for the Western Hemisphere.
Cathy Mueller: That sounds...
Jack Ryan: Boring?

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Jack Ryan: I can't go to Yemen. I'm an analyst. I don't interrogate people; I write reports.
James Greer: Well, that's gonna make a doozy... Get on the fucking plane.

James Greer: Matice, this is Dr. Ryan.
Matice: What you a doctor of?
Jack Ryan: Economics.
Matice: .... Cool.

Matice: What do you analyze?
Jack Ryan: Global markets, mostly. Financial aberrations, stuff like that.
Matice: You got any tips?
Jack Ryan: Tips?
Matice: Stocks and shit. Trying to expand my portfolio.

Soufan: Do you do this often? Kidnapping innocent people off the street and interrogate them.
Jack Ryan: You're my first one, actually. How am I doing?

Jack Ryan: Shoot me.

Suleiman: I thought you were an analyst.
Jack Ryan: I thought you were a bodyguard.

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Weak

Fear the Walking Dead 4×12

June: You know me, John... Or at least I think you do. When the going gets tough, I run... or worse.

Althea: When you spend as much time as I did collecting other people's stories... kinda stop having your own.

Filthy Woman: I don't need any help. I'm not weak.

June: Al, we're here. We're alive.

Wendell: Hey, you know what we say? Or what the man we stole the truck from said. "When the road get to buckin', keep on truckin'."

Filthy Woman: You aren't going to be weak anymore.

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American Pastoral (2016)

Swede Levov: He just wants to ask you a couple of things, that's all... He wants to get to know you and he's not an easy guy, but if you stand your ground. ...
Lou Levov: What do you people say about Jews?

Dawn: I would want our child to be baptized, yes.
Lou: Baptized? No. That's a no.
Dawn: But... Baptism, it washes away original sin. Without it, if they die, they go to limbo.
Lou: Limbo, I don't know about, but baptism, I can't allow.

Dawn: It's important to me, Mr. Levov. All of the sacraments are important. Like communion, the Eucharist...
Lou: What is that?
Dawn: Well, everybody kneels and you eat the Body of Christ.
Lou: I cannot go that far. I'm sorry. I have the highest respect, but my grandchild is not going to eat Jesus. I can give you Christmas.
Dawn: What about Easter?
Lou: Easter? She wants Easter, Seymour!

Swede: If you take a stand, people notice. If you oppose the war right here with all your strength... This is part of America too, you know.
Merry: Read Marx. Revolutions don't begin in the countryside.
Swede: We're not talking about revolution.
Merry: You're not talking about revolution.

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Swede: I mean, you're a parent, Penny. My God, you know how hard it is! And then, things come up with kids, from inside them, someplace inside. How can you know what to do? You try. You love them...

Swede: Slowly. Always slowly the first time... Feel how it expands when you make a fist...

Agent Dolan: You've done everything wrong you possibly could've.
Swede: Since when?

Merry: Why are apes here? Why are kangaroos here? Life is just a short space of time in which you were alive.

Merry: Daddy, how much suffering do you want?

Swede: Who are you? Where is my daughter?

Merry: If you love me, you'll let me be.

Nathan Zuckerman: You come at people with an open mind and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You get them wrong while you're with them or you tell someone about them and get them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive. We are wrong.

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Who Is America? #1.4

Erran Morad: Sheket bevakasha!

Erran Morad: What do you do when there is a terror attack?... In America, the official response is run, hide, tell. In Israel... it is hide, infiltrate, violence.

Erran Morad: Do you know about magen zahav? Magen zahav is the shield of pork. Have you heard of this? What do the Muslim terrorist fear most?

Erran Morad: This is the method, hide, infiltrate, violence. H-I-V.

Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello: I adore children. I love children. And I use the Latin word "love," "-phile"; "children," "pedo-." So I am a pedophile, in that I love children, and I've reclaimed that word, because it's been stolen by the abusers. I love children. I am a proud pedophile. I am a pedophile.

David Pyne: Is... Is Naomi, um, a male or a female?
Dr. Nira: She identifies as a female.
David Pyne: Okay. Is she physically female?

