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10-16-2009, 09:25 PM
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What literature quote would you get tattooed?
So I've been thinking about tattoos lately and thought for my first one I'd like a book quote, but I haven't decided yet on what to get. I looked around for ideas and this is a great collection: http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2008/04/a-...y-tattoos.html
I especially love the "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." I also think the "DON'T PANIC." one was pretty awesome as well. I haven't decided yet, but what would you get tattooed/have had tattooed?
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10-16-2009, 09:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
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10-17-2009, 12:55 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sheffield UK.
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Not from a book, but that's irrelevant really :" When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."
Bukowski: "The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative."
Hunter S. Thompson: "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "
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10-17-2009, 03:31 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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None, it's a dumb idea.
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10-17-2009, 05:25 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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I don't have any literature quotes tattooed on me but I have part of a song lyric.
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11-11-2009, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: upstate New York
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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" (Poe) is tattooed on the inside of my left arm, "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die" (Lovecraft) is on the inside of my right arm.
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11-11-2009, 08:53 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: northeast us
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28:06:42:12
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11-11-2009, 09:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonathan
28:06:42:12
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WTF?
post2short
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11-11-2009, 10:49 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: northeast us
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Quote:
Originally Posted by carakitty
WTF?
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Twenty eight days, six hours, forty two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.
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11-12-2009, 08:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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Says who?
Countdown starts from when?
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For the tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies
And the bright light of salvation up in dark and empty skies
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11-12-2009, 09:17 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sheffield UK.
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It's from Donny Darko...
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11-12-2009, 09:25 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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"A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself."
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11-12-2009, 09:54 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Athens, Greece
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"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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11-12-2009, 09:55 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Athens, Greece
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or....
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
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11-12-2009, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
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42
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I don't hate you. Saying I hate you would be like saying I hate a dog with no legs trying to cross a busy freeway.
-Mr. Filth
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11-12-2009, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Athens, Greece
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
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42
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I like Douglas Adams as well!
I prefer "42"!
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11-12-2009, 11:08 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skoteinh
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"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
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My, my.. T.S Eliot quotes. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood, and those are a couple of lines that's right up that alley.
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11-12-2009, 12:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonathan
28:06:42:12
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I have this tattooed on my ankle.
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11-12-2009, 12:35 PM
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I have made up a new paradigm for determining who goes to heaven, and who to hell. I think it'll catch on pretty easily, as it's simple and isn't bogged down by annoying nuances like the kind you get with a lot of scripture, ten commandments and all that. Basically, everyone gets to go to heaven except for the people with references to Donnie Darko tattooed on their bodies.
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11-12-2009, 12:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Donnie Darko is on my list of most overrated movies ever.
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You should talk you fugly, cat bashing, psychopathic urinal on two legs...
-Jack_the_knife
I don't hate you. Saying I hate you would be like saying I hate a dog with no legs trying to cross a busy freeway.
-Mr. Filth
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11-16-2009, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: northeast us
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Unrelated to tattoos, but I love Donnie Darko because the film was more or less a serendipity. The original version, even with less than fantastic special effects, had a really cool surreal thing going for it that was in my opinion completely butchered in the "Director's Cut". It was to me an example of the very person who created something having no idea just how cool what he made was, or what made it so amazing.
Oh, and fuck Gary Jules.
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11-16-2009, 01:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonathan
Oh, and fuck Gary Jules.
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Leave the hall.
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11-16-2009, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: northeast us
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I make no apology for my refusal to appreciate that song. I honestly think Wesley Willis could have covered that track more effectively.
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11-17-2009, 03:05 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity
Donnie Darko is on my list of most overrated movies ever.
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Thank you. And thank you.
Me, I'm not one for quotes or song lyrics at the mo. I'm still working out my next tat project.
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Last edited by MotherofMercies; 11-17-2009 at 03:06 AM.
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11-17-2009, 04:07 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Georgia
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it's trite as all hell but "Do as ye wilt"
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