Downton Abbey 3×8

Mr. Carson: I cannot hide that I find your situation revolting, but whether or not you believe me, I am not entirely unsympathetic. You have been twisted by nature into something foul, and even I can see that you did not ask for it.

Isobel Crawley: I couldn't manage an 18-year-old. Not these days. I wouldn't know what she was talking about.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: My husband was a great traveler, so I have spent many happy evenings without understanding a word. The thing is to keep smiling and never look as if you disapprove.

James Kent: I've been thinking I ought to report him to the police.
Mr. Carson: What?
James Kent: It's my duty. I know today thinking is much more liberal...
Mr. Carson: Now, just a minute. I've never been called a liberal in my life and I don't intend to start now. But I do not believe in scandal.

Isobel Crawley: Cousin Violet is trying to find a new job for my cook.
Lady Rose MacClare: That sounds rather inconvenient.
Isobel Crawley: Cousin Violet has never let a matter of convenience stand in the way of a principle. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: As the kettle said to the pot...

Anna Bates: ... together I think we can make it really comfy.
John Bates: What do they call extreme optimism?
Anna Bates: They call it "making the best of things," and that is what we'll do.
Mrs. Hughes: I know you're leaving, but things can't be as black as all that. You're trained now. You could apply for a position as a butler.
Thomas Barrow: You don't know everything, then.
Mrs. Hughes: Then will you tell me everything?
Thomas Barrow: I'm afraid if I do, Mrs. Hughes, that it will shock and disgust you.
Mrs. Hughes: Shock and disgust? My, my. I think I have to hear it now. Come on....

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Branson won't play.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Mr. Branson is busy at the moment.
Mr. Carson: Is he, m'lady? Might I point out that we're all busy, but we still find time to support the honor of the house.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Yes. But that is not the right road to travel, Carson, if we want to remain in her ladyship's good graces.

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: But why is Mr. Carson? It's not as if none of us knew.
I think the point is we didn't know officially. That's what Mr. Carson finds hard. He can't avoid the subject any longer because it's lying there on the mat.

Matthew Crawley: This is like the outer circle from Dante's Inferno.
Lady Rosamund Painswick: The outer circle?

Lady Rose MacClare: But you know, he's... He's terribly unhappy, and it's not his fault at all. His wife is absolutely horrid...
Matthew Crawley: Married men who wish to seduce young women always have horrid wives.

Lady Rose MacClare: Why are you helping me?
Matthew Crawley: I'm on the side of the downtrodden.

Lady Mary Crawley: He says I'm to get in touch with him in six months' time, but that I'll be pregnant before then. So now we can start making babies.

Tom Branson: Shall I tell you how I look at it?... Every man or woman who marries into this house, every child born into it, has to put their gifts at the family's disposal. I'm a hard worker and I have some knowledge of the land. Matthew knows the law and the nature of business.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Which I do not.
Tom Branson: You understand the responsibilities we owe to the people round here, those who work for the estate and those that don't. It seems to me if we could manage to pool all of that, if we each do what we can do, then Downton has a real chance.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: You are very eloquent. You are a good spokesman for Matthew's vision. Better than he has been, recently.

Mr. Carson: And if Mr. Barrow is to stay on, what would he be? My valet?
Mrs. Hughes: You can make him under butler. Then your dinners will be grand enough for Chu Chin Chow, and he can apply to be a butler when he does leave.
John Bates: But that would make him my superior.
Mr. Carson: I don't know. Under butler, head valet. There's not much in it.

Anna Bates: By the way, what was that phrase he gave you to say to Miss O'Brien? You can tell me now, surely?
John Bates: If you keep it under your hat. It was, "Her ladyship's soap."
Anna Bates: What?
John Bates: I can't make any sense of it either, but that's what he said. "Her ladyship's soap." And it worked.

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Red Light, Green Light

Squid Game 1×1

Gi-hun: My town called that game "the Squid Game". It was named so because the game was played in a squid-like outline. The rules are simple...

Ga-yeong: Dad, you're free to get into fights, but don't get beaten up.

The Salesman: Sir. Do you have a minute?
Gi-hun: I don't believe in Jesus.
The Salesman: It's not that. I'd like to give you a great opportunity--
Gi-hun: I come from a Buddhist household, so stop bothering me and get lost.
The Salesman: Sir. Would you like to play a game with me?

Gi-hun: I didn't gamble or steal. I worked my hands, face, and body off to earn this money.

Driver: Mr. Seong Gi-hun?
Gi-hun: Yes.
Driver: The password?
Gi-hun: Red light, green light.

Player 001: I'm just counting the numbers. My doctor said counting numbers is good for preventing dementia.
Gi-hun: Why did you come here when you're old enough to worry about dementia? You should be eating meals your daughter-in-law makes for you, then lying down on the warm floor watching your grandkids acting cute.
Player 001: What about your parents? Do they get to eat fresh-cooked meals their daughter-in-law makes for them?

    Consent form clause 1: A player is not allowed to stop playing.
    Consent form clause 2: A player who refuses to play will be eliminated.
    Consent form clause 3: Games may be terminated if the majority agrees.

Front Man: The first game is Red Light, Green Light. You can move forward while "it" shouts out, "Green Light, Red Light" If your movement is detected afterward, you will be eliminated. .... Those who cross the finish line without getting caught in five minutes pass this round. Then let the game begin.

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No Direction Home

Billions 5×12

Orrin Bach: You want to talk worst-case scenarios? Okay. But it'll be a mood killer.
Wendy Rhoades: It's hard to kill what's already dead, Orrin.

Bobby Axelrod: How many years am I facing?
Orrin Bach: We'll pick off the shakier aspects of the case. We'll claim there were efforts made to conceal by Winslow.
Hall: We'll work the jury pool for maximum weakness and/or affinity--
Bobby Axelrod: Worst. Case. Don't make me say it again. Now. How many years?
Orrin Bach: Fifteen, 20, likely, for you as the chairman. For the CEO...
Mike Wagner 'Wags': But I hardly had a chance to do anything! I'm a figurehead. You know it. I know it. They definitely know it.
Hall: They don't give a shit, Wags.
Orrin Bach: No, they don't. Your name's on the contract as CEO, Wags. You signed. It was notarized. So you take the weight right along with Bobby.

Orrin Bach: Fast or slow... how do you want to play it?
Bobby Axelrod: Let 'em bring it. Let's get it on.

Bobby Axelrod: I'm gonna fight it loudly and publicly. And once and for all, because he's in my way now, on things that are even more important than business. So push the timeline on this, Orrin. Fast. The arrest, the battle, the victory.

Mike Wagner 'Wags': I can't. There's no scenario where I survive a year in jail, much less what we're looking at here.

Bobby Axelrod: You are a lot stronger than you think you are.
Mike Wagner 'Wags': I know exactly how strong I am, and it's one notch less than strong enough for jail.

Mike Wagner 'Wags': Axe, I worship at your altar, sir. But I'm telling you right now, I'm never walking into a jail cell with my name on it. Whatever I have to do, I'll do it.

Bobby Axelrod: I wanted a conscious... a beginning. I pictured thatched huts over blue water. Not courtrooms. Board shorts. Not suits and ties.
Wendy Rhoades: Yeah, well, that's the thing about something real. It doesn't have to look like a fantasy.

Mike Prince: What do you have planned? The lefty guns scoop up while he's about to do a job, or the shake-and-wake while he's in bed?
Chuck Rhoades: I considered all of it. But I want it to be at the office. I walk him out rear-cuffed in front of his loyal troops. Let them see him broken. Let that break them.

Chuck Rhoades: Once I have everything in order, and I will, quite soon, it'll happen. Mr. Axelrod will surrender to me.
Bobby Axelrod: That's a legal term, to be clear, Chuck. So I will. Technically. But know this... I will be fighting you to my dying breath.

Chuck Rhoades: Believe me, I'm taking fucking measures.
Taylor Mason: I hope so. Because a wounded and cornered Bobby Axelrod is not something many survive.

Rian: I don't hate.
Taylor Mason: You do. You've turned it into something else. Like I used to. But it was impressed upon me that instead, and listen to me here... instead, it's best turned into fuel because it's effective. And nothing burns as clean.