OMGWhizzBoyOMG: So, I'm going to unbox this Shopkin. While I'm doing that, why not tell me about what Communists are trying to do to stop people having guns?

OMGWhizzBoyOMG: You know President "Dongle Troomp"?
Joe Arpaio: Of course I know him.
OMGWhizzBoyOMG: And what's he like, Dongle Troomp?
Joe Arpaio: Great man.

David Pyne: You have caused me to have more negative energy than I've ever had, based on that behavior, and it's unacceptable, and it's hurtful, and offensive beyond words.

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The Gift (2015)

nostradamvs:

«Мрачный фильм про месть. В общем-то, месть жуткую и красивую, причём без крови и убийств. История о том, как успешная пара переезжает в новый дом, мужа ждёт новая хорошая работа, но муж-то в принципе редкостный мудак, хотя с первого взгляда и не скажешь – и ему порядком аукается. В целом режиссёру удался трюк с изменением отношения зрителя к главному герою. Закончилось ударно.»

Gordo: A whole lot has happened to me since we last saw each other. Some good, some bad, like life. You know, mostly good. But, you know, I believe that a lot of the good could come from the bad, you know?.. If you put the right faith behind it, you know? Not to bring religion into it, God, but just to say that the bad things, they can be a gift... And that's just the way I like to see things.

Robyn: It was just one dinner and it's over. No one's saying you have to do it again.

Simon: You are my boss, honey. Let's be clear. These guys just run the billion dollar company I work for.

Simon: I'm going to make it upstairs before I'm too old, as long as Kevin sticks to his plan of moving on at the end of the year. Then I get a little bit of consulting expertise from you, I'll be all set.
Robyn: Keep growing the beard. Start wearing sneakers to work. Maybe get a tattoo.

Simon: You know, they used to call him Weirdo in school. Gordo the Weirdo...

Robyn: What does "bygones be bygones" mean?

Gordo: See, you're done with the past, but the past is not done with you.

Gordo: I came to say... Congratulations.

Gordo: See, I could tell you the truth. ....but a liar won't believe anybody else, right?

Gordo: You see what happens when you poison other people's minds with ideas?...

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Jason Mendoza

The Good Place 1×4

Jianyu: When I say I'm meditating, I'm just trying to figure out what the fork is happening. I think we might be in an alien zoo or on a prank show.

Jianyu: I miss being myself. Myself was the best.

Tahani: Well reasoned, Michael. As us Brits are fond of saying, "try your best to hide your sadness."

Chidi: David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature." You read this, right?
Eleanor: I did. Well, I tried to. Well, I tried to want to.

Tahani: Obviously, it's impossible for something to be more perfect than perfect...
Michael: Well, it isn't, actually. Any place or thing in the universe can be up to 104% perfect. That's how you got Beyoncé.

Eleanor: We need a distraction right the fork now!

Chidi: You broke the world... That's not a compliment.

Tahani: While you repair the universe, I shall prepare the eggs.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Han: ...But we learned a very valuable lesson. We cannot trust those guys.
Lady Proxima: So you expect me to believe that you walked away with nothing!
Han: I ran away with my life. I think that's something. To me, that's a lot.

Han: I'm gonna be a pilot. We can get our own ship. See the galaxy, all of it.

Han: This is where I sign up to be a pilot, right?
Imperial Recruitment Officer: If you apply for the Imperial Navy, but most recruits go into the infantry.
Han: I'm gonna be a pilot. Best in the galaxy.

Han: How long is that gonna take?
Imperial Recruitment Officer: Depends on how good you are at following orders.

Imperial Recruitment Officer: What's your name, son?
Han: Han.
Imperial Recruitment Officer: Han what? Who are your people?
Han: I don't have people. I'm alone.
Imperial Recruitment Officer: Han... Solo. Approved.

Beckett: You want some advice? Get the hell away from here. Any way you can, as fast as you can.

Han Solo: So what's your name, anyway?... Chewbacca? All right, well, you're gonna need a nickname, 'cause I ain't saying that every time.

