there’s a genre of phrases that sound like they’re from the bible or like paradise lost, but really, really aren’t. like “there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see” which is ofc a jordan peterson tweet about a bottle of evian. what are the others?
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here are some others i can think of:
i will face God and walk backwards into hell - dril
when God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir? - twitter comment in a thread about the name Sheldon
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do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he has created? - spy kids
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I think about this one a lot. just a random shitpost that burrowed its way into my brain when I'm feeling down on the world
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just a sequence of words people within the similar "noosphere" use. Read gothic books, produce gothic phrases.
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“the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”
-Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing
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Lots or "Bane" quotes are like this. Eg: "You think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark."
Which also reminds me of the mundane source from which Tom Hardy took the Bane voice: Midsomer Murders (45 seconds into this video)
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“Time passes, people move. Like a river’s flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water’s surface reflects growth.” -Zelda
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Bush Sr. telling Bush Jr. just prior to the invasion of Iraq "My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee."
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