Ben Kim: It feels like we're at the end.
Bobby Axelrod: Nah, the end of the beginning is all, Ben Kim.

Bobby Axelrod: Your problem, as an investor, is that your idealism is at war with your profit drive. And one day that will ruin you.
Taylor Mason: While your problem, as a boss, as a mentor, as a person, is you see my work product, my company, me, as yours to do with as you see fit.
Bobby Axelrod: And so now you've killed your mentor. Congratulations.

Taylor Mason: I think I'm... No, I am sorry. Sorry that it came to this.
Bobby Axelrod: You're sorry? Shit. You'll get over it. The amount of time you spend feeling bad over slitting your enemies' throats will get shorter and shorter in the future until it's barely a fucking blip.

Mike Wagner 'Wags': You're talking about me cooperating against Axe?
Chuck Rhoades: I am. Spare us the time and effort of feigning loyalty. Just shed that dry, flaking skin like the reptile you are and slither away shiny and new.

Bobby Axelrod: That's what I've always been to you. A trophy. The trophy. You can't make anything, build anything, earn anything on your own. So you try to boost yourself up by tearing me down.

Chuck Rhoades: Guys like you... No, you. You've accumulated so much you think laws don't apply to you. And I'm not talking about the laws of man, the ones written down on paper. I'm talking about the immutable laws of the universe. About fairness and right.
Bobby Axelrod: Who says we have to live by those? Maybe we can create our own, if we have the audacity. And who appointed you the keeper of these cosmic rules in the first place? The fucking arrogance!
Chuck Rhoades: On my part? You're the one who just said you created your own system of right and wrong, like some fucking deity.
Bobby Axelrod: I didn't presume to that. I arrived at it.

Chuck Rhoades: A Titan steals fire and gets his liver eaten every day for punishment. Another one picks the wrong side in a war and has to hold the world on his shoulders for all time. A king tells a secret and has to push a rock up a hill for his trouble. Believe it if you will, or look for the metaphor in it, one thing's for sure. We are not very good at being fucking happy, are we?
Bobby Axelrod: Happy... What's that?

Chuck Rhoades: Un-fucking-believable! You actually believe you're innocent. Well, I might not have known until right now just how badly you need to go down.
Bobby Axelrod: Oh, you're gonna learn just how innocent I am when that jury foreman reads it out in open court for the whole fucking world to hear!
Chuck Rhoades: Well, we'll see about that, soon enough.
Bobby Axelrod: Yes. We will.

Taylor Mason: What I told you before about using the hate... it may work for you. But I should never have said it.
Rian: No?
Taylor Mason: No. The advice I should have given you about working here... or anywhere in this business really, if remaining resemblant to the person you are now matters to you at all... is what Agatha the Precog tells Anderton.
Rian: Run.
Taylor Mason: Run.

Orrin Bach: There's no way to say this without it coming off as a bit dramatic... It's time to surrender, Bobby.

Rhoades, Sr.: Oh, shit. You actually have him this time. That's why you're here. This is beyond crowing. You've actually won, haven't you?.. That also means that I backed the wrong gladiator.

Rhoades, Sr.: Bring me my daughter. Leave her with me. I need to tell her a few things... Firstly, your brother may not always be a good man. But he is indeed... a very great man.

Mike Prince: I assure you, I take no pleasure...
Bobby Axelrod: No, no, of course not. That would be indecorous. No, it's fine to set a guy up, lead him to slaughter, but to laugh... that's the line, huh?

Mike Prince: ... Can you do six? Could I? I don't know. The pandemic felt like solitary, and I had cars and planes and five properties to choose from. But every man has to answer that question for himself.

Bobby Axelrod: That's a steep discount you want. Pennies on the fuckin' dollar.
Mike Prince: Guys with sucking chest wounds should save their breath and not try to negotiate. Your billions, they're gone.

Bobby Axelrod: It feels, um... Wow. So this is what it is to lose. Okay.

Bobby Axelrod: So you get it all? My money. My companies. My people. Win, win, win. And me nowhere to be found.
Mike Prince: Yes. That I consider a win.

Chuck Rhoades: Ms. Sacker, Mrs. Gramm, when someone leaves a burning sack of excrement on your doorstep and rings your doorbell, it's best not to stomp it out, lest you get covered in shit.

Bobby Axelrod: I used to think it was a total waste of $60 million...
Hall: The third plane? Of course it's a waste, just like everything in the top right corner of the risk and control matrix. Right up until you need it.

Hall: ..... I'll have things taken care of on the other end long before you land. It's good to be the king.

Chuck Rhoades: It's done! Fall back! But start thinking of the next move, and the move after because done does not mean finished. Not in this case.

Wendy Rhoades: You're talking in generalities, like a... like a politician or something. Talk to me like Axe would.

Bobby Axelrod: If we can't finish it, we can't start it.

Mike Prince: "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." Emerson said that. And if every day is such, then even this, yes, this is such a day, too.

Mike Prince: You'll find I don't much speak about things that way, about who gets what, who shined by closing such and such deal, but I think it is important, crucial even, to begin by stating in the most plain terms what this is. And what this is... is mine. Oh, hey, this is Scooter. You may come to think of him as my Wags.
Roger 'Scooter' Dunbar: Better dressed, better mannered. Perhaps not quite as much fun at an all-you-can-eat Vegas buffet or a mud wrestling establishment, which are things of the past, anyway, but still pretty fun.

Roger 'Scooter' Dunbar: Anyone who wants to get wealthy... rich, in your language... can stay, and we can discuss your place in the new organization. Otherwise, now is a good time to leave...

Mike Prince: Well, Chuck, I was never really in your ranks. Never in lockstep. We just had a similar problem for a while.
Chuck Rhoades: Uh-huh. Now, you're my problem. And you know what I do to problems.
Mike Prince: Let 'em fester?
Chuck Rhoades: No. I do what I did to the last guy who sat in that chair. I get rid of them.
Mike Prince: No. I got rid of the guy in the chair. Know how we know this to be true?... 'Cause I'm the one sitting in it.
Chuck Rhoades: Not for long, pal. Not for fucking long.

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Six Hours

Fear the Walking Dead 7×2

Grace: I'm right here! I said I'm right here! Didn't you hear me?! You can rob me! You can take everything from me! I mean it!! I don't even want to be here! I don't want to be here anymore!

Morgan: I feel it. Everything I've been through and everything you've been through. Ain't we due a break?

Morgan: You'll die.
Grace: I know. And I'm okay with that.
Morgan: You're okay with it?
Grace: I didn't want any of this, Morgan. I knew what it was gonna be like. I knew how hard it would be, how it would all probably end in the same place, but take longer and be a hell of a lot more painful.

Morgan: Maybe you're right. But this thing I wanted to build was just something close to what I once had. I'm not even talking much. I'm talking about sitting at a table with the woman I love, sharing a meal and getting angry at our kid because he's reading comics instead of talking to us.
Grace: And I'm telling you that might not be possible.

Morgan: Maybe we're just trying too hard. Reaching for too much. We are trying so hard to fix ourselves, can't even recognize that it might be alright just to be a little bit broken.

Morgan: She's crawling. We're gonna have to baby-proof a whole submarine.

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Downton Abbey 3×7

Downton Abbey 3×7

Isobel Crawley: So you don't think I should have given Ethel a second chance?
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I do not criticize your motives, but did you really consider? Ethel is notorious in the village.
Isobel Crawley: I don't think so.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I know so. You have surrounded this house with a miasma of scandal and touched all of us by association.
Isobel Crawley: I think one must fight for one's beliefs.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: And is poor Ethel to be the cudgel by which you fight your foes?

Lady Mary Crawley: Weren't you going to tell us?
Tom Branson: You and Matthew. I didn't think the others would want to know.
Lady Mary Crawley: Please give them a chance to behave properly.

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Mama, talk to her. Talk to all of them. Say something sensible.
Lady Edith Crawley: Yes, let's hear how a woman's place is in the home.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I do think a woman's place is eventually in the home, but I see no harm in her having some fun before she gets there.
Lady Edith Crawley: Oh, Granny! Thank you!
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Have you changed your pills?