Val: It's been a ride, babe. And I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Beckett: Hey. These people are not your friends and they're never gonna be, so don't talk to any of 'em. Don't look at anybody, just keep your eyes down.

Lando Calrissian: There she is, my pride and joy. The Millennium Falcon.

Lando Calrissian: I don't like it. I don't agree with it. But I accept it.

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Beckett: You wanna know how I've survived as long as I have? I trust no one. Assume everyone will betray you and you will never be disappointed.
Han Solo: Sounds like a lonely way to live.
Beckett: It's the only way.

Lando Calrissian: Mining colonies are the worst.
Beckett: Yeah, well, "the worst" is where the money is.

L3-37: Congratulations! You're liberated. ... I don't know. Free your brothers and sisters or something.

Han Solo: I got a really good feeling about this...

Han Solo: Beckett, did you hear me?! Are they on us?
Beckett: Like rashnold on a kalak.
Han Solo: I don't know what that means.
Beckett: Like a gingleson's pelt.
Han Solo: What? Are they or aren't they?!
Beckett: Yes, they're still on us!

Han Solo: Since when do you know how to fly?... 190 years old?... You look great!

Han Solo: You know, I'm not the kid you knew on Corellia anymore, Qi'ra.
Qi'ra: No? Then who are you?
Han Solo: I'm an outlaw.

Beckett: Not this time. I'm leaving. If you're smart, you'll come with me.
Han Solo: I thought you didn't believe in running...
Beckett: I prefer it to dying.

Beckett: If by some miracle you make it out of here, find me on Tatooine.
Han Solo: What's on Tatooine?
Beckett: Heard about a job, big shot gangster putting together a crew. That'll be the one.

Han Solo: We're gonna win.
Qi'ra: It's not that kind of game, Han. The object isn't to win. It's just to stay in it as long as you can.

Han Solo: Well, I guess we'll just take our payment and get going. I'm sure you've got competitors to crush... and black markets to dominate.

Qi'ra: Smile. That's the word. Whenever I imagined myself off with you on some adventure... Always makes me smile.

Lando Calrissian: You really have it bad for the Falcon, don't you?
Han Solo: It's mutual, trust me. She belongs with me.

Han Solo: Beckett said he heard about this very big gangster putting together a job. ... No, I'm telling ya, it's gonna be great. When have I ever steered you wrong?

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American Horror Story. Apocalypse

8×1

Gallant: Who cares how many followers you have? You're a billionaire.
Coco: That's my father's money! I need to make something of myself.

Gallant: Are the Kardashians filming out there?

Coco: It's bullshit. It's a hoax. It's like that time in Hawaii. They're gonna text in, like, a minute with a retraction.

Evie: Ugh. Esmeralda, the champagne's burnt again.

Gallant: The government sent a warning. Missiles are coming.
Evie: So is global warming... Well. It's probably fake news. I'm gonna call Donald.

Wilhemina: It may be seem to you a regression, Mr. Campbell, our way of life here, but you'd be dead wrong. Technology is what destroyed the world. Social media gave people the illusion they were equal. Now that's all been swept away. The natural order will restore itself.

Emily: What's a "Purple"?
Wilhemina: The elite. The worthy. Those chosen to survive.

Wilhemina: There's no excuse for tardiness when there's nothing else to do.

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Gallant: It just plays over and over, 24 hours a day!
Stu: It's like Satan's Spotify playlist.

Wilhemina: Dinner is served.

Gallant: It's all we get. Don't be too disappointed.
Darling, you don't know what disappointment is until you've slept with Yul Brynner.

Miriam: It was always fragile. They made you think the system was a rock. It was a water balloon. One prick of the needle and... that's all it took.

Miriam: Easy. Set the sensitivity to ten, you can make anyone sound like Chernobyl.

Wilhemina: It's strangely satisfying, isn't it? Dispensing punishment? I love their faces... that stupid "can't believe this is happening to me" look they get.

Miriam: I'm military. My dad killed so many Viet-Cong he lost count. Killing is in my DNA. But I still respect the chain of command.

Miriam: It's chicken.
Timmy: That's not a chicken bone.

Andre: Oh, this stew is Stu!

