#piracy

Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. “Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?” asked Bell Pepper. The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. “You always get your kicks pointing out defects?” retorted The Drippy Man. “Just curious. Never seen anything like it before.” “I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants.” “So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?” “Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?” Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. “He is quite sensitive,” commented The Dry Advisor. “Who is he?” “A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does. ↗

— Jeff Phillips

#authors #books #conspiracy #dubai #dystopia

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. ↗

— Will Oldham

#accept #allowing #almost #america #doing

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#alone #commit #conspiracy #happens #harvey

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#conspiracy #organized #politics #productive #unorganized

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#because #before #bigger #bros #china

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired. ↗

— James Morcan

#democrats #espionage #fiction #political #republican-party-united-states

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ↗

— John Buchan

#comfortable #compact #conspiracy #folk #keep

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. ↗

— David Duchovny

#conspiracy #existence #extraterrestrial #hide #i

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#age-old #brave #conscience #conspiracy #constant

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#conspiracy #judaism #races