Lady Mary Crawley: What do you think, Tom?
Tom Branson: I agree with Matthew. The estate can offer proper compensation to the tenants now while the money's there, but if we miss this chance, it may not come again.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: So says the Marxist.
Tom Branson: If you don't mind me saying so, you have a narrow view of socialism.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: You seem to have a very broad interpretation of it.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Now, now, children. If Branson is watering down his revolutionary fervor, let us give thanks. Tom. Do you know anything about farming, Tom?

Mr. Jarvis: I am the old broom, Mr. Crawley. You are the new. I wish you luck with your sweeping. My lord.

Mrs. Hughes: I know. You always said he would bring shame on this house...
Mr. Carson: No, Mrs. Hughes. For once, I will hold my tongue. I thought Mr. Branson's respect for her ladyship's invitation exemplary.
Mrs. Hughes: Well... "Mister" Branson's done something right for a change. Miracles can happen.

Lady Edith Crawley: Listen, everyone. You have a journalist in the family.
Matthew Crawley: Well done.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Since we have a country solicitor and a car mechanic, it's only a matter of time.

Mr. Carson: I don't understand what you're saying. Thomas was doing what?

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: I'll do it on one condition. No, two. First, Matthew must agree.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: He will.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Second, you will both admit it when you realize you were wrong.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Oh, well, that is an easy caveat to accept because I'm never wrong.

Mrs. Hughes: Mr. Barrow looks very grim-faced...
Mr. Carson: Never mind him. Human nature's a funny business, isn't it?
Mrs. Hughes: Now why didn't the poets come to you, Mr. Carson? They'd have saved themselves a lot of time and trouble.

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Magical Bird #2

Atypical 4×8

Sam: First, seat belt. Secure, but not painful. Good amount of give. Next, mirrors. Paige says mirrors are useless, but I believe she's wrong. Now I will start the car to check temperature and sound.
Casey: Ugh!
Sam: And finally, I will review a few rules of the road.
Casey: No.
Sam: My manual!
Casey: Stop getting ready to drive and just drive.

Casey: Oh my God, you are so annoying.
Sam: In preparation for this, I got very familiar with Connecticut driving laws. You're doing it all wrong.
Casey: At least I have my eyes open.
Sam: That's probably the only thing you do better than I would.

Elsa: So I have a lot of nervous energy today, and I figure our choices are get into a big fight or do something fun. So do you wanna have a date?

Sam: I've never carried a dog before. I'm not sure how it will feel.
Casey: They're warm and squirmy. But, hey, you might have to carry one of your sled dogs someday, if one of them gets tired.
Sam: I suppose that's true.

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Виктор Пелевин — Homo Overclocked

TRANSHUMANISM INC

<< МИТИНА ЛЮБОВЬ

  “Зеркальный секретарь бро кукуратора стоял на заснеженном холме, кутаясь в овчинный полушубок. ...

&  – Интерфейс предельно простой, если вы уже посмотрели меморолик. Стреляете кнопкой «ПСК».

&  – Я же не дурак, – сказал кукуратор. – Понимаю. Думаю, до стрельбы по банкам не дойдет. Но партнеры должны знать, что мы в любой момент можем. Благодарю за службу, братцы-кролики!
     Услышать такое от вождя было для сердоболов высшей честью – кукуратор не бросался древним партийным обращением просто так. На лицах военных проступило умиление. Кажется, блеснула даже слеза или две.

&  Как там у Шарабан-Мухлюева в «Дневнике не для печати»? Все проблемы в семье возникают оттого, что бабы помнят много слов, но не понимают, что это такое и как ими пользоваться. Бабе достаточно знать несколько существительных и два-три глагола, но их она должна понимать хорошо и до конца…

&  – В вашем личном, мой друг, нет ничего личного. Все, что вы считаете «своим» – это обрывки чужих историй, собранные вместе вашим мозгом… Даже атомы, из которых вы сделаны – редкие потаскушки. Вы и представить себе не можете, где и с кем они блудили последние десять миллиардов лет.

  ... И тогда, сжавшись от гнева, боли и ужаса в клуб багрового огня, он развернулся в потоке причин и следствий и начал новое низвержение к узким и слепым человеческим смыслам – чтобы хоть на время забыть все то, что понял минуту назад.”

Home Again (2017)

Lillian: Look, just for a month or so.
Alice: A month?!
Lillian: Okay, a week, whatever. If it doesn't work out, sayonara. But, just try looking at this as something that could be sort of exciting.

Alice: This is definitely not an after party and crash on the couch type of place. This is more of a market list on the fridge, Latin homework after school, dinner at 6:00 kind of house. And I know that's not the coolest stomping grounds for a bunch of starving artists like yourselves, but let's just do our best not to cramp each other's style.

Alice: I tried to hold it together. I really, really did, so hard. But, you know, God, you make a decision about your life when you're 25 years old and then you fast forward 15 years later and you think, God, was that really the life decision that's, like, a good life decision for the rest of your life'? Then you're just, like, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. You know?

Tracy: Hold on a minute. So I think you're telling me, that you have free live-in childcare, full-time tech support and sex?
Alice: I can't complain.

Harry: You're a little in love with Alice. And you're mad at me because of it. You and I have been down this road before.
George: Okay, I am not in love with her, okay? I just love a lot of things about her, like her face and her personality.

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Snoopin' Around and the Wonder Twins of Atheism

Young Sheldon 5×2

Adult Sheldon: Sundays were not my favorite day. In fact, the only light at the end of the tunnel was the wry musings of Andy Rooney at the end of 60 Minutes.
Andy Rooney: Noise is sound you don't want to hear. And of course, one person's sound is another person's noise.
Sheldon: So wry...

Pastor Jeff: Back to Moses. He was found by Pharaoh's daughter and went on to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, because even when you feel lost, God has a plan for us all.
Missy: What was his plan for the male babies who didn't get rescued?
Pastor Jeff: It's tough to say.
Sheldon: There was a decree to throw them in the river.
Missy: Innocent babies?
Billy: That is not cool.
Pastor Jeff: That was Pharaoh, that was not God.
Sheldon: But according to you, it's all part of God's plan. How do you sleep at night?

Pastor Jeff: Okay, we're gonna revisit getting me some help with Sunday school.
Mary: I am ready, willing, and...
Pastor Jeff: Nope. I want someone who can really connect with the kids.
Mary: But connecting with the kids is what I do!
Peggy: What planet are you on?

Connie: Thank God you were with him.
Brenda: Well, I-I wouldn't say I was "with him."
Connie: You weren't?
Brenda: I was there, and he was there, and other people were there...

Missy: She's jealous.
Sheldon: You know it's bad when I can see it.

Missy: Do you believe in God?
Georgie: Yeah.
Missy: But in the Bible, he does all kinds of mean stuff. If he's good, why would he do that?
Georgie: Maybe he just wants to show he's in charge. Hulk Hogan's nice, but in the ring, he will mess you up.
Missy: That's either really smart or really stupid.
Georgie: That's what I do.

Missy: Do you ever wonder if it's all made-up?
Georgie: Look, this is Texas. We like football. We like God. And beef. Beef's up there, too.
Missy: But how do you know there's a God?
Georgie: See that girl dancing in them shorts?... There's a God.

Missy: I was hoping we could talk about atheism... What's it like to not believe in God?
Sheldon: It's great. Big fan.
Missy: Are you ever afraid you're wrong?
Sheldon: About religion? Never. About other things? Also never.
Missy: I don't know. It seems a little scary to just stop believing.
Sheldon: Well, is it more comforting to believe in a God who could flood the world and kill everyone because he had a bad day?
Missy: That's a good point. But doesn't it upset people when you say you don't believe?
Sheldon: Oh, yeah.
Missy: And that doesn't bother you?
Sheldon: Does it bother you when you upset people?
Missy: I couldn't care less.
Sheldon: Welcome to atheism.

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The Starling (2021)

Dr. Larry Fine: Are you familiar with stage three of the grieving process?
Lilly Maynard: I'm assuming that follows stage two?
Dr. Larry Fine: Not, uh, necessarily. But generally. Uh, it's "bargaining and anger." Nobody ever talked to you about this?
Lilly Maynard: Nope. What comes after that?
Dr. Larry Fine: Depression.
Lilly Maynard: Great. I can't wait.
Dr. Larry Fine: Mmm, you might not have to wait too long.
Lilly Maynard: Jeez.