Coco: Mallory, come here and stick your finger down my throat!

Gallant: Maybe it's time to eat somebody!
Coco: Or just, like, an arm.

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Грег Иган — Карантин (4/4)

<< Ранее

&  – Но разве ты никогда не пытаешься себе представить, что ты думал и чувствовал бы без мода?
     – А зачем? Какая мне разница? Я такой, какой я есть, вот и все. Ты, например, часто воображаешь, о чем бы ты думала, если бы была совершенно другим человеком?
     – Но ведь ты сделал себя таким искусственно...
     – Ну и что? Каждый так или иначе искусственно воздействует на свое сознание. Каждый старается сам сформировать себя как личность. Нейронные моды просто делают это эффективно, помогают людям действительно изменить себя так, как им этого хочется. Что в этом ужасного? Ты что, считаешь, что естественное происхождение структур твоего мозга гарантирует их совершенство? Конечно, уже много тысячелетий люди ищут – и находят! – религиозные или наукообразные «объяснения» того, почему наш мир есть лучший из миров, а значит, пытаться поправить Бога (если угодно – эволюцию) – кощунство! Но если честно взглянуть фактам в глаза, все это служит одной цели – не дать людям захотеть того, что они не в силах получить. Остальное – шелуха, от которой давно пора избавиться, но наша культура еще не скоро до этого дозреет.

&  Быть человеком – значит непрерывно истреблять бесчисленное множество тех, кем мы могли бы стать.

&  – Люди делают выбор, и только одно из чистых состояний выживает. Это не трагедия, это наша природа, так и должно быть.

&  Всего лишь две минуты моей жизни. Это будет краткий миг амнезии. Пустяк в сравнении с теми часами, которые за всю жизнь исчезли из моей памяти – стерлись без малейшего следа, как будто их никогда не было. А сколько моих виртуальных «я» умерли в то время, когда я был под настройкой, чтобы реальным оставался тот, кто принимал оптимальное решение? Так что дело привычное – я всю жизнь умирал ради того, чтобы все шло как надо.

&  Размазывание – это экспоненциальный рост, безграничное увеличение. Альтернатива этому одна – устойчивая и однозначная реальность. Середины быть не может.

  ... Я просто повторяю про себя, снова и снова, пока не чувствую, что могу включить сон:
        «В конечном счете все – всегда – приходит в норму».”

>> Город Перестановок (Субъективная космология — 2)

Let's Go Roaming

Mr. Mercedes 2x2

Karen: I-I have a kid. I'm a single mom.
Billy: You're making this hard now.
Karen: You ugly fat fuck!
Billy: Okay. Less hard.

Billy: Fuck me up the arse!

Piggy: All these kids look alike, truth be told... I actually try not to look at the little bastards. Most are overstimulated glucose addicts.

Donna: Why don't you simply enjoy life, hmm? Just stop worrying about finding the value in it.
Billy: What if I'm not built for that?

Holly: Do you know that I've never been camping?
Billy: Ugh. I wish I could say the same.
Holly: Why? You don't like nature, or...
Billy: Well, not philosophically opposed. I just prefer toilets.

Billy: Wow! Look at this!
Holly: Oh, they got the color wrong. It's supposed to be crimson.
Billy: Blue for a boy. It's perfect.

Billy: Good man. Lived good, died shitty.

Ida: How was the party?
Holly: Mm, it was slightly more enjoyable than Pete's funeral because no one was crying, but the food wasn't nearly as good.

Holly: He never leaves the lights on for when he comes home. He says he doesn't want to pay the electric company more than he has to, but I think that he just prefers the dark.
Ida: There's nothing wrong with a little darkness...

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Past Perfect

Castle Rock 1×8

Gordon: Well... perhaps I’m a fool... but a fool with tenure.

Lilith: The murder capital of 1991. Can you believe that?

Lilith: How long have you been married?
Woman: Uh, 13 years.
Man: It’s, uh, two for me.

Gordon: You know your axes.

Henry: I thought I knew how the world worked. What was real and what’s not...

Molly: People have been calling me crazy my whole life...

