Category Archives: FROM THE QUOTE BAG

I Can’t Believe That

Posted on February 16, 2025 by ubu507

The axis turnsOn sufferingWhen you tasteSo good — PJ Harvey

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Implausible

Posted on October 29, 2024 by ubu507

When you’re confronted with something deeply strange or obviously implausible in a book or movie or painting you know it means something. It’s a symbol, a clue. But in real life, that’s not necessarily how it works. — Elizabeth Hand … Continue reading →

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Unaccountable

Posted on October 28, 2024 by ubu507

Ghosts are not things — I doubt if they are even people; they are feelings. They are all unaccountable essences — they are your own self sitting gravely and accusingly on your doorstep. — John Keir Cross

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Oracular Statement

Posted on June 22, 2023 by ubu507

On the day in question he could not shake the feeling that he was being shown the future. It was something less than what one might have hoped for. The flames had died in the East Bay hills but what … Continue reading →

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The Blood-Red Ray

Posted on March 15, 2023 by ubu507

Tess Durbeyfield did not divine, as she innocently looked down at the roses in her bosom, that there behind the blue narcotic haze was potentially the ‘tragic mischief’ of her drama – one who stood fair to be the blood-red … Continue reading →

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The Ghostly Quotebag

Posted on October 20, 2022 by ubu507

The truth is: yes, unexplainable activity can be scary, but I find that history leaves more of a stain on my heart than any supernatural occurrence I could encounter.— Katrina Weidman Personally, I don’t believe hauntings are, by their nature, … Continue reading →

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Double Shot From the Quote Bag

Posted on January 30, 2022 by ubu507

Pearl suspected God didn’t love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness. God created everything out of nothing and He takes us back to feed the Nothingness that He loves. It was pretty sick of … Continue reading →

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Flash

Posted on December 18, 2021 by ubu507

You flash lightningYou flash lightning You’re the keeper of the flameSomeone no-one can tame — Tom Verlaine

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Scan 043

Posted on December 7, 2021 by ubu507

…adolescent desire was getting caught up in a network of crisscrossing relations whose overdetermination charged almost every exchange. — Ben Lerner

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Fragments

Posted on December 5, 2021 by ubu507

…it can be tempting to imagine that our experience consists entirely of fragments torn from an ancient wholeness that was destroyed a long time ago and was then put back together in a way that was all wrong. — Robert … Continue reading →

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