Dr. Larry Fine: What... What did the bird look like?
Lilly Maynard: Um, I don't know. Dark, wings.
Dr. Larry Fine: That... that narrows it down.

Lilly Maynard: Is this how it works?
Dr. Larry Fine: How what works?
Lilly Maynard: This.
Dr. Larry Fine: Oh, you think... No, no, no. If we were doing that, I'd just say, "Sorry our time is up. Take this pill."

Dr. Larry Fine: You know, sometimes we push people away just to see if they'll come back.
Lilly Maynard: Yeah?
Dr. Larry Fine: Maybe it'll be better this time.
Lilly Maynard: You think?
Dr. Larry Fine: Maybe.

Dr. Larry Fine: You... You want some kind of answer? You want me to say everything's gonna be okay?
Lilly Maynard: Yeah. Yeah, Larry. I... Answers are good. People want answers.
Dr. Larry Fine: I don't have the answers. I never did. I just talked. And the moment I figured that out, I quit and stopped pretending.

Dr. Larry Fine: The problem in dealing with a territorial creature, such as a starling, is that people begin to take it personally. I... I don't think the laws of nature are intrinsically right or wrong, until you're faced with something that's just so... inexplicable, so randomly cruel. And you... try to find a reason for it. And when you can't find any, I... I guess that's when it starts to get pretty personal.

Lilly Maynard: Some things are just out of our control. And the sooner you figure out what they are, the faster you can let them go.

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Channel the Cat

Atypical 4×7

Sam: But she's awful!
Zahid: I know. But ever since I found out about my love lump, I'm all about the Gretch. It's like my junk has taken over. I'm not even the one that called her. My dong dialed the phone, Sam. It wasn't a butt dial. It was a... a nut dial.
Sam: I doubt that.

Zahid: Anyhoo, you got nothing to worry about, brother. This time around, me and Gretch are purely sexual. We're just two mutually-consenting alphas sport-grinding our way through the Kama Sutra. It's like a bucket list for my balls.

Sam: You're acting like Robert Falcon Scott.
Zahid: Thank you?
Sam: You're not welcome. Successful explorers plan and take precautions, but Robert Falcon Scott just wanted to be macho. So he tried to cross Antarctica by man-hauling.
Zahid: What is that?
Sam: It means he and his crew carried all of their equipment and supplies instead of using dogs. They got so tired, they died.

Sam: No, I know I can draw something ugly. I just need to concentrate, even though that's gonna be even harder now that my girlfriend wants to ramp up our sex life.
Sid: Well, there's your problem. You can't channel the cat because you're too worried about the puss.
Sam: What?
Sid: Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Mozart. All the greats swore off sex to maximize artistic output.

Paige: No, we don't have dysfunction. I just wanted to liven things up a teeny tiny bit.
Gretchen: Oh, Paige, you're so dumb.
Paige: Excuse me?!
Gretchen: Look, if you wanna knock more boots, you just gotta figure out your guy's kink.
Paige: His what?

Gretchen: Okay, so... Guys are like animals, and not even smart ones like dolphins. So you just gotta figure out what makes them tick. Like, Zahid is super visual. Watch and learn... Three, two, one.
Zahid: Madam. I require your attendance in the boudoir.
Paige: So, we've all seen my butt.

Elsa: It's just so scary. It's terrifying to see your kids go out into the world.
Lillian: But how much scarier would it be if they didn't?

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Виктор Пелевин — Митина любовь

TRANSHUMANISM INC

КОШЕЧКА <<

  “В юности Дима занимался нейропрограммированием. ...

&  В буфете он ударял по ликерам с пирожными – сахарная наркомания почему-то не преследуется, хотя куда вреднее множества незаконных привычек.

&  По закону холопы должны были постоянно ходить в масках вне зависимости от эпидемиологической обстановки. Сами холопы не болели, но бессимптомно разносили вирусы, награждая ими хозяев. Или тоже болели, просто не жаловались.
     Дмитрий, впрочем, предполагал, что обязательные маски ввели не из-за вирусов. Глядеть на улыбающееся лицо холопа было головокружительно – когда Дмитрий следил через камеру за хелперами, жрущими в стойле из корыта, его сердце замирало.
     Молодые холопы походили на здоровых людей. Кожу десятилетних, близких к сроку утилизации, покрывала экзема и язвы. Но лица холопов были абсолютно счастливы и расслаблены, а глаза… Они сияли таким внутренним светом, такой невозможной любовью ко всему вокруг, что становилось почти больно.

&  … И перестанет наконец испытывать непрерывное омерзение от трения органов чувств о мир.

&  Корневые программы были испорчены, но сам кристалл был функционален. Обычный хелперский чип, возвращенный хозяину после снятия с гарантии из-за нарушения протокола. Можно было бы принять это за утонченную форму издевательства, но Дмитрий знал, что жизнь проще – бесплатно она не издевается ни над кем.

  ... И, подпрыгивая от радостного предчувствия, он отпер ворота и повел их за собой – к реке, к трубе гиперкурьера, где за рваной сеткой всего через час открывалась секретная Дверь.”

>> HOMO OVERCLOCKED

Take Me to Your Leader

American Horror Story. Double Feature: Death Valley

10×7

Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower: No, it's just a little question I have. So why is it I can land 150,000 soldiers in Normandy... But I can't put one lousy ball in one lousy hole? I'd give anything for that answer.

Mamie Eisenhower: One year in office, and you still can't lie to save your life. I suppose I should be proud of you.

Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower: And those marks on your body, how did you get those?
Amelia Earhart: Needles.
Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower: Needles?
Amelia Earhart: Needles. I don't like needles. I don't trust them, but they insisted. They said that it was important, that it wouldn't hurt, but it did. Sometimes they took my blood; sometimes they... Put things inside me.
Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower: Who?... Amelia, who did this to you?
Amelia Earhart: Where am I?

Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower: My name is Dwight Eisenhower, and I'm the President of the United States.
Amelia Earhart: You're a liar. Franklin Roosevelt is president. What am I doing here?

Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower: Whatever it is that you want, I'm sure we can come to an understanding. Reach an agreement. I have the power to do that. I'm the President of the United States. And this world, it's been trying to destroy itself for as long as I can remember, and we don't need any more help, so I'm asking you, stop the killing and just listen to me.
'Maria Wycoff': Mr. President, it is you who will listen to us.

Kendall Carr: Do you feel that? That tension that comes up inside when you think about putting your phones away? It's called "nomophobia", as in "no mobile phone phobia".

Kendall Carr: I joined the Luddite Club at Harvard. I'm cured of the curse of technology... I was taking a class called 50 Years of Technology, all about how the human race has had more technological advances in the last 50 years than in the previous 20,000 combined.

— To a Luddite summer!

Kendall Carr: Alien abductions.
Jamie Howard: Pfft.
Kendall Carr: Don't give me that look. When all reasonable explanations have been eliminated...
Jamie Howard: You decide it's aliens? Hmm? There has to be a rational explanation for this.

Jamie Howard: This is so dumb. Men can't get pregnant!

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The Beacon

Fear the Walking Dead 7×1

Victor: Magnificent, isn't it? Belonged to George Hockley, friend to Sam Houston, commander of the Twin Sisters. The sword dates back to the War of 1812. Turn around. Slowly.
Will: Who the hell are you?
Victor: My name is Victor Strand. And, uh, who might you be?

Will: Is this some kind of trick?
Victor: You've been bathed, given a meal and a drink. What trick?

Victor: Who are they?
Will: There's no faces out there anymore. It's just masks.

Victor: I have everything I need right here... Everything you see, everything we've cultivated, came together after the great destruction. The world saw fire, ash, devastation. We were gifted with growth, vitality, a new dawn.

Victor: We looked out on the horizon together and watched as the world was destroyed before our eyes. We thought it was the end. But when the dust settled, we were still standing.

Howard: What we're doing is nothing less than laying the foundations of a new civilization. We're making history.

Will: How?
Victor: Same way I ended up here. My instincts.
Will: You sound pretty sure of yourself.
Victor: If you'd seen your instincts bear out the way I have, you would, too.

Victor: Do we have a deal? Good. Get me my sword.

Will: You don't have to worry about the ones that were killed by the blast. It's the ones that died from radiation are dangerous.