The Kid: I waited for you. I waited for 27 years... I rescued you from that basement, and I didn’t ask for any of this.

Jackie: Gotta be honest... kind of makes me kick myself, because... no shit... I had this idea five years ago. Like, turn this town into a murder theme park.

The Kid: I was there. Out there... in the woods. That’s where you died.

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Talk

Better Call Saul 4×4

Jimmy: You're looking... at Albuquerque's newest mobile communications specialist. I'm a shift supervisor, even. Be very impressed. Cellphone sales. I-I'm selling cellphones. CC Mobile. I start today. ... It's strictly gainful employment, and then 10 months from now... Poof! I'm a lawyer again.

Judge Munsinger: ...And to make matters worse, the hospital refuses to take responsibility. And they've hired one of the most expensive firms in the state...
Kim: This is the plot of "The Verdict."
Judge Munsinger: Yes! Of course it is! Because movies are the only place where those once-in-a-lifetime cases exist. You know what I got coming up next? I got a janitor who threw his pee on his boss. The one after that... she stabbed her boyfriend over a grilled cheese sandwich. This is the real world, Ms. Wexler, and you won't find any save-the-broken-lawyer cases in it.

Judge Munsinger: Don't think that you are the first to try to rediscover their love of the law by trolling my court. You're not. Best thing you can do is stick to Mesa Verde. Make lots of money. Give some to charity.

Mike: Watch him. He's got a tell. Like a bad poker player, when he's lying, he rubs his wrist.

Gus: Get some rest... You have more to do.

Mike: You wanted me to talk... I talked.

Ira: New job new phone. You never know who's listening.

Mike: You gonna make a move, you better make it.

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The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz

Elementary 6×18

David Horowitz: He started writing obituaries for a small local paper. He really liked it. In fact, he liked it so much, he wrote a bunch of obituaries for people who hadn't died yet.

David Horowitz: ...Norman's predictions have gone three for three. He's been right about everything: the dates... the causes of death...
Holmes: While I'm sure there's a mundane explanation for all of this, I confess to not seeing it yet.

Holmes: That's fairly typical. In the 1950s, many schizophrenics thought the Soviets were controlling their mind via radio waves. In the '90s, it was popular to blame aliens because the search for extraterrestrial life had become a popular subject.
David: For Norman, it was all explained by Simulation Theory.
Holmes: I've heard about that. God is a computer programmer or something?...

Watson: Thanks for seeing us, Mr. Baskerville.
Henry Baskerville: Oh, please, call me Henry. I'm still alive because of you guys.

Holmes: We need to talk about what happens after I die.
Watson: “The Last Will and Testament of Sherlock Holmes”?

Watson: Uh, it says here that I'm supposed to sell the brownstone if I can't pay the taxes on your foreign equities... This is a very valuable home. What kind of taxes are we talking about?

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Holmes: Did you decide which murder to solve?

Holmes: None seemed capable of serial murder. Serial onanism, on the other hand...

Holmes: My favorite theory involves a sonic cannon. The killer could have purloined one from the DARPA warehouse in New Jersey, and with certain modifications...
Watson: Okay, let's stop right there. If a sonic cannon is on your short list, then I think it'd just be easier to admit that we're living in a computer simulation and that Norman Horowitz could see the future.
Holmes: I confess, it's not yet clear how to apply Occam's razor to this case.

Holmes: It's remarkable-- every television journalist applies an identical patina of smarm, no matter the story.

Capt. Gregson: “Dot net”? Haven't heard that in a few years.
Det. Bell: It's not a real hangout for the cool kids.

Baskerville: Norman Horowitz saw the future.
Holmes: No, he did not. There will be a logical explanation. The realm of what is possible is not infinite.
Baskerville: Oh, okay, well, I agree with you there, but do you think that you're arguing against Simulation Theory or for it?

Holmes: You'll be inheriting a lot less of it. You'll still get the house, of course, and my brain.
Watson: Mmm. There's always that.

