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TWO THINGS.
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1. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. - CATCH-22

2. We will not pay for our freedom with a single promise of silence. - THE THREE MUSKETEERS

3. The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. LES MISERABLES

4. Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. THE GREAT GATSBY

5. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. - LORD OF THE FLIES

6. You are our captain and our banner. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads. - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - guessed by macguffin!

7. You are too young to understand it ... but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh, of your father. - TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

8. It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - guessed by goodpilgrim!

9. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. - THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

10. To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. - The Importance of Being Earnest - guessed by goodpilgrim!

11. The flies have conquered the flypaper. - THE MOON IS DOWN

12. Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming. - A Midsummer Night's Dream - guessed by goodpilgrim!

13. Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever. - The Godfather - guessed by macguffin!

14. Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ’tis the only thing in this world that lasts. - Gone With the Wind - guessed by gemius!

15. I insist upon my rooms being beautiful! I can’t abide ugliness in factories! In we go, then! But do be careful, my dear children! Don’t lose your heads! Don’t get overexcited! Keep very calm! - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - guessed by macguffin!

CLEARLY YOU ALL FAILED AT MY SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. Kidding. I was actually just glad people got some at all. Aside from the Lord of the Rings one, which I knew Sunni was going to get before I even pasted~~e it on yey~~ it on the page.

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Total comments: 348

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2	macguffin	91
3	gemius	55
4	goodpilgrim	22
5	neruda	11
6	limeswithorange	9
7	marieantoinette	7
8	raptor	5
9	cosmic_eyes	4
10	zozzled	4
11	strangler	4
12	rainbowling	3
13	sing_this_song	2
14	chthonian	2
15	merope	1
16	heyjude	1
17	heykidbiteme	1

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WE ARE AT THE TOP OF EACH OTHER'S LISTS. YAY US!!

I actually haven't read any of the ones I didn't get, although #s 1 and 7 STILL sound so familiar, so I think they must just be very quotable lines that I've heard elsewhere.

man i'm coming for you sunni.

ZOMG you need to read To Kill a Mockingbird. So. much. ♥. for that book.

Don't forget to add in the fact that you commented twice with Liz's journal.

liz: i needed to say something.

Also, Catch-22 is one of the funniest books ever in existence.

She had to talk to Burton, who commented like 6 times.

....i need a mobster name.

Use a Star Wars name like I did! I'm Joh Yowza the Yuzzum.

jacen: BE ME
me: ...
jacen: BE ME
me: ....
jacen: JACEN 'SILENT HOLE PUNCH' MCGEE
me: mcgee?
jacen: ....isn't that my name?

hes: we didn't feel like correcting him. he just loved that name so much.

jacen: HELL YEAH
..ok so that's my name now

... total win.

you know, i don't know why i'm not on msn right now. but i'm hungry.

best mob ever.

im supposed to be napping.

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN.

that song was in my dream last night. may it be in yours.

...great now it will be.

OH TOTAL WIN.