Victor: Success is the best revenge, Will.
Will: Come again?
Victor: Don't spend a moment trying to make things right. Focus on showing them that they were wrong.
Will: Why would I want to do that?
Victor: Because that's how you win.

Victor: History is written by the victors. I'm gonna ensure that's us.

Will: She's better off without you. Everyone is.

Victor: You said you can't lead alone. You're wrong. It's the only way.
Will: That's not true.
Victor: It is. I've watched as others tried to build a place like this, and each of them came close, but they all fell short for the same reason.
Will: What?
Victor: Love. Attachments don't make you strong, Will. They destroy you.

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Downton Abbey 3×6

Downton Abbey 3×6

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: You're both very welcome to stay for some dinner.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I don't think so. Grief makes one so terribly tired.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Good-bye, my dear. Now that it's over, try to get some rest.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Is it over? When one loses a child, is it ever really over?

Joseph Molesley: Cheer up, Mr. Barrow. Along face won't solve anything.

Isobel Crawley: No, there's no need to cook. Just fetch some ham from Mr. Bakewell and make a light salad. You can't go wrong with that, and Lady Grantham won't want more.
Ethel Parks: I'd like to make a bit of an effort. To show our sympathies.
Isobel Crawley: It's a nice idea, Ethel, but I'd like to keep it safe.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Robert, people like us are never unhappily married.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: What do we do if we are?
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Well, in those moments, a couple is "unable to see as much of each other as they would like."

Mrs. Patmore: You know the trouble with you lot? You're all in love with the wrong people.

Dr. Clarkson: So you want me to lie to them and say there was no chance at all?
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: "Lie"... is so unmusical a word. I want you to review the evidence honestly and without bias.

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: What I care about is that you have exposed my family to scandal!
Isobel Crawley: But who would know?
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: I can't tell you how people find out these things, but they do. Your gardener, your kitchen maid, your...

Mr. Carson: He went down there and told them and none of them came away.
Mrs. Hughes: Not even the Dowager? My, my. Perhaps the world is becoming a kinder place...
Mr. Carson: You say kinder. I say weaker and less disciplined.

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Are You in Fair Health?

Atypical 4×6

Sam: In 1912, explorer Titus Oates told Robert Falcon Scott he was going outside for a little walk. He was never seen again.
     In 1982, three British scientists left Faraday Station for a day hike across the sea ice to a nearby island, but a storm blew through and broke up the ice. They never made it back.
     So many people went missing in Antarctica, they made a new rule. Anytime you go anywhere, you have to fill out a form so they know if you don't show up.
     Even though it's still dangerous to take a walk in Antarctica, thanks to the new protocol, there's always someone looking out for you.
     It may not seem like a big deal to know someone's keeping tabs on you, but it makes disappearing into icy nothingness a bit less scary.

Doug: Well, I'm thinking Thursday we're gonna drive up to Bear Mountain. It's about a six-mile loop. It's really pretty up there.
Casey: Great. I'll die in nature.

Casey: She's fun, right?
Elsa: Yeah, I like her. ... I do not like her. Everything's about her, and everything she says is subtly sort of mean. Like, it seems benign, but after, you feel bad.
Doug: Mm. Sounds like your mother...

Ashley: Does he require daily care?
Sam: Yes.
Ashley: Cleaning?
Sam: Yes.
Ashley: Love?
Sam: Yes.
Ashley: Not my jam.

Casey: Okay, I'm gonna keep running.
Sam: I'm gonna keep sitting.

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Виктор Пелевин — Кошечка

TRANSHUMANISM INC

БРО КУКУРАТОР <<

  “Миу была аккуратной, скромной и милой кошечкой – темно-серенькой и такой миниатюрной, что издалека казалась котенком. ...

&  – «Лимбическая система нашего мозга – так называемый мозг палеомлекопитающих – расположена между рептильным мозгом и неокортексом. Если вы живете в физическом теле, эта зона отвечает за ваше выживание. Если вы убегаете, прячетесь, сражаетесь, едите, пьете или занимаетесь сексом – действует лимбическая система. Все ваши эмоции возникают именно здесь. Большая часть удовольствий – тоже. Если говорить просто, когда вы делаете что-то такое, что может делать ваша кошка, процессом управляет лимбическая система… А теперь скажите – разве в годы вашей земной жизни вам не приходило в голову, что ваша кошка куда счастливее вас? Если нет, то другим людям это приходит в голову уже много сотен лет. Если не тысяч…»
     Адвокат увеличил рисунок-мем с пародией на программный граф. От вопроса «Я котик?» расходились две стрелки с надписями «Да» и «Нет». Под стрелкой «Да» был оператор «Покушаем и спать». Под стрелкой «Нет» – оператор «Кисдуем на работу».
     – «Многие верят, – продолжил чтение синий фрак, – что мы разучились получать от жизни простые животные радости, подчинившись диктату неокортекса и связанной с ним второй сигнальной системы. Слова дали нам власть над миром – но заперли нас в тюрьму концепций… В этом и заключен смысл библейской метафоры изгнания из рая… Понтий Пилат спрашивал: «Что есть истина?» Ответ на вопрос гораздо проще, чем думали древние мудрецы. Все, что возникает в первой сигнальной системе – истина. Ложь существует только во второй… Некоторые даже утверждают, что там одна только ложь…»

  ... А потом ветер донес до Миу чарующий аромат тестикул Мельхиора, сердце прыгнуло в груди, и последние остатки колдовской желтой вони развеялись в весеннем воздухе без следа.”

>> МИТИНА ЛЮБОВЬ

The Green Knight (2021)

King: Remember, it is only a game.

Gawain: And if death awaits me?
King: Oh, I do not know of any man who has not marched up to greet death before his time.

Gawain: Why are you holding me to this light?
King: Is it wrong to want greatness for you?
Gawain: I fear I am not meant for greatness.

Essel: I like your head better where it is.
Gawain: I gave my word. I made a covenant.
Essel: This is how silly men perish.
Gawain: Or how brave men become great.
Essel: Why greatness? Why is goodness not enough?

Gawain: My lady. Are you real, or are you a spirit?
Winifred: What is the difference? I just need my head.
Gawain: As will I before the year is out.

Gawain: If I go in there and find it, what would you offer me in exchange?
Winifred: Why would you ask me that? Why would you ever ask me that?

The Lord: You are at the end of your quest, Gawain. A little sooner than you expected, perhaps. But such is the case for us all.

The Lord: Have you ever seen a hawk kill a horse? Just swoop down and... Phew. It's terrible. Every man should see it at least once. But that is the world. And the world is fit for all manner of mysteries. A man's home, though, should be safe from all that. One wall joined with another, line and plumb. Good, strong walls, and a fire within.

The Lord: And what do you hope to gain from facing all of this... this hue?
Gawain: Honor?
The Lord: Are you asking me?
Gawain: No. Honor. That is why a knight does what he does.
The Lord: And this is what you want most in life?
Gawain: To be a knight.
The Lord: No, honor. You are not very good with questions.
Gawain: It is part of the life I want.
The Lord: And this is all it takes for that part to be had? You'll do this one thing, you return home a changed man, an honorable man? Just like that?
Gawain: Yes.
The Lord: Hmm. Oh, I wish I could see the new you. But perhaps we will miss our old friend and our fun and our games.

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The One with Joey's Award

Friends 7×18

Phoebe: I just like him so much that I just feel like I've had 10 drinks today. And I've only had six.
Monica: Oh. You know, I haven't had that feeling since I first starting going out with Chandler. Wow, I'm never gonna have that feeling again.
Phoebe: You sound like a guy.
Monica: Heh. No, a guy would say, "I'm never gonna get to sleep with anyone else." Heh.
Monica: Oh, my God. I'm never gonna sleep with anyone else!

Monica: I've been so busy planning the wedding, I forgot about all the things I'd be giving up. I mean, I'm never gonna have a first kiss again.
Phoebe: You'll have a last kiss.

Ross: Can I ask you something? You ever had a guy have a crush on you?
Joey: Is that why you wanted to tie my tie?

Rachel: Now, Joey, remember, if you win, you have to hug me.
Joey: Okay. Can I squeeze your ass?
Rachel: On TV?
Joey: Yeah.
Rachel: Yeah...
Joey: Okay.