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Грег Иган — Карантин (3/4)

<< Ранее

&  В четвертый раз змеиные глаза. Любое сочетание выпадает с вероятностью одна тридцать шестая. Четырехкратное повторение – при тридцати тысячах бросаний, которые яуспел сделать за прошедшие десять ночей – имеет вероятность всего 1,7 процента.
     Пятый раз. Это уже 0,048 процента. Преодолен наугад назначенный однопроцентный барьер, и программа начинает посылать сообщения об успехе.
     Шесть. 0,0013%.
     Семь. 0,000037%.
     Восемь. 0,0000010%.

&  Дома все сомнения окончательно развеиваются. Если это галлюцинация, то вся моя жизнь тоже галлюцинация. ... Каждая трещинка на потолке, каждый луч солнца на шторах упорно остаются самими собой, и это чудо стойкости сильнее любых логических аргументов. Можно ли назвать все это иллюзией и обманом, если никаких признаков другой, «настоящей» реальности не высмотришь и за миллиард лет?
     ...а что, если мы, люди, на самом деле создали не осязаемый, отчетливый мир нашего житейского опыта, а наоборот – размытый и многозначный квантовый фундамент для него? По Квай считает, что наши предки схлопывали Вселенную. А может быть, те, кто в двадцатом веке создавал квантовую механику, не столько открыли ее законы, сколько вызвали их к жизни? И если так, то меняет ли это хоть что-нибудь? Что же создал человеческий мозг – квантовый мир из классического или классический из квантового? Во что легче поверить? И есть ли надежда, что наши, неизбежно антропоцентрические, эксперименты способны установить объективную, внечеловеческую истину?

&  – Мы так устроены, вот и все. Делая выбор, люди «убивают» тех, кем могли бы стать. ...существовать как-то иначе мы не способны.

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Milk

Sharp Objects 1×8

Amma: Kinda funny, huh? How many stories they have where princesses need to get rescued from witches.

Adora: Do you see how nice it is not to have to worry or fight? Just to let yourself be looked after?...

John: Sometimes you stay with somebody, and the only reason is because you don't have the energy to go through ending it...

Vickery: What do you think? He gonna crack?
Willis: Almost everyone does if you push 'em hard enough. Even if they're innocent.

Camille: Mama... what's in the blue bottle?

Adora: I believe if you had asked her she would have said what she was doing was right... We all have bad childhoods. At some point, you have to forget it, move on. Anything else is just selfish.

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The Code

Fear the Walking Dead 4×11

Morgan: Mississippi?

Stevie: Make yourself at home. You know what we say. Take what you need, leave what you don't.
Morgan: Hey, who are you?!

Wendell: All my life, people like you been usin' stalls made for people like me. I never ask the question, but I'ma ask it now. Why?
Morgan: I'm... I'm gonna be honest. It always seemed like a little apartment.

Wendell: Hey, they looked down on us when the soda was flowin', but we got a code and we keepin' it alive.
Morgan: And what is it?... The code.
Wendell: You gotta help people when they need that... help. And then you gotta keep your truck movin'.
Sarah: Keep on truckin'.
Wendell: Keep on truckin'...
Sarah: Dig it.

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Morgan: Recipes for what?
Jim: Beer. I brew beer. Goddamn staff of life.

Jim: Here's what I got... the future. We're gonna infest this planet again. It's what we do. An ice age couldn't knock us out. You see, one day, everything that we lost, we're gonna rebuild. We're gonna start again. It's inevitable. So... I make beer.

Sarah: I like beer, Jimbo.
Jim: It's Jim.
Wendell: You never tried Jimbo?
Jim: Nope.
Wendell: Dude, it's an awesome variant to your name. I'd think about it.

Jim: History is built on beer... We are back to a time where a safe and sterile source of hydration and nutrition is needed. Yeah. It is the staff of life. We were nomads. Beer made us settle and become farmers. Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Incans, the Chinese... Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer. You know people who want the world to come back together again. They need me. They need this stuff. They need beer.

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Грег Иган — Карантин (2/4)

<< Начало

&  Подбросьте монету десять раз – вероятность того, что все десять раз выпадет орел, меньше одной тысячной. Но если вы подбросите монету девятьсот раз, то уже с вероятностью одна треть хотя бы раз получите десять орлов подряд. При девяти тысячах бросаний вероятность этого возрастет почти до девяноста девяти процентов.

