Frank Portman Quotes & Sayings

#1. Communication is pointless and we're all doomed.

#2. The entire second-period sophomore girls' PE class thought my balls were uniquely and supremely beneath contempt. Great.

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#3. And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd just stand aside and get out of my fucking way.

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#4. It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

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#5. D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

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#6. Sam Hellerman is a genius!

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#7. You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions and quotations carefully and hardly anyone will even notice or get it anyway.

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#8. I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

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#9. Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

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#10. I'm not any religion myself, but for the record, I'm pretty sure I do believe in God. It's just a feeling I have. I can't prove it, but since when are you supposed to prove a feeling? God is the only situation where they expect you to do that. Plus, God embarrasses people. Which I totally enjoy.

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#11. 1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different.

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#12. Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them.

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#13. One day they'll wake up and realize that we were right about everything all along.

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#14. No one does antimaterialism better than multigazillionaire rock stars.

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#15. Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

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