Rachel: Oh, my God. You stole her award!
Joey: No, no, no. I'm accepting it on her behalf.
Rachel: I don't think you know what "behalf" means.
Joey: Sure I do. It's a verb. As in "I be half-in' it"!

Monica: I love you so much. Just... It's just sometimes it bothers me that I'm never gonna have that feeling. When you first meet someone for the first time... and it's new and exciting. You know that rush?
Chandler: No. No, see, when I first meet somebody... it's mostly panic, anxiety and a great deal of sweating.
Monica: Okay, but... All right, you're a guy. Does it not freak you out that you're never gonna sleep with anybody else?
Chandler: Sleeping with somebody, no. Anxiety, panic and I'm afraid even more sweating.
Monica: Even with me?
Chandler: I was dangerously dehydrated during the first six months of our relationship.

Monica: Come here. Oh, sweetie, you don't have to worry. No. Besides, you know what? I'm gonna have a lot of new things with you. The first time we buy a house, our first kid, our first grandkid...
Chandler: Water. Water. Water.

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Home for the Holidays (1995)

Claudia Larson: I really wish you were going to be there, kiddo, because, because I am sick as a dog, and I made out with my boss, and Kitt's gonna have sex with a teenager, and then I got fired, or the other way around. Whatever. Oh, my god. I cannot believe I have said this to a machi… I hate machines. Please get rid of this tape. It's nothing. It's absolutely no big deal. I'm fine.

Henry Larson: Dear lord, we realize just that lately everything's changing too damn fast, and all sorts of things are always the same, even things we hated, like shoveling the turkey, and stuffing the snow, and going through the same crap year in and year out.
Adele Larson: Honey, food's getting cold.
Henry Larson: As I was saying, dear lord, before my wife interrupted me, gimme those old-fashioned, pain-in-the-ass traditions, like Thanksgiving, which really means something to us even though god damn it, we couldn't tell you what it is, are starting to stop, and 1,000-year-old trees are falling over dead, and they shouldn't. That's all from this end. Amen.

Henry Larson: I know how you feel.
Joanne Wedman: You don't know how I feel, and, in my opinion, you don't even care.
Henry Larson: Well, opinions are like assholes, honey. Everybody's got one and everybody thinks everybody else's stinks.

Claudia Larson: You okay? You look, you look okay.
Adele Larson: It's all relative.
Claudia Larson: Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. You know that. It's what the day's supposed to be all about, right? Torture.
Adele Larson: That and giving thanks that we don't have to go through this for another year, except we do, 'cause those bastards went and put Christmas right in the middle, just to punish us.

Tommy Larson: Mom, wait, wait, wait!
Adele Larson: What, what, what?
Tommy Larson: Enough! You're a pain in my ass, you got bad hair, but I like you a lot.
Adele Larson: Well, you know me. I can't change.
Tommy Larson: Believe me… Neither can I, Ma.

Claudia Larson: We don't have to like each other, Jo. We're family.

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One Bad Night and Chaos of Selfish Desires

Young Sheldon 5×1

Sheldon: As we've established, woods: very scary, me: very scared.

Missy: We licked the same Ring Pop once! It's like it meant nothing.

Connie: Geez. Less monkey, more Clint.

Meemaw: Good news. Your dad's doing okay and should be home in a couple of days.
Missy: Thank God.
Sheldon: Thank modern medicine.

Adult Sheldon: Mother had instructed us to let father relax. And what could be more relaxing than a spirited discussion of societal rules and morality?

George: What's up?
Sheldon: I'm struggling with an ethical crisis.
George: Be a kid. Quit struggling.

Sheldon: Missy and I broke a lot of rules the other night, and we've received no punishment.
George: Buddy, it's been a rough week. We're just glad you're both safe.
Sheldon: But in the absence of a divine being, society's rules are what keeps a person's morality in check.
George: Well, there you go.
Sheldon: No, y-you're not following me. If actions have no repercussions, society breaks down, everything devolves into chaos.
George: You might be overthinking this.
Sheldon: I thought so, too. Then I thought about it, and I'm not.

George: Sheldon, you had one bad night. Just let it go.
Sheldon: But... I did something wrong and I got away with it. That's not okay.
George: Buddy...
Sheldon: Socrates maintained that the man who lies to himself has an enemy living within. He's not even a person. He's just a chaos of selfish desires wrapped in an animal hide.

Meemaw: Oh, moral quandaries. I hate those. Shoot.
Sheldon: You're the least moral person I know... How do you live with yourself?
Meemaw: I'm about to shut this door in your face.

Sheldon: I did something wrong, and yet I've received no punishment. What's my incentive to behave morally if the rules of society aren't being enforced?
Dr. Sturgis: Reminds me of the Ring of Gyges.
Sheldon: I'm not familiar with the Ring of Gyges.
Dr. Sturgis: Oh, it's a delightful brainteaser. Plato asked the question: If you could wear a ring that made you invisible, what would prevent you from committing the most horrendous crimes?
Sheldon: Sounds an awful lot like the Ring of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings.
Dr. Sturgis: Oh. I'm not familiar with The Lord of the Rings.
Sheldon: Oh, it's a delightful series of fantasy books in which there's a ring that makes the wearer invisible but also leads to moral corruption.
Dr. Sturgis: Ooh. Perhaps you should read Plato, and I should read The Lord of the Rings.
Sheldon: You should really start with The Hobbit.
Dr. Sturgis: What's a hobbit?
Sheldon: It's a race of short humanoids who live in burrows and have hairy feet.
Dr. Sturgis: Oh. I've been called that. But I never knew what it was.

Adult Sheldon: In the face of a chaotic world, we all seek comfort in different ways. Some turn to a higher power... Some take refuge in fictitious worlds... And one person I know relied on lighter fluid and a match.
Missy: That's right, burn.

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Victory Smoke

Billions 5×11

Wendy Rhoades: You just see an angle...
Rhoades, Sr.: So I have to play it.
Wendy Rhoades: What do you want?
Rhoades, Sr.: I want... to be 20 years younger. I'll take money and power.

Wendy Rhoades: Can we just skip the middle stages of this negotiation, please?
Rhoades, Sr.: Meaningful profit share... But I'll-I'll be honest with you. I feel less good about all this now. And that's not posturing. It's one thing to go against your own son. But when it's with his ex, and mortal enemy...
Wendy Rhoades: Well, knowing you as I do, I imagine when I get you your profit share, this goes away.
Rhoades, Sr.: Yeah... Knowing me as you do, I'd think so too.

Chelsea: Are you sure you're ready?
Mike Wagner 'Wags': "I'm ready for anything" is basically my first, middle and last name.
Chelsea: Even meeting my father? Most guys don't want to.
Mike Wagner 'Wags': Right. The dad dinner. Sure.

Mike Wagner 'Wags': I'll look him in the eye, give him a firm handshake, and assure him my intentions are honourable.
Chelsea: He'll see right through that act. He's a lawyer, so he's spent his life slicing through bullshit artists. He can look at people and know what's really inside of them. He's self-made. Tough.
Mike Wagner 'Wags': Chuck Norris tough or Guido the killer pimp?
Chelsea: See, he'll get that reference, probably, and know if it's good.
Mike Wagner 'Wags': So I earn his respect by going toe to toe. Like a fighter.
Chelsea: No, kiss his ass. But do it well.
Mike Wagner 'Wags': Ah. Trombone blown, Tom Byron-style. You got it.
Chelsea: Another reference I don't... The important thing is he will.

Karl Allerd: The thing about arguments before SCOTUS is they are never about what they're purported to be about. Neither are the opinions or dissents, but everyone just presses forward.

Dollar Bill: Are those them?
Mike Wagner 'Wags': These... are the Glengarry leads. But do not try to steal them. They will be handed out to closers, which, unlike Dave Moss and Charlie Levine, you will be because Axe is.

Mafee: Give me one of those, I'll light it up right here, deal with the smoke alarms and fines later.
Mike Wagner 'Wags': We'll smoke them when Red Auerbach did: The moment victory is in hand, when our bank is solvent, not when the game is still in doubt.

Chuck Rhoades: You can't really say you're playing unless you're willing to put your highest-value pieces on the board.
Mike Prince: They're not pieces. They're my children. My first charge in this world is to protect them, not set them off like flashbang grenades.
Chuck Rhoades: You are protecting them. Better, you're arming them to protect themselves.
Mike Prince: Yes, a consequence of this action might be that they become wary, less open. That may be of some benefit in business. But I'm not doing this as a teaching tool. I'm doing it for my own aims and that is too bitter a lesson.
Chuck Rhoades: You can't safeguard your kids from pain. But you can protect them from evil. And we both know that's what Axe is. And that's what a world is that bows before him. They're how he knows you're serious. And that it hurts you to use them... that's why you're the man you are.

Kate Sacker: Excuse me. I have to go.
Chuck Rhoades: Ms. Sacker?
Kate Sacker: It's nothing.
Chuck Rhoades: Is that right? Why don't you fill me in on the exact brand of nothing?

Chuck Rhoades: You gotta let him dangle.
Kate Sacker: Chuck...
Chuck Rhoades: Whole operation gets blown if one piece gets out of order.
Kate Sacker: Shit!

Wendy Rhoades: It's not fucking time!
Ben Kim: That's what Wags said at first, but then he passed them out to us.
Wendy Rhoades: Because we won a round. Back in your pockets. You can hold on to 'em now but don't smoke 'em till Axe gives the word.

Bobby Axelrod: You ever been to Fiji?.... The ocean there's the exact same temperature as the air. And so when you walk into the water, you don't even feel it.
Wendy Rhoades: Fiji sounds...
Bobby Axelrod: Yeah. As soon as I get a clean bill of health. But first, victory smokes.

Kate Sacker: ... As to why I need this done? Family shit.
Mary Ann Gramm: I thank God every day I grew up medium-poor. The ones with the Tiffany rattles could never stop warring with their own.
Kate Sacker: Hmm. You know nothing about how I grew up. Yeah, we had some money. But I had to prove that I deserved my spot in the world every single day, much as you did in a different way. You don't go into the justice business because it's a fair world, you do it because you want to make it one.

Kate Sacker: I helped sell it...
Chuck Rhoades: You may be right. But don't act like that's why you did it.
Kate Sacker: We don't all enjoy sending our fathers to the wolves.
Chuck Rhoades: We don't. But we do it, because we not only accomplish whatever we were after, we get the thing they wouldn't give us any other way... respect.

Mike Prince: I've heard many times about Axe, the thought leader, the man ahead of the curve, doing his own thing. I don't know if he ever existed, but I haven't seen him. The Axe I'm acquainted with is a pirate, or in the lingua franca of your beloved New York streets, a goniff. You tried to steal from me again. It didn't work. .... And you know what you wound up with? Nothing in your hand but moonlight.
Bobby Axelrod: I have strings attached to all of my fingers. When I yank 'em, you are gonna shake, rattle, and shit yourself.

Rian: I can't sit on this if I wanna keep working here. And I think I want to keep working here. But if I talk about it, maybe I can't work here anyway. What type of a paradox is that?
Wendy Rhoades: One that probably only gets better if you take a deep breath... and actually tell me.

Rian: I don't wanna work in a place with secrets, lies, backstabbing, side-stabbing, any stabbing.
Wendy Rhoades: Understandable. So I know how best to handle this. Are you confiding it to me in session or are you reporting to me as your boss at Mase Carbon?
Rian: Whoa. You have made your life very complicated. I'm trying to make mine less so by offloading this. So... good luck with all of that.

Mike Wagner 'Wags': I get it... If you and Axe are gonna have another kind of thing, you need to make peace with who he is and stop trying to change him. Is that what's going on? Have you made that peace?

Taylor Mason: I want to believe the best of you because that's the kind of world I want to live in.

Mike Wagner 'Wags': Every great love story springs from the forbidden... comes true against all obstacles of good family and good taste because sometimes a heart finds another heart it needs to be with.

Taylor Mason: Axe swallowed it. He actually closed on that money.
Kate Sacker: Didn't do his own due diligence, just accepted Prince's and took it down like sushi laced with polonium.
Chuck Rhoades: Wouldn't have happened without the efforts of everyone in this room.
Mike Prince: Or without great personal cost.
Chuck Rhoades: As all great triumphs require.

Mafee: God, it just feels like old times. You know, there's been so much shit, so much bad blood. But a pure win like this, after all we've been through? Fuck, I miss these days.

Ari Spyros: The estimable Zino Davidoff once said, "A cigar ought not to be smoked solely with the mouth, but with the hand, with the eyes, with the spirit."
Dollar Bill: Oh, Jesus.
Ben Kim: Wow.
Ari Spyros: I believe a good cigar and glass of wine and a good conversation is as close to euphoria as one can get. In a legal sense.
Mafee: Davidoff again?
Ari Spyros: Sly Stallone.
Tuk: Are these going to your head? They're going to my head.
Ben Kim: You're smoking a little fast.
Tuk: I'm excited.

Mike Wagner 'Wags': What do you want us to do?
Bobby Axelrod: I have no fucking idea.

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The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress

Friends 7×17

Chandler: You want me to call?
Monica: No. I'll do it. You stick to your job.
Phoebe: What is your job?
Chandler: Staying out of the way.

Ross: Well, obviously, only one of us can keep dating her.
Joey: Obviously. So how do we decide?
Ross: Well now, let's look at this objectively... I think I should date her.
Joey: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Or I'm the one who dates her.
Ross: That's interesting. But check this out. I date her.
Joey: Yeah, I like that. But just to go in another direction...
Ross: Okay. This can go on for a while.
Joey: We should order some food then.

Kristen: Is your back feeling better?
Ross: Yeah, it's fine. I guess, ahem, the more muscles you have... the more they can spasm out of control.

Ross: Hey, Joey, have you ever been so hungry on a date... that when the girl goes to the bathroom, you eat some of her food?
Kristen: You said the waiter ate my crab cake!
Joey: So, Ross, now why did that first marriage break up? Hm? Was it because the woman was straight or because she was a lesbian?
Kristen: Do you two know each other?
— No!
Joey: But he seems like a guy who'd marry a woman... on the verge of being a lesbian and then push her over the edge.
Ross: Wait a minute! Were you on a poster for gonorrhea?
Joey: Have you ever slept in the same bed with a monkey?
Ross: Hey, you leave Marcel out of this!
Joey: Fine! You ever gotten stuck in a pair of your own leather pants?
Ross: Hey, hey! Have you ever locked yourself in a TV cabinet, VD-boy?
Joey: Monkey-lover!... Where do you think we lost her?
Ross: Probably around "gonorrhea."

Chandler: You got a wedding dress? That's great.
Monica: Yeah, but I'm not keeping it.
Chandler: Then why can't I see it?
Monica: Oh. I guess you can. But I have to return it, so you can't like it.
Chandler: Okay, I promise. I'll hate it... Wow. You look... hideous.
Monica: Really?
Chandler: Yeah. That's like the most ugliest dress I've ever seen.

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Виктор Пелевин — Бро Кукуратор

TRANSHUMANISM INC

СВИДЕТЕЛЬ ПРЕКРАСНОГО <<

  “Сарацинский Князь Юга – гигант в зеленой чалме – завизжал и поднял над головой кривую саблю. ...

&  Единственное преступление на нашей планете – слабость. Проиграл – ты военный преступник и массовый убийца. Победил – Александр Великий. Так было, есть и будет…

&  В Саду было утро. Когда кукуратор возник на своей скамье – как обычно с утра, нагишом – птицы, прячущиеся в зелени высокого купола, подняли веселый гомон и распустили хвосты – пестрые, яркие, похожие издалека на цветы. Кукуратор улыбнулся. Птички мне рады, подумал он. А я рад птичкам. Как хорошо, когда все в жизни просто.
     Все было просто, конечно – но только если не думать. А иначе сразу делалось непонятно: что это за птицы? Настоящие птичьи мозги в спецбанках? Натренированная нейросеть? Или запись, транслируемая с небольшими девиациями? Но, как кукуратор знал уже много-много лет, секрет счастья именно в том, чтобы не ковырять происходящее сомнениями, а спокойно им наслаждаться.