&  Цель исследований проблемы измерения в квантовой механике и состоит в том, чтобы точно установить, что же такое измерение и почему оно так отличается от других явлений. Когда именно стягивается волновая функция – когда срабатывает детектор частиц, или когда разбивается бутылка, или когда умирает кошка? Или в тот момент, когда кто-то заглядывает в ящик?

&  – Все прекрасно, особенно если забыть о том, что нет выбора. Тишина, покой и надежный кондиционер – это моя формула счастья.

&  Реальность упрямо остается прежней, какие бы парадоксальные теории ее ни объясняли. Когда Резерфорд открыл, что атомы практически полностью состоят из пустоты, земля не стала менее твердой. Истина как таковая не меняет ничего.

&  Правда никогда не дается легко.

&  – Как мы можем «сознавать, что мы размазаны»? Сознание кажется плавным потоком, но это лишь результат того, как мозг организует наше восприятие, а действительность развивается толчками, спазмами. Опыт неизбежно создается лишь в ретроспективе. Настоящего как такового не существует, настоящее – это то прошлое, которое мы смогли сделать единственным. Единственный вопрос – на каком масштабе времени все это происходит.

&  В девять утра трудно почувствовать себя заговорщиком.

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Their Finest (2016)

The Nancy"?
The Nancy Starling. After their mother.
Gabriel Baker: The nail on the head!
Catrin Cole: Mmm?
Gabriel Baker: On the head. Authenticity, optimism, and a dog.

Tom Buckley: ...Saves the dog.
Catrin Cole: But he didn't. In real life, he didn't.
Tom Buckley: Film, Mrs. Cole. Real life with the boring bits cut out. Don't confuse facts with truth and, for Christ's sake, don't let either of them get in the way of the story.

Phyl Moore: You know, a lot of men are scared we won't go back into our boxes when this is all over. It makes them belligerent.

Sammy Smith: Sorry. We have guests staying, friends from Poland. Things are very bad in Europe.
Ambrose Hilliard: It's not exactly a picnic here, if you hadn't noticed. You can't find a decent waiter in SoHo since Italy joined the war. They were all rounded up as so-called enemies of the state,

Tom Buckley: Now, there's a truth we won't be telling. Morale-sapping, apparently... We pick our truths. Isn't that the point?
Roger Swain: We're saying this is based on a true story.
Tom Buckley: Then don't! Oh, Christ above, man, you're supposed to be the propagandist!

Tom Buckley: 700 ships went to Dunkirk. 338,000 men came back. Don't say it's based on a true story. Say it's based on 100 true stories. A thousand!
Raymond Parfitt: 338,000.
Tom Buckley: Dunkirk, the biggest retreat in military history, or... the miracle that put the fire back in all our bellies?

Sophie Smith: Please be calm, Mr. Hilliard.
Hilliard: I am perfectly calm. What you are seeing is controlled anger tempered with icy detachment. It's one of the many subtle emotions of which a good actor is capable.

Tom Buckley: Too long. Lose half.
Catrin Cole: Which half?
Tom Buckley: The half you don't need.

Secretary of War: Mr. Churchill is persuaded that film, in particular your film, presents us with a unique opportunity to put our case to the American people. They fear that we are already beaten. You show that we fight on. They believe this country to be dominated by an upper-class elite. You present a vision of Britain in which ordinary working people are the heroes. But most crucially of all, your film concerns itself directly with the feminine experience, to show your American sisters that this is a war their sons and husbands and brothers should be fighting.

Secretary of War: Color? I think we can manage that.

Tom Buckley: Why do you think people like films? It's because stories are structure. They're a shape, a purpose, a meaning. And when things turn bad, it's still part of a plan, you know, it's... There's a point to it. Unlike life.

Tom Buckley: The thing about men who get sent away to war, Mrs. Cole, is that some of them don't come back at all, some come back as heroes... and some of them come back drunk, squalid bullies.

Phyl Moore: It seems to me when life is so very precarious, it's an awful shame to waste it.

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