“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
Philip K. Dick. A Scanner Darkly

Yeah! Here it is.

Cool! The galaxy's worst freedom fighters ride again.

“Now we are upon this subject,” said Candide, “do you think that the earth was originally sea?"...“I believe nothing of it,” replied Martin“...“But then, to what end,” said Candide, “was the world formed?” “To make us mad,” said Martin.
Voltaire, Candide

He was only a weakling and a bully and a near-murderer, scumbag, self-pitier, miser, liar, ass and oaf on the outside - who isn't? Somewhere on the inside there was a decent human being. Oh, all right: Rex Harrison was an absolutely irredeemable c*nt who tried to murder me.
James Lever, Me Cheeta

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself.
-A day of dappled seaborne clouds-
The phrase and the day and the scene harmonised in a chord.

Joyce. Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Lidl told me I really really like Rennie and chicken wings

The thing is, The Thing is endlessly rewatchable.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force...They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence.
Joseph Conrad. "Heart of Darkness"

Ready or Not 2.

Dazzle was neither a mystical nor a metaphysical sort of dog...For Dazzle, the world was...the byproduct of entirely material insufficiencies. Not enough bones to go around, say. Or people with too many weapons living next door to people without any.
Scott Bradfield, "Dazzle Resplendent"

If you love something
Set it free
If it loves you
It will come back to you.
If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.

Harry Crews, Body

Our stories describe the lives of the boys and men for thousands of years, boys who were beaten by their fathers, whose capacity for love and trust was extinguished almost at birth. Men whose best hope for connection with other human beings lay in detachment, as if life were over.
BANKS, Affliction