&  Кукуратор … покосился на карту, расстеленную на столе.
     Кружки, стрелочки – это замечательно, но почему опять Невада? А если за фаервол кто-то заглянет? Кто у нас сидит в дизайн-бюро – идиоты или враги? Скорее всего, конечно, идиоты. Врагов хоть расстрелять можно, а этим что сделаешь? Расстреляешь, так ведь и не поймут, за что…

&  – Нас уверяют, что наши коммуникации абсолютно надежны, но кто его знает…
     – Вы не верите нашим шифровальщикам? – картинно поднял бровь Судоплатонов.
     – Не в этом дело, – сказал Шкуро, не глядя на второго генерала. – Это наша национальная стратегическая уязвимость. Мы живем в мире, общую картину которого – и даже любую конкретную картинку, если угодно – формирует для нас, по сути говоря, враг. Мы давно знаем, насколько он коварен, лицемерен и лжив. Но почему-то верим ему в самом главном. Доверяем ему управлять информационными потоками, достигающими наших мозгов…

&  Как говорили наши, свергая Михалковых: богу богово, а кесарю – сечение…

&  Не завидуй, человек, ибо не знаешь никогда, чему завидуешь…

&  Кукуратор засмеялся.
     – Схватка бульдогов под ковром, – сказал он. – Только бульдоги заползают туда по очереди.
     – На этот раз не бульдоги, бро.
     – А кто?

  ... – Коты.”

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Winter Kills

American Horror Story. Double Feature: Red Tide

10×6

Holden Vaughn: First of all, your name is Levy. I don't know where you get off owning not one but two Irish pubs. That's called cultural appropriation, sweetheart. Second of all, you have terrible taste. And not just in your footwear.

Austin Summers: These fucking Hollywood people have no decency!
Belle Noir: And no self-control. That beast of a man gave the pills to his child. It makes you think that maybe some of that QAnon business about them being satanic baby-killers is based in some fact.

Holden Vaughn: The council asked me to convey a message: "Get rid of the troublemakers, or all of you are suddenly gonna find yourself going into some very annoying zoning issues, including painting all of the curbs in front of your houses red and declaring all of your domiciles as historic landmarks which means that even to change a bulb will take a six-week approval process."

Holden Vaughn: You know, I stopped Burger King from opening in this town. I can stop you too...

Harry Gardner: So what do you think?
Ursula: Well... I think you should kill yourself. Because you will never write anything this good... no one will. No one has.

Harry Gardner: I don't want to have to kill anymore. I just want to raise you and enjoy the fruits of what we've accomplished this year and maybe over time get some of my soul back.
Ursula: Yeah, it doesn't work that way, bubbulah. Once you sell your soul, it's gone.
Harry Gardner: I don't want to believe that.
Ursula: Because you're framing it as a bad thing, but it is not. It's freedom. Why have a conscience or a moral code anymore? You're above all of that. This is what success feels like, Harry, It feels like superiority.

Alma Gardner: Insane Brainz Memory Boost...
Harry Gardner: It's supposed to be cutting edge.
Alma Gardner: I guess it's because "brains" is spelled with a Z instead of an S. I feel the boost already.

Alma Gardner: Chicken-shit little bitch.
Ursula: I am digging deep in my soul to find the small sliver of goodness that will allow me to overlook what you just said. Hear me out...

Ursula: Look, I know this sucks, okay? I know you got a raw deal. But you are not monsters. You're a bunch of Laurence Fishburnes. Fishburne turned down "Pulp Fiction" because his agent told him he'd be working with John Travolta... a has-been. Now, look, you all made a very bad call, but it is not the end of the story. Fishburne went on to beat out Sam Jackson for "The Matrix". The moral of the story is that sometimes there are second chances.

Harry Gardner: I don't need the pills anymore. It's the truth!
Belle Noir: You forget you're talking to a fellow writer. Uh... correction: Novelists are writers. Screenwriters are more like creative typists. Really, all we are is professional liars. And the truth is whatever we decide it is.

Harry Gardner: Thank you. Now tell me how the fuck you did that.
Ursula: Well, sometimes it's best not to ask how the sausage is made. Just know that I would do anything for my favorite client.

Ursula: First, we set you up in La La Land so you can start cranking out your pills. There's a whole city bursting with talent just waiting to shell out for a boost.

Alma Gardner: Do you mind? I don't like people watching me while I eat.

Alma Gardner: You shouldn't be messing with police.
The Chemist: I'm sorry, didn't you kill and eat a cop?
Alma Gardner: That was out of necessity.
The Chemist: What I'm doing is out of necessity too. Every one of those pricks had no business protecting and serving. Racist, sadistic garbage.

The Chemist: You're creating a lot of pale people. Especially pushing pills at a Starbucks. No self-respecting writer writes at a Starbucks.
Alma Gardner: So what? If they're talentless, they're useless anyway.
Ursula: That's my girl. I can't believe you turned out so well being raised by Harry and that glass of warm oat milk.

Rory: You're a novelty. A distraction. Audiences will come to see you and get bummed out if you're not featured. It's bad for morale. Makes it impossible to play anything that doesn't have a violin solo. It becomes a freakshow... We play classical music. We are as square as we can be. You're the bearded fucking lady, kid.

Ursula Khan: A writer once said, "Writing is easy. Just sit at your desk, open a vein, and bleed"...

Ursula Khan: Greatness comes with a price. And you just have to ask yourself, how much do you want it? Are you ready to bleed?! Are you?

Ursula Khan: Now, it looks like a pill, but it's not. It's the key to condos in Malibu, to dinner meetings with Charlize, to reservations at the Tower Bar. Tell yourself it's a vitamin. A sugar pill placebo packed with Satan. Just don't say no.

Ursula Khan: Everything you've heard is bullshit. Reality isn't the choice between the blue pill and the red pill. It's the black pill. This pill. My special vitamin brain sauce stimulant with zero risk and maximum upside.

Ursula Khan: I'm gonna tell you a little something about success that is the bedrock of this dirty business that no one else wants to admit. It's just one swallow away. Spit or swallow... the choice is yours.

Ursula Khan: It looks like the streets are running red with blood and metaphors. At least all of those no-talent monsters are taking their pain out in a real way.

Ursula Khan: Being great is hard. The rest of us just don't get it. We drive ourselves crazy with envy longing for just a taste of the delicious madness of the creative mind. But the truth is, most people aren't willing to put in the work. They focus on the success, the notoriety, the wealth that their great piece of art will bring. But the journey there is tedious. And those that achieve greatness only do so because they are fucked up enough to push through the pain and failure it takes to reach your potential.

Ursula Khan: At least with these pills the world can find out if you're any good.

The Chemist: Sorry, baby. Shh, don't cry. We're gonna move on to another place, create another drug... maybe one that will make you and I live forever. Mommy's here. She's on top of it.

Ursula Khan: To be told we are talented, isn't that all we ever want?...

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The One with the Truth About London

Friends 7×16

Rachel: I'm funny, Ben, but I'm not stupid.

Joey: Okay, I gotta get started on my speech-- Wait a minute. Internet ministers can still have sex?

Joey: Listen, this is just the first draft, so... "We are gathered here today on this joyous occasion... to celebrate the special love that Monica and Chandler share." Huh? Right. "It is a love based on giving and receiving... as well as having and sharing. And the love that they give and have is shared and received. And through this having and giving... and sharing and receiving... we too can share and love and have... and receive."

Joey: Okay, I got some more written, ready?.. "When I think of the love that these two givers and receivers share... I can't help but envy the lifetime ahead of having and loving... and giving..." And then I can't think of a good word for right here.
Chandler: How about "receiving"?
Joey: Yes!

Chandler: How drunk are you?
Monica: Enough to know I want to do this. Not so much that you should feel guilty.
Chandler: That's the perfect amount.

Chandler: You know what's weird?
Monica: What?
Chandler: This doesn't feel weird.
Monica: I know... You're a really good kisser.
Chandler: Well, I have kissed over four women.

Chandler: Want to get under the covers?
Monica: Mm-hm.
Chandler: Okay.
Monica: Wow, you are really fast!
Chandler: It bodes well for me that speed impresses you.

Monica: We're gonna see each other naked.
Chandler: Yep.
Monica: At the same time?
Chandler: Count of three? One, two, three. .... Well, I think it's safe to say our friendship is effectively ruined.

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