A Scanner Darkly Quotes

#1. It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth.

James A. Michener

#2. No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal.

Megan Fox

#3. For our path in life ... is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!

Charles Dickens

#4. In wretched little lives like that, someone must intervene. Or at least mark their sad comings and goings. Mark and if possible permanently record so they'll be remembered. For a better day, later on, when people will understand.

Philip K. Dick

#5. Years ago, in an old notebook, I wrote: "One of Julian's most attractive qualities is his inability to see anyone, or anything, in its true light." And under it, in a different ink, "maybe one of my most attractive qualities, as well(?)" -Richard

Donna Tartt

#6. Do you no' want to fight the lass?" Rob, his cousin had shouted. He was dark-haired, but not quite as dark as Marcus, a little taller, with swimming blue eyes.
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"Nay," he said, his voice throaty and dark. "The lass is made for loving, no' fighting. I prefer to watch.

Terry Spear

#7. Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

#8. But these factory people, who on earth wears cotton that can afford linen?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. She needed a man like she needed a dragon in her life.

Mina Khan

#10. He might have heard the first whisper of that wild blessing that afterwards took the form of a blasphemy; He listens to those to whom God himself will not listen

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Make it?" Fred echoed. "Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your turns. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which also reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I haven't ...

Philip K. Dick

#12. In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

Philip K. Dick

